Desperate prayer for an injury

My back and neck injury began to act up again this week again. It has got really bad if i walk I begin to get numbness in my body, I have great stiffness in my neck and head area. Can you please pray for me I am not doing good and am very scared. Satan is trying to attack my mind with depression and fear and I am trying to fight it, but it becomes really hard at other times. I think this might have came up because of sin in my life possibly, I am not 100 percent sure. Please pray the Lord comes to my rescue. I don't want to be healed and then go live godless, I am sick of myself and my life, may God use this to get me to serve him and love him all the days of my life. Thank you brethren.

Brother,

Trust in Christ fully with this. I will pray for you.

Thank you guys, Greg I have been fighting to do so, but thank you for pressing me to do so the more. god bless you guys.

brothers and sisters it just seems to be getting worse, I am so scared right now please pray for me.

I have been on bed rest the last day and I am getting so mentally week brothers. I truly believe sin in my life has caused this to get so bad, I feel like God is warning me right now. I got x-rays done and cat scan and they found nothing wrong with me. But something has to be wrong because this has been going on for 3 and a half years. I don't have medical insurance so I can't get an mri done, so I have to try whatever I can to get insurance then get the mri done. Brothers I don't meant to be a bother to you, I don't have too many people to go in my life who know the Lord and I really am desperate for your prayers. I so badly need to have faith during those, but my mind is getting very weak. I have been crying a lot lately and the funny thing was that I haven't cried for a long time, I kind of have been dead to things for a long time, now so I am happy in a sense I am crying again. My wife has been so great for me, she has been helping me through all of this. Please pray for her soul.

thanks a lot, I really am broken from this, I have been very humbled.

Thanks for the continuous prayer. I noticed that their is swelling in my upper back and neck area that is probably the cause of much of what is going on, please pray the Lord will heal me.

My wife and I our going to th hospital at 5 or 6 in the morning in Chicago hoping that I can get an mri done. Please pray for my strength during the MRI I am very claustrophobic at times. Also please pray they find out what the problem is tommorow because this is not getting real bad. I am so scared I can't explain how terrifying this is. I hope they find out what is wrong and if they are able that they can have surgery done as soon as possible. Their is swelling in the back of my neck I wish they would have found the problem already, please lift me up to the Lord. Thank you again for praying for me.

We have decided to go tommorow instead to give my back and neck rest. I just fear they will give me an mri and then have to wait to give me surgery months down the road.Please pray that the Lord will open doors. Everytime I walk their is a bulging and swelling in my neck that keeps getting worse, I am still scared, I am trying to have faith, but it still getting worse. Brethren please pray the Lord sustains me and my ability to walk. I am so afraid. Pray the Lord Jesus will cure me.

My wife and I are going to the emergency room today very soon here at christ hospital, please pray that they will do whatever they can to help me and that the Lord sustains me. I know i am posting a lot, but i am very scared.

My wife and I went to the emergency room in evergreen park at one of the busiest hospitals and had to wait in the waiting room for almost 4 hours close to 5. My pastor came up their for 2 hours and prayed for me and my wife twice. They got me in their and they said they could give me a cat scan but the radiologists refused to give me one through the er. I need medical insurance and need to get an mri. They told me they think it is a pinched nerve or a bulging disk, but I don't know. I prayed almost the whole time and their was a lady who was dying in the room next to me and I prayed for her, she stayed alive, i am not sure if she was really dying but they were trying to find a pulse the whole time and they brought in a bunch of people to keep her heart beating. But anyways please pray for her. When your hurting it is easier to understand others who are hurting. I was reading the scriptures today a lot, please pray the Lord will speak to me through his word and that my neck won't hurt while reading because it was kind of earlier. This is definitely one of my worse struggles I have ever gone through, please pray that the Lord will hold me up and I just want to know He is with me, I mean I know what is word says, but it is like I am just forcing myself to believe He is going to help instead of truly trusting Him. Please pray that Spirit will comfort and illuminate me during this. Thank you for all your prayers.

John, how are you now? Please update.

"Jesus is God" I actually decided to get out of bed on i think thursday night and said if this is a pinched nerve then i should be able to walk on it because on the cat scan everything turned out fine and on the xray. So i got up and went through the pain and numbness of what might be A PINCHED NERVE. And for an hour and a half i stood and i didn't get worse. The next day i was sore and i went to see my brother in law who is a naparpath and he worked on my back with a deep muscle massage. When it was over I felt great and was walking around fine. The next day i did pretty good, but the neck stiffness bothered me a little when i would turn my head. I went again to see him today and now my back and neck discomfort has came back again, but it is hurting like it usually does or how it has the past 3 and a half years. I do not know how I am going to get through this and have money to live. We are waiting right now to get accepted for medical insurance and i need an mri really bad. Please pray that God gives me wisdom on what to do, many of my decisions have came from fear, that is why i went to the emergency room 3 times. I just am so weak, mentally i just needed healing fast. Please pray for Gods wisdom in this and that God would take care of me, I really hate this.I am trying to drink more milk and take calcium pills so i strengthen my bones. Just pray that God's will is done and that if it is possible that he heals me and tells me what he wants me to do. I have had to stop doing my bible studies and am 2 weeks behind my bible college work. Please pray for mental strength if i need rest and that the Lord would comfort me, I am not strong brothers and sisters. I don't want to go through anymore of this.

Hi John. I'm so sorry for all this pain that you're in. GOD have mercy.
It does sort of sound as if there's something in one of the cervical discs that radiates down from there.
A Promise from GOD is Romans 8:28,29. That may not sink in right away because I know that pain can fog your thinking some, but if you take those verses and hang onto them for dear life - The LORD may show you little ways in that He uses every - All Things - for the good - not as punishment - but as He said, 'in this world we'll have troubles' but, Him being GOD, uses All things for good in our lives, though we don't necessarily see it all right yet.
Romans 8:28 is a verse that has gotten many suffering folks through tremendous trials. It becomes a "life verse" after that. One to always remember and fall on in complete faith that our GOD Who 'is' Love is omniscient and always uses All things for a Good cause.
Bless you and your dear wife John. You have our empathy, love and Prayer. Praying for your strength to endure until you're released of this pain, in Jesus' Name. Don't give up. Keep calling on Him, even if the pain isn't gone yet. Pain is a real tester, isn't it? I truly understand friend.
Praying His Presence and Peace despite the storm, for you & yours.

Thank you Jesus-is -God! I woke up this morning and it was bothering me again. I can't work like this and my work doesn't want me to come back until I have recuperated and it is safe to work. I just want to trust God right now in this situation, I am not good in injury, fear has came upon me so much, I just finding it hard to fight this. I am weak mentally to go through this again. This injury occured almost 4 years ago and i have had to rest to let it heal, and that is what i need to do, please pray for healing, strength, and godly wisdom during this.

Amen, definitely praying John. Definitely.
LORD have mercy on you. My heart hurts by other's pain and I know that He feels your pain very much more than I do.
He knows what pain is, first hand - Amen.

I know that this might sound weird, but this injury started almost 4 years ago in june of 2007 when I was living in sin with my wife before we were married and i had begun to get attacked severely by evil spirits. During that time almost everything was going wrong including this back injury. It is a strong belief of mine that my back problem came from my living in sin for so long and possibly because the demonic spirits.I thought it might be possible that it was demonic possibly or even the Lord's chastizement. I am not sure, if it is demonic then can you pray to the Lord if their is any demonic bondage going in my body or life that he deliver me from it. I might have demons that have strongholds on me, but i might be wrong, but if you don't mind praying for me about that I would really appreciate it.

John, first I'll tell you that two of the most Christ-like people that I know have old back injuries, who are servants of The Most High GOD.
If The LORD didn't allow their backs to act up now and then, they'd not sit still because they are True 'servants' for The LORD - always on the go, serving others.
I almost rejoice that GOD gives them time to sit still a while and rest in Him and so do they, after the fact, like a type of thorn in the flesh.

Second a question - I'd like to ask you, truthfully, 'how' did you injure your back?

Third is truth - I've 'been' praying for you.

Fourthly - another question - Did you ask GOD to forgive you of your past?

The Fifth - 'with Satan or demons' [not 'authored' by GOD] - "you name it and you've claimed it" - in other words - if that's what you prefer to claim/believe - you've got it.

So, I'll continue to pray, as I have from the beginning, that you'll Fear The LORD GOD of hosts and Him only, to the salvation of your soul - and then I'll meet you in Heaven [with your wife and family] and we'll talk about it then. Amen, and Amen - and Give the Glory to GOD Alone!

I hurt it in june of 2007 while doing barbell bicep curls and I heard a pop in my back, which I might have torn something, but that is how it all started. It also healed through rest, but when I reaggrivate it takes more time to rest to get rid of it. Thank you brother God bless you.

I went to my brother in law for my back and it has only got worse, I have decided to stop taking all my meds and vitamins and trying to find healing any other way except through the Lord. Please pray because it has got real bad, when I walk my body just gets weak to just walk and their is numbness in my back, I really am trying to trust the Lord, but it seems to get worse. I have been in situations like this before where i was hopeless and the Lord lifted me out of this. But, my back and my neck and these nerves our more serious then I thought. They found nothing on the catscan and xray, i don't have insurance to get an mri, don't have the money to pay to see a doctor to order a mri for me. We are still waiting to get approved for medical from the place we applied, but nothing from them for almost a week now. It has got so bad i might be in bed rest again until it heals, if you could pray that the Lord heals whatever the problem is with my back, but if that is not His will that the Lord at least gives me enough power to walk and work and to live for Him. I want to serve the Lord. Thank you for your prayers, I really wish I could tell you my back was getting better, it was then I went to my brother in law again and this time he really has screwed it up. I just new from the last time that it was bothering me more and I should have just said no, but they convinced that it was going to feel like that until its healed, but it should not be like this. Just walking on it is making numbness go throughout my body as bad as it was if not worse then it was when it first started. I am putting my trust in the Lord.

thanks brother

brothers and sisters who hear me right now pleae get in deep prayer for me i really feel like i am losing feeling in my body, please pray to our lord for mercy, its getting real bad, i write this in true sincerity almost in tears and crying in my soul please pray the lord has mercy on my soul, i am scared, i really am. i beg you lord please help me. i pray this in agree with all the brethren in jesus name amen and amen.

Praying John!

Have you ever thought of going to the ER.

I had to go when I had no insurance.

Either way - Praying with others for you.

i went 3 times last week, they found nothing on my cat scan or xray, but they can't give me what i need which is an mri because i have no insurance, but this is a time I can put my faith in Christ.

brothers and sisters i am doing better now, but Satan is trying to get me think negative and think that it will come back this neck and beck injury, please pray against these attacks. Thank you for all your prayers.

Use the only thing that Christ Jesus - Immanuel used against Satan's words - HIS WORD!

To the degree that your mind is filled with nothing but HIS WORD to that degree there's no room left for anyone else's.

I definitely will use the word of God and be strong in serving and prayer.

hey saints my back is acting up again, last night i had sat down to rest my head on one of the seats at my friends house and put my head back and it seeemed to reaggrivated it again, I have been agreement with the Lord on this may you agree with me on this prayer.

I have suffered from back, neck and other body problems/pain for almost 20 years now. On occasion it's been so bad i was unable to move and had to be carted to ER for drugs cuz i was unable to get up. So i can relate. Have you tried a chiropractor? if not for chiro, i would never have been able to function many times. They are actually MUCH more knowledgeable and helpful than medical doctors for this stuff. Medical doctors falsely label them as quacks but i am convinced that is out of jealousy. Medical doctors like to push drugs. Some chiropractors are lousy, it is true, but there are some very good ones. Ask around and get the word on the street as to whom people recommend in your area.

I would like to pray for you but I need a first name; i will not respond to pray requests on a forum unless i at least have a first name to pray with. I will check your profile to see if it is there...Hang in there!

P.S. Most chiropractors will offer some sort of reduced payment system. Mine provides a lower fee, for instance, if the person pays cash at time of visit. Some others may have sliding fee scales or take installments. You have nothing to lose by asking.

my name is John. I really want to get an mri done before I get anymore treatments just to make sure i know what is wrong, because i was just getting treatments done from a very good naturpath and it was getting better at first but then got really bad. So I am convinced that if the the cat scan and xray say nothing is wrong then the mri probably will. I also am trying to see that God is using this to bring me super close to him, I really have a feeling the Lord is, but i am unsure. Did you ever find out what was wrong with you and did it ever get fixed?

I also have had at times where i could not barely move and have to rest for days in bed and just sitting for it to get better. It does with rest get better, but i need to get it fixed, because this has been going on for 4 years now.

today was another rough day for me, with rest it does heal, but like i said it has came back through many small movements like turning my head certain ways or bending for stuff. Please pray the Lord would not let me fear but be peaceful during this situation. I have this fear that is not going to get better, please pray the Lord would take away this fear and heal me and that in this i would come out with a desire to live for the Lord with all my heart. PLease pray for me.

Hi John. Yea, the thing about xrays is they really can only show issues with bone, not much with muscle. If your problem is muscular then you are wasting your time and money with an xray and all. The clinics and doctors know this but they get more money this way, by ordering xrays first. And for some stupid reason the insurance companies usually demand xrays be taken before they will shell out for an MRI. The reason given is that xrays cost much less. But if they were rational they would consider how much they are wasting in unnecessary xrays and go on a case by case basis. There have been times I knew without question that my pain was strictly muscular and have refused xrays suggested by a doctor, due to the waste of money and excessive exposure to radiation. What is wrong with me is that i have FMS/Fibromyalgia. But recently I came down with other afflictions that xray did reveal but in that case i sensed that the xray was needed and went with my "gut". Nonetheless, all the xray provided was a diagnosis but no cure.

As to whether God is using it all to draw you closer to Him, well that is what ALL afflictions in life are designed for I suppose. There are also additional purposes, such as to humble us, build compassion in us for others, and to correct us for sin. Sometimes our afflictions are given us because of idols in our lives, and i think this to be especially true for us Americans. We are rarely aware of our idols. And then of course there are just the attacks of darkness to try to destroy our walk with God. It could be any or all of these.

Btw, your problem sounds a lot like a herniated disc to me. Has that been ruled out?

No a herniated disc has not been ruled out. See this injury started 4 years ago and suprisingly it got better through rest and not being active. At one time i was able to start working out slightly and play sports and then i reaggrivated throwing the baseball to hard and throwing it real high in the sky too much. Then it took some time for it to heal up again, but before i reaggrivated it again i was able to jog and do sprints without it bothering me too much. When the last time i reaggrivated was the week of easter at my sisters house and i was sitting on her couch and i stretched my head up a little too far and the discomfort i felt so i rested the rest of the night and the week then i went to work on saturday the day before easter and i was having a hard time turning my head and just working in general but i got through it. I went to church in the morning and i was fine and then i went to work that night and my neck got really stiff where i could not turn it and barely lift my head above eye level. So i left work. Their was swelling on the back of my neck where the spine and neck and head connect where the it is like a little bump or the hump of the bone is at and muscles were swelling on it, that would then bother me to walk and i was having numbness on my hands and legs. It has got better at times, but if i say lift my head up and look at the sky too high it will make my neck stiff and ten the swelling will start again in the same spot. But yah it has not gone away yet. Before this happened i was struggling in my walk with the Lord, i had lost my prayer life for some time, i had a big problem flirting with a few of the girls at my work and at the same time professing to be a believer. I have had hatred, jealousy, and bitterness in my heart that i tried to get rid of but it wouldn't leave. Worst of all the week of easter i preached god friday service at my church and i was doubting my faith and i didn't really seem to get sad about Christ's death or emotional at all as some believers did. I was struggling with as i am today with this rejoicing in my heart when bad things were happening to people whether or not this was from satan or how wicked my heart has got i don't now, but I definitely could see that being a cause of this. I definitely need spiritual salvation or deliverance or something because their has been a lot wrong with me for a log time, you could probably go through the past 2 years and see my struggles on SI.

I don't mean to be a pest at all to anyone, i would be the first to admit to it if i was messing around. I have an urgent prayer request that the Lord would heal me or strengthen my body and back, it has got real bad, i tried to walk on it and trust the Lord for healing the last 2 days but has only got worse. I write to you being very afraid and scared because it has only got worse and worse. I have cried out to the lord and cried out please i beg you pray for my healing i am scared and tears almost as we write. I didn't fear the Lord and this is the reason my injury has came upon me. I praying for forgiveness to the Lord please pray he sustains me. God bless you for your prayers during this very hard time.

brothers and sisters i have comfort when speaking to you all i want you to know that, i could not get through this without knowing the greatness and the mercy of God and his precious saints who care for my burden. I don't know what you all think of me posting so much but i will tell you how i have been feeling in my heart as of late. Pain, scared, weak physically spiritually and mentally, confused, deep pain in my soul and heart, comfort at times and a hope of help from the living God. You know i don't understand why God allows me to go through deep pain before he heals. I have gone through deep depression twice, great fear and terror once, demonic attacks for almost 2 and a half years straight, and now an injury and great fear. I have doubt and belief in my heart, i have been tempted to give up on God, but then i am left in the hands of men who can't give me any help unless i have money, though they could help me from my pain their not allowed to. I don't have money and i can't work i am solely left in the hands of God. Maybe that is what God wanted the whole time, i pray the Lord will heal me without me having rest, but it all depends upon the Lord as you can see i am a helpless human being. I don't have the power to do anything, but beg for mercy.

i am having a hard time sleeping, brothers and sisters please pray for me i am getting real weak.

I am going to put a prayer up if you all don't mind agreeing in prayer with me. Heavenly father, i come to you helpless in the name of your son Jesus Christ, i beg you at your throne lord to please heal my back and forgive of my past sins, please oh lord have mercy on me, lord i can barely walk and when i do i lose feeling in my body and my body becomes stiff. Lord i do not mean to be afraid, but i am please have mercy on me i can do nothing lord to save myself, lord help me because your the only one who can, please help please hear my cry i am so scared. In Jesus name amen

I found these great scriptures or scripture promises

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Psalm 34:4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Isaiah 30:19 O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Matthew 7:8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 18:19 "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. Matthew 21:22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Luke 11:9 "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. John 15:7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. John 16:23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 1 John 3:22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. 1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

i think the Lord has revealed to me that this battle i am going through is partially spiritual warfare, I have been believing the lie of the enemy, me and a brother prayed the Lord would give us wisdom and through my wifes help and this brother and the Lord speaking through us I am getting worse because of demonic spirits tempting me to believe a lie. I am almost 100 percent sure this demonic now, I wasn't convinced, but now I am going to have to fight against these lies. Please pray the Lord gives me strength against these lies and fights for me and gives me the shield of faith.

i have been doing a lot better physically the last three days and the last i updated you i believe the Lord revealed to me that i have been believing the lie of the enemy and that these spirits have been affecting my flesh and trying to make my injury worse. The other day i was to the point where i could barely walk, now i know these are evil spirits. i woke up that morning afraid to get out of bed and my wife had to calm me down because i was hysterical and i was crying and so afraid. She told me John you need to listen me and I usually don't because of my thought that she couldn't help me in spiritual struggles. She told me you need to let God take this John and trust him and stop doubting, and i listened I prayed with her in agreement with God to take over and i decided to start walking and just let God take over because I could not take it anymore. It was if this injury just disappeared and i was free and then i began to be attacked the rest of the day with unbelief. The next day i felt the Lord revealed to me that all of this was the work of evil spirits and listening to them and letting a door open from sin that possibly let them in. I been fighting since that day to rebuke these demons and believe the Lord and its been a fight, please I know everything i am saying sounds out there but i am telling the truth, i know many of you said it might be demonic before and i didn't really listen i tried to cast them out in the name of jesus and nothing happened and I assumed they were spirits that caused this, but now i am completely assured they are,. Can you please pray with me to fight against these spirits in Jesus name, I am having a hard time fighting them. Continue to pray if you can and thank you for your cries out to God for me before. Everything I tell you is the truth and I mean that before the throne of God.

Hi John,

Just checking back in on how things have been going. You say in your last post:

i know many of you said it might be demonic before and i didn't really listen i tried to cast them out in the name of jesus and nothing happened and I assumed they were spirits that caused this, but now i am completely assured they are

WHY are you suddenly "completely assured they are"?

John, when you get the swelling do you use ICE on the area? Swelling means the area is inflamed, and ice reduces inflammation. Also, a chiropractor would cost you much less (mine charges about $40 a visit) and come with much more experience in this topic than an ER doc ($500 a visit). You see, chiropractors are so trained that they can just feel with their hands if something is out of alignment. My chiro always amazes me with how he/she is able to find things, diagnose, etc. With you "losing feeling" in your body that very much sounds like a pinched nerve. And bulging or herniated discs are very common as well.

Why are you now certain that your issue is demons? Can you point to anything specific?

i felt like the Lord revealed it to me because my body began feeling fine again when i put my trust in him that day and then i could feel demonic spirits trying to attack my body and make me believe the lie that things were going to get bad again.

I just wanted to update everyone with my injury. It has been 2 weeks since the Lord delivered me from the hell i was going through, oh it was terrible, but needed. Since then I truly believe the Lord revealed to me that demonic spirits were behind me getting so bad. Since i recognized that i have been attacked and known it was demonic since then, i could actually feel the demons trying to touch my body and make my body go paralized. They been attacking my thoughts so much, i have had no rest for two weeks barely at all. Please pray the Lord would stand strong against the demons and help me. The battle is truly been hard especially in my mind. I have led the last two bible studies at my church, i need to let the Holy Spirit lead me, please pray that i become humble and that the Spirit leads me at all times, God doesn't need me to speak. I actually am going back to work today praise God, please pray i honor him their in everything and that he protects me from all demonic attacks and lie from the devil. Thank you for all your prayers, the Lord is leading me out of this darkness.