I have been blessed to have a good life and never had the need to hunt God. It is said, that even before you are conceived in the womb of your mother, God has made plans for you. And a plan for me was in place as well. God called me himself. I met a guy who within a couple of months of knowing, began talking to me about the Bible. He spent hours talking on it, while I spent equal hours rubbishing it. His knowledge of the Bible was vast and I took up to reading the Bible to challenge his every word. But the Bible only got me angry. Mainly for two reasons. 1. I could not understand a word of it. 2. I still could not argue better than him. Bible was irritating since, the one I had to argue with, was the one who was explaining it. I once decided that, I am going to read the bible like a story book irrespective of understanding it or, not. And I read it like I have read no book ever. My every waking moment was with the Bible. I was in the loo with the Bible, In traffic I would use my phone to read the Bible, I spent long nights reading the bible. I would read it while eating. I was glued to the Bible and not a single word of it made sense to me until, I read, John 2:27 But the anointing that you have received from him abides in you, and you do not need any man to teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you all things and is truth, and is no lie; and even as it has taught you, abide in him.
I read that verse many a times and while I read it for one last time before shutting the Bible for the day, I said it out load. If you are the teacher, then come teach me so I may understand. And from that day onward, every night from 1 am to 3.30 am, the Bible played in front of me as I lay asleep on my bed. The old testament was like a nightmare but luckily it did not make me wake up screaming. Initially I thought, it was because I was spending way too much time reading the Bible, but being an avid reader, I have been with books. None of them as powerful to play before me. Scared, I tried putting the Bible down but could not give up reading it. I manged to slow it down, limiting it to reading it in the loo alone. Yet the dreams went on. Night after night exactly from 1 to 3:30 am. I knew I had a broken sleep, yet I woke up fresh and so refreshed. In April this year, a friend of mine visited us and we celebrated the occasion getting wasted on Tequila. After some 6 shots down, I began talking to him about the Bible. I told him the entire story of Mosses and Noah and that was the day, I went down of my knees for the very first time. I do not remember what I prayed but, since that day, I have never been able to touch alcohol. Not that I was a drinker but that day something from inside changed. To test the change, I visited my favorite breweries and pubs but even the most beautiful cocktail, tranquilizing music and the company of friends could not get me the desire to drink. I felt a peace from within. I used to drink not because I liked to, but to be a sport among my friends. I soon realized, that it did not matter who people think I am anymore. That night as I lay down, ready for another episode of what today will show me, I prayed saying, Jesus, if this is you, then reveal yourself to me. Show me that it indeed is you and not my insanity. That night, instead of the play, a man sat by my bedside taking to me. By the time I woke up, I had no clue what we had spoken, but I knew, God had revealed himself to me and I also knew, that my Bible lessons were over. After that day, when I took up the Bible, words automatically began making sense. I began attending Church regularly and realized there is nothing better to do on a Sunday than to worship Christ in fellowship with other believers. In Church I realized, praying and spending time with God was a very important thing. And while, I was wondering how to pray, I read Romans 8:26 -- "Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought." Placing my hand on the scriptures, I said, "Father teach me how to pray so I may spend more time with you." That day, I prayed for an hour and more, not understanding a single word of what I prayed. The prayer was tiring. I wanted to stop and yet, could not. I spoke in a language I had never heard before. The next Sunday in Church I heard the pastor on stage pray in a foreign language. I began noticing people around me pray in various foreign languages and suddenly like a magical answer to my unspoken question, I remembered the verse, "Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought."
After my child's birth, I began developing problems in my wrist. My wrist was loosing its grip. I could not hold a tooth brush or, pencil. A comb. I had to stop driving because I could not accelerate or, grip the steering wheel. I used to work for a month and go on leave for the next month and be heavily drugged on pain killers. I could give up driving, quit my job or, cut my hair short to avoid combing but the worst was the pain I had to bear to hold my infant or, to feed him. These were the two things I could not give up at any cost. The most joyous feeling a women gets is while feeding her child or, holding her baby in her arms and that very best thing was the very painful thing for me. But Jesus did what no medical science could do for me. When a friend of mine saw this condition of mine, he told me, he is going to go on a fasting prayer for me and I will be healed. As a non believer, all I could do was to thank him and say, "I hope your faith works" That evening, at around 5 he called me asked, "Your hand is good isn't it?" It was only then did I realize that all the power my hand and wrist has lost had been restored. Since then, I have never had to be on any pain killers for my hand.