There are precious few real people in the world; those that have not given up honesty and sincere love for the praise of others. But such a real person is a dear friend of my family. Her name is Jessica. Being raised in a eccentric eschatology (Pauline Dispensationalism) from childhood, she had been raised to believe against miracles and healing. Fortunately those same parents did teach her God's grace and in a big way. But though she fully believed in the grace of God in Jesus Christ her Savior, she struggled with the thought that God cared for anything else about her life other than her eternal destination. But that was to change in a real encounter with the Healer of Broken Hearts. Me and my whole family love Jess (as we call her) very much and fully think of her as part of our own family. She even refers to my wife as Ma Kiser. We love it when she and her husband come in for a visit.
Of late, she had been experiencing what I guessed to be anxiety attacks where her heart rate would shoot up dangerously high. Her and her husband both are very health-conscious individuals and attend local gyms on a regular basis. While in for a visit over Christimas, she had another attack. She knew we believed in healing and so asked us to pray for her. I'll let her tell you her story in her own words:
"I have not been taking other medications, nothing. Off the sleep pills and headache pills. December when i had the attacks and my heart rate went crazy it kinda scared me with my entire lifestyle, and I've decided to try to take better care of my body. The anxiety problems I have are something I'm going to have to learn to deal with and cope. When I came in town, I was even feeling it then. It was extremely stressful, I can't even explain all the thoughts that went through my head, along with the way my heart steadily increased. I was over at the Kiser's house one evening that it happened, I asked Greg to pray for me, and lay hands on me. I didn't believe in healing, I was taught not to, but I have heard of things that has happened and I wanted him to try it on me. I kept saying to myself it won't work because I don't believe. Well, I sat down and they laid hands on me and started praying, I felt nothing, nothing for like the first minute... and then all of a sudden my chest because INSANELY hot like, not just I was getting warm, it felt like ten huge people were sitting on my chest, I started breaking out in a sweat... The doubts and anxiety that I was feelings suddenly felt like that had been lifted from me. I felt a comfort, an ease that I hadn't felt before. I now honestly do believe in healing. I see where Jesus in the ministry told his disciples and follows that THEY could follow him in doing healing and the healing more greater than his. Faith, I still am a 'babe' when it comes to the healing issue, but I plan on studying it into depth and growing in the doctrine more and more. I have maybe once or twice ALMOST started to feel the attacks come back since I got back to Texas, but I have went by myself and started praying and in a few minutes they have gone away. -Jessica"
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