Dear friends and family,
I want to thank you for all your prayers and support you have given me. It has been such a long road. So far I have seen 28 doctors and not had many answers. Recently I have been going to a NIS practitioner who has scribed some natural medicine. The medicine is for raising your ATP (energy) he also gave me medication to kill parasites. I had started to feel a little better but just slightly. I have been going to a college 20s group at Westgate Chapel on Thursdays. Like all of you they have been praying for me. I'm not sure if many of you know this but as so many people were praying for my healing and I wasn’t getting healed I decided to ask God about it. I have seen healings before and I wondered why I was not healed yet. God answered with “it’s not time yet”. Well this was about 6 months to a year ago. A couple people confirmed it. A couple weeks ago I started to feel my time of sickness was coming to an end and my dad confirmed that. One of my friends from college 20s really felt she should pray for me and for my healing. So she asked God what to do and God told her to fast. I met with her on Wednesday, we went out to coffee and she prayed over me and then asked if I felt anything. I said no but I heard God say the retreat was important. We were going on a retreat that weekend. So on that retreat they prayed for me and two other people and we all got healed. You should have seen that girl before me she was jumping and laughing and crying. When I got prayed for I wasn’t sure if I was healed but my friend Amanda started praying and proclaiming that I was healed. I wanted to feel something physical so I’d know for sure I was healed but what I did feel was God’s spirit telling me I was healed. After I got healed they played swing dancing music and I danced the night away. One of the things the speaker said to me I really wanted to tell you all. Every prayer counts, God hears every one and they all add up like a big mound. So every prayer that was prayed for me and for my healing counted on that day when I got healed. I owe it all to God really but also to all of you for crying out for me. I still have a lot of work to do. Being pretty much bed ridden for 2 and a half years and not eating well takes so much out of your body. More that I could have ever thought. I am working on building myself back up. But I will be out there on the mission field soon enough.
Love,
Larissa Stainer