To Give Your Faith A Little Push

Easter Sunday is a special Sunday to me, not only because of what Jesus accomplished for all of us...though that would be more than enough of a reason, but also for another personal reason.  It was the day I first believed in God as my healer with childlike faith.  I remember it was Easter because I was in my Easter dress...even wearing a white hat with a ribbon to match... and we were visiting a church where a neighbor of ours attended.  I remember that day the church was having a special healing service and right during Sunday School Brenda, our neighbor, came into my class, picked me up and carried me to the alter for prayer.  I remember I was upset about being carried because I thought I was such a big girl then and no one needed to carry me anymore (that's a random memory)...  :)  I remember she carried me all the way to the front of the church and she asked a group of people along with my parents to pray for me and anoint me with oil because I had been suffering from Bell's Palsy.  Then, I remember a very intense time of prayer over me and I remember one of my favorite slow motion moments where what was happening started to freeze for me.  I remember thinking about how much the people praying over me believed that GOD would heal me and I somehow internalized it as a 5-year old and decided to believe that God would heal me too.

Not many days after that experience in prayer, my Bell's Palsy symptoms subsided.  It was a great introduction to faith for me and I think for my parents as well as they were young Christians at the time.

After I wrote the section above, I decided to listen to the song Healer by Kari Jobe because I thought of it and wanted to add it to this post and it struck me so powerfully that the lyrics say "He holds my every moment"....maybe that is why He can slow some of them down so we will remember them better and see Him working in them.

Healer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzejd6r9DwE

But it's so encouraging when God does something out of the ordinary and gives me a great, big, 

underdog push!