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Eyesight recoverd by faith

In 2004, during the medical examination in the first class they discovered examining Tessa Dhaeyer, the daughter of Philippe and Ingrid, that without glasses her sight was 7/10 at the right side and 6/10 at the left.

Spectacular healing of double hernia

We let Chris herself tell what happened:

In September 2008 I began to feel pain in my neck, in my shoulders and especially in both my arms. I also had tingling fingers. I thought this should have to do with the stress at my job. For everything was going very wrong there. Many colleagues got fired, daily the bailiffs were knocking at the door and we used to receive angry phone calls. No one was still motivated any more and this entire situation was going on for months already.

John, the disciple Jesus loves

For me and for many others, this is a stumbling block in the Bible. What to do about it? So Jesus seemed to love one of the disciples more than the others. Some even claim that Jesus had a homosexual relationship with John. But if you really want to understand the core of this verse, you just have to think twice and read carefully what it says. What's important is that it's not Jesus who makes this statement, but John. And nowhere in the Gospels do we read that Jesus says that He prefers one to all others.

So the saying and the conclusion come from John himself. Did he receive a special revelation? As far as I'm concerned, over the years it happened occasionally that someone said: "God is happy with you". It was a statement that I kept in mind because I was used to hearing sometimes "God loves you". But according to me there is a difference between loving someone and being happy with someone.

Recently an elderly lady came up to me after a meeting and said God told her to tell me He is happy with me. Usually I forget such a sentence quite quickly. But this time I began to think about it. I did not have a special revelation, but I did have the Word that clearly states that God loves us and is happy with us. So I decided to just accept that word.

Maybe the same happened to John. Maybe he was so proud that Jesus loved him that he felt the need to make it known, while the other disciples weren't so concerned about telling it. Nobody knows exactly how it went. It seems clear to me that Jesus did not love John more than the others. But one thing is for sure: John knew for sure that he was the disciple Jesus loved.

I just wanted to bring this to your attention and hope you will think about it. I wish you a lot of blessing with it.

Hugo, the disciple Jesus is happy with.