God is a Healer!!

 I am so thankful and grateful for the love of God and how He really desires us to have what He desires for us. The desires of the Lord are so much greater than we could ever think! (Jeremiah 29:11) He is a good, good Father, the best! 

    My youngest daughter has had issues with her sinuses since she was a baby. These problems affected her ability to smell. The first surgery she had they removed her tonsils and adenoids. This helped absolutely nothing. We ended up going to our first ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) specialist when she was about 10 years old. After being tested for cystic fibrosis and coming back negative ( thank God) we found out that she had severe allergies. These allergies were causing polyps to form and her breathing to be blocked.  The specialist did surgery removing all polyps that were in her sinuses. She was able to breathe clearly. This lasted for only a couple of years before the sinus issues began again. We, again, went back to an ENT specialist. This was the 2nd. Again, my daughter went through surgery and the polyps were removed and she could breathe again. However, she still was unable to smell anything. She couldn't smell the flowers, perfume, my cooking, nothing! She ended up having three surgeries and the last one was so traumatic, she was throwing up blood and passed out during her post op follow up. The doctor said she would need a blood transfusion because so much blood was lost. however, our ENT specialist was also a Believer, and agreed with me in prayer about it as I did not feel the "go ahead" from the Lord to give permission for a transfusion. My ENT also gave his professional opinion that a transfusion was not necessary. When my daughter's blood count results came in, they saw that she in fact did not need a transfusion! Praise God. My daughter spent a few days int the hospital for observation and came home doing great. At her follow up appointment, we discussed her ability to smell and this is when the specialist said that she most likely will never be able to smell. This did not sit well with me, at the time I did not know why, but years later I found out it did not sit right because it was not the will of God at all! I had no idea how to pray or what to do, I just knew this wasn't sitting right with me. 

About a year ago the lord started to deal with me heavily on our inheritance as a Believer and His love and desires for us. I began watching Bill Winston and along with Joseph Prince, whom I had been watching and reading his books for a while. I learned some spiritual truth as well as had some things God had been telling me confirmed. I was so excited! These were things that I did not learn from religion. I am not against religion as a whole, but I di believe that religion can sometimes paralyze us in moving forward and really receiving what God has for us. As these strongholds in my mind began to get torn down, my daughter kept coming back to my mind. I would say to the Father " I know that it is not your will that we be ailing or sick and diseased". We may have been taught to take that, but that is not really the will of God. God is not double minded, if he sent Jesus to heal, then wouldn't he be concerned about ALL healing? So that is what I focused on as I studied and meditated on healing scriptures. 

Now you know how we do- we send up prayers sometimes, but we don't REALLY think that God is REALLY listening. It's more or less like "I'm going to put this out here and if god hears and answers cool, but if He doesn't that's ok too." That is not the faith God wants us to exhibit. The more my daughter's condition wold come to my mind in prayer, the more I would search and meditate on His Word concerning healing, love, inheritance, etc..I did this until one day it finally popped in my mind " Hey! God WANTS my daughter to walk in wholeness!" It was like he was saying right at that moment " Hey Nichole, I want my daughter healed, I WANT to heal her, but I need you to do what you are supposed to, and that's trust me. I will work my own word, I don't need you to do that." 

So, as I am writing this, it was about three weeks ago that in prayer, the Lord gave me the words to decree over my daughter, and as I declared the, I felt such an intense fire in me, I was SURE without a doubt, that the cords of infirmity and ailment had been broken off of my daughter. I want to stop here and interject -one thing that we have to keep in mind is that the word of God is a seed, and we plant it by taking it in; reading, speaking it, and writing ot as well. All this is a way of watering our "seed" of the Word in our heart. The Word is living, and just like a seed, it will produce a harvest of faith as we water that word. When the word seems to finally "click" that's the harvest!! When we finally realize our authority, that's the harvest! Only then was I able to tell the enemy "oh no, you're going to loose her sinuses, her body, and all, and you will not ever come back!" 

Well about a week and three days later, I was sitting cooking and my daughter comes in the kitchen and sits at the island and says "Mom, guess what? I can SMELL! I smelled my perfume, and I can;t stand the smell of it!" I was so excited I did  not know what to do! At that moment, the Lord brought back to my mind the prayer from the previous week. I was ecstatic! I told my daughter of how I prayed specifically about that the previous week and God gave me exactly what to pray. We were all so happy. Well, the next morning, I woke up remembering what my daughter told me the night before, and like we do at times, couldn't believe the hype LOL. So, I jumped out of bed and asked my daughter about her nose, how she was feeling etc.. She answered positively to all the questions. I went about my day as did my daughter and throughout little spots in the day, as it came to my mind, I would thank God for His healing and go on. Later that day, my daughter texted me saying " my goodness mom, I can smell the coffee!" Again, a wave of praise welled up and out of me so full and thankful. 

I am so thankful to the lord for being patient with me. He meets us where we are in our faith and helps us grow it! He wants, even more than us, for our children to be well. Everything we need is in the Word, and it has already been done by the lord on the Cross. It is up to us, however, to believe and trust God, taking him at His word. It doesn't just magically manifest, no, you have to do the work. What is the work? Glad you asked! SEarching the Word of God, seeing what He has to say about whatever you are experiencing, then BELIEVING that he will indeed do it. God cannot lie. What He has said, He will do. All we must do is trust and believe.

Be Blessed!