September 9th, 2007 by admin

            January 23^rd I woke up and was getting ready for church and realized that the eye had become irritated and red. I had put the eye drop in which made it worse. Over the next week I could barely keep the eye open, and it was becoming sensitive to light. I had also noticed pain that would shoot through the eye like someone poking it with a needle. It was sharp and quick and then would go away.

The following Sunday Missy and I had traveled to South Carolina for a raw foods seminar and to visit some friends. The eye was horrible and I squinted most of the trip due to the sensitivity. I also had those dark sunglasses that wrap around your head that most folks in their eighties wear. I knew that I was at a crossroads. Not only could I not see out of the eye, but now I was dealing with pain and irritation, and I could not even keep the eye open. I started dealing with the reality that this fight to save the eye may be ending. I could not take pain in the eye and in my sales job I could not function with the eye being so sensitive. Thoughts of removing the eye were ever present, but I just could not believe that it was going to end this way. I also thought that keeping the eye this long with the disease could cause the doctor to do the worst type of surgery that could disfigure the eye area. Our friends we had been visiting prayed for me and shared a timely word. The word was that the Word of God is a receipt book. Everything in the Word was bought and given to me for my life. The scriptures were receipts of what God had purchased for me. This was an awesome revelation. I understood that when I saw a receipt I knew that someone had purchased something. This was easy to understand and I took it to heart. The scriptures were filled with healing. These healing scriptures were now my receipts of the healing that Jesus purchased for me on the cross. I knew that he had bought my healing with His blood, but sometimes a simple revelation is needed to begin driving it home.