Well, about 3 weeks ago, as I was sitting in the back of the prayer room in my wheelchair, my friend Emma came and prayed for me. Receiving prayer for healing was now normal and from her was no different. Except, when she knelt down to pray for my feet, I suddenly felt awkward because I remembered her saying sometimes how she was not fond of feet and here she was kneeling down, and touching them! What was also different when Emma prayed and why it was a little more awkward would probably be the fact that I have known her for over 12 years, longer than all my IHOP-KC friends. As she knelt down, I was just trying to shake the weird feeling from me, but the moment her fingers touched my toes, I felt electrical-type shocks racing through my legs from my toes. I have never felt that before, to tell the truth, it tickled really intensely and I am a very ticklish person! As she was praying, I was just trying to ‘adjust’ to these feelings, and then she looked up and asked me how it felt and I replied ‘no better.’ Why? Because every other time someone had prayed, it was never any better. But, as soon as I heard myself say what had become so automatic to say, I realized I wasn’t actually feeling any pain in my feet. Up until this point I had either constant pain or numbness in my feet, but suddenly it was actually a good thing to have no feeling in my feet, no bad feeling that is. So, I told her, in almost complete shock that actually there was no pain, and she prayed a couple more times. I don’t know how to exactly explain what all I was feeling but along with the lack of pain, I was feeling the actual fractures in my feet, but no pain. How is that? I have no idea! So, the next day I woke up, still no pain but fully aware that the fracture was still there and let me tell you, that day in class was the hardest! I could not concentrate because I was so excited! God had actually healed me!
I just kept thinking back to a cute little video I had seen online at godtube.com about this joyous little 3 year old who is running around her little playroom yelling ‘He healed me! He healed me! Jesus healed me!’ The little girl goes on praising God for her healing and her parents begin to interview her and ask her what happened and she tells them that she prayed for her mouth to get better and it did! This little girl’s faith and reaction to healing has so provoked me to have child-like faith in God. Copy and paste the link below and be blessed as you witness an amazing, innocent act of true child-like faith…
http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=7PPGLWNXSo, that weekend, at our Saturday night church service, I had my friends continuing to pray for me because my knees were really hurting and I was really sore. Since I hadn’t been walking (normally) for about 2 months, my muscles in my feet and legs were really sore. My knees were suddenly having to hold more weight than usual and plus, I just have painful knees in general but had never really thought of praying for them. But now, since I was healed of my toes, I had faith to dare to believe that maybe, just maybe, I did not have to live with knee pain. Sure enough, after they had prayed the pain drastically became less and even my toes were starting to feel even better! So, I left my wheelchair in the back and walked up to the stage to write down my testimony! They ended up pulling me onstage to share my testimony. Just walking up those 5 steps to the stage was amazing enough! I walked up with no pain and with such ease. What I said is all a blur but it was so awesome just being able to share my testimony of healing and to pray for others who had bad knees. Ever since then, I have been out of my wheelchair (a little too fast perhaps, because my muscles needed to be eased into it a little better), and have been re-training myself how to walk. Every now and then I have to remind myself that I need to take it easy and then other times I need to remind myself that I don’t have to walk funny because I am getting better.
Now, if this weren’t enough, I also went to the foot doctor for an already scheduled check-up appointment for an x-ray to show progress on Monday (11/14). After the x-ray, the doctor pulled it up on his computer (I am still so in awe of the technology now and how fast x-ray results come back), and he was shocked. He said ‘huh, I can’t even tell where there ever was a fracture…it is your left foot correct?” He just kept pulling up previous x-rays from the past 2 months and comparing them, and he just couldn’t believe that my foot no longer showed hardly even any evidence of an injury ever being there. If you know anything about foot injuries, you would know that it is near impossible for complete healing and restoration of bones in the toes and feet, so this is a miracle! I then asked about my toe fracture and he said the tiny bone chip was still there but it shouldn’t ever bother me. It was so cool! My foot doctor didn’t know what else to say except ‘well, if you ever need me again, you got my number.’ I told him that I prayed for healing and he responded that he believed that it was important to put faith in God and believe for healing. It was one of the most encouraging doctor’s appointments I have ever had!
Thanks for praying and please let me know what you need prayer for! :)
~Emily :)
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