By Sophia Gliwa –
Barbara was blind and on her death bed, unable to walk for seven years, and unable to move her hands and feet. As her friends were reading prayers people wrote to her, she heard God’s voice in the corner of the room: “My child, get up and walk.”
“I don’t know what you guys think of this, but God just told me to get up and walk, go find my parents I want them to be here.”
She ripped the breathing tube from her throat, sat up and took steps. Barbara’s testimony is part of the film The Case for Miracles showing in AMC, Regal, Marcus, Showcase and other theaters ending today.
The Case for Miracles is the followup to Lee Stroebel’s first atheism-shattering book The Case for Christ.
“Around Christmas there’s all of this activity in the culture focused on December the 25th and people begin to wonder what is this really all about?,” says Stroebel, who is narrator in the film. “People are more spiritually open this time of year.”
Barbara was stricken with multiple sclerosis as a teenager; she deteriorated very quickly wro the point she wound up in hospice. One lung collapsed, the other 50% gone with a tube in her throat.
One day somebody called a radio station in Chicago asking for prayers for Barbra, and 450 people wrote her saying their prayers.
On a Pentecost Sunday is when everything changes for Barbra.
God spoke.
“My feet were flat on the floor after seven years, my hands came uncurled, and the third thing I noticed I could see,” Barbara says.
Barbra was 100% healed from every effect multiple sclerosis caused for her.
The first thing she did was go to church late Sunday with her family.
The pastor asked the congregation: “Anyone got any announcements?”
Barbra walked down the aisle. No one had seen her at church for seven years. SHE was the announcement, and the miracle was the news.
The congregation was overwhelmed with amazement and broke out into “Amazing Grace.”
Even the doctor testifies: “I saw her walking down the corner of my office and my first thought is oh she died and that’s a ghost.”
Stroebel is responsible for the salvation of many through his first book. He’s at it again.
“My prayer is that people this Christmas will put their trust in that child who grew up to die on a cross,” he says.
