It's Supernatural

Sid: Well I have Dr. Sandra Kennedy on the telephone and I have to tell you the miracle that she had the creative miracles with her mouth that she had is one of the most amazing testimonies to the healing virtues of God.  But we hear testimonies like this and we say “Wonderful for her, yes I believe God heals but when it comes to us we kind of give up; we kind of throw in the towel after having prayed, believed, got as many books as we can on healing; meditate on the word and nothing happened.”  I’m convinced it’s because we really have a lack of knowledge of how faith operates.  Sandra Kennedy I’m reminded of the scripture “We are admonished to fight the good fight of faith.” It’s a fight isn’t it?

Sandra:  Yes it is; yes it is.

Sid: And I don’t think most… again I go back to this 30 year old kid reading the Bible for the Bible for the first time I didn’t get any of that.  I just thought “Oh, you just pray in Jesus Name and it just happens, I didn’t understand the faith dimension.”

Sandra:   Right, right.

Sid: I didn’t understand the fight that was involved.  Okay you’re playing around your little adorable little dog, what kind of a dog was it?

Sandra:  Shelty; a little shelty.

Sid: Okay and all of a sudden the dog bites through your upper lip explain what happened.

Sandra: You know shelty is a small collie; got a pointed nose.  I was getting up off of a sofa and when I went up to get off the sofa I kind of bent down a little bit and she jumped up and her head hit and her moth closed on part of my face and came down and totally closed on my lip.   And of course I did not know that she had taken off basically almost 1/3 to a 1/2 of my upper lip.  I didn’t know that because blood just went everywhere; it was an accident it was a total accident.  And so I get a towel Sid and I call some friends and I said “I think I need to go to the emergency room; I get to the emergency room…

Sid: Wait, I want to know something; you didn’t realize how serious it was but what type of prayer did you pray, anything or I’m just running to the emergency room?

Sandra:  No I know I remember there’s so much blood I remember saying “You know Jesus, help me Jesus” that was about all.”  I didn’t know what it was, but emergency wasn’t but 5 minutes from me and I didn’t think the lip, I just thought I had a cut or something because there was so much blood and then the raw lip and I was holding like a towel on my lip.  So I really had not seen it; it was late at night

Sid: You didn’t look in the mirror you just grabbed the towel and put it on to stop the blood; okay.

Sandra:  And I’m just holding it to stop the blood; I walk into the emergency room.  The first thing the nurse says to me is “Where is your lip?”

Sid: Oh my gosh; that’s an awful thing for someone to say.

Sandra:  I almost fainted you know and I said “I don’t know.”  She said “We need help real quick you need a plastic surgeon.”  And I didn’t know one, and she said “You’re going to half to have surgery and all this kind of stuff.”  And so I remember I asked a friend of mine who was a good surgeon a plastic surgeon.”  The guy came in the first thing he said to me was “I cannot do anything for this upper lip, if it were the bottom lip the bottom lip will restore itself but the top lip will not.”  And all he said was “All I can do is take you immediately into surgery and then do like a piece of pie cut another piece off of your lip to make in smooth to sew it together.”  And he said “It will take anywhere from you know 5 to 6 more surgeries before you will even be able to smile again.”  And then I instantly said “No, my God will do this, that is not so I will never have surgery.”  I remember saying that just before I went in and I said “Let me pray for you.”  And I said “This is my lip, my face and I want to pray for you.”  And I woke up on the operating table hearing him say to the nurse “I don’t know why, I normally sew the 2 lips together.”  But I thought “Dear God don’t do that.”

Sid: Wait a second if you sew the 2 lips together how do you eat?

Sandra:  I don’t know he said “I normally sew the 2 lips together.”  And I heard him say that and I couldn’t say anything because he was still sewing it.

Sid: (Laughing)

Sandra:  And I’m thinking, “No.”

Sid: You’re a real captive audience okay. (Laughing)

Sandra:   And ah I said “No.”  And then he said “Something told me not to do it.”  And when I came out of the surgery he said to me again “It will take you know possibly up to 6 surgeries, you don’t know what you’re dealing with here.”  By this time he has pulled this thing so tight my nose is moved up almost under one of my eyes, my mouth is totally lopsided.  And on top of that I’m a woman Sid, not only was my lip gone but he tied the thing in black cat gut. (Laughing)

Sid: You were a mess, you must have wanted to go out and get a mask and put it over your head.

Sandra:  I did, I just was beside myself and I had a healing explosion 10 days after that, people come from all over the nation.

Sid: So, okay now you’ve been preaching, teaching, how God honors His word that all things are possible; in 10 days you have this healing explosion people coming from all over the country.  Alright you’re kind of sewn up until you have these plastic surgeries, and by the way if they did all these surgeries, if they did it, what was the prognosis?

Sandra: Prognosis was like I had a cleft lip and I would never be able to smile again; that I would be because it would because I had lost so much of that lip and they would have to pull it so tight and I would never smile. No one could see all of your teeth again and that I would always talk with a little problem because I would not be able to pucker or to make certain sounds.

Sid: Well, as a pastor, preacher that is not, that is an awful prognosis someone did not want you doing what you do today that was obvious. (Laughing)

Sandra: Right and it was horrifying it was horrible looking; horrible looking.

Sid: Okay, I guess you get home, tell me what I mean you are a real person, you had real pain you had real trauma you’ve been given a horrible sentence for everything you wanted to do the rest of your life.  How did you handle it when you got home?

Sandra:   Well, I looked in the mirror and almost fainted myself because again my nose was pulled so tight that my nose looked like it was kind of partially under my eye. My mouth was totally lopsided and everything was so swollen my lip against my teeth I could only talk out of the little teeny corner of my mouth.

Sid: But wait a second I know you believe in doctors; I know you believe that God heals and so why didn’t you say “Okay, I’ll have all those surgeries and then after I have them if it still looks as bad as you say not being able to smile like a cleft pallet then God will heal me.” Why didn’t you take that tact?

Sandra:  It rose up in me and I’d been doing these healing meetings and seeing God do every kind of thing.  Most of us start off in hope but we have to get in faith and I came on the word until it became a reality to me that God was going to do this for me it just became real to me.

Sid: It was too late you believed it (Laughing).

Sandra: I believed it and what I did to continue to believe it and this is what most people don’t do I got the word of God and kept it in front of my eyes as Proverbs 4 says.  I kept all the healing scriptures; I didn’t read any scriptures on Armageddon, I didn’t need scriptures on Armageddon I needed healing scriptures.  So I got all the scriptures on healing; put it in front of me and meditated and kept quoting them and quoting them…

Sid: But wait, why would you have to do that you’ve been teaching this on this for years you have healing explosions you have healing scriptures; why did you do that?

Sandra: Because I am convinced that no matter what comes our way we have to go back and start over every time to jar ourselves to really grab hold by faith that God will really do it. I think we know it in our head but when something happens we have to make sure we drop from our head to our heart.  And the only way you said it earlier “Knowledge of God’s word is what makes that happen.”

Sid: Okay, I want you to tell me why you did this book “Proving God” and the 3 CD’s “Proving God?”

Sandra:   I really feel really strongly and I’ve been preaching for a long time but I felt that God supernaturally touched me about doing this book on proving God.  I remember the day I was studying it and I thought this is what we need to do; we need to show that He’s not a man that He should lie and we need to take Him at His word and hold His word up before Him.  Because that is what happened with my lip, I refused to look at any pictures that the doctors tried to show me, I never had another surgery, I never had surgery and I put pictures of me smiling and I put the word of God over it and I kept telling my lip to do what the word said.  I’d speak to it; I’d command that lip to reform itself; I commanded that lip to move itself and to become normal and to normalize; I commanded those different parts the tendons and the parts to move and reform these all based on that God cannot lie.  This is what God said He said “He sent His word and healed me” and He said “He could not lie.”  Well, if that’s the case then show yourself strong here, I’m going to reason with you God and I’m going to bring your very own word to you and I’m going to lift it up to you and I’m going to remind you of what you said and I expect results.”