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“God can heal you,” she said.

I sort of laughed.  “Well, I guess God can! He can do anything, right?”

She then told me she was part of a prayer and praise group that prayed in the Spirit and laid hands on people wanting to be healed. She invited me to come with her to a meeting.

“Oh, I couldn’t.”  This was getting scary.  I told her I wanted prayer and I wanted healing, but I was uncomfortable with anything weird.

“That’s alright,” she said.  “You don’t have to come to a meeting.  When you go home, just get alone with God and ask Him to fill you with His Holy Spirit.”

I walked back home, went in my bedroom and lay down on my bed and said out loud, “God, will you fill me with Your spirit and heal me.  I don’t know what any of this means and if it’s stupid, forget it.  That’s it.”  That was my Amen.

One day my husband sent me to take the car to a garage.  When I found the garage, to my frustration it was closed.
 
Desperately wanting something good to happen, I thought of Mary, a woman from my church that I’d wanted to get acquainted with, and decided to phone her.  To my surprise, since everything was going wrong, she answered the phone.  I asked if she had any time to visit, explaining where I was and why.  I told her I could really use some prayer.

“Yes, I have time.  Come on over.  I will pray for you - and you will never be the same.” 

“Wow, I’m coming,”I said.  I knew I needed to never be the same.  I eagerly drove to her house. 

When I knocked on the door Mary invited me in.  She, herself, had been healed of cancer through other’s prayers.  Then she had been given the gift of healing prayer. 

Mary said, “I usually ask people to sit in this particular chair when I pray for them.  Do you mind?”

“No.” 

“I don’t pray out loud, but silently.  Do you mind?”

“No.”

“I’d like to lay my hands on your head.  Do you mind if I do that?”

“No.”

She laid her hands on my head. I closed my eyes and the most brilliant, glorious light I had ever seen appeared.  Somehow I knew it was God.  I felt His goodness, His peace, His kindness, His love.