Summer 2009 I myself, Paul Rooda, had been suffering from pain in both my hips since December 2008. That had come about because we had been sleeping on a couch for one month, in anticipation of getting our own home. What bothered me most was the pain in my left hip. Sometimes, when working at a concrete factory (I was an on-call worker), the pain was really bad. On July 27 2009 we went to Leusden, where we slept in an attic room. July 29 my hip was suddenly hurting so bad that on the stairs I could not push off with my left leg anymore. I started to rebuke the pain aggressively and spoke health, recovery and strength into my hip in Jesus' Name. I confessed that the stripes of Jesus had accomplished my healing. Within two days all of the pain, including the mild pain in my right hip had gone! Wonderful. Of course I had been praying and fighting for my healing many times before. I'm not sure why it took until summer before I was healed, but I do know that I started to pray aggressively and continually against the pain because it had gotten really bad, and I also started to proclaim health.

Paul Immanuel Rooda