My face even swelled up in boil-like
sores that didn’t respond to
treatment and I couldn’t even look in
the mirror without crying.
Then, after four years, I was told I
was now considered too severely
affected to ever recover, and I felt
like I just couldn’t take any more.
I lay there sobbing and cried out to
God in absolute desperation, begging
Him to heal me. It was a prayer of
total surrender, knowing that no
matter how hard I tried I couldn’t fix
this and that God was my only hope.
I had no idea that this prayer would
be the turning point of the whole
situation.
me bedridden for 9 years.
But then, without
warning, my side burst
open and fluid began
gushing out.
Absolute Desperation
Our lives were devastated. Before
long my husband Steve was having to
spoon-feed me. For 9 years I didn’t
even see sunlight. My whole world
became a single darkened room
because I couldn’t have the curtains
open due to severe light sensitivity.
I lost the job I loved, and, without my
salary, we lost our car and very
nearly lost our house.
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JASMINE'S PLACE
Holding On to Hope
The answer to my prayer was not
what I expected at all. It came in the
form of an invitation for my husband
to attend a healing service at a
nearby church called Life Church.
That night two different people
prayed with Steve and they both
separately felt God was showing
them the same thing: That it was a
“done deal” and I would be healed.
Steve came straight home and
prayed with me and we both were
certain that I would be healed there
and then, but it didn’t happen.
What did happen though was God
set something deep in our hearts
that just wouldn’t let go of us, and I
just knew that I WAS going to be