Oh mama, that is a huge hole in your back!!!

"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." Mark 11:24

"Jesus turned and saw her. 'Take heart, daughter,' he said, 'your faith has healed you.' And the woman was healed from that moment." Matthew 9:22

Keala Faith Skeele

On Friday, March 20, 2009, our daughter Keala had ran into some glass. It shattered and she had gotten a cut on her back. Most of you already know this. If this is new to you and you were kept out of the loop on this, we apologize. Everything happened so fast and God has just miraculously healed her.

We are going through a three month internship at the House of Prayer and she was at her class. They were having free time and the kids decided to have a little race. Keala ran into the glass wall/window. She tripped over and the glass fell on her back and she got a huge cut on her back. Just one cut, but it was about three inches long and one and one half inch deep. So when you have a cut that big it just lays wide open. It was open about one and one half inch. It was quite disturbing to be able to look into the back of your child. There were some scary moments with the doctors since they didn't know if the cut had hit her spine, her colon, or her kidney. She had all feeling in her feet, legs, and hand and she was in a very cheery disposition. Those were really great things in her favor. After some test everything looked really positive. The cut did not damage her spine, kidney, or colon. All they had to do was do some minimal exploring of the wound and then stitch her up. The glass cut through her muscle in her back so they also had to stick that up as well.

Within a few hours of Keala's accident, we had people in Kansas City, Virginia, Hawaii, and Oregon praying for Keala. There might have been more so sorry if your prayed for us and I didn't list you. Give a shout out and let us know!!

Matt and I didn't have the time to really contact anyone. We just called our parents to let them know. Everyone else found out by the community that we developed here at IHOP. When the people here say that they are going to pray for you, they actually do it. We actually believe that prayer moves the heart of God to act on our behalf. We firmly believe that the prayer that was sent out for Keala and our family was immediately answered because Keala had almost no pain. She went three house before the doctors gave her any pain medicine. Everyone kept asking her over and over again about her pain, but her pain numbers were low.

Two days after she got stitched up she was walking around the house. On the third day she stopped taking the pain medicine (Advil). I could not stop her. She would just want to go everywhere and do everything. She did take it easy the first week and I made her stay home a lot, but after that I couldn't tell her slow down. She is healed. She still has some superficial healing still going on, and her body will tell her if she can or cannot do something, but only two weeks after the trauma, she looks great.

This is her EMT guy, Mr. Eric. Keala had some very nice things to say about him. He was great with Keala and made Keala very comfortable and happy in the ambulance.

This was about three days after the stitches were in. She looks fabulous and it was already healing very nicely.

This one is of Keala's back when all of those terry strips fell off. It just looks amazing. So this is about 10 days after her surgery. There was no bruising in this area. Totally not what I was expecting. Thank you, Jesus.

This one is exactly two weeks after the accident (April 3). Every time I think about her healing, I just start to cry. It just makes no sense that she is doing this well. I know that kids heal faster than most, but this was crazy fast. We totally agree that it was the prayers of the saints going up on our behalf that have healed her. Thank you to all who prayed and to all who love us. Please continue to pray for us and Keala even now.

Blessings in Jesus name!