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Power
of Healing
God's power isn't limited by medical opinion, says
Chris Wright
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people say that Jesus doesn’t heal. Maybe they had once prayed
for healing and it didn’t happen for them. I can say that although
praying for healing hasn’t always been successful, nevertheless
Jesus can heal and does heal. I can’t explain why sometimes He
does and sometimes He doesn’t; I don’t know and don’t want to
guess.
A
few years ago I had a bad back and sciatica - one of the discs
in my back was misshapen and this was trapping a nerve, giving
pain down my left leg and my lower back. After some weeks, I went
along to the Mustard Seed Mission in Callington and there a man
asked Jesus to heal me. I didn’t feel better at once but I felt
a warm sensation in my back and I believed that Jesus had touched
me. Over the space of the next three days or so the pain left
me. Since then, although I have had a few twinges from my back,
I have never had the sciatica again.
Further
to this I know of a little girl who to my certain knowledge has
been healed of life-threatening illnesses twice in her short life.
When this girl was a toddler, she was diagnosed with hydrocephalus,
a condition which meant she had a large head. The hospital consultants
told her parents that the only solution was to have a shunt put
in, which was basically a sort of built-in tap, which she would
have for the rest of her (short) life.
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a church, some of us went to the family home to pray with them
for the situation. While we were asking God how He wanted us to
pray, we felt that He said this girl did not need the shunt, He
would heal her Himself. She would still have a large head, but
then she would grow up to be a large lady, and so all would be
in proportion. She didn’t have the operation and she recovered
and was OK.
About
18 months later, the same girl was diagnosed with a tumour in
her groin. Naturally, we were very concerned, but then we remembered
that God had said that she would grow to be a large lady. Well,
if she was going to grow up, then she wasn't going to die from
this tumour. She couldn't do both! This encouraged us to pray
and believe that she would be healed and, praise God, she was.
The doctors gave her therapy which they said would damage the
bottom part of her spine, but she later had an x-ray, and everything
was perfect. There was no sign of the damage that the doctors
expected.
Several
people who live in and around Tavistock know about these things
and can vouch for what I say. The Bible says that if we pray in
Jesus’ name, He hears and answers our prayers. If we ask Him first
what He wants to do in a given situation, and hear what He says
and pray in agreement, we will see God exerting His power.
If
you want us to pray for you for healing, we meet every Sunday
at the King's at 11.00, or we also have home meetings during
the week. Phone 01822 612100 for details on where and when
these take place.
Chris
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