June 11 – A Prayer of Faith
Exodus 15:26: He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases ….for I am the Lord, who heals you.
I have heard many testimonies during this season of people who had COVID-19 and kept praying for themselves and they got healed! Don’t get me wrong, they also took treatment, but considering the severity of their cases, they were remarkably healed. Sickness and death is bound in humanity as a curse of the Fall, until the New Heaven and New Earth.
A tiny simple testimony of how exercising our own faith and calling to God in our sickness can heal us miraculously. Sometimes we rely more on the prayer of others which is also correct, but we need to stretch our own spiritual muscles.
When a wave of sickness comes, it can come as a torrent or a wave, sometimes in greater degrees, sometimes relatively mild or chronic, yet no matter what, sickness can be debilitating and depressing to the sufferer in dimensions we may not even understand. Sheila, a 24-year-old suffered from acute migraines at certain times of her life. The migraines were not chronic, but when they attacked, she would be bedridden, vomiting, giddy and unable to hear sounds or see lights. Sheila shared one such incident.It was a cold winter night in December and that night in particular, as Sheila was going to bed, and was about to fall asleep, she suddenly was alerted and startled with a throbbing kind of headache on the right side of her head. She knew that headache immediately. Over minutes to an hour, it got very severe. At that time, Sheila did not know the medical term for her kind of headache – migraine. She just knew that that terrible monster headache had hit her once again. Sheila had no medicines with her at that time even though she normally carried medicines with her, but strangely for some reason, she had no medicines at that time. Sheila also knew that even medicines did not work for that kind of headache. She probably would need an injection for such a severe attack as that. She was suddenly afraid because that night, the headache seemed to tear at her right side of her head like an angry claw. She almost felt like she was going to die!
That night, Sheila had no one to turn to, no one to ask for help, no medicines with her. She suddenly felt like a strong inner voice telling her, “Exercise your faith, pray to Me!” Sheila was surprised on hearing that inner voice speak to her because Sheila only relied on medicines for her headaches. It was past midnight and Sheila knelt near the side of her bed on the cold stone floor on that December night and prayed hard to God to heal her headache. She put her hand over the right side of her head as she prayed. Something rose within her as she prayed hard, almost in tears because she was feeling frightened and alone. Then, after a while, all of a sudden she felt a warm burning presence on her head all over down to her neck. The warmth was beautiful with a burning presence. It was really a wonderful Presence with her touching her head and causing that warm burning sensation and she realized after a short while that her terrible migraine was gone! It was a miracle! She was healed with exercising her own faith.She went to bed, joyous and peaceful and slept a deep wonderful sleep that she never had in years.
As children of God, we need to exercise our faith for our own healing as well as for praying for the healing for others. Sometimes, we ask others to pray and feel since it is “covered” we don’t need to pray for ourselves, but God wants us to learn to exercise and grow in our faith. God has no favorites, we can come as we are in our moment of need and when we call unto Him, He answers in compassion saying ” I am the God that Healeth Thee, yes indeed I will heal you!”
Rita
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