Healing through Forgiveness and Faith

Although God has done many miraculous things in my life, this one stands out the most.  After a painful divorce and a severe back injury,  there were days I could not lift my arms above my head or even walk at times.  Lying on my back had become the most comfortable position.  After fervently seeking God in prayer and asking to be healed from this intense pain, He answered my prayer.

God asked me to forgive every person that had ever hurt me, in my entire life.  Believe me, there was a list.  It took time and a lot of tears.  God went so far as to ask me to write letters, to some of the people, that had hurt me in the past.  When that was all said and done, I was still in pain.  I cried out to God and said,  “I did what You asked Lord, why am I still in pain”?  No answer came.  That night, there was a healing service at my church and God put it on my heart to go.  I didn’t think I could get myself there, so I called a friend and she agreed to pick me up and get me there.

As soon as the service started, I began to cry uncontrollably and I didn’t know why.  I asked the Lord into it and He said, “You have forgiven everyone I asked you to, but you forgot to forgive yourself”.  At that point, the worship team was playing loudly and suggested we (whoever needed to) confess our sins out loud.  I confessed every sin, I ever committed-even the really painful ones.  When the service was over, even though I felt relieved, the pain still remained.  At that point, my daughter asked me if I had asked the worship team for prayer-regarding my back.  I said, “No” and she responded, “Mom, this is what this is all about”.

She immedialetly went and got the team and they began to pray over me.  They asked me where my pain was and they laid hands on me, quoting scripture and telling me things God had put on their heart, about me.  Thoughts and feelings I hadn’t told anyone and scriptures my Granfather used to quote.  One man said, “I see that your heart is on fire for the Lord”. ” I also see that your children are believing lies about you and it is crushing you”.  He was right, both things were true and I hadn’t spoken that out loud.  Another woman said, “God wants us to speak love over her, she has been attacked for a long time”.  As they prayed, I felt warmth and tingling in my spine.  I prayed and wept softly, letting the love and prayers flow over me and give me relief.  When they were finished, they asked me to stand and raise my hands above my head and touch my toes, something I hadn’t been able to do for a long time.  Miraculously, I was able to do so.  Overjoyed, my daughter ran and got my son, from another building, and he witnessed it too.  God had truly answered my prayer.  The debilitating nerve pain was gone.

I was working with a Neuro-surgeon, at the time, and I told him my story.  He had given me the book, “Forgive for Good” when I told him my plan-rather God’s plan.  He told me he didn’t know why the nerve pain went away, and that he thought it might come back.  I told him, “No, this is never coming back and it never did”.  After further discussions with him, he decided to add it to a book he was writing.  He also put it on his website.  We had discussions about how there was a correlation, between emotional pain and physical pain, which I agreed with.  However, I knew that God had healed me through forgiveness and the love and concern of this worship team.  I also knew, that particular pain, was never coming back!  I have been in a car accident and have suffered other medical conditions, yet, I can still say-with confidence-the nerve pain is gone for good!