'God healed my broken shoulder' and 4 other miracle stories!

God provided a house for my mum

My mum was widowed in 2020, and since then has been living in the rented house that she and my dad lived in for over 50 years. Her home is far from me and my siblings, and the house and garden are now too big for her to manage. We did not have the money to buy her somewhere else, and every house we looked at to rent seemed a horrible transition from the home she has loved for so many years, and where she has community. We kept on praying, and looking at different options, but nothing seemed right. My mum was finding it hard not knowing what the future held, and when she would move. Then, just before her 80th birthday, a house came up two doors down from her sister and brother-in-law, and near two of my siblings. The house is beautiful – just the right size, and she can walk to the shops when she isn’t able to drive anymore. Also, my brother had invested her small income well, so there were funds to buy the house. It truly feels miraculous and reminds me God’s timing is perfect – it would have been too soon for my mum to leave home before, but now she is ready, and the new house is perfect. God is faithful, even though we sometimes forget it in the waiting.

Julia 

Husband’s hip pain gone

Last weekend we stayed with my husband’s Aunt Lou. She’s a Christian, and I have noticed over the years that she has a healing anointing, particularly with joints and knees. My husband has had chronic hip pain for the past year or so, and had lots of physio and pain medication with little improvement. I was concerned that he’s too young for a hip replacement. Lou is full of faith for Jesus to heal: she laid her hands on his hip, prayed and my husband has had zero pain for two days and completed two two-hour bike rides (he is training for a race). Hallelujah – the Lord is good – he is Jehovah Rapha, our healer!

Kirstie

Word of knowledge in church

A few weeks ago a Hindu man visited my church, having been brought along by a friend. He had never been to a church before and apparently never really heard about Jesus. During the service there was a word of knowledge about someone with a painful wrist, and that God wanted to heal it. During a break in the service I went to talk to this guy, as I am part of the welcome team, and I asked if there was anything he wanted prayer for. With a slight surprised look on his face, he said: “Actually my wrist is hurting, and the pastor said something about a wrist.” I offered to pray for him and at the end of the service I went back to ask how he was. He said, with any even more surprised look on his face: “My wrist actually feels a lot better!” I prayed again for complete healing and asked him if he knew why there was a word of knowledge about a wrist. He said he didn’t know, and I said: “It is because Jesus loves you and wanted you to know you are seen.” Our God is so good.

Molly

Sustained through ME and now healed of its symptoms!

It took me a few years to discover what career I wanted to follow and what the Lord was calling me to do. I thought I had found the answer in 1988 when I began training as a nurse for people with learning difficulties. It all seemed to be going well until a few months before my finals, when I started feeling very tired and run down. I tried to keep going but was eventually told that I almost certainly had Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). This led to me resigning from my training. 

Although I was relieved to be away from a stressful environment and needed the rest, I was devastated at the loss of my career and therefore, in my eyes, my identity. From an early age, I had been asked what I wanted to do when I grew up and it seemed that many people defined themselves, or others, according to their job or profession. I had few academic qualifications, and could now do very little. I felt worthless; unimportant to God and the Church. Yet the 18 years that I had ME proved to be a very rich time. 

Instead of visiting people, I began making greetings cards as an expression of God’s love and care. I discovered other new crafts, new opportunities and a new church. This eventually led to me training as a lay preacher (something which I had previously told God that I would never do!). Through all of this and the disappointments, the frustrations, the boredom of illness, God was faithful. Indeed, the hymn ‘Great is thy faithfulness’ was a source of great encouragement. “Strength for today” indeed.

Eventually, God did heal me of my ME symptoms and I am so thankful to have more energy. But I pray that I will never forget his faithfulness – and that he gave me many treasures in the dark places.

Gill

God healed my broken shoulder

I was in bed listening to a Christian talk on healing a few weeks ago. I had badly broken my right shoulder and the bone at the top of my right arm ten years earlier. The surgeon had put a metal plate in my arm and said that he had done the best that he could with the shoulder, but that I would never have full use of it again. There were bits of loose bone that he was unable to reattach. Praise God, I have never had pain from the arm or shoulder, but I couldn’t straighten the arm to the same height as my left arm. I had been prayed for after the accident by a friend of my daughter’s, which I am sure was the reason why I had no pain and could use my arm normally. As I listened to the talk we were told to pray for the parts of our bodies that needed healing. So I stretched out my arm and thanked God for my healing. I felt nothing, but now when I stretch both arms above my head the thumbs meet the thumbs, the fingers meet the fingers – I couldn’t do this before. It was as if my shoulder was never broken. I believe God healed me in the quiet of my own bedroom.

Sue