"God, if are real. Heal me!"

There is often so many questions concerning healing and miracles. Is it for today? Was it just something for just those in the days of Jesus? Can it happen to me? I'm not anybody special.
These are questions I often am confronted with daily by others who are in need of a miracle in their lives. And so I write to those who question the validity of such a thought of miracles and healings. Those who are down because their needs are so great and they know not what to even believe, grasping for straws of possible hope because there seems to be no answer to the problems of life.

I want to share one of many testimonies I have of the power of God's mercy and compassion. Never read anything about miracles or healings. Knew God can do whatever He pleases, whenever He pleases. Heard of people who got healed by God. Was it real? That was basically my background on healing and miracles. In other words, I knew nothing. I had no education. Total ignorance except for one thing. God can do all things, and He hears our prayers.

I guess I was so confused as a teenager and walked in disappointing bitterness in my early twenties that I was willing to do just about anything to challenge God's power. I had always loved Him and always wanted to serve Him. But what I was missing was the personal, intimate relationship with Him that I now experience. Before, it was all head knowledge. I knew of Him in theory, but I did not feel His movement in my life. I knew of Him, but did not know Him. I didn't know or experience His character - His love, mercy, compassion, grace... I knew Him as a God of rules that I did not want to break.

I entered into my twenties during the Viet Nam war period and all the bitterness that one could feel in disappointment to life I possessed. Life was nothing I had expected. I felt alone. Abandoned. I was even disappointed with the church I had attended all my life. I was involved in my church, but was so dry inside. I was willing to leave that church for a set period of time in order to go to another just to try to "feel" God one more time. I felt I had been in a spiritual desert for too long and had to venture forth and try to get my spiritual thirst quenched. And so I made a deal with myself. I set a six month time period in which I would be in another church to seek God. If at the end of that time I did not find God's presence, I would return to my home church. Some time passed. No feeling. So I began to get seriously worried that I would perhaps never find God again.

Little did I realize that all He had done was let me go into the wilderness to get my full attention to His leading. It wasn't long until new friends led me into another church. I went this "new" church to see what their excitement was about. I felt I was open to new experiences with God so I agreed to go to church with them one night. What I didn't expect when I walked through the doors of that church was the tremendous overwhelming feeling of love that would completely envelope me.

I was totally unprepared for that! I was so scared! I was familiar with anger and resentment. Sarcasm, bitterness and disappointment were my constant companions. I enjoyed the service but could not wait for a graceful moment to run out of that church. Had I only known that it was God waiting for me in the parking lot!

When the service broke, I ran to parking lot waiting for everyone to come to the car so we could leave! Wouldn't you know everyone else stayed in the building to talk that evening. So there I was alone I thought in the parking lot. All of a sudden my frustration and confusion overwhelmed me. I cried out, "God, if you are real. Heal me!" I could hardly believe I said those words!

Now I had never questioned the existence of God in my life. I had dedicated my life to Him, but I needed a miracle of healing and more importantly I needed to know He would respond to me! I needed to know I could feel Him one more time! And then it was over. The healing was done in completion. I knew that I knew that I knew I was healed. There were no great bomb shells taking off. No flashes of lightening creasing the sky. I was simply healed of a disease in which I could gain no control over. From that night I was healed. I never once again experience any more symptoms. God had my full attention from that point on. My belief system was changed from that point on. I had experienced God in a different way than before...one that would change my life forever!

A miracle - yes. It was instantaneous. Healing takes a period of time for completion. Over a period of years He has taught me through a series of healings and miracles of His power, mercy, and great compassion for a simple, everyday person like me. And so I am a staunch believer in both miracles and healings. I find it easy to believe and have faith in His promise of healing, emotionally, physically, financially. I believe the Word of God for what He says. If God says it. It must be true. It doesn't matter what others say or what I have or have not been taught in the past. If God says it - it simply is! That is faith, pure and simple.

Do you need a healing? A miracle in your life? Ask Him. He may be standing in your "parking lot" waiting for you as He was with me! Ask God for the miracle or healing you need. No matter if it is emotional, physical, financial, whatever, He is still in the miracle business! It only requires your asking and believing!

I invite you to write me here at this website to share your miracle that God has performed in your life. Or perhaps you would like prayer for a needed miracle or healing. We'd be glad to stand in faith with you for that request. Please free to write me. God deserves all the glory for His acts of loving healings and miracles!

Standing firmly in faith,
Bette

Bette@faithinchristministry.com