SID: Hello. Sid Roth. Welcome to my world, where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest, Melanie Hemry, was a registered nurse. She happened to be one of these backslidden Christians, but she saw things that were unexplainable. I imagine a lot of doctors and nurses see these things. Melanie, what’d you see?
MELANIE: I saw a judge who was brain dead with three flat EEGs, who God touched. And not only was he healed…
SID ROTH: Wait. One flat EEG you’re brain dead. He had three flat?
MELANIE: He had three flat EEGs.
SID: Ok. So he was dead, dead, dead.
MELANIE: Yeah. Nobody was home. And God touched him and raised him up. He not only lived, but he went back to try hundreds of cases on the federal court circuit.
SID ROTH: Then you saw someone who actually died before your eyes.
MELANIE: I did. I was taking care of a patient who had a brain stem stroke. She was in intensive care. Didn’t respond to any kind of stimulus. While I was at her bedside, she had a cardiac arrest and her heart stopped. So, brain stem stroke, her heart’s not beating, she’s clinically dead. I saw this woman sit up in the bed.
SID: After she’s dead?
MELANIE: After she’s dead. I saw a look on her face like someone who’s just seen someone they love, and she went “Jesus.” Then she floated back to her pillow, and she was gone.
SID: What effect did that have on you?
MELANIE: I turned back to God real quick.
SID ROTH: I have your book here, “Anointing For Healing.” I love it.
MELANIE: Thank you.
SID: The thing that I love about it so much is, in most of the cases, it wasn’t an instant miracle. It was literally a fight of faith, and most people aren’t aware of this. They can fight. They don’t have to give up. They don’t have to throw in the towel when they don’t have their instant miracle.
MELANIE: That’s the truth. Most people think if it doesn’t come instantly that God didn’t heal them, but that’s not true.
SID: Let’s talk to one of these people in the book, Wendy Moore who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. Hello Wendy, are you there?
WENDY [via telephone]: Hi Sid, I’m here.
SID: Hi. Take me from the time you found out you had Lou Gehrig’s disease, and what you did about it.
WENDY: Ok. I was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease April 17, 2001. My youngest son was only 4 weeks old.
SID: Oh, how tragic.
WENDY: It was devastating. I had a 4 week old baby and a 2 year old little boy, and I didn’t know that my children would ever grow up to know who their mother was. The doctors at University of Michigan Hospital told me I had two to five years to live, that I should quit my job, and basically prepare to die.
SID: I have friends who’ve died from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Does anyone survive?
WENDY: No, it’s a fatal disease. It’s always fatal. Your nerves die off, which supply your muscle with the ability to function, and your muscles waste away. It’s a tragic, terrible death.
SID: But you had an aunt who told you something you’d never heard.
WENDY: Yes. She told me that there were promises in God’s word for my healing, and that I was going to live and not die and declare the works of the Lord. I went to Bible college and started learning what exactly God’s word had to say concerning healing, and that healing was for me, and that Jesus was no respecter of persons, and if He’d healed one person, He’d heal me too.
SID: Now I understand, even though you didn’t have your balance and you were literally coming apart at the seams, you determined to go back to work, working on an ambulance. Tell me about that.
WENDY: I decided faith without works is dead. If I was going to say that I was healed and know that Jesus healed me, then I was going to have to act upon that faith that I was saying with my mouth. So I decided to go back to work full time. Everybody at work stood in faith with me, along with my wonderful family. I didn’t want a pity party, I wanted everybody to agree with me that the ramifications and manifestations of this healing would come. And that’s exactly what I did. I carried on my life like normal.
SID: Two years later, what happened to you?
WENDY: It was actually two and a half years later. I had consistently went down to University of Michigan for about six months, and they would check me out. But the last time I went down, which was in August of 2003, they called me back and said “Will you come back down in October for a repeat EMG, with the same doctor who did your original EMG?” So I agreed to do that. On October 20, 2003, I went back for a repeat EMG. The doctors were walking in and out of the room, and asking me a lot of questions.
SID: Ha ha! I can picture that scene.
WENDY: They said “Did your mother ever have polio when she was pregnant with you?” They were just asking me questions. They said “You know, Wendy, you don’t have ALS. We don’t know what’s happened here, but your nerves are trying to repair themselves.” They said that my nerve endings look like someone who had polio 50 years ago, but they were not dying off anymore. That’s what ALS is, the nerves are actively dying off. When they made the original diagnosis, they saw nerve death within 14 days of the test. When they did the EMG almost three years later, the nerves had stopped dying off.
SID: So what did the doctors have to say about this?
WENDY: They had to leave us alone in the room for about 30 minutes, because we were in awe. I had never felt so close, and felt God’s presence… It was an overwhelming feeling, like God had answered our prayers exactly how we’d asked Him to answer them. We stood in faith and trusted Him and acted upon His word.
SID: But Wendy, what did the doctors say?
WENDY: They said it’s a miracle. The doctor came in and told my mom and dad “You just got your daughter back. We have never been able to tell anybody this, but you just got your daughter back.” And they were crying. They were absolutely devastated. They’d never seen anything like it.
SID: But Wendy, don’t you understand that the disease you had is a death sentence?
WENDY: Absolutely I do. I’ve seen so many people who’ve since died from Lou Gehrig’s disease, and I’m here today proclaiming the works of the Lord.
SID: Do you believe everyone can experience healing that follows what you followed?
WENDY: Absolutely.
SID: I am so glad, Wendy, that you’re in the book. I’m sorry, because of time, I’m going to have to say goodbye to you now. Melanie, there are so many stories like this, and so well documented. I can’t wait to get to some of the others.
