In the beginning of 2024, I suddenly lost my hearing on my right side and some on my left side. After extensive testing, I was diagnosed with a rare disease that has impaired my balance and vestibular function.
As I was praying for God to heal my body and restore my hearing, the Holy Spirit brought Matthew 10:27-28 to my mind. "Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
As the months passed, my condition progressed. I became bedridden and stripped of my independence. I found myself broken before God. I was praying for healing and He spoke to me very clearly and didn’t answer quite the way I wanted HIM to.
"Love me, honor me, and revere me. Don't worry about what is happening to your body. Love what I love and hate what I hate, let my thoughts be your thoughts and my ways be your ways. I am purifying you and burning out of you all that is not of Me. Purification happens in the fire, the testing of your faith proves its genuineness as you are placed over the fire. Don't be afraid or dismayed, I AM is with you. What the devil tried to destroy you with, I will use to bring you closer to Me, and I will be Glorified, dress my Bride and make her ready, encourage those I send you, speak life over what is dead, declare My Word, Your life is not your own, make My name known..."
This was not the first trial or the first infirmity that I would have to walk through. The memories of my life flooded my mind. God reminded me of all He had bought me through. The rape, the molestations, the family dysfunction, the slavery and torment of my own sin, and the love I experienced the day I finally surrendered my life to Him.
The memory of myself receiving Him into my heart when I was five-years old came to me. Another memory of when I was nine-years old, teaching the Word of God to my friends in the back of a friend's store on 68th Street in Brooklyn. The day I was filled with the Holy Ghost at age 10 on a hill in Pennsylvania. Another memory came to me when I was 15-years old, and I had a mental health warrant served on my mother, who at the time was very ill and suffered from alcoholism and mental illness. I remembered how devastated I was that our lives had come to this point and how with her hands cuffed behind her back she stood next to me and spit on the floor. As we were face to face and nose to nose, she said "I am out to destroy you" and laughed at me as I was crying. I knew it wasn't my mother but the devil. The enemy kept trying to destroy me from the time I was in my mother's womb. We don't always understand why we go through things in our life, but God turns mourning into dancing and tragedies into triumphs.
I have served in and out of the church for over 25 years, have a Bachelor's in Theology, and have sat at the feet of Jesus long enough to know that He saves, heals, and delivers. He is the only way, the truth and the life. My heart burns for one and that one is Jesus Christ. He has transformed me and delivered me from the inside out, so I am not ashamed of the Gospel for it is the power of God to save. I have seen lives transformed, bodies healed, and minds restored. God is good and His love never fails.
The hour is near and the time is now for you to stand whole heartedly for the one who left His thrown of glory and endured the cross. Jesus Christ is returning soon for His Bride. Are you ready?
"Let us rejoice and shout for joy! Let us give Him glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has prepared herself." Revelation 19:7
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