She said a quick prayer, and before it was finished, she knew she had been given that faith. With her little boy’s hand in hers, Mrs. Usechek took him to the ladies’ lounge. She told him to wait there for a moment, and she went out to find an usher. The first one she saw, she stopped and asked for a screwdriver. He managed to get one for her quickly; and she thanked him and took it into the lounge. There, with a prayer on her lips, she unscrewed and took off the brace from her little boy’s built-up left shoe. Then she had him take off both shoes and asked him to walk across the spacious lounge. He did so without difficulty and without any sign of a limp.
She then stood him before her, and saw what had happened: the left leg had miraculously lengthened the lacking one and a half inches and was exactly the same as the right! They walked home together, Mrs. Usechek carrying the brace. The next morning she called the doctor and he was completely horrified to hear what she had done. He told her that removal of the brace would do her son incalculable harm, taking from him any hope that there might be of any future improvement.
Mrs. Usechek was frankly terrified, and during the next few weeks she engaged in the most terrible inner conflict she had ever endured. She had acted in and by faith. She completely believed in the power of God to heal; she knew that God had touched Eugene. But then, she told herself, God works through doctors, too. Perhaps she should pay attention to what the doctors were telling her. During those next few weeks she put the brace back on and took it off, as she says, at least a thousand times.
After talking to the doctors, she would put it on, and after earnest prayer, she would take it off. One day, almost immediately after she had put it on, the leg broke out in boils. “This was God speaking,” she says, “and I know it now, but then I was just too upset and uncertain and frightened to listen.” She took it off then, until the boils cleared up, and then she put it back on. This time the leg almost at once, and for no discernible reason, turned black and blue.
“Finally,” she says, “I heard the voice of God and saw His hand in these things. I took it off once and for all and kept it off. Having made up my mind to really believe God for Eugene’s healing, I stopped being afraid.” His leg, from the moment she first took the brace off in the auditorium twelve years ago, has remained perfect. At the request of his doctors, Mrs. Usechek took Eugene back at regular intervals for check-ups. They were astonished at his healing, and conceded that it was a miracle.
“If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
Mark 9:23
Miraculous Monday: 5th December 2022
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