Snap, Crackle, and pop

By Phil Scovell




     My oldest son was about 9 years of age when it happened.
From about 3 years of age, he occasionally experienced severe
stomach aches.  As he grew older, we took him to the doctor for
tests.  They could find nothing that seemed to be causing his
stomach pain.

     One night, my son awakened about the time Sandy and I were
going to bed.  I went in to see what was wrong.  He was
complaining of the pain in his lower right hand stomach again.  It
was the same as he had experienced before.  The pain was so bad, I
picked him up and carried him into our bedroom.  Laying him on the
foot of our bed, I thought he would be able to go back to sleep. 
Instead, the minute I put him on the bed, he got down on the floor
and folded like a jack knife as a result of the pain.  I laid down
on the bed and tried to decide if we should take him to the
emergency room.

     As I lay listening to my son cry and moan, I allowed my mind
to quickly run through several Bible verses relating to how God
promised to hear and answer our prayers.  After about a dozen such
verses, I suddenly felt anger.  I found myself almost jumping out
of bed.  My son was next to my side of the bed and I put one hand
on his back and one hand down on his stomach.  "Trenton?" I asked. 
"Show me where your stomach hurts."  He put my right hand down on
the lower part of his stomach.  As I knelt beside him, my hand on
his back and my other hand on his stomach, I prayed silently.  I
didn't tell him what I was doing.  I likewise don't even recall
what I prayed now but it obviously had something to do with God's
promises of healing, answered prayer, and requesting my son would
be healed.

     I prayed no more than a minute when my son suddenly stood to
his feet and immediately laid down on the foot of our bed.  I
said, "Trenton, what are you doing?"  He mumbled an answer while I
stood there waiting.  He fell back to sleep immediately.  I laid
back down and soon fell to sleep myself.

     The next day, I was in the bedroom getting something, I
forget just what now, when Sandy came upstairs from the utility
room with Trenton.  She said, "Philip, you need to hear what
Trenton just told me downstairs."

     "I asked him about what he had said.  He told me that when he
was laying on the floor, and I was touching him, it suddenly felt
like a tingling sensation crawled all over his body in a short
period of time.  I asked what happened next.  He said that he
suddenly felt something snap deep inside of his stomach on his
right side.  I asked him what he meant by a "snap."  He said, "I
don't know, dad.  It just felt like a twig snapping or something." 
I asked him what happened next.  He reported the pain instantly
stopped and that's when he got up on the foot of our bed and went
right back to sleep.  I asked our son if he knew I had been
praying for him at the time.  He said that he figured I must be
praying but he didn't know for sure.

     At this writing, my son is married, has two little girls, and
is 30 years of age.  From that day till this, he has never had one
of those stomach pain again.

     Who is your God?  the one that does miracles or the one who
stopped doing miracles when the last apostle died; whoever that
was?


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