God’s Love Dissolved My Hardened Heart

Stewart Maxwell                       Arnprior, On

       On Jan. 19, 2010 while Stewart was in the Toronto Airport Church at a Pastor’s and Leader’s Conference he experienced a gift from God.

       The speaker was Bill Johnson. He was mentioning that they’ve been noticing in their church that God has been dissolving metal in people’s bodies; so he said, “If you have metal in your body and you want all things made new, stand up and receive it.”

       Stewart stood up. The people near him gathered around, laid hands on him, and prayed in agreement with the word of the Lord.

       He’d had facial surgery twenty-one years earlier and the doctors had rebuilt his jaw, and there were “pins and all kinds of wonderful things” in his mouth

      During the prayer, Stewart’s face got really, really hot. It was getting so hot, that it felt like it was burning up. Because it felt so hot, he reached up to touch it, and that’s when he realized something; he had feeling in his face!

            “I can feel my face,” he realized. “It wasn’t my fingers telling me that I was touching my face, but it was my face telling my fingers that they were touching my face,” he explained. For twenty-one years Stewart had had no feeling from below his eyes to below his chin.

       The next morning the Lord said to him,  “What did I say to you?”

       He replied, “All things are new.”

      “That’s right,” God answered. “All things are new, all things.”

      Sure, there was a miracle. “The real testimony though,” Stewart says, “is that a person can come into a place of such saturation in the love of God that they are forever changed. God restored the feeling in my face, so I could feel his love. So it was all about feeling. That was kind of cool. I don’t want people to only be excited about the miracle and to fall in love with the miracle. We need to fall in love with Jesus.”

      God said, “Healing bones is nothing for me; that’s easy. I can do that for anybody. What I really want is your heart, and if I’m going to have your heart, you’re going to have to cooperate with me, because that’s a little more difficult and it going to hurt a little bit more.”

        “We have to get beyond seeking for miracles for the sake of the miracle alone and go for God himself. Yes, I’m glad he healed my face and removed the metal and restored feeling to my face, but the deeper miracle is that God touched my heart and I’ll never be the same.”