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Kelly Durham
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Dear Bro. Stoneking, 

Thank you for letting the Lord talk through you and for being the man of God that you are.  I’m so blessed to belong to the Apostolic Faith Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan.  I am amazed when I think of how they were there, not only with their prayers but someone was praying daily for me, I was always in their mind and heart.

I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1992.  I was heavily medicated on so many different drugs and steroids.  It began flaring up in 1995, and in 1996 it really began getting so much worse.  It would ease up for a few months, but symptoms would always be present.  I think it was 1997 when I got my first wake-up call that this was serious and started feeling hopeless and worthless.

I continued coming to church having faith, wanting so much to set an example for my children.  I have two daughters that I love so much, and I wanted them to know who Jesus is and the way to go if something should happen to me.

Toward the end of 1997 I found myself with tremors, which is common to MS, but something new for me.  I was hospitalized and  by 1998 I was housebound with nurses administering physical and occupational therapy. 

I shook so much they would not let me cook.  People from my church brought meals to the house for me and  my family. When I couldn’t handle much of anything, Sister Dottie came and stayed with my family helping to care for my children.  I feel so blessed that she cared enough to stay with us because  I was so medicated I slept almost constantly.  She was there for them when I couldn’t be.  Thank you Jesus for my sisters and brothers in the Lord!

I had lost my body functions, my coordination, and most of my eyesight—I was considered legally blind—and in a wheelchair.  Nothing was the same for me anymore...  I couldn’t do anything but pray, sleep, and eat.  I knew God would bring me through, but still I had fear within me.

The MS moved to my back, which is rare.  In my terrible illness, I feared losing my husband and children, but God is so good!   My husband stuck by my side the whole time, “Glory to God!”  Then I had to start wearing sunglasses to ease the pain in my eyes.  When light shined in my eyes, they would hurt terribly resulting in  headaches.  I wore one pair of sunglasses during the day and 3 pair at night when riding in a car.

I was feeling my worst, as though the Lord had given up on me and wasn’t hearing my prayers...  Then in February of 1999, Brother Stoneking came and preached at our church.  There was a powerful move of the Holy Ghost, and Bro. Stoneking preached for three consecutive nights.  Each night my faith began to build up again.  On the second night I remember God using Bro. Stoneking’s preaching to build my faith even more.  He prayed for me and I took the sunglasses off.  I remember looking up at the light in faith and got an instant headache.  Bro. Stoneking was praying for someone else at this time, so Pastor Nix prayed for me and my headache instantly went away.

I came back Sunday night, and we had an incredible service!  The choir started out by singing how God is able, and then Brother Stoneking preached a powerful, faith-building message again.  I remember him sharing things about others that he had seen healed, and Sis. Sonda coming over and sitting by me toward the end of the service.  She kept saying to me, “Who’s he talking about?”  Then I remember my faith building and slowly taking the sunglasses off, looking up at the lights, and felt NO pain—I could see as plain as day.  “WOW!”  God is awesome! 

Brother Stoneking went on preaching about all the others he’d seen receive miracles.  He said, “If He can do it for them, He can do it for you,” and something just pulled me up out of my wheelchair.  For someone that was very shaky and unsteady, it all left me that night.  I was going down the aisle shouting and giving God the glory, for He had restored my sight and made me able to walk again without falling.  GLORY BE TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST FOR ALL HE HAS DONE FOR ME!

That night I left walking and seeing clearly.  Brother Stoneking had prayed divine healing over my body the night before when God did those miraculous healings in my body.  He wasn’t done with me yet, for I still had the loss of body functions.  But by the grace of God, by March of 1999, only a month after I got out of the wheelchair, I got back ALL of my body functions.

I returned to the eye doctor, and he was amazed when he re-tested me. He said that before, they had considered me legally blind, but now I could go fly a jet with my perfect vision; now he says I don’t even need my glasses.  “God deserves the glory!”

I was at the end of my rope.  I’m so glad I hung in there.  I guess it’s true what they say that just when you quit is when you could’ve made it.  “Thank you Jesus!”  And to those of you that helped me hang in there, I couldn’t have made it without your prayers.  There were so many others that were healed that night, and more since.  God is a healer and He is my everything.  For as of today, November 28, 1999, I feel better than ever. 

THANK YOU JESUS!

God Bless You,

Sis. Kelly Durham  

PS:  Told in her own words, the above story is a great testimony to the healing power of the Lord in our day.  Sister Durham is still wonderfully healed completely as of this date (Apr 12, 2000) defying all the medical prognosis and diagnosis.   Whey they say, "No, we have done all we can, there is another Voice that says, Try Me..."  His Name is Jesus!!!   We must always remember, every miracle begins with an impossibility...

Lee Stoneking

 

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