Saturday, February 26, 2005

Leukemia Healed!

On outreach one night, we were informed of the condition of a young man. He was 17 years old, a star basketball player for a high school and was in the hospital, dying of leukemia. The school had raised over $160,000 to help his family pay off their medical bills. Everyone in the school knew about him and his condition. Over a period of about 5-6 weeks, several teams of people from the church went and prayed healing for him in his ICU room at the hospital. On the first meeting, one of the nurses told our group, "If God doesn't do a miracle, he won't make it".

Fast forward several weeks later. We are back in the parking lot on outreach when we see the guy who told us about the young man dying in the hospital. A huge smile crept across his face, “Remember that boy you went to pray for at the hospital? He is completely cancer free! They announced it over the school PA system, they told everyone! We told a bunch of people about you guys going down there to pray for him, but they didn’t believe anything would happen. One girl told us, I’ll believe it when I see it. She and I were in the same room when the announcement came over the PA. She looked right at me and her mouth fell open!"

As a result of this miracle, a whole group of young men and women (20-30) rededicated their lives to the Lord and started attending their local churches once again.