Kidney Infection

     In April of 1990, I got a kidney infection.  I had a fever of 104, and my back hurt so bad that my husband, Mark, took me to the emergency room.  After some tests, they prescribed antibiotics.  For two days, it was a struggle just getting out of bed, and I wasn't able to work for a full week.
     I was saved in April of 1992.  I felt full of faith and I totally believed that Jesus healed.  Shortly after that, I got another kidney infection.  As before, Mark wanted to take me to the emergency room.  I said, "No."  I asked him to pray for me.  We agreed that if I wasn't better in two hours, I would let him take me to the hospital.  I had a 104 degree fever and I could hardly walk.  I felt completely desperate for God to heal me, and I had no doubt that He would.
     Two hours later, Mark took my temperature.  It had gone down and my pain was subsiding.  The next morning the pain was completely gone, I was totally healed!  In fact, I never felt better.  I felt so good, Mark and I went to work, sign painting.  We worked more than eight hours that day, up and down ladders, painting windows and I felt great.
     That was a real miracle, but soon after, I did something dumb, I started to doubt.  I started to think that maybe it was the garlic and cranberry juice that I took, that was a big mistake.
     Wouldn't you know it, April of 1994, I got another kidney infection.  I was pregnant at the time.  Mark said a prayer for me, but I didn't feel as desperate as before, because I was depending on the garlic and cranberry juice instead of God.  Over the next week I got worse until I had a fever of 104, then I was desperate for God to heal me.  I asked God to forgive me and I knew that if I was going to get better it was going to be because of what Jesus did on the cross.  God did heal me, but it wasn't as dramatic as before.  I did realize at that moment that the cranberry and garlic did nothing that last time, It had been Jesus and all his glory.
     I had to see an OB, because I was pregnant and she asked if I had any health problems since I became pregnant.  I told her about the kidney infection.  The doctor asked how I got rid of it.  I said, "Cranberry juice, garlic and God."  She said that it must have been God because there is no way cranberry juice and garlic can get rid of a kidney infection.

1 peter 2:24, "He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness, and by his wounds you have been healed."