When Ryan visited his friends one evening he talked to their aunt who sat in a wheelchair with her heart wrapped in a web of bitterness so tightly that love couldn’t escape. Feeling a rush of reckless compassion for them he risked asking her if she’d like a prayer of faith even though he knew she wouldn’t.
Compelled by politeness she agreed sternly informing him that she knew what paralysis was even if he didn’t and he merely responded by saying, I command healing in your body in the name of Jesus. After a pause he spoke directly to the hostility in her eyes, The Kingdom of God has come near to you. When nothing happened, he told her to remember and expect her healing, but if anything was amiss it was his faith and not her lack of it.
Three days later she rose from her chair and walked wanting out of habit not to smile yet overcome with such joy she couldn’t help it.
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Denise offers the prompt “web” for this week’s Six Sentence Story.
James 5:13-15 KJV – 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
1 Peter 2:24 KJV – Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Praise Jesus! “Three days later she rose from her chair ” Great story brother. Blessings.
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Thank you, Michael! Blessings!
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“...walked wanting out of habit not to smile.“
very good insight… how, despite how much better we might find ourselves, the habits of our lives, good or self-destructive have a persistence that is often underestimated,
good Six
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Our habits can be self-destructive. Hers were, but she ultimately did smile at last. Thank you, Clark!
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My goodness! How wonderful… and she smiles now too.
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Yes! She now smiles! Thank you, Chris!
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We all need some kind of healing, I think, and may we be open to receiving it freely, as He freely gives.
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May we be open to receive it as He freely gives. Blessings, Mimi!
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When “a rush of reckless compassion” meets “heart wrapped in a web of bitterness so tightly that love couldn’t escape” miracles can happen.
The power of love. Huey doesn’t have a monopoly on it 😉
I enjoyed your story, Frank.
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Thank you, Denise! Miracles can happen.
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Miracle
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Yes, it was. Blessings, Jim!
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Amen
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“with her heart wrapped in a web of bitterness so tightly that love couldn’t escape” – really great line, Frank!
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Thank you and blessings, Nicole!
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The power of prayer. I found myself smiling as your tale came to an end!
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Thank you, Keith, and blessings to you.
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Ah, the wonder of love and prayer. A splendid Six, Frank.
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Thank you, Misky!
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A miracle of faith and a changed heart! Beautifully told, Frank.
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Thank you and blessings, Dora!
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