Letters & Testimonies

My mother-in-law and I came to the “Extraordinary Life” conference

Glenda,

I would like to first say Thank you for coming to Beaverdam Baptist church on Feb 16th 2008. And thank you for all that you do for this world! Me and my mother-in-law Paula came to the “Extraordinary Life” conference on 2/16/08 not expecting to walk out with changed hearts, spirits, minds and attitudes. I would like to share something just so special that happened to me that day, and how God truly came down in that sanctuary.

Your message was SO powerful all day. You kept me engaged in the Word, through your life experiences and words. Towards the end of our time together on Saturday we all had our heads bowed and you were praying with us all, and started saying out loud sicknesses, hurts, illnesses etc that God was showing you, and you asked us to accept the healing that God wants to do if it pertained to us.

The very first thing you called out was “I’m seeing someone with pain on the left arm from the elbow to the wrist in the bone.” You were very specific in that it was only the left arm and it was only from the elbow to the wrist.

I have struggled with carpool tunnel syndrome, and damage of the cartilage in that arm for YEARS as a child and through my adulthood. At times it would be so painful I could not open my hand to write, play the piano, clean, and do anything!! I asked God to take that pain from me that day to heal me if it was his will and to make me whole.

I wasn’t 100% sure if it was me or someone else that day that needed the healing God was showing you but I thought what the heck if it is me after all these years of pain, God will heal it.
We left church that late evening just so happy we cried, laughed, talked together, and bonded like no ones business. It was truly wonderful. Later that night I awoke in my sleep around 12:15am in agonizing pain in the left arm. It was pain I had never felt before in that arm. It was from the elbow to the wrist in the left arm. Nothing would relieve the pain. I took medicine hoping it would work. I ran my entire arm under hot water the pain was constant and just unbearable!

I sat on my bed in tears asking God “why would you do this”? I thought you were going to heal this pain. After all these years WHY didn’t you take this from me”? I shouldn’t question His work in progress. But I was disappointed, confused etc. that this was the worst pain I have felt in this arm in YEARS!

Sunday 2/17/08 I awoke EXHAUSTED with lack of sleep the night before but I had to get to church to sing, for both morning services. I took my shower and got ready to go. I have never been so tired before. I was at church early that morning to open the doors with my father-in-law. No one was there yet so I took the opportunity to just sit in the sanctuary and rest my mind and eyes before service started. As I sat there, I didn’t realize what God had already done.

About an hour later, a friend of mine came in the sanctuary that also attended Saturday, and we got to talking about everything and she said “Jody were you one of the people that accepted healing that day?” The moment she said that my jaw dropped!!! I looked at my arm and felt NO PAIN! I opened and closed my fist not once of pain or discomfort. I couldn’t believe that He healed me. I was so consumed with how tired I was that I didn’t even take the time to noticed that God had just shown me His miracle, how selfish of me. I started to cry with my friend and told her about my situation and that I wasn’t sure if it was me or not that He was trying to heal and that the night before I was in such horrible pain I didn’t understand it at all!

But then I knew as moments later the pastor’s wife came in, I told her what had happened. As I continued to cry I asked her why would I be in such pain that night? Why wasn’t the healing instant? In her short words it all made sense to me; she said “Jody, there is HEALING IN PAIN”! I just couldn’t believe it! I was in absolute shock and amazement that God would heal ME that He would decide to finally take this away from me. I felt so much strength in that arm and continue to feel so strong in the left arm, my right one feels weaker than the left it’s crazy.

Service went on that Sunday morning. I was just in shock all morning! And couldn’t help but to thank Him and praise Him. And I asked Him to forgive me for not believing in His healing touch.

It was such a wonderful weekend.

To put the icing on the cake God wasn’t done showing me that it was Him who did this. Later Sunday evening, me and my husband Jeremy went to the store to get a couple of things. He ran in while I sat in the car. As I sat there I just prayed “Thank you God for what you did for me. Thank you that you decided and chose me to heal. Thank you that even through my selfishness, confusion, disbelief that you continued to heal this arm.

In that moment of prayer a passage came to my mind. Out of the blue I hear Galatians 3:2 why was I hearing this? I grabbed the bible in the back seat and opened it to that passage and it reads “Let me ask you this question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Holy Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ.” Wow! I thought, Thank you Oh God for this I love you! As I continued reading Galatians 3 it all just made sense. Galatians 3:3 “How foolish can you be? After starting your Christian lives in the spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? Galatians3:4 Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely it was not in vain, was it? Galatians 3:5 I ask you again does God give you the Holy Spirit AND WORK MIRACLES among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ.

So, beyond words Glenda THANK YOU for your message that Saturday in little ol Beaverdam!! Because of you and His message He gave to you that day, I am healed and I realized not only did He physically heal this arm of mine, He healed my heart 100 times over. Through forgiveness I’m a vessel again with no cracks and will be able to overflow to other people.

May God bless you and keep you always. And thank you again for your powerful words!

I love you. Your sister in Christ

Jody M
Virginia, USA 2008

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