My first words were, “Wait, really?” and my first thoughts were “crap, what do I do now.” I told Shaun that my ankle hurt and I thought God wanted me to pray for him and he just smiled and said, “Cool”. Well shoot, I’ve never healed anyone before. I’ve prayed for it a lot, my whole team has, but to be honest I’ve never actually seen anything happen. I’ve been around people when they have gotten healed, sure, but I’ve never been the one to do the actual praying.
So I told Shaun, “Ok I have no idea what I am doing. But I’m gonna pray and if nothing happens, oh well at least we tried. And if something does happen… it’ll be awesome.” So that’s what I did, I grabbed his ankle, closed my eyes and prayed every kind of prayer I knew…
I begged God to come and heal his ankle, I asked the Holy Spirit to move, I told God that we trusted Him and knew that He could and we were simply asking that He would, I “spoke to his ankle” and commanded it to heal, I spoke to any darkness in his ankle and told it to leave, I prayed that the pain would go away and everything causing it would disappear. Then I ran out of things to say, so I just thanked Jesus and told Him that we loved Him and closed with an Amen…. I opened my eyes and hopefully looked up at Shaun and asked if it still hurt.
He started to test it out by putting a little weight on it and then he just started jumping up and down over and over again- he was healed! Whaaaat?!? I still can’t believe it actually happened. As he was jumping he explained how for the past three years whenever he put too much pressure on his ankle he would get this really sharp pain and now here he was jumping up and down with a smile on his face, pain free. Ridiculous. I walked away smiling and laughing and sat back down in front of my computer and called the kids over to come watch the Prince of Egypt with me.
To be honest I picked that movie because I knew it was a clean cartoon and safe to watch with the children, not because it was biblical. It seriously touched me though and at the end of the movie I had to go sit by myself for a while and journal about how awesome God is. I read it and talk about it and pray it all the time but it hit me in the face again today- God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and that God, the Spirit who raised Christ Jesus from the dead, who parted the sea and sent the plagues and defeated so many armies and created the earth and everything in it, that God, lives inside of Me (and inside of you).
In the Finger of God Documentary someone spoke on the fact that “God said ‘let there be light’ and there was enough power in that Word to bring light every day, forever.” God is beautiful and mighty and awesome and I am overwhelmed with the idea that I get to talk to Him and spend time with Him. That I am His adored daughter. I love it. As if that wasn’t enough, I suddenly remembered my prayer from a few hours earlier… “God I just want to feel you this afternoon and spend time with You without having to try.” Well I don’t think He could have made it any easier for me… God, I adore You. Thank You.
