Only touch the hem of His garment....

It gives me chills to write this blog....it's hard to put into words how God has touched my life but I can't contain my joy and gratitude for His touch.

It all started almost 15years ago when I was involved in a serious car accident that fractured my pelvis and destroyed my femoral artery. 8months later I underwent a femoral artery bypass to reconstruct circulation in my leg. The damage was very extensive and the dr's worried and watched me over the next 12 years as the artery continued to block off causing large clots, pain and extensive circulation problems. My spiritual walk went up and down as I recovered from one surgery or procedure only to be faced with more pain and more hospital visits as the problem continued.

August of last year I called my dr complaining of more pain and they recommended a 5th surgery to re-open the artery and possibly pull from my good leg to fix the bad one. As I prayed and struggled with this idea God gave me this verse in Matthew 9:

20And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

21For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

22But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

I realized that it had been almost exactly 12years since my first surgery and I felt that God was promising me if I reached out and touched the hem of His garment I would be healed. I asked the church to join me in this prayer and I was anointed. Shortly thereafter I went to the hospital for the procedure and as I lay there waiting I decided that if it was God's will for me to carry this affliction I didn't want to do anything medically to change that...I told the Dr they could go in and look but not to do any major medical intervention. Amazingly enough when they performed the arteriogram they discovered that the original graft was totally blocked--however, my body had developed little threads of collateral circulation around the block--enough to support my whole leg!

Today I went for a follow-up appt with my surgeon and I am thrilled to report that my pulse is very strong and I am DISCHARGED!!!!

The woman dr's thought they couldn't help and the problem that medically would never go away--has been resolved and by God's grace I am cleared to live life without the fear of more surgeries or complications.

Praise God for His healing