Thanks for the ping. What an inspiration Joni has been to so many people. Some will say “in spite of her disability”. I say it’s because of her disability. I wonder where the “healing” crowd is in this thread?
Hey, Kandy! Why hasn’t God ‘healed’ Joni? Do you think she doesn’t have enough faith?
(expecting crickets)
She is an inspiration, I read her biography (autobiography?) when I was a teenager before I was even a Christian. She always gave me the courage to deal with my disabilities.
I recently read Joni’s comments when she went with others, as herself, to a Healing revival early on in her plight. They all loaded up there wheel-chairs and off they went to have the opportunity of being healed at this revival.
However, once there the ushers and helpers lined them all up in their wheelchairs.... basically “outside” the arena....telling them that they didn’t want the crowds to tumble over them as someone might get hurt.
So there they set....hardly able to even hear the people on stage....and nobody came to them thorughout the surface. It was then Joni realized the “hosts” of this event were not interested in crippled wheel chair patients....and was hurt that all these other people with her were lined up as they were as if outcasts from the happenings.
She realized these false teachers had no intentions of healing anyone where it could “show” an actual healing.
Imagine being crippled and sitting in your wheel chair hopeing for something profound to occur...only to out outside the event....All those people hoping but left out!
Joni paid a price at the hands of the healing crowd if you have read her book.
She was likewise blamed for her disability continuing because of her lack of faith to be healed.