From USA, 18 month old boy

When we were in the hospital just days after our son was born in the winter of 2012, the enemy said, "'So we'll see what you think about healing now!'" He had just been diagnosed with downs syndrome, and although we knew he was a blessing from the Lord, we knew that this diagnosis was not!  Before our son was born, we had been on the prayer team at our church, praying for healing along with other needs.  We knew that God's will is for wholeness, health, and life abundantly!   We had searched God's Word and stood on the promises that The Lord heals all of our diseases, takes sickness away from our midst, and restores the one who is sick.  (Psalm 103:3, Exodus 23:25, James 5:15).  So, here was the question:  Did we believe God at His Word even when healing for our boy seemed impossible?!  Did we believe that "by His scourging we are healed"?  (Isaiah 53:5, I Peter 2:24)  The answer was and still is YES!  Jesus paid a high price for my son's healing.  We believe the Word.  We believe God is watching over His Word to perform it!  (Jeremiah 1:12). We believe that healing for our son, a total genetic makeover is impossible for the doctors but ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE to him who believes!  Jesus said that!  So, we are on this journey for restoration.  A journey in which we continue to see miracles in our precious baby's life!  A journey in which the finish line is complete wholeness, health, and well-being!  The enemy thought he had the final word.  He's wrong. God has the final word; and it came in the form of the atonement, the beating the Lord Jesus took on before He went to the cross.  It was enough.  Do you believe it?

From USA, 12 month old boy

Our journey with our son's healing began at the end of the thirteenth week of the pregnancy when the Nuchal Translucency Test revealed the possibility of the dx of down syndrome.  Several weeks later the suspected dx was confirmed via amniocentesis.  Throughout the pregnancy we were constantly being told of numerous problems that kept appearing on the now frequent ultrasounds. They ranged from not seeing his stomach, to echogenic bowel, to increased amniotic fluid (most likely due to enlarged tongue and not being able to swallow as much amniotic fluid as a baby without the dx per the doctor's explanation).  Every ultrasound revealed a new problem and concern.  We dug in our heals and prayed over each problem continually and every time we went back for the next ultrasound the problem no longer existed.  Our son was born healthy with no medical problems.  He has a normal healthy heart and incidentally we prayed for the amniotic fluid level to be normal and he has never had a protruding tongue.  His features are mild, and according to the therapists he continues to move forward with gross motor skills and his milestones continue to emerge.  Some are behind still, but they are continually emerging.  We pray for our son daily trusting God and thanking him for all that he is doing for our son.

From Canada, 14 year old girl and 10 month old girl

Ever since I was a little girl I have always believed and always will Isaiah 53:5 ... and with His wounds we are Healed.  Our oldest child was born in 1999, being our first we had no idea that she was behind in her development or showing signs of autism.  When she was two years old a friend gave me an article on autism and it described her completely.  I remember getting out my bible and looking up healing scriptures, we began speaking them over her ... days later we started seeing her do things that she had never done before.  It was Amazing!!  I never stopped praying or believing but I got distracted!  I started talking with people and focusing on the world’s solutions of how to fix our daughter.  She was four years old when she had her official diagnoses of autism.  Doctors, therapists, vitamins, tons of therapy and thousands of dollars later, we were so tired!  We always trusted God and knew this diagnoses was not of Him, but my prays were more like begging God to heal her and asking him to show me what therapy we should do next.  Life got very busy as our family grew, three boys later.  Still doing special diets and therapy, as she started approaching her teen years her behavior started getting worse and we started thinking and talking about putting her on medication, (something I never wanted to do).  All this was going on when I found out we were going to have another baby and when we found out we were having a girl, fear came over me, remembering something that a therapist told me "if you have another girl she could have the same issues as your oldest daughter."  I began begging God for a healthy normal baby girl. When she was born she was healthy and looked perfect, but there was something about her face that wasn't right.  I saw it, my husband saw it but the doctor told us that she had some swelling on her face and it should go down in a few days.  A few weeks later after seeing another doctor we did a blood test and found out that our baby girl had an extra chromosome and she was diagnosed with down syndrome. It felt like our world was falling apart, again!  That night I did a search on the computer on healing for down syndrome and found another mom’s blog who shared her story about her daughters journey to healing from down syndrome.  I started listening to the DHT by Curry Blake and as I listened it felt like I WOKE UP to the truth of God’s Word.  I started changing the way I prayed. I started speaking Life over my girls and commanding symptoms to GO.  I started taking authority over the enemy (Luke 10:19). I told the devil he messed with the wrong family and it’s pay back time.  We have seen so many changes in our oldest daughter, her communication and social skills are getting better, her anxiety has gone down 80%, the school thought we put her on medication but we never ever did!  Thank you JESUS!!  Our baby girl is 10 months old now and she is doing great, she’s meeting her milestones and she’s looking good too! Mark 9:23 ... All things are possible for those who believe! 2 Corinthians 5:7 ... We will walk by faith and not by sight!!  The Word of God is Absolute Truth!!!

From USA, 3 month old girl

Our little girl is three months old and her development so far is just amazing.  She was able to left her head since she was born. She can breastfeed without any problems. Her tongue does not stick out anymore and is normal size. She has face recognition like normal babies and sees when someone is there and turns to them.  She knows who mama is and turns to me.  She grabs things with her hands and has very strong grip.  Her muscle tone in her arms when lays flat on her back she can pull herself up if you give her your hands to hold.  She is very strong and it's all because of God!!!  She also has strong muscle tone all over her body and doctor says it's because the down syndrome might not affect every cell in her body, but they are wrong--it’s not that it's all God!  God is healing her and I can see it.  People are starting to tell me her appearance is changing and yes it slowly is!

My husband and I are staying strong in our faith and made the decision that we will not give up nor back down on praying for our daughter and all the children on our prayer list. We don't look at the things that are seen but have faith and believe that our daughter is healed because Gods word says so. He paid the price for our children's health so they don't have to struggle mentally or physically. Its so wonderful and exciting to be on this journey of transformation. God is and will be glorified through our children's healing. Praise to our Lord.

2 Corinthians  5:7   For we walk by faith, not by sight.

From Philippines, 9 month old boy

After I had given birth, the doctor from the nursery arrived and without tact, he announced to my entire family that my son was suspected to have down syndrome. He said that they saw 4 features:  his eyes were slanted, his nose bridge was flat, his ears were small and both hands had a simian crease.  He said that a geneticist would visit us later on to explain to us what we had to do next.  My family was shocked to hear such heartbreaking news.  I cried non-stop. 

Eventually, the geneticist explained to us about the extra gene and told us that we did not cause it.  She told us that it was like winning the lotto.  She recommended an echo cardiogram and blood test to determine if he had an extra gene and if we could carry it on the next child.  The test results would come after a month.

I was inconsolable and told my husband I wanted to kill myself.  As I breastfed my son for the first time,  I noticed that his ears were small. They were in line with his eyes and not the eyebrows. Both his palms had the straight line.  His eyes were a bit slanted and his nose bridge was flat.  Had the doctors not told me, I wouldn’t have noticed.  He looked normal to me. 

When we brought my son home, I continued to have this gloom over my head.  At his very first month my son was able to roll over.  He had very good eye contact that made me doubt the doctors’ theory.  Despite what little I knew about the defect, my son was showing all signs of intelligence.  He also did not look like he had it.

His ears also started growing.  After we came home his ears were no longer small.  I kept looking and looking at it and it was already at the level of his eyebrows. 

While we were waiting for the test results, my husband and I began our journey of prayer for our son’s miracle healing.  The geneticist told us to start reading about down syndrome.  After the first website, I started instead looking for “miracle healings for downs syndrome.” 

Being Catholics, we brought him to a healing mass every 1st Saturday of the month.  He was 2 weeks old when we started bringing him there.  It had opened up such hope and faith in us where reality could give me none.  After a while, my husband and I decided not to follow up the test results.  We believed that God was healing him already.  I was starting to believe he didn’t have it. 

But then the nursery doctor who told us my worst fear.  My husband promptly showed the doctor my son’s video of him rolling over on his first month.  The doctor’s eyes widened when he saw that.  But I cried more and was slipping into depression.  I could not see beyond tomorrow and again I wanted to die. 

I continued to look for miracle healings on the web when I chanced upon a woman’s blog who shared her journey of healing for down syndrome for her daughter. When I connected with others who believed this was possible to be healed from, my faith began to grow.  At first my faith wasn’t strong enough.  I wasn’t convinced that God wanted to heal my little son. With this team, I learned a lot.  Our prayers and conversation and learning strengthened my conviction that we shouldn’t put up with this.  My life has had a complete turnaround because of what I have learned about what Jesus has already done, to speak life, and to command healing for my son.

We have learned a lot in terms of resting in God.  When the results of his genetic test came out, I was supposed to meet with the geneticist.  We never did.  Our pediatrician did get it for her records though.  I told her that we rejected the diagnosis and I saw that she was taken aback…I don’t think she’s heard that from anyone before. 

She also requested us to have my son undergo cranial ultrasound and thyroid baseline test.  Instead we prayed for this all to be ok and after a few check-ups, the doctor said that we didn’t have to do the cranial ultrasound because it was fine. 

Our son’s features continue to change to this day.  He’s been meeting all his milestones as well.  When I started this journey, I complained to my husband that I was getting tired of praying every day.  But you see, prayer is how you win this war.  The devil will try his best for you to stop praying and to give up hope.  And you just can’t let him.

Update, 6.30.14:  My son’s check-up with the doctor went well yesterday.  His height is now on target.  His weight is close to target.  His head circumference is now within the acceptable range (lowest range but happy that it's within acceptable as compared to last time where it was below and near acceptable standard).  The doctor also tested his eye contact and tried to stand him up to which he passed with flying colors.  His knees did not buckle and he stood steady. He also babbled and showed his usual hand and foot movements.  He can recognize familiar faces from not - so familiar faces.  He likes watching TV with people rather than cartoon character and is attentive during song and dance routines.  The doctor was amazed and she said that he's not showing any signs of down syndrome. Woohoo!  Tears of happiness flowed!  Praise God!  He is so good! By his stripes, my son is healed!

From USA, 4 1/2 year old girl

My husband and I made a vow that we would find people in the world who understood how healing worked and could teach us.  We knew the verses about the “stripes of Jesus” and how Jesus healed everyone that was diseased.  We knew that the Father told us to pray that things would be "on earth as it is in Heaven."  We knew that the Word of God said for "Believers to lay hands on the sick and they would recover," but we did not know how it worked.  We set out on a quest to find the truth in Biblical healing.  Our journey ended at the John G. Lake DHT taught by Curry Blake on You Tube. Our world changed the day I found this.  Before we understood how healing worked, we saw small physical changes in our child diagnosed with down syndrome.  After this specific Biblical teaching on healing the changes began to go faster.  Here are some changes we have seen in our daughter since we have begun praying for her in the manner that is taught on the DHT:  Bones in her skull have changed shape-her face got longer; high cheek bones began to develop; lines around the upper part of her eyes disappeared; the simeon creases are non-existent on my child's hands;  her finger bones are normal heights; her jaw is changing shape and her teeth are beginning to spread out; her breathing became more normal at night; her interaction with people became more normal-it's like she 'woke up' mentally; she is smart; she is mechanically minded; her muscles are most definitely defined.  She is quite strong physically.  She swings high on swings and climbs high on playground equipment; she knows how to navigate my computer to put on things that interest her....the list goes on and on..... Every week there are changes.  Most recently her upper eye lids are lengthening.  She is potty trained and can dress herself.  She can set the table, unload the dishwasher (for items to be put up on lower shelves and drawers) and clean up her toys.  She loves to kick and throw balls and play freeze tag.  She likes to dress up and play with her Bitty Baby.

From New Zealand, 5 year old boy

We started documenting changes in Jonah, most have been behavioral, and his face is really changing, so much so that strangers no longer ask if he has down syndrome, they just think he's younger than his nearly 5 years. Although I am sure this is about to change too, as he has gained nearly 2kg in the 8 weeks since we began commanding healing. I have attached 2 photos we took this evening. The changes in appearance to us are slow, but I think that's because we are with him all the time. At the moment the changes in temperament are very much needed. Before we believed for his healing I was nearly at the end of my tether with his behavior.  He was violent, self harming, couldn't speak or communicate, it was difficult to get him to eat proper food. But now he's responsive, follows commands, new words come almost daily, he is rarely violent towards himself and others, he willingly tries new foods and is mostly a joy to have around. It's so exciting!  We are on the most wonderful path, and I am so thankful for you, for the inspiration, the encouragement & prayers. We and our children are going to change the world for Him.

This is how it all started back in February, 2014: Our oldest son has had chronic eczema and food allergies since he was 10 months old. We had done a ton of research I was totally against using any form of mainstream medicine as I knew that what they would prescribe would only mask the symptoms, never dealing with fixing the root cause, and the toxic medications would eventually cause other problems – side effects anybody?

In early February I made email contact with a very knowledgeable MD from America regarding the issues we were having with Samuel's health. When she found out we were believers she immediately chastised me for seeking help from man instead of God. At first I was offended and tried to come up with every excuse under the sun to justify myself. But thankfully God very quickly humbled me and convicted both of us to read the e-book she sent through (Healing the Sick by TL Osborn). We made a commitment to read a chapter each night and pray through what we read. All I can say is "WOW!" This book brought some pretty amazing changes to our family, not just in the healing realm, but also to clean up our act and draw nearer to God. We realized, to our shame, that we had been believing a lie instead of the Word of God. Settling for far less than His best. We had been sucked into the traditional church teaching that healing is only for a select fortunate few, and that illness was often a 'gift of God'.   Not any more.

As we worked through the book, reading the Scriptures and choosing to believe God instead of our feelings or other people's human opinions, we were convicted that God wasn't revealing this to us just for Samuel, but for our other son born with a diagnosis of down syndrome too. My husband started believing for this pretty quickly, but I really struggled with it. I guess I had thought that healing chromosomes was somehow different to healing other illness. And I was feeling like a hypocrite, being an active part of the down syndrome community proclaiming how wonderful it was to have a child with down syndrome, yet deep down I hated that our son was trapped with a body and mind that couldn’t function properly. Though I wouldn’t have admitted it to anyone, I longed for him to be free. Finally on February 14th, when my husband had been very insistent about Jonah being healed, I got very upset. We argued and sat in silence. But we quickly sorted it out and had a very long talk and prayer about it. I Googled “Divine healing of down syndrome,” and got connected to a team of people going after divine healing of genetic defect.  We met a bunch of like-minded families. God was confirming we were on the right track.

I had always believed that in Heaven Jonah would be healed and have the same chromosomes as the rest of us – if we even have them in Heaven! This belief had helped me cope with his diagnosis and the daily struggle of life for him & us. So, if he would be healed in Heaven, then obviously his earthly body was not right. I know it is politically incorrect to call down syndrome a 'disease,' but when we look at the dictionary definition of 'disease', it actually is:  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disease

Jesus came to set the captives free from disease, He took bought freedom with each scourge of the whip, and by His stripes we are healed.  He is the same yesterday, today & forever. So Jonah should be, and can be set free.

Not long after Jonah's diagnosis when he was 14 weeks old, back in 2009, I started searching for a means to get him healed and came across a webpage that said it was possible to see healing from this. I was so excited, but had fear that my son  wouldn't be healed because I'd been told that it was God's will. So I put it aside. At the same time my husband decided to fast and pray to seek God if it was His will to heal Jonah.  By the end of it he said he felt a strong anger coming from God. At the time he thought like me, that God was angry that we didn't accept the diagnosis. But now, it's like a light has been switched on: God wasn't angry because we needed to accept the diagnosis, God was angry because we were asking something that the answer to was as plain as day in His Word.  Are You willing?  "I AM."

We have now joined with other believers to claim this promise.  In faith we declare him healed, no matter what the outward view may be, we are standing firmly on the promise of God (who cannot lie) and declaring him healed.  And we excitedly await the completion of his recovery.

From  USA, 5 1/2 year old girl

When my daughter was was born, she was diagnosed with Trisomy 21 and two holes in her heart.  She was on oxygen for three months and then had heart failure and received open heart surgery when she was 3 months old.  Her early years were a difficult pattern of missed milestones and falling behind and for us as parents, heartache at the journey.  My husband and I believed in healing, but we had never seen major creative miracles and many in the church advised us not to get our hopes up for healing for our daughter.  We decided that our faith in Jesus DEMANDS that we get our hopes up and we committed to believe the Word of God that Jesus already healed our daughter over 2000 years ago ("By his stripes you were healed" 1 Peter 2:24).  We decided to trust that all things are possible to him who believes and we decided to thank Jesus for healing our daughter before we actually saw the full physical proof of it.  We are here to tell you that our daughter, who just turned five, is walking right out of her diagnosis!   She is in regular kindergarten, is reading, writing, drawing and making art projects, running, jumping, riding a bike with training wheels, playing Uno, Spot It, and numerous challenging puzzles and games, including now learning chess.  In the past two years, she has begun to make up the time that was stolen from her earlier, to the point that now, she is almost fully on par with her peers.  We believe that her healing is unfolding faster and faster, and we are seeing the effects of her physical perfection come through. The classic physical features of the diagnosis are minimized in her as each month passes, and are becoming less and less visible.  She is slim and trim, has been in full control of her tongue for years, she speaks and sings, her face is slimming, her hair is long and gorgeous.  She is absolutely walking right out of this diagnosis and the pace is quickening.  Soon she will overtake her peers and surpass them developmentally as she excels in all areas.  She is a walking, talking picture of God's glory and the truth that God heals all diseases and conditions.  Everything is possible for him who believes.  If the church will only believe it!  Many people are imprisoned in sick, diseased, defected bodies and it is time to set them free!  Thank you, Jesus!

From USA, 10 year old boy

The Lord has been very faithful with our son.  He had his tenth birthday 1 1/2 months ago.  He was born extremely pre-term, at 23 wks weighing one pound, five ounces. He is a miracle.  He has been diagnosed with autism, some 4 years ago. We have been combatting, waging war on the autism in Jesus' Name.  We have been seeing miracles as our son is becoming more connected.  His speech is springing forth more.  He has started using the toilet. It's amazing to us to see what the Lord is doing in our son, how God is accomplishing the answer to the specific prayers over all these areas that I've outlined.  Our son is literally becoming more normal, more like a typical child.  We continue to pray, of course, and to command every last remnant of the autism to let go off of our son in Jesus' Name!  My God is awesome, He can move mountains,  He is our shelter in the storm!

From India, 5 year old boy

Greetings and blessings in the name of our Heavenly  Father,  the One, who we know can heal your child because He has and is healing children with a similar challenge like your child has.  The child entrusted to you--whether you are the parent or teacher or care taker--might have problems now.  But there is hope.  This child can be set free like other kids have been set free.  Changes might not come overnight but you can see this child walk to victory.

I am in India (but am Dutch) and my husband and I have been missionaries for the last 25 plus years. We have five kids and one foster son who is five years old.  He was born with cerebral palsy and we adopted him from an institute where the mothers left the kids because they were not able to take care of them.  Our son was "left behind" in adoption plans because of what he was born with.  The right side of his body has been affected by the cerebral palsy.

The improvements we have seen since we started praying daily as a family (each person takes a part of his body to speak life in) three months back :

- His drooling has become a lot less and he is aware of and able to control it

- He was not able to run before but we spoke to his leg to grow out and since then he has been able to run

- He did not use his right hand and arm at all, it was kind of hanging there--now he is using it.

- His left eye started to focus more

- He is learning to read quickly which is helping his speech

By making him realize that some parts of his body are not “obeying” him, and that he can make it obey, he himself is learning to speak to it as well.  He is very faithful to remind us that we need to pray for him in our morning devotion.

You - as a parent-might have been discouraged and depressed at times not knowing what your future or that of your child might hold.  You might have wondered if there would ever be a bright day again in your life or that of your child.  You might have wondered that if there is a God, if that one hated you or cursed you or if you have done something to displease Him.  Maybe you tried to hide your child from public view or from your relatives.  Or maybe you did take the challenge, accepted them as they were but you do get weary at times, especially if you happen to be the teacher or caretaker. 

In the Bible there is a story about a man who had been blind from birth.  Jesus gave him back his eyesight.  This was a man sitting at the city gate begging for money every day.  He was healed of blindness by this man named Jesus.  The question came up why he had been blind from birth.  Why was he born that way?  Was it his fault?  Or the parents fault?  Jesus said: “Neither!”  Jesus, the rabbi of that day and of eternity, healed that man and his eyes were opened.  The reason Jesus gave was that this man had been blind and healed at this time so that God might be glorified.

The question then rises--why was he blind for so long?  At that time people were not aware that they had a spiritual enemy who was causing all the misery, sickness, disease, etc.  Jesus was the one who made people aware of that as well as showed people how to overcome that enemy and gave them power to overcome him.  At the end of his life, Jesus was captured, taken to prison, beaten with many horrible stripes and then nailed on a cross.  Not because he had done anything wrong but because of some jealous leaders.  He choose to take it, although He had the power to escape all this.  He choose to pay that price for your child as well as for you because He knew that His suffering would bring healing to you and your child even now 2,000 years later.  He died a horrible death  on the cross for us all, but the Good News is that He rose again and lives now.  You too can receive Him as can your child.

So why is your child still sick or was sick in the first place?  Maybe you were already aware of it but  we do have an enemy called Satan.  He is the one who knows about Jesus' sacrifice for you but he does not want you to know it or take advantage of it.  In the days when Jesus lived, people would wonder if there was a curse on them if their child is sick or handicapped.  Satan is the one that cursed us all. The good news is we can all be set free from this curse and Satan if we can accept that Jesus sacrifice of the cross was for us personally to free us from Satan and his curses.  What is your part?  If you are willing to be in learning mode and apply teaching, the process of healing might go much faster.  Your co-operation--or lack of it--will make a big difference.  Know God loves you and wants to take an active part in your life and He wants back for your child all that the enemy stole.

From USA, 3 1/2 year old girl

Our daughter was diagnosed at birth with down syndrome.  We had a perfect pregnancy.  Instead of "buying the t-shirt," my husband and church and I decided to stand on Psalm 103--“God has healed all our diseases.”  We did a specific prayer for her in the hospital commanding the 21st chromosome to leave.  From that day forward no matter what doctors said about her future, we didn't accept it.  Yes, if she needed treatment we got it, such as oxygen.  The doctors said it could be years but we knew it was temporary. We ministered to so many nurses in that NICU and put worship music in the crib.  They diagnosed her with severe low muscle tone, and said she might walk with leg braces or a walker.  They said she'd be delayed mentally and be in "special ed."  They gave me a sheet to explain how she would meet all her milestones late.  I told the nurses that I'd be back and show that this kid would not miss any milestones.  They said that they thought she had a hole in her heart, but when they went back to check it, it was healed--totally gone!

They said she had pulmonary hyper-tension in her lungs. They told me not to mess around because it could be "deadly" if I didn't do what they said.  Seven months later they checked her heart and lungs and the doctor said, “She never needs to come back,  your Jesus has healed your baby.”  Everything is perfect. She's never been back since.

She crawled at six months.  She rolled over right on time. She took her first steps at 17.5 months.  She's now a running, jumping, swimming, climbing three year-old who all the world adores.  She never had any problems physically.  Actually every therapist that worked with her for PT and OT said, “We've never seen a kid so strong and strong willed to succeed."  Of course I had them all in tears as I told them Jesus healed her.

She went in for a school evaluation at almost three years old. The phycologist was so impressed that I shared that Jesus had healed my child and could heal hers too--another ministry opportunity.  My daughter did so well on her tests that she didn't need any OT or PT at all.  She enrolled in regular pre-school with no help.  She is thriving.  Recently the school board did another IEP and they said that she is right on target for OT and PT.  She did so well that they said there was no need to come back next year...they will check again in two years. We are not completely done yet because we’d like to see her speech be perfect.  But I know that will come any minute. We are not backing down and we are not losing hope. You shouldn't either because God wants your child well.  God wants our children shouting to the rooftops, “God has healed me and He will heal you too!”  Don't ever ever doubt that you can do this...because Jesus did it for you.

From USA, 18 year old boy

Our son was born with Trisomy 21.  He had a very traumatic delivery and was placed on a respirator immediately and remained in the NICU for a month.  During this time my husband and I took time to seek the Lord in prayer.  The Lord spoke to my heart by showing me numerous passages throughout the four Gospels where parents interceded before Jesus on behalf of their sick children and the Lord healed them.  The small voice of the Spirit made it clear to me that my job was to pray for my son.

My son turned 18 years old last October.  At that time, he functioned at a 3 to 4 year old level.  He did not speak.  He lived in his own world and most of the time engaged in repetitive movements. He did not have marked features but his smile was crooked.  I had prayed, fasted, prayed again and then some.  It was during one of those nights in February of this year (2014) that I came home after having poured my heart out to the Father in regards to my son’s healing. As I sat in our home office, my heart tender to the Holy Spirit after the time in God’s presence, I heard the Lord say: type the phrase “Down Syndrome Healing” on the search.  Now, I had done this some years ago and there was NOTHING on the subject, but this particular night I just followed instructions.

To my surprise up came a site that had beautiful before and after pictures of a little girl that was being healed of Down Syndrome!  I can not describe the emotions, the hope, the gratitude!  I read the whole page, and watched the DHT videos recommended. I also contacted a Life Team that graciously prayed for our son.

A week after we began praying my son came into focus.  He started following simple instructions. His school teacher commented on it.  It had always been a struggle to get him to write.  A couple weeks later I found a writing pad with his full name clearly written.  About a month later he came walking into our bedroom one morning with a perfectly straight smile!  He is taking more initiative in helping around the house without prompts.  For his High School graduation he not only sat attentively for the ceremony but he cried as they were officially declared graduates and threw his hat up on cue with the class.

We continue to pray and believe for a full recovery because now we understand that that is what Jesus purchased for him at the cross. Matthew 8:13  “Then Jesus said to the centurion, ‘Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.’  And his servant was healed that same hour.”

From New Zealand, boy

Our son’s healing journey began in utero.  We were told after an eleven week scan that there was a chance our baby would be born with Trisomy 21, commonly known as Down syndrome, as they could not find a nasal bone and the neck fold measurement was above ‘normal.’  We refused to accept this and had our family pray.  At the 20 week scan the nasal bone was there – Praise the Lord!  We had a couple of extra scans to check heart and growth and they were all good. 

When he was born he had some physical characteristics that led the midwife to suggest testing him.  As we drove to the hospital we prayed for an immediate healing so were discouraged when we got the results to say he had been born with Trisomy 21.  It took us time to get our heads around it all but we refused to believe that this is what God had planned for our child, as many had told us or implied to us.  We searched for information and read up on healing.  It was amazing to discover a website which led us to Curry Blake’s teaching.  His teaching confirmed what we believed and taught us how to pray for our son. 

Since then we have seen his neck, which at birth seemed so thick, thin out to look just like our other children’s necks had.  Although born with Trisomy 21, he was healthy – he had no feeding issues, no heart defects, the other tests the doctors have done and continue to check all come back normal.  He is developing his motor skills and his understanding is fantastic. 

We love our son immensely and Praise the Lord that by his stripes our son was healed.  We continue on this journey and look forward with anticipation and excitement as we see that healing fully realized in his body.  AMEN