Hello people, I am going to dive into a subject that is so controversial and misunderstood, quite honestly I don’t know where to begin! Here goes, I will begin with my son Daniel, he was born with asthma, a life threatening disease, a disease I knew about all too well! My sister Angela has been plagued with allergies and asthma all her life, while I seemingly had a normal life! I had watched my sister lay on the couch for most of her life with a pile of Kleenex next to her! I seen her have to say no, to loves that she had, and I did not want to see Daniel go through what she went through! Here is a segment of our story!
Daniel was 6 months old when he was admitted into the hospital for the first time! I had been ill and could not use my hands while I was pregnant for him, I thought when he came home from the hospital that things would start to change for the better, they did not! By this time in my life, my mother had died from having two heart attacks, my father had also had multiple heart attacks, my grandfather died of a brain aneurysm, my cousin David was killed instantly along with his friends in a car accident, and I had many more cousins, aunts, uncles, and other relatives die sudden deaths! I had a cousin Freddie who had died of a lung disease called cystic fibrosis, lung diseases were not my friend and I was not going to sit down and watch my son live a life of anything but what a “normal” healthy child should!
I was afraid, I was desperate, and the only thoughts I had was that my mother had just died and some ugly thing was trying to kill my son too! No way, no how, would I stand by and watch that, but I just did not know what to do! The medicine that they give parents for these kids is so powerful, that I thought to myself, I am killing him with medicine! I can’t do this to my child, he is a baby and I am killing him! I was desperate for an alternative to medicine, desperate for my life to change, desperate for our lives to look like a family I would want to be part of, with a life I would want to live!
I was attending a church in Grand Blanc, called Mt. Hope Church. The pastor, John Galinetti and his wife Wendy seem surreal somehow. They were so young and full of life and hope, I thought, I appreciate all the great things that you say every week, if only what you said were true for me!! I would leave each service with the hope that our lives would get better, never knowing when or how that would come to be!
One day, while at church, I clearly heard that God healed today!! I had no choice but to believe this concept! Everything inside me screamed, why didn’t anyone ever tell me this before?? My mother could be alive, and my whole life could have been different, if we would have only known the God who heals today! People would tell stories, at our church, how they were sick and then healed by God alone! Now understand, they went to the doctor, they took medicine, but God alone healed them through faithful prayer, and the power of His spoken word combined with faith! It is not easy to teach on what it takes to be healed, but the point is, He does heal today!
I started calling the church daily, sometimes many times per day and asking questions! They were always kind to me and the person who answered the phone would always respond with, “the word says”…..etc. I remember feeling angry, because they were not speaking my language, but then later was grateful that they had a different language that I needed to learn to acquire faith to heal! My language spoke of my situation, their language spoke of the answers! God’s word has the answers to all of our questions in this life and beyond!
One time one of the amazing people on the phone recommended two books, mind you I hate reading, I read them both and many more! One was called; God’s Book of Promises, and the other, which I gave away years ago, was a book on how to receive healing! Here is what I did! Drum roll………..I did what the book said to do!! Cymbal CRASH!! Yes, I play music and am a comedian!
I took my obsessive compulsive behavior, that is so looked down upon and used it for the healing of my son! I read the bible day and night, trying to figure out who this Jesus was that I was learning about in church! He was the greatest thing I had ever known, I wanted to know every little detail of who He was and why He would do anything so grand, as to take away sickness from us all! I would pray,(without ceasing), for minutes, hours, weeks, and more! I would turn on my favorite worship music and worship for hours, every day! I started finding ministries on t.v. that excelled in healing and would watch them and pray whatever prayer they were praying, hoping that my son would be healed that day and every day!
I was persistent, I never stopped believing that God would heal him! I only hoped it would be soon because when he became sick, it was scary and took him at least one month to be breathing right again! I began to take my book with the healing scriptures in them and I would read every scripture in the book over him while he was eating, twice a day which took me a total of two hours every day! When I would be speaking with God, He would tell me things to do for Daniel! I had no clue, at the time, that it was God speaking, but I would get these amazing ideas, it was like a light bulb going off in my head, I would try them and they would work! I shared with no one what I was doing, because quite honestly, I did not know what I was doing, I was just doing it!
It took five years of prayer, fasting, (going without food and spending the time I would eat with God), worshiping, reading my bible, and speaking healing scriptures two hours a day over Daniel, before God healed him! I knew when he was healed, I told my husband Rob that Daniel had no more asthma and I would prove it by going to the doctor’s and having him tested. Rob looked at me like he always does, with question marks all over his face??? We made our appointment and the test results came back 100% clear from having any sign of asthma at all!
Not only does he not have asthma, my son very rarely, if at all, gets sick! When everyone has the flu, he doesn't! When allergens hit the air, he is fine! He was bitten by a spider this summer and everyone thought he was done in, I simply said,” God heals and nothing will harm you”! I created some concoction that God’s wisdom told me to put together and within less than 24 hrs., what had been there for one week was almost 100% gone! There is no doubt in my heart that God heals! I wish I would have known this my whole life, but I cannot change the past, I can only move forward today! Here are some scriptures that you can start speaking today, I will choose the ones that meant the most to me!
Luke 7:7 That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Luke 8:47 Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.
Luke 9:11 but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.
Luke 13:32 He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.
There are so many books with healing scriptures, we can just go buy them at the bookstore! Today accessing the bible is so easy, go online and just type in healing scriptures or go to Bible Gateway and type in heal, pages and pages will come up! Read healing scriptures out loud, personalize them to you and your situation! Worship God with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength! I believe the number one key to receive healing, is to just make Jesus the number one love of your life! He heals people who don’t even know Him, but I believe He loves to show the ones who love Him, how loved they really are!
You may be thinking many things right now like, I have prayed, and did not receive a healing or something along those lines! You may even be slightly angry because you need healing or have lost a loved one and it just does not make sense! Like I said earlier, this is a segment, a portion of information, in hopes of building your faith for today and tomorrow! We can not change the past, but I welcomed the good that was available to me and many others and I hope that you can have your own journey of the goodness of God working in your life, from this day forward!
Understand, I know that not everyone gets healed, but my attitude is, I will believe for everyone to be healed! I will give all I have and am to see the lives of others get better! I will always believe for the best! Then at the end of the night, when I lay my head on my pillow, I know that as far as it depended on me, I did all I knew how to do! All we can ever do is our best, the rest is up to God!
Jesus you are the healer of my soul, my mind, and my body! Continue to heal my heart, my mind and my body this day! You are the healer of the broken hearted, and my heart breaks for all who are sick in their minds, bodies and souls! Reach your loving hand down and rearrange our thinking to be like yours! Increase our faith in your goodness and cause us to desire your word, your ways, and your truths above anything else! In your holy, precious, powerful name, Jesus, amen!
I hope this has encouraged you today! Thanks for reading, Michelle.
