He Said I Could

The workplace can be a hostile environment for Christians, but now and then you find a scattered few who are willing to pursue a study of God’s Word before work or at lunch time. I had a few opportunities to join groups in various work locations after my healing experiences, and often, healing became the subject of our discussion. (God’s miracles cannot be kept in the dark!) Donald was a coworker in one of those Bible studies, and he had a big problem for a young man. He was diagnosed with osteoporosis at the age of only 28 years old! After hearing about some of my healing experiences in our Bible group, he came to my office one day while I was eating my lunch. He explained his problems to me and said that he was in terrible pain, which was obvious by the way he walked—bent over, slowly and deliberately. Osteoporosis was causing his bones to shrink and lose density, thereby allowing pinching and rubbing of nerves and tissue that would normally be protected by the bones. Donald said he had been given experimental medicine to increase bone mass, but because his body chemistry was different than those for whom the medicine was developed (as he put it, “Little old ladies”), the medicine had no effect on him. He was also put on an experimental program that NASA had developed to help astronauts maintain bone mass. He was bouncing on a trampoline! According to Donald (and NASA), it is the jolts or bounces that produce greater bone mass—except in Donald. His bone mass was still on a steady decline. He had even been given steroids for 18 months. Nothing had helped. With Donald facing me, I bound the spirit of osteoporosis and commanded that spirit to come out of him. Then I bound the spirit of pain and commanded that spirit to come out of him. I commanded the bone mass to stop decreasing and to increase and return to normal. Each time something was commanded or a spirit bound, it was done in the name of Jesus. Donald began to sway slightly and headed for a nearby chair. He said his knees and legs suddenly got weak. I told him that was the Holy Spirit working on him! After a few minutes of sitting, Donald stood up STRAIGHT and WITHOUT PAIN, and left my office (still somewhat wobbly). Over the next weeks and months I kept in touch with Donald and discovered that not only was his pain gone, but his doctor informed him that his pituitary gland began working again. I didn’t know his pituitary gland hadn’t been working, but God healed it anyway. The doctor told Donald, “Once a pituitary gland stops working, it is medically impossible to make it work again.” But, she had to admit that something had happened. A month or so later Donald went back to the doctor for a follow–up bone scan. A few days after the scan, just as Donald was about to listen to a voicemail message from his doctor, Donald’s wife called saying she “felt in her heart” that she needed to call him at that moment. So, they listened to the doctor’s report together. (August 18, 1992) The doctor stated that while she expected 20% to 30% bone loss, THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF OSTEOPOROSIS! Also, the doctor stated there is no way medicine could cause this to happen! “For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.” (Psalms 86:10)