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"All Things are Possible"

 "Mommy, GOD's going to heal my eyes. I'm not going to wear these glasses forever!" Imagine my mother's surprise at my bold statement. Five years old with a degenerative eye disease. Destined to go blind.

  It must have started with me saying I was having a hard time seeing, but my mom brought to the eye doctor for a check-up. I don't remember too much other than sitting in the chair in the examination room, looking at the strange posters about the eye while Mom and the eye doctor talked about degenerative eye diseases and how "it runs in the family". Not being sure his diagnosis was correct, he sent me to a specialist. His suspicions were confirmed: I did have a degenerative eye disease. I don't remember much (it was about 11 years ago!), but finally the day came when I got my first pair of glasses- with a stronger prescription than my own mother's! As I was about to get in the car, I turned to my mother and told her I wasn't going to wear them forever.

 During the next year, appointments with the eye doctor were frequent (or at least it seemed that way to me). I outgrew my first pair of glasses and got a second pair. My eyes stayed the same. Then they started getting better! One day I lost my glasses on the day of an eye doctor's appointment. "You have to find them, Katie!" My mom was worried. "But I can see, Mom!" Who cared about the glasses? I could see just fine without them! We looked and looked, but didn't find them, so we just went to the appointment.
 
 At the appointment, I remember the eye doctor looking at my eyes through the phoropter. He checked them once, then looked at my mom. He checked them again, and looked at my mom a second time. He checked my eyes again, and looked at my mom for the third time! Then he said in amazement,  "I don't know what you're doing, but keep doing it."

 Who would have thought! I no longer need to wear glasses, and I don't wear contacts. My eyes were 60/80- now they are 20/30! A miracle indeed- one only GOD could do!

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GOD is not just interested in healing our physical eyes, more than that He is interested in healing our spiritual eyes- moreover, He's interested in helping us in everything! If we but have faith to believe, He will answer. He will even help us to believe, if we ask. We can go to Him with all our requests, problems, whatever it may be, for "all things are possible to him that believeth." Mark 9:23
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Matthew 21:22


  

  

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