Dear Pastor, My name is Tammy, I have been a christian for 15 years now, Im 34 years old, have 2 teen sons and have been married almost 17 years (half my life!) I have never been a very healthy person since I was born, I was born with my legs being abnormally bow legged and my feet were pigeon toed. I wore braces until I was 4 years old and that corrected the problem, or so they thought! I have always suffered with leg and back pain since then, I remember my sisters and teachers were always on me saying "stand up straight" poor posture makes one lazy! Well I tried real hard, but I couldnt stand up straight, just couldnt. I got plenty of exercise as a child, I was always athletic and active, I also walked miles everyday during my teen years, I loved being outdoors and hiking. Then I began doing drugs and went a little crazy during my teen years, in rebellion. I met my husband because I prayed a prayer at 16 that if God was real and He cared about me, He'd send me someone to love me. Well He did, see my dad was an atheist, he's dead now, but i did not grow up in church because of that. So when I got that prayer answered I knew God was real. My husbands dad had just found the Lord and he turned me on to God also. So in 1983 I was 19 I finally asked Him into my heart. I've backslide at times since then, but I finally came HOME to Him in 89 and never left since then. In my adult years I began getting sicker and sicker, I was never one that had much self esteem, and I felt God called me to stay home with my kids and be close to Him. So through the years I have turned to eating as a source of comfort and addiction. I have gained lots of weight going from an athletic build at 19 weighing 140 lbs. to now I weigh 250 lbs. I have suffered with depression all my life and the Lord over the last few years has brought me out of the bondage of humanism in trying to fix this stuff in me. I am currently in ministry training in charlotte nc at morningstar ministries, with Rick Joyner. God is beginning to restore me spiritually and emotionally from all I've been through in my marriage and the church and a son who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. So as you can see I've had plenty of stress and heartache, but God has turned my bitter water into sweet! Slowly but surely! Thats a little background on my life, now for my prayer for healing. I have been diagnosed with something called Reiters Syndrome, it is a form of rheumatoid arthritis. It is the kind that floats around to different parts of your joints and body. It affects my vision, my back pain is tremendous, I have double scoleosis, I have alot of swelling all over my body, I suffer with heel spurs and headaches. I believe it all stems from this. I had a hysterectomy, complete one, 4 years ago now. I had always had female problems and they finally fixed all that! Emotionally though I still go through some weird things! Anyway, I get really fatigued easily and have alot of pain with this type of arthritis and my mind goes blank for days at a time also. Now Im in ministry school and I have went up for healing prayer, but to no avail. I have to admit I am very confused anymore about whether God wants to heal me or not. I tend to feel like its all my fault because Im overweight and thats caused everything, but I think I know better. So please with such a lengthy intro, lead me into some understanding of what this is about and what I should do now. By the way, we have our own business and have never had insurance a day in our lives, so as you can imagine, this stuff has cost tens of thousands of dollars through the years. I cant get insurance companies to take me because Im obese and the ones who will are very very expensive and we are low income. So I need some prayer about this also. By the way, Im so glad to hear what God is doing through you on the streets, thats awesome! Keep up the anointing flow of good news! At 12:48 PM 12/8/97 +0000, you wrote: >Hello everyone, > >The Lord directed us to go into the towns and streets of UK and bring a >message of repentance to the nation. We have done this faithfully >(although some have flagged by the wayside for a variety of reasons none >of which amount to anything) and the Lord has blessed us. > >Not only has He paid the bills at the ensuing court cases (in our York >Appeal the senior judge told the prosecution not to even ask for court >charges to to be paid by us) but also He has done great miracles on the >streets. Many people have been healed. the latest ones were healed of >crippleness in Dewsbury. hands were laid on this women for healing her >hip. Her leg grew three inches on the spot and her back straightened up >and she went away rejoicing and praising God not using the stick that >she had used coming down the street hobbling. She went away straight >backed, upright and healed. PTL! > >Other diseases and malfunctioning limbs have been healed on the streets. >One man phoned us the next day to tell us how he did not need to use the >walking stick anymore. Another boy can now play football whereas before >he could not and he loved it. Jesus healed him on the street straight >away. > >It is good to see these things. In Ethiopia five people have been raised >from the dead in the last year and in the last month two full blown AIDS >cases have been confirmed healed by doctors and blind eyes now see and >deaf ears have been opened in the last month alone. Great things are >happening there. > >In our healing school we have had sugar diabetes healed and intestinal >tracts set free in the last few days. The Lord is at work. Many other >miracles are being done amongst us some of which we will bring up in the >following days. Enough for now. The invitiation. Jesus said ask. Do you >want the prayer of faith for healing. Please do not hesitate, just ask. >I want you to ask a certain way but will follow this on when you ask. > >Remember God cares and Jesus heals the same as He did yesterday. (Heb >13:8) > >Love you, >In Him, > >Pastor Phil & Debbie Dacre > >For newsletter updates on the Convicting Power of God in UK. see:- >http://www.healing.demon.co.uk/News.htm >To see God's Miracle Power testimonies see:- >http://www.jesus-connect.net/world/jesus/healing/temp.html >To support our orphanage in Ethiopia see:- >http://netministries.com/de/ARMOrphanages/Index.html >Or see where they raise the Dead! >http://netministries.org/see/charmin.exe/CM01113 >{TO subscribe to our healing mail list (discussions and praying for >various people's healings) simply type "subscribe healing First Last" as the >message, and address it to listproc@... > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <healing-unsubscribe@...> > IN HIS GRIP <><TAMMY><>