I dropped in to say Hi to a neighbor of mine in my apartment building one day.  I saw she was really laboring to breathe.  I asked her what was wrong. She said she was really in agony with pleurisy.  I asked her if she wanted me to drive her to the hospital.  She said she had no money & no insurance.  I was a new Christian at the time and didn’t know what pleurisy even was.  I didn’t really have the faith that God could use me but she was lying down and couldn’t get up.  

I asked her if I could pray for her.  She said, “Yes.”  I laid my hand on her hands which were place on her waist.  I prayed and asked God to heal her  and to take the pain away and to set her free of the pleurisy.  I prayed in tongues for a little while and when I stopped she looked dead but only half a minute later she opened her eyes.  I asked her how she felt and she said, “I don’t know.”  She said, “That when you started praying in that funny language (holy tongues) it felt as if my body was rising like I would touch the ceiling.”  She added that she was not able to move or speak. 

She later took a breath and said, “It didn’t hurt.”  I said, “Take a deeper breath”.  She breathed in deeply and the pain was gone.  She sat up and was able to walk around and was completely healed.

I offered to taker her to a Bible study that evening but she was so thrilled (in the flesh) that she was cured, she made plans and went clubbing that night to a place right around the corner called the Red Fox.  It was a very popular bar in Rockland in the 70’s.  I never saw her again.

Testimony by: Dave M.