This sentence caught my attention: “When I was thirteen, one of my sisters called our mother to tell her she had just come from a charismatic prayer meeting and someone had sensed that God wanted to cure someone with a bad back.”
I have a friend whose sister was cured of a huge tumor after a general healing mass held by a priest. He asked those who had problems to come to the altar rail and he laid his hands on them and prayed for their infirmities to be healed. He was very specific that he was not responsible but was merely a conduit for Jesus to do the healing. He also was very specific to say he did not know if anyone would be healed, that was not his mission. It was all low keyed. The next morning she was read all over, as if she had a total sunburn.
Several days later she went back to her dr. for a scheduled follow up appointment to consider what to do next, e.g. surgery. The Dr. had a new x-ray done to see if it had grown but the x-ray revealed the mass, that had been the size of a muskmelon was several was gone. I met her a couple of years later and she repeated her story.
The key point was that the priest emphasized that he did not promise any one any healing. He merely held the mass and laid on his hands. Any healing that was done was done by Jesus. He did NOT ask folks about their problems.
Awesome story. Thanks for the ping.
Thank you for sharing this amazing testimony!