GOD OUR HEALER

“For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrians oppressed them without cause.” (Isaiah 52:4). The Amplified Bible adds, “Now I have delivered you from both Egypt and Assyria; what then can prevent Me from delivering you from Babylon?” When I was fifteen years old, I broke my shoulder in five places, and the doctor in Parry Sound Hospital put a brace on me, and put my arm in a sling. I was supposed to wear that hack brace for six months. Seven days later I was in church and a man came into the service and said, “Someone is receiving healing in his shoulder now.” He didn't know me, and I didn’t know that person, and have never seen him since. I took off my sling. Even though I was a little cynical, I started to move my arm. My arm was healed! I went into the rest-room and took the back brace off and the next day I was waterskiing! I also remember when I was seven years old. My mother went to hospital with back problems and deteriorated discs. During the surgery she ‘died’, but the doctors revived her. They closed her up and never finished the surgery. I remember it so clearly. They told her that she would never walk again, but my mother pulled herself out of bed by the power of God and began to walk up the stairs of 275 Charlton Avenue, and she walked again! She walked all over Africa for nine years and is still walking today. God is a miracle-working God! He has delivered us from ‘Assyria’, and He has delivered us from ‘Egypt’, so what can stop Him from delivering us from ‘Babylon’? After our son Zachary was born, we were leaving the hospital, very excited to take our new baby home. Then the doctors stopped us. They would not release the baby as they had detected an abnormality in Zachary’s heart. He went through a battery of tests. The doctor sat us down and started to go through the findings. Our precious little boy had two holes in his heart and an irregular heart beat. The doctor went through what all of this would mean - possible surgeries, medication for the rest of his life and on and on. We cried. Like David, our hearts would have failed for fear, but then we remembered our God! We started to declare health over Zachary and wholeness to his heart. In the face of tests, doctors’ appointments and bad reports, we continued to declare total health and wholeness over our son. One year later, Zachary was tested again. He received a clean bill of health! The specialist said, “Whatever we've told you for the past year no longer exists.” What a miracle! Praise God for His healing power! From: Strength by Mark Davy, Founder and President of Global Harvest Ministries International. (Mark is a missionary evangelist who travels several times a year to minister in North Africa and the Middle East).