Testimony

Atheist Healing · Sunday 22 March 2026

I want to share about the power of prayer. There's a man from my village — not really a friend, just someone always around. He's older than me, quite proud, smoked and drank like a fish, a very staunch atheist. He was struck down with cancer and admitted to hospital, and my wife said that's it, he's had it. But I asked if he'd like prayer and he took it — I was shocked. I went back with a brother from church and we prayed with him again. On one visit he was in very severe stomach pain. The doctor told me they'd stopped treating the cancer and were just making him comfortable; he was on oxygen, breathing rapidly, couldn't talk. My friend prayed for the pain to go and it went immediately. I later found out the hospital had tried morphine injections directly into his mouth and nothing touched it — I hadn't realised at the time what a miracle that was. He was discharged with a six-month prognosis. When I went to see him last night at hospital, I couldn't believe it — he looked the best I'd ever seen him, better than before he was ill. He'd put on weight, his beard was tidy, and he told me he'd been praying every day and thanking God, and felt he was going to heaven. Now the hospice team aren't happy leaving him to rest — there's talk of restarting radiotherapy on Thursday. They're amazed at how well he's doing. I believe that's the power of prayer, and I believe he'll be a great witness.

— A believer at GCC