How do you trust God for healing when you haven’t experienced healing yourself?
Alwyn Uys has been used by God in many remarkable ways, seeing people healed from cancer, chemical burns and other issues. However, one of the biggest hallmarks about his ministry is how God is working through him even though he himself has not been physically healed after become paralyzed in his lower body.
In an interview with Charisma Media, Uys shared how the Lord has been working in the most peculiar of ways to bring healing, hope and deliverance to those both near and far.
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“God works in interesting ways,” Uys says. “Because of my condition, I have a greater compassion for people that struggle with similar things…I know that He is going to heal me, but there’s a process involved in it as well. And when I think back of the day that I got paralyzed 10 years ago, if I got healed on day one, I don’t think I would have had the same levels of compassion for people with physical disabilities and people needing healing.”
Uys pointed to the fact that God uses all kinds of situations in our lives to propel us into the ultimate calling that the Lord has for our lives.
“The more healings I see, the more my faith grows because I’ve seen too much. I’ve seen too much to not believe that God can do it,” Uys says.
One of these remarkable testimonies includes the one of a woman who was unable to have children and was about to go to a doctor’s appointment. When she went to her check-up, the miraculous had happened.
“There was this one lady that had, I think it is was a growth on her ovaries, and she was actually unable to have children. And they messaged into the ministry a day before she went for a check-up. And we just prayed for her over a voice note,” Uys recalls. “The next day, she went back and the doctor couldn’t find the tumors anywhere. So, it was completely gone. I never saw the woman; I’ve never seen her in my life. It was literally just over a voice note.”
Uys has even seen God take over the most impossible of scenarios, healing someone from stage 4 brain cancer. Seeing healings does sometimes make Uys ask God the question of why he hasn’t been healed yet. However, he can see that God knew exactly how he would respond to the car accident that left him in a wheelchair and how it would bring forth a ministry to others.
“I realized that maybe I was the perfect person to whom this should have happened,” Uys says. “[God] said, ‘Alwyn, because I made you and I know what is inside of you. And I know what I can do through you.’”
Sometimes the hardest thing we can do is trust God in the middle of storms and desolation. However, it is through times of pain and hardship that God can build us up into the men and women He desires us to become so that we may shine His light into the dark world around us.
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Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
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