An interesting Instagram post about how God healed a person while he was being wheeled into a hospital operating room reminds me of the story of the healing of the lepers in the Gospels.
Anthony Kennada, who is CEO of Audience Plus, shared how at 30 years of age he started to experience an abnormal heart rhythm, also referred to as arrhythmia, God TV reports.
After being admitted to the hospital for the condition, doctors spent several days trying to get his heart beating properly using medication.
When that proved unsuccessful, the doctors recommended an electrical shock treatment to try to restore the proper heartbeat.
Concerned about the seriousness of this procedure, Anthony had been wanting to avoid shocking his heart, but with this now his own alternative, Anthony finally surrendered himself and the situation to God and turned to prayer.
“You know, if, like literally, if this is it, if this is the end of my life as a result of the procedure… I just fully give control away,” Anthony prayed.
The procedure was scheduled for the next day, and before taking him in for the procedure, the doctor checked one last time to ensure that the arrhythmia was still a problem and it was.
From that point, Anthony estimated that it took about three minutes to wheel him into the operating room on the gurney.
After he arrived, the medical staff began to prep him for the procedure, but then a shocked nurse announced that Anthony’s heart was no longer showing signs of arrhythmia.
With his heartbeat suddenly restored, the electrical procedure was cancelled.
“It was within the 3-minute gurney ride down from the hospital room to the center where God reset my heart,” Anthony said. “After medical intervention did not.”
It reminds be of the story of the ten lepers who approached Christ for healing (Luke 17:12-19). With no known cure, leprosy was a horrible, disfiguring disease that resulted in people being treated as outcasts and driven out of their communities.
Consequently, lepers would often band together in colonies where they would try to live out the rest of their life, scavenging for food as these ten had.
We know at least one of this group was a Samaritan, and while Jews and Samaritans despised and avoided each other in normal society, they were now banded together because of their common affliction.
Since it was illegal for lepers to make contact with those without the disease, we are told that they stood a distance away from Christ and cried out to Jesus for mercy.
At this point, Christ shouted back at them to go to the priests to be checked. He didn’t lay hands on them. He didn’t even pray for them or declare their healing.
Now the priests essentially served a medical role in Jewish society and were used to verify if a person had the disease. If they did the priest would declare them unclean and they would be driven out of their communities.
The priests would also be needed to declare them clean allowing them to return to normal life.
But this verse provides one interesting detail, similar to Anthony whose healing happened as he was being wheeled into the operating room, the lepers were healed as they travelled to see the priests:
14 When He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were going, they were cleansed. (Luke 17:14 NASV)
Over the years, I have encountered Christians who claim that going to a doctor reflects a lack of faith, yet Jesus told the lepers to go to the priests to be checked and were healed as they journeyed to do this.
READ: On His Way to the Operating Room, Christian Businessman gets Healed from Heart Disease
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