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Through that journey of my healing,
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I realised that I grew more in faith
and I drew closer to God,
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and my relationship with my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ actually improved.
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Okay, our brother in Zambia - let us pray.
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In the name of Jesus Christ!
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Right now every damage to your muscles, to your bones - be restored in Jesus’ name!
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Be restored in Jesus’ name.
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Brother, can you just lift up your leg for me?
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In the name of Jesus Christ,
be healed right now.
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Every pain - come out of him,
in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Thank You, Holy Spirit.
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Brother, you are free to the glory of God.
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You can check yourself right now.
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I know you will not be able to
remove the cast at this moment,
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but you can know that
God has touched you.
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Just check yourself and give thanks
to God for your healing.
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Thank You, Lord.
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My name is Francis and
I'm from Zambia, Africa.
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Last year in March, I had a fracture of my fibula whilst I was playing football.
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But the nature of the injury and things which happened that led to it were not natural.
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So it was an issue where at my workplace,
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I was in the position of acting
head of department.
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So with that opportunity, I brought in the aspect of having Scripture and prayers
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at my place of work,
which is a learning institution.
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So on a Friday, we had prayers with students.
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We praised the Lord, shared the Word of God, and I knew this was how it should be.
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The following day, Saturday, I went to play social football with my friends, like I always did.
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Before I went to play the football match,
I received a text message
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from one of the students who was in the prayer meeting that we had the previous day.
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She had a dream where she saw
I was under attack -
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there was an imminent attack
towards my life.
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So on that fateful day, the
same Saturday, my heart...
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You know, the heart knows when something is wrong but I just brushed it off
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and said, ‘Father, let Your will be done’
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because I didn’t know how the
attack was going to come.
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I just thanked God for everything
and went on to play football.
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So the match started around 5pm. The ground was moist because it had just rained.
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So on that fateful day, to cut a long story short, as I was playing,
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I slid into a tackle trying to play a ball.
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I didn't have contact with any player, neither did I hit anything hard.
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But after just sliding into a simple tackle,
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when I was on the ground,
I could feel that my fibula broke.
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So immediately there, most of my colleagues thought I was playing or pretending to just fall,
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so I could maybe not
participate in the game.
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But there and then, I could feel my bone moving; I could feel excruciating pain.
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And immediately that happened,
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it reminded me of the text message
I received that fateful day.
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After that, I was rushed to the hospital
and then they did an X-ray.
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After doing the X-ray, that's how they found out that my fibula bone had actually fractured,
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and the fracture was as
if I was hit by something
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that led to the bones completely detaching.
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So, what was done was I was given a cast.
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That cast I was given is the one actually shown in the video you saw.
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And then I was, of course, put on painkillers and also some other medications.
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But I was in excruciating pain
and I was given crutches.
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So that same day I contacted the God’s Heart TV Team and explained my whole situation.
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And immediately I sent my message,
the God’s Heart TV Team replied.
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On that fateful day, of course, Brother Chris ministered the Word of God to us
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before actually praying for us.
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He said something which I've
never forgotten to this day.
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He said something important, and
I believe he was led by the Holy Spirit,
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on what would transpire, especially regarding my situation.
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So in most cases, when
I watch God’s Heart TV,
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I would see people being prayed for and you would see immediate healing.
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People would feel something.
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Others would feel electricity.
For others, it would be heat.
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They would feel many things.
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But before Brother Chris prayed for any of us that day, he mentioned something.
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He said, “When you are being prayed for, the Holy Spirit works as He wills.”
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So what that means is that it's not necessarily that you have to feel something,
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or you have to fall down, or you have to manifest or whatever the case,
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because when we come for prayer,
we come with a lot of expectations.
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Maybe you will think that
when they pray for you,
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for you to know that you are healed,
you have to feel some form of electricity.
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You have to feel something.
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Sometimes the Holy Spirit - you won’t even feel anything, but God will heal you.
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So as Brother Chris administered prayer for me, when it was my turn for prayer,
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one thing I remember I could feel was -
I had peace of heart.
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That was the first thing I had.
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Of course, there were a lot of things
that I was going through.
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The fracture was just one of them.
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But I had peace of heart and one thing that was prominent physically was
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the pain which was in my leg subsided.
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Other than that, I didn't feel any form of...
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I didn't feel anything other
than the pain subsiding
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and the peace of heart which I received on that fateful day I was prayed for.
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And I was able to get some
strength in my leg
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because, by then, I was in excruciating pain.
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For me, the prayer and the whole experience was more than just the fracture,
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because I believe I had
a fracture in my faith.
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So through the experience, my healing
was quite special. I take it as special.
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After Brother Chris prayed,
something that he mentioned was
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that any spiritual element
that led to the fracture
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and could have led to
complications was removed.
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So in my case, my healing
took the ‘natural turn’ in that
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I didn’t immediately receive
bone attachment.
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It took some time and through
that journey of my healing,
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I realised that I grew more in faith
and I drew closer to God,
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and my relationship with my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ actually improved.
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Okay, so I'm sure people can
see the two X-rays.
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The one on the left is before prayer.
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The one on the right is after prayer,
which I took about two weeks ago.
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So that is the one which now shows my healing at the moment.
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And glory be to God - my bones are fused.
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All-in-all, my fracture has been healed
and God has healed my life.
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So if you saw in the video,
I couldn't stand on my own.
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So standing was a problem.
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But now, I’m able to stand on my
two feet as people can see.
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And, I can also balance. So this is the leg
which was affected - the left leg.
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You can see I can actually balance
and have strength in my leg.
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I can move freely, I can walk freely, I can jump and I can do so many physical activities
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that I couldn’t do back then.
No pain in the bone!
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You can even see how my leg looks -
some can’t even tell I had a fracture.
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It has healed properly and
there is no deformity on my leg.
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I would like to just advise my
fellow brothers and sisters -
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as you are about to receive prayer,
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one of the things to remember is that you cannot please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).
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So I believe, in as much as we want to receive physical healing
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or prayer for any type of problem we have,
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we first need to believe that God
is going to heal our problems.
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And then when God is healing us,
God wants salvation for us.
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So He first has to build that
relationship in us with Him
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that will enable us to maintain the healing.
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Because I can receive healing today,
but if I don't maintain my relationship
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with my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
I can lose that blessing.
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I know others are praying for
promotions, for employment -
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there are so many things that
people are praying for.
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But the most important thing is - how are you going to maintain the blessing?
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And in my case, God showed me patience and also perseverance,
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and how to maintain my blessing.
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And up to today, I'm thankful for the many gifts that God has shown in my life.