The Pain in My Hip Is Gone!

“I would wake up in the morning and sometimes I could not get out of bed,” Helen Panetti said. “I would start moving, but it was painful. I would have to hold onto the kitchen counter. Sad, disconnected, old beyond my years.”

“It was 2014,” Helen said. “I was making chili at the stove, and I have a rug behind me. I step backwards and tripped on that rug and fell on the kitchen floor. Real pain really started to kick in with my hip.”

“There was kind of a progression of this hip problem,” Helen said. “The pain in my hip was residual. It would go to different parts. It would go down my IT band to my knee. It would affect my balance. There were times I couldn't get up. My whole hip would be like in paralysis. In the lowest moments, I felt like there was a cloud of something over me. I just thought, ‘I know there's more. Lord, if it is your will, I ask you to heal my body. I want to be able to play with my grandkids.’”

“I was dealing with this for ten years,” Helen said. Going to the doctor, I was bone on bone. He said, ‘There's no solution other than a total hip replacement.’ I felt the Lord say to me, ‘Will you trust me? Will you relinquish this so I can be a testimony to your family who has had repeated surgeries, repeated orthopedic problems?’ And I thought, ‘Lord, they need you. They need you in a real practical way.’”

March 15, 2024 – “I had woken up that morning kind of stiff,” Helen said. “I went over and started watching The 700 Club and Ashley Key came on and started praying.”

"I believe there's a woman watching, and you've got something going on with your right hip,” Ashely prayed. “It's almost like the muscles in your hip area are completely deteriorated. There are talks for you getting a complete hip replacement, you're actually very fearful of that, and I just believe God is restoring those muscles. He's restoring strength to that hip. So much so that you will not have to get a hip replacement. Just praise God right now, just receive this healing from your heavenly Father who sees you and who loves you in Jesus’ name." 

“I put up my hand and I said, ‘Father-in-Heaven, if that's me, I'll take it,’” Helen said with tears in her eyes. “I rejoiced. I stood up, I said, ‘I will leap for joy.’ I was jumping, and leaping and praising God, and I was grateful. It was personal. It was confirmation. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. I can totally trust Him and walk through that door. I had the faith to believe that. I felt joyful.”

“It's been a testimony to my doctors,” Helen said. “They don't know what to say. ‘You shouldn't be able to walk.’ And I go, ‘All I know is this, I've got a really big God, and He must have something for me to do.’”

“I do believe that God is The Healer,” Helen said. “I believe He has given me a gift in healing, and having it spoken through Ashley that morning was just a solid confirmation of details that were undeniable. The joy I feel in what God has done, I have a hard time not spilling over. I am so joyful that it has resonated like ripples in a pond to my family. Faith we talk about now. It's become real. I tell the grandkids.”

“I believe in the power of prayer like nothing I've ever believed in,” Helen said. “I believe God will always take you through if you worship and you praise Him in the middle of it. If you will go to Him completely surrendered, not asking for what you want, but what He wants.”