"Healing Testimonies"
By: Patricia Poling
 

I feel like I should share my testimony in the area of how the Lord taught me to “TRUST HIM” for healing.

When I first come into the church I just simply believed everything I heard preached and did it. At that time my children were 3,5, & 8 (I raised my niece for 11 years). They had all their baby shots so that was never an issue. I decided I was going to obey James 5:14-16. After all, that was one of the things that the Lord dealt with me on when He was dealing with my heart and drawing me to Him, but that’s another testimony.

Every time the kids would get sick I would either call Bro. Kinzie on the phone to pray or I carried them in on a church night, laid them on the pew and had them prayed for. The Lord honored that EVERY TIME. It seemed my point of faith was if I obeyed the scripture, had them prayed for the Lord would heal them and that by the next morning they would be fine, and they ALWAYS were. It was a progressive thing, each time I would remember how it worked the time before and I would do it again. It not only built my faith and trust, but it was teaching the children to believe it. Many times they would get sick in the middle of the night and I would kneel beside their bed, pray and they would go to school the next morning. I’ll share with you just a few of the incidences.

1. My daughter had a chronic ear infection problem, one night she developed an ear ache and began SCREAMING WITH PAIN. I did what I always did, phoned Bro. Kinzie, he immediately prayed and told me if the pain was not gone in 10 min. to call him back and he would come to the house. Within that 10 min. something in the ear broke and black liquid came out, no more pain, then the very next week I read an article in the paper about when this happens, it will leave a person permanently deaf in that ear.  I can tell you she never had an ear problem again and hears just fine to this day.

2. One day my son hit a tree with his little motorbike and got a concussion, he didn’t know anyone, eyes dilated and very disoriented etc, etc. I immediately laid hands on him and prayed. He got an instant healing.

3. Another time my daughter was walking in the woods next to our house and she stepped into a hive of bees……….came running out screaming, she had been stung from the top of her head down to her feet. Jack (my husband) picked her up and was running to the car to take her to the ER…..I said take her upstairs and lay her on the bed, and I went up, laid across her body and prayed. The screaming stopped and I checked every sting and the stingers were gone. (bee’s always leave the stinger in) I read a few days later that a little boy died from ONE bee sting. Seems God always confirmed to me through an article I would read in the paper, leaving no doubt as to what He had done for us.

The Lord told me early on “ I will do ANYTHING you will trust me for” and I Believed Him. “The only prayer not answered is the prayer not prayed.”

My healing testimonies could go on and on……It was 10 years before I ever took the kids to a doctor and the only reason then was because my daughter fell out of a tree, I had prayed for her and had the assurance she was fine and nothing broken, but Jack insisted she have an x-ray.

Before I came to the Lord I was forever having to get prescriptions filled, which I got through my neighbor who was a pharmacist. About 5 years went by when he called me, he said “Pat, can I ask you a personal questions”? I said, sure go ahead. He asked me if I was getting my prescriptions some place else, as I hadn’t gotten any in so many years. I said, no we haven’t needed any as when we’re sick we get prayed for and God heals us. He said, “OH”
Over a period of time even my husband would say whenever we were sick,
Why don’t you just pray?

4. Then their came the time when he was diagnosed with a growth (mass), our family doctor found it and sent him to a surgeon who checked it out and scheduled him for surgery on a Wed. I went to prayer on Tues. morning and requested they pray with me that the Lord would bring healing in such a way that he would have no doubt that only God could have done it. Wed. after surgery the Dr. came to me and said, Pat we went in and it was GONE. He said I scoped him up and down several times and it was gone. I know it was there when I checked him . Praise the Lord! It was the beginning of yet another testimony that brought about great change in our lives.

God is Faithful!