Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Healed Through a Prophetic Word!

While on a ministry trip in Nashville, several people from the church prayed for a relative of someone in the church. He had some problems with addiction, Emphysema, Asthma, High Blood Pressure, Liver Disease and Hepatitis C. When prayed for, he felt heat over his chest. Someone on the team prophesied that the Lord would heal him, but that he would have to stop smoking first. Over a period of a couple months, he was getting a lot worse. In fact, it got so bad that he was no longer responding to breathing treatments. The doctors told him that there was nothing more they could do because his lungs were almost completely deteriorated. The doctor rated his lung capacity at 0% and he was referred to a pulmonologist.

After the report from the doctors, his girlfriend told him that she wouldn’t buy him cigarettes anymore. Immediately after giving up cigarettes, he started vomiting and coughing up a bunch of junk. Soon after, he went to the pulmonologist; the appointment was to get him set up on oxygen at home. After examining him, the doctor told him that he didn’t understand what was going on. The doctor told him that he had never seen a case like his before. The doctor told him that emphysema didn’t go away just because you stopped smoking, there is no cure. The doctor then told him that he no longer had asthma or emphysema and that his lung capacity was 84% !!

After that appointment, he went to back to his liver specialist for further tests on his liver disease and Hepatitis C. At his last visit, his enzyme level was at 9000 (dangerously, deathly high). They checked him yesterday and he was negative zero! They told him that they didn’t know why, but he is showing absolutely no symptoms whatsoever of Hepatitis C! They drew five tubes of blood and are doing a bunch of tests to try and explain.

When he heard this report, he remembered what was prophesied several months earlier (the Lord would heal him, but that he would have to stop smoking first) and was speechless.