In the summer of 2006, my brother Rob in Phoenix was diagnosed as having a hole in his heart. He watched one of the ultrasound echo tests on a monitor where the tiny bubbles traveled between the chambers of his heart. In the fall, my brother also had a T.E.E. ultrasound scope placed inside him via the esophagus confirming the location of the hole in his heart for possible surgery. I invited him to make a trip to Tucson to receive prayer at our church during healing services we were having, but he was unable to attend the meetings.
During one of the services, two of the ladies gave words of knowledge that God wanted to heal a heart condition. One of the ladies shared that she saw a mental picture of a hole in a heart that was being sewn up by a needle and thread. I thought, ‘I wish my brother were here! I knew he was supposed to come!’ My wife went forward to receive prayer for my brother, as I was working in the sound booth. She prayed with the ladies, and received prayer in his behalf at the altar area in our church.
I telephoned my brother and shared about the words of knowledge and prayer for him that took place at our church. He said that he appreciated our family's and everyone's prayers, but ‘Other people need a healing miracle more than me.’ My brother still had symptoms, which were believed to be associated with the hole in his heart, and decided to schedule surgery.
In late January 2007, my brother went in for the P.F.O. (hole in the heart) surgical closure procedure at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. During this surgical procedure, the doctor spent 90 minutes trying to find the hole in his heart (the actual procedure, performed by devices inserted through the leg into the main arteries, normally takes 45 minutes.) The doctor reported that the hole in his heart was gone and there was no longer any hole to be fixed! The doctor said, ‘It's a miracle!’”
15] CROHN'S HEALED
When the traveling ministers, a couple named the Dews, arrived at our church in 2007, I was working the soundboard in the back of the church, as usual. The Lord performs healing miracles during the Dews' meetings. Before they were finished ministering, I was determined not to miss an opportunity to be healed of a recently diagnosed problem of Crohn's disease, discovered from medical procedures and lab tests following an intestinal blockage in 2005, where I was hospitalized for 7 days - then put on pharmacuitical Rx's to ease the ulcers pain.
I went up to the front for prayer, and Mr. Dew took my hands and placed his index fingers in my palms - which were now open facing upwards - his thumbs below, as he prayed for healing in the name of Jesus. "More Lord!", Mr. Dew said as he prayed, and a good heat went through my intestine exactly where the burning pain was experienced. The burning pain was disappearing from the middle areas, first, immediately; then healing towards the outside, last - the last smaller sections taking over a period of months and years to become totally healed.
It took some years before I could eat hot salsa again, but I can now. However, when I had a flu bug of lower track problems a few years later, my primary care doctor, Dr. Lazarus, sent me to see my gastrointestinal specialist, whom I've had since the hospitalization, just in case Crohn's was flaring back up. By the time the appointment with the specialist came up, the symptoms had subsided (in a few days), and I told him I was better. Following the exam, my specialist, who had pressed on my abdomen in those previously very sensitive and burning places (years earlier) during the doctor visit, said, "You don't have Crohn's. You don't get better from Crohn's." While my insurance company wants to see more years* of healing evidence, before lowering premium rates on my policy, I am healed! *[I plan to resubmit in two years.]