In 1977, I witnessed a remarkable healing after prayer.
The mother of two daughters came to me, one of them suffering from seizures.
Father, do you know how to cure Olga? They were completely tortured by her seizures — they beat her twice a day.
— Is your daughter baptized?
— What about the baptized…
— Does she wear a cross? My mother paused:
— Father… How can I tell you… It’s only been two weeks since we put a cross on her.
I shook my head: what kind of a Christian without a cross? It’s like a warrior without weapons. He’s defenseless. I started talking to them. I advised you to confess and take communion, every day 40 times read the 90th Psalm — «Live in the help of Vyshnyago.»
Three days later, this woman came with two daughters — Oley and Galya. They confessed, took communion and began to read Psalm 90 40 times a day, as I advised them (my parents taught me this prayer rule). And — a miracle — only two days the whole family revered the 90th Psalm, as Olya stopped tormenting seizures. We got rid of a serious illness without any hospitals. Shocked, my mother came to me and asked me how much money was needed “for work.”
— What you, Mommy, I say, I didn’t do it, it’s God. You see, what the doctors could not do, God did when you turned to him with faith and repentance.
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With the 90th Psalm associated with another case of healing – deafness.
One elderly man named Nikolai came to our Ascension Church in Novosibirsk. Began to complain about grief:
— Father, I can’t hear well, a long time ago, from the 4th grade of school. And now it’s really hard. In addition, both the liver and stomach hurt.
— — Do you follow the posts? — I asked him.
— No, what posts! What they eat at work, they eat.
It was the fifth week of Great Lent.
«Nicholas,» I tell him, «before Easter, eat only lean food and read daily 40 times «Alive in the help of Vyshnyago.»
After Easter Nicholas comes with tears, and his brother Vladimir with him.
— Father, God save you! At Easter they sang “Christ is Risen” and I don’t hear it. Well, I think my father said fast, God will help, but I was deaf, so deaf and stayed! I just thought, it’s like I’ve got a cork out of my ears. Immediately, in an instant, I began to hear normally.
This is what fasting means, this is what prayer means. That’s what it means to read “Alive with the help of the High”, without any doubt. We really need a clean, penitential prayer – more food and water. There will be water in a muddy glass — we will not drink it. The Lord does not want us to repent, but rather to pray for Him. For this we are given time and freedom. It would be hard work.
Author: Archpriest Valentin Biryukov
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