Sonia, with her healthy baby, Simon, one year later

A miracle for a pregnant mother

“It had been an exhausting Sunday morning of preaching, counselling and praying for a crowd, and so we were still eating lunch mid-afternoon when she walked into the house and shared her devastating news. A routine mid-pregnancy ultrasound indicated that the baby was missing half a brain. Later I googled the matter and learnt about Hydrocephalus or children with a water head, as it used to be called.

Sonia was due for another check-up on Monday and if the diagnosis was confirmed, an abortion would be recommended. In such moments, religion is useless because there are no liturgical prayers for missing brain tissue. You need a living-faith connection… the type that you cannot produce with positive thinking, or any other form of human effort.

In Pakistan, few families have a dining table. Meals are served on the parental bed. After dinner, we were lounging around on the bed when Sonia entered and began to tell her story. As I listened, I felt all my remaining strength draining away. But then I remembered a promise from God that related to brains. Less than two weeks earlier, Bob Hazlett had prayed for my wife and I, and prophesied that my wife Isa, would be used by the Lord to heal brains. He also said that we should go into battle together. I had stopped inviting Isa to travel to Pakistan with me because of the harsh conditions, but I knew that she was supposed to be with me in this battle. Fortunately, by faith she was.

Faith works through love (Galatians 5:6)and a married couple are, according to Jesus, one flesh. Therefore, armed with God’s promise, I simply imagined a connection between my wife and Sonia. With the eyes of my heart, I saw myself holding hands with my wife and in the natural, I took hold of Sonia’s hand as she sat on the edge of the marital bed. Then I asked Jesus to glorify his name and heal this child because of his promise and because Sonia had come to him in faith. Within seconds, Sonia began to vibrate intensely and continued to do for many minutes. When she stopped shaking, she told us that she had felt the power of God touch her. Then she left.

I had been told that her follow-up investigation was scheduled for Monday, so now, with it being Tuesday, I was eager to know the outcome. Ghaffar called her and spoke calmly in Urdu as was his custom. Then he turned to me and simply said,

“Baby’s healed … ”

“No way! Really?” I replied excitedly.

With his eyes back on the road, he explained that the same doctor who did the first tests had done another scan and said that the baby is now perfect.

“Praise the Lord!” I exclaimed.

“Amen,” he chuckled.

Read the whole story in “Faith Tech, by David M. Taylor” – More about the book.

I just read an email from the couple in question here in Switzerland in a similar situation.

I started praying, asking Father what to do. I feel the parents pain and I feel the Father’s compassion. Then I feel the fear of God. It is that trepidation of knowing that we have been entrusted with treasure in earthen vessels. Without him I am nothing. Without his grace I am nothing. Yet he has entrusted me with something – a secret, an experience, a divine channel or connection.

It reminds of a dream the Lord once gave me. I was told there was a secret passage behind a wall that would give us access to the fire escape. We could not find the hidden button. We searched and searched. Every now and then I walked to a huge window and watched huge dinosaur-like beings fighting. Then I returned to seek the button. Finally I found it and when I pressed it the wall exploded. It was not one of those hidden trap doors that open and close to remain hidden. Once opened it could not be closed. I asked the Lord what it meant. Later I understood, once we find the key the door is open for everyone else to enter.

We see this again and again in the life of Jesus – he presses into the Father to make a connection between heaven and earth and then he says to his disciples – go ahead – you do the same thing. Notice how none of his disciples had to go through the same wilderness experience or go to the cross to receive the authority that is imparted to them. Jesus does the hard work to create the breakthrough. He breaks the hole in the wall so that we can all enter the fire escape literally and easily.

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