espect and honor to Jesus produces God's miracle power in our lives.  Read about the lesson I learned when God healed my crippled hand.

The little finger and side of my hand was so painful. In fact my arm all the way up to my shoulder was affected with pain. When it was time for the stitches to be taken out the cut opened up again. I could hardly look at it but I had a wonderful friend that would dress it for me. She said something round and white had been severed, which kept it from closing up quickly. When it did finally close up and heal I had no use of my little finger, it would not straighten out and it also affected my ring finger so that my hand wouldn't flatten out. It made it difficult to do house work and I had been grooming dogs for extra income, which I had to give up.

I wasn't used to praying a lot for myself, I just went after the Lord with my whole heart in prayers, fasting, reading and obeying God's Holy Bible. By doing that God just sort of took care of things as I worshiped him and prayed for others. But I probably prayed more for this problem than any personal thing in my life.

The Bible says in many places that Jesus healed 'all' the people. (Matthew 4:23-24) In (Acts 5:12-16), His disciples healed everyone with His power. Jesus healed the man with the shriveled hand in (Matthew 12:9-16) and so I believed he would not want me to go through life with a crippled hand. I knew I had to quit praying and begging and start believing. The Monday before Thanksgiving, as I was working around the house, I stopped beside the refrigerator to pray. I know that is an odd place to pray, but God hears you anywhere you talk to him, and besides, I was fed up with my hand not working.  It had now been 4 months since this happened. So I said to God, "This is the last time I am going to ask you to heal my hand. If you want me to go through life with a crippled hand then that's fine but the responsibility will be on you." Then I thanked him for healing it. It was a very short prayer and I felt so disrespectful and guilty to talk to God that way. The Bible teaches us to be humble before God. (Luke 18:9-14) Nevertheless, I never did ask him again to heal my hand, though I thought about it many times the rest of that day. I'm not sure how to explain why, but the next two days my injured hand never came to my mind. Then on the day before Thanksgiving (family was coming to my house) I prepared everything for dinner and was standing in the kitchen. It was like a moment in time that I just wasn't aware of anything around me. When I regained what was going on, there I stood with both hands straight up in front of me. My fingers were straight! As I studied them I said out loud in total amazement, "When did that happen?"

I tried to remember if at any time during the day I had used my left hand to clean off my big marble cutting board, a task that really bothered me to do left handed. But, in thinking back through the preparation, I couldn't remember of using my left much for anything, in baking the pies, stuffing the turkey or anything I did all day. To this day I don't know when God reconnected what had been severed and healed my hand but I am so thankful he did. I have had full use of my hand now for over 25 years. The lesson I learned is to always be humble and submissive unto God because even though he will take care of me because I'm his child I could miss part of the big event he has planned for my life.

I am so thankful to Jesus that we can have miracles of recreation and the benefit of his healing power. I worship him because he paid the price for our salvation and that by his stripes we are healed if we accept it. (Isiah 53:5)