Democratic representative and member of the far-left Squad, Cori Bush, claimed in her autobiography that she personally performed multiple miracles as a religious leader. According to the congresswoman, she discovered the “power” she possessed within herself upon applying the word of God in her life in “new ways.”
“As I learned how to apply God’s Word to my life in new ways, I better understood the power that was already residing in me,” Bush reportedly wrote of her in her book titled “The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America.”
She claimed it only took her realizing that she could harness said power to perform healing miracles on others. “It was there, waiting for me to acknowledge it, to use it. I had the confidence to heal others with God’s power,” she added.
Bush recounted an incident at a St. Louis church service where she allegedly healed a young girl with a brain bleed in a miraculous manner. She explained that the child had never walked, but she reportedly did when Bush commanded her to take steps.
“The child had had a bleed in her brain, shortly after she was born, and so couldn’t walk. She had never taken a step in her life,” Bush said. “I carried the child from the prayer room in the back of the church out into the sanctuary . . . ‘Walk,’ I said gently to the three-year-old girl, ‘you will walk.’ And this girl took her first step. Then another, and another. She walked.”
The Squad member continued, “Her grandmother walked into the sanctuary just in time to see the child take about two dozen steps. She screamed, and then she kept screaming. When she caught her breath, she looked at me in wonder and said ‘Praise God.’ She grabbed her granddaughter and walked with her out of the church.”
Another time, Bush claimed that she encountered a woman who was plagued with tumors so large they were visible on her torso. According to the congresswoman, the individual lacked the means to seek medical care for her ailment. Therefore, Bush claimed she prayed for the woman and shrank the tumors.
“One woman whom we met had several visible tumors on her torso. She was due to have surgery but lacked health insurance and living in the park. One of the tumors was particularly painful to her. I laid hands on her and prayed, and I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body,” she said.
However, Bush’s miraculous claims have been met with skepticism. “I don’t think what she’s claiming happened,” Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, said about the congresswoman’s claims. “Definitely as a physician I would encourage people to seek treatment for cancer and other ailments.” Bush has been associated with a faith-healing church in Missouri. There have been long-standing debates within the Christian community about whether healing ministries are legitimate or not.
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