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Tortured By Rash:


While serving as a local hospital chaplain, a woman I knew from church asked if I would visit her brother who was in the hospital. He was suffering with a mysterious rash that covered his body from the top of his head to the bottoms of his feet. Even after several tests his doctors still could not determine the origin or cause of the man's medical problem. This man was tormented by the urge to constantly itch. He was miserable!

When I entered his room he was sitting on the side of his bed. It was easy to see he was deeply disturbed by his affliction. Telling him I was there because his sister had asked me to come, he told me; "yes," he needed prayer badly because this terrible rash was driving him crazy! Trusting the Lord that the man's condition was not highly contagious, and that I was on a mission for the Lord and therefore protected from any threat of catching the rash myself; I asked the man if I could lay my hand on top of his head and pray for him. He agreed to allow me. I then asked him if he believed in Jesus, and that Jesus was going to heal him. He strongly professed he did! A miraculous thing began to happen. As the man and I prayed, I opened my eyes once or twice to observe any body language or response from the man. I looked down at the man's forearms where thousands of little red whelps were and I was amazed to watch as the red rash was disappearing right before my eyes! As we ended our prayer, I asked the man to look at his legs, arms and hands as the rash was quickly disappearing all over his body as we watched! The man jumped from his bed and exclaimed; "He's healing me! Jesus, is healing me!' We were both shouting now, and the man asked me to go with him down the hall to the nurse's station; he wanted to show his nurse what had happened. When he showed her that his arms and legs and the bottom of his feet were now without the red rash she nearly dropped her clipboard and her jaw fell wide open!

Jesus performed a miracle for that man I believe just to show He can. Praise God!

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