It’s Never Too Late for a Miracle
My almost useless left arm is totally healed!
The problems with my arm started 20 years ago when I noticed lumps on my back and underneath my left arm. The lumps turned out to be blood tumors. I had surgery to remove the tumors, but afterwards I had a lot of problems recovering from the surgery.
The surgery left lots of scar tissue and weakened the muscles in my left arm. To make matters worse, I fell down a flight of stairs and broke my left elbow. And when I broke my elbow, it offset my wrist. In order to fix my elbow, it looked like doctors might have to re-break it, and they weren’t absolutely sure that would solve the problem anyway.
I didn’t want to further injure my elbow, so I decided to live with my elbow and wrist the way they were. Unfortunately, that’s not all I had to deal with. I developed a horrible skin condition on my left hand. The itching was tormenting. It would wake me up at night and I would have to scratch it with a brush, just scrubbing it.
I suffered with these problems—a weakened shoulder and arm, offset elbow and wrist, and a tormenting rash—for more than 12 years. I thought my left arm couldn’t get much worse. But then my doctor found more painful tumors in my shoulder. By the time the doctor tried to repair my arm from the first surgery, plus remove more tumors, my arm basically had very little left to hold it up.
About that time, I began watching The Hour of Healing on TV. One night, Richard Roberts gave a word of knowledge from God that someone with a skin condition on their left hand was being healed. The next day, I realized that I hadn’t woken up in the middle of the night to scratch my wrist and hand. In fact, the rash was completely gone, and it’s been gone ever since.
Well, I knew if God could heal my left hand, He could heal the rest of my arm. I continued believing God for my healing and watching The Hour of healing…and one day it happened! I was watching TV and Richard Roberts said, “The Lord is healing someone of a shoulder problem. If that’s you, I encourage you to begin to do something you couldn’t do before.”
So I stood up and immediately raised my hands. Before, I could only raise my left arm a little ways, but that time, I could raise it all the way up! And I put my hand down and turned it over—something I could not do before. Then I tried to open up my hand, and it opened all the way. I knew at that point that I was completely healed! My whole family rejoiced at my healing miracle.
Dianne from Florida
I’m Free of Tormenting Eczema!
As a Certified Nursing Assistant working in a nursing home, I had to wash my hands several times a day. However, for 45 long years I had suffered with eczema on my hands, and this repeated washing was sheer torture! Bleach, dish detergent, and even most hand lotions would cause my hands to break out in a terrible rash, and sometimes cause my fingernails to come off. It felt like the soap would eat the skin right off my hands!
Medication only calmed the reaction, but nothing the doctors did would make the terrible itching, redness, and blisters go away. All my husband could do was stand by helplessly, watching me suffer. Besides the pain, I was so embarrassed by the way my hands looked. But I didn’t know what else to do. After decades of misery, I had all but given up hope of ever being free of the tormenting rash.
I started watching The Hour of Healing and loved hearing the testimonies of people who told about God healing them. One night, Richard Roberts encouraged anyone who needed a healing to lay their hands on their TV screen as he prayed, as a point of contact to release their faith to God. Longing to be free of this condition, I put my hands out in faith. I didn’t tell anyone what I had done, and pretty soon I forgot about it. But after a few weeks passed, I noticed I wasn’t scratching my hands anymore. Still, I wasn’t convinced it was gone for good.
Then Thanksgiving came around—the time of year that caused me some of the worst times of pain as I prepared lots of food for the holiday. But instead, I was able to announce to my family gathered around the dinner table that day that I’d been healed. Everyone could see my hands were as good as new. It was the most joyous holiday ever!
I haven’t had a problem with eczema since that wonderful night I prayed with Richard over the TV and released my faith for a miracle! Now I can do whatever needs to be done—cleaning, cooking, even yard work—without any problems at all. Even after 45 years of agony, there’s no scarring of any kind. In fact, to look at my hands, you’d never guess anything was ever wrong with them.
My husband says, “It’s wonderful! We just give all the glory to God.”
Gay from Pennsylvania
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