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Our New Radio Show

“Radio Tower” by Mclelun

After airing a few dozen podcast episodes, we found that we really like interviewing people about their supernatural experiences. We also learned that one of the radio stations in Phoenix had air time available for people who want to do a live radio show.

After having some discussions with my wife and the Holy Spirit about the direction of our business, ministry (or whatever this thing is we’re doing) we decided to take another step into the deeper waters of the kingdom.

Beginning August 20th, 2015, we’ll be airing a live version of our podcast show on KFNX Radio.  It will be a weekly program that airs Thursday evenings from 8 to 9 pm pacific time. The station has a website where you can listen to the live streaming broadcast via Internet: Go here for the station website.

The negative things that are happening in the world are the focus of many popular talk radio shows. We aim to provide practical ways in which believers can address these issues and take measures to combat them from a kingdom perspective. Our goal is to provide a ray of hope in what many people perceive to be dark days.

We plan to interview folks who have supernatural stories or kingdom revelation to share. Since the show will be live, we’ll also take calls from listeners who have questions and prayer requests. We plan to get some people healed on the air and maybe have them testify. Of course, we’ll also be doing some teaching on the kingdom of God with a focus on the supernatural life of the believer.

The radio show is a significant investment of money for us. (You didn’t think they let just anyone walk into their station and use their studio, did you?) But we felt that God wanted us to invest our time and money into this venture in the hope that the news of His goodness might reach a few more people.

We would appreciate your prayers to help the show reach those who need to hear our message. We’re looking for sponsors for the show, so if you know anyone who might be interested in that, please let us know. There is a monthly fee we will pay to rent the studio. If you feel led to support us financially, you can make a one-time or a recurring donation through the Paypal link below. But we don’t want you to feel pressured. The show will air regardless of whether we get a sponsor or donations. We’re excited about what God is going to do though the radio show.

If you know anyone in the Phoenix area who might be interested in listening to the show, please let them know.

Thanks for your love and support,

~PM

Show Info:

Station 1100 am KFNX  (Click link for web-streaming)

TIME: Thursday evening 8-9 pm pacific time

(click here to find your local time)

Local Call-in Number: 602-277-5369

Toll Free Number: 866-536-1100

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Podcast 025: Using Social Media More Effectively

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This message is intended to help you use social networks like Twitter and Facebook more effectively.

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Redefining Grace – Rob Coscia

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My guest blogger today is Rob Coscia.

If you’re one of those I keep seeing that focuses on the negativity of cities, states, and nations, pointing out all the wrongs that God must hate, I have a word for you. The dark cloud you keep pointing at isn’t a judgment from God. It isn’t even directly from the enemy. It’s from you. It’s the result of your retreat. When you abandon your post of influencing the city in the fruit of the Spirit, you remove all the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, and hope that God has given to you, and you leave a gap. A gap you then judge as the sin of others, most of whom are living as best they can in the absence of a demonstration of something better.

Whether it came from an offense against you, or your own failure, somewhere along the way you listened to the enemy’s definition of grace, that it is conditional, limited, and must be earned. That kind of warped grace makes you insecure. So you protect your religious position by judging those who have experienced less of God’s presence than you, then punish them by removing all of yours.

I invite you to let God redefine grace for you. You are so completely, perfectly, unceasingly loved by your Father. You do not have to earn it. You don’t have to perform for it. You don’t have act perfectly, or stress yourself and everyone around you to the breaking point trying. As in Zechariah 4, cry out “Grace, grace!” over all that you are, including your past, and all that God wants to be for you. When you know that Jesus’ love and grace toward you are unending, they will overflow to your family, your work, your city, your nation. You’ll remember that it’s not your job to curse the darkness. It’s your joy to transform it.

“Let your light so shine before others, that they may see the good things you do, and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matt. 5.16)

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Emotional Healing Made Simple

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I’m excited to report that the Holy Spirit is teaching the body of Christ a lot of new things that are helping to heal mental illness and emotional trauma. Over the last few years, I’ve read a lot of books and reviewed many different approaches to emotional healing. I’ve also spoken with friends who have had decent success in healing mental illness and emotional trauma.

After going through my own emotional healing, and after looking at what others are doing that seems to work well, I developed an approach to emotional healing that’s simple, but effective. It’s one that I believe just about anyone can use and it doesn’t require special training. It doesn’t even require the person needing healing to be with you. I’ve used it often over internet chat and Skype. It’s so easy and quick that Michael King refers to it as the “one minute healing prayer.” Below is a brief explanation of the process I use and a step-by-step guide. If you need healing, you might ask a trusted friend to help you with this exercise or you can do it yourself:

Note:

I’ve seen excellent success with this approach, but it may not be completely effective with every kind of mental illness and emotional trauma. Some people have complex issues that require several different approaches to be used together. I believe this approach may help people with complex trauma, but they may require other methods in order to be completely healed. This approach seems to be most effective with the kind of emotional trauma typically seen in the average person.

Trigger Alert:

If you suffer from a condition such as PTSD, Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), the following exercise may trigger unpleasant thoughts and may cause you to suffer an acute episode, which could be dangerous to you. Please consider having a trusted friend or counselor in the room that is willing to assist you, if you decide to do this exercise.

Receiving healing of painful emotions and memories can be a fairly straight-forward process that consists of three simple steps:

Identify the painful emotion associated with a particular event
Ask Jesus to take the painful emotion from you
Ask Him to heal the wound in your soul caused by it

For many people, emotional healing really can be that simple. Emotions simply need to be felt. Once you’ve felt them, you no longer need to carry them around, if they are painful.

The main problem I’ve found with emotional healing is that people who are extremely rational by nature may ask a lot of “why” questions in the middle of the healing process, which causes distractions and impedes the healing process. It doesn’t matter why something happened to you; the only thing that matters with regard to healing is how it affected you. If you focus on the emotions you’re feeling, and identify them one-by-one and allow Jesus to heal them, it’s likely that you’ll be able to receive healing fairly easily.

One of the things Jesus purchased for us on the cross is healing of our painful emotions. The Bible says that Jesus has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows (Is 53:4). If He has borne our painful emotions for us then we do not need to carry them any longer.

Healing painful emotions usually requires you to go back to events in your life where you can feel an emotion that is troubling you. Once you’ve accessed the memory of a particular event and you feel the emotion associated with it, ask Jesus to come to you.

If the emotion you’re feeling is sinful, confess it as a sin and ask Him to forgive you of it. Say that you believe His blood has taken away the penalty and consequences of your sin.
Tell Him you want the emotion removed from your soul.
Ask Him to heal the wound in your soul caused by the emotion.
Tell Him you receive His healing.

An optional step that some people find helpful is to ask Him to give you something positive to replace the negative emotion that He is removing. If you ask Him to take away sadness, you might ask Him to give you joy. If you ask Him to take away anger, you might ask Him to give you peace.  If the emotion is there because you believed a lie about that situation, ask Him to show you the truth about it.

When you are done with this, bring the memory of the painful event to your mind again. If the emotion was healed, you should not be able to feel that emotion any longer, but there may be a different negative emotion that you can feel. Determine what negative emotion is strongest and do the same thing with it that you did with the first emotion:

Tell Jesus you want the emotion removed from your soul.
Ask Him to heal the wound in your soul caused by it.
Tell Him you receive His healing.

When you’re done, bring the memory of the event to your mind again. Once more, try to determine if there are any negative emotions. If there are, repeat this process until you can bring the event to your memory and you feel no negative emotions. This process can be used on any memories that are associated with negative emotions.

If you suffer from amnesia concerning the events from your past, you can ask the Holy Spirit to bring to your memory the things you’ve forgotten. As He brings the events to mind, ask Jesus to heal them.

If you’d like to be healed of all the emotional trauma you’ve received over your lifetime, you might consider beginning with the earliest memories you have that are troublesome to you. Use this process to receive healing of the emotions of that event, then go to the next event from your past that stirs up negative emotions when you think about it. You can go year-by-year if you’d like from early childhood to the present.

If you apply this process to all the emotionally traumatic events you can think of, you will probably find a great deal of freedom afterward. I’ve seen a number of people receive healing of physical symptoms of illness and injury after going through this process.

After you’ve had your soul healed, you might consider keeping it healed. This approach also works well in the moment. It can be used to heal those minute-by-minute hurts, wounds and offenses we run into every day. Just give the painful emotion you’re feeling to Jesus and ask Him to heal the wound caused by it.

If you’ve received healing using this method, I’d love to hear your story. I’m gathering testimonies for the book I’m writing on emotional healing and I’d be happy to consider sharing your testimony in the book. 

Podcast 024: How to Quit Your Day Job – Part 2

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Today’s message focuses on the business side of being a creative entrepreneur.

Topics covered in this message:

Quitting your job suddenly versus transitioning gradually into your new career
God’s new season of favor for creative entrepreneurs
Marketing your work online
Different ways to reach your audience through social media
When Facebook marketing fails and how to make it succeed
Why you need to be prolific
Why old models of success are not working today
Why your book needs an editor
Setting up your own business
Getting a web domain for your business
How to avoid a law suit over your business name
Tips on bookkeeping, taxes and bank accounts for your business
Health insurance for the entrepreneur
How to pay yourself
Advantages of S Corp designation with the IRS
Separating ministry from business


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The Dead Are Raised

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My guest blogger today is Jesse Birkey. This message was originally posted here.

We were met at the door by a frantic woman hurrying us inside with jumbled words and erratic gestures.  She showed us to a middle-aged man lying face down on the floor.  I bent down and gave him a shake.  That’s all it took to realize the man was dead. I told my partner to grab his feet while I moved to the head.  “When was the last time you saw him alive?”

The woman sputtered something that sounded like, “a few minutes ago,” and fell silent like a car that’s experienced its last mile.  We rolled him over and I felt for a pulse while his empty, dilated pupils stared at me.  No pulse.  “Start compressions,” I ordered.

My crew is experienced, fast, and confident.  In no time we were working through the appropriate protocol.   His airway was secure and drugs were pushed through a patent IV.  Everything was going smoothly except for one thing: The guy was still dead.

We hit the ten-minute mark, which feels like 30 when trying to revive someone’s heart.  15 minutes came and went, and there wasn’t anything left to do we hadn’t done to try and bring him back.

And then something struck me as I watched my partner pump on the guy’s chest.  I hadn’t prayed.  It hit me so suddenly I did a double take to empty space in front of me.  I fixed a look on the heart monitor and prayed in a low voice, “In the name of Jesus, I command death to leave and for life to return to this man.”

The instant the last word left my mouth the lifeless pattern on the heart monitor quivered and then changed.  “Do you have a pulse?”

My partner looked up at me with two fingers on the man’s throat.  “Yes.”

And he still had one when we delivered him to the ER.

I thought this was a neat testimony to share on the Thursday before our show, Project Afterlife premieres on Destination America.  On the show you’ll hear amazing testimonies along the same vein as this one, only you’ll hear about their afterlife experience.  And you’ll hear from the people that prayed for them to come back.

We are proclaimed followers of Jesus who should earnestly desire to walk in the same way he did, and to do the same things he did.  Even raise the dead.

The resurrection power of Jesus is alive in us!    We will heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and preach the kingdom when we understand who is alive in us.  The abundance of Christ boils up inside of us and we either stoke the flame or stick it in the freezer.  Don’t be afraid.  Take great courage and step out in ways you haven’t before.  Be ready to respond as he leads you.  It’s going to be uncomfortable, but only for a few moments.  Then it’s going to be really great!

Blessings,

Jesse and Kara Birkey

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My Thoughts on Donald Trump

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After watching the GOP debate last night, I have a million thoughts I could share about Donald Trump. This post is not my endorsement of the Don. I actually like all of the other GOP candidates, each for a different reason. These are just a few thoughts on what Trump has done to shake things up in the election process.

If you need your presidential candidate to be the most politically conservative one running, Trump is not your man. But Ted Cruz might be. Cruz probably has more integrity in his little finger that the rest of the candidates have, collectively. That’s why the GOP leaders hate him. He doesn’t play ball. He stands behind his beliefs and convictions and won’t side with anyone if the issue is one he can’t in good conscience vote for. And he’s not afraid to call leaders out on their shady back-room deals. I love his integrity, but he has the same problem our current president has: He’s so far from center on his views, who is going to work with him?

If you need your president to be a born-again-bible-believing-man-of-god, Trump is not your man. You might vote for Huckabee or one of the other guys who is willing to tell you it’s all about Jesus. I admire these guys. But I’m pretty sure every president we’ve ever had has claimed to be a Christian. Oddly enough, Trump is the only one talking about putting an end to the Christians getting their heads chopped off by Isis. Why aren’t the men of God weighing in on this issue? 

If you need your president to be a strict constitutionalist—a man who will defend our civil liberties, Trump is not your man. Get behind Rand Paul. I love this about Rand. He is pound-for-pound the most ardent defender of the constitution and the bill of rights. Trump, not so much. But like Cruz—Rand is so far from center, who is going to work with him?

If you need your presidential candidate to have led a successful political career—you might consider Jeb Bush, Chris Christie or Scott Walker. The GOP has put forward the strongest field of candidates I’ve ever seen. Too bad the majority of voters (right now) prefer someone with no experience in political office. What message does that send to Washington?

If you want your president to be a nice guy, who is smart, polite and has a good sense of humor, you probably need to support Ben Carson. I love Ben. Who doesn’t? He could do brain surgery on me any day of the week. But is he really electable? 

If you need your presidential candidate to have a long track record of being a conservative, Trump is the last person you’re likely to support. It’s only been as he’s grown older and run into some life-changing events that he’s come around to embracing conservative values, and he’s still not as conservative as the rest of the pack.

But if you’re one of those people who is fed up with politics as usual in Washington; and if you’re concerned that none of the political experts we’ve elected so far have been able to reverse the trend of increasing debt; (despite their promises) and if you think we need someone who will tell it like it is, instead of someone who tells people what they want to hear to get their support; and if you think we need a president who is a born leader—a man who is bigger than life—Trump just might be your man.

The funny thing about Trump is that because he isn’t the most conservative candidate in the running, he’s getting a lot of support from Democrats. I know that irritates a lot of conservatives, but hold on a minute, there’s something valuable in that. Having support from the other side is a major advantage to a political leader—especially if he needs to win support for his ideas from the other party in order to get laws passed in congress—something President Obama’s hasn’t been able to do.

I don’t know anyone who likes everything Trump has said. But I know a lot of people who like his chutzpah and his transparency. These people hope that Trump has what it takes to make America great again. No one else on the ticket seems to offer them much hope. So they’re listening to what he has to say. Mostly I suppose, because they just don’t trust politicians any more. I guess the question we might ask is, can we trust a successful business man?

Some folks are worried about the fact that Trump has no political experience:

I’m not convinced that political experience is a great advantage to a president. Washington DC is full of experienced politicians who would ruin the country if given a chance to sit in the oval office. The office of president wasn’t designed to be a place of honor for professional politicians. After our nation was formed, the early presidents were farmers and craftsmen. Congress only met a couple of times a year. Somehow, we’ve lost sight of the fact that this country was not intended to be run by professional politicians, but ordinary people who worked average jobs and served occasionally in Washington, as needed.

Ronald Reagan was great president not because he was Governor of California first, but because he was a born leader whom people trusted. He had a clear vision of what needed to be done and he made sweeping changes that got people back to work. He did that by recruiting people to back his policies—people from both sides of the political aisle. He turned things around pretty quickly and that is exactly the kind of leader we need right now. Trump isn’t a political leader, but he is definitely a leader. His employees generally love and trust him. 

Trump may prove to be only another distraction. When the 2016 election comes, the Don and his antics may only be  fleeting memory. But he may very well end up getting the GOP nomination. In poll after poll, he’s pulling away from the rest of the pack. And it’s pretty clear right now that whoever gets the GOP nomination is going to be the next president. As Marco Rubio noted, the Democrats can’t even come up with one strong candidate.

There is one thing that is clear about Trump: He has the professional politicians and political pundits absolutely stumped about their next move.

With every attack by the media against Trump, his popularity only increases. Fox news has been heavily criticized for the way they seemed to go after Trump in the debates last night. While it’s clear that Fox may not approve of Trump’s run for the oval office, people don’t seem too thrilled about the personal attacks against him by the media.

And as much as the other Republican candidates hate having Trump in the race, they haven’t found a way to neutralize his effect on the campaign. Last night, none of the candidates dared attack Trump personally, except for a short, heated exchange with Rand Paul, who seemed irritated the entire night. Everything the Republican candidates do only seems to create more support for the Don. That ought to tell you how Americans feel about the political staus quo.

Last night I had the following dream:
The dream was about a man who ran for president. He wasn’t very polished, or a professional politician. In a lot of ways, he was seen as a bumbling fool. Yet people liked him and his popularity grew very quickly. That was the dream.

I’m not pinning my hopes for our future on the people we elect. Believers who learn how to rule and reign as mature sons of God probably have a greater ability to determine our future than any elected official. But Trump is here—for a while at least—and the nation is going to have to decide what to do about him.

Note: Many people wonder if Trump has a plan to make America great again. He does. His plan is detailed in his book Time to Get Tough.

Viewing God

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Imagine for a moment that you are a human the size of an ant and that your ability to see has been reduced in proportion to your size and your field of view is only a few inches. Now imagine that you and a few ant-sized friends are allowed to see and describe a car.

One friend, who is looking at the front tire, tells the group the car is made of a black, rubber-like substance. Another inspects a door panel and describes the car as a piece of hard, flat sheet metal. Another walks along the bumper and reports that it seems to made of a smooth, reflective metallic substance. Another sits on the driver’s seat and says the car is made of a soft, brown material. One friend crawls inside the exhaust pipe and says, “No, you’re all wrong. The car is definitely more like a metallic cylinder.”

As the owner of the car, you might laugh at the attempt of ant-sized people to describe something their minds can’t fully grasp, but this is the same problem we have when trying to describe God.

I’ve spoken with a lot of drug addicts over the years who have told me that the ultimate experience in life is getting high on heroin. To someone who has had this experience, the statement might seem true, because their experience may validate the belief. But for someone who hasn’t used heroin, the statement will seem false because there is no experience to validate it. The human mind is strongly biased in favor of that which we have personally experienced. It is equally biased against that which we have not. Our experiences shape our perceptions of the universe and its realities, including our views of God.

Most Christians say that they get their views of God from the Bible, but for most of us, our views are really a combination of our personal experiences and the passages we find in the Bible that validate them. Although we don’t completely disregard the experiences of others or reject Bible passages that don’t support our experiences—the less they mimic our experiences, the less validity they have for us, personally.

I once lived as an atheist. I believed there was no God, because I had never experienced Him personally (at least not in a way I was aware of). My bias was influenced by my experiences—or lack thereof. I became a believer because I had a personal experience with Him.

After becoming a believer, I went through a season where my wife and I were both unemployed. During that time, God provided for our financial needs in many unexpected ways and I came to know Him as my provider, because that was how I experienced Him. God Himself did not change, but by view of Him did, because of what I experienced. At that time, I discovered a number of Bible passages that portrayed Him as Jehovah Jireh—The Lord who provides. These descriptions of God had been there in the Bible all along, but the bias I had recently developed in favor of them seemed somehow to make them more noticeable.

Years later, I became interested in healing. During that time, my view of God changed again and I began seeing Him as Jehova Rapha—the Lord who heals. My view of God was now drawn more from the accounts of Jesus in the gospels as He went about healing the sick. The healing passages had always been there, but my new bias made them stand out and I focused on them, more than I did on other passages.

I have friends who have developed incredibly intimacy with God—the kind portrayed in the romantic books of the Bible. Brian Simmons is one such friend. Because his view of God (today) is one of deep, intimate love, he decided to create  new translation of the bible called, The Passion Translation. The focus (or bias) of Brian’s mind is different from mine, although both of us have biblically correct views.

I have other friends whose lives are filled with mystical, supernatural experiences with God. They travel into the heavens and meet all kinds of beings there. They see the manifestation of gem stones, gold dust, manna and oil with regularity. They talk with angels and experience shifts in the space-time continuum. The view they have of God is different from the view others have. And they see passages in the scriptures that portray God this way, because their experiences give them a different bias.

I know people who have come out of a life of terrible sin and rebellion. They found God to be a patient, merciful and forgiving Father who never condemned but always encouraged them. These believers have found the passages in the Bible that assure them that mercy has triumphed over judgement, that grace covers all our sins and that we’re perfectly righteous in His eyes. They have a personal bias that paints a unique portrait of God.

I have other friends who are concerned about what they perceive to be a change for the worse in the moral behavior of our nation. They see wickedness and evil on the increase. These believers tend to see God as a righteous judge, who must execute judgment upon sin. They draw their view of God from passages in the scriptures where He’s portrayed in this manner, because that happens to be their personal bias.

God has graciously portrayed Himself in the scriptures a thousand different ways. One reason He’s done this is to give validation to each person for the way in which they choose to view Him. To some He is the One who stands closer than a brother. Some prefer to see Him as the zealot who flipped over the money changer’s tables. Other see Him as the shepherd who goes after lost sheep. Some have found Him to be their passionate lover and others—their healer. Some see Him as the judge. All these views are biblical. The difference lies in which passages we choose to emphasize or ignore.

Our perception of God is a reflection what we believe to be true about Him and our beliefs are influenced by our biases. Our view of God is, in a sense, a projection of all that we believe to be right and good and true in the universe. And that view is unique to us and in a constant state of change, even if we aren’t aware of it.

Most people will not claim that their view of God is the only right view of Him—at least not openly. We usually agree that God is multi-faceted and that all the descriptions of Him found in the scriptures are needed to give a complete view of Him. And yet, when we speak of God in specific terms, our words reflect our thoughts and our thoughts are influenced by our unique biases. These biases create a specific picture of God that we embrace and it’s this image that we present to the world.

My suggestion (if you’re looking for one) is to recognize your own biases and realize that they color your view of God. You might allow others to hold to their own view, without feeling compelled to convince them your view is right and theirs is wrong. The one who is most able to change our view of God is God. Also consider that your view of Him is likely to change over time. What you believe about Him today may not be what you believe about Him 10 years from now. Realize that since  we’re all being conformed into the image of God, the image we embrace is the one we’re becoming. Ask yourself if the image you now have of Him is the one you want to become more like. If it isn’t, you might ask Him to reveal Himself to you in a way you haven’t yet experienced.

 

Podcast 023: How to Quit Your Day Job – Part 1

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In today’s message, my wife and I share some practical steps you can take to quit your day job and become a self-employed, creative entrepreneur.

Topics covered in this message:

The benefits of working from home and working for yourself
The ups and downs of starting your own business
The importance of coming up with new ideas
Why you need to find your tribe and how to do it
The importance of telling your “story”
Four steps to writing a best-seller
Valuing your work and pricing it for success

 

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Resources Mentioned

Divine Healing Made Simple

James Altucher’s book Choose Yourself

Samantha Bennett’s The Organized Artist’s Company

Past Episodes

How God Healed My Sister of Cancer and Used an Angel to Help – Steve Harmon

My guest blogger today is Steve Harmon.

My sister had Neuroblastoma as an infant. There were 13 lumps on her body. My mom was a new believer at the time. The church she was going to didn’t believe in healing. My dad’s brother talked to her and said that his church believed that God heals today. His pastor prayed for her and the baby over the phone. When she hung up the phone, my mom felt the sensation of heat going over her head and down her torso. From that point on, she knew the baby would be healed. She told her mother over the phone that Jesus was going to heal her daughter. There was this silence on the other end. She said to my mom, “Cynthia, can you put your husband on the phone?” My dad got on the phone and she said, “You need to watch Cynthia, she’s losing it.”

One day, at LA children’s hospital, my mother told the doctor that the baby would be healed by Jesus. The doctor said, “Mrs. Harmon, you don’t understand how serious this is.” My mother was praising God down the hospital hallways. When they left the hospital, they parked their car in a parking structure far away from the hospital. They were leaving the structure and came to the arm gate that requires a token to leave. As they were pulling up, a black man was sitting on the wall right next to the arm. My dad is thinking he is going to ask for money. As they pull up, instantly, the guy asks my dad, “How’s your kid?”

My dad looked at him puzzled. And said, “Huh?”

The guy replies, “Well, you don’t have to worry about a thing because the Lord is going to heal your baby.” My mom’s heart skipped a beat,  and my dad blanked out because he really wasn’t a believer.

My mom said to herself when they left, “I think that was an angel.”

A few days after, my grandmother noticed the lumps were getting smaller. Within two weeks they were completely gone. There was no trace left. They did every test to check. It was so healed, it looked like it never existed. My dad asked the doctor what happened. The doctor replied, “I guess you just call it a miracle” and shrugged his shoulders. On the paperwork, the final note said, “Unexplained.”