INTRODUCTION

One of the worst experiences as a parent is to see something bad happen to one of your children. Recently, I had this happen as my oldest had gotten injured and God showed up in power.

THE POWER OF PRAYER

Friday night, July 6, my family and I were heading out to our car to go out to rent a movie to watch that evening. As we got to the car, I had taken a bag of garbage over to the dumpster and was on my way back to my family when I heard a scream. Not just any scream, but that blood curling scream of a child who was in pain. Worse, the scream of my eldest daughter who was in pain.

Immediately, I raced to the car to find out what had happened. James, my youngest, was playing, at least in his mind, with Katie, my oldest, and had closed the car door on Katie before she could get in. Unknown to James was that Katie’s hand was in the door jam and was caught in the door when James slammed it shut. This accounts for the scream of pain that I had heard.

When I arrived on the scene, I immediately looked at my daughter’s hand. The door had caught her pinky finger between the two knuckles that allow the finger to bend. To make it even worse, I could see that Katie’s finger was broken as the finger bent a good at about a good forty-five degree angle between these two knuckles where there is nothing but a straight bone except Katie’s was no longer straight.

Immediately our plans changed. I was bringing my daughter to a medical clinic place as our doctor’s office was closed and the emergency room had a large wait. However, all the doctor’s and clinics in Texas seem to be equipped with x-ray and the tools to handle broken bones that an emergency room visit is just not necessary.

We pulled up to the clinic and parked. Before we went inside, I told Katie that we were going to pray and believe on God for healing. We prayed together the Scriptures for healing (Psalm 107:20, Psalm 103:3, Isaiah 53:5) as well as the ones that declare we can ask for anything in Jesus name and receive it (John 15:7, John 14:14, Mark 11:24). We did not see a change in her finger, but we believed and went inside the clinic.

I signed Katie in and sat down to fill out the paperwork. Just as I was finishing, Katie turned to me and said, “Dad look.” She was holding up her finger, which now was whole. It was not bent, it was not broken, it was nothing but whole. Katie added as I looked at her finger, “And it doesn’t hurt anymore.” Somewhere between signing Katie in and finishing filling out the paperwork unseen by either of our eyes, God fixed and healed Katie’s finger.

Well, I was ready to go home at this point, but as it happened this was the exact moment that we got called. So, I did what any born again word of faith Bible believing Christian would have done. I went back into the room and told everyone who came in to see Katie that God had healed her. It amazed me how many people did not believe us. They still took x-rays and as we already knew discovered that she had nothing wrong with her. Eventually, the doctor came in and told us to keep an eye on it. At that point, I just smiled and nodded because they didn’t believe me anyway.

We returned home to great joy had by all the family especially James who was happy that God healed her and she was no longer hurt. PRAISE GOD!

SCRIPTURE

God promises healing and promises to answer prayers if we believe and do not doubt. Well, Katie and I did not doubt and we saw God move to heal her finger and show himself strong to my daughter whom I am sure will not soon forget what God did.

CONCLUSION

If you are sick and suffering, pray to God and believe for healing. If he doesn’t do anything, you have lost nothing. But should he show up and heal you, you will have a powerful testimony to His love and grace.

Until Next Time,

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