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Re: A cut finger
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Peace,
Amonhi]]>Amonhi2020-05-04T13:50:19-00:00A cut finger
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It was less than a week following the baptism of fire. I was in my office on the computer, My wife was in the kitchen making dinner for the family. I heard her cry out in pain and came running to see what had happened. I found her balled up on the floor holding her hand. I knew right away that she had cut herself on the brand new knife I had recently bought her.
As any good husband would do I helped her wash the cut. As it was from a new knife, It was easy to see the cut was quite deep and bleed horribly. I had her hold it closed wrapped tightly in her hand while I got tape and gauze to badage the wound. We washed it again and wrapped her finger. We had both had worse injuries previously and I figured it would heal in time.
I started to walk away when I got a prompting to give her a blessing. I stopped and asked the Holy Ghost if I could heal her. The answer was perfectly clear, "That's what the priesthood is for." I immediately went back took her by the hand without word and led her to my office closing and locking the door. I know that protocol dictates I get a second elder and annoint prior to the blessing but God had just directed me by the spirit and I knew I was not to delay.
I placed my hands on her head and gave a very short blessing. My mind was filled with examples of Christs power and I shared a few examples of his grace in healing during his lifetime. I then commanded her to be healed. During the blessing, with eyes closed, I saw in vision the muscle and tissues of her finger rejoining and repairing themselves. I can not describe how powerfully I felt the spirit other than to say I pray daily to feel it in such abundance again.
Following the blessing she shared how she felt her finger coming back together and heal. While the bandage had blood, but there was no other sign she had been cut. As I write this a few years later, there was/is no scar or mark to show that she had been injured.
I have had other experiences healing and being healed but this one I hold closest to my heart as proof of a loving God and the power of our redeemer and his atonement.
]]>R the younger2016-03-15T03:39:42-00:00Re: The Miracle of Healing
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JulesGP wrote on Thu, 16 May 2013 23:12
This is so awesome Sheol! I wish I could encounter someone who truly had the gift of healing like this. God truly did bless us with different gifts of the spirit to benefit and help each other!
Speaking of the Gift of Healing, I remember years ago that I made a friend that had become active in the church. He told me of the reason why he decided to become active again. It was due to his faithful home teacher. Along the way he had other challenges like his son dying but all in all it was his home teacher and the Christlike love that he showed through years of service.
The time had come that my friend invited me to stand in the circle as he was ordained an elder and given the Melchizedek Priesthood. I will forever remember the spirit I felt when that blessing was given! Not only did his old home teacher pass on that authority but he specifically said that he would he would be able to raise the dead. Saying it is one thing but when it is said with power it is another......
My friend with tears in his eyes said, "if only I had that ability a few years ago...." That blessing, that gift, that power from God may be used like it was on Lazuras or it may be used in the Resurrection on his posterity, I don't know but great gifts truly are a blessing from above. ]]>Sheol272013-05-18T04:37:21-00:00Re: The Miracle of Healing
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JulesGP2013-05-17T05:12:14-00:00The Miracle of Healing
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I have had the opportunity to give several blessings most of the time that I give them I am awoken by my wife at 2 or 3 in the morning with a puking child and I am less than half awake giving half of them. For the most part when I give blessings though, I have had special experiences. Maybe not impressions to say "You are healed!!!" but nevertheless a flow of information how to remedy the problem and bless with comfort and tell the future at times. I do feel that I haven't necessarily received the gift to heal but I have experienced the gift of being healed.
When I was in fifth grade, probably around 10 years of age. Something exciting was going on with the other children during recess or lunch break at the school. We were outside and I wanted to get in on the conversation but I was too shy to approach. There was this utility area that was maybe 8 feet by 8 feet which was surrounded by a chain link fence. The other kids and there activity was happening on the East side of this fence so I snuck around to the West side of this fence and walked up on this crate that was propped at a 45 degree angle, up against this chain link fence so that I could see and hear what was going on.
So I had walked all the way up standing at the very top of this crate that was on this 45 degree angle and was leaning over this chain link fence which on this fence the top part of this fence had all the wires pointing up at the top. They had never been bent down. The crate suddenly fell down flat without warning. My face was spared but the top of that fence caught my arm ripping it open. When I hit the ground I looked at my arm. (I only looked at my arm once!) It was basically the grossest thing I have ever seen. It was ripped inches wide and tall and and an inch or two deep. I saw the insides of my arm almost to the bone. It had cut me near the elbow but on the forearm but the inside fleshy part. I saw a tendon tendon that barely was not severed just hanging there.
I covered my arm with my other hand, (So that I didn't have to see it again) and I took off running to the principals office. The secretaries gave me some grossed out looks. They cleaned it and bandaged it up and they called my mother and she came and got me. At the time my parents didn't have the money to take me to the emergency room. So I had to wait at home till the doctor could get me in and stitch me up. I remember sitting and playing a video game with some kid she was babysitting while I was cut open.
Anyways the doctor stitched me up. He had to do stitches inside my arm as well. Later my arm started to get infected. I had blood poisoning. (This was my left arm) I had this red streak running up my arm towards my heart. Once again my parents weren't that well to do. We had enough food and shelter but not extra money. They didn't take me to the hospital. They most likely would have but they chose to ask for help from the Lord first.
They took me over to my grand parents house so that my grandpa could assist in giving me a blessing. My grandpa is an active member of the church and he sure can talk when he is one on one with someone but other than that he is shy and more of a recluse when it comes to things other than attending church. In my grandpa's patriarchal blessing it says that he has the gift of healing.
I remember at the time of the blessing my arm was really stiff as well. I remember the anointing especially well. My grandpa anointed. He seemed to get nervous when it came to these kinds of things. He didn't even know the words to say. My dad said every word of the anointing as my grandpa repeated and did the anointing. I was blessed to have healing. The next day I awoke to the infection/ blood poisoning either gone or nearly gone with it never to come back. I also regained movement in my arm and became active in sports and other activities like any other normal young man. I even really got into basketball starting at that year.
I do believe that we can improve on gifts and that they can become more powerful. However we should remember where the gifts come from! Even though my grandpa didn't know the words for the anointing, the Lord still blessed him with that gift. He still gave me healing. We should turn to the Lord and be grateful and realize that whatever blessing it be that we seek that these blessings don't come from great oratory or having a great stature but comes from Him, whom all light, all that is good cometh.
]]>Sheol272013-05-16T22:51:53-00:00Re: New Shoes
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I find myself yet again giving thanks to my Father for leading me here. I have been so blessed by hearing these testimonies. I hope y'all had a very Merry Christmas!
]]>FreddyV2012-12-27T23:47:56-00:00Re: Hummingbird
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]]>Ashleyd2012-12-22T22:00:26-00:00Re: New Shoes
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I am currently writing a book of the spiritual experiences of my lifetime - not for publishing, but simply for my own history. Many of those experiences which are very sacred and important to me, I know would be laughed off or explained away by most people, and possibly even most LDS.
As we learn in the Book of Mormon and elsewhere, the Lord can achieve great things thru small miracles. Often we need to learn the lesson on a small scale before we can apply it on a large scale.
I know the Lord has helped me find things - sometimes things that were not that important that I find, but the fact that I desired to find it badly enough to pray for help, and exercised faith, I received that help even though what I was looking for was inconsequential. Thank you for sharing that story, I appreciate it.]]>Denryu2012-12-22T16:37:41-00:00Re: New Shoes
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On that note I have kind of an embarrassing/funny little story. When I was about 13 or 14 my cousin and I were on our way to church. Not lds. I wasn't lds at the time. But I craved spiritual knowledge and so did my cousin so I started going to church with her. On the way her car overheated due to a hole in the radiator hose. We had to pull over. My brother just happened to come with us that time. We found help at a small local car repair place in this little in the middle of nowhere town. At some point during this excursion we stopped at a bathroom that had a drink vending machine. I watched as this little girl who looked poor and was alone try to get a drink from the machine. Her clothes looked worn and dirty and I think she might have been bare foot too. Anyway, the machine wasn't working right and it took her money but wouldn't give her the drink. She seemed upset by it so I came over to try and help. More money didn't seem to help. I don't remember all the details of the story but I remember the thought came to me to command the machine to release a drink. So I put my hand on the machine and commanded in the name of Jesus Christ for it to work and no sooner than I said the words then out popped the drink. The little girl just looked wide eyed at me and said thank you and left.
Later as I was reflecting on what happened and I excitedly told my big brother about it. And I remember my joy was kind of squashed because he said that it was silly to pray over something so insignificant and that Christ wouldn't care about something like that. And that Christ wouldn't want us to pray over something like that. Then I felt dumb for having done it and wished I didn't tell him about it.
Over the years the memory of that experience still comes to my mind. Since then I have learned that my brother though good intentioned perhaps is very wrong about what he said. Christ does care about all aspects of our lives. And if we are told if we have the faith of a mustard seed we can move mountains. Why can't we command a broken vending machine to work? lol Its kind of funny I'll admitt but I have learned that Christ does care and that no matter is too small to take to the Lord. I had a very child-like faith and its something I shouldn't have been ashamed of no matter what someone said.
]]>Ashleyd2012-12-22T09:53:16-00:00Re: A Bottle of Medicine
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JustMe wrote on Fri, 14 December 2012 14:27
Thank you both for sharing these stories. Definitely Tender Mercies when the Lord gives blessings like that when you haven't even asked for them. When I was a child I loved the story about the widow whose barrel of meal and cruze of oil never failed throughout the famine. Latter day reinvention: medicine and tires that never fail!
What a perfect comparison from the scriptures! Thank you!!]]>JulesGP2012-12-14T21:42:51-00:00