a miracle of healing

A facebook friend passed along the question "If a miracle were to happen to you overnight, how would your life look differently in the morning? What changed? How would others know that a miracle took place for you? Would you act different, look different, feel different? What happened? " 

... below is my response ...

I received a miracle and it forever sealed in my faith and my husband’s in trusting that God is God and Sovereign and Good, both when He allows us to suffer and when His timing is perfect for healing. I was healed over eight years ago, and I don't talk about it as much as I did then. The thing is that A LOT of people do not believe it was a miracle they go looking and searching for a "natural" explanation (even a lot of faith filled Christian's find it easier to say "well you finally got better" or "sometimes people just get well", than to believe it was a work of God but Shawn and I know.

Shawn and I know how I suffered for so long, and how we tried everything, and how the strong pain medications created a chemical dependence in my body from having used them for so long, and then how after being prayed for in a special service at my church, I woke up in the late morning with no pain, and no dependence withdrawal symptoms. I chose in that moment to believe my healing had arrived and I never again had any more of that kind of pain and suffering, and to seal it (so we couldn't let doubt sneak in) God took away all the chemical dependence withdrawal symptoms. That morning I stopped taking the very strong pain medications "cold turkey" (which I don't recommend unless you want to be very sick and end up in the hospital or God does a miracle). The suffering produced faith to endure and developed endurance to trust God in unbearably painful extensions of time, and my healing increased our faith; for Shawn and I we will always give God the glory, honor and thanks for my healing, that we know came only from God and received though an act of faith. Being healed allowed me to return to being much more involved in my kids lives, to go back to the marketplace and help my husband carry some of the financial load, and most importantly to tell you about a God who loves you so very much, who you can trust completely in times of pain, even pain that seems to endure too long, and who remains a God who in His perfect time heals completely. He did it for me and God is no respecter of persons.

I am different but I remain challenged by this question because since most people don't believe it was God and I know it was, I have stop freely sharing this as often I used to. Do the people I know now even know that I am the humble grateful recipient of a miracle of healing… that although His ways are far above our understanding God is an amazing God who loves us more than we can possibly know and is a God who heals even in the 21st century? … did you?  ... do you have the faith to believe it? 

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I am committing this to prayer and applying it to my commitment to live out repentance not just speak the words…
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Regarding miracles ... my perspective ... if God orchestrated my body to perform against it's natural processes to restore health, indeed that is a supernatural healing. But the important thing today is, does it give God glory and renown? Does it continue to point people to God, as did all of His other miracles? Does my mouth, my temperament and my actions, still communicate that "God is a God who loves you so very much, who you can trust completely in times of pain, even pain that seems to endure too long, and who remains a God who in His perfect time heals completely"? This is the challenge to my spirit this morning and something only the God who truly sees can help me with. These ponderings did reveal that in response to how mankind views me I had stopped talking about it, stopped giving God the glory and honor for it with my words, and that is something I shall correct. I will tell what God has done for me and my family (respectfully of course) without allowing the fear of man might think of me to dissuade me.