I greet you in the precious and healing Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
On January 11th of 2004, God saved me from a life of alcohol and chemical abuse. After accepting Him into my heart, I never touched those things again nor had any desire to.
Within two months of my serving the Lord, I became pregnant with my second child. According to the doctors, the pregnancy, combined with many years of alcohol and chemical abuse, and even the sudden halt of those things, threw my body into a severe imbalance. I gained weight at triple the normal rate a pregnant woman gains, and even after my son was born, I continued to gain weight as if I were still pregnant. That was the start of a battle that would last for five years to come.
After gaining over one hundred and twenty pounds in two years, my husband and I decided to see a doctor, as well as a practitioner, who specialized in seeing patients like me. I was told the chemical imbalance interrupted my thyroid to the point where it actually killed my metabolism. So my only choices, according to the doctors, were to take lots of pills, shots, and maybe even have surgery. None of which were guaranteed, not to mention how un-affordable they all were. My husband and I knew that our ONLY hope was Dr. Jesus.
From that time, I kept wanting to believe for my healing, but I was only full of hope, not faith. I searched the Table for quotes or testimonies that would give me something to hold on to, something I could really drive my stake down with. I didn’t find anything for five years.
Then one day I felt led to ask a brother in my church if he knew of any quotes about people needing weight loss. He told me to type in the word “overweight” into the Table. Strangely enough, I didn’t do it right away. It was a few weeks later, late one night, I was alone in my living room, praying and calling out to God. I had reached a particularly low point and was feeling as if I couldn’t handle it anymore. I knew that God’s Word promised never to give us more than we can handle, and I truly feel as if I had given all I had to give. In short, I was beginning to crumble.
After praying, I went and sat on the sofa in the dark and began to meditate on my situation. Then that brother’s words came back to me, “Type in the word overweight.” I got up immediately and went over to the Table to look it up. Right away I noticed ten other people in my same situation. Brother Branham called nearly all of them a gland trouble or thyroid. I could hardly believe my eyes. It was there all this time and I never knew it! Thank GOD for the Table! Right away my eyes fell on one particular quote that seemed to pertain to me more than the rest. I claimed it as my own. “That’s my stake Lord and I believe now with all my heart!”
The very next day I was sitting in church, still rejoicing and praising God for healing me and thinking about my precious quote, when all of a sudden, God spoke to my heart. Plain as anything, He said, “How much would it increase your faith if you heard that quote right now?” Immediately, I started to cry. Just the thought of my precious quote being played at that moment was nearly unimaginable. Then, within myself, I answered back. “Lord, I would never doubt You again!” And IMMEDIATELY my precious quote began to play!
From a Healed Sister in TX