Faith

Hazel Southgate from Woodthorpe became disabled after a lifting accident at work. Gradually fractures in her vertebrae caused her to lose sensation in much of her body.

"I couldn't drive a car. I couldn't bend over. I couldn't pick anything up. I couldn't even cut my own toenails."

The accident had a huge impact on her family. In February 2006 Hazel's husband left her.

"He couldn't cope with the fact that I was becoming so disabled."

The Healing Rooms

Although times were tough Hazel still believed God wanted to heal her.

Earlier this year she visited the Healing Rooms set up by the Queensberry Baptist Church in Basford.

They told Hazel that she really needed to forgive her husband and let God intervene in her situation.

Four weeks later she was given a similar message. The Catholic priest leading a meeting for those wanting to be healed, in Kirkby in Ashfield, told her that without forgiveness she couldn't be healed.

Healing Rooms in Basford

"I said 'Lord I choose to forgive'. An enormous sense of peace and love just flowed through me. At that point I knew that God was going to intervene in my life."

Whilst people in the room were praying for her, Hazel says she felt a hot sensation go down her arm and her neck.

"The pain just went. I knew I could move my neck again. That was the start of my healing."

"The priest asked if anyone had been healed and I literally turned my neck around and raised my arm up. The one that I couldn't even lift."

Hazel now has nerve sensation where she didn't have nerve sensation, muscle function where she didn't have muscle function and she has full reflexes.

Hazel's consultants say they cannot explain it. Her doctor says it is very definitely a miracle. Hazel is now off all her medication and is working again.

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