Sunday, February 14, 2010

Leg grows out 1.5 inches to re-align hips and spine

On Monday, Feb 8th I was covering a shift in the prayer room. No one showed up for the next shift right away, so I decided to stay. Soon after, Jordan called me, saying, "Austin and I have been under a lot of spiritual attack. We're heading to the prayer room so if you could be praying for us that would be great."

"Well I'm actually in the prayer room right now, so I'll see you here in a little bit," was my reply.

They showed up and stared to talk about how things had been tough recently. We prayed for Austin who had had a headache for the past four days. After a short time of prayer, the headache was completely gone. We prayed for Jordan, and he felt God's peace just flood through his anxieties.

Bo and Jenny showed up in the prayer room, too, and I stepped out to take a phone call. When I came back in, Austin was showing everyone how his left leg is about 1.5" longer than his right leg. He had been in a carwreck back before Christmas, and his left thigh was broken so badly that there was a metal rod going from his hip socket to the top of his knee. The re-setting of the bone had left a gap that had made his leg too long.

When I saw him showing how his left leg was longer than his right, I just got excited right away. I have heard several stories of uneven legs growing out, but I had never actually seen someone with that.

"Can we pray for you?"

Austin said sure, and so all four of us were ready to lay hands. We had him sit down with his hips against the wall to have something with which to measure his legs. The left leg was obviously longer, by over an inch, no matter the angle we swung his legs. So the four of us started to pray, asking God to heal that left leg and correct the gap.

We felt God moving in our prayers, but when we asked Austin he said he didn't feel anything in particular. So we decided to pray for his thigh where the metal rod was located. I shared how I know of a particular pastor who brings metal detectors to his prayer meetings because they've seen metal dissolve and full healing on multiple occasions.

We prayed again, and it seemed like God was moving even more. We asked Austin, and he said that he felt a tingling on the back of his calves. This made us ask, "So is that the Lord you're feeling? Is that the presence of God showing up?" He replied:

"I dunno, it's my calves, I've never felt the presence of God there before."

Good point. So we kept praying, asking the Lord that if that was Him, would He come and double it and do more, and if it wasn't Him, would He take that tingling away. After our next round of prayer, we asked Austin again what he was feeling. He said:

"It's increased, I feel it in the back of my knees now."

More, Lord! We went after it in prayer again. The Lord was very near, Austin started getting emotional. After this round of prayer, we asked and he said things hadn't changed, but it was good it was still going on the back of his knees. So we asked him to check his thigh, to see what was happening. He felt his hip, and yeah the metal rod was still poking out on his hip socket. But then we looked down at his feet.

They were even.

Wait a second.

They're even?

They weren't even before, right? What's going on?

Austin said he had felt his right leg grow out to match the length of his left leg. Unbelievable. Looking at his feet, they looked, well, normal. There had been no flash of lightning from heaven or earthquake of God's mighty hand. Were Austin's legs really uneven just a few minutes before?

Austin stood up and got his bearings. The legs felt even while standing. His hips felt better aligned now. The uneven legs usually caused his hips to be tilted which caused his spine to curve in his lower back. He lifted up the back of his shirt, and as far as we could tell with our eyes, it looked straight as could be. His chiropractor back home has on file the uneven measurements of his legs, so Austin will definitely get it checked out next time he's back there, passing on the testimony of healing to the doctors as well. But we stand assured even now that Austin was healed before our very eyes.

We had him sit down one more time with his back and hips against the wall to double check one more time that it wasn't just an optical illusion. It wasn't. His legs really were even. So we prayed once more, thanking the Lord and just joyfully lifting up His name.

You are so good to us, Jesus! Thank you for coming and healing! And we ask for more, Lord!

4 comments:

  1. Praise God! Thank you for your miracle working power. Thank you for answering our prayers. Thank you for showing up in Iowa.

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  2. OH MY GOSH!!!!! This in incredible! I am sitting here bawling, laughing, and dancing all at the same time... Praise Jesus! And congrats Austin!

    ~Jessica
    p.s. I stole Bunmi's computer because I just had to say something!

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  3. Wow!! My husband and I have contended for these things at the campus for years, and I know of others as well. We were students there about 3 years ago and tried to start up a house of prayer back then, it's so good to hear it's actually happening now! Praise the Lord! Who is leading it up? We were part of Salt but then moved down to IHOP-KC 3 yrs ago. I'd love to hear more about what's happening! We're praying!

    -Kelly Varner

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  4. Wow, great stuff! Praise God!
    --Jon Hietbrink

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