STANDING TALL

Can a leg really grow several inches in a few seconds?
Yes, it can because my husband and I witnessed it.
Several years ago a six year old boy and his mom came to the small church we were attending at the time and the mother told the pastor of the church that her son had told her that God told him if he would go to, "Bob's church," have the elders pray for him, that God would lengthen his short leg and he wouldn't have to wear his bulky steel brace and ugly shoe with the three inch thick sole.
My husband Steve had never visibly seen a miracle but he had experienced one, having been transformed from an alcoholic to a sober person by God the preceding year. He knew God could do anything and everything, but this was an unusual request. It wasn't new to Bob, the pastor, because he had seen a lot of miracles happen in his church and other churches.
The pastor called certain men up, the elders, and positioned them behind the boy who was seated in a chair. Steve happened to be the one who was standing at the boy's back. Bob told the men to lay their hands on the boy. Steve laid his hand on the boy's back at hip level of the short leg.
Bob prayed a short prayer asking God to make the boy's body whole and perfect. All of a sudden Steve said, "Wow," and jumped back as the boy's leg began to lengthen to the same size as the other leg. Steve was astounded that he could feel the leg begin to grow under the hand which he had laid on the boy's hip. The boy was indeed healed.
The boy and his mom walked out of the church with the boy carrying his bulky brace with the brown shoe and its three inch sole. He was grinning from ear to ear, walking without a sign of a limp.
Many years later we came face to face with the mother of the boy. She recognized Steve as one of the men who had prayed for her son. We inquired about her son who was now in his late teens. She gleefully told us that he is wonderful young man, tall and healthy. She proudly stated that after her son was healed at the church that they took the brace with it's orthopedic shoe and threw it in the Arkansas River, never to need it again.
The child's faith certainly made him whole. He was obedient to what God told him to do, and he left that church with a leg the same length as his other one.
Children and God just seem to have a special bond. After all, He said, "A little child shall lead them." In this situation the boy's faith certainly led many people to believe in the ability of God to heal.