The Power of Prayer

The power of prayer

     I believe in the power of prayer.  I can recall one  particular incident that stands out in my memory  as a testament  to the power of  prayer.  Please allow me to share it with you.  I was in the livingroom of my  apartment when I heard a sound of what I thought was someone  hitting their car into a tree. It was so loud.  My fiance’s face told me that he knew something that I didn’t.

As it turned out he had taken the puppy home from his construction job.  The puppy was laying in the middle of the street on his back when  I ran out to see what had happened.  He had been ran over by a hit-and-run driver.  Tire tread marks were visible on his ribs. His head rose up as we placed his body in a blanket and drove him to the emergency Veterinary Hospital. We  left him there overnight.  The veterinarian said he had two broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, a crushed  heart, and internal bleeding around his kidneys.

The next day the veterinarian called and said that the puppy had collapsed on the ground and died.

I stopped everything, kneeled down by my bedside and prayed constantly for the puppy to live. I remember feeling that only god’s mercy could save him.  I prayed to God to save  his life from the depths of my heart. After two minutes, the veterinarian called back and said the puppy stood up. The question asked of us was “Did we want to put him to sleep?”   Neither my fiancé or I had the heart to do that. We agreed to pay whatever bill ensued without knowing if the puppy would live or not.

The puppy was under constant  ekg monitoring because his heart had been crushed and was beating irregularly.  Reams of ekg  rolls were presented to  us after one week in the vet hospital.  The puppy did not collapse again, however. The vet released him with medication for his heart.  I took the puppy to work with me for two weeks.  He was a favorite of the employees. My boss must’ve  been afraid that I would quit, so he allowed me to take the puppy with me to work.  The puppy’s  body healed itself without any form of surgery.  His ribs , heart, and spleen healed miraculously.   The veterinarian entered his story in the medical journals as a miracle.

The puppy grew to be our family pet in excellent health never visiting a vet again!!!He was totally loyal and healthy!  I attribute his miraculous recovery to the power of prayer.