Curado de la esclerosis múltiple

 Durante muchos años, Barbara Cummiskey Snyder sufrió de esclerosis múltiple. Su condición se volvió tan mala que los médicos la abandonaron. Pero mientras los amigos oran por ella, ella escucha la voz de Dios y se vuelve completamente sana:
<Cuando me diagnosticaron esclerosis múltiple, fue como un shock. En los siguientes 15 años, mi salud empeoró cada vez más. Me operaron varias veces, pasé muchas semanas en el hospital y luché contra la enfermedad degenerativa. Sin éxito. La esclerosis múltiple me afectó más que a otros pacientes y en algún momento los médicos ya no pudieron ayudarme.Finalmente me internaron en un hospicio. Ahora estaba casi ciego, mis manos y mi cuerpo estaban doblados, mis músculos atrofiados y tenía que ser alimentado y ventilado artificialmente. Sólo tenía 30 años y me estaba muriendo.

Uno de mis amigos llamó a una estación de radio cristiana y pidió a la audiencia que orara por mí. La ola de reacciones fue abrumadora. 450 personas me escribieron cartas y me dijeron que rezaban por mí.

Dios interviene

Era el domingo de Pentecostés cuando me enteré de las muchas personas que oraban por mí. Dos amigos me visitaron y me leyeron las cartas de aliento. Mientras estaba allí tumbado escuchando, sucedió algo increíble: escuché la voz de un hombre desde un rincón de la habitación. Pero sabía que no había nadie allí. Intuitivamente me di cuenta de que es Jesús quien me habla. Él dijo: "Levántate, hijo mío. Y vete! Me enderecé, me saqué el tubo del cuello y me levanté de la cama.
   Lo que sucedió entonces carece de lógica. Mis músculos atrofiados empezaron a trabajar de nuevo. Mis dedos y pies doblados se enderezaron de nuevo - y lo más loco: Podía observarlo, porque mis ojos podían volver a ver de repente! Fue increíble, pero en un momento Jesús me curó completamente. Llamé a mis padres y corrí hacia ellos.

Cuando los médicos me examinaron, no podían creerlo. Yo era uno de los casos de EM más desesperados que habían tratado en sus carreras. Y ahora estaba completamente sano. Eso fue hace casi cuarenta años, pero la enfermedad nunca volvió. Sufrí de EM durante 15 años difíciles. Pero justo antes de que yo llegara a su fin, Jesús intervino y me sanó.>
( Fuente de texto:  ... als Jesus eingriff )

My first Miracle

When does a person become aware of his own mortality? Probably the first time he or she is confronted with the subject of death in a more personal way. With me this happened at the age of about five.

My friend of the same age, Elmar, and I had decided to move over from our settlement to the large meadow. When we reached the village road in between, I stopped because I saw a car approaching from the left. First blink of an eye!
    To my great surprise and dismay I saw my friend enter the road. Second blink!  And then everything went very fast. When Elmar noticed the vehicle approaching at high speed, he ran off. Exactly where the car was headed in the meantime. The collision seemed inevitable. Third blink!
    In the greatest emergency I shouted: "ELMARRR!!!", whereupon he stopped abruptly and turned. Again to where the driver tried to pass.
    Elmar escaped death by a hair's breadth - and this can be taken figuratively. The driver "escaped" with screeching tires and really putting his foot down again.

For a few seconds Elmar and I stood there heavily shocked. Then we separated wordlessly and went home. We had both looked death in the eye for a moment. We understood how quickly everything could be over. At the same time at least I intuitively understood that something - perhaps a higher power - had protected Elmar.
    Because actually it had been completely excluded that he had come out of this thing intact and undamaged. It had definitely been a miracle!

Mi primer milagro

¿Cuándo se da cuenta una persona de su propia mortalidad? Probablemente la primera vez que se enfrenta al tema de la muerte de una manera más personal. Conmigo esto sucedió a la edad de unos cinco años.

Mi amigo de la misma edad, Elmar, y yo habíamos decidido mudarnos de nuestro asentamiento a la gran pradera. Cuando llegamos a la carretera del pueblo en medio, me detuve porque vi un coche que se acercaba por la izquierda. ¡Primer parpadeo!
    Para mi gran sorpresa y consternación vi a mi amigo entrar en el camino. Segundo parpadeo!  Y entonces todo sucedió muy rápido. Cuando Elmar se dio cuenta de que el vehículo se acercaba a gran velocidad, huyó. Exactamente hacia dónde se dirigía el coche mientras tanto. La colisión parecía inevitable. ¡Tercer parpadeo!
    Grité: "ELMARRR!!!" y se detuvo y se giró bruscamente. De nuevo al lugar por donde el conductor trató de pasar.
    Elmar escapó de la muerte por la anchura de un pelo - y se puede tomar eso en sentido figurado -. El conductor "escapó" con los neumáticos chirriantes y volvió a pisar a fondo el acelerador.

Una mujer joven puede caminar por primera vez en su vida

Siempre hay reportes de sanaciones extraordinarias en eventos evangelísticos cristianos.... Según los familiares que la acompañan, esta joven de 20 años nunca antes había podido caminar:

En la foto de la portada el predicador comprueba si puede sentir algo en sus piernas sordas. Ella lo afirma....al final él le quita su promesa de caminar diariamente, ya que sus músculos tendrían que desarrollarse.

Een jonge vrouw kan voor het eerst in haar leven lopen

Er zijn altijd verslagen van buitengewone genezingen in christelijke evangelische gebeurtenissen..... Volgens haar begeleidende familieleden heeft deze jonge 20-jarige vrouw nog nooit eerder kunnen lopen:

 Op de coverfoto controleert de predikant of ze iets in haar dove benen kan voelen. Ze bevestigt het....uiteindelijk neemt hij haar belofte om dagelijks te lopen weg, omdat haar spieren zich zouden moeten ontwikkelen.

A young Woman can walk for the first Time in her Life

There are always reports of extraordinary healings in Christian evangelistic events... According to her accompanying relatives, this young 20-year-old woman has never been able to walk before:

In the cover picture the preacher checks if she can feel something in her deaf legs. She affirms it ...in the end he takes away her promise to walk daily because her muscles would have to develop.

The Miracle that happened in Frankfurt

In 1987 a large faith conference took place in Frankfurt am Main. It was announced as a five-day Fire Conference with the promising subtitle: Evangelism with Signs and Miracles.        
   At that time I was very close to a Bible school where I had begun a theological education. But I probably wouldn't have ended up at that Fire Conference if there hadn't been a lack of folders. So some of us Bible students were recruited. I was one of them.
     
The conference took place in the large exhibition halls. Several thousand visitors visited the most different events every day and as a steward I had a lot to do. Nevertheless, of course I got a lot of information about the events and some experiences were deeply engraved in my memory.      
   For example the afternoon event where Loren Cunnigham, the then leader of "Youth with a Mission", said in front of thousands of people: "God has shown us in prayer that the Berlin Wall will soon fall!                                                
   To be honest, I was quite amazed at the announcement. The man really had a good reputation to lose. To say something like that in public, he had to be either foolhardy or pretty sure of himself. As we know today, history proved him right.
    Outstanding from all the stories experienced there is the one from Saturday evening. It's really quite extraordinary!

That Saturday morning started with a praise march through the city of Frankfurt. Together with a few hundred other Christians I marched through the streets singing Christian songs. In between there was a loudspeaker announcement of an escort vehicle, in which we were invited to the evening event: "No matter who you are, come by! Bring your sick with you. There will also be prayers for healing tonight. And signs and miracles will happen. Hallelujah!" That or something like that was the announcement.
      In the evening the main hall was filled to capacity. The sermon was delivered by Reinhard Bonnke, an African missionary known in the Christian scene. Anyone who has once looked into the videos, where he preaches publicly in front of hundreds of thousands of Africans, can hardly remain uninvolved. But that is another topic.
    At the end of the sermon Bonnke called as usual for a decision for Jesus. And as usual in his meetings many people came forward to give their lives to Jesus.  Then he made a second call for the sick: "If you are sick and want to be healed, come forward. Jesus healed earlier and will heal again tonight. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord". In the hall it echoes a thousand times "Hallelujah!                          
    "Yes," Bonnke shouted now," he has done it and will do it again. "Come! Flocks of people streamed forward and were received there by the preachers and pastors.                          
     I stood in one of the back rows and observed how many small prayer groups formed on the large platform and how a life of its own developed there. A camera team from Hessischer Rundfunk came on stage, but filmed discreetly in the background.
    Maybe five minutes might have passed when I suddenly saw a young, pretty woman in Hotpants walking down the aisle. On her arms she was carrying an elderly woman, who obviously consisted only of skin and bones. 
     Arrived in front she rose the small side rise to the platform and put there the older woman then on the ground. Nothing else happened for several minutes. The small prayer groups were busy with themselves and the young woman continued to stand next to the woman lying on the floor.
     Suddenly a prayer group disbanded and a few seconds later Bonnke stormed in. A short exchange of words with the young woman, then she grabbed the microphone, raised her left arm and said: "Please rest in the hall, and all prayers on the stage please stop". 
     14,000 people stopped singing, and the prayer groups on the stage also looked at him, the young woman and the older woman. One could have heard a pin drop. The Hessian Television television team, which had previously kept in the background, sneaked onto the stage very close to the three people in the focus of the action.

    And then Bonnke asked the young woman pointing to the woman lying on the floor: "Who is that?" She replied: "My mother!" "What about her? Bonnke asked further. "She has terminal cancer. I heard the invitation this morning during the city march. And there I took my mother and brought her here.
    Bonnke he bent down to the woman and gave her the microphone: "Do you believe that Jesus can heal you? A moment of silence, then you heard a fragile "Yes, I believe that!
      Immediately Bonnke straightened up again and with a loud voice he announced: "Jesus cannot only heal you, he will heal you tonight from your cancer. Hallelujah!"
A moment of unbelieving amazement. Then a hurricane broke loose in the hall. "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah." The cameras of the television team swung over into the audience. Then the team moved very close to Bonnke and the two women. Close-up!

I had followed the action on stage like a spell. But now he has hung out his window quite far, it went through my head. If the miracle doesn't happen now, he's dead! They will tear it apart in the media.
    But Bonnke was already further. "Lord Jesus, we ask you to reward the faith of these two women and heal the cancer," he prayed out loud. The cameras were now fully directed at him and the woman. And then the command: "In the name of Jesus. Get up!" The woman remained lying!
     Even before an embarrassing silence could arise, he turned to the audience. "Please all pray in the hall! In the hall began a thousand voices of murmur. And then Bonnke shouted: "In the name of Jesus! Get up!" At the same time he pulled it up with one hand.
     And then she stood! Looking around unbelievingly! Her daughter slapped her hands in front of her face. Bonnke called. "Go! Go!" The woman began to take a step. Bonnke yelled: "Go up and down! You are healed! Jesus healed you and then she began to walk. Once to the right, once to the left, the TV team's cameras fully pointed at her.
       In the hall and on stage an indescribable tumult broke out. Mother and daughter were in each other's arms, the hall was raging. And Bonnke drowned everything out: "Jesus did it again! Halleeelluuujjaaaah!

 The next morning at the closing service of the 1987 Fire Conference, the hall was filled to capacity again. Again Reinhard Bonnke was the main speaker. But with quite a hoarse voice. He smiled: "I was asked why I was so sure that the woman would be healed". A question that probably everyone asked themselves the evening before.
    "Well," he continued, "I had just finished praying for a sick person when I received something like an electric shock. I drove around and saw the woman lying on the stage amidst all the sick and praying people. No one seemed to care for her. And at that very moment an inner voice said to me: "This is the key miracle tonight".
      He took a meaningful break and then said, "That's why I knew this woman would be healed!

I have to say that this event had really touched me deeply. I was all the more surprised when I heard that in a report on Hessischer Fernsehen this obvious miracle was not mentioned with a syllable.
    Instead, everything was presented as "religious rip-off". As evidence, extensive collection calls and fundraising were shown. In addition it is to be said that the execution of such meetings simply costs money.
 
 What remains to be seen is what happened to that woman. Perhaps everything was just a set-up?  A year later I saw a photo of that woman. The "skin and bones" woman had become a normal older woman, standing next to Bonnke, smiling friendly.
     The photo belonged to a newspaper article that reported about the Fire Conference the following year. She was invited there as a guest of honor and told thousands of listeners her view of the events at that time.
     After the miracle of healing she had been examined again. And to her great amazement, the doctors who had previously diagnosed a terminal cancer and sent her home to die could no longer find cancer. According to her own testimony, and clearly visible, she had gained about thirty kilos by now and was leading a normal life again.
     And that ends my little memory of a quite memorable event. After almost twenty-five years I felt a real need to write it down and publish it.