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Diana Spelger
Diana
Spelger couldn’t ignore God’s prompting.
So after being confined to a
wheelchair for 17 years, Diana stood. Her legs
that had atrophied, her feet that had curled,
suddenly were strong enough to hold her.
On October 3, 2004, she was in a
service at Faith Assembly of Lacey. Pastor Dan
Secrist was praying. “I felt my body was
on fire,” she said. “And the Lord said you need
to get out of your wheelchair.”
Diana doubted. “I said I can’t.
It was scary. My feet were curled in. My legs
were turning into pretzels. It had been so long
since I had walked.” But she got up from her
mobilized wheelchair and walked. “It was so
amazing,” she said. “I was so excited. I was
walking.”
Six months earlier, Diana became
a Christian and was baptized in August prior to
her healing. She considers her salvation as much
of a miracle as her healing. “If I had to choose
between my salvation and my healing, I’d choose
salvation,” she said. “My healing is the icing
on the cake.”
She shares her testimony and her
healing to encourage the faith of others. “It
took faith,” she said. “If I didn’t have faith I
wouldn’t have gotten out of the chair. I
wouldn’t have walked. That’s all He asks of us
is to have faith. Faith and action are
connected. If I hadn’t listened to Him, I could
still be where I was.”
Born in 1948, Diana contracted
polio at 19 months. She wore braces and used
crutches until she was almost 9 years old. But
in the early 1980s, she began falling and was
losing leg strength. Doctors told her she had
post-polio syndrome. She began using crutches
and by 1987 was in a wheelchair.
“Polio attacks everything,” she
said. “It attacked my back, my legs and my
neck.”
Today, Diana values prayer.
“Prayer is so important,” she said. “Prayer,
reading my Bible and going to church are all
important. It’s all because of Him. I don’t want
to miss any part of it.”
Last May, Diana walked a mile at
Faith Assembly’s annual Fun Run. She plans on
walking two miles this May. She’s still battling
chronic fatigue. But she recently painted her
granddaughter’s bedroom. And she plans to go
back to work.
Now, at 58, Diana says, “I don’t
have a care giver anymore. I haven’t worked and
finding a job is going to be tough. The doctor
still says I can’t work. But in order for me to
glorify the Lord, I need to do that. He will be
there.”
At Faith Assembly of Lacey, we celebrate the
work that God is doing in the lives of the
people of our church.
That’s why we’d love to hear
your
story! Don’t feel like you have to follow a set
format or be an accomplished writer to tell your
story. Instead, just let us know how God is
working in your life, helping you grow closer to
Him — no matter where you are on your spiritual
journey.
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