Wowed by God’s Power!
Learning who I am as a son of God and the power He has made available has always held great value to me. I am beyond thankful for this ministry and the treasure trove of truth that it has researched, worked, prepared, and made available to me since I was a child. It’s a ready-to-eat source of spiritual nourishment!
God’s will for us to receive healing has always been key in my life. There have been many occasions where I received healing as an answer to prayer, but one in particular I’d like to share.
When I was around the age of twenty-three, I was skateboarding at a local skate park. While rolling fast, one of my feet slipped off the back of my skateboard. This caused that foot to catch the cement while the rest of my body kept moving. Not good! My knee twisted and slammed against the concrete. As I lay there in pain, I quickly realized I was injured badly. I had no medical insurance at the time and not nearly enough money to afford a trip to the emergency room. What could I do?
Call upon God! The pain was so bad I could hardly think straight. I knew I needed to pray, so I quickly prayed for God to heal me. The pain was still there. Next, I knew I had to think about a verse. I knew lots of scriptures by heart that would have helped me in this situation. However, my knee hurt so badly, I couldn’t remember any of them! I tried my hardest and finally recalled the verse in Acts 3 where Peter and John go up to the Temple and heal a man lame from his mother’s womb. Specifically, I recalled verse 7, which reads, “…immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.” I ran this verse through my head over and over, forcing myself to stand up and walk, using my injured leg the best I could. Through all of this, I was confident God would heal me.
Suddenly I straightened up and perceived there was a change. I looked at my knee as I realized there was no more pain! I went from barely being able to think to ZERO pain. Total elapsed time was about 45 seconds. I CONSIDERED jumping for joy! I even considered continuing to skateboard. But instead, I praised God and headed home completely WOWED by God’s power and the miraculous healing I unmistakably witnessed.
The next morning when I woke up, I had no pain. The next week, next year, even to this day, I have no knee issues.
Without a knowledge of God’s will and power, I would have surely been in store for a much different outcome.
John 10:10 tells us of the more abundant life we have the opportunity to enjoy. Our health, healing, and wholeness are part of that more abundant life promise.
The More I Heard, the More I Believed
One day I tripped and fell down, hurting my wrist. The believers in my home fellowship prayed for me and took me to the emergency room at the local hospital. An X-ray showed that I had a broken wrist. Since it was a Saturday, a temporary cast was put on my arm until I could be seen by my regular physician on Monday.
The next day was Pentecost Sunday. I was a young believer and new to The Way Ministry, and even though my arm was hurting, I went through with my plan to attend my first Pentecost celebration. I had never even heard about Pentecost before coming to The Way, and I was excited to learn more about it. It was a daylong celebration filled with Word-centered activities, which culminated in a dynamic teaching on the power of Pentecost.
During the teaching, I heard things like “The same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is available to us today!” “We have the ability to do the works that Jesus Christ did and more!” “Signs, miracles, and wonders follow them that believe!” “When we pray, we can make things happen!” I had never heard such things in all the years I faithfully attended my local church. Not only that, but there were actual Bible verses to back up those statements! The more I heard, the more I believed I was healed in the name of Jesus Christ, so I took the sling off my arm and unwrapped the bandage. My arm no longer hurt, and I could move my hand in every direction! There was no swelling and no pain. At the end of the teaching, I clapped right along with everyone else!
My broken wrist had been healed because of the Word of God I learned.
Instantly Healed
On New Year’s Eve we had a fellowship party. It was also the first snow of winter. We had moved the furniture out to one side of the garage to turn our living room into a dance floor.
The refreshments were in abundance, as always, and the trash had filled the kitchen trash container. So my wife, the wonderful giver that she is, removed the bag, replaced it with a new bag, and took the trash outside to the other side of the garage to place it in the rolling trash container.
Our garage had old, heavy wooden doors that rolled up the tracks. After placing the trash in the big container, she went to pull down the garage door, and she accidentally grabbed it in the fold of the door instead of the handle and crushed the four fingers on her left hand.
She came into the living room and asked me to come outside to pray for her (the dance music wasn’t the best environment for prayer). As I said, it was our first snow, and big flakes were coming down. She stood next to our van holding her hand and said, “I hurt my hand. Will you pray for me?” I did. She was instantly healed, and we immediately went back inside to enjoy the rest of the party.
It wasn’t until years later when she was recounting the incident in a fellowship teaching that I learned of the severity of her accident, that her fingers had, in fact, been bent backwards and were crushed in that heavy wood garage door.
How thankful we both are to The Way International for teaching us God’s Word, and of the great power God has given to us, His kids, and the HOW to utilize that spiritual ability we’ve been given. We all, as sons and daughters of God, can believe to bring to pass the impossible.
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