“Heading to Mayo. Appointment is tomorrow. Setting intention for hope for more time and relief of pain in my arm.”
“Prayers pave the way. Thank you for the update,” came her friend’s reply. “Do you have time for a Stories of Jesus this morning?”
No quick replay came, so her friend fired off two more brief text messages, “Pick a number between one and 47,” and then, “I’ll share the highlights with you.”
“37” appeared in the text window.
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There was a child who was brought to Jesus because the child had fallen into a fire as a baby and lost his vision in the accident. The child’s face showed signs of burns. The child was placed in Jesus‘s arms. Jesus simply asked him, “Do you wish to see again?”
“Yes.”
“Do you believe I can heal you?”
“Yes.”
He held the boy in his arm so tenderly and put his hands over the boys, eyes and face. In a few moments, when he took his hands away, the terrible scars were healed, and the boy could see.
“Wow!!”
“I wish to be healed.”
When she had been diagnosed with and was being treated for stage four breast cancer a number of years earlier her friend would ask her to choose a number between one and forty-seven. That story would be shared from the Forty-Seven Stories of Jesus book.
“Yes,” her friend wrote back with praying hands and a heart.
“Thank you,” she wrote and she said her husband had picked that number….
(Prayers happen in divine timing. Whenever you read this Sacred Story, please offer up a prayer for anyone asking for healing. Pray in the way that your heart speaks most naturally.)
