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HEALING DREAM By Florence Howell
I had a dream and it was a dream from my Lord. In the dream, I was before the throne of God and He touched me on my forehead and said “Touch the hem of my garment”. He touched me on the left side of my head and said the same thing: “Touch the hem of my garment” and then He touched me on the right side of my head (ever so gently but firm each time) and said “Touch the hem of My garment”.
The hem was a big hem (baby doll hem) with the stitches on the outside of the garment; I believe this has some meaning but don’t know what. I did touch the hem each time and, at the end of the dream, He said “I’ve healed you from leukemia”. In the morning when I woke I told my precious husband, David, about the dream---but I didn’t tell him what God said that he healed me from.
That evening as we were walking on the beach I mentioned the dream again and David said “Honey, you can’t get that dream out of your mind.” I said “David, it was more like a vision then a dream and, Honey, God told me He healed me from leukemia.” David’s spirit leaped as he jumped up on the sand and said "Praise The Lord, He has healed you from leukemia". I said “but, Honey, I am not sick and he said “well, God has healed you from leukemia and, in the Bible, He many times deals with man with dreams and visions.”
This was in 1980 and we had been into our Bibles for quite a few years, so we knew that healing was in the atonement. About 9-11 months later I did become very sick and I went from doctor to doctor trying to find out what was wrong. I had lost all my energy and just knew something was wrong but I made myself get up each and every day and go to work, knowing that, if I didn’t, I would end up in the hospital.
David went with me to the different doctors each and every time. I finally said “Honey, we are making too big of a thing out of this. I am going to be all right---please don’t come with me to this local doctor.”
A few days later, I was putting pantyhose on one morning and I was too weak to get them on. I started crying and said “Lord, what is wrong with me?” David was already at work, so I just had a pity party knowing it was just me and the Lord---but I came out of it with the peace of God. Isn't that like our Lord; giving us peace in the midst of hard times?
I went to the blood specialist doctor for the second time and he said “You and your husband are hop skipping through life; don’t you realize that you have leukemia”. He wrote LEUKEMIA in big letters across my chart. I paused a moment and said “you can’t tell David that; he does not want to hear that”,(funny thing to say).
We knew the doctor personally and he had asked me why our son was doing all the right things and his sons were not. I really believe he didn’t mean to be as mean as he sounded telling me I had leukemia the way he did, but was just frustrated with my answer saying our son loved the Lord and was doing good because of that; also because of his life situation. That was the doctor’s frustration. I got dressed and the Dr. asked me if I was all right. I said “yes, I am fine.”
I got into an accident in his parking lot, but it wasn’t my fault. I took the names of the people who saw it and the car that hit me, etc. Half way to David’s office God reminded me of my dream; I started crying happy tears of joy saying “Lord, you have already told me that you healed me.” I heard Him say ever so gently, but loudly in my spirit “Yes, that is My word, now walk it by faith”.
When I arrived at my husband's office he (David) asked me what the doctor said and I asked David do you remember the dream I had months ago. David said “yes”. I asked “do you remember what the Lord said He healed me from?” He said “from leukemia”. I said “Honey, God is asking us to walk it by faith”. Tears came to David's eyes and he said “not leukemia”. I said “but God already told me He has healed me and, through me, He told you and that is His Word”.
We are walking it by faith and life is good because of the Lord. The doctors back then gave me 1 year to live---then 3 yrs---and then, after I made it past that, they said 5 at the most. The Lord put it on my heart to tell the Doctor who diagnosed me with leukemia about the dream on my next visit and I really didn’t want to tell him. I am a strong witness to the unsaved, but this man was frustrated with me. However, God kept putting it on my heart. So, in obedience to the Lord, I said to him “I don’t know why God wants me to tell you this now, but He does, and I feel like I am just being obedient, as I wanted to wait longer to tell you.”
This Doctor is a precious Jewish doctor. I told him about the dream and he had tears in his eyes and said I know why God wanted you to tell me this now. I’m leaving my practice and going to my home state (where my parents are) for my family’s sake. He said if you live past 5 years I want you to tell me. Well, it has been 25 years but we can’t locate him; we’ve checked with his ex-partner and nurses, etc. No one knows where this doctor is. We hugged each other and I left his office knowing that I would live and not die---as God had dealt mightily with me. My lab reports still show leukemia but I feel wonderful and have had no radiation, chemotherapy or surgery!
It is in the word of God that healing is in the atonement. God wants all of us healed he has no favorites. By His Stripes We Were Healed at Calvary. Praise the Lord!! What an ‘’Awesome God’’ we serve!!!
Florence Howell
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NUTRITION KORNER:
GOD HAS GOOD PLANS FOR YOUR FUTURE
know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out-- plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.
"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen.
Jeremiah 29:11 (Message Bible) |
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