Saturday, July 15, 2006

God stories.........a testamony from Paul Cook

In 1977 I broke my ankle in a car accident, after the operation the consultant who operated on me said it was a horrible mess! I suffered with pain ever since. Some years ago I was told that eventually, when I was old, my ankle would be removed and my leg fused directly to my heel, but I think you can have a replacement fitted nowadays. Well, I guess I’ve gotten old now because the pain had gotten pretty bad and walking was getting difficult at times. So I eventually gave in and went to see my G.P. who sent me to get an X-ray and the report came back saying that I had a gross degenerative condition, so my G.P. is referring me to the specialist at West Suffolk Hospital with a view that the time has come to have that operation. Although I had always known that time would come now that it was a possibility it kind of threw me a bit.
So off I went to Re:fresh, on Saturday morning at the end of the morning session the speaker said if you want a sign from God that He loves you ask your neighbour to pray for you. So I asked Roger to pray for healing of my ankle. Within seconds I had a sensation in my ankle similar to pencils being rolled on a table which I can only believe it was bones and tendons in the move, also a movement just surged through my body from top to bottom leaving me in a state of total peace, this could have only have been the Holy Spirit! When I got up I could not walk unsupported for a few minutes, the pain was so immense, was I walking on a new ankle?
I had more prayer healing that day that again left me in a state of total peace, although I felt nothing in my ankle this time. As the day progressed I began to realise that I was not feeling as much pain as usual.
The next morning I realised that I could walk normally to the bathroom, in the past I had to walk sideways until my ankle had freed up, and that I could now rotate my foot just as well as the other one and that the ankle no longer looked like a golf ball. Because there was no give in my ankle whenever I stepped off a pavement I had to ensure that I led off on my good foot, after giving a testimony on Sunday morning I just jumped off the stage with no problem. I still have some pain but not as much and in a different area, is the plate hindering progress? I don’t know!
I am looking forward to seeing the specialist now and having another X-ray, what will it show?

GOD IS GREAT!

Paul Cook

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