Answered Prayer -- Miracle Healing

As most of you know, I spent four days in the hospital about a month and a half ago. I was having chest pains and had to go through a whole series of tests because of two heart defects I was born with.

When I was about six months old, I was diagnosed with a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD, for short), which is a hole between the two ventricles. The doctors assured my parents that it would close up on its own, probably by the time I was 10. Well, it didn’t.

When I was 22, I went to a cardiologist for the first time in many years because of some heart-related symptoms I was having. That’s when I was diagnosed with Ebstein’s Anomaly, which is a deformed tri-cuspid valve, positioned lower than it is supposed to be. Since that time, I have been on daily medication and monitored every year or so, with tests every few years.

During all this time, every test run showed the VSD. The heart cath I had in 1998 showed that it had closed up some and was quite small, but it was still there. The doctor who performed the cath told me that it was unlikely that it would ever close up completely. The echo I had 3 or 4 years ago indicated that it was still there, though not much of a problem any more.

Today, I got the results of the tests that were done while I was in the hospital recently. The most amazing news I’ve ever received -- the VSD is gone. Not only has it closed up, but there is no evidence that it was ever there. All the pressures in my heart are normal. All four chambers are the right size. The only problem I have now is the Ebstein’s Anomaly, and it is moderate.

WOW! Praise God for answered prayers!!!

In all honesty, I must admit here that the prayers He answered were not my prayers, but the prayers of others. While I have faith in God’s power to heal, I never thought of my defect as something that would qualify. People would tell me they would pray that God would heal my heart, and I would just smile and say that was nice. Inside, I was thinking, “How silly! Don’t you know this isn’t the kind of thing God heals? It’s not a disease or an infection. Rather, it’s a structural problem that can be fixed only with surgery.”

Well, God showed me! He listened to the prayers of others who possessed the faith that I did not have, and He worked a miracle in my heart. Now, I have the faith to believe that if He chooses, He can also repair my tri-cuspid valve and move it to the place where it can function best. That sounds impossible, but my God is capable of doing the impossible.