As he asked the question, she knew the answer—“I -I think God healed me,” she replied, and she was right. At that moment Betty had received her healing. From that moment on, she was never again to suffer that palsy-like shaking. Her arms had instantaneously lost their numbness, as had her legs, and she immediately regained the full use of her hands. With no effort whatsoever, she leaned over and turned off the radio, and picked up a book she had accidentally knocked to the floor in her excitement. In one respect alone, her healing was not instantaneous. “I had to learn to walk all over again,” she says, “and like a child, I had to learn to go up and down steps, but this took only a very little while.”
EVIDENCE OF COMPLETE RESTORATION
Betty was so excited at what had happened, that she called in everyone in the apartment house to see—and when in a few days she was walking everywhere, the people in her apartment who had never seen her walk before, watched her in speechless amazement. The local doctor who had examined her just four weeks prior to her healing was aghast when she walked into his office late one afternoon—her coordination perfect—and apparently able to do anything and everything with her body.
He thoroughly examined her, could find no trace of either the multiple sclerosis or the heart condition, and then, reports Betty, “He made me walk back and forth on the main street of Rochester in front of his office. He watched me with such a funny expression on his face, and then he said to me”—as he has a great many times since—”you certainly are lucky, and you should be so thankful. If you had lived at all, I should never have expected to see you out of a wheelchair. None of us had anything to do with this. It must have been God.”
A LIFE TRANSFORMED BY GRATITUDE
Betty knew this full well, and in deep gratitude to God, she accepted Jesus as her Saviour, giving Him her heart and her life, to use in His service. She hadn’t been inside a church since she could remember, and had smoked heavily for twenty-two years. Immediately after her healing, she completely changed her way of life. One of the first things she did was to give up smoking, for as she says: “Nobody knows until you haven’t had the use of your body for a long time, what it is like to be normal and healthy again. And when you know it is God Himself who has healed you, you just can’t praise Him enough or do enough for Him.”
HER TESTIMONY AND NEW WALK WITH GOD
Nearly everyone in Rochester knows Betty, as she worked so long there in a popular restaurant—where she recalls, somewhat to her embarrassment, how most of the regular patrons called her “Betty Boop.” Through her witness, many of these same people have been brought to Christ.
Before her healing, Betty and her husband had not attended any church. Now they began to go every Sunday morning to the First Methodist Church in Rochester.
Betty had had wonderful parents, and she had received a good Christian upbringing in her youth. Although she had wandered far from their influence, she had always known in her heart that God could heal. She knew this when her son had first mentioned the services at Carnegie Auditorium. “But I didn’t think He would heal me, because I didn’t think I was good enough, and I knew I hadn’t lived right. But I was wrong. God in His mercy did heal me.”
SCRIPTURE REFLECTION
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Miraculous Monday: 19th December 2022
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