Signs of the Times

Dale Robertson

Family Weekly

Dale Robertson in Family Weekly magazine Chicago, Illinois

I believe the Lord can do anything. I know He can because He gave me back my sight and my hearing.

It happened when I was 13 and living with my parents and two older brothers in Oklahoma City.

It started gradually . . . . of my hearing and my sight. . . . I was examined over and over again. The doctors found no damage, no cause, nor could they prescribe a cure. If I was confused, they were thoroughly puzzled.

My activities, my life changed drastically. . . . Of course, I minded having to forego baseball games and horseback riding and the companionship of my friends. All I could do now was sit on the steps of our house, for hours at a time. . . .

And then, one day in late fall, Brother Murphy stopped by at the house. Brother Murphy was our preacher at the Christian Missionary Alliance. . . . I was sitting on the front-porch swing, staring into blurred nothingness, when I felt his hand on my shoulder.

I knew instantly it was Brother Murphy. He bent down to where his face nearly brushed my check and yelled into my ear, "Do you believe that God can bring back you hearing?"

"I do!" I shouted back. . . .

"Then pray," he shouted, "and I will go down on my knees and pray with you." . . .

So strong was my belief that I never doubted we could succeed. Together we went down on our knees. We prayed for 15 minutes, and suddenly, like a rheostat, the lights went on all around me and the sounds came back, clear and beautiful.

"I'll see you in church on Sunday," Preacher Murphy said as he left. He never talked again about what happened. . . .

It seemed like I had awakened from a bad dream and was just picking up life where I had left it almost a year earlier. . . . My family was very happy. When I told them what happened, they accepted it as I did, for their belief in God was as strong as my own. . . .

I have experienced what He can do. And my life has been far richer ever since for that very reason.

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