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<\/a><\/p>\nI am so grateful to\u00a0the Lord for healing my eye and I am so indebted to Chrissy who prayed for me when I was too weak in my faith to pray.\u00a0 The Special Gathering members often have no boundries in their ability to touch the heart of God because they understand Him.\u00a0 They, often,\u00a0don’t understand unbelief.<\/p>\n
Have you seen God use men and women who are mentally challenged in exceptional ways?\u00a0 What have you learned about faith from them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On December 13, 2006, I injured my eye ball.\u00a0 It caused what the doctors called a Recurrent Corneal Erosion.\u00a0 In simple terms, the skin on my eyeball would dissolve in the middle of the night and I would wake up in terrible pain.\u00a0 There is no cure.\u00a0 It appeared that this would be a condition…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,20,3,40,186,49,85,4],"tags":[690,21,688,7,699,279,278,715,701,694,689,57,6,700],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism-spectrum","category-christianity","category-church","category-developmental-disabilities","category-faith","category-hope","category-inspiration","category-prayer-2","category-simple-truths","tag-autism-spectrum","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-developmental-disabilities-2","tag-faith","tag-healing","tag-healing-prayer","tag-hope","tag-inspiration","tag-intellectual-disability","tag-mentally-challenged-community","tag-prayer","tag-simple-scriptural-truths","tag-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>I spent countless, sleeplesss nights in pain.\u00a0 I was under constant care of the doctor.\u00a0 In the end, I had two operations on my eye.\u00a0 The Special Gathering members who are developmentally disabled caught the need for the Lord to heal me.\u00a0 Chrissy especially realized that God is merciful and He would hear her prayer.\u00a0 To be honest, I was in too much pain to have much faith.\u00a0 But not Chrissy.<\/p>\n