Raju’s Answer to Prayer
Raju and his sister. Their faces have been blurred to protect their identities.
This story is the tenth in a series of stories about ways in which prayer has touched people’s lives. The stories will run between now and the CRC Prayer Summit 2015 set for April 13-15 at All Nations CRC in Los Angeles, Calif.
The testimony is from Raju, a young man who came to faith in Christ through the power of prayer and a miraculous recovery from Acral peeling skin syndrome. He told his story to Back to God Ministries’ partner in northern India,
I am 17 years old and I experienced incredible suffering from a medical condition in which the topmost layer of my skin just peeled off on a regular basis. This exposed my inner skin to infections and constant pain.
It pained my parents to see me suffer like this but there was little they could do. We are a middle-class family and my father earns enough to run our household. With young children still dependent on him, he has not been able to save much money.
Despite their meager earnings, my parents took me to several physicians and skin specialists, but no one could do much to help me. They even took me to a witch doctor; he couldn’t help either.
One day a friend introduced us to someone he thought could help. We discovered this man was a Christian. When we told him of my plight, he told us about Jesus Christ, the savior of the world who could heal me if it was in God’s will.
My parents figured they had nothing to lose and everything to gain if indeed this Jesus, another god, could heal their child. They asked the Christian to pray for me in the name of Jesus Christ. They were hoping to see a miracle, but prepared for the worst. We had been let down so many times.
The man of God began to pray for me. He asked God to touch me and heal me. We were amazed. The miracle was happening.
Soon after the very first prayer for my healing, I felt better. The healing was there for all to see; my family knew they had indeed seen the living God at work.
We thanked our Christian friend and asked him to continue to pray for my complete healing. He promised to pray for me.
He also introduced my family to a Christian radio program, produced by Good Books, Back to God Ministries’ partner in northern India.
He told us to tune in to the program to learn more about the Jesus Christ. We found the program and started faithfully listening to it.
Through this program we came to know who the Lord Jesus is and why he came into this world. My family was truly blessed by the program and what it offered.
In time we started trusting the Lord. As we listened to the message from God’s word and joined the speaker in prayer, my family asked the Lord to heal me completely.
Gradually, I showed more improvement, and finally I was totally cured.
Raju’s story was submitted by Nancy Vander Meer, Back to God Ministries International.
