How God Healed Me At Age 22

I have written this out and posted it on Facebook, so I will repost the article here. This happened in 1978, I believe, in Winter Haven, Florida.

I never imagined I would get to write about this years later but here it is. The beginnings of this sickness I had started right after I got married in 1975. I got very sick and almost ended up in the hospital when we were married for a couple of weeks. It involved a lot of trips to the doctor and antibiotics and a lot of patience. I was very sick with a kidney infection and had a fever that was hard to break, but it did break and I recovered, somewhat.

   Well, I still had problems with this kidney stuff. I went to another doctor and they found scar tissue and infection that will still there. I had to have minor surgery and then we moved away to another place. 

  By this time I had been married for about three and a half years. My husband worked for a hospital in Winter Haven at this time, and I started with a kidney infection which became very painful. I got really sick again, but now both my kidneys felt like they were on fire. On a Thursday or Friday, I was looking for a doctor. My husband found two options. I could get in right away with an internist, but his reputation wasn't very good, or, I could go to another doctor on Monday that had a high recommendation. I opted for getting in right away and took the first doctor. 

   When I got there I had an impression that he was going to give me medicine, but he would tell me it might not work. That exact thing happened. I was doubled over in pain, and both kidneys felt like they were on fire. Would I ever recover from this? It wasn't getting any better. 

  Of course, I had been praying for God to heal me, and believing that He would. But I stayed sick. I knew God was sovereign and that He was all powerful, but I wasn't getting better, only worse. 

  Well, Tuesday rolled around, and I was praying in the morning. But this morning instead of asking God to heal me, I thanked Him that He was sovereign over this sickness. Just a second after I prayed that, I noticed the pain disappeared. I was amazed. I knew God can heal and had heard of people being healed like that, but it actually happened to me. I was well! I recovered from the sickness. The doctor couldn't help. The medicine certainly didn't work, but God was merciful to me that day. And I am grateful to Him that I don't suffer with kidney infections anymore! The Bible talks about God as the Great Physician. One of His names is Jehovah-Rapha, which means The God Who heals. God is still at work today, just as He was when Jesus walked the earth, or when He created the earth in the beginning. The Bible says that God never changes. It also says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

  God heals people today. God is still supernatural and always will be. He also saves people from their sin. He rescues people and gives them hope because of the Cross. If you have never turned to God and trusted in Jesus as your Savior, now is the time to repent and trust! 

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One Hundred Days of Miracles

   That seems like an unusual title for a book, but at least I remembered that name. I can't remember who wrote it, but the stories in it were amazing. They were short stories and they told of how God worked in power among His people. I had this book, at least 30 years ago, and wish I could find a copy of it somewhere.
  One of the stories told of a woman who had terminal cancer. She was in the hospital bed dying, when she was asked if there were anyone that she needed to forgive. As she contemplated this question, she realized she had bitterness toward a person. She repented and admitted her forgiveness for this person who she was angry with. Right after that, she started coughing. She coughed up a ball of something, which ended up being the tumor. She was healed of cancer at that moment.
  Now I know that there were many more details of that story that were left out, but this is what I remember of if. The author of the book spoke at the church we were at and told of some of the wonderful things God was doing in their midst. If anyone has a copy of this book or knows where I can get a copy, please let me know. I would love to have this book again.
  Update:  01/26/2013 - Woohoo, as my daughter would say! Something very interesting has happened here! As you know, I have been on a hunt for this book. It was quite a long time ago though, when this particular man came to our church (probably in 1977, at the latest). I have a good memory (or should I say, had a good memory until I had kids!) but I really can't remember the man's name, or really even the name of the book.
   I had done searches on the internet, and at amazon.com, but with no success. The only thing I really could remember about this book was that it was either called, '100 Days of Miracles' or '100 Years of Miracles' and the author's first name was probably Richard.
   We were visiting with some friends last night and were talking about this subject. I happened to ask them if they knew of this book, to which one replied that it sounded familiar. They suggested that I get in touch with the people who were around during the time that this man visited our church. At the same time, something came to my mind. It was the name 'Richard Harvey'. I thought about it for a while, but the name didn't sound familiar to me.
   When I got home, I thought I would do a search on the internet again, to find this book. I put in the key words '100 years of miracles richard'. Well, lo and behold, what came up was this '70 years of miracles Richard Harvey'. It was on amazon.com all along and the person who wrote it really was Richard Harvey, although that name still sounds unfamiliar to me.
   I ordered the book for around $5. Not sure where I got the number '100' instead of '70' though. God answered my prayer and my search is over now. I will report things that I read from the book, and I will make sure this book doesn't get lost in the house somewhere!