"My life is a miracle, so I want to live for the Lord. If it weren’t for His care, how could I have been out in a wheelchair for 20 years and shuttle to the hospital for hemodialysis alone in recent years? God keeps us alive to bear witness to glorify His name."
A male believer named Wang Zhangwei is from a disabled fellowship in Linfen Church, Shanxi. Seeing many believers living around him, he opens his home as a meeting site where Christians listen to God’s words and pray together there every Wednesday when he also can share some sermons. He also serves in the disabled fellowship, sending scriptures to other members, gaining joy and satisfaction.
In people's eyes, he is unfortunate, as a car accident in his youth completely changed the fate of his family, followed by high paraplegia, the departure of his wife, and the torture of uremia. But in his eyes, these were precious trials that God gave him to endure.
Recalling his experiences over the years, Wang kept counting on the grace of God.
On the National Day of 1999, when he drove a truck through the village in his early twenties, he accidentally crashed into the village memorial gate.
"I had a blackout and could not remember anything. When I woke up, I had been lying in the hospital bed for many days, with the lower part of my body losing its feeling," he recalled.
The doctor told Wang that he could no longer stand up, as he was paraplegic at a high position due to an injured spinal cord. In addition, the employer had no money to pay for compensation, so his stable life was shattered. In 2003, his wife left him and his young children, never returning.
The daily medication made him so miserable that he did not even want to live. However, seeing his elderly mother and young son, he thought he could not abandon them.
After being discharged from the hospital, together with his mother, he lived in the village. During the recuperation period, his Christian mother served him as a "cook" and a "medical nurse", taking the burden of the whole family on her thin shoulders.
"It can be said with certainty that without my mother’s hard work, I would not be here now."
Speaking of his mother, his heart was full of gratitude and indebtedness. Being a Christian for many years, his mother went to the meeting site in the village every Sunday. Although she was not literate, she learned how to frequently pray and sing hymns.
Christians from the local meeting site often came to visit him, bringing a special gift - the Bible. He began to read it, as he had nothing to do in the hospital bed. In the beginning, he just read the stories since he did not understand the scriptures with many foreign names. Reading more, he saw between lines a benevolent, just, and holy God who always loves sinners.
Although his wife abandoned him in times of his needs, God’s love for him would not be shaken.
Reflecting on his journey over the years, Wang found that though he lived in sin before, God always loved him. Church members’ intercession and frequent visits swept away the gloom in his heart, encouraging him to live on. After regaining his strength, he began to help his elderly mother while in a wheelchair to cook and wash clothes. Every Sunday, the two of them went to worship God in the local gathering place, praying and reading the Bible.
God also blessed him in many ways, as he successfully applied for a low-rent housing spot, where they lived more comfortably. Without furniture and decoration, this hard-won new house made him very grateful, as, in the bright and spacious new building, they could use a flushing toilet and take a bath, no more cooking over woodfire.
Diagnosed with uremia in 2017, he had to go to the hospital for dialysis three times a week. Each time, he had to wait in line for the entire morning to be treated. Before each hospital visit, he begged God to lead the dialysis treatment.
In order to help other patients to have confidence in overcoming illness, Wang shared the gospel and his testimony of being called, combined with his own experience.
In March 2020, his mother, who had taken care of him for many years, passed away. Apart from grief, he knew he should rely on God to live, as he had to face everything alone henceforth.
God’s love and grace were always with him. Over the years, in addition to "A Cup of Water" Charity Fund in Linfen Church, pastors and members of the disability fellowship often visited and supported his family. Several Christian neighbors also took turns to take care of him, helping him with laundry, cooking, and other housework.
In the midst of his illness, he also experienced God’s protection. He had bedsores on his hip which never healed. On the second day of the first lunar month of this year, on the way to the balcony, his wheelchair suddenly flipped over his leg, which bled. It happened that his son was not at home and his cell phone was not nearby, so on the cold ground, he prayed to God who heard his prayer. After a while, a female believer living nearby came to visit him, asking another female Christian for help. These two elderly believers in their 70s helped him up to get out of danger. Unexpectedly, after a period of rest in bed, Wang was delighted to find that not only the wound on his leg but also the bedsore had been healed. He was thankful for the miraculous healing.
"In addition, I also ask God for changing my son's heart to fall down before Him and serve," he concluded.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
在人们眼中，他是不幸的。年轻时的一次车祸意外，彻底改变了他们一家人的命运。高位截瘫、妻子的离去、尿毒症的折磨……接踵而至的不幸，在外人看来，似乎都是难以承受的痛苦。但是在王张伟弟兄的眼中，这却是神给他一个又一个的宝贵试炼。
见到王弟兄时，坐在轮椅上的他，脸上显露出发自内心的喜乐和自信的微笑，这居然是一个多次行过死荫幽谷的人。逼仄的陋室，朴素的小屋，屋内最显眼的摆设，是圣经、赞美诗和播放器。
回想起自己多年来的感恩见证，王弟兄便滔滔不绝地数算起神的恩典。
1999年的国庆节，那天，刚二十出头的他驾驶着载重卡车经过村门口时，意外撞到了（牌坊）村门楼。
“眼前一黑，我就什么也不知道了。醒来时，自己已躺在病床上多日，下半身毫无知觉。”王弟兄向笔者回忆道。
医生告诉他，他的脊髓受到损伤，现在已经高位截瘫，再也不能站立起来。而雇主也没有能力给与赔偿。一家人平稳安定的生活就这样被打破了，2003年，妻子抛下他和年幼的孩子，离家出走，再也没有回来。
每天的药物治疗使他痛不欲生，他甚至想一死了之。然而，看到年迈的母亲，幼小的儿子，他又十分难以割舍。
出院之后，他和母亲一直住在村里。养病期间，母亲用瘦弱的肩膀扛起了整个家庭的重担，既当“厨师”又当“医护”。
“可以肯定说，没有母亲就没有我的今天。可以说是艰辛备至，劳苦功高。”提起母亲，王弟兄的心中充满了感恩与亏欠。
作为信主多年的基督徒，母亲每个主日都会去村里的聚会点礼拜，虽识字不多，但也学会了经常唱诗祷告，村里教会的弟兄姊妹也时常前来看望，并给他带来了一个特殊的慰问礼物——圣经。
在病床上养病无所事事的他，开始读圣经。一开始，王弟兄也看不太懂经文，特别是许多外国的名字，只是看故事。随着越来越入迷，在字里行间的阅读中，他竟看见了一位仁慈公义圣洁的上帝，原来祂一直爱着罪人。
反思自己多年来的历程，王弟兄发现，自己以前也是活在罪中，然而神却一直爱着他。尽管相爱的妻子在危难时刻抛弃了他，但神的爱却总是不离不弃。而弟兄姊妹的关心代祷与经常看望，也使他一扫心中的阴霾，鼓足了生活下去的勇气。
重新振作起来的他，开始坐着轮椅帮助年迈的母亲做饭洗衣，每到主日，娘俩还一起到聚会点礼拜，一起读经祷告
神的爱也真的降临到他的身上，他顺利申请到了廉租房。虽然装修简单，也没什么家具，但这来之不易的新家也让王弟兄心里非常感恩。告别破旧的旧房，住在宽敞明亮的新楼里，不用生火烧柴，又有抽水马桶，可以洗浴，他们一家人的生活方便了许多。
2017年，王弟兄又不幸被查出患上了尿毒症，每个星期需要到医院透析三次，每次要早早去医院排队候诊，一去就得等一上午。
每次出发去医院之前，王弟兄都会献上祈祷，求神带领透析治疗。
为了帮助病友鼓起治疗信心，他结合自己的经历，向大家分享自己蒙召感恩的见证，并向他们传讲福音。
2020年3月，照料他多年的母亲被主接去，悲伤之余，王弟兄知道以后的一切都要自己面对，唯有依靠神，才能重新得力。
神的慈爱一直眷顾他，多年来，教会里的弟兄姊妹也在不断给他许多关心和帮助，临汾教会的“一杯水”关爱基金、残障团契以及各位牧长经常看望资助他们一家。而几个基督徒邻居也自发地轮流照看他，有的帮他洗衣做饭，做家务。
后来，他看到周边信主的人不少，于是就把家里作为接待小组，开始服侍接待。每周三，大家齐聚在这里，分享神的话语，一起祈祷，他也预备分享神的话语。他也担负起残障团契的读经服侍，转发自己制作的经文以及灵修经文，在服侍中得到了满足和喜乐。
在病患中，王弟兄也经历了神奇妙的恩典。原来他臀部有褥疮，一直没有愈合。今年正月初二，他坐着轮椅往阳台去，轮椅突然翻倒，他的腿被压住，而且出了血。恰巧当时儿子不在家，手机也不在旁边，在冰冷的地上，他向神祈求，神也垂听了他的祷告，不一会儿，邻居的一位信主的阿姨正好前来探望，看到情况后又叫了另一位阿姨，两个七十多岁的老姊妹把他了扶起来，这才得以脱险。
没想到，卧床静养一段时间后，王弟兄欣喜地发现，不仅自己腿上的伤口好了，就连褥疮也愈合了，他愈发感觉这是神奇妙的医治。
王弟兄对笔者表示道：“如今，我活着就是神迹，若不是神的保守看顾，这20年来我怎能坐着轮椅出行，穿梭于医院独自一人去做血液透析呢？所以，神让我活着每一天，就是为他做见证，荣耀他的圣名。现在的生命不再属我，我要为主而活。”
“另外，我还想引用约书亚记经上的一句话：‘至于我和我家，我们必定侍奉耶和华。’我也求神反转我的儿子的心思意念，让他早日俯伏敬拜在天父上帝的面前。”访谈的最后，王弟兄向笔者补充道。
（文/残月生辉 张蒙悦 图/残月生辉）
http://www.gospeltimes.cn/article/index/id/57388
“我们经过水火，你却使我们到丰富之地”——记一位残疾弟兄王张伟
"My life is a miracle, so I want to live for the Lord. If it weren’t for His care, how could I have been out in a wheelchair for 20 years and shuttle to the hospital for hemodialysis alone in recent years? God keeps us alive to bear witness to glorify His name."
A male believer named Wang Zhangwei is from a disabled fellowship in Linfen Church, Shanxi. Seeing many believers living around him, he opens his home as a meeting site where Christians listen to God’s words and pray together there every Wednesday when he also can share some sermons. He also serves in the disabled fellowship, sending scriptures to other members, gaining joy and satisfaction.
In people's eyes, he is unfortunate, as a car accident in his youth completely changed the fate of his family, followed by high paraplegia, the departure of his wife, and the torture of uremia. But in his eyes, these were precious trials that God gave him to endure.
Recalling his experiences over the years, Wang kept counting on the grace of God.
On the National Day of 1999, when he drove a truck through the village in his early twenties, he accidentally crashed into the village memorial gate.
"I had a blackout and could not remember anything. When I woke up, I had been lying in the hospital bed for many days, with the lower part of my body losing its feeling," he recalled.
The doctor told Wang that he could no longer stand up, as he was paraplegic at a high position due to an injured spinal cord. In addition, the employer had no money to pay for compensation, so his stable life was shattered. In 2003, his wife left him and his young children, never returning.
The daily medication made him so miserable that he did not even want to live. However, seeing his elderly mother and young son, he thought he could not abandon them.
After being discharged from the hospital, together with his mother, he lived in the village. During the recuperation period, his Christian mother served him as a "cook" and a "medical nurse", taking the burden of the whole family on her thin shoulders.
"It can be said with certainty that without my mother’s hard work, I would not be here now."
Speaking of his mother, his heart was full of gratitude and indebtedness. Being a Christian for many years, his mother went to the meeting site in the village every Sunday. Although she was not literate, she learned how to frequently pray and sing hymns.
Christians from the local meeting site often came to visit him, bringing a special gift - the Bible. He began to read it, as he had nothing to do in the hospital bed. In the beginning, he just read the stories since he did not understand the scriptures with many foreign names. Reading more, he saw between lines a benevolent, just, and holy God who always loves sinners.
Although his wife abandoned him in times of his needs, God’s love for him would not be shaken.
Reflecting on his journey over the years, Wang found that though he lived in sin before, God always loved him. Church members’ intercession and frequent visits swept away the gloom in his heart, encouraging him to live on. After regaining his strength, he began to help his elderly mother while in a wheelchair to cook and wash clothes. Every Sunday, the two of them went to worship God in the local gathering place, praying and reading the Bible.
God also blessed him in many ways, as he successfully applied for a low-rent housing spot, where they lived more comfortably. Without furniture and decoration, this hard-won new house made him very grateful, as, in the bright and spacious new building, they could use a flushing toilet and take a bath, no more cooking over woodfire.
Diagnosed with uremia in 2017, he had to go to the hospital for dialysis three times a week. Each time, he had to wait in line for the entire morning to be treated. Before each hospital visit, he begged God to lead the dialysis treatment.
In order to help other patients to have confidence in overcoming illness, Wang shared the gospel and his testimony of being called, combined with his own experience.
In March 2020, his mother, who had taken care of him for many years, passed away. Apart from grief, he knew he should rely on God to live, as he had to face everything alone henceforth.
God’s love and grace were always with him. Over the years, in addition to "A Cup of Water" Charity Fund in Linfen Church, pastors and members of the disability fellowship often visited and supported his family. Several Christian neighbors also took turns to take care of him, helping him with laundry, cooking, and other housework.
In the midst of his illness, he also experienced God’s protection. He had bedsores on his hip which never healed. On the second day of the first lunar month of this year, on the way to the balcony, his wheelchair suddenly flipped over his leg, which bled. It happened that his son was not at home and his cell phone was not nearby, so on the cold ground, he prayed to God who heard his prayer. After a while, a female believer living nearby came to visit him, asking another female Christian for help. These two elderly believers in their 70s helped him up to get out of danger. Unexpectedly, after a period of rest in bed, Wang was delighted to find that not only the wound on his leg but also the bedsore had been healed. He was thankful for the miraculous healing.
"In addition, I also ask God for changing my son's heart to fall down before Him and serve," he concluded.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
A Paraplegic Believer’s Testimony: 'God Never Gives Up on Me'
