My husband, Rodney, had throat cancer last year.  He had a T3 or T4 tumor and the doctors were certain that if he didn't have his larynx removed, he'd die.  We went to church before we went to the doctor, however, and had an experience there that convinced us that God was going to heal him. 

I know that God did the healing, but it was our faith and obedience to His word that allowed the miracle to take place.  

Rodney, was in Vietnam, and lived a life of alcoholism and low self esteem for the last 20 yrs or so, until we met in 1996.  He has many talents, skills and a heart of gold, but He resisted submitting to God.  His mother is a Pentecostal and He was sick of hearing about God's power because he thought it was all hysteria and wishful thinking.  

We put the carpet in a church in Albany a few months before he finally admitted that there was something wrong in his throat.  We decided that before he went to the doctor, we'd go to church and ask this preacher to pray for him.  By this time, Rod was totally humbled, his voice was gone, there was a large lump in his throat that made breathing difficult, and the pain had gone down under his arms even.  He walked to the front of the full gospel church, confident that if anyone knew the real God, this man Stan Glass did.  This is not the kind of place where one worries about what to wear or how to act.  It's a really holy place full of joy and praise.  Stan was an alcoholic musician that God saved.  His whole "crew"  (the band) up front were also his fellow musicians that have been saved from drugs or alcohol and the music is out of this world.  They play rhythm and blues gospel!

Rodney went forward with tears in his eyes, just praying that God wouldn't take him yet.  When Stan reached out to lay hands on him, God knocked Rodney to the floor and he was unable to get up for several minutes.  He says he was awake but paralyzed and he felt electricity coursing through his body.  Not electrical shock, but a supernatural event.  When he was able to stand up finally, the lump and pain were gone, and he could whisper.

We went to Phoebe Putney hospital in Albany, because they were willing to try radiation and chemotherapy on the condition that if at 3 weeks (half the treatment) the tumor hadn't responded, Rod would allow them to operate.
He gave up smoking and drinking instantly and has never gone back to them.  

I went to work and his mom took him twice a day about 30 miles to get his radiation treatments.  We prayed constantly, listened to Stan's preaching tapes and sang hymns without stopping.  I even kept the church's website up on our computer at night so we could hear the comforting music Stan played.  

At 3 weeks, the cat scan not only showed response, but that the cancer was COMPLETELY GONE!  They went ahead and did the rest of the treatment and he's gone back monthly for exams.  He doesn't have a sign that he ever had cancer.  His hair did not fall out and he never got sick.  He had some weakness, but not bad.  We just kept praising God and using the Bible verses I've listed here in the "Power Tools From Scripture" section, to declare that the victory was already ours.

I think the most wonderful thing I ever heard was that God was really on my side and I didn't have to always beat myself up about my sins.  They're forgiven!  Gone.  And that God NEVER wants us to be sick.  There is no purpose in it.  If people tell you that sickness is here to teach us something, or that it will make us a better person, then ask when is it going to start working!  How can sickness further God's kingdom?  Who wants to worship a God that people say can do anything, but doesn't show any evidence of his power and existence?

Sickness wasn't something God invented.  He made man perfectly healthy, gave him the tree of life, and all dominion over the earth and all that was in it.  When Satan convinced the people to believe his lies instead of God's word, death and sickness were born into the world.  Man gave the dominion of the earth over to Satan, but the Bible says Jesus took it back.  Jesus said, "All authority in Heaven and Earth is given to me."  Then he commanded us to go forth in His name, healing all manner of sickness and disease, preaching the gospel, raising the dead and let love be the sign of the believer.

Anyone who believes in Jesus as their savior ALREADY has the power and authority in Jesus' name to effect ANY change in matter, energy and thought on this planet.  He said, SAY to this mountain - be thou removed, and it will go.  He said speak and it shall be done, ask and ye shall receive.  All in His name of course.
  
So the words you speak, and the faith you use in speaking them, effect change.  Even if your faith is small, more faith comes when you hear the word often.  By your own voice and others.

I used to be sick at least once a month, along with my kids, with sore throats, strep throat etc.  We were on antibiotics all the time.  Then we learned at Stan's church how to fight.  Now when a sore throat tickles it's first little attack, we speak to the tissues of our throat and the immune system of our bodies and within a few minutes, the sickness is gone.  You have to be specific in naming the areas of your body that you want healed and exactly what to be done for it.  Don't concentrate on calling the name of your problem, because that enlarges it.  Call on healing, perfect tissues, perfect waste removal, nourishment of all your cells and resistance to disease.  

Our miracles didn't start with Rodney, though.  They began in 1980 when our first son was born.  (My first husband, the children's father, was Mark.  He died in 1996.)  

Chris was born in February of 1980, with brain damage, paralysis and blindness.  He was blind on the left side, paralyzed on the left side and in a coma for two years.  Today he's a happy, beautiful 21 yr. old boy with minimal handicaps.  One night I saw a preacher on TV saying if anyone had a baby who was retarded, paralyzed or blind (all three had to do with Chris), to put him up against the TV and pray with him.  I did it, not thinking any more about it.  Three days later, Chris woke up from the coma, opened his paralyzed arm and began to live.  

Over the next three months we had several other major prayers answered.  One was for his paralyzed leg to move, and that happened over night.  Another was for his eyesight, that prayer took one month.  

I've personally witnessed healings of illnesses that were demonic, not physically induced.  I've watched twice as God dispatched an army of Angels for protection.  I actually saw a man fight a legion of angels in my living room.  He was trying to get to us to harm us, and I had prayed with all my heart all evening to keep him away.  He flailed his arms wildly, pushing against the invisible barrier God had placed between us, and when he finally fell asleep on the floor exhausted, we climbed over his body and left the house.