continued...I Believe in Miracles.

continued....that evening we returned to church, this time dropping the kids off at children's church first. We sat down and the message again was incredible. Then they started praying for the sick. So I turn to Chuck and say..."Go get Precious, God is going to heal her." He told me no, he wasn't going to get her and I told him again, "Go get her, I am serious, God is going to heal her." Well, Chuck knows I am persistent and when I make up my mind there is no changing it. So he got mad at me and left. He told me later he was not planning on coming back. He was going to just leave. But on the way out of the church he said he heard a voice in his head that said, "you go get that kid and prove to her that you are right and she is wrong. God is not going to heal her and you should prove it to her."

So he went to the children's church, picked up Precious and brought her back to the church. He came in and slowly was making his way to the front when an usher met him and asked what was wrong with Precious. Chuck told him she had scoliosis and the doctors wanted to put a steel rod in her spine. So the usher seated him near the front and told him they were praying for people's backs, but would come and get him shortly. So he sat there until the last person was prayed for. All the while I was praising and thanking God that He was going to heal my daughter that night.

At the end, they came to get Precious and Chuck. She was seven years old, and had a little pink lace dress on. I still remember how she looked like an angel. Instead of walking up on the stage, the Pastor came down and picked her up and sat her up on the stage right next to the Pulpit. He asked what was wrong with her, Chuck told him. He replied, "oh, that is nothing for the Lord. He then stretched her legs out in front of her little body and it was clear one leg was around five inches shorter than the other. He began to pray and thank God, then said, "Lord, you didn't create this child this way and we ask you to heal her in the name of Jesus, cause her little legs to be even the way you created them to be. The short leg began to move and then he said, "both legs Lord, yes, both legs and they both moved and became the same length." Chuck was bent over crying his eyes out. I was crying and shouting, "I knew God was going to heal her!!" I was thanking Him and people all around me were hugging me.

Then the Pastor took her by the hand and said, "come with me." She jumped down and ran completely around the church which held around five thousand people and it was the first time she had run in over a year.

On the way out of the church that night I remember Chuck saying, "Honey, God showed me tonight that He is God, and He can do what He wants, when He wants, how He wants whether I believe it or not." Chuck cried for three months after that. I rejoiced, I sang, I cried and I thanked God that He is able to do the impossible, and He did it for me, for my child.

My life changed that night. I made a decision that if God loved me that much that He would heal my child, that I would never walk away from Him. I have fallen at various times, but I never put up a sign that said, "Dana's Residence." I got back up and tried to live for Him even more so. I love the Lord with all my heart, mind and soul. I believe He came for those who were sick, not only in spirit, but in mind and body. Nothing, absolutely nothing is too difficult for Him. I know God loves me with an unconditional love and He wants us to know He is there for us, He wants us to love Him back. When I hurt, He hurts and when we sin, I believe it hurts Him also. He said to Be Holy, Because I am Holy. I try to always be aware that I am in His presence at all times.

People ask me sometimes if I believe all the things I see on TV with evangelists and so on. My answer is no. I believe the devil has a counterfeit for everything good that God does. I also believe people are fallible. I know for a fact that God can and does heal and He is the same yesterday, today and forever. I think as human beings it is difficult for us to believe the dead can be raised, the lame can walk, the blind can see and the deaf hear, but I want to say the God I serve lives and abides in the realm of the impossible. The greatest miracle of all and evidence that there is a God is a changed life. HE IS ALIVE!!! He was dead and now lives. That is unthinkable. This is the difference in our God and Christianity. No other prophet or other religion can they say, was raised from the dead. Muhammed is in the tomb, Ghandi is in the tomb, Hira Krishna is in the tomb, but Jesus' tomb is empty. Praise the Lord. Come quickly Lord Jesus!!