Christian doctor, Dr Bill Isaacs-Sodeyer, who saw a disabled child healed when he prayed, shared his story at the Norwich dinner of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship earlier this year.
 
The doctor, a former professor of haematology, had “hardly dared believe for a miracle”’ and says he was “flabbergasted” when the child was actually healed, because he felt his faith was so feeble. However, this unusual outcome launched him on “a quest to discover more of the Jesus who still heals today”.
 
He went on to experience more healings. “I’ve seen many miracles,” he says.
 
Born the son of a Nigerian railway clerk, Bill had originally come to the UK on a cargo boat, but eventually won a scholarship to Magadalene College, Cambridge. He spearheaded a breakthrough in sickle-cell anaemia and became a medical professor.
 
Following a successful 25-year medical career, he went to theological seminary and was ordained in the Anglican church. He has also spoken in America, Africa, the Caribbean and India.
 
Today, he says he is “not retired, but re-fired”. He likes to quote the Oxford scholar and writer professor C.S.Lewis, who said: “If you don’t wish to see miracles, you’ll always have an alternative explanation when extraordinary things happen.”