Dinah's Testimony
By Dinah Turnil Sered
My name is Dinah Turnil Sered and I am a second-generation Jewish believer in Jesus. My father is from Guatemala; he came to believe in Jesus through an American missionary at the age of six. He moved to New York when he was eighteen. My mother, who is from Colombia, grew up in a secular Jewish home. Her family moved to New York when she was twelve. There she came to believe in Jesus when she was invited to a church. Through my mother, the message of Y'shua was spread to all of her family, even in Colombia. Today, most are believers in him.
I was born in Queens, New York, and it was there that God did a miracle in my life. I was a year-and-a-half old when I ate chipped paint from the wall which contained lead. I was rushed to the hospital and the doctor told my parents that the prognosis looked bleak. I would most likely die from lead poisoning or be severely mentally handicapped. Immediately, my parents involved family and church members in praying for me. My grandmother related that she had a vision from God that I was healed. The doctor hadn't started treatment, but my mother insisted that I be tested again. When I was, the doctor couldn't believe the lab reports. "The lead levels in Dinah's blood are drastically decreasing," he reported, "and the lead is exiting through her urine." Three years later, my preschool teacher told my mother that I had the mental capacity of a six-year-old, despite the fact that I was only four. God mercifully spared my life and prevented the brain damage the doctors had felt was inevitable.
It wasn't until I was ten that I made a public confession of faith in Y'shua. At age seventeen, I joined the Army Reserves, went to basic training in South Carolina and then advanced training in Texas. Then I moved back to New York City, as did the rest of my family.
I know God saved me from physical death when I was a baby and from spiritual death at the age of ten so that I would be able to live with faith in Him today.
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