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him and we had been accepted. This provided us with free medical benefits on him
and a monthly stipend of between $300-$400 a month. However, these things gave
me no satisfaction, for I desired for my son to be healed.

I began to pray in earnest, asking God to heal my son. I was distressed over his
condition, and he was spending so much time in casts that his muscles and bones
were not able to grow stronger and this exacerbated the situation, making him more
prone to have more fractures. As I was praying one day about this, the Lord spoke
to me and told me that He would heal my son, but that He required that I cancel the
SSI benefits on him. The Lord demanded that I exercise faith before I would see His
provision.

To natural sight and reason, this was a foolish thing to do. My son was freshly out of
a cast and had already broken two bones that year. Medical treatment was very
expensive and many people fought long and hard battles, even hiring lawyers, to
attain the benefits we were receiving. I considered, however, that it would be much
better for my son to be healed and to have no more fractures, than to have the
government pick up the tab each time he broke a bone. I wanted my son to be able
to run and play and do all the things that other boys did.

I shared with my wife what the Lord had spoken to me, and we decided to follow the
Lord in obedience, to cancel the benefits we were receiving on our son, and to trust
the Lord to heal him. When we called the government agency to ask them to cancel
our benefits, they did not understand why we would make such a request. They tried
to get us to reconsider, but we told them that we no longer wanted the benefits they
offered.

The Lord told me to not baby my son, but to allow him to ride bikes, skateboard, play
on trampolines, roughhouse with other kids, and do all the things other boys were
doing, and that He would protect him. That was over six years ago, as my son is now
thirteen years of age, and God has preserved him and he has not suffered another
fracture.

My faith arose out of hearing the voice of God. I did not just decide for myself that
I would cancel all medical benefits on my son and believe that God would heal him.
I pressed into God in prayer, and when I heard from Him faith resulted. This is ever
the pattern for faith. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

A year after God led me to trust Him for the health of my son, He spoke to me again
and told me that He now wanted me to trust Him for the health of our entire family.
I was working as a computer professional at a local hospital and they had excellent
medical benefits at a reasonable cost. I was serving as a minister at a local church at