Alan Gaynor from Crawcrook

17 years ago, I was diagnosed as having sciatica and osteoarthritis. It was extremely debilitating and resulted in me spending long periods of time lying on the floor in order to get relief from the pain. Despite the best efforts of my physiotherapist, the pain persisted. But I placed the problem in God’s hands. After another eight years I found it increasingly more difficult to carry on with my job as a plumber and so took early retirement. At one stage, my wife Norma even had to put on my socks and shoes for me! All this changed last year, when Randy Vickers from the Northumbrian Centre of Prayer for Christian Healing, was invited to our church. He shared about God’s healing and that he felt called to pray for someone with ‘back’ problems. As he laid hands and prayed for a lady, in front of the whole church, I had an immediate sensation of intense heat on my spine. And I knew that God had touched and healed me, through the power of His Holy Spirit. A week later, I woke up with these words in my mind “He touched me, He touched me, Oh the joy that touched my soul. Something has happened and now I know He touched me and made me whole”. It’s now 2007 and my healing is still there. Here in the grace of God I stand.