All in God’s Timing
Terri Sims
When I was a small child, I
experienced bad headaches. As I got older, they became more frequent, and by
the time I was 13 I began to get migraines. I didn’t do much about it, except
take Excedrin all the time (and burned up my tummy!).
When I became a Christian at 22, I
joined a faith community that believed in the gifts of the Spirit that include healing.
I began to pray and have others pray for the healing of my migraines. In spite
of their prayers, the pain continued to be bad. I would have only two or so
days of relief before another one came on. I tried going to faith healers,
"healing crusades", etc. I had
heard the usual... “All you need is faith”, or “Are you doing something wrong?”
A number of times during about the next 20 years, doctors had prescribed
MRI's. Each time the results showed
nothing wrong in my brain. Eventually I started taking daily medication which
reduced them to about 2 a month. but nothing
was helping them to go away. I was getting really discouraged, so I stopped
praying for my miracle healing.
About five years ago I started
attending the Church of the Good Shepherd, and I began to pray once again for
my healing. Fifteen months ago I began having Botox treatments (32 shots in one
sitting!) that would lessen some of the pain.
Then one day, Rev. Nigel Mumford, a well-known
Christian healing minister who is the
founder of "By His Wounds" healing ministry, came to our
church for a visit and to have lunch with the Order of St. Luke* members here
at Good Shepherd. I asked Nigel if he would pray for my migraines after
lunch. As we were eating, he asked if
there was a generational link in my family to this malady. We determined there
was; my grandfather, both his daughters, both my mom’s daughters, and my
daughter got migraines!
After lunch, Nigel prayed
individually for those of us in OSL.
When it came to be my turn, he prayed to the Lord to break this
generational pattern and to heal my migraines. I actually did have one that
afternoon, but by the end of my work
day, it was gone.
I began to wonder if I was
completely healed. Nearly 40 years later? I waited for a few weeks to see if I
would get a migraine. I did not! I got excited and thought, "This is it!! He has answered
my prayer!" When I went back to my neurologist for another Botox
treatment, I told him how God had healed me. I told him I would no longer need
the treatments, and I wanted to be weaned off my daily medication. He was
skeptical at first, but finally agreed that we would stop treatment gradually.
Here I am a whole year later, and NO
MIGRAINES! The Lord healed me! I know my prayers at last were answered… decades
later. I am so grateful for my healing. It gives me such joy to tell my story to both my
believing and non-believing friends.
Jesus told his disciples a parable
to show them that they should always pray and not give up (Luke 18: 1)
I am so very thankful
that I never gave up.
Thank you, Jesus!
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