I found this story in an article written by Bert Farias for Charisma News:
A young student came to my house to explain to me why she hadn't been to Bible school for a couple of weeks. A log had fallen on her leg and fractured it. The leg was stiff and she couldn't bend it. She had no money or insurance to put a cast on it.
I laid hands on her leg and commanded her to move it and bend it. At first she grimaced in pain, but I kept telling her to move it because the power of God was in her leg and was working. After about the third or fourth time she began to weep.
The pain was gone and she was able to bend her leg perfectly.
She wept some more. As I bid farewell to her I saw her from out of the window of my house walking down the dusty road we lived on with her hands up in the air praising God.
I can't think why Bert Farias was so impressed to see the girl walking down the dusty road. It was only a short while earlier that she had walked up the same dusty road to visit him in his house. She hadn't written him a letter explaining her absence from bible school; she hadn't asked a friend to deliver the message; she hadn't called Farias on the telephone; she hadn't driven her own car to his house. She had walked up that dusty road all on her own, and now she was walking back down the same road.
Clearly her leg was not stiff enough, nor painful enough, to prevent her walking up to the house, so it is not surprising that she was able to also walk away from the house a short time later.
Sure, now that I've mentioned it, Farias will start adding more details to the story in an effort to explain the situation. He might say that the student was brought to the house in a friend's car but the friend had to leave early - which didn't matter because, after the healing, the student no longer needed the friend's help. Farias might say that. I wouldn't believe him.
Have you ever noticed that all these faith healing stories contain no checkable details:
- When did it happen? We don't know.
- Who was the student? We don't know.
- Was the leg really fractured? We don't know.
- Can we contact the student and ask for details? No we cannot.
- Does she verify the story Farias tells us? No she doesn't.
- So is it a true story or a lie? Probably a lie.
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