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By Cyril Almond
11/24/16
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In my younger days i worked at a christian firm. What i saw of the behavior there did not impress. That included the way i was treated. My boss often invited me to attend his church. An invitation that i declined.

To say i was not impressed was the understatement of the year. I was supposed to believe that i had a Father in heaven who would look after me. My own Father was not around to bring me up, nor my mother. I had a big chip on my shoulder about Parents. So what was so good about this Father in heaven?.

I then went to do my national service in Korea. Which was a killing field. We were young men who held the belief that if there was a God, where was he,? once again not impressed any of us.

It was in a few years on, that i was to find the reality of God in a wonderful way. I developed Arthritis in a big way. So much so that i was restricted in what i could do.

A christian who i knew asked me to go to the church he attended. I was not fussy because i had heard that this was one of those way out churches. Part of the ones where they spoke a funny language at times and danced and laid hands on the sick.

I gave in and went with him and i was shocked at what i heard and saw. I had attended a traditional church school. This was not at all what i thought church to be. The Pastor asked them to bring me up to the front. I had to be helped up there. Then he anointed me with oil and prayed and the whole church chorused Amen.

I then asked my friend to get me out of there, they were mad!. Later on i attended hospital for blood tests. They came back all clear, that does not happen with rheumatoid arthritis. So they did some more with the same result. Eventually the consultant came to see me and declared that this was medically impossible. He had a large grin on his face as he said it.

I was later to find out that he was a christian. But of course they are not allowed to say so. My friend asked me if i would like to go to the hospital chapel and pray. So i was taken there and i sat on the alter steps. I said if there is a God, well for what is happening here i will thank you. The minute i said that all my movement came back, the warmth from heat pads that i was used to. Was nothing like the lovely almost fire that coursed through me.

This time i was fussed about the Lord that heals you. And i have served him ever since

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