A FOOT, AND A WOMAN NAMED BRANDY

By Sonya Waters

On a recent plane trip with my husband John, I overheard a passenger complain of severe foot pain due to an injury. Since I was working through a workbook called “Walking in Supernatural Healing Power” by Chris Gore during the flight, I thought I better pray for her as I read. So during the flight, I started asking Jesus, the Healer, about her. He gave me a picture of Him washing the woman’s feet, so I agreed with Him to heal her foot. I asked if He wanted to tell me anything else about her, and I made notes in my workbook about what I thought He might be saying. I wrote three notes: 1) The picture of Jesus washing her feet, 2) that it might be an Achilles problem in her right foot (because I had that problem in my right foot lately), and 3) a woman’s name (because I asked if He wanted to tell me her name). The last two notes had question marks by them.

We caught the woman after the flight and I told her I overheard her comment about her foot pain and asked if we could pray for her. Clearly irritated, she agreed. I asked her name and was not surprised when it was not the name I had “heard” earlier. She said she had snapped a tendon in her right foot and had just reinjured it. I told her I believed Jesus was healing her foot, prayed briefly, and asked how it felt. She actually smiled as she moved it around and said the pain was 50% better. We prayed again, but had to run for our connecting flight. We left her a bit bewildered, but smiling.

On the next flight I continued my Healing Power book. The flight attendant stopped and asked to see the cover of my book. She was a believer, and wanted to know about it, so I told her about how Jesus heals supernaturally and shared the testimony of how Jesus had touched the woman’s foot earlier. She was very interested to hear about this so I offered her my book, notes and all. She reached out her hand to introduce herself, and said, “My name is Brandy”. I grabbed my book back from her, and looked for the page where my notes were. I pointed to the name I had written in my notes and said, “Look! Your name is already in this book! I wrote it earlier when I asked Jesus to tell me the name of the woman with the foot injury. I thought I heard “Brandy” but I wasn’t sure! It’s YOU!” I don’t know which of us was more shocked! (Pretty sure I made a scene.)

She came back a few minutes later, saying she could hardly do her job because she couldn’t keep from crying. We affirmed that she has the gift of healing and the Lord wanted to teach her how to use her gift through the book. She said several people had told her that in the past, and she always said if she could have one superpower it would be to heal people! She didn’t realize she already has this superpower.

Look out, world! Brandy is discovering more of the Holy Spirit’s beautiful power and love for people as her gift is awakened and she steps out in faith to bless others with the great love and goodness of their Father in Heaven. My heart shifted as I replayed this story. I had asked my Father such a simple question, and He just whispered the simple answer right back. I am in such awe I can hardly get over it. He loves every single one of His creations. As our pastor Mark Thomas said recently, there is no such thing as failure when we step out in love.