January 2019: Houston, PA
Healing During Training (first-hand account):
For many years and it seems like most of my life I have had issues with bladder control. It had gotten extremely worse the past year or two. Having 3 kids, gravity and more. So much so that I always tried to carry extra clothes with me when possible. I'd have to try to do a scissors step a lot trying to get to the bathroom. It was terrible when I'd be out in a store and it'd hit me that I need to go right now and be far from the bathroom, even though I'd go before I left home. Many "accidents" happened constantly. Driving the car made the pressure worse, even if I went to the bathroom before I left. I couldn't even make it into the house to the bathroom without great difficulty and distress and urgency and much leaking. Lots of things made it even worse like coffee and tea and other foods, where I would go every half hour at times. I was up at night a lot to go. My husband asked me all the time, "When are you going to do something about this?" My family would see how much I struggled with it.
I don't have medical confirmation to give you as I hadn't gone that route. From what I knew and read, surgery does not work well either. I've tried to do more of the natural route and have tried many avenues with that.
The seminar with Joel was so awesome! The reading of the Word on healing brought faith and the presence of God into our church and I was soaking it all in. I humbled myself to be prayed for on Friday night. I asked for my bladder, meaning control. A woman said put your hands over your bladder, and I don't even know where my bladder is. So I tried to cover a lot of my abdomen to cover it all. She put her hands over mine, another woman prayed from my left side and a man from behind. Someone else put their hand on my back. Right away when they were praying I felt things happening on the inside of me. It's as if new pipes or tubes were being put in and I could feel it, and new "floor boards" were being put down inside somehow. I felt warmth from the outside in. I knew God had done some things in me! I could feel it. I was encouraged to believe God had done this instead of the negative. I knew He had.
Later that night I went home to no distress to get to the bathroom and it felt so different. Calm and controlled. Saturday morning I woke up and had no trouble getting to the bathroom. Again calm. I drank coffee that morning as a team member who stayed with us drinks coffee, and I had no urge to go all morning. From 8:30 until we broke for lunch I didn't have to go, where I usually would have to with great urgency every half hour. God was really showing off then! All day and weekend I have been "normal" which I haven't had in so very long. Like Sunday afternoon after coming home from lunch I could get out of the car and go into the house, reach down and pet the dog and just go about for an hour or two without having such distress to get to the bathroom from the car. God is so good! I can't stop praising and thanking Him.