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After Years of Shoulder Pain, a Prayer is Answered

While doing routine yardwork Abelina suffered a shoulder injury. After years of pain, she agreed with a prayer on TV and experienced healing. Read Transcript


- [Narrator] There are few things

that would keep AbelinaMartinez from her garden.

- That's my therapy, I call it,

because I love workingin the yard doing stuff.

So I take my Bible outthere and just read on it

and admire how God does.

- [Narrator] There was onething that spoiled her joy.

It started in July of 2018.

She had just come off aladder after trimming a tree.

- So I was cutting it and cutting,

and I cut all the branches.

I mean, I finished.

I said, all right, thank GodI'm done with this thing.

Then I realized what I had done.

- [Narrator] What she haddone was injure her shoulder.

- I was just hurting bad.

I thought it was justsomething that would go away.

But then by the next day,I thought, no, no, no,

there's more to this becauseit was hurting more and more.

- [Narrator] Finally,after a couple of days,

she went to her doctor.

- So I thought maybe I pulled something.

And sure enough, he said, "Well,it's just a pulled muscle."

So I thought, "Oh, well,that's why it hurts so bad."

He said, "Yeah, it'll be okay."

So he gave me some relaxers or whatever.

He says, "Once you start taking this,

you'll be fine in a week or so."

But it didn't go away, so I thought, hmm.

- [Narrator] Actually, itstayed for another three years,

restricting her range of motion.

- My pain that I hadwas all like right here

and it would go to my neck and down.

- [Narrator] It got to thepoint she couldn't enjoy working

in her garden like she always had.

By then, she realized the onlyone who could help was God.

- Well, I would say, "Lord,

I can't take this crazy thing anymore.

I gotta do stuff."

And so I would say, "Will youplease just take this thing,

put it together.

I'll just wait on you,

but I'll let you do it whenyou have time, not on mine."

- [Narrator] And as a CBN partner

and viewer of "The 700 Club,"

Abelina hoped for a word from God.

Then one day while sheand her husband, Vic,

were watching the show,Pat had a word of knowledge

about someone's shoulder.

- Just reach over and touchthat shoulder and move it.

And it's right back in place,

and then all the pain willleave, in Jesus' name.

- (gasps) That's me, that's me, that's me.

And I started just moving myarm all excited and everything.

Praise God. Yes.

- [Narrator] Today,Abelina is still pain-free.

- And I believe God has something special

for each and every one of us.

If we trust and we keeppraying and hanging in there,

he'll come through every time, so yeah.

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