In this series Andrew teaches on Healing Journeys. Powerful testimonies of people that struggled with crippling diseases and have now been healed by the power of God. Build your faith as you hear these stories and receive all that God has for you!
welcome to our Thursday’s broadcast of
the gospel truth all of this week I’ve
been sharing good news with you and that
is that God won’t you well man I’ve got
a book by that title I’ve got a little
magazine by that title right here and
we’re offering this as a free gift to
you and all of this week we’ve been
playing healing testimonies of people
that were miraculously healed and we’ve
got a family over in England I remember
them coming to me and asking for prayer
and I had been praying with people they
were in a long line and right as they
got up to me I said I’m sorry I’ve got
to go it was time for the next service
and the guy who is the director of our
Bible College at that time he just
grabbed me and he says could you please
pray for one more in this woman Debra
McDermott I mean her face just said
everything she had come she had a word
from God that her two boys were going to
be healed of autism and so I just I mean
I remember and I only prayed 10 seconds
15 seconds it was a very very simple
prayer and when I got through I said
congratulations you are the parents of
two normal normal healthy boys and God
used that and I tell you one of the
greatest miracles I’ve ever seen happen
these boys were healed and the oldest
son Timothy graduated from our school in
the UK and he loved it so much he’s come
to the u.s. and he’s graduating from our
school in the US and Timothy is just a
praise report for God I tell you he is a
very popular kid in our school and just
totally healed today this is miraculous
autism is not incurable and here is
proof of it
they are going to have documented
doctors reports from the health system
in the UK to show you that God still
heals today even autism watch this the
healing testimony of James and Timothy
McDermott
and we were and had been for a very long
time there in a place of crisis as a
family and I was very very tired I come
to the point where I thought I would go
mad or drop
no one understands you from the outside
no one had any idea about the kind of
life that we were living that I and and
I just I cracked
pretty much since Tim had been born had
lived not a normal life he didn’t sleep
properly for about five six years he was
an inconsolable baby he was screaming
sweet as though he was in pain but the
doctors couldn’t find anything wrong
with him when he did go to sleep we were
absolutely terrified he was going to
wake up we couldn’t leave him we
couldn’t go anywhere we couldn’t be
apart from him so for many many years
that’s the way that we live it was very
very tough on us our relationship
because we didn’t have any time for
ourselves for a long time there was not
a lot of intimacy there was not a lot of
emotional connection because of the the
crisis that we were in as a family when
he was about nine eight and nine and he
hadn’t been to school because we
realized that he would have been
diagnosed with hyperactivity or a lack
of ability to concentrate because we
could see he couldn’t even sit down to
eat a meal he would run round the table
take him off or run around the table and
when I taught him his numbers we would
do it in the garden I’d ask him a sum as
he ran up the garden and he’d answer
coming down the garden and this is how I
taught him he never sat on my lap or lay
in bed while I had a bedtime story he
would walk round the carpet touching his
favorite bits going round and round and
round and as long as I would keep
reading he’d just keep walking round and
round touching his favorite bit
everything was timed so he knew where he
was in the day what was going to happen
next and the routine had to be very
structured his sleeping had always been
a huge issue
he had wake up after he’d been asleep
for an hour or two and he would jump up
screaming in terror and run around the
house but he didn’t recognise me
if I went towards him to comfort him he
would see me as a monster or something
and he would be terrified so it was
counterproductive I just have to stand
back and wait for him to calm down it
was just another one of the things that
we just dealt with and didn’t think much
about but it was quite an issue
when we had James many people have said
to us you’ll surely not get another
child who doesn’t sleep who sleeps as
badly as Timmy did I noticed one or two
strange things when he got to be 18
months and then he started spinning
round and round moving his head round
and when I changed his nappy you’d flap
flap flap flap and then instead of
pushing the cars we had action-man cars
big ones he’d turned them upside down
and spin the wheels for ages so there
were a few little odd things but not
enough to really I would just facilitate
his peculiarities and thought it was
okay but when he stopped talking and he
stopped communicating and then he
stopped liking people look at him and he
became distressed with light and then he
stopped eating foods and if there was
even the smallest lump in his morning
porridge he’d gag and vomited up then we
had a speech in language therapists come
in to assist Timothy and there were two
of them and I were chatting to Tim
trying to put him at ease and stir and
then chatting to means to report back
was they had found and they were
watching James who was playing with his
trains he loved trains was his favourite
toys anyway what they said to me was ah
isn’t it funny how autistic kids love
trains and I said
autistic kids so she says well it’s
obvious isn’t it
you didn’t know didn’t you know he’s not
autistic so she says
I think you should perhaps have him
assessed he shows a number of autistic
characteristics and that’s the first I
had even thought of it how absolutely
gutted in the days following this 2005
assessment Timothy was tested and
diagnosed with a form of autism called
Asperger’s syndrome while his younger
brother James exhibited all the symptoms
of autistic spectrum disorder and we
suddenly realized that gosh we were
going to have two children that got it
and what were the chances of that
I didn’t know that I was really
struggling I wasn’t living a normal life
myself I’d lost touch with who I was I
just functioned 24 hours a day as caring
for these boys so I was plowing a lot of
my energies into my job because I needed
to make sure that that was successful to
be able to support the family that meant
traveling a lot
and I thought if anyone found out my
state of mental health they take the
children away I was absolutely terrified
of them taking the children away but I
was also terrified that I couldn’t go on
and that’s when I cried out to the Lord
I say if you don’t help me now I’m
finished the credible pressure and the
incredible trauma that you you undergo
as a family you have to watch your your
children the things you love most in the
world battling not just with the the the
curse that they’ve got but also being
rational enough to know that they’ve got
it and it was those periods in which
Deb’s found it the most hardened which
she had the darkest days and it was
during one of those dark dark days that
she watched the mother’s day program
there were all mums talking about their
kids and they were talking about
nurturing snapshots and pictures and
talking about that which one’s doing
what at school and they were chatting
and it just hit me in like like a
sledgehammer that what I’m experiencing
and what they experiencing are just so
different and I was weeping and then I
said you know why don’t you help us I
had been asking god help me for four
years and I said I love my boys so much
and you’re supposed to love them more
than me why have you done this to them
and I said I would die for my boys and
that’s when he said I already did I was
so stunned I just shut up
I didn’t stop crying I just looked into
the fireplace and I just stared there
that really wasn’t my thought but
reading that was Jesus talking to me Wow
and that’s when I knew that they were
all right and I thought well he’ll heal
them I just sat there and stared at the
fireplace the tears went the pain went
the anxiety went the fears went
everything that had worried me over the
past number of years it was like a huge
load was just cut away and I was free
and I felt light and I just ii stayed
into that fireplace and from that moment
on that despair that terror the anxiety
that I lived with was gone when Timothy
went to the the school that was funded
by the the state it was a really huge
thing for us but we felt that he was
actually quite capable of doing it and
as he progressed and as they implement
increase the number of hours he went he
was awkward and I believe that the
healing just took place gradually as an
wind his world opened up and became
wider than he needed to cope with more
and more things it’s almost as if he was
covered in scales he was covered in the
scales of autism and over time those
scales have been peeled away and I would
say lord please send me someone to help
me I know you’re healing my boys but I
don’t know what to do and that was where
we were at when my mum phoned and said
watch Andrew Wommack
I he’s got this some healing testimonies
and you got to watch it and we will
watch it together and it was just
extraordinary even that he’s sitting
watching me think what is it really true
we had missed the beginning of Hannah’s
story but we came in and from where we
saw was enough to see what had taken
place with Hannah’s story and the vet
that struck me and was when he said
piece of cake for teases pity cake for
Jesus this is a piece of cake for Jesus
and they smart crept across his face and
asked that
this guy really believes this doesn’t it
you know and that faith on the inside of
us rose up so father Jamie and I just
agreed and we thank you that by the
stripes of Jesus Hannah has already been
healed it just my first faith just rose
up inside of me and I thought yes he’s
talking about my God my one and that’s
when Christopher jumped up and went to
check out the websites we research
Hannah’s Hannah and her story we found
out about Hannah’s grandparents and
Hannah’s mom and dad going to live in I
think in America and they’re the
grandparents going to the college in
Walsall it didn’t just have an impact on
Hannah it had an impact on this
incredible family in Iran and they were
all they’d all experienced it and they’d
all gone through this process and again
you then thinking to yourself wow you
know maybe this maybe this is all true
maybe this is really happening and from
that point on started to watch Andrew
Wommack every day but we bought on his
books or as many books as we could get
started to record his programs watch him
on the internet and we started to build
up a kind of trust
I suppose in what he was saying and in
what he was saying we could have and he
shouted from the study he’s going to be
in Walsall in two weeks so I thought
well we’ll just have to pray about it so
I phoned Andrew Wommack ministries and I
spoke to a woman there I told her the
situation I said look we want to come we
want Angie to pay for our sentence but
we just need some help to get there
and I remember she said to me what can
you believe for I think we can get there
I’m not sure that I can exercise my
faith enough to see us getting into the
building so she said that’s fine we’ll
get you there and if you can’t get him
out the car will send the prayer team to
the car I thought yes
she prayed in a way that I had never
heard before and it was great it was
authoritative it was thanking God that
it was done it was commanding and I
thought now he’s talking I have not
heard this kind of praying and I was so
thrilled to put down the phone I said
she said that this is going to happen
and this is going to happen and doomy
going to sleep and he’s going to eat and
Kristen was like yeah she’s never made
my son and for the next two weeks I made
a calendar counting down this is when
we’re going to go and stay in a hotel he
would cry every time I said it another
day and when I said no we’re going he
gained the spinny chair and he had spin
spin that’s been and you’d refuse to
come out for hours sometimes but the day
came and he whipped and he whips and he
physically was trying not to get into
the car it was hard work but I just sat
down and I prayed about it I said Lord
they said that he’d be able to get in
the car and that he’d be fine and that
you’d calm him and comfort him and all
would be well and so we’re coming and it
was amazing because he just smiled up
and said okay I’m ready let’s go and we
stretched a meal and he said there
Christopher and I just kept looking at
each other and sort of holding our
breath it was amazing we booked into the
hotel he was bouncing on the bed he was
really excited like this is an adventure
and once again Timothy was like he
couldn’t believe it
and said okay we’re going to go and eat
at the Kentucky Fried Chicken that the
Tara days is a debt so we were off to
the Kentucky Fried ticket and that’s
when Timothy ordered himself some
popcorn chicken we didn’t know what to
order James so we thought well we won’t
bother with anything because if we offer
him food and he doesn’t like it he
starts even sat down and he looked at
the food there was no heaving there was
no watery eyes and that
would normally have him with cooking
smells he said that he looked at the
popcorn chicken he’s at what Beth and he
said it’s southern called popcorn
chicken chicken chicken he had one he
said he said to me mine I think eight
and when he was finished at he said more
MORE
he ate a second blood he probably ate
more than I’ve ever seen him eat in one
sitting
ever he ate the chips he ate the chicken
and Christopher now I just love it it’s
a miracle and we haven’t even got there
yet and it was an answer to prayer it
was what she had paid was happening and
so then we got to the meeting and he was
absolutely fine to come out the car we
set in the coffee shop it was tea time
and there was a long queue of people
they wanted Andrew to sign books or pray
for them and what-have-you and called
Christopher and he got James and all
four of us stood in their queue I was
moving slowly along and there were about
five people in front of us
when Andrew said right it’s time to get
back tea breaks over when everyone
please go and sit down
no no no and I started crying I just
like the taps just open up oh no I’m not
going home now I’m not unlocked
Conqueror as it oh lord help me help me
help me I’m not going home without this
man pray for my sense and then that was
when Paul Flanagan saw us and he grabbed
us any shoved us in front of Andrew said
Andrew just one more and he said right
okay one more and we told him the
situation and he said a prayer something
along the lines
it was literally as quick as this he
rebuked autism and he commanded healing
and then he blessed us as a family and
he thanked the Lord that we were blessed
and that we would something along the
lines of a fulfill the God’s plan for
our lives and then he said Christopher
nihilus was so huge he said to
Christopher now you are now the parents
of normal healthy children
and everything happened so quickly I
remember hearing that like the whole
world went quiet there was just these
words it was I’ve to me and I still
believe it was Jesus talking to me and
so that was a promise that was a promise
that was for me and I knew that he was
right and I was so moved and we just
slipped out a side door got in the car
and we went to McDonald’s where James
ate the chicken nuggets and the tips in
there eaten for well you’ve never eaten
and we went home he went across the road
to the little girl who he had known but
hadn’t played with for over a year
invited her around and they played in
the sandpit on the trampoline and garden
he played for the rest the afternoon and
that was the time that night that he had
the first complete full peaceful
unbroken night’s sleep
she says the day he was born and he was
five years old at that point but when
three months later he’s still sleeping
well when six months later when a year
later two years later he’s still
sleeping well and he’s starting to
become the child that you thought that
you knew was there but you couldn’t
reach because of autism you believe in
it and believe in the process and those
experiences have allowed us to start to
live a normal animal life so for me it
was very important for us to to take the
boys back to the psychologist the people
who diagnosed them in the first place
because we knew there was something
wrong with them but we didn’t labeled
them Asperger’s and autism that was done
by the sought the professionals he was
taken to see the psychologist and she
spent an hour with him an hour and a
half chatting to him and at the end of
it there was no there was no battle
there was no fight it was patently
obvious that he wasn’t the boy that had
been diagnosed all those years ago and
what they said in the official medical
report confidential medical report from
the NHS Trust where we lived was that
Timothy is a new row developmentally
typical
young man and the label of Asperger’s
syndrome is not applicable
he has been discharged from my care and
that is to see it written down to see it
and I know this sounds awful but to see
an official really really brings it home
so as James developed and as James came
out of his his illness and came out of
his disease we wanted to do the same as
well and we were expecting probably an
even worse fight with James because we
thought again we’re going to take on the
might of the state here and these
professionals aren’t keen on being
proven wrong particularly with something
like autism because it is regarded as
being something that can’t be cured and
so when we went to see the psychologist
she said well this is wrong this
diagnosis is obviously not not
applicable to him he’s a normal boy he’s
perfectly capable of dealing and being
what you would regard as as normal so
she wrote in her official confidential
psychology report that we only had last
week as a rules are also bad discussions
and my interactions and observations
with James during our appointment it is
clear there has been been significant
progress over time in all areas
associated with the trial triad of
impairment with autism as a result the
label autism spectrum disorder is no
longer appropriate for James and should
be removed from any documentation in the
future that relates to him and and you
just you know you can’t want to read
that you just actually I just want to
start I just want to start crying really
because it’s just it’s not just what
we’ve experienced and it’s not just that
we know it but because this is now
official it means that forever and ever
so when we’ve gone when the boys are men
when they’re old and they’re gray they
will or not have this with them they
will not have carried this burden that
they’ve had to carry in their young
lives they are free of it and the
authorities if you like have recognised
that as well and they won’t be
persecuted or hindered in any way for
what has happened when they were
children and I suppose for us well for
me certainly that’s the best thing that
we could do for them the best thing that
we can do for both boys is to give them
a future that we didn’t think that they
were going to have and this gives us
that future sometimes you you have to
pinch yourself to think well I’m
actually with the same two children you
know that were born to me because the
the change in in the way that we play
and the change in the way that they
relate to me is very pronounced a nice
to dream about all four of us going out
to dinner together and and not worrying
about anything just like normal family I
used to dream that if we invited out to
fab other people’s houses we’d all just
go and it would be fine the wouldn’t
even know fallout nothing we’d just be
able to go I used to dream about going
to the cinema and eating popcorn and
boys eating popcorn and watching a movie
together as a fan all none of these
things had we ever done before but we
went to the cinema we bought the popcorn
we did it just as I had imagined we our
normal family and I am the mother of
normal healthy children just like Andrew
said so that’s it happy happy
we really hope that you’ve been
encouraged by today’s healing testimony
I’m Carly Tara dead and in 2006 my
daughter Hannah was at death’s door when
we discovered Andrews life-giving
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