breakthrough in Bethlehem

I and my family recently were able to spend a week in Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. We wanted our time in the "Holy Land" to be a blessing both for us as well as those who we encountered. On our first evening we met the owners of a small grocery store, just a block or so from where we were staying. They spoke passable English. The next day they invited us to their home for a meal. (Their home is literally next to Nativity Church!) We noticed that the wife had a problem with her leg (we weren't able to fully understand the problem because they couldn't explain it well in English). We asked if we could pray for her. Although they belonged to a traditional Christian church, and lived in the town where one of the greatest miracles of all time had occurred - God taking on a human form - the concept of healing seemed a curiousity for them. We prayed a simple prayer over her, then I asked if she felt anything happening in her leg. She just smiled and made a flicking motion with the fingers on each hand – I guessed that she was saying that it felt like tingling, or like little fireworks in her leg! I said Jesus healed her, and her eldest daughter lifted up her hands towards heaven in surprise. We saw them several times in their store before we left, and each time the lady smiled and said that her leg was fine!

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