Starting in September, I began to get sick.

At first, I thought it was just a cold, then the flu and then everything in my body started to rebel. I would see my doctor on a weekly basis with new symptoms and quickly worsening conditions.

They would sometimes give me medicine to take but it never helped. They had no idea what was going on with me.

Around the start of November, I began to have trouble walking. I would lose my balance randomly and sometimes have to support myself with chairs to make it across the room. It got to the point that simply walking across campus was impossible.

It all got really bad one night so I called my doctor who directed me to the emergency room. It was then I was told I probably had either Lyme disease or multiple sclerosis because all of my symptoms don’t normally happen to an 18 year old.

I was so scared but I knew God had me and whatever happened He would see me through.

After I left the emergency room, I had three churches praying for me as well as numerous people fasting for me. Four days later, about two days before my neurology appointment, I woke up and was totally fine.

One day I could barely walk, the next I was running with no problems.

The doctors have no idea what was wrong with me or why I’m better, but I do. God moved because of people praying and fasting for me.

A few weeks later, the doctors told me I was “absolutely perfect.” God built my faith in so many ways and taught me the power of fasting. This year, I was planning on fasting for my healing but God took care of that in advance.

I go back to the doctor next week to make sure it’s all gone and I’m fasting for my healing to continue. But I know it’s all gone and I am completely normal.

God is so faithful and true to His Word.

“This kind only comes out by prayer and fasting.”

And it does!

I have wanted to go back to school for sometime now, but since my husband is in the military it is quite difficult (due to the fact that we always transfer every 3 years).Recently, I was looking at the FCCJ website and saw that they have a program designed just for military spouses. I decided to check it out and everything was looking great until I found out I had to take an exam. I took my first test last Monday and unfortunately failed it by a tenth of a point! I was told if I wanted to retake the exam I could, so I took a deep breath and rescheduled.

I came home after I took the first exam and studied all week long.

My husband and I decided that we were going to do the 3 day fast towards the end of the church-wide fast.

A week before I was scheduled to re-take the test at FCCJ, I woke up feeling so full of God’s love and mercy, knowing I needed to start fasting before I had planned. I spoke with my husband and shared my heart about my need to start fasting right away. I knew that the sacrifice I was doing would allow God to restore me and grant me fulfillment so that I wouldn’t have to worry.

The day of the test, I woke up, got on my hands and knees and prayed to God saying, “Lord I am humbling myself to you. You have given me so much to be thankful for; a wonderful husband and two healthy children - what else could I ask for? You are the pilot of my life, Lord, not the co-pilot.”

Today I went to FCCJ and took the exam again. At first I thought, “Wow! This is an easy exam!” I finished it in 30 minutes and turned it in.

As I was waiting for the results, the professor called me over to his desk and said “I’m sorry, we gave you the wrong exam, you have to start over again!” I took a very deep breath. Feeling frustrated and overwhelmed, I started over yet again. And again I turned in the test and again I waited for the results.

After some time, the professor called me to his desk and in a very different tone of voice said, ” Here are your results. Congratulations, you scored the highest anyone can possibly score!”

I cried out, “Are you sure?!” He said “Absolutely. Congratulations!”

Until that time, I had never sacrificed or humbled myself to the Lord the way I did. I am so thankful and feel so blessed that I stepped out in faith for Him.

God is absolutely amazing and I am proud to say that I am his daughter!

Since I’ve been coming to Celebration Church 5 months ago, I’ve gradually seen many small, but significant changes.

I originally started going to the Wednesday Youth and Sunday services at the St. Johns campus for a friend, but quickly found myself drawn in and loved feeling the presence of God and being around people who felt it as well.

When I heard about the fasting, I decided to try it out with some encouragement from my friends. I was very excited. When I got home and told my parents about it, they were full of questions and a little bit of doubt. I naturally couldn’t answer all their questions, but with help from my Youth Pastor, I informed them as much as I could. They questioned my reason for doing it and I told them even though I didn’t completely understand everything about it, I wanted to feel God work in my life too.

Today on the 7th day of fasting, I was talking to a group of friends in class about what the fasting is about and how I am doing it. One girl said to me, “I don’t see why you would do that.” Without even thinking about it, a response came out and I told her . . .

“You know, sometimes our love of food or other material objects overcomes our love for God and the most important things in life. Maybe if we set aside some of our bad habits, even if it is for only 21 days like I’m doing for fasting, we’ll be able to break some of those things that keep us away from God and the things we really should be doing in life - like helping others.”

No one really talked much about it after that, but I sat the whole rest of the class thinking about what I just said and how I didn’t even think before it came out. At the end of the class, one of the girls asked me if she could come to Youth Service with me this week.

I’ve never really had a real experience with God, but to me, this was it.

It was like God put the words right in my mouth and I just said them, without even knowing it to help inform this girl. Maybe she needs God in her life too.

Sometimes all it takes is some faith in believing in what you are doing, even if you don’t really understand it.

God works in crazy ways.

I could hardly wait to write and give you my marvelous news.

To give you a little background, I am a single mom with two boys and we have been attending Celebration since June 2005. The recent series explaining “Margin & Purpose” really touched my heart. I knew that I had purpose, but never had room for margin. I knew that I had to find a way to make room and I just did it, I started to tithe (December 2007).

In March 2006, I was diagnosed, battled and was healed of breast cancer.

Two weeks ago during regular check-up another spot was found. I called my friends that I knew would pray and submitted a connection card with my prayer request(s).

On Sunday morning, January 6th, my friends surrounded me, walked with me to the altar, layed hands on me and boldly prayed for my complete healing. My eight year old son asked his group in Celebration Kids to pray that his mom would not have cancer again, too.

They did the biopsy last Wednesday on the first day of prayer and fasting. I got the call on Thursday that the test results were negative. No cancer!

I am overwhelmed with joy and my faith has been renewed! I am truly grateful for family, friends & church family that will believe in faith with me and go to God on my behalf.

I have been a believer since 1989, but I feel like I have re-born all over again! I expected a miracle and got one.

For 12 years I suffered from endometriosis, a painful, incurable disease that affects the female reproductive system. Over the years, I had several surgeries to help reduce the pain, but inevitably the disease would always grow back within a year or two. I was told by all of my doctors that I would probably never be able to have children because of the severity of my condition and that my only treatment options were maintenance surgeries every couple years and large doses of medication to control the debilitating pain. My next maintenance surgery to clear out the endometriosis was scheduled for January 18th, 2006.

My testimony of healing began during the 21 days of prayer and fasting of 2006.

My husband and I went to the Friday night prayer meeting on Jan. 6 to kick off the 21 days of prayer and fasting. At the very beginning of the service, Pastor Stovall related to everyone that he really felt like some of us needed to be believing for supernatural healing in our bodies. My immediate thought was, “That’s great! Maybe some other people will be healed, but that kind of healing is not going to happen for me.”

With my next surgery coming up in days, I remembering feeling disappointed that I would never be healed. I have to admit that deep down, if I was being really honest with myself, I thought that supernatural healing in the body was only for people of biblical times or at least only for the “super-spiritual” Christians that have these amazing gifts of faith.

Well, as I was trying to push these thoughts of unbelief aside and worship, the Holy Spirit started to gently and then very strongly convict me of my unbelief - to the point where I couldn’t even worship anymore. I finally sat down to focus in and listen to what the Holy Spirit ways trying to speak to me. During that time, the Holy Spirit just flooded me with the Truth of who God is, His amazing power, and how God’s yearns for me to believe, truly believe, that he could do anything for his children who love Him. As I completely surrendered and asked God to give me the faith it required to believe in Him for supernatural things, He began to stir up a faith in me like I had never had before.

At the end of the prayer meeting, it was settled in my heart that I was believing that my doctor would not find any endometriosis in my body during my surgery scheduled a couple weeks away.

On January 18th, 2006, my doctor went in to laser out all of the diseased tissue and he found none!!! He didn’t know how to explain it, considering what my condition looked like during previous surgeries, which was some of the fastest growing, worse endometriosis they has seen in someone my age. All he could say is that he looked everywhere for the endometriosis and all he saw was a very healthy and normal reproductive system - words I had never heard before.

Needless to say, I was as ecstatic as you can be coming out of anesthesia and in a little bit of shock and awe at how God moved. This amazing testimony could have ended there, but God continued to confirm the healing in a surprising way.

My husband called our friends David & Taryn Stine immediately after my surgery and told them the great news. David then proceeded to tell Pastor Stovall about my healing and Pastor Stovall cut him off in the middle of David explaining all the details of what endometriosis was. Pastor Stovall began to tell David that the night before, he felt the Holy Spirit prompting him to change the sermon he had already prepared for Wednesday night. He explained that he felt God leading him to speak out of the Gospels about when Jesus healed the women who bled for 12 years. Pastor Stovall continued to tell David that he and Kerri researched what kind of disease this women had and figured out that this women in the Bible had what we would call today, endometriosis!

God is so good in how He not only healed me, but then gave me that extra confirmation that I had faith and, therefore, I was healed.

So today, because of our mighty and powerful God, I am still free from the symptoms and pain of endometriosis.

I believe that our God is always wanting to move mountains in our lives and is only held back by our little faith. So I urge anyone who is reading this . . . believe God for big things in 2008.