SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Melanie Hemry. I am so excited about these documented miracles. For instance, I’ve got 23 pages here of a man by the name of Desmond Ooman. Desmond was a 4 year old boy. Listen to this medical report. How would you have liked to have been his parents? “He has a grave” – that’s the word in the medical report – “a grave form of autism. Absolutely no involvement to the world around him.” Then it goes on to say “He must learn to live with it. This will never be able to heal again.” Melanie, this is such an amazing story. There’s so many people that have either hopeless situations that are watching us right now, or children with autism. What type of bizarre activity did he do?
MELANIE: He was uncontrollable. He rarely slept. He banged his head against the wall for hours at a time. He had obsessive… He didn’t speak much, but he would go obsessively “I am Desmond, I am Desmond…” He would scream, he would spit his food. The stress of trying to raise this child almost destroyed the family.
SID ROTH: You know the “before and after”, we have the “after”, as he’s a grown up young man now. I want, in his own words, for him to describe what it was like to have this disease.
DESMOND: You must know that I couldn’t really control what I was doing. It was something like… a human being with no purpose, just doing what it was “told”, something like that.
SID ROTH: His mother got a hold of what the Bible had to say about healing, and she did the most amazing thing. Rather than her son just repeating for hours and hours “I am Desmond, I am Desmond”, what did she have him do?
MELANIE: She taught him to say “I am healed, I am healed”, for hours on end.
SID: The healing wasn’t instant. Again, it took a while. One day he went on the school bus for special needs children, and he was coming home, and what happened?
MELANIE: When he went to school that morning, he’d been totally autistic, and when he came home from school, he walked up to his mother, looked in her eyes, and said “Why am I going to school with those strange children?”
SID: I like that word – strange children. He’s saying those children are strange. In his own words, as he remembers this, let’s find out what happened on the bus.
DESMOND: I was sitting on the bus. In the meantime, I was an autistic child. All the time I was thinking like a normal person. The first thing I mentioned was strange children, people laying on the ground because they had some kind of physical attacks you couldn’t see. Very strange. And I was thinking about myself, why am I sitting in that school? I don’t have such problems. I didn’t think that I was heavily autistic, but nevertheless, I was healed, I think from that moment on. I stepped off of the bus and said to my mother “Mother, why are all the strange children at my school?” And my mother was very happy, and yes, I was too I guess. For the first time in my life, I had a social talk with my parents.
SID: I don’t know about you, but to your knowledge, have you ever heard of someone with autism being healed like that?
MELANIE: I’ve never heard of a single time. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened, but I’ve never heard of it. It’s become rampant in our society. This young man lived in Holland, and his mother got a hold of the word of God, and refused to let go of believing that by Jesus’ stripes he was healed.
SID: I want to see a clip on his mother, his proud mother.
ANNET: Everything he couldn’t do before, like riding a bicycle, like keeping his balance, like making friends and keeping friends and have a good social life – he can do anything now, because of God. There is total healing for every disease, whatever it is. It’s not only for Desmond, it’s also for everyone who’s watching who is in need for a miracle.
SID: You’ve heard the phrase “All things are possible”? Well, this fellow with severe autism, do you know where he’s enrolled right now?
MELANIE: In law school.
SID: Did you get that? In law school! You told me that the Spirit of God told you there were people watching that have hopeless situations. Would you speak to them right now?
MELANIE: There are people watching this show who, doctors have told you the facts. The facts are you’re dying, but the truth of God’s word is that by Jesus’ stripes you’re healed. Don’t let go of that. In the spirit, it looks like the Grand Canyon, and you’re standing on the edge of the abyss about to step over, and God’s saying “Come away with Me.” Step back. You don’t have to die prematurely. You don’t have to die prematurely. God wants to know you intimately, and His promises are available to you as much today as it was when Desmond was 10 years old and he was healed. There’s also someone who’s feeling very hopeless and despairing of life, and that darkness is like a ball of twine. But God knows which one to pull to unravel the whole thing. Don’t give up. He’s there for you.
SID: That’s the message of your book, don’t give up. Tell me about that fellow who was dying from… It was from Africa. A form of lymphoma. If fact, I think a lot of those records you have here are on him.
MELANIE: These are his medical records.
SID: Tell me what happened.
MELANIE: His name is Brian Wills. He was 22 years old, a professional tennis player, and he was diagnosed with Burkett’s Lymphoma, which is one of the fastest growing cancers in the world. Primarily occurs in African children. Nobody knows why this man got it. It sometimes kills children in a day.
SID: This was about as hopeless a situation as you can get.
MELANIE: Right. He was diagnosed on Friday with a tumor the size of a golf ball. On Tuesday when they admitted him into the National Institute of Health, it was 10 inches across, his kidneys had shut down, and he was given 10 hours to live.
SID: It doesn’t get much worse than that.
