Testimony of Healing December 17, 2007 Issue

VISUAL IMPAIRMENT HEALED

DARYL FRANCIS

One afternoon in 2006, I suddenly began having trouble with my vision. Whatever I looked at directly just seemed to vanish. Several days before this, I had thoroughly studied an account in the Bible involving King Jehoshaphat (see II Chron. 20:1–30). And his story was like a road map to healing for me.

As I began to pray for spiritual answers to address the alarming symptoms I was experiencing, I recalled how Jehoshaphat faced the news that an opposing multitude was heading toward his doorstep. He first "set himself to seek the Lord"—not after conventional means had failed, but first and foremost. The king declared further, "We have no might against this great company ... neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee [God]" (verse 12). I saw in his response the humility that I, too, needed to express, first in realizing that the resolution to the difficulty didn't lie within my personal capability, but God's alone. And, second, in acknowledging God's supremacy—and "setting my eyes on Him."

As I mentally followed the Bible story, I was so grateful for other spiritual qualities it illustrated. I smiled when I pictured the priest Jahaziel as if he were saying, "Listen up, everyone, and you, too, O king!" And then he gave the action plan: "Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours but God's. ... Stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you" (verses 15, 17). The account then tells how Jehoshaphat and his people listened and obeyed.

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