22 Year Old Growth Spurt

1:35 am on a Saturday morning. What better time to post about a promise of a miracle in the waiting?

I was born sick and spent the first three and a half years of my life in the hospital. I was supposed to be on a feeding tube until I was eight years old but at three years old, God healed me and all I have from that time of my life is a memory and a scar on my stomach that looks like a bullet hole wound (pretty awesome and makes for great stories). I don't know all the medical things that were done to me but I do know that they took out something that helps the growing process in people when they are going through their growth spurts. There is something that absorbs nutrients that cause your body to grow and whatever it is called, I don't have that anymore. So...as a result, I am short and can eat loads of full without gaining weight like others might. I have obviously grown some since my birth but I didnt have the growth spurt like everyone else as a teenager. I can also drop weight very fast (it's very noticeable during week of prayer and fasting).

Because of my height, you can imagine all the jokes I've gotten before and what not. No big deal most of the time. I am a joker and can dish it out and take it. But that has never changed the fact of the matter that I want to be taller. As I got older, I have learned to accept things for what they are but never have I stopped praying for God to touch these bones and make me grow.

Nine years of praying and asking and hoping that maybe, God will hear my prayer and grant me my wish.

My mother is a praying women. The song, "Midnight Oil" is dear to me cause it's mom's midnight prayers that led me back to God not to mention they have many times also revealed answers to prayers. Well one of those answers came a year or so ago when God told mom that I was going to grow. Now I trust my moms prayers so I began to believe. Since than, two different times, someone has confirmed her word from God. One of which was my little brother. Out of the blue one day, he called and said that while he was praying, God told him that I was going to be taller. He had no idea that we were already believing God to do it. Well the Bible says, "that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established." So I believe even more.

I've thought many times about how it's going to be when it happens. Every one in a while, I'll stack up books and standing on them in the restroom to see how it will be. I've told many people and of course, they laugh historically at the idea of a 22 year old man having his growth spurt. But Sarah laughed as well when God told her that she was going to have a child at her old age.

I know why God is doing this. He is using this as a way to display His power and glory. The Bible talks about many many people coming to God because of what He did for Lazarus and my prayers these days are not just God let tonight be the night that you give me the height but also that it would have the Lazarus Effect. That many others can be saved from it.

I know the day is approaching rapidly when I will receive that height. I believe it will happen even in the revival we are in now. And be sure that I will testify more when the day comes. I'm roughly 5'3, 5'4 now. We shall see what I will end up at.






And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. -Hebrews 6:15