Jamey Carrington from Georgia, who has a severe physical disability, shared how Jesus healed him in a way that we would never expect in his powerful testimony.
We all need healing in some form, don’t we. We have all been there, crying out to God over a health condition, a diagnosis, a pain that just won’t quit.
Physical healing is what we expect when we pray. It is the most natural thing in the world to ask God to take away what hurts. And there is nothing wrong with that.
But this young man is talking about a completely different kind of healing that most of us forget to ask for, and honestly, one that we probably need just as much.
Jamey Carrington was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 when he was just one year old. SMA is a degenerative condition that affects the muscles, and for Jamey, that means he cannot walk, feed himself, bathe himself, or put clothes on his own back.
His parents, Rachael and Kenney, took the diagnosis hard. And honestly, how could they not.
As Jamey got older and started to truly understand what his life would look like, the darkness crept in. He started to believe his life had no real purpose.
“I didn’t think that I had much of a purpose,” he said. “I didn’t think that I would get anywhere. I didn’t think that my life meant something.”
He thought maybe God just hated him. “I guess God just hates me because he’s out here tossing out disabilities to children like they’re hotcakes,” he said.
By the time he was about to enter high school, Jamey was standing at a crossroads. Do something, or give up completely. And then something happened that he says he still cannot fully put into words.
The Holy Spirit lit a spark inside him. Not just hope for himself, but a genuine fire to help other people out of their pain. He is actually glad he cannot explain it. “I think if I could explain it, it would be something other than the Holy Spirit,” he said.
Now here is what makes Jamey’s story different from what a lot of people expect when they hear the word healing. Jesus did not fix his body.
The SMA is still there. The wheelchair is still there. The daily help from others is still there. But Jamey is not angry anymore. He loves his life. And he is very direct about why. “He healed my heart. And there’s a big difference between the two.”
He points to Psalm 147:3, which says God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Jamey dug into the Hebrew and found that the word for heals in that verse actually means to rebuild. That distinction matters to him deeply. God did not patch something up. He rebuilt it entirely.
And then Jamey asks a question that honestly stopped me in my tracks. “Does God need to fix your problems or does he need to fix you? Does God need to create calmer waters or does he just need a better sailor?” That is the kind of question that stays with you for days.
He also had something to say about a phrase Christians use without thinking. We say we found Jesus. But Jamey pushes back on that. “Nobody finds Jesus. Jesus isn’t lost. You are. I was. And he finds us.” That’s the truth. He backs that up with John 15:5—apart from Christ, we produce nothing good.
Jamey leans on Ecclesiastes 3:11 as his favorite verse. God makes everything beautiful in its time, and we cannot see the full picture from start to finish. That verse gives him peace. It gives us peace too. Because it means God is not done yet. He is still at work.
He also leans on Philippians 1:6 which says God will finish what he started in you.
At just 19 years old, Jamey is already a disability advocate, content creator and motivational speaker. His sister Julia and his whole family have stood behind him every step of the way, even raising money for SMA research.
Jamey Carrington’s testimony is a wake-up call for all of us. We need that spiritual healing in our lives more than we know. Have you been praying for years for a breakthrough and still not seeing it? Maybe it is time to change the prayer.
Ask him to heal the heart first. Ask him to rebuild what is broken on the inside. Because when his Spirit lives in us, no diagnosis, no disability, no suffering, no storm this world throws at us can take away what God has planted deep in our soul. That is not just Jamey’s story. That can be ours too.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.” – 2 Corinthians 4:16
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