And these signs shall follow them that believe; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. — MARK 16:17–18

In 1953, I was ministering at the Oakcliff Assembly of God Church in Dallas, when a young woman was brought to the service in an ambulance. She had been bedfast two years due to an automobile accident that broke her neck and her back. After being in the hospital for two years and at home for almost a year, she regained the use of her arms. But from her shoulders down, she was unable to move.

When I knelt by her stretcher and laid hands on her, I had the impression that it would not be an instant healing. When I laid my hands on her feet, I felt a “warmth” go into her. She didn’t have any feeling in her feet. But her legs began to tingle and she said, “I feel that warmth coming out of your hands and up my legs.”

I said to her, “That’s the healing power of God going into you. Move your feet.” Well, she moved both feet.

Then I said, “Pull up one leg at a time.” She pulled her left leg up, but she couldn’t move her right one. Then I said, “Now, sister, when I walked down here, I knew that this wouldn’t be an instant healing. Just keep the switch of faith turned on, and you’ll walk.”

Some time later, I saw the woman again. She said, “Brother Hagin, I had feeling in my left leg, but my right leg wouldn’t work for a while. Gradually, it started to work, and now I’m walking everywhere!”

Confession: Thank You, Father, for Your healing power. Thank You that Your healing power is actively at work in my body to effect a healing and a cure.