Shingles Brings Active Life To A Standstill

“The pain was getting more intense and it was all down the left side of my head and my face and right down here around my ear,” says Wanda.  

Wanda soon discovered she had shingles.

“I began to have red splotches appear on my neck and my hair and down my ear and one or two here on my chest and one on my back.”

Her doctor prescribed pain medication, but the relief was only temporary.

“And I was feeling so bad I couldn't lay down. I couldn't sit up without just being in misery.”

Within just three days, her active life came to a complete standstill.    

“And wasn’t able do much of anything, laid around. I laid around, just trying to get some kind of relief somewhere and I sat down on my couch and when I did, I flipped the television on because I've been watching The 700 Club for 35 years. And Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen were on and just immediately after I turned it on, he said, ‘You’ve got shingles on the left side of your face, and it’s very painful, and God is healing you now.’”

“I never heard him say that before,” says Wanda. “And as soon as he said it, I knew it was for me.  And boy, I set up and listened.  And when I did, he said, ‘Those blisters are going away.’”

Then Gordon continued with the Word of Knowledge: “They’re just going to fade, and your skin’s going to be normal. And what the doctors say about nerve damage, it doesn’t apply to you. God is restoring your nerves. No more pain. No more suffering. In Jesus’ name.”

“When he said that, the pain left immediately,” says Wanda. “It was instant. The pain left, and I jumped up off the couch and I just started praising God and thanking Jesus and praising the Lord with all my heart, because I knew I had been healed instantly.”

A few days later, Wanda was back at the local rec center, her old stomping ground.

“I go to the rec center Monday through Friday. I usually work out 40, 45 minutes. I go and I walk first, I walk 30 minutes, and then I go get on the stationary bikes. And then I lift weights, 80 pound weights about 10 or 15 times.”

Wanda loves Jesus, and she loves to share her story with others.

“I would tell anybody, anywhere, any time, ‘If you will really trust him, He will do exactly what He says.’ He said he'd do it. He said in Isaiah 53:5, ‘By his stripes we are healed.’ I just praise God for his power to heal.”