SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Karen Mayer Cunningham, we’re discussing her son James, who your doctor, who is no longer with us, but we have a videotape of what he had to say about James, actually called him a miracle. Tell me about James today.
KAREN: Oh, James is wonderful, he is fourteen years old, he is six foot tall, he is an athlete, he bowls in league, this year he played football, basketball, he is now throwing the discus, he just plays at a track meet, and he is just a wonderful young boy now.
SID: Even the newspapers are writing him up as an athlete.
KAREN: Yes, lead scorer of his section of the “C” team so he is doing phenomenal, you know academically he is still behind a few years, he lost five years of his life, he is about on a fifth grade level, but he is in eighth grade and he is in three resource classes but all the other classes he goes to regular classes with inclusion help, and so you know God continues to make up for that time the enemy stole from us.
SID: I understand that he can even move in the gift of prophecy now, someone that was non-verbal; that used to chew the plaster boards, I mean he would knock his head against the board, and then he would eat it, which I have the bills for.
KAREN: Yes, he was eating our house.
SID: I mean when you were drinking and desperate and realizing that you were going to lose your son to an institution, I mean you must have been as hopeless as a human could be.
KAREN: I didn’t, I didn’t know there could be anything worse, I didn’t think you could be worse and be alive and not literally in prison, and you know God has turned all of that around. A couple of years ago we were at church and his Sunday School teacher came up to me and she had tears flowing down her face and she said, “I just talked to James and he gave me a prophetic word about the sixties and just very gently told her that God wanted her to forgive this person she had kept bitterness for and then just went back to playing or whatever they were doing, and that, you know he has a call on his life just like all of us do. Not to eat the sheetrock, that is not God’s purpose for his life, God wasn’t trying to punish me or teach me something, but he has destiny on his life and we have to stand and believe for our kids, our family, our loved ones to have everything that God has ever planned for them.
SID: Let’s take a look at the doctor actually, it is a Jewish doctor, actually calling this a miracle.
DOCTOR: From the reports I see now it is nothing short of a miracle, I mean this young boy is now vocal, verbal, appropriate, responsive, eating nicely, healthy, so you know it is just one of those situations you have to chalk up to something maybe higher than what we have in the medical field.
SID: that’s pretty good for a Jewish doctor that doesn’t know the Messiah to say that about James.
SID: Well tell me a bit about James today, in fact, I’ll tell you what, better than you telling me a bit about James today, you’ve already done that, let’s have James talk about James today.
MUSIC: From the very start the enemy You tried and tried and tried and tried To steal the very gift God has given to you, so the world can die You cannot be silent no You cannot be quiet no You are healed You’ve got the word that the world needs to hear You are healed You were made to shine
SID: Well Karen, are you pretty proud of your son James?
KAREN: He is the light of my life I am absolutely so proud of him.
SID: And what I understand is when people hear your story, how many people have been healed of autism just by listening to your story?
KAREN: We know of seven families.
SID: But what are people saying when they read your book, it is not just for people that have children that have autism.
KAREN: No, absolutely not, it is about bringing hope to people that have lost hope, they have no more faith and they believe that they are stuck in this situation and the word from their doctor or from their situation or from their finances or from their relationships, and Jesus said that ‘by his striped we were healed’, thirty-nine stripes for thirty nine strains of diseases, every disease disorder and situation comes from thirty nine groups, and we can be healed from all that, we have to stand and believe and receive. And so that is what this is, for people to know they can be healed from anything, whatever it is, broken physically, emotionally, spiritually.
SID: What I was told by my staff is they wanted their children to even read this more than one time. Why would someone want to read this more than one time?
KAREN: I think because it really touches on different areas of your life, you know initially I thought it would help people with Special-Ed kids, but thee are so many parts in our lives that are broken, that aren’t whole or well, and that God wants to get in and heal every single part of them.
SID: You know what I was thinking; now you know James today, we know James a little bit today from what we have seen, but it would have been so easy if you had known what was wrong with him to abort him.
KAREN: You know I would have never done that, you know when you walk out what God gives you he gives you the strength to walk it out, and the reason you walk stuff out is so somebody behind you can go, “Oh Sid walked that out, Karen walked that out, I can walk that out too.” And there is a purpose in it.
SID: Well thee are some people that want to do more than walk it out with a purpose, they want to walk out of it, would you look at them and talk to them and pray for them?
KAREN: Yes, yes, I just want you to know whatever situation you are in and whatever, or however you come in today, whether hopelessness or despair, God is ready to meet you wherever your need is. His hand is not shortened because of your condition, disease or disorder or situation, and don’t stand and believe the report of the doctor but stand and believe the report of the Lord, because that is what we are supposed to stand upon, and if I can just pray for you. Father we just thank you, we thank you for your healing powers, we thank you that your name is Jehovah Rapha, that you are the God that heals, that if it is in your name and in your will, and Father we just thank you ahead of time for open doors , open eyes, open minds, to show each and every family whatever their situation is how to walk it out and to walk into their destiny with freedom and wholeness and healthiness and to be a light to this world to know that God is the God who delivers us from all of our oppressions, obsessions, and possessions Father, we just thank you ahead of time for these good reports that are going to come in, whole children, well children, purpose lives, full lives, we thank you ahead of time in Jesus Name.
SID: Now one of the things that you said to me is that even before your son had his deliverance you played praise music and you could actually see improvement in him.
KAREN: Yes, yes, praise music is so important, you know worship is ushering in the presence of God and so as they sleep as it is in the room that brings in the presence of God and when you have that there the enemy must flee, he must flee and as adults we have to stand in the gaps spiritually for our children that are under eighteen years of age, we have to do that, we have to know that whatever comes into their ear or eye gate is permeating their spirit and we have to be responsible for that.
SID: what other things did you do practically beyond the praise music in this process, in the healing of James?
KAREN: We had to not give in to James, James behavior had run our lives for so many years we had to stop, you know, pandering to him, we had become the child and he had become the parent, and so the enemy had to flip the script on us and we had to go back into our correct roles, that we were the parents and he was the child and when we said something it stood and when we said thee would be discipline if this happened, then it stood, not just always giving in to him because of his situation or his condition, and that set up a system of structure and discipline and order, and we serve a God of order. And our house was out of order.
SID: I’m reminded of the words that Karen was told, “it is time,” that’s pretty profound words, first you had a concern, a worry about how could deliverance help your son, but you know something, it is time, heaven is drawing so close to planet earth, things that you have been believing God for in the past, that you have been standing and standing and standing, well I have a word for you. It is time. It is your time, it is time. Forget what happened in the past, a brand new beginning, it is time for you to know God, it is time for you to have the joy, it is time for – it is plain time for you to have peace, there is a Hebrew word for peace, it is shalom, shalom radiating out of every fiber of your being, not fearful of anything, not fearful of sickness, not fearful of death, I mean if you are not fearful of sickness, if you are not fearful of death, not fearful of financial problems, you would be at peace. Not fearful of relationships because you know God. You have such intimacy with God. God is telling me that people’s backs are being healed right now, and necks, pain of all kind is just lifting off of you, but I want the biggest pain to lift off of you, the pain of carrying the sins of the wrong things that you have done, if you believe that the blood of Jesus washed away these sins it is time for you to take those sins off of you and say, I believe the blood of Jesus has washed me clean, it is not something you do, it is what he has done. You just receive what he has done and if you will say out loud, I make Jesus my Messiah and Lord, do it right now, it may seem insignificant, but my whole life was transformed when I did it, so will yours, do it now.
