Jesus My Healer
In the year 1983 I faced serious health
crisis, senior orthopedic doctor diagnosed a spinal
disease in my body, Anchlyosing Spondilitis. He said that this disease was progressive, that means it
becomes very bad in time, he tried to prepare me psychologically to accept the
worse that was to come, namely my spine becomes calcified and eventually I
would be bed-ridden. I was told that all existing medicines were only
experimental and generally they harm the patient. The severity of the pain and
the frequency of recurrence indicated that I was in an advance stage of the
disease and my doctor was frank enough to predict my bed-ridden condition to be
a matter of few months that was to come, he said he was so sure that he would
be ready to resign his profession, if proved mistaken.
I was in double hopeless state, from the
one side unbearable pain, even taking high potent pain killer was just about
giving the relief and on the other hand I was facing family breakup mainly due to my
receiving Jesus as my Lord and Savior, it was real distress. Family members
tried to divert me to "YOGA", many supposed to be healing miracles
were told to me, but I, basing my decision on prominent Christian teachers who
warn us from indulging in yoga I decided to turn to Jesus Christ alone as my
God, Savior & healer too. I decided to trust Him fully to the extent with
healing or not I turned to Jesus.
So I confessed
my sins to Him, including those of having, worshiping and serving the idols of
my ancestors, for I was born and brought up in a Roman Catholic religion and
the elders of a