[Raven]

Originally Posted by Clint

Three weeks ago my father had a heart attack. It was one event in a long history of bad health. I stood with my pastor and another elder and we prayed in agreement that if my 79 year old father was to live, he be given good health in his final years.

I was unable to rest until I drove the 450 miles to see him, so the following week I made the trip. I was going to arrive there on Wednesday and leave on Friday. I stopped along the way to see my sister and her husband. While I was there my left eye (my blind eye) became so infected I couldn’t use my good eye. I had to be driven to the nearest VA hospital by my sister. It would be another day before I would be able to see well enough to complete the trip to see my father.

When I arrived at my father’s home I decided to stay until Saturday. On Friday night, after I would have been gone by my original plan, my father became very ill and we had to call 911. My mother wouldn’t have known how ill he was except that he couldn’t stay awake to talk to me after expressing how anxious he was to do just that. The paramedics kept him alive by using paddles until he was taken to the one hospital he didn’t want to go to. They said they didn’t think he would live to make the trip to another hospital. The next three days were very difficult.

The doctor on duty that night was a no-nonsense repertory specialist. He read through my father’s records and discovered that he had been diagnosed with sleep apnea in the past but hadn’t been treating the condition. He said that his poor health was likely due to the sleep apnea and that if he didn’t treat it he would die. He also said that he would probably be able to live well if he used the therapy that had been prescribed. I was able to use my influence with my father to get him to begin using the breathing apparatus the doctor prescribed and to commit to it for the rest of his life.

Dad has been feeling better and getting stronger every day since his discharge from the hospital. His blood pressure is stabilizing, his mind is getting sharper and sharper and he is once again steady on his feet.

Before I left, I visited with his 94 year-old sister and coaxed his 92 year-old brother off his tractor to visit and show off his horse and acreage. His 88 year-old sister just got married again. I think Dad has some good years ahead of him.

Did God answer my prayer in the affirmative? Could it be that my delay in route and his admittance to a hospital he didn’t want to go where the doctor on duty was an expert on his problem was just a coincidence?

Not a coincidence at all! Of course He answered! As someone who has worked in hospitals for the last 16 years, I can tell you, YEP!
The healing touch of God is alive and well!
Oh and BTW.....remember the story of Jesus healing the blind guy, by spitting and making a salve with the mud? Now you know good and well, all He had to do was speak, and that blind man would've been cured just the same. But He chose to do it using a substance instead. He knew it would be easier for us to believe in the 'aspirin', but He cures the headache, just the same.