God Still Works Miracles

When my daughter Daria was only eighteen months old, she suffered a severe head injury that, unfortunately, later affected her brain.

A year later our family found her unconscious, and the pupils of her eyes were barely responding. Paramedics arrived immediately after a call to the medical emergency center, but all attempts to revive her were unsuccessful.

She remained unconscious for thirty-five minutes.

In our desperation we called on God to help and prayed fervently throughout this time. We remembered the instructions in the Bible about the power of prayer: “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective” (James 5:16, NIV).

We confessed our sins and promised to serve God for the rest of our lives if only He would save Daria. Daria was diagnosed with epilepsy, and I stubbornly refused to believe it—until the next seizure. We learned that when the brain swells for a length of time, it no longer functions as it should. This often leaves a person severely impaired and unable to function cognitively. But God can still work miracles. Tests on our daughter showed that her brain was completely unaffected by the seizure. Daria’s second seizure was a time of great sorrow and despair. But once again the Lord showed His power and authority over illness and our lives.

The first time, He gave us back a healthy child.

The second time, we anointed her according to the Word of God, and the Lord healed her completely. The doctors could not believe their eyes after the examination. Her brain was completely healthy! And I could not stop telling everyone how the Lord had healed her. Thank God, my daughter is now seventeen years old, and we have never had to think about her severe diagnosis again. The Lord healed her completely, and I will be forever grateful to Him. While we do not always understand the way God chooses to answer our prayers, let us not forget that He is still the same loving God today as in times past.

Let us remind others that “Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear” (Isaiah 59:1, NIV).

Yana Kosian