Joe Nail's Healing

… she had been backslidden her entire life and she knew everything I was telling her was true -  If you read “ ...That Night”, this is a continuation of that story…

When I was with Jim, my dying best friend's dad, I had an urge to tell them what had just happened to me, but for some reason, fear I guess, I didn't.  Along with that was the urge to lay hands on Jim and pray for him to be healed.  I am convinced that if I had been so bold Jim would have been healed, I felt I had blown it.  I regretted not having the guts to pray for my friend.

Shortly after, one of my customers in Kissimmee called me for something and asked if I'd heard of his clerk's cancer, her name was Jo Nail.  I hadn't.  He told me she had had some abdominal pain and gone to the doctor who had run some tests and then exploratory surgery.  They found cancer of the colon, full blown,

spread everywhere.  They sewed her back up and gave her a week or so to live.

When I heard this, something leaped in me not to let this go like Jim.  I had just started going to a little Assembly of God church.  Just met the pastor so I went to him and told him this story.  He said go.  He said call her up and tell her you do visitation for the church and ask if you can come and pray for her.  I did that, she said come and my wife and I drove to Kissimmee on a Tuesday evening.  She lived in a trailer.  Her dad had been a Baptist Pastor and she had been backslidden her entire life and she knew everything I was telling her was true.  My wife and I prayed for her to accept Jesus, rededicate herself to Him which she eagerly did.  Then we prayed for her healing. 

Jesus went about healing all kinds of sickness and disease and he commissioned us to do the same, so in that authority we prayed.  It was a great time but there were no fireworks.  No one levitated, in fact the only hint there had been a miracle was the fact that we felt at peace for having done what we knew He wanted us to do.  On the way home I remember saying to my wife "wouldn't it be neat if she was really healed."  She was, totally.  Her stitches started itching so she went back to her doctor who said she

should be dying not itching.  He sent her to the hospital for tests which confirmed her to be totally cancer free. 

Praise God!