Adapted by The Totton Linnet from Deling's own account in "The Heavenly man" which is the story of her husband Brother Yun, a true story.

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Deling with an old Chinese saint.

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My name is Deling

I am a woman of China

my family was extremely poor

seven children

we hardly had any clothes to wear

always hungry.

My childhood was time of happiness

mixed with great struggle.

Our field was more than a mile away,

distance we had to walk

every day, there and back,

children carrying heavy tools

every day

leading our animals

Our jobs was to carry

harvested cotton in heavy baskets

suspended on a pole

we slipped up and slid in the mud

our backs were breaking and sore.

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Another struggle I had was sickness

haemophilia

if I cut myself the blood flowed

for a long time it flowed

and couldn't stop

forever I was wrapping on old rags.

A christian lady

said kindly to me

"if you believe in Jesus He will heal you"

she was very confident.

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At age eighteen

I gave my life to the Lord

that very first night

I went to my first "house" meeting

the secret police came

we had to flee for our lives

through the darkness we fled.

That was my introduction

what it means to follow Jesus

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My heart was so happy

when I was baptized, such joy

at midnight in November

the river was frozen

we were afraid to be caught.

A few days after a vision came

somebody [I saw in my vision]

took me by the hand

and led me to a beautiful lake

crystal clear water

"wash your hands and your feet here"

[in my vision I was told]

my hands and feet were terribly wounded

because of my disease

I dipped my hands [in my vision]

and my feet

into the clear clean water I dipped

and [in my vision] my poor skin

came again to me fresh, like a baby's skin

I awoke in the morning

I was healed

what I saw in my vision

happened to me while I slept

never have I had sickness again

not even to this very day

I was very thankful to Jesus

I will always love and follow Him.

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Two other young women

followed Jesus at the same time as me

together we would go to meetings

secretly

They lived in different districts

so I had to walk home in the dark

alone I walked in the dark

in danger

there were evil men and wild dogs

late in the night in China

God worked a tender miracle

for me

to guide and protect me

as I walked in pitch black

a light shining

just up ahead

like a lantern it shone, as if....

somebody was carrying a lamp

to show me where I should go

I often lost my way

then up ahead a lamp

like a small star, showing me the way

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My husband has been beaten

many times tortured

he has spent many years in prison

but we love God, we will always follow Jesus

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I am a woman from China

I am still alive today.