Personal Prayer Power Blog

In a previous blog I wrote about a friend who was having a biopsy who was terribly worried.  She lives alone.  She’s  divorced, has no children, both of her parents are dead. 

This morning as I was brushing my hair my friend called me and told me that she had been completely and miraculously healed.   

She told me that she’d gone to a healing service and had gone forward with a group of about 300 people who wanted prayer.  When the minister put his hands on her, my friend said she had a warm feeling all over her.  She says, “His hand felt really heavy.  I felt like there was nothing else around me and if someone hadn’t caught me from behind, I would have fallen to the floor.”

 She went on to tell me that she went to the doctors and was told that the biopsy was negative and that all they found was a site where it seemed some sort of small injury had healed up.

After we’d finished thanking God for this miracle I told my friend, “I really don’t understand healing, why sometimes we’re miraculously healed and sometimes we’re not.  I only know that you can use it as a way to know that God love you.”

My friend replied, “Yes, I’ve never felt so loved in all of my life.”     

It brought to mind something that happened to my mother a number of years ago that I share in the Personal Prayer Power video lesson on prayer and healing.  Altlhough Mom was a person of great faith, she battled depression and wished she could feel God’s love. 

Then one day she underwent a lumpectomy for breast cancer.  All of her friends and family were so wonderfully kind and supportive during that time that Mom later told me, “I’ve never felt so loved in all of my life.” 

It seems strange that both my friend and my mother would face similar diseases and have such radically different healing paths, yet both come to the same conclusion, “I’ve never felt so loved in all of my life.”

I suppose what I’m learning is that love is always the best cure, whether we’re mirculously healed or whether we go through difficult medical treatment with the supporting presence of God and His good people.     

 

My Aunt Josie called me from

We call her Aunt Josie although her name is really Jo Grace and she goes by Grace with everyone else.  The name Grace fits her because of the way she has given her time and care to so many of us.  She’s the last of my surviving Aunts and Uncles and she and her daughter’s family are the only ones living on the family property in the mountains after my father died and my sister Susan’s house burned down.  

            You’ll meet Aunt Josie in my book Surprised by Prayer in the opening story where I tell about how she prayed for my mother’s healing when we’d disconnected life support after a serious stroke.  Mom woke up after 5 days and lived 4 more years.  You’ll also hear about her in the Personal Prayer Power series in lesson 2 about my sister Susan’s fire because she took my sister’s family and my disabled father into her tiny home after the fire until they could find a rental house.

            Last week my sister called and told me that Aunt Josie had been hospitalized for fluid on her lungs.  Susan said that they were treating her with antibiotics, although signs seemed to point to congestive heart failure.  I was extremely worried, especially since Aunt Josie is nearly 80 and has a host of other medical complications. 

            As I prayed for Aunt Josie’s health on my morning prayer walk this week, I hoped it wasn’t the beginning of the end for her. And then she called me.  She told me she was planning a little party and inviting several local women from different churches to show them a sample of the PPP videos and tell them about the series!  I was surprised, so I asked her about her illness.

            She said, “Well, I never believe what doctors tell me.  I believe in what God tells me.  The bottom line is that now the doctor’s think it was double pneumonia.  I’d had nose bleed surgery and now they think blood got into my lungs.” 

            And so, feeling her old self, she’s now planning a prayer party.