Burton's back healed - set on fire for jesus!!!

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Burton's back healed - set on fire for Jesus!!!

For the past 10 years I have had severe back pain. In about 1991 I hurt my back at work by lifting something too heavy. Then in 1993 I was in a head-on car accident. It wasn't my fault but it almost killed me just the same. I had 13 discs in my neck & back damaged & some minor brain damage. I was unconscious or semiconscious for 4 days & had double vision for more than a month.

I have already had one back surgery due to the accident & was getting ready to schedule another one. In the last 6 months I had an MRI & then a milagram. The MRI showed severe disc bulging & narrowing of my spinal canal at Discs L3, 4, 5 & 6. To compensate for the pain I would swing my body form side to side & sort of throw my left leg out when I walked, sort of a waddle. To get relief I was taking 3 to 4 Ibuprofen every 4 to 5 hours, even in the middle of the night.

In 1999 my neck was healed at a conference at our church when Bill Johnson prayed for me. My back was not healed at this time. About 3 months later I rolled off a 30 to 40 foot hill on a 3 Wheeler ATV and redamaged my neck and further damaged my back.

Most of the time I was in so much pain I didn't go anywhere accept to work & home because of the pain. I would just sit in my recliner and not talk to anybody.

In July my wife came home from church and told me about an evangelist that had a healing ministry and that people were being healed at our church. But the meetings were going pretty late and my bed time was 10:00 every night so that I could get up & go to work the next day, so I thought I would wait till Friday to go even though my wife was going to be out of town Friday & Saturday. I told her I could find the church on my own.

Well, Friday came and I got home from work & was relaxing in my chair & no one else was home and I got to thinking I could just stay home & relax. But I finally got up and took a shower all the time praying for God to heal me and I went to the church saying to myself that there are two answers to prayer, yes & no. I knew God could heal me, I just didn't know if he would.

I stood all through the worship songs in great pain and it got worse & worse until I just had to sit down. I was still in tremendous pain & Robert Suratt saw me and asked the people from our church to lay hands on me and pray. But the pain didn't go away so they asked Hamilton if he would pray for me right then. First he sat me in a chair and held my heels and my left leg grew out about 1/2 inch to match my right one. Then he had me stand but the pain was still there so he prayed for me and some of the pain went away, but there was still some pain so he prayed for me again and more of the pain went away. But still there was some pain so he prayed again and all of the pain went away. For the first time in 10 years I was totally pain free! I bent over to touch my toes and no pain! I bent side to side and no pain!! I could walk without throwing my leg out. I could stand up straight!. When I left the church I walked like I hadn't walked in years! I slept through the night with no pain! I got out of bed the next day with no pain!

When my wife came home the next night I told her I had been healed and she asked me if I wanted to come to church and testify, but I said no because the great deceiver was telling me I wasn't fully healed. So when I went to work Monday I had to move cabinets which always made me hurt really badly. When I came home Monday I had a little muscle soreness but no back pain! On Tuesday, I had to move cabinets again, but still no back pain! Since that Friday I have had no back pain! I spend time talking to my wife now. We went out of town to Redding for the weekend and the drive didn't bother me. I can feel myself getting strong again. (I even raced my wife to the car and beat her!!) This last weekend my oldest son & I went deer hunting, we did a lot of driving and walking up & down mountains and it didn't bother me. Both of my sons took me to the driving range out at the golf course the other night & we had a great time (although I definitely need a lot of practice). This was the first time we had ever been golfing together. I hadn't golfed in over ten years!!

I give God all the glory & praise!!

Burton McNaughton

You've read my husband's testimony and know the pain he was in. But when a member of a family is hurt like this it puts the entire family in bondage. My oldest son wrote an english essay several years ago about his greatest hero. It was his dad, because even though he was in agonizing pain all the time he continued to get up & go to work every day to provide a living for his family even though he was limited as to physical work. But the thing that struck me the most about my son's essay was when he wrote that after the accident "Daddy couldn't come out and play anymore. He couldn't play catch like he used to." Even the simplest things like playing ball with his son's didn't exist in our lives anymore. We had almost no social life because after working all day all Burton could stand to do was sit back in his Lazy Boy recliner and watch TV. He didn't talk very much. I got used to sitting alone in my chair watching TV while he sat in his. When I got home that Saturday night in late July my life was about to change. When Burton told me he had gone to church and been healed, I was surprised. I asked him to get up and walk. He walked perfectly. His hips actually looked narrower because of the way he walked. In the next few days he began to look younger. He began to talk to me and to listen to me when I talked!! Burton has changed so much it is like having a different man around.

I want to talk about what God has done and is doing in me also. Hamilton prayed for me several times on different nights and each time the laughter would erupt out of me and go on and on. I would laugh so hard that I actually had sore muscles and was almost afraid for him to pray for me again because I knew I was going to laugh that wild, loud, muscle stressing laugh that would leave me with no dignity (although it was fun!!) and sore muscles. One late evening when he prayed for me he spoke to me about all the sorrow I had had and I began to weep. Hamilton said that the ten year drought for me was over. But then the sorrow began to turn to laughter as he prayed. On the final night of the services when I was prayed for and began to laugh I was thinking about the sore muscles and how much worse they would be after I finished this time. But after I finally quit laughing and got up I realized that all the soreness was suddenly gone from my stomach. It was as though God had been emptying me of all the sorrow through the laughter and when He had finished emptying me of the years of sorrows it was manifested in the flesh by all of the muscle aches going with it. (I don't think I have shared this with anyone. It was so awesome & personal).

God is changing so much in our lives. Burton has not come to church in 15 years accept for once or twice, but a week after he was healed he came to church on the last Friday evening Hamilton was going to be here and testified of the healing God had done. He has come to church every Sunday since then. It is as though God is creating a new marriage for us. All the old rules are gone and God is creating a new relationship. It is a little bit scary & exciting at the same time. I can't wait to see who we are a year from now.

Hamilton & Helena, may God bless you both in your ministry to Him and in your personal lives. Burton & I thank you for your faithfulness in following his calling. Your ministry to our family has changed us for ever. We feel like you are part of our family and hope that you will often be here with us in Woodland.

Holly McNaughton

Woodland, CA.

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