Barbara's Double Miracle (conclusion)

Miracle Child - Comfort For A Broken Heart

   "There is someone here who has colitis," the woman began. "You have been to two different doctors over the last three months and the last doctor you went to see said the only one who can help you now is God... and he is right. Just receive your healing!"

   By this time the woman minister had my full attention. After all, she had just repeated word-for-word the medical report Barbara shared with me during our private conversation in the camper on the way to Texas the day before.

   (Though she didn't publicly acknowledge it at the time, Barbara told me later that when the woman minister told her to receive her healing, she suddenly felt a warmth in her abdomen and all the pain left.)

   The woman evangelist spoke directly to a couple of other people in the room then sat down. Her husband proceeded to share a brief message, after which he concluded the meeting.

   Barbara rose from her seat and walked over to the woman evangelist. "I'm the person who had colitis," Barbara confessed. "Yes, and there's something else wrong with you in here," the woman minister proclaimed, pointing to Barbara's lower abdomen.

   Now I knew Barbara had one son, Jamie, who had been adopted by Barbara's mother. But, unknown to me, she had been told by a staff of 7 doctors she would never be able to bear another child.

   The woman minister continued, "You have a child, a son. But someone else is raising him and they have even adopted him. You would like to have another child but doctors have told you that you cannot have any more. You have been heartbroken over this but God is going to fix that, too, and you will have another son."

   Just then the woman evangelist reached over and touched Barbara's abdomen. When she did, Barbara felt weak all over, staggered backwards and crumpled to the floor. Barbara sat there on the tile for a minute or so then slowly got back to her feet. She appeared to be alright.

   One by one all the visitors, along with the guest evangelists, left Brother Glen's house and it was time for us to bed down for the night. Despite all the excitement from the evening's activities, we all somehow managed to drift off to sleep.

   After a good night's rest, our group had breakfast with Brother Glen and his wife, Alta, then we loaded up in the pickup truck and headed north. All the way back to Oklahoma everyone talked about the incredible things they had witnessed in Texas and many of us were determined to pay a return visit to Brother Glen's home as soon as possible.

   I didn't know it at the time, but I was to meet up with the visiting evangelists again one day soon, and the amazing prayer meeting I had encountered was just one of many wondrous experiences  I would have at Brother Glen's home.

   As for Barbara, she returned to see her physician, explaining to him she would not be back to his office anymore because, as she put it, "God healed me at a prayer meeting." Surprisingly, the doctor rejoiced at her testimony remarking, "I believe in miracles!"

   Barbara remained permanently pain free, eating anything she wanted with no ill side effects whatsoever.

   And, 18 months later she did indeed bear a healthy, bouncing baby boy. 
Barbara called him...  her "miracle baby."

( Join me back here next Wednesday for more amazing  Acts of An Awesome God! )