Read Part One HERE
In this post I will focus on a woman named Dorothea Trudel. She lived from 1813 - 1862.
Dorothea was brought up in a very poor family in Mannedorf, Switzerland. She was one of eleven children. Her father was an angry man who drank and could not support his family financially. At one point he sold one of their two cows, a source of income, and then disappeared for several years. But Dorothea had a very Godly mother who prayed continually. They could not afford doctors so normally when they were sick they relied on God and prayer. Dorothea say many amazing answers to those prayers, which set a foundation of faith in the goodness of God, in her heart.
Dorothea earned her living by working with flowers. She was a hard worker and eventually came to have several people working under her. When she was thirty-seven years old four or five of her workers became sick. She nursed them but the disease grew worse and the situation seemed hopeless. She had heard stories of God moving to bring healing and deliverance so she prayed for her workers and searched the Scriptures. While doing that she says that "like a sudden light, the well-known passage from the Epistle of James 5:14-15 flashed upon her."
Although her childhood had been filled with the necessity for prayer, it now dawned on her that this was something God wanted her to do. She went to her workers, brought anointing oil and prayed for them. They recovered. Her intitial experiment became a settled conviction. God heals through prayer! A wave of sickness broke out in her village. In her free time she nursed, prayed and taught about God's ability to heal using prayer. Many people in the village recovered due to her prayers. Soon people from all around her area began to come to her, and all her spare time was spent praying for the sick.
P.S. In will continue my story on Dorothea Trudel in my next post.
Read Part Twenty-Two HERE
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