By Robel Yohannes –
With two autistic, Deborah McDermott of Peterborough, UK, had no moment of rest. Her husband, Christopher, worked very hard at his job to make sure expenses were covered. They could never go out and do normal family things.
One day after four years of praying to God for help, she wept bitterly. “I love my boys so much and you’re supposed to love them more than me. Why have you done this to them,” she prayed. “I would die for my boys.”
“I already did,” flashed through her brain. It hadn’t been her own thought. Was it Jesus that responded? she asked. She was somewhat stunned by the response and gazed into the hearth fire meditatively. “He’ll heal them,” she thought.
Jesus did indeed heal the boys. When American evangelist Andrew Wommack was in town, they attended his Charis Bible College Conference. “You’re the parents of two normal children now,” Andrew said, after praying.
Autism is considered incurable. But psychiatric evaluations of both boys have removed the diagnoses from both boys.
Timothy would only sleep for a few hours, wake up and scream as if he saw a ghost. He was hyperactive and exhibited strange behaviors, like excessive spinning. He got nausea and vomited for the slightest strange smell of his food or lump in his porridge. He was diagnosed with Asperger’s.
James played with cars upside down, hated when people looked at him and panicked with bright lights.
The chances of having an autistic child is about 1 in 100. What were the chances they would have a second autistic kid?
“We had to watch the children you loved the most, battle not only the curse that they had, but also the torture of the mindset of how they didn’t know that they were autistic,” says Christopher on a Healing is for You video.
When Deborah watched a Mother’s Day program, she was hit by a sledgehammer of emotion. “What they were experiencing versus what I was going through was so different,” she admits. “I began weeping uncontrollably.”
Then they watched a program about the healing of a child (an Andrew Wommack video). The parents testified: “For Jesus, this is a piece of cake.”
Faith began to stir in Christopher and Deborah. They began to read material about faith and healing. When they heard Andrew Wommack was coming to town, they wanted to attend. But just getting the kids into the car was brutally difficult. Staying at a hotel near the seminar would be, they feared, a nightmare of screaming.
But God worked it all out. One kid bounced on the bed. The other ate more food than he had ever eaten before. It seemed like the boys were being healed even before they got prayed for.
When their turn finally came, Bro. Wommack prayed and gave them words of reassurance: they were normal.
That night, the boy who never slept more than an hour or two, slept through the whole night. With every day, they got better and better. The psychiatric evaluations were the final proof. The diagnosis attached their medical records were removed.
