It's Supernatural

SID: Mary, you had a form of muscular dystrophy you were born with. What was it called?

MARY: Charcot-Marie-Tooth.

SID: What is the prognosis for this disease?

MARY: It is an incurable disease. It affects your extremities, your arms and your legs, and eventually the nerves stop sending messages to the muscles. You begin drawing up and atrophying and lose use of certain muscle groups.

SID: At age 12, you developed scoliosis and it says here that your spine had a curvature of 33 degrees.

MARY: Yes. One shoulder blade scapula developed more than the other. My back was very distorted and I had a burning sensation that if I lifted anything, I would usually have to go lie down for an hour because the pain was so great, I had to wait ’til it would pass before I could function again.

SID: At age 19, jumping real quickly, you had a healing. How did you get that?

MARY: At age 14, I went to a David Wilkerson Crusade and the Holy Spirit said, “Go down front.” I said, “I’m saved. You know I’m saved.” He said, “I want those in your high school to know your mind.” I went down front and filled out a card and they discipled me through the mail through the book of John. By reading the book of John, the Holy Spirit highlighted Scriptures that Jesus healed them all. I got ahold of that I am one of them “all.” I came across a Scripture and Jesus cast out the devil and they were healed.

I looked down at my body as a child and went, “This is a devil.” I searched Scriptures at age 14. I began trying to read all through the Bible, came across James 4:7. “Therefore, submit unto God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Over five years I stood on that Scripture. My mother took me anywhere she thought they would lay hands on me and pray for me, and over five years every bit of the disease left my body.

SID: I believe they did an analysis of your spine and the curvature. What did the doctor say about that? By the way, there is surgery that perhaps you could be corrected, but you didn’t have surgery. What did the doctor say?

MARY: Duke Medical Children’s Hospital x-rayed me every few months during these five years when I am standing on Scriptures, believing for my healing. They would line them all up and they would just shake their heads because every time I went in, the degree got less and less and less.

SID: Okay, 16 years go by, fast forward, five children, married. You had a little incident, a home church. You went there and they literally embarrassed you.

MARY: Publicly.

SID: Publicly humiliated you. You were wounded. Six months later, the disease hit you with a vengeance, far worse.

MARY: My husband and I walked a few blocks from our house, went through a park. We’re coming out of the park and in one step, I got paralyzed below both knees. Rich was walking down the road and I began calling his name. “Rich! Rich!” He turns around and he’s like, “Come on!” I go, “Come here!” He comes back and he goes, “what are you doing?” I said, “I can’t walk.” He goes, “What do you mean, you can’t walk?” I said, “I cannot move either leg.” He had to go home and get the vehicle and he had to carry me and put me in it. Those began the darkest days of my life. But I made a mistake in that moment.

SID: What did you do?

MARY: In my heart, I said, “The disease has returned.” I made an agreement in my heart with this disease and I should have resisted it.

SID: These symptoms can come back through the same demonic forces that brought them in the first place and if you can resist it at that moment, you don’t have to put up with it. That’s the easiest time to resist it.

MARY: God gave me a key on that. He said, “If you will take John 10:10 and divide the rest of your life by that one Scripture, you will no longer deal with this stuff.” John 10:10 says, “The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, and Jesus came to give life and life more abundantly.” He said, “If it’s coming to steal, kill, or destroy from you, anything, your thoughts, physical body, stop agreeing with it. If it’s bringing life, that’s where your agreement is. That where you let your mind go. That’s what you focus on. But you have to resist when it’s coming to steal, kill, and destroy.”

SID: You know what? She grabbed hold of that Scripture, but at that time she was in such a deep, dark pit that you really wanted to die.

MARY: I did. Now, cluster migraines have set in. I’m in bed over 16 days a month. That is how many. I would have four days of migraines, maybe two days out. Five days of migraine, and it was this vicious cycle day after day. I didn’t know if I could get out of bed. The pain is so great that I told God, “My husband’s good-looking. He’s very kind. Somebody else can come in here and take care of these children ’cause I am failing at this.” I began hating myself. I began despising myself and I cried out to God, “Please let me die.”

SID: We’re going to be right back, but she also cried out a question. “Why, God? Why me?” Be right back.