Are You Pulling My Leg?

Date: 1.6.06

I went to see a man named Bill Johnson speak on Thursday, January 5th at Covenant Church in Pittsburgh. He had been speaking in a morning session and an evening session for the past couple of days. My friend Brad told me I should really go see him before he goes back to California. So I went on Thursday night, and it was really really good stuff. Then on Friday morning, my friend Johanna called me from Covenant after the morning session and told me she thought I should go down for the last evening session that night because she felt like God wanted to do something special for me. I wasn’t planning on going to the session that night, but after that call I decided to go.

Usually after Bill speaks, he allows a time for healing and stuff like that. He just has people pray for those with physical needs around them. After a few minutes, people were standing up and sharing testimonies of the things God was doing. Some people had serious shoulder and rib pains leave. One woman had a growth that was on her leg disappear. It was sweet to hear all of the things God was doing. After he officially dismissed everyone, some stayed and mingled with others. I was standing there and I felt like I should go have Bill Pray for my leg. When I was 17, doctors removed about 8 inches of my femur and replaced it with metal in order to take out a bone cancer tumor. The surgery caused my left leg to be about ½ inch shorter than my right, and it hurt whenever I’d be on it for a while.

So I’m on my way up to talk to Bill about my leg, and my friend Johanna comes up to me and asks where I’m going. I told her I was going to have Bill pray for my leg. She got real excited and proceeded to tell me that when she called me that morning, she called because she felt like God wanted to touch my leg somehow that night, but right before she called me, God told her not to tell me about Him wanting to touch my leg. That’s why she just told me he wanted to do something special. However, she walked up to tell me what God told her about my leg that morning because God had just told her she could go tell me now as I was walking up there!

So I go up and tell Bill a little bit about my leg, and he had me sit in a chair and extend my legs straight out. He cradled my ankles and said maybe 10 words to my leg or about my leg. I don’t even remember what he said, but after he said it, he looked at me and said, “You feel it don’t you?” My response was, “Um, Are you pulling my leg?” It felt like my leg was being pulled out, and I felt it moving out up near my hip! He said he wasn’t pulling my leg, and he wasn’t. He was just cradling my ankles, and I realized my butt hadn’t moved from up against the back of the chair. I then looked down at my feet, and they were even with each other. My left foot was noticeably uneven with my right one just 10 seconds ago. In about 10 seconds, God made my leg grow about ½ of an inch! I kept checking to make sure they were still even for about a week after. God does awesome things!