It will be yours...

Last year around this time, we discovered that I had Scolosis of the Spine and if we didn't immediately  properly correct it...it could grow into something more and it could become critically more painful. 

At that time, my back was already in an incredible amount of pain, to the point I could barely even sleep at night. Every which way I would turn,

I was in pain... 

Nothing I did would help. 

I just felt so agitated and helpless.

During that time I truly questioned God's reasoning for this...but my Mom being the Godly Lady she is, suggested that I start praying for the healing of my spine. 

To be honest, I did not at all want to. 

"Pray for my back? Like that will do any good...give me a break!" Were the cruel words escaping my mouth too many times. As you can see, I did have a pretty sour attitude to the whole "prayer" thing. 

It took awhile of her continuously saying that I should pray for it, before I even actually took that into any thought of consideration. 

As soon as we had found out my spinal condition, my parents took me to see my Youth Pastor for prayer. 

I went along reluctantly. 

Going against my will, because in my mind then, Prayer was just something you did to bless your food. Not something you do for a healing miracle.

Oh goodness!! Was I wrong! 

After that, I started praying for the healing

of my spine on my own. 

Now that I look back at that time, 

I see that God had already planned this season of a new recognition of prayer and the power that comes with it. 

I continued praying almost every night and seen no fruit of my "prayer labor." I began again to question even why I was praying? This definitely was a tough battle 

I faced head on. 

At this point I was just so sick of the pain and the constant Chiropractic appointments, I thought I would give this prayer thing a second try. 

I continued to pray and cry out to God. Pain slowly decreasing, but not completely gone. 

"We pray that complete healing would just flood her body right now Father."

- were the words I so often heard. 

One night, I was lying in bed and my back was in excruciating amounts of pain and I just couldn't sleep at all. 

So I decided to read my Bible that was laying on my night stand table. 

I flipped it open in an orderly fashion, trying to keep quiet not to wake the rest of the family. 

As I flipped it open it landed somewhere in the book of Mark. And one verse stood out to me like a

beacon in the night. Literally. 

All the other verses blurred out, except just this one...

Mark 11:24. It reads. 

"Therefore, I tell you whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have 'received' it and it will be yours." 

When I read that verse,

 I had a complete God encounter. 

I just have to pray and then receive my healing, I thought. 

As I kept re-reading that verse, tears began to flood my eyes. 

I started hearing the words spoken over me, by a soft gentle voice: 

"Healing. It will be yours..." 

I know you are anxious to find out what happened....Did you get healed?! Is the question in all your curious minds. The answer sadly, is No. Yes, I still have Scolosis of the Spine. Sometimes I still get tons of pain, but I can live knowing that I can run to my bedside and kneel before The Lord. To seek His face, to continue to pray for my complete healing. 

I still can hear the words, 

clear as day. 

"Healing. It will be yours..." 

If you're in a battle with your health, remember to pray.

It truly does help. I realize that now.

Until Next time, 

 

~Kerrington