In order to increase faith, I began to watch videos online of people being healed in Jesus’ name. Not only did my faith in Jesus increase, but I participated in a healing miracle, since my brother’s faith also played a part in the account below.

My brother was crouching down to install a truck part, but halfway down, a nerve was pinched in his back. Because of the intense pain, he froze in that position—keeping his body elevated with his left hand on a rock. That arm was trembling in response to intense pain. I happened to be standing there, and said, “stand up, and let me pray for it.” But he could not stand back up, so I asked where the pain was. After placing three fingers on that spot on his back, I commanded, “pain go! in Jesus’ name. pain go! come out, in Jesus’ name.” At my finger tips, I could feel warmth quickly increase, and I asked, “do you feel heat?” He said, “yes.” Then he said the pain level went down significantly, which enabled him to stand upright. He’s working on the truck now as I write this. My brother also said that, as the heat quickly increased, he sort of “freaked out.”

I checked with him about 5 hours later, and he said that the pain had went down “70%”. In the past, whenever he pinched a nerve like that, he would struggle with considerable pain for days.

Jesus of Nazareth healed “all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed”.(Matthew 4:24 NIV) He also gave the twelve apostles “authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.”(Matthew 10:1 NIV) But miraculous healings are not exclusively apostolic, because “Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.”(Acts 6:8 NIV)