SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Karen Mayer Cunningham and you son James had autism and it was, tell me how bad it was. Some of the worst things you remember.
KAREN: I remember some of the worst things were the words other people used, I remember his Special Ed teacher who was wonderful, but she said he was a monster, he was so bad he had to have his own aid just for him in class, we had “Any Baby Can” took him for a day a month, MHMR in Texas, we had twenty hours of straight rest, but he was out of control, he would make himself vomit up to fifty times a day.
SID: Was he verbal, did he speak much?
KAREN: No, probably twenty words, mostly pointing, cup, hot, no, like a little, like you know, a two-year-old. He was stuck here.
SID: He had tantrums?
KAREN: Oh he had tantrums all the time. He was inconsolable, insoothable, there were never beginnings or endings to his tantrums, and you never knew what would cause them and so we did everything to pander to him to keep him calm, to keep him happy. We would play video tapes non-stop an hour, and he would eat, he was eating our house, he pulled up the carpet, he would eat the foam under it, he pulled the wallpaper off the bathrooms and ate that, and you know you begin to live in this bubble that becomes your truth, and becomes this little war zone and you want to protect it because it is your family but it was unbearable.
SID: Well let’s take a look at what his doctor had to say about it.
DOCTOR: I saw James the first time a few years ago, about three years ago, where he was about three and a half years old, I got to tell you it was a little shocking to me, I’ve seen a lot of various diseases, conditions, behaviors, but little James, I have got to tell you took the cake on this one. He was exhibiting erratic behaviors, uncontrollable, inconsolable, frantic attacks, tantrums; he was quite pale, non-verbal, gruntings, noises, total lack of attention. I always like to believe that I feel there is unlimited hope for people and their conditions, but with James the severity of his condition the bizarre behavior, I mean, I couldn’t help it, I thought this guy is going to be institutionalized for life, nothing can be done for him. Of course then I thought, well maybe some test hadn’t been done, maybe he has got an electrolyte imbalance, maybe there is a tumor in his head, something that could account for these unusual conditions. I got to tell you at the onset I thought there is no hope for this guy.
SID: Sid Roth here with Karen Mayer Cunningham and we are discussing your son James, and a group of people that pray for spirits to come out of people, demons to come out of people said to you, it is time. What did you do about that?
KAREN: Well I moved on that, they are a group that has a specific gifting and I believed them, I believed in their anointing from God and so we took him in February 17th, 2000, it was a Thursday at four o’clock at our church and we were just in one of the Sunday School rooms and James sat on the floor and began to rock, and he wanted to go, go, go, go, get in front of the door and so the team had my husband pick him up and hold him and they just laid their hands on his back and prayed that the first demonic curse would go, and in Jesus Name that the dry places never to be here again, and my son reached his hand back and screamed, come back, come back, come back, come back, come back.
SID: When you were watching that what did you think?
KAREN: I thought I cannot believe this, I cannot believe this just happened, it was so real, he had never said the word come or back, and he was screaming out.
SID: That’s right, he wasn’t verbal.
KAREN: No he was screaming out for the thing, begging for that thing that was leaving him to come back and at that moment we were all changed. The manifest presence of God was so heavy and so humbling and I believe God did that because he had every intention of healing him and he is completely healed.
SID: Now immediately, I know there were gradual things that occurred, but immediately could you tell a difference and what was it?
KAREN: He was a marked difference, and the first thing he was, was peaceful, which is part of the kingdom of heaven, and thee was a calmness about him and you know that is the child that God purposed for my life, not an out of control, rabid animal in my house. And from that day he got better and better and better and God has continued to restore his mind daily.
SID: Well how would you like to see James
