I’m reaching out to the Church

I am reaching out to the church, the family of God, for documented and verifiable testimonies of the supernatural providential care of the Lord.

There are so many of our fellow believers who have such testimonies that should be shared with the church to encourage hope, faith and trust in the Lord for their own circumstances, many of which are dire and in need of a miracle. Personally I know of many.

I myself was healed in 1996 from rheumatoid arthritis at a summer camp in Moy having been diagnosed through my local doctor Ed Lees in 1990 following a fall from a tractor trailer in 1989 in Israel.

My consultant rheumatologist in our local Dundonald Hospital was a Mr Kane, who I believe still practices to this day or until quite recently.

I also received traction treatments in the Ards Hospital and privately seen a chiropractor in Bangor called Andrew Noble.

My medical records show the numerous medications and treatments I received between 1990 and 1996 and then nothing.

The circumstances around my healing was that I attended a Christian Summer outreach camp at the River of Life Fellowship Church in Moy.

I think it must have been the last night of the week-long afternoon and evening meetings. There had been several invited preachers who shared the good news of the Kingdom of God and salvation in Jesus Christ. One of them was an elderly man called Arthur Mann from England who had an incredible story of his own to share about his time in the Korean war.

Arthur had previously shared through the week and because myself and others were staying on site in rudimentary dormitories we usually talked to the wee small hours  we had gotten to know eachother a bit.

The Friday evening, the last of the camp had Arthur sharing and I took the opportunity to go up for prayer at the end of the meeting, desirous of God’s intervention in my deteriorating health.

I was scheduled to meet Mr Kane the following week to discuss further treatment because my condition was worsening. So I was feeling a bit desperate.

Before long Arthur came to me and asked what I was seeking from the Lord. I told him of my situation and responded with a simple question. “Do you believe that Jesus Christ paid the price on the cross for not just your sins but also for your healing?”

I said I did and Arthur simply prayed that as I had confessed my belief my healing being part of Jesus’s redemptive work on the cross that the Lord would deliver me from the rheumatoid arthritis.

Within moments all of the pain that I had been carrying for six years left me.

Hallelujah I was free of it. As you can imagine I was very happy and shared my joy with my friends and fellow attendees.

A strange thing happened though as I walked up the path leading from the tent to our dormitory. I felt the pain begin to come back again. I stopped in my tracks and said “devil I refuse to take it back again!” and the pain disappeared again.

When I got back home the following Saturday I rang my Pastor and told him what had happened and that I wanted to encourage the church members with what had happened to me. To my surprise he said he thought it wise that I went to my planned rheumatology consultation with Mr Kane and get confirmation from him.

Initially I took his advise as a bit unbelieving but soon seen the wisdom in it.

The following Wednesday I went along for my appointment at the Ulster Hospital with Mr Kane where he did the usual physical examination to start things off.

As he felt around my joints that were usually swollen and painful to the touch he hummed a few times, asked me to get myself dressed and join him in his office.

Sitting at his desk he proceeded to tell me that he was a bit bemused as to how my joints appeared to be normal and pain free. This was my qué to tell him what had happened at the camp.

As I started to tell him I could quite literally see a dullness come over his eyes.

He was polite but found my story incredulous and asked if I wasn’t in a hurry to leave would I mind staying for a number of test to be done. I was happy to do that and had various fluid samples taken and an x-ray if I’m not wrong and told the results should be with my GP the following week.

That was a long week and as the deadline came and went for the results I approached Dr Lees and asked if would agree to taking more bloods to test which thankfully he did. About four or five days later both sets of results were back with him and showed no evidence of rheumatoid arthritis in my body.

I was overjoyed as you can imagine and took little time in reporting back to my Pastor and subsequently to my church members.

I hope that my story gives you the reader hope and faith for your own circumstances and will have a story to share yourself.

The Lord bless you.

Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.

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