Richard from Leister, UK, had had back pain from about the age of 17. At 27, he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a disease that fuses the spine together and makes a person increasingly less supple. He was at the stage where he needed to lie down several times a day because of the pain. In the night, his rib cage would go into spasms, so he would be unable to breathe for 30 seconds or a minute, but it felt much longer to him. He had received prayer maybe 1000 times. Every time someone gave a word about backs, he went forward. He went to a doctor who described his back like a car in a traffic jam. He said, "We can't stop the car from getting to the end of the road, but we can slow it down. As soon as it gets to the end of the road, it will be really bad." Looking back at that moment, Richard said, "When I heard that, I refused to believe the word of an expert over the word of God. So I prayed to God that he would stop the car. Then I went for prayer at my church and felt the heat go down my spine. I knew something had happened. I could tell there was a difference. I went for an MRI, and they said the disease had stopped. I just live a normal life now. I ran a marathon. I can pick up my kids and play with them. This was four years ago."