Woman Healed of Cerebral Palsy Through Vision
Emerson then took Marlene to his church. She had to be strapped in because her body was jerking so wildly.
"She was all scrunched up," says church member Lucille Bernard. "I thought to myself, `My, I didn't realize that it was going to be somebody this bad. Lord, this is going to have to be You.'"
Emerson had never had a miracle take place in his church.
"They gathered around me to pray," Marlene remembers, "and the pastor said, 'I don't know how to pray.' But he asked God to heal me from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. And then they asked if I wanted to stand up on faith."
"Immediately upon lifting her out of the chair, we began to feel strength coming into her legs," says Emerson.
"She took a hold of the back of the pew, and she just leapt," Lucille Bernard recalls.
"My feet hit the floor, and I felt the floor for the first time in my life," Marlene says with a smile.
"Her knees and her toes pointed together, and everything was pointed in," remembers Emerson. "But with each step that she took, they started to straighten out. And as her toes and her knees straightened out, she got stronger and stronger. She took a few steps on her own, and then was literally running around the church."
"Then she started into going on a little bit of a dogtrot around the church," says Lucille. "Finally, she began praising the Lord and going around. And I tell you, you talk about the glory of the Lord -- we just shouted. The presence of the Lord was so real."
It was real enough for another miracle that night for the small congregation of seven.
"My eyes got really warm, and God told me to take off the glasses," Marlene recalls. "And when I did, my vision was perfect."
Lucille was astounded. "All of a sudden, she put her glasses aside. 'I don't need these anymore,' she said, and you could understand her. I was there -- nobody could tell me that was anything but the Lord."
After church, Marlene wanted to do something she'd never been able to do -- hold and eat an ice cream cone. At the ice cream parlor, they saw her therapist.
"I was surprised," Dr. White declares, "because one of those people I saw was Marlene, and she wasn't using a wheelchair. She was walking, and I just couldn't believe it."
Marlene's return to the hospital caused quite a reaction.
"The time from when she had left to when she came back was probably a two-hour period at max," remembers Nurse White. "It was quite a dramatic difference to see her return walking."
The Mayo doctors needed only to discharge Marlene to her home in Missouri.
The hospital records read: 'You returned to the rehabilitation unit that evening walking, something you'd never done since your admission to the unit. And when I saw you back at the clinic some weeks later, you'd improved even more. All signs of previous abnormality were gone. You were able to walk perfectly normal, and your eyesight had improved so much that you did not need to wear spectacles. We were all very thrilled and happy with the outcome of your condition.'"
1) Got a link?
2) Was Benny Hinn involved in this incident in any manner?
I've seen enough instances of genuine faith healing to believe that it can happen. But just because it happens, it does not therefore prove that Hinn is anything less than a charletan who refuses to open his books to show where the money donated to his ministry goes.
Unlike PresbyRev, you gave no link. If such a thing ever happened, it would be child's play to document. (In fact, I think we'd probably already know a bout it.)
What did you think of all the documentation PresbyRev provided?
Dan