Healing testimony

Over the Christmas holiday I've had some time to read through my journal and I found a testimony about healing that I had forgotten. 

It happened around the middle of October, not long after the initial leg growing incident (see October blog) consequently I had been praying for more opportunities to step out in healing. I was helping out at a Bethel conference, my job was to serve in the dinner queue. 

After the mad rush, 2 ladies approached the table and we got talking.  The 1st lady asked if I was a student - immediately I felt prompted that this was a healing opportunity. She had very swollen lower legs and was in pain.  I asked if she would like me to pray for her and talked about recently seeing legs grow out.  I commanded swelling to go but there was no immediate difference. 

She beckoned her friend over who was walking with a pronounced limp.  She asked to be prayed for and when I held her legs together you could see about 1cm difference, her spine was curved and she was in pain when she walked.  I commanded her leg to grow - I was pretty nervous as I had 2 other Bethel students and some of the staff from the Bethel kitchen watching.  The leg grew!!!  She stood up and walked around, you could definitely see a difference in her walk and her friend kept telling her so. 

By now the faith level had increased significantly, so I offered to pray for the 1st lady again, the other Bethel students got involved and we prayed for the swelling to go down - it did!, previously one leg had been bigger than the other and now they were the same size, though both still swollen.  She mentioned that she had pain in her ear - we commanded the pain to go and on a scale from 1 - 10 (10 being bad) it went from an 8 to a 4, we thanked God and commanded complete healing, this time the pain totally went!  By now the conference was starting up again - I encouraged them to keep thanking God for their healing and that He could finish the job while they were in the conference.

One of the things that I want to go for in 2011 is healing, it was so encouraging to remember this awesome opportunity that God gave me to partner with Him in bringing Heaven to earth. I'm definitely going to be looking for more opportunities to step out in healing.