Hello people reading my blog!!!
Im about to talk about something that most people find very iffy and thats healing.
I will admit I was very skeptical about healing before the race. I only thought it was possible back in the bible days. I didn’t think it was possible, modern medicine seemed like the only solution to me. Until I experienced it myself.
My freshman year of high school, I fell while walking up a dirt hill and my knee landed flat on a rock. I milked the injury and didn’t put a lot of weight on it. My sophomore year the pain got very intense and I ended up going to the chiropractors office where they told me I had bruised under my kneecap and had free fluid in my knee….gross, I know. I dealt with the constant pain in my knee up until recently. Part of WR training camp is hiking 2.2 in 38 minutes. (don’t be fooled…its much harder than it sounds…Half of it is up hill and the other half is downhill on rocky ground.) On the first lap, up the first hill my knee gave out… and I did not finish the hike. My squad leader told me I needed to go to the doctor, and I did. I was told that I had Patellar tendonitis so I ended up going to PT to try and strengthen my muscles in my leg back, and I was told I had been walking up stairs wrong for years.
At launch I had to do the hike and the night before they talked about healing. Two people prayed over my knee and the pain lessened enough for me to complete the hike without extreme pain. Eventually the pain came back, but I was used to it. I was living everyday life with a pain around a 5, sometimes a 9. I got so used to it that sometimes I forgot I had a knee problem.
A couple weeks ago, we had a session and the guy talking was saying that God is asking people to say yes to something, one of those being healing. He asked anyone who was sick to raise their hand to be prayed over… for some reason I didn’t. I don’t know if it was because I was doubting or if I just wasn’t noticing the pain anymore. After the session ended my knee started hurting the most it had in a while. It was at a 10. I blew it off and used my muscle relaxer cream hoping it would lessen.
A couple minutes later one of my squamates walked in asking for my teammate who has stomach problems. When I told her that she wasn’t there, she respond with “God told me I needed to come to your room and heal somebody… do you need healing?” I was about to say no but at the last second my mouth said yes. She asked if she could pray for my knee and I was a bit reluctant but said yes.
My knee was at a ten but when she finished it was at a 5. I was so excited… the intense pain I had been feeling had dulled to its regular pain. When I told her it was at a 5, she insisted on praying over my knee again and told me I needed to believe it was going to lessen. She asked God to bring my pain to a zero… something I haven’t experienced since my freshman year. As she prayed I felt my knee become lighter in a way, I didn’t feel shooting pain anymore, I didn’t feel a weight. I started freaking out…( and thats putting it lightly)
I was awestruck. He wiped away all my doubts on healing. If he could heal a knee through someone, he could heal so many more.
It has been around a week since that night, and the only time I’ve felt pain is when I’ve been crammed on a chicken bus.
Please hear me when I say this… Healing doesn’t happen instantly. You could pray for a 100 days for healing and it could happen on the 101 day. You could pray for sight for 300 blind people but only one person receive sight. Don’t be discouraged when it doesn’t happen, because it will happen in Gods time.
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My next blog will be a Q&A blog about my time on the race… This is only if I get enough questions… So message them to me, email them, comment them below, or DM them to me!!! Ask any question you want…i’ll try to answer them all!!!
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