Re the article 'Time to get serious about healing': Brilliant, Well done, Pat. It needed saying and you said it!

I am disabled. I have Stills, a Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis.
In the days when I used to attend a church on a regular basis, people at that church used to tell me that I didn't have enough faith, or I had been a really bad person, or I had left it too late to become a believer, which is why I never got healed.

But I did get healed - not from the Stills, but from the difficulties, both moral and psychological, from coming from an Orthodox Jewish marriage, to new widowhood, and belief in Jesus, the Jewish Messiah. The Lord brought many wonderful people across my path, all of whom saw the real me through Him, and helped me to be happy with the real me, rather than the "front" I had put on to myself at the time.

It was like a brick wall coming down, or a shell being broken.

There's still a few more things for Him to sort out with me ;-), but we have time, His time... I'll wait.

And there must be hundreds more people out there, disabled believers, who are using their disabilities to bring others to an awareness of Yeshua (the Jewish word for Jesus).

But as one person said to me: ‘It ain't your physical disability that the Lord wants to work on; it's your heart and soul. Your body will eventually expire, but will your heart & soul?’
Made me think, that did.

Love & shalom,
G Matthews, Camberley, UK