When the Dominoes Fell -

   Healed When the Dominoes of Revelation Fell

   “My dominant emotion was fear. The disease that was in my body was slowly killing me from the inside out, and there was nothing I could do about it.”

Every six months, Teresa Houghteling would have to check blood-work on each of her organs to see if they were still functioning properly. She was suffering from the deadly and incurable Sjögren’s syndrome. After living with the disease for several years, it became a part of her, something she just had to live with. After all, it wasn’t so bad, and the medication was helping. 
Sure, she knew what God’s Word said about healing, but she wasn’t exactly walking with Him at the time.

 However, that all changed in 2007, when Teresa had an encounter with God.
 She rededicated herself to Him and began a new journey!
But things did not go the way she expected.

Teresa’s body did not immediately line up with the transformation that had taken place in her heart. Her physical symptoms worsened.

“In 2011, I was diagnosed with lupus, degenerative disk disease in my back, a bulged disk, and carpal tunnel in my right arm,” shares Teresa. 

“The emotion that followed was pure confusion. I just couldn’t grasp that I would get sicker when I was walking so closely with the Lord.” The question of why began dominating many of her thoughts.
 
One day, lying on the doctor’s table, pondering the new diagnosis of lupus, Teresa heard this simple reply to her aching question: “Sin.”

 “At the time, I thought it meant I had brought all this on myself through the sinfulness of my past,”
admits Teresa. “I thought I deserved it, and when you think you deserve something, it makes it very hard to fight against it. The truth was that God had already forgiven me of all my sins, but I hadn’t yet forgiven myself and was taking sickness as a form of punishment. There was no fight in me at that point. 
I just accepted whatever came at me.”

This fight would not lay dormant in Teresa forever. 
It wasn’t long before some friends gave her Andrew’s
You’ve Already Got It! teaching, and in 2012, her
husband, Patrick, started his first year at Charis Bible
College. Teresa enrolled a year later. “We decided
to attend because the Father told us to—no doubt about it!”

 Spending her days sitting under the Word of
God, Teresa began to understand the importance
of revelation knowledge and how one’s words
are powerless without it. 

One can’t live on the revelation of others, and Teresa saw that she needed a revelation of her own.
 “God became real to me, and His Word became MY word."  
When I read Scripture, I would put my name in it, as if I heard Him speaking to me personally.

 My spirit would get stirred, and I could actually feel the Word working on the inside of me. 
I realized that every word in that book was a promise to me and I could stand on it with confidence!

“I remember Andrew making the statement that
one of the reasons we don’t get healed is because
our physical bodies are more real to us than our
spirit man. And if we can just get to where we
believe what is true in the spiritual more than what
is true in the natural, then what’s true in the spiritual
will become true in the physical.”  

For Teresa, this transformation was well on its way, as everything she had been meditating on for the past six months culminated at Healing School, in March of 2014.

 “Somebody spoke a word from the stage, and
immediately, the dominoes of revelation I had
received just fell. I got it. I began to speak to the
diseases in my body one by one and told them
to get out. I began thanking and praising God,
knowing it was done."  A few minutes later, I heard
the Father say to me, ‘You are healed from the top
of your head to the tip of your toes, and you will
walk in divine health.’ I was already convinced that I
was healed, but this was a wonderful confirmation!
“On my way home, I heard Him say, ‘So, if you’re healed, doesn’t that include your thyroid gland?’ "

" I had been on medication for my thyroid since 2001, and it had just become a part of me. I didn’t even think about my thyroid when I was commanding
stuff out of my body.” 

Fear tried to creep back in as Teresa thought about what would happen within a few days of stopping her medication. However, Teresa determined not to allow fear to dominate her life again!

 She went home and began to pray, asking for
confirmation to stop her medication. 

“He gently brought me to Greg Mohr’s book, The Healing Door, where it says that every prayer of faith, every step of obedience, and every confession exalting the truth above the facts is another swing of the sword of the Spirit that will eventually cut me completely free  from that sickness and disease. My ‘suddenly’ will come. God told me that this was my ‘suddenly,’ and that was the last day I took my medicine!”

 Teresa’s journey brought her to a place of complete
health and freedom. However, she will be the first
one to tell you that it was not an overnight change.
 
“It was a process for me. I had emotional healing
that took place before the physical healing. 
I meditated on His Word day and night. I studied,
I read, and I prayed. I became so focused on my
relationship with God that I honestly couldn’t say
when symptoms began to leave my body. What I
could see in the physical had become insignificant
in the light of the Word.”

Teresa exemplifies how consistency is key to
receiving from God. What you do in the everyday
will determine the outcome of your life. “You can’t
speak Scripture once or twice and then spend the
next week focused on your symptoms, the labs, the
doctor’s report, etc. What you focus on is what you’ll
walk in.

“I know how I got healed, and I got healed by the Word of God. I know that no matter what comes my way, His Word is true, and no one will ever be able to take that away from me.”

Amen - it can happen to you!