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. 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 Jesus healed. Shortly after that, I got another kidney infection. As before, Mark wanted to take me in to the emergency room. I said, “No.” I asked him to pray for me. We agreed that if he prayed and I wasn’t better in two hours, I would let him take me to the emergency room. I had a 104 fever and I could hardly walk. I felt totally 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 the pain was subsiding. The next morning, the pain was all gone. I was completely 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 totally dumb, I started to doubt. I started to think maybe it was the garlic, I took and the cranberry juice that I drank, thinking that way 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 taking garlic and drinking cranberry juice. I was putting my faith in that cranberry juice and garlic instead of God. Over the next week, I got worse until I had a fever of 104, and I was now desperate for God to heal me. I asked God to forgive me and I knew that If I was going to get better I was going to be because of Jesus and what he did on the cross.
God did heal me, but it wasn’t that dramatic total I feel 200 percent better, healing .I did realize at that moment that the cranberry juice did nothing the last time, it was God in all his glory. Soon after, I had to see an OB because I was pregnant. 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 that cranberry juice and garlic would get rid of a kidney infection.
1 Peter 2:24, “He Himself bore our sins, in His body on a tree so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness, and by his wounds you have been healed.”
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