TESTIMONY OF OUR LIVING
GOD WORKING MIRACLES
Sept 30th 1999
Well I have to tell you all that this has been some week for me. I keep figuring that I have received almost all the blessings one person can stand only to get more.
Since Saturday nite, during my prayer time, this one particular woman has been the one I have prayed for. The unique part is that each nite she was the one the Lord put upon my mind to pray for. This is thursday so by Monday nite I am thinking that this is going to end up being something very special for this woman.
Each prayer that was said was a prayer for her healing. She is a transplant recipiant and has been very ill with rejection etc. She is one of my ladies at the care facility where I am chaplain.
So again Monday and Tuesday, she is the one I am praying for. On Wednesday afternoon I am in the grocery store when her husband comes up to me and says, Hey!.. I turned to him and shared what has been happening about his wife and he just looked at me an smiled and said thank you very much. He told me how she was so sick this weekend and has been getting better in the last two days. I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit so strong and it was wonderful. I told him that I would see his wife the next day to pray for her in person.
I am getting very excited at this point and wondering what the Lord is planning on doing. That night again she is the one I am to pray for.
Today I was feeling so nervous and getting almost beside myself. I actually had to keep from running into the building. I slowed my thoughts and pace and decided to visit a few other people first.
After a couple of people I could not keep myself away from her room. As I got there I found it was empty. Yikes! So off I went to look for them. Here they come up the hallway and we all walk back to her room with her husband pushing her wheelchair.
We all sat down and I held her hand and she smiled and I started telling her what has been happening to me and how I know that God has some wonderful plans for her. I said I am not trying to get out of that I think I should pray but sometimes it is not the physical the Lord is really concerned about.
I also shared that I am also learning to walk with God and part of what I was sharing with her was also an obedience lesson for me.
I asked her if she wanted to be prayed for and anointed and she said Yes... So I prayed and she squeezed my hand and her husband just beamed and it was wonderful.. Oh No! we are not done I realize.
I told her I had a gift and asked if they had a Bible. They said No. I said I am going to give you this Women's Devotional New Testament and so I put in a prayer and signed the book.
Then I asked them if they knew Jesus. They said they knew who Jesus was. I then shared some verses on the Book of Life and shared some other things with them and before you know we are all holding hands this time and they are accepting Jesus into their hearts.
I wished I could relate how this truly happened, it makes me weak in the knees to actually ponder this too deeply. Our Lord Jesus healed both of them today maybe not in the physical but He gave to them His peace and comfort.
Epilogue: This woman died two weeks later. My first reaction was somewhat astonished as I had truly felt the Lord was going to heal her. The joy I felt after was intense knowing that Jesus drew her close before she died and she is now with Him. A Christian friend moved in right next door to the husband so I know that the discipleship of him will continue. We each have a part, the nurses were the prayer warriors, I was blessed as being the evangelist, and my friend in Christ is the discipler. I pray that all of us will recognize our parts in the ministries that the Lord Jesus gives to us. If one person misses their part the blessings are also missed.
by Linda Marie
© 1998
© 1998
