A Divine Healing
by
Christy Beavers Johnson
I hope as you read this that it gives someone hope, and faith in God.
As Paul, I feel I was the chiefest of all sinners, and I am in no way a perfect Christian. I wish I could say I open my Bible daily, that I've never questioned God, that I've kept His perfect will. I can't. What I do though is I pray. Through out the years, He has taught that it's only Him I can rely and depend on. Humanity by itself is imperfect, but our God is perfect and He is AWESOME! Through having my children, I've learned more of His love for me. Having been a sinner and loving my children, and striving to protect and provide for them, I realized how much more is my perfect loving Heavenly Father.
I went through a divorce, I began to fill like had failed God, my kids and my church. Though I did feel God's peace about having done everything I could do in my marriage. I then just stood still, but the "what ifs" questions still plagued me. I felt like I Wasn't good enough to part of the church family. It is pretty ridiculous to feel this way when you realize how man broken homes are in the Christian world.
Anyway, for the most part I had been in perfect health. Never had an operation, except for the C-Sections when birthing my three children. Fifteen years later, I learned that these C-Sections had caused scar tissue to attach to my uterus and colon. I began have severe abdominal pain and a nonstop menastration cycle. After a month of this I went to the Doctor and they admitted me to the Hospital, where I stayed for one week. After some testing the Doctors explained to me that I had some cysts on both ovaries, my uterus was covered in fibroids, along with scar tissue attached to the organs. Finally, they told me they had also found a mass outside the uterus near my colon that concerned them. A month more of Doctor visits, ultrasounds and blood work, they decided it would be best for me to have a hysterectomy and get a biopsy of the mass. I can't say I was scared of dying of cancer, but I was scared of being helpless and unable to take care of my kids. Who would finish raising them or take care of them?
I worked in Emergency Room at a Hospital at this time and I had to go to the main floor of the Hospital on an errand. In this Hospital (Baptist Medical Center, Jasper, Alabama) there is a door in which many, many people believe there is an image of the face of Jesus. (This door is protected with a plexiglass shield). It is now the door to the Prayer room of the Hospital. This image of Jesus showed up a few years ago mysteriously during the operation of a patient. As I went down the hallway I had to pass this door. When I got there I just stopped and looked directly into the "eyes" of this face and whispered this prayer, "Jesus, you know the predicament I am in. I am the only income my family has. I have three children I am raising alone. God only you can do something now. Take me quickly, and provide someone for my children to rely on, or heal me so that I can finish my job here." I can't say I felt a strange sensation come over me. I can say menastration cycle returned to normal immediately. The pain subsiding daily. The next week I went back to my Doctor for yet another sonar. He kind of laughed, and said, "I don't know, maybe we read it wrong or something, but you won't need that hysterectomy. There were no fibroids, no cysts, no mass and the scar tissue was a lot less than the initially thought.
The Doctors may question what happened but I don't, I have no doubt in my mind, I WAS DIVINELY HEALED BY GOD!!!
***Administrators note***
I have been to this Hospital on numerous occasions and this door does appear to have a likeness of a face that many painters and artists have portrayed to be Jesus.
This Message was written by our now General Overseer in 1995, when he served as the Assistant Editor to our International Publication, "The Evening Light", as a reminder and a challenge to each of us to know that unless God builds The Church of God (His House), our work is fruitless.
