Before I came to Louisiana, I didn’t know much about miracles or God’s healing. I had heard stories about it, but I never met anyone that had actually been healed. In my nearly two years living in Louisiana, I have experienced healing twice.

I had only been in Louisiana for a month and a half before God healed my dark and broken heart. I was praying so hard for a new heart, a clean and happy heart that didn’t carry all of my past guilt and sadness. One night after a vigorous prayer I felt my heart being changed. My eyes were shut but I could feel and see a bright light through my eyelids. I instantly started crying because I knew without a doubt that God had given me a brand new heart; a heart that He had touched and turned into light. Since this experience, I have noticed a lot of change within myself. Of course, I still have my struggles, but I know that I will get through whatever it is because I have God in my heart.

When I was in high school I tore my ACL and meniscus during a soccer game. Ever since that surgery, my knee was never the same. I didn’t let my messed up knee keep me from playing sports though; I continued to play soccer, participate in track and field, and I also joined the wrestling team at my high school. Looking back, I know that continuing to play sports definitely had a negative impact on the overall health of my knee. After high school, I played soccer at my college and I ended up tearing my meniscus in the same knee, which ultimately lead to a second knee surgery. At this point, my knee was so bad that every step I took was painful. I stopped exercising as much because I couldn’t take the pain it caused and so I had to give up one of my main sources of happiness.

The second, and most recent healing, was in April 2016 when we had “Carry the Love” come to our campus and put on an event. During this event, we had to stand up a lot and it made me nervous because usually my knee wouldn’t allow me to stand for long periods of time. We were all crowded around the stage listening to the Carry the Love people singing and worshipping when I felt the first twinge of pain in my knee. I didn’t want to have to go sit down so I started praying. I prayed so hard for God to heal my knee, for Him to take away the pain, for anything. I had so much faith that God could heal me and that He would, and I wasn’t wrong. After a few minutes, the pain in my knee subsided, I couldn’t believe it and at first I didn’t.

After the performance ended and we were all just standing together, the lead singer started talking about people in the crowd who had been healed. In my mind, I was freaking out because I wasn’t sure if I had been healed or not but I couldn’t feel any pain in my knee and I could lock my knee without it buckling so I started thinking to myself, maybe I had been healed. Then the lead singer said something I would never forget, “Someone with an ACL injury in their right knee has been healed tonight.” In that moment I was absolutely certain that I had been healed. I went to the side of the room and explained what had happened to one of the Carry the Love people, and she offered to pray for me. We prayed and then I told all of my Wesley family what had happened and I told my family back in Washington. My faith in God continued to grow after this experience and I’m still so amazed at all the miracles God can perform.

God had healed me once again and is constantly showing me that He loves me and will never stop taking care of me. At the end of May I had planned to go on a mission trip to Nepal, and I would have to hike for hours uphill and I had been wondering how I would be able to accomplish that with my bum knee. Little did I know that God had a plan and that He was going to help me make it up that mountain, which by the way, I made it through that hike without any pain in my knee and I have nobody to thank but God.

God is a healer and will heal you if you have faith and trust in Him. Since my healing I have had minimal pain in my knee and I’ve been able to participate in sports and stand up in church without having to take breaks to sit down. God is so good.

Have you been healed by God? If so, leave me a comment so everyone can see the amazing things God has been doing in our lives. Also, if you have any questions you can leave them in the comments as well.