Ask, Declare, and Be Healed!
By Michelle Harris
“Mom, please help me! The pain is just so bad. It’s worse than it’s ever been before.” I looked up 5 weeks ago to see my 20-year-old daughter, Morgan, hunched over in agony. Pain racked her body, turning her face white. My poor girl had experienced stomach issues since her birth. She had endured multiple exploratory scopes and surgeries. The doctors would think they had one thing fixed and then some other issue would arise.
“Let me help you! Where does it hurt? “I responded. She pointed to her midsection but then told me that her upper back was hurting as well. Experiencing back pain was new. I rubbed her back and began to pray. “Holy Spirit come. Father this is my child and I know that as impossible as it seems, You love her more than I do. Thank You Jesus for everything You did on the cross for Morgan. I appropriate that shed blood now for my daughter. By His stripes she WAS healed. Thank You Jesus for Morgan’s healing. We trust You and we thank You for Your healing power and all You are doing in her body at the cellular level to bring her back to the health You have always intended for her!”
Instead of getting better, she began to have difficulty breathing. I watched her face grow darker as she gasped in pain. When I asked her if she needed to go to the emergency room, she initially said no. Soon I asked again, seeing a worsening in her coloring and she said yes. I helped her to the car as I continued to pray over her. We began the 15 minute drive to the hospital. As we were pulling onto the interstate, she repeated, “Mom please pray for me, it’s so bad!”
I suddenly felt a righteous indignation come over me as I watched her in so much pain. Not wanting to alarm her, I silently prayed, “Jesus, we’re going to go to the hospital and they’re going to immediately put her on a Morphine IV. We don’t have to wait until we get to the hospital. You can take away her pain immediately, as if she’s taking pain meds RIGHT NOW. I’m asking You Father, to give her a spiritual IV infusion to stop all of her pain”.
While praying this prayer silently, I simultaneously spoke healing over her out loud and said, “Thank You Father God, for shifting the atmosphere in her body to one of peace and wholeness”.
“How are you feeling?” I asked. She responded that she was actually feeling better. We continued praying and driving until we entered the parking lot at the emergency room. As we pulled into a spot, Morgan said, “Mom, since I am feeling better, maybe we could wait and see if I stay better before we go in?”
We waited for about 40 minutes. She walked around the parking lot and she lay flat in the back of the car, (the position normally causing her the most pain). Finally, she said, “Mom, I am a little uncomfortable, but not at all like the pain I had experienced earlier tonight. I want to go home!” Praise God! We both rejoiced. As we started home, Morgan turned to me and thoughtfully said, “When you started praying for a shift in the atmosphere, I suddenly felt as if I just gotten a shot of morphine. I suddenly felt no pain. I felt better than I normally do! It was wonderful!”
God is so good! She had experienced exactly what I had been silently praying and declaring over her at the time I was praying! When I told her that I had been praying for that EXACT intervention, she rejoiced at the goodness of God. The next day we saw her doctor. Blood tests revealed she had experienced an episode of pancreatitis, an extremely painful and often long lasting illness. Declaring her healing, she adjusted her diet and has not had another episode since!
I have reflected and prayed about that night. God is so good. I am thankful not only for her healing, but for every opportunity that my children experience for themselves, the power and love of their Heavenly Father. Healings are often a mystery to me. I myself have had extraordinary healings from the Lord over the past few years. It has not always occurred for me or friends and loved ones. It is not always immediate, as it was with my daughter. In my case, it has been a process of walking out my healing over a period of several years. Morgan feels like she is walking out her overall healing as well, as she has some episodes of a stomach ache, but nothing like she experienced that night. We are both claiming her total healing!
While I might not fully understand healing, I do know that God’s word says that we are to ask for it (Psalm 30:2). The word detailed numerous stories of Jesus healing the sick (Matthew 12:15, even when other religious leaders thought it was inappropriate (Luke 13:10-16, John 5: 1-16).
I have a saying; 'Satan can only push you back as far as your last miracle”. For this reason, I continue to rejoice for all of the healing that God has carried out in me, my children, people I’ve prayed over, and for the healings that are yet to come! I will continue to pray for healing and declare God’s goodness, even in the midst of the mystery of its outcome at times.