A Prayer of Faith

A tiny simple testimony of how exercising our own faith and calling to God in our sickness can heal us miraculously.  Sometimes we rely more on the prayer of others which is also correct, but we need to stretch our own spiritual muscles

When a wave of sickness comes, it can come as a torrent or a wave, sometimes in greater degrees, sometimes relatively mild or chronic, yet no matter what, sickness can be debilitating and depressing to the sufferer in dimensions we may not even understand.  Sheila, a 24-year-old suffered from acute migraines at certain times of her life.  The migraines were not chronic, but when they attacked, she would be bedridden, vomiting, giddy and unable to hear sounds or see lights. Sheila shared one such incident which happened to her.  She was living in Calcutta.

It was a cold winter night in December and that night in particular, as Sheila was going to bed, and was about to fall asleep, she suddenly was alerted and startled with a throbbing kind of headache on the right side of her head.  She knew that headache immediately.  Over minutes to an hour, it got very severe.  At that time, Sheila did not know the medical term for her kind of headache - migraine.  She just knew that that terrible monster headache had hit her once again.  Sheila had no medicines with her at that time even though she normally carried medicines with her, but strangely for some reason, she had no medicines at that time.  Sheila also knew that even medicines did not work for that kind of headache.  She probably would need an injection for such a severe attack as that.  She was suddenly afraid because that night, the headache seemed to tear at her right side of her head like an angry claw.  She almost felt like she was going to die!

That night, Sheila had no one to turn to, no one to ask for help, no medicines with her.  Nothing! She knew a headache like that never went off on its own.  She suddenly felt like a strong inner voice telling her, "Exercise your faith, pray to Me!"  Sheila was surprised on hearing that inner voice speak to her because Sheila only relied on medicines for her headaches.  It never ever occurred to her to pray about it.  She never thought that prayer would figure ever in such a type of headache.  Besides, it was only a headache, not cancer or a major accident or something of that magnitude that warrants prayer chains.  Yet, she agreed she would pray to God to heal her!  It was past midnight and Sheila knelt near the side of her bed on the cold stone floor on that December night and prayed hard to God to heal her headache.  She put her hand over the right side of her head as she prayed.  Something rose within her as she prayed hard, almost in tears because she was feeling frightened and alone.  Then, after a while, all of a sudden she felt a warm burning presence on her head all over down to her neck. The warmth was beautiful with a burning presence.  It was really a wonderful Presence with her touching her head and causing that warm burning sensation and she realized after a short while that her terrible migraine was gone!  It was a miracle!  She was healed with exercising her own faith.

Sheila was amazed and knew at that moment that the healing presence of Jesus touched her and that headache disappeared never to come back again.  She went to bed, joyous and peaceful and slept a deep wonderful sleep that she never had in years.  The reality of Jesus touching and healing her filled her faith with a renewal of refreshing.  Over the coming months, Sheila came to realize that she had many disturbances embedded in her mind, like restless waves that caused these migraine triggers.  Sheila realized she needed a calm mind and she needed to rest in the Presence of Jesus.  The more Sheila learned that, she started to experience healing in many other areas of her life, both physical and emotional.

That little incident taught Sheila that as children of God, we need to exercise our faith for our own healing as well as for praying for the healing for others.  Sheila would often share this testimony with others to encourage them that God has no favorites, we can come as we are in our moment of need and when we call unto Him, He answers in compassion saying " I am the God that Healeth Thee, yes indeed I will heal you!"
Exodus 15:26 He said, "If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases ….for I am the Lord, who heals you.
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