Rugby England the town is world known as
the place where a soccer ball was first
picked up thereby starting the game of
rugby rugby is the home place of mrs.
Jean Neal a housewife and mother of four
children we traveled to rugby to cover
mrs. Neal's
extraordinary story we are standing here
outside the st. Cross Hospital in rugby
England after breaking her spine about
25 years ago mrs. Jean Neal spent about
four years of her life here in this
hospital during that four year stay she
had to undergo at least ten operations
Jean Neal's severe medical problems
began as far back as 1964 it was in that
year that she fell and damaged her spine
for the first time after laying four
weeks in this st. Cross Hospital without
improvement the doctors made the
decision to remove the coccyx of the
spine through surgery that first
operation was the start of many years of
indescribable suffering and pain for
mrs. Neal I've known Jean for about five
years and have been aware of her past
medical history which has included a
long history of back pain amongst other
medical problems she's had car accidents
which was quite a major trauma for her
her back pain has increases by
manipulation tablets and painkillers and
so on in the usual way and she'd had two
operations on her spine to relieve the
particular pain in the lumbar area she'd
also had an operation at the base of her
spine to remove the coccyx which was
another source of pain
Payne operations these beds and then
more pain the three operations mentioned
by dr. West were only a few of the more
serious ones revealed in Jean Neal's
medical history as already mentioned in
1964 the coccyx was removed in 72 sharp
severe pain and the back was treated
with traction a plaster jacket
manipulation and epidural and lumbar
support all to no avail in 73 the first
laminectomy was performed to remove a
prolapsed disc in 75 a second
laminectomy this time to alleviate the
pain in 81
a further reoccurrence of pain this time
on the right side of the back
exploratory surgery was done and a
protruded disc was removed in September
of the same year mrs. Neal had a
terrible car accident putting her head
through a windscreen operations had to
be done to remove embedded glass from
the skull all these medical difficulties
left mrs. Neal with one leg two inches
shorter than the other and a hip that
was out of joint she also had other
serious medical problems that nearly
cost her her life we've had three heart
attacks angina which is what he left
really left me with this very bad angina
I was I had heart patches which I had to
put on daily and take heart tablets I've
bronchitis very bad and I used three
inhalers a day to sort of regulate my
breathing during two hard tablets that I
was on it was actually causing blindness
and I just have to had some really thick
glasses to help me to see the pain at
times was so bad that my brain couldn't
take it and I would just black out
completely the worst medical affliction
however was yet to come
in 1986 an accident happened that was to
confine mrs. Neal to a wheelchair
almost permanently say two years ago I
was at my daughter's and bent down to
pick one of the grandchildren up because
my daughter was in bed at the time and
my back went again but this time it
seemed to be for the last time you know
I've spent the last two years in
hospital chair I think she'd been
looking after her grandchildren and had
gone to pick up one of them and had had
enough an acute severe back pain and
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it was really very difficult to suggest
any further treatment the normal things
that one would do for a person with an
acute severe back pain would be
painkillers
perhaps anti-inflammatory tablets
manipulation but for someone who's had
two operations and with a long history
of that trouble manipulation I felt was
completely out of the question and the
pain was so he didn't seem to get better
with the usual course of bed rest and so
on and in fact her pain over the
following few months became worse and
and much more severe when all else had
failed mrs. Jean Neal turned to a
measure of last resort she visited a
special orthopedic hospital here in the
northwest of England in a town by the
name of Oswestry here she saw one of
Britain's leading orthopedic surgeons a
man by the name of Steven Eisenstein
does he save up Jean was a chronic
invalid and a normal doctor or person
seeing her would think there was no hope
she was a chronic invalid doctors even
suggested that they would relieve her
pain and you know paralyzed her for the
rest of her days they could easily do
that and the great planet was Westray he
said he didn't really want to do the up
and he was offering her nothing just
going through with it
because she wanted to we also
interviewed another couple George and
Jean sensical they are close family
friends of Jean and were able to give us
some personal insights about Jean Neel
situation well the first time we met
Jean she was in a very poor condition
she had great difficulty in walking that
was before she had the accident and we
went to see her in hospital on two
occasions the first occasion she was on
traction and in a very poor way at that
stage she was told that nothing at all
could be done to help her
every time she got in the car on some
occasion she screamed she's in dreadful
pain she couldn't really put one foot
before the other and a time so I felt
most uncomfortable because having gotten
in the car I knew that I'd got the task
of getting her out of it again but she's
been very good throughout I think her
faith has been absolutely tremendous
she's been such a dedicated worker and
member of the Pentecostal church and
while she was so well and absolute in
sheer agony there's no other way to
describe it she was in sheer agony we
cried with her I would go to the meeting
happy with a joy of the Lord and
everything else and I would look at her
because I would often sit further back
because George prefers her sed bit
further back when he does come with me
and I would see her sitting on her
cushion on the hard wooden chairs and
halfway through the meeting she would
look round at me and sort of look at me
and I would just sort of nod my head to
let him know that I was still bringing
her before the Lord didn't throw out the
meeting and then sometimes halfway
through the meeting she would just be in
so much pain she could not sit any
longer she literally would stand up and
lean up against the wall of the church
with her two sticks at that time which
were aid in her to even stand and she
would just stand there for an hour at a
time rather than leave the house of God
gene Neal's faith in God and the prayers
of her and many others did not go
unheard in February of 1988 gene had an
unusual dream and God had showed me how
I was at Birmingham NEC and there was
rows of wheelchairs and I was the second
of two wheelchair people in a wheelchair
and the first lady got a pair
millions sat back in a wheelchair and
run a bunkie laid hands on her even in
the stream that was him that was laying
hands on people and he told the lady it
was faithlyn she should get up and walk
in the name of Jesus and eventually as
so she didn't get up and walk this was
another dream and I was the second and I
got up out the chair was running on
March the 12th 1988 the National Youth
rally of the Assemblies of God was held
in the giant auditorium of the
Birmingham National Exhibition Center in
the rally's final service West German
evangelist Reinhard bunker was
ministering Jean meal was sitting in her
wheelchair off to one side of the
auditorium when time came for prayer for
the sick it happened just as in gene
Neil's dream Reinhard Bonnke first
prayed for this lady who finally got up
hesitantly from her wheelchair and
walked he then literally ran to where
Jean Neil was sitting in her wheelchair
after laying hands and praying for her
he told her to get up and walk
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pray to Jesus
crazy Jesus
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where is she
well is that lady my god what's happened
to you
praise God no isn't that did you witness
this how many fathers
right now tell me what was wrong with
you it's punishable 25 years 25 years
fine trouble 25 years trouble now look
at this
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do you mind to come up come up come up
the platform just tell us what Jesus
system could you bring that wheelchair
as well
some strong and Stewart's take that
ReachOut husband and wife's will come
come
Jesus dies today
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you are
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isn't that terrific I would like you to
look at what is your name
Jean mrs. Jean Neal you are the husband
John you pushed your wife yes now your
wife will push you isn't that terrific
you know I'll tell you the truth Jean
when I came in here and I saw you there
the Holy Spirit said to me that woman
will be here tonight I say that before
time when I came from there I was
heading straight for you and I am
thrilled
now what was actually wrong with you
I've heard spawn trouble for 25 years
I've had three major operations and I'm
the 23rd of December my pastor and his
rifle vouch for it because they're their
son-in-law got me in an appointment to
see the big specialist there and I was
due actually to have a fourth my a major
operation where they were going to take
bone from my head fuse it into my spine
and I was to be away from my family for
a year
praise God
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well his car
a man she can outrun she can now paint
she can do everything
in Jesus name can you give us a small
demonstration what off well have a
little run here have a little run
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Jean Neil had truly been blessed by God
and the depth of her miracle was
astounding her doctor explained his
reaction when she bounded into his
offices after the healing unbelievable
she walked in without any pain
whatsoever she came in she said I'm
perfectly well and she bent over and
touched her toes and stood up there like
that without any sign of distress at all
this is completely unbelievable we asked
dr. West if there was a medical
explanation for what had happened to
mrs. neele as far as a medical
explanation is concerned I suppose
there must have been a severe and
chronic muscle spasm perhaps with nerve
root irritation which was not responsive
to any of the treatments we tried in
terms of the tablets I described muscle
relaxants physiotherapy and so on and
how it came about that this chap I'm
sorry I don't know his name
was able to pick her out of the audience
and for a succeed where we had failed
will remain a mystery to me although due
to his surgery schedule Stephen
Eisenstein could not be interviewed on
the day we visited Oswestry he did
release a medical statements about Jean
Neal's case in it he stated this patient
has returned today to show me personally
that she is completely cured as a result
of a religious evangelical experience
some months ago I have examined her
today and find that there is absolutely
no limitation to her physical ability in
any
way she has a full range of completely
painless spinal movement there is no
evidence of any neurological deficits
she was able to run up and down the
outpatient clinic before witnesses she
declares that she has no pain the local
pressure over the previously extremely
tender spine did not produce any pain
response at all Jean Mills miracle
therefore was truly one from head to
foot and according to her optician even
her eyesight made a dramatic recovery as
a result mrs. neele spectacles have been
greatly reduced in strength and her
eyesight is better than it was when
tested eight years ago in all other
areas mrs. neele has been declared 100%
fit no doctor however has needed to
prove to Jean Neel her newfound health
she was immediately able to do things
she had not done for 25 years gan for
jean is the screaming agony when getting
into a car jean is now able to god
bending over without hindrance she has
also been able to mix mortar for a
church building project jeans story was
picked up by local and national
newspapers and none of them were able to
find any flaw in her healing the medical
world had no explanation and were
dumbfounded by what had happened when we
covered the story the miracle was 7
months old and even the skeptics were
beginning to acknowledge the healing
probably the most skeptical was the
government Department of Health and
Social Security when we visited Jean had
been trying for 7 months to send back
her mobility allowance to them each time
the money had been returned to her
because of skepticism about her healing
this morning in the post
I received a form for what we were
calling mobility allowance and I feel
her
have to write back and say that under no
circumstances could I support her
application for mobility allowance she's
no longer disabled gene has returned to
st. Cross Hospital no longer as a
patient but as a volunteer she now
serves tea to the patients in the ward
where she spent so many years of agony
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some of those most excited about Jean
Neal's testimony were the children who
Jean had taught Sunday school to cheers
everybody was so happy that she was held
and before that we were all praying to
see if she'd be back first well pray for
the most excited of them all however was
G Neal herself she shared with us her
deep feelings about the healing I might
give all the glory and praise to God no
glory goes to any man I thank God for
people chosen to be used as vessels and
to lay hands on people and to minister
to the sick but I give God the glory and
praise for this for this healing and I
just thank God that I've got something
to shout about