Healed of a swelling Week 31, 2015

I have experienced God’s miraculous healing before. Yes I use the word miraculous responsibly for I am a nurse of many years. Firstly over 10 years ago I suddenly developed a painful condition on my right hand. I wanted to tie a scarf when I just felt a sharp pain at the back of the hand close to the wrist. The pain continued for some days before I now noticed a small swelling there. It looked like a small ganglion. I know the ganglion often is surgically removed and tends to recur. I wanted none of that. Instead I would rub the swelling and speak to it telling it it had no place in my body. Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. I assure you that whoever tells this hill to get up and throw itself in the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him Mk 11:22-23(GNB)  I cannot tell the exact day it left my hand; I just noticed after a while that it was no longer there; and as you can see it is not there even as I bend my fist forward for you to examine.

That was over 10 years ago; a more recent experience was 3 years ago. I was on after noon duty and had gone to market in the morning. About 11am I noticed some people running around, away from some security personnel. It seemed to me the governor or some other dignitary was in the area. I simply moved away to avoid them. In the bid to do so my feet entered into the gutter and I hurt my ankle. The pain increased as I walked on with it. When I resumed duty it was quite swollen and I could hardly move. My patients and colleagues pitied me when they saw it. I reported the incident and was given pain killers (non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs) and a bandage to loosely apply on it. The natural history of that would be 3-5 days of a swollen ankle needing to fully rested before recovery. Dear friend, I pray that you are doing well in every way and that you are healthy, just as your soul is healthy 3Jn 1:2(ISV).That night I put my feet up and made a prayer like this to God: “Please send your angels to perform your operation on my leg that I will be whole in the morning”. And this is the confidence that we have in him: if we ask for anything according to his will, he listens to us. And if we know that he listens to our requests, we can be sure that we have what we ask him for 1Jn 5:14-15(ISV).  When I woke up the swelling and pain had disappeared. My patients were amazed to see me the following day at work. None really expected me back to work so fast.

Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to those who knock.  Would any of you who are fathers give your son a stone when he asks for bread? Or would you give him a snake when he asks for a fish? Mat 7:7-10(GNB) 

Edna is a nurse at Federal Medical Centre Umuahia