Are Miracles real? Absolutely! Can and will God demonstrate healing by His Spirit through you, if he so chooses? Absolutely!

My boy Garrett, called me on the phone this week. With sound of fear, a trembling voice, and the sniffle of a tear, he said, “Dad, we were messing around with the fire barrel and the fire came out of the bottom of the barrel and it burned my leg.” He continued, “it hurts daddy, it hurts, it’s burning, can you come home!” It was difficult to tell whether or not he was severely burned or just “scorched”, so immediately I began to pray and rushed home.

When I arrived, he was sitting in a tub of cold water with his leg submerged trying to keep it cool. Sure enough he had burnt it pretty good, no blistering, but the hair was gone and it was scarred red where the fire had licked him. He was bare footed and had on shorts, so when the fire came out of the bottom of the barrel it got him from his toes up to his knee. I asked him to get out of the tub and come with me, that we were going to pray over it, and he said, “please daddy, please!” “Jesus can fix it!”

As a father, I can’t describe to you the sheer joy one has when their child believes against all odds that King Jesus can fix anything! Garrett is a 10 year old boy, going into Middle School this year (2010). He has given his life to Jesus and is a child of the Most High God! But he is a spunky kid, very outgoing, tough, not one that yet shows his gentle loving spirit.

Now, regardless of what you may think as a reader of this story, I believe with all my heart that God is still in the business of physically healing through His Spirit that lives and dwells in all those who have trusted in His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. This day was no exception! Garrett lie across the bed and we began to pray together for a touch from the almighty Father in Heaven to remove the fire from his leg, that He may be glorified in us and witness to all those who hear. After about 20 minutes, we both opened our eyes and to our delight, what was a pretty nasty burn that was irritatingly red, could barely be seen. The fire was gone, that burn that all of us know all to well began to subside. He said, “I knew he could do it!” Overwhelmed and hardly able to speak, I told him to just rest and that I would return later that evening to check on him. Three hours later upon my return, it was completely gone! PRAISE GOD!

 Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
(Rom 15:17-19)

I am not crazy, nor do I speak any untruth about the severity of the burn. My witness and the witness of my son of what God did by his Spirit through Jesus Christ is trustworthy and true, worthy of praise and testimony to all that will hear. To Him be Glory and Honor forever, Amen!