The passage that is really important to me is Ephesians 3.16–19

My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible

‘The passage that is really important to me is Ephesians 3.16–19 which talks about God strengthening us, knowing his love and being “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”. 

‘I used to be in a wheelchair. I had a car accident in 2006. I was 23. It was a minor crash, just a shunt, but I tore a disc in my back and had some pretty major spinal surgery. I was in chronic pain. I was on every opiate going and most of my time was spent in bed. 

‘In that time, I picked up the Bible and started to read Ephesians. My cognitive function wasn’t great, but I felt God’s love. I continued to live in pain, but suddenly I had hope. I was strengthened by that love. 

‘In 2018 God began to heal me. It wasn’t an overnight thing. But I felt him working in my body. 

‘I was always quite adventurous and travelled widely. I had been an air hostess and my husband is a pilot. We have been everywhere. He went away for work and I took the children on a trip in the van. They were aged just two and five. 

‘I normally had them strapped to the wheelchair, but I felt God telling me not to take the wheelchair with me. Driving was my God time. The children had a cartoon on in the back and I went over these verses. It calmed me.

‘One night I didn’t know where I was going to park up and sleep. I continued to pray these verses. It felt like there was a real spiritual battle going on. I woke up in the morning and I was completely healed. 

‘It felt like freedom. I woke in the morning without the normal mental fog and without pain. I could walk. I could hold the children’s hands. 

‘I always thought that if I got healed, I would get back on a horse, but I never told anyone that. I wasn’t expecting to be healed. But, a couple of weeks later I got on a horse and rode down the beach. On that ride I felt so close to him. 

‘I have life in abundance that I never could have dreamed of. He gave me hope in these verses.’

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