JESUS IN THE HAIRDRESSERS

The lady cutting my hair mentioned she had arthritis in her hands and feet and that she’d had it for years. She told me she didn’t want to rely on morphine patches but clearly, that’s how bad the pain was.

“It’s just something I have to live with,” she said. Whenever I hear a statement like that, righteous indignation rises up in me because I know that is exactly what the enemy wants people to believe. I asked if anyone had ever prayed for her before and she remembered someone once had but nothing had changed and I felt her disappointment. I began to tell her stories of people I had seen healed from arthritis and how Jesus loved her and wanted to heal her and I offered to pray. She listened but was quiet and then had to leave me to dry someone’s hair. I sat thinking how I would love to have been able to pray for her and to have seen what Jesus would have done.

Later as I was having my hair washed she suddenly asked from behind the sink, “Were you praying for me, I think you must have been praying for me because my hand is so much better. I was able to dry that lady’s hair without pain. It’s never felt this good. I hadn’t even got to pray but God was touching her. When we were back at my seat I said, “Give me your hand, I’d love to pray for it.” She said, “But it’s a lot better.” I said, “I know let’s pray all the pain goes in your hands and your feet.” She held out her hand and I prayed.

When it was time to leave I checked in with her and she said, “I’m amazed…this has never happened. I’ve never been without pain. She then told me how on her way to work that morning she had said out loud, “Not even an animal should have to go through this much pain!” I told her, “God heard your cry and he loves you.” She said, “Don’t, I’m going to cry”

I said, “On one of your Sundays off, why don’t you come to church?” She asked the times of the services and said, “I may well surprise you, it’s been a long time since I’ve been to church.”

What I saw again that day was as carriers of his Kingdom we can expect signs and wonders to break out wherever we go because his Kingdom is always near.

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