It had only been a short while since I had asked the Lord, Jesus Christ, to come into my life and incredible things were happening.

One afternoon while jogging, I sensed the Lord telling me to go visit this woman in the hospital. She attended church at East Baptist, but I did not know her. It was announced the Sunday before that she was diagnosed as having cancer. I went to visit, and it was an incredible experience. Her husband was there, and when I told her that I was jogging, and I thought the Lord wanted me to come up to visit her she became very excited. She wanted me to pray for her. She asked me to come over and sit next to her. She took my hand and placed it on her side and asked me to pray.

I didn’t know what to say. She prayed an incredible prayer. She and her husband shared that the doctors had just told them that she had terminal cancer of the lungs and that she could expect to live six to twelve months. She was filled with joy and life.

I knew the Lord wanted me to see this. Death was hanging over this woman, but the Spirit filled her with joy and life. I went there thinking I would give something, comfort or whatever, and I came away blessed. This woman was a great encouragement to me in church, in a sea of unbelief, although I did not realize it at the time.

Her husband called me very early the following morning to tell me that his wife’s sister had called, after I had left the hospital, to tell them she had a vision from the Lord that a man had visited them in the hospital and laid his hand on her cancer and that the Lord healed her. He was weeping over the phone and ecstatic. I was awestruck. I didn’t do anything but go up to the hospital room. She took my hand and put it on her.

The Lord is so awesome. Shortly thereafter it was reported that her cancer was in remission and it was several years following that she died of a stroke and the Lord took her home. I can remember her dragging me to places to pray for people that were dying of cancer and most often the Lord blessed the person we were praying for.

Brian Warner. Johanna’s Eleven (Kindle Location 472).