Preparing our fields may take days, weeks or even years, but the work is necessary for His plans and purposes to take root in our lives. Ryan, a 24-year-old university student, has been confined to a wheelchair for the last three years, the result of an auto accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Months after the accident his doctors declared emphatically that he would never walk again. Ryan and his mother, however, received numerous confirmations of God’s plan to heal him completely.