Psalm 36:5 states, “Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.”
These words have a special meaning for me. It was in August, some years ago now, when we had just returned to Winnipeg, Manitoba from York, Nebraska. Because it was quite hot out, I said to my wife, “I’m going to sleep in the basement because it’s a little cooler down there.” As I was going downstairs, I felt such severe pain in my chest that I immediately dropped myself onto the bed. I felt paralyzed. I could only move my head and toes.
So I lay there all night in pain and couldn’t sleep. In my distress, I prayed repeatedly and examined myself before the Lord, asking, “Have I done something wrong? Have I sinned against you?” So there I lay all night, as I didn’t want to wake up my wife.
Then, suddenly, after all my praying and pleading—it was around 5:00 in the morning, when the sun cast its first rays through a small window into my darkness—I clearly heard a voice: “Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.” The interpretation was immediately clear to me: God’s mercy also reaches down to me. And I felt as if I were being carried on arms of love.
The pain and paralysis remained, but I was certain I would survive. I will get well again! How and in which way, that is up to God. That is in His hands. These words of God from Psalm 36 continued to be unforgettable to me.
The next day, I was anointed and gave God thanks. After fourteen days, I was able to walk slowly from my house to the church, which was across the road. I came into my church office and found a sheet of paper on which was written: “Why does God send us tribulations?” I myself had written this down in the days before my trip to York, Nebraska. I even had noted some answers: to test us; to purify us, etc.
Perhaps you are thinking, that happened years ago, but what about now? God helped then—but what about today?
We can experience God’s divine healing today. God’s Word clearly states: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). During the first week of August this year (2025), a family whose two month old daughter was constantly crying asked us to pray for their child and anoint her according to James 5. Brother Taron and I did so. The following Sunday, the family was able to attend church for the first time. The mother was now able to hold a calm child in her arms. Praise God! Let us trust Him in all things, for He is still the same today as He was in the past.
H.D. Nimz
Steinbach, Manitoba
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