Walk Worthy Press: Brother Word

Author Testimony / Why I Wrote Brother Word

First, I have to give God the glory for all that He has done in my life. The joy of my heart is seeking Him for stories that bless, encourage and inspire believers. Brother Word is a story that was birthed out of events I observed and even experienced during a season of my life where, for the first time in my life, I began to see His power made manifest in the form of divine healings.

Although I grew up in the church and have been involved in the church all my life, my childhood experience of “church” tended to be more of a traditional worship experience. I remember being taught the Bible, the blood of Jesus and the power of salvation as a result of Jesus’ work on the cross. But during my childhood, I never saw anyone lay hands on someone who was sick and believe God for a supernatural healing (akin to the Book of Acts miracles) during my childhood. The churches we attended just weren’t those kinds of churches.

When I went off to college, however, for the first time in my life I began to meet and interact with Christians who were more “radical” than me – in that they hailed from more Pentecostal backgrounds and had no reservations about publicly praying for students on the campus for whatever prayer requests those students had. My faith grew in leaps and bounds from simply being around these bold, young, Spirit-filled Christians. I can remember several instances where they would lay hands on students and pray for them, and not too long afterward, we would hear the praise reports from their prayers. I think the seeds for Brother Word were being formed then, because I observed that even though a believer may have a spiritual gift (including the gift of healing), that didn’t exclude such a person from having a deficiency in another area of his/her life. What was true for the Bible days, how God uses people with deficiencies to demonstrate how His strength is made perfect in their weaknesses, remains true today.

So the character of Chance Howard was created in my mind – a man whom God had given an extraordinary gift of healing but who remained in need of an internal “healing” himself. For how can any man reconcile in his mind the irony of being able to lay hands on complete strangers and see them healed, but not see the same result happen to his own wife?

While writing the story, it was a blessing to study and read about the lives of Christians who were catalysts during great revivals in years past. My faith definitely increased, not only in the area of divine healing, but in the power of God to be demonstrated more fully even in my own life. God still works miracles every single day, and it is my prayer and desire that Brother Word would be an encouraging, uplifting story that will remind us all of this truth.

Derek Jackson

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