"You Can Be Healed!"
When April was pregnant with her son Jeremiah, she began having excruciating pain and swelling in her right knee. “It started off mild,” she says, “but then it started progressing as I got further into my pregnancy. The pain prohibited me from doing my daily chores, like keeping the house straight, cleaning, washing, picking up baskets of clothes, or trying to go into cabinets that are low.”
Her doctor told her not to be too concerned and to take Tylenol for the inflammation.
“I was visiting my doctor normally for my pregnancy,”’ April says. “I did bring it up to him and he said it was normal. It would go away after I gave birth to my son, but that wasn’t the case. I couldn’t exercise because it hurt. It was unbearable pain at some point. I would try to bend down and it was almost like I would fall over or I would grasp my knee real hard or squeeze it really tight. Yeah, it was bad.”
April gave birth to Jeremiah in November 2016, but the pain persisted. “I know our knees require a lot of bending for a lot of things that we do in life. Some of those things I couldn’t do. My daughter, was one of the main people praying for me. She would always come in the room and check on me, see if I’m okay. And she’d said, ‘Do you want me to pray?’ And I said, ‘Sure, go ahead.’”
A year later, she was watching The 700 Club. “I saw Pat and I can’t remember word for word, but he was saying something like, ’Your right knee, it’s swollen, it’s inflamed. Put your hand on that knee right now and in the name of Jesus, you will feel a touch of God and you will be completely healed. Now move your leg, move it around. You are totally healed.’”
“In my head I thought ‘This is not going to work.’ But my knee was hurting so bad, so I was like, ‘Maybe he’s talking about me.’ So I did it. After awhile I was like, ‘Humm, something happened in my knee.”
The next day, she knew something was different. “I was expecting for my knee to give me that same pain,” April says. “But I was walking regularly. I was so happy, my oldest daughter, she woke up. When I told her, she was like ‘Mom, stop, you’re telling stories.’ And I said ‘No, I’m telling the truth.’ I bent down with no pain, I stood back up, and I was like, ‘I can bend my knee!’ So she said, ‘Go tell dad! Go tell dad!’ So that’s how it happened.”
April has not had any knee pain since that day and is even back to jogging and exercising. “Watching all of these stories and these testimonies, I was like, ‘It’s true,” April proclaims. “If you believe and step out on faith, it can happen.”
