Healed to enjoy chocolate again!
A true story from Chris Thompson
Some years ago I started getting bad migraines every time I ate chocolate or any food/drinks with preservatives in them. It got so bad that I had to completely avoid all food or drink with any of those ingredients. Whilst at the Vineyard Churches UK annual leadership conference in 2005, a guy just stood up and said that someone had migraine problems, specifically related to foods, and God wanted to set them free so that they did not have to be checking the ingredients of food and drink all the time.
I knew that the word was for me, and went forward to get prayed for. I can’t say I felt anything at all really, and indeed, it took me some months to muster up the courage to eat chocolate, and drink my long abandoned, yet favourite fruit drinks (which are usually stuffed with enough E numbered preservatives to sink a ship!) Finally, not exactly as "Mr full of faith", I did eat a Quality Street with no ill effects, and driven by major thirst one hot summers day, (the said conference where the healing took place was in January!) I finally had to drink a bottle of some strawberry concoction …almost immediately, I felt the start of head pain, so I told it to go away in the name of Jesus because God had healed me, and the pain stopped.
A year later, I am still enjoying chocolate, especially dark chocolate, and best of all, Jaffa Cakes…..I wonder if God wants to heal a midriff that has sort of got a little larger over the last 12 months…anyone?!
Chris Thompson, 25/04/2008