WHEN
TYLER GOT HEALED

Topics: Faith; Healing; Miracles; Prayer; Supernatural Occurrences

References: Matthew 8:17; 1 Corinthians 12:6–10; James 5:13–16

Tyler Clarensau, fifteen, shuffled to the altar in Park Crest Assembly of God in Springfield, Missouri, to ask for healing. The surgery he’d had to correct his malformed knee joints had left him with swelling and terrible pain.

Forty Pentecostal teenagers formed a circle around Clarensau and began to pray. Gradually, the whole congregation joined in. Some forty-five minutes later, silence fell. Then one of the church volunteers announced that God had healed Clarensau. Clarensau shakily stood up, then did deep knee bends—something he hadn’t accomplished in years.

Today Clarensau can walk—even run. “I’d heard about people getting healed,” he says. “I thought it was pretty cool. But I didn’t know for sure about such healing until it happened to me.”

—Kenneth Woodward, “Should You Believe in Miracles?” Newsweek (May 1, 2000)