Pastors Jim & Michelle Thompson
Crippled Man In Chebukaka
During a time of one-on-one prayer and counseling at the Chebukaka crusade, a despondent mother asked that we come to her home to pray for her son who was paralyzed and couldn't come to us. The young man was 21 years old and was paralyzed from the waist down.
We spoke with him and his mother about his condition. His mother told us about the different individuals whom she had paid money to "heal" her son. Some were witch doctors and some proclaimed to be men of God, but all required payment for their services. We told her about IICorinthians 2:17 and that it is the Lord who heals through "prayer offered in faith"
We laid hands on Kirt, the young man, and Michelle prayed mightily for his healing. As we left their home, I gave his mother 2000 shillings for food and as a measure of assurance that we were only there to give and not to take, I told her that we would return within a week with a doctor to check on Kirt. I wanted so much for God to enable him to walk again, but the worldly pragmatic side of me was saying, "Those legs are withered away to skin and bone, and he has no feeling at all from the waist down." I had already seen and personally experienced God's awesome power, yet, I doubted.
Five days later, we returned to Chebukaka with two doctors from the Ministry of Health. Before they even began their examination, Kirt excitedly blurted out that feeling had begun to return to his legs. He didn't have the strength to stand yet, but he could move both feet and had feeling up to his knees. Both doctors talked with him and examined him. They came up with a prognosis as to what may have caused the paralysis, which was different from the one he'd received a year earlier, and was also different than the one he would receive during the hospital exam a week later. Four doctors had three different opinions as to what caused the paralysis but only one of them could explain how the healing came about. That one doctor was a believer in God. -- by Pastor Jim Thompson
