God heals again
This miracle takes place a couple of years after the first one. My husband had passed away a little over a year before and we were struggling financially.
For a couple of days I had been feeling very uncomfortable when I walked. I had shortness of breath, and my stomach felt like it ballooned out in front of me, but I didn't feel bad at all.
On this particular night I was sleeping soundly but needed to get up to use the bathroom. As I walked across the floor I suddenly felt as if a fist reached up, grabbed hold of my heart, and pulled it in a downward motion.
I cried, "Oh my God, don't let me have a heart attack." The fist let go, but my chest hurt. I also felt an ache in my neck that went down my left arm. I returned to bed, praying as I did so. I said, "Lord, I am not going to go to a doctor, I don't have the money and they will diagnosis me with something that is going to keep me chained to medication that I can't afford. Lord, I ask you not to let me die, my kids have already gone through the death of their brother and their father. *I'm not even going to say anything to them about this Lord, because it will make them suffer. You are my healer Lord. You are the Divine Physician, please have mercy on me."
All through the night I slept so deeply almost like I had already died. I could hardly make myself get up in the morning, but I got up and inched my way to the bathroom and then down the stairs to the family room. All day I lay on the sofa, listening to the TBN and praying, praying.
I didn't say anything to my kids, and since they were about their usual activities of school and work, they didn't really notice that I wasn't feeling well.
That night I slept on the sofa. I often fell a sleep there at night so the kids didn't think anything about it.
All night long I listened in my waking hours to the christian television, intermittently praying and sleeping. When I slept I felt like I had no life in me and the pain in my chest, neck and left arm continued.
I continued to place my case before the Lord. I was determined that He would have to heal me.
The second night, I was lying on the sofa when the Praise the Lord program came on, and a pastor by the name of Mark Chirona, whom I had seen a couple of times before came on to preach.
As he was about to preach, he stopped and said, "I don't usually do this, but the Lord is showing me some people that are here that He is healing tonight."
He began calling out the healings. All of them seemed to have something to do with the heart. I leaned forward on the sofa, and cried out to God, "Lord, let him call out my healing." As I said the words, pastor Chriona turned toward where I was sitting and he said, "there is a woman watching us by television, you've been having problems with your heart, in fact, you have a blocked Aorta, and God is healing that right now." I said, "Lord, I don't know if I have a blocked Aorta or what I have, but in the name of Jesus Christ, I reach out and I claim that healing for me." As I said the words, I felt like cool, clean, water began to flow through my heart. I realized that the Aorta had been blocked and what I was feeling was the blood beginning to flow as it became unblocked.
I just stood and praised Him. I was so humbled at how quickly He had come to answer my prayer. He is such a marvelous God. How much He sees and is concerned for His children. It is an experience that I have never forgotten, nor will I ever.
People can say what they want about how God doesn't do miracles anymore, or how he isn't interested in His children. But when you have been in the valley of death, and He has reached out and touched you, then you know, that you know that you know. God is real. He is alive, and He cares for each one of His children.
It isn't anything that I have done. What could I have done that would make Him react to my needs. It is what Jesus has done. When we recognize who Jesus really is, and when we understand that He is worthy and that His Father God can not deny Him anything, then we know that we can ask what we will and He will help us.
So many times we come to God thinking that we can impress Him by who or what we are. He's not impressed. He is impressed by who Jesus, His only begotten son is. He is impressed by the sacrifice that Jesus was willing to make for us. He is impressed by the Love that Jesus has for us, and He loves us to. It is all because of Jesus. God has given Him authority and dominion over everything. When we come to Jesus, God imparts to us what belongs to Jesus. Jesus took our sins, that we might partake of His glory, He took our shame that we might sit in heavenly places with Him.
"Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53: 4-5 (NIV)
* In no way am I trying to suggest that a person should not consult doctors, this is something that must be decided on an individual basis. I am simply telling you about my decision at the time of this incident.*
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