Sid: You could not help, but be red hot for the Messiah if you had read the book that I just read called “Anointing for Healing” because this is one of these books where the two authors have done the best job I have seen of documenting and researching, the most amazing miracles. And I have one of the authors on the telephone Melanie Hemry and Melanie what happens when someone is not healed?
Melanie: That happens when they give up too soon, when we were doing the stories we wrote stories about Brian Wills healed of Burkitt’s lymphoma the fastest growing cancer in the world. About someone healed of Lou Gehrig’s disease, someone healed of Multiple Sclerosis and a fast growing tumor in their eye. These people stood very often for at least two years and in spite of incredible symptoms that were screaming louder than the Word of God they probably would not have lived if they didn’t stay in the word of God and make the promises louder than their symptoms.
Sid: And you see the way we think it because so many instant miracles in the gospels, because if it’s not instant God doesn’t want to heal me. I mean that’s stinking thinking, but that’s the way that people think.
Melanie: Right, I would say the people that die give up too soon.
Sid: So it’s sort of like a baseball game where it’s not three strikes and you’re out; it’s when you quit that you’re out.
Melanie: That’s it.
Sid: Okay, let’s talk about the testimonies in this book, there are so many exciting ones, tell be about Anita Siddiki.
Melanie: Anita is a friend of mine and she at the time was twenty-six years old a wife, a mother of an infant when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She was a classical pianist; she lost the ability to use her fingers; she went blind in one eye; partially blind in the other paralyzed on one side of her body. She couldn’t feel any sensation in her body; she could not see or feel her son; she could not feel her son, she could not hold him. She became so weak that when her husband took her to church she laid on a pew and could lift one little finger in praise to God. And she was doubly hindered because her mother had had cancer and they had prayed and she had died so she was like, “Okay what’s this about Lord?” And she, the doctor’s told her, “Anita, here’s what we can do for you, a wheelchair and a catheter,” at twenty-six were her only options. And so she and her husband got into the word of God and they started playing the Bible on tape twenty-four a day beside her bed and she studied healing scriptures so much that she became convinced that she was healed on Calvary. That Jesus paid the price for that the same way He did her healing. She would lay in bed and say “Lord, even though I can’t see this morning, and I can’t lift my legs off this bed, I believe I was healed on Calvary.” And she stood on that word and she fought through those symptoms screaming at her for two years. And one of the biggest things that Anita had to do is change the channel in her mind because the enemy would show her pictures of her own funeral and so she would force herself to see herself playing that classical piano again, playing tennis, running in the park with her children and it was hard to do. But she battled that for two years, there was nothing sudden about it, but it very gradually every one of her symptoms went away. She was totally healed, she had to go back and get another MRI and every symptom and every sign of Multiple Sclerosis left her body and they told her whatever you do do not have another child and she had another child and her children are teenagers and she’s been well ever since.
Sid: So I thing the message that you are going to try and get across by the Holy Spirit is don’t give up.
Melanie: Don’t give up! Do not give up; do not give up, but stay on the Word. All of these people got their healing in spite of horrible diagnosis’s because they clung to the Word of God by Jesus stripes we were healed. And believed they were healed when every symptom in their body was screaming the opposite.
Sid: Speaking of every symptom screaming the opposite we’re going to hear from one of the people in the book who had one of the most deadly form of cancer imaginable. I’m on the telephone with Brian Wills of Richmond, Virginia you were twenty-four years of age when you thought you were invincible you were a star tennis player, as a matter of fact at you’re University Drury College where you graduated from you won more tennis games than anyone in their history. You were going on the professional circuit in Europe; all of a sudden a pain started hitting you and things started getting worse and what did the doctors diagnosis this as?
Brian Wills: Well, at first they thought I had a kidney stone or appendicitis, but I was in a hospital in Richmond for nine days and on the ninth day a doctor walked into my hospital room and said, “Brian I’ve got really bad news to tell you. “What we thought was a kidney stone or appendicitis we realized it’s far more serious than that.” And the doctor gathered our family around and he said, “You’ve got a rare terminal cancer, you’ve got actually the fastest growing cancer known to man, it’s called Burkitt’s lymphoma. And you’ve got a mass in your abdomen and this type of cancer grows very very fast; in the medical field that is considered incurable is considered terminal and the rate that this cancer is likely to grow you know you may have two weeks or less to live.
Sid: Now you had grown up in a Christian family, you had seen miracles, you went to your church, they prayed for you; anything special happen, did you feel anything? Or was it just totally, they prayed for you and did you believe that you would be healed?
Brian Wells: Well, I had certainly seen healings personally, but this was the first time for me and for our family where we had ever faced the life and death situation; where we had ever been given a diagnosis of cancer and in particularly one that was considered terminal and incurable. So for me as well as our family this was the first test that we faced in our Christian journey.
Sid: It’s easy to preach a good game when it’s someone else.
Brian Wells: That’s right, that’s right, but when it hits you personally that’s when you realize what faith you do have, you know. And the only thing we need to do is really turn to the Word of God and to find our answer in the Word of God which we knew that He is Jehovah Rophe, the Lord our healer.
Sid: Okay, so you’re prayed for and things rather than getting better they got worse.
Brian Wells: Right, we took that weekend to pray and it just seemed like even though we had people come over our house and praying and throughout that weekend, I actually in the natural the tumor was growing in my body, my kidney’s had already started to shut down and so within about seventy-two hours I had a tumor that grew from the size of a golf ball to over nine inches in diameter.
Sid: And the doctors finally said, “You’ve have about ten hours to live.” It was at that point you dedicated your life to God and God spoke to you.
Brian Wells: That’s right that Tuesday they told my parents, they said, “Your son will not be alive by Friday, so go ahead and make the funeral arrangements.” And so I called unto the Lord, I said, “Lord, if You’ll heal me I’ll go where ever You want me to go, I’ll speak to whoever You want me to, I’ll do whatever You want me to do.” And you know it was at that moment that I said that prayer that all of a sudden in my hospital room the presence of God just began to fill that place and I in that moment the Lord spoke to me, not as an audible voice, but just that still small voice on the inside, he spoke to me He said, “Son, I will heal you if you do the steps I tell you to take.” And so I could feel His presence in that room and I could feel that love, I could feel that assurance.
Sid: What were the two things that you had to do?
Brian Wells: Well, that’s when I first said, “Well, Lord what’s the first step then?” And I knew immediately that He as showing me that I had some unforgiveness that hadn’t been dealt with, needed to be dealt with and so I knew in my heart that I needed to call someone and get my heart right with that person. And little did they know where I was at the time, they didn’t know that I was in a hospital room, but I got my heart right and I asked them for forgiveness. And the second thing the Lord had me to do was He showed me that I had not been tithing. And so I turned to my parents and I figured it out over the last six months that I had been working and I said, “I want you to take this amount which represented a tithe and I want you to take it out of my bank account and I want you to give it to the church.”
Sid Roth: Okay, you had a CT scan and the doctors came back and told you the results, what did they say?
Brian Wells: Yes, about 6:00 that evening after I had come back into the hospital room, my doctor walked in my room carrying the x-rays and he had a strange look on his face and he came over and he sat on the edge of my bed and he said, “Brian” he said, “This afternoon when you were at the radiologist the radiologist called me and he said, “Doctor, I’ve checked this young man three times from head to toe and we can’t find any evidence of cancer in his body.”
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