During a Friday night Youth Outreach, we were asked to pray for a young man with an ankle injury. He had badly sprained the ankle at a basketball game, couldn’t walk without limping greatly and was in a lot of pain. We asked if we could pray for him and the guy said, “Sure”.
Before we pray, we ask him to rate the pain and discomfort on a scale from one to ten, with ten being the highest and 1 being the lowest, his pain is at a ten right now. We ask him to demonstrate how he can walk. He trudges off, takes a few painful steps and has a major limp, we get him back over to the truck and pray, “In the Name of Jesus, be healed!” We tell the kid to check it out. He takes a few steps with a noticeable difference in his walk. We ask him to rate the pain and he says, “It's a six”. We say, “Ok! 40% healing in two minutes, let’s pray again!” He comes back over to the truck and we start to pray again. We pray for a minute or two and tell the kid to check it again. This time, he walks with almost no limp at all! We ask him to rate the pain and he quietly answers, “It’s a 4”.
Two of his unbelieving friends walk up to him and ask him if he is just faking it. The kid with the hurt ankle looks at them, perfectly serious and says, “No guys, it feels SO much better, there’s almost no pain at all”.
