Good morning John.
I just wanted to thank Jesus, and for your prayer of faith that touched my body last night.
A couple days ago I did something to my lower back, and for the past two days was in extreme pain. It hurt to sit, to stand, to do anything. You saw me hanging on the swing-set yesterday, trying to get some relief. I hardly was able to work yesterday, because I could not sit for even a few minutes without pain – I felt like I had damaged a disc or something in my lower back. And it was getting worse, not better.
Last night, I was loving what you were preaching from 2 Thess., especially the section about the “man of sin”, but also other things as well. I was eating it up, it was so sweet tasting to me. I was loving it so much I kind of forgot about the pain during those parts, but when things got quiet at the end of the meeting, I was hurting so bad again. I could hardly sit in my chair.
Then, right when you started praying for people, I felt “go up there quickly”, that I would be touched if I asked you to pray for me. When you prayed for me, the relief in my back pain was instant. So much so, that I could hardly believe it… I kept “searching” for the pain afterwards, but it was nearly gone, it just felt like a little bruise was there for the rest of the night. But I could stand, sit, or anything without that painful feeling. Song told me after the meeting that when I got prayed for, she could feel it too, it was like a wind to her body. She had seen the pain I was in the past 2 days, so she was relieved too, and that encouraged both of us. She got relief too!
It is early in the morning now, and I am sitting at my desk, pain free. I still have a small sensation of a tenderness, but no pain at all. I went to the airport with you to take the girls to RDU this morning, and sat in the car for almost 2 hours, pain free without fidgeting or moving around like I had been doing two days before. That is not a small thing. I wanted to thank the Lord, and you, for praying for me. Jesus is still healing. Still touching. He’s still alive, and He still cares about our pain. If we need relief, He has it, and it can be immediate.
Gary