Chaplain's Corner
Mark Shogren
July 2026
This month I am doing something a little different. I am giving my personal testimony on a healing I received from the Lord. I wanted our members to know God does heal, hopefully it will be beneficial to those that are struggling with physical ailments.
“O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.”
Psalm 30:2 KJV
God heals! How often people hear those words in time of need, but do they really believe it? This month I picked a Bible verse that directly applied to a time in my life of pain and suffering that went on for 25 years, and ended in healing.
The reason I am giving my testimony of healing is to let readers know, God does heal. Why some receive a healing and others do not is something only God can answer. Even the Apostle Paul cried out to God three times due to an infirmity; and God answered him in 2 Corinthians 12:9 “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” God chose not to heal Paul according to His will, not Paul’s. God’s sovereignty rules overall; and He has a purpose for everything He does.
For 25 years I suffered with severe migraine headaches. They frequently affected business commitments, and personal obligations. The migraines got to the point where I would lay in bed and pray the Lord take me home. Often times I would end up in the hospital having numerous tests along with various medications that helped little. Family and friends prayed for my healing to no advantage.
We were living in Texas at the time (1989) when I contacted my sister Pam to pray for me; I was having a severe migraine headache one evening. Pam had a prayer ministry and was a faithful prayer warrior. She had prayed for my healing for many years. Pam and I grew up in an abusive household with many bad memories. Our dad was an alcoholic and would become very angry the more he drank. Often times he would call me names, one of his favorite was weakling. Pam said I needed to forgive dad for calling me names which included the physical abuse. When Pam started to pray God gave her a vision of a blackness over my brain, which was a demonic spirit. Pam took authority over the demonic spirit in Jesus Name, and said the Lord rebuke you, and cast you into outer darkness. This was all going on as I was forgiving my dad for the physical and mental abuse; which was key to my healing. At that very moment I strongly felt a physical healing taking place. The only way to describe it would be like having something large being ripped off of my head and cast from me, which in this case happened to be a demonic spirit. At that point I knew I had been healed. Let me be clear this oppressive spirit was on the outside not the inside. A Christian can be demonically oppressed on the outside, but not the inside where the Holy Spirit dwells. After my healing took place the Lord impressed on Pam to turn to Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.”
After our call ended Pam looked up the word migraine in the World Book Encyclopedia, it said “weakness to the blood vessels of the brain”. So one of the names (weakling) that my father used to call me somehow became a stronghold for a demonic spirit to oppress me for those 25 years. In Proverbs 18:21 is says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” That night the demonic power was broken and God showed us His truth, John 8:32: “and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Since that evening in 1989 I have never had another migraine headache, thank you Jesus! God does hear our prayers, remain faithful for He is faithful; He loves us with an everlasting love!
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