Barbara's Double Miracle (part 2)

   Miracle Cure

   We finally arrived at Brother Glen’s home on Thursday and he warmly received us as if he had known everyone of us always.   Unbeknownst to us, Brother Glen held a prayer meeting at his home every Friday night and we had arrived just in time to attend the service (God’s timing is always perfect).

  The next night a small crowd of people showed up and gathered in Brother Glen's living room. The service finally got started and the guest ministers, a husband-wife evangelistic team, rose to their feet to speak.

   According to Brother Glen, the ministers had called him at an earlier date and said they had heard about his Friday night fellowship. They went on to say they felt like God wanted them to come and minister. As Brother Glen explained to me later, his response to them was, "Well, who am I to argue with God. Come on!"

   When it was the woman evangelist's turn to speak, she began to minister in a way I had never seen before. She would go around the room and, after pointing out a certain individual, mention personal things about them which she had no natural way of knowing. She would then deliver to that person what she said was a message from God.

   The whole time she was speaking the air was charged with electricity. Though I had never felt this sensation before in the Baptist churches I had attended in the past, I experienced no discomfort whatsoever. A sense of awe prevailed in the room and I was at total peace with what was happening.

   Barbara had been sitting patiently throughout the service but her pain level was now becoming unbearable. She leaned over to Preston and whispered quietly, "I can't take this anymore. I have to go lie down."

   About the time the words came out of Barbara's mouth, and as she was preparing to get up and leave the room, the woman who was ministering spoke up.

   "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.)

   It appeared that God had already performed an incredible miracle in Barbara's body, but her Heavenly Father had one more very special gift in store for her. 

   (Join me Saturday for the heart-warming conclusion: Barbara's Miracle Child!)