When Healing did not arrive before surgery Pt 1. By John Etornam Agbenyega

When Healing did not arrive before surgery.

...By John Etornam Agbenyega

It was the night before, on May the 1st 2012. Finally it was rapid countdown to my scheduled surgery at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, in the Kent County of England in the UK. After waiting in believing faith, praying diligently, responding to the prompt to place my hand on the diseased part of my body, during mass healing prayer, HERE WAS I WITHOUT ANY VISIBLE MANIFESTATION OF MY HEALING. WOULD HEALING ARRIVE BEFORE THE SCHEDULING OF MY SURGERY? I WAS HOPEFULLY TRUSTING IT WOULD!!!

Yes, I was recalling two other occasions in my life, when healing did indeed arrive....yes in my body. First was in 1985, began at about 2.00 am on the 12th of June for a viscious, skin allergy that failed to respond to medical treatment. In desperation and yet in trusting faith, I asked God, through His son Jesus for healing. Immediately, I experienced such deep peace, which  upon reflection, I could identify as the presence of  God's healing virtue. Yet this was more than virtue, it was companionship in person. I felt someone joined me in my battle for healing. One who not only identified with my suffering, but had the antidote for the tormenting itch. Needless to say, over the next few weeks I recovered, healed with my skin which was scabing in some places from sore scratching(day and night) was restored. That was in 1985!

Then there was a more recent healing....I say recent, but it really happened nearly 17 years ago in 1995. By this time, I had gotten very cynical in outlook unfortunately and questioned most of what I had been participant in: Healing through the laying on of hands and in answer to prayer. But in 1995, I had also been diagnosed with Asthma more than 5 years before hand. I was on inhalers and wheezing a lot with several allergies associated with the condition. Such as allergies to cereals(to be contd)