Hi, I’m Sandra and I’ve always believed, but was brought up in a house that didn’t believe in Christ. When I was younger, I found an old-fashioned bible and started reading some passages, and Psalm 100 really stuck out to me and meant a lot to me as a child. I grew up without the church around me but I always knew there was something else. I really wanted to explore my faith, and this led me to start going to church and becoming a practicing Christian.
I first came to Telford Elim in 1992, and was baptised 2-3 years later. I was terribly frightened of the water, but when I went down under the water, we baptise by full immersion in the water, I started seeing purples and deep colours, and became quite happy just lying in the water – the fear just floated away.
Tom Kynaston and I met at church, and have now been married for 7 years. We started off as friends. It was nothing serious until it was, and we knew we would be together. However, we were only married 18 months before the illnesses started.
Tom had a bad hernia but, along with prayer, the operation he had meant it got better. Along with this, he had an ulcer in his mouth for two and a half years. From being sent to the wrong hospital department, we hadn’t found the help we needed. After time we found out it was cancer, and Tom had to have an operation to help him, 17 July 2024. It was a really hard time because we knew that his cancer had developed from being misdiagnosed and not treated in time.
The surgeon that operated was really marvellous and supportive, and there was a lot of people praying for Tom. Pastor Sandie came along in the hospital and prayed with us on the day, which meant a lot to both of us. After the operation, we found all the cancer had gone! Tom still has lots of issues with his tongue, because of where the skin graft was taken to repair his tongue. He also has had partial paralysis of his face in the area operated on. However, we are most grateful and thankful to the Lord, and for the surgeon.
Tom also had arterial fibrillation, which is also known as AF, starting in 2023. At first this happened intermittently, but as time went it gradually got worse. This eventually left him incapacitated and unable to do anything, or see anyone, for about 18 months. After getting looked at, two hospital procedures were performed, but neither worked.
We went on holiday for a break from it all in May, but got the sudden call and news that Tom’s older brother had died two weeks beforehand, and the stress and grief of this led to Tom having a minor heart attack while we were on holiday. This was a really hard time for us both away from home, and facing such great challenges.
His heart wasn’t working well but I knew through the power of prayer the Lord heals all. During church, the evening Gospel service in Shrewsbury Elim on 29 June, I felt the Holy Spirit there, and something made me want to pray for Tom. Pastor Malcolm was preaching about signs, wonders and miracles. So, I reached out and pressed Tom’s wrist for his pulse, and I prayed for signs, wonders and miracles over him, that he would be healed, as I held his wrist.
An amazing thing happened, just like that, his heart when back into sinus rhythm! I knew then this was a miracle, God answered the prayer there and then. When we came home from church that night, it was then that Tom felt the pulse which is in the side of his face, since the tongue op, and he knew that his heart was now in its proper sinus rhythm. Tom then knew that it was a miracle, God had answered Sandra’s prayer.
Later we went into hospital for Tom’s aortic problems to get checked out, and get an ECG done. During the time there we told the technician our story, and they couldn’t believe it when we described our miracle. Tom’s heart is still in proper sinus rhythm. Thank You, Lord!
As a Christian, I think we ought to stand up and be counted because if we don’t say it and tell people of the amazing things our Father does for us, how will they know? This world is not a good world, and unless, as Christians, we stand up and tell them about Jesus, then the good things He can do will not happen. That’s how they are all going to learn today in this day and age. The stories of God are no longer taught in schools and its heartbreaking, but they should be taught; it’s so important to teach the younger generation to know our Lord Jesus Christ, to come to Him in repentance and believe unto life in Him.
Through it all, I knew no matter what, that my Tom would be healed of these illnesses – I had no doubts because my God is faithful, and He answers our prayers.
This is our story of a miracle that happened because we were in the right place to hear God’s word preached, about the miracle working power of God for today. Because, in spite of Tom’s weakness at that time, we travelled to Shrewsbury, and the Holy Spirit inspired me to pray for Tom in the way I did, asking for a miracle.
There is something really powerful about sitting under the preached word of God. The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, and His preached word can lead to miracles, as in our case!
Sandra Kynaston
