Healing Story # 6 - Pins and Screws in His Arm

In this event, I was at the park with my sons one day in between running errands.  The park was full of little kids running around and having fun.  There seemed to be two different adults watching them but they were definitely not their parents.  I finally ran into one of the people watching the kids, and he said that it was a YMCA trip to the park and that he had been working with the kids for over 4 years.  We were just having small talk and then randomly he says "My arm was broken 5 years ago and they had to put pins and screws in my arm.  I want them out but I don't have any money to pay for them to be removed."  I asked if it hurt all the time and he said it didn't.  He then had to walk away and help a kid who got himself into a difficult situation on the monkey bars.  After he came back to where I was standing, he said that now his arm hurt.  The kid banged into his arm and set it off where the pain would reverberate throughout his arm for several minutes before it died down.  I asked him if I could pray for the pain to go away as I was a Christian.  He said the pain was at a 5 out of 10 pain level.  I prayed quickly in the name of Jesus that the pain had to leave.  He said it immediately felt better but some pain was still there.  I asked him to pray again, and he started to say something to indicate it was OK, but I prayed for his arm anyways.  He said all the pain left his arm and that it was back to normal.  After that he opened up to me about his life, marriage aspirations, goals, and what God had in store for him.  He became open to Godly counsel about how to find a wife who puts Jesus first and how to make sure that Jesus is at the center of everything he does.  After that the bus came and we said goodbye.  God blessed this man with his physical pain along with his spiritual and emotional well being.  God is good, all the time!