O LORD, if you heal me, I will be truly healed; if you save me, I will be truly saved. My praises are for you alone! Jeremiah 17:14
In 1984, my grandmother had a stroke. She remained in coma for three months and some presumed that she would eventually die.
A few associates of my mother’s told her to take me up to the hospital to see my grandmother, that maybe my presence could wake her up somehow, I guess.
One day my mother did take me to the hospital to visit my grandmother and I touched her hand and held it, and my grandmother awakened after three months of being in a comatose state.
Now I know that I myself didn’t have any power to actually bring my grandmother back to consciousness, but I know that God did because he wasn’t ready for my grandmother to have left the earth yet.
But I believe he may have intervened through my touch as he divinely works through who he chooses.
I was a child back then so maybe God had his reasons I don’t know and cannot say for sure why the incident transpired the way it did. I thought it was a beautiful moment, though.
It may have been a little faith on my part too for the Lord to wake my grandma up, it was so long ago I do not remember if I prayed for her or not but I do think I remember anticipating and believing she could wake up because others were encouraging my visit to her.
My grandmother recovered quite well and made very good improvements a while afterwards when she returned home.
I recall some women came to my grandmother to pray over her and to aid her in accepting Jesus as her Lord and savior.
She wasn’t one hundred percent capacitated as one side of her body was permanently paralyzed.
However, she was in her right mind, she was able to cook for herself, dress herself, wheel herself around the house, and she was able to verbally communicate with us (her family and others).
She just had a slight memory impairment as she knew what she wanted to say yet couldn’t get out some of her words but we articulated what she wanted to convey.
My grandmother lived another twenty years after the onset of her stroke, she probably would have lived longer if she hadn’t later on developed lung cancer from continuing to smoke.
Everyone tried to touch him, because healing power went out from him, and he healed everyone. -Luke 6:19
