Testimony of Healing June 9, 2003 Issue

The light that leads out of the darkness of pain

Judith Hedrick

One morning I woke up with an abdominal pain that I expected would just go away. But it didn't. It got worse. That's when I started praying to be healed. I had benefited from the healing power of prayer in the past through healings of an infected finger, hepatitis, and canker sores among others, and I had confidence that prayer would help me in this case.

Powerful prayer, I'd found, can include asking God for His direction. Well, it was Sunday morning, and I had planned to go to church. Since the pain had grown severe, I asked for God's direction about whether or not I should go. Immediately I remembered that some of my previous healings had occurred during church services. I felt this idea was an answer to my question, so I felt free to go. I got into my car and drove to church.

But by the time we finished singing the first hymn, I began to think I'd made a serious mistake by attending. I began to feel worse, not better. I was afraid I was going to cry out, and began to think I should leave the auditorium. However, the person conducting the service had begun to read from the Bible, and everyone was listening quietly. Next we would pray together—first silently and then aloud.

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