Autism Healing and Deliverance

This is an incredible testimony by the McDermott family of two sons healed and delivered from autism spectrum disorder.

For God is not the author of disorder but of peace – 1 Corinthians 14:33.

Transcript of video…

00:00:01 [Music]
00:00:10 pretty much since tim had been born had
00:00:11 lived
00:00:12 not a normal life he didn’t sleep
00:00:14 properly for about five
00:00:16 six years
00:00:19 he would scream and scream as though he
00:00:21 was in pain but
00:00:22 the doctors couldn’t find anything wrong
00:00:24 with him and i was
00:00:25 very very tired i’d come to the point
00:00:27 where i thought
00:00:28 i would go mad or drop
00:00:32 we couldn’t leave him we couldn’t go
00:00:34 anywhere we couldn’t
00:00:36 be apart from him so for many many years
00:00:39 that’s
00:00:39 the way that we live no one understands
00:00:42 you
00:00:43 from the outside no one had any idea
00:00:45 about the kind of life that we were
00:00:46 living
00:00:47 [Music]
00:00:50 when we had james many people have said
00:00:52 to us you’ll surely not get another
00:00:54 child who doesn’t sleep
00:00:55 who sleeps as badly as timmy did then we
00:00:58 had a speech and language therapist come
00:01:00 in to assist
00:01:01 timothy and they were watching james who
00:01:03 was playing with his trains he
00:01:05 loved trains he’d turn them upside down
00:01:07 and spin the wheels for ages
00:01:10 anyway what they said to me was ah isn’t
00:01:12 it funny how autistic kids love trains
00:01:16 and i said autistic kids so she says
00:01:20 well it’s obvious isn’t it
00:01:23 and we suddenly realized that gosh we
00:01:26 were going to have two children that
00:01:27 got it and what were the chances of that
00:01:29 i had been asking god help me
00:01:31 for for years and i said
00:01:34 i love my boys so much and you’re
00:01:36 supposed to love them more than me
00:01:38 why have you done this to them
00:01:46 ladies and gentlemen please welcome to
00:01:48 the stage
00:01:49 timothy mcdermott joining us by a live
00:01:52 stream from england
00:01:52 brother christopher debra and james
00:01:55 mcdermott
00:01:56 hallelujah
00:01:59 so of course this is timothy right here
00:02:02 and then we have christopher
00:02:04 debra and james over in the uk literally
00:02:08 zooming in and uh
00:02:12 deborah and james were going to be here
00:02:14 they have bought a house here they’re
00:02:16 going to be coming to school
00:02:17 this year but because of the pandemic
00:02:20 they
00:02:20 have not been able to leave the uk and
00:02:23 so we’ve
00:02:24 zoomed them in but i tell you what
00:02:27 this family and this healing what god
00:02:30 has done
00:02:31 is one of the most encouraging
00:02:33 testimonies
00:02:34 i have ever seen it is just absolutely
00:02:37 awesome
00:02:38 so let me say this real quickly before i
00:02:41 let them start speaking that when you
00:02:42 watch this video if you haven’t seen
00:02:45 their healing journey you need to watch
00:02:47 i have never
00:02:48 watched it that it hadn’t just brought
00:02:51 me to tears and one of the things is
00:02:53 debra the way that they interviewed her
00:02:56 she just expressed the hopelessness
00:03:01 not only of james and timothy but of the
00:03:04 whole
00:03:04 family and i mean you can feel
00:03:08 the uh hopelessness that they were in
00:03:10 and then when you see the healing
00:03:13 and and where they are now i mean it
00:03:15 just makes you want to shout
00:03:18 and praise god so if you haven’t seen
00:03:20 this video you need to definitely
00:03:22 watch it but i don’t know where to begin
00:03:25 here this is a
00:03:27 long story but let me kick it over here
00:03:29 either to christopher or deborah and let
00:03:32 you start introducing what happened here
00:03:36 hi well i’ll start um
00:03:39 well both my boys were diagnosed with
00:03:42 autism
00:03:43 tim is seven years older than james and
00:03:47 um
00:03:47 so we knew there was issues with tim for
00:03:50 a long time
00:03:52 but we didn’t expect there to be
00:03:53 anything wrong with james he didn’t seem
00:03:55 there didn’t seem to be anything wrong
00:03:57 with him but when tim was about
00:03:59 nine and james was two then james was
00:04:02 also diagnosed with autism that meant we
00:04:04 had two boys with
00:04:06 autism tim actually was diagnosed with
00:04:08 asperger’s but then he also had this
00:04:11 executive syndrome
00:04:12 learning difficulties all sorts of other
00:04:15 what they called comorbid conditions
00:04:18 james was further down the autistic
00:04:21 spectrum he was non-verbal and he was
00:04:23 very much in his own world
00:04:25 once again we had a lot of issues with
00:04:27 eating and sleeping with james
00:04:29 a lot of behavioral issues with james
00:04:32 um and uh tim was was a really sad
00:04:36 and lonely boy very isolated was never
00:04:39 able to go to school never know that now
00:04:43 he went through the uk school and then
00:04:45 he graduated and came here and went here
00:04:47 for what two or three years
00:04:49 three years now he’s he’s one of the
00:04:51 stars in all of our musicals
00:04:53 he plays god
00:04:56 he’s awesome i mean not many people go
00:05:00 from being autistic to playing god
00:05:02 that’s pretty awesome but anyway he was
00:05:05 one of the most
00:05:06 popular students we had everybody loved
00:05:09 timothy and to hear this report deborah
00:05:12 about
00:05:13 how you know i guess and i don’t want to
00:05:16 put words in your mouth you correct me
00:05:17 if i’m wrong but you were
00:05:19 they weren’t able to just attend school
00:05:21 naturally
00:05:22 you were basically home with them
00:05:25 24 7. christopher was having to go out
00:05:28 and make a living but
00:05:30 the burden of this fell on deborah i
00:05:32 mean it was just
00:05:33 hopeless it was and i i came to a point
00:05:37 of
00:05:38 absolute despair tim thinks back and uh
00:05:41 he calls it the seller yours
00:05:42 it was like being locked in a cellar you
00:05:45 know we couldn’t even open the curtains
00:05:46 most of the time because james was so
00:05:48 sensitive to
00:05:49 the light that we were in darkness and
00:05:52 we had years and years of this and uh
00:05:56 and then i found out about healing i
00:05:59 actually found out
00:06:01 that um our children were entitled to be
00:06:04 healed that jesus had paid the price on
00:06:05 the cross
00:06:06 and once i discovered that it was
00:06:09 through kenneth copeland ministries and
00:06:11 i read in their magazine
00:06:13 and heard about another boy who had been
00:06:15 healed of autism
00:06:16 once i understood that i became enraged
00:06:20 with autism i decided absolutely not
00:06:23 thus far
00:06:24 no further if jesus has paid the price
00:06:26 for my
00:06:27 children to be saved out of this
00:06:30 hell this hopeless place there is no way
00:06:34 that it’s sticking around if autism is a
00:06:36 defeated foe it’s history in this
00:06:38 household
00:06:38 and that’s when i heard from the lord
00:06:41 that he would heal my boys
00:06:44 and i remember deborah that one of the
00:06:46 workers
00:06:47 health workers said you just have to
00:06:49 make peace
00:06:50 with this and man that set you off
00:06:54 yeah they said to make friends i was in
00:06:56 denial apparently
00:06:58 and i must make friends with the
00:07:00 diagnosis but i had
00:07:02 already decided to wage war with the
00:07:04 diagnosis it was too late to tell me to
00:07:06 make friends
00:07:07 with the very thing that was ruining my
00:07:09 children’s lives and destinies
00:07:11 there was no way now christopher if i’m
00:07:14 not mistaken when you
00:07:16 uh read deborah’s book and she was
00:07:18 expressing all of these things you
00:07:20 didn’t even realize sometimes how
00:07:23 oppressive it was to deborah because you
00:07:25 were out making a living you weren’t
00:07:27 dealing with it the same as
00:07:28 deborah was yeah my my role really
00:07:32 um through all of that still is i
00:07:35 suppose really was to
00:07:36 to to provide the financial stability
00:07:38 that we needed because we were
00:07:40 we were in so much crisis and we were we
00:07:42 were sort of lurching from one thing to
00:07:44 another
00:07:44 um then when deb wrote the book and it
00:07:47 was it fell to me to try and
00:07:49 uh work out how to put it onto kindle
00:07:52 and how to get it onto the internet and
00:07:53 do all of that
00:07:54 so i had to read all the way through it
00:07:56 and check it and do everything and as i
00:07:58 was reading it there was
00:08:00 huge passages in there that i just i
00:08:02 either did know and had forgotten
00:08:04 and didn’t really want to remember or i
00:08:06 just i just wasn’t aware of it
00:08:08 right at the very start it was really
00:08:10 reading demos but was a really profound
00:08:12 experience for me because it in a sense
00:08:14 it brought
00:08:16 so much more of the story even though i
00:08:18 was there uh to life than i’d
00:08:20 experienced when i was when i was kind
00:08:22 of there but not there because i was
00:08:23 working so much
00:08:25 man this was traumatic for the whole
00:08:27 family so
00:08:28 we’re going to get to timothy here in a
00:08:30 minute james you are probably too young
00:08:32 to remember much of this
00:08:33 i guess you’re probably learning this
00:08:36 yes i
00:08:37 am i i don’t remember anything about
00:08:40 being autistic
00:08:40 i just have the word of my parents to go
00:08:43 on
00:08:44 so how many years ago was it that the
00:08:47 healing began it wasn’t just
00:08:48 all at once but when was it that you
00:08:51 came in
00:08:52 and i prayed with you that was 11
00:08:55 11 years yeah yeah 11 years ago when i
00:08:58 was five
00:08:59 yeah man it was a long time ago so you
00:09:02 don’t even remember being
00:09:04 autistic i don’t know what a blessing
00:09:08 what a blessing so timothy
00:09:11 uh give us your perspective you were
00:09:14 howell
00:09:14 12 or yeah um oh no i was
00:09:18 13 yeah was i gosh um
00:09:22 uh yeah it was i was
00:09:27 i was blessed enough to not be
00:09:29 completely aware of of how bad i had it
00:09:32 until the healing process had already
00:09:34 began
00:09:35 it was only when i was entering my teens
00:09:37 that i kind of started realizing
00:09:40 how how vast the differences between me
00:09:43 and
00:09:44 the rest of the world were and
00:09:47 i was already in the process of being
00:09:49 healed so it was like hey
00:09:50 you know um but i i remember
00:09:56 one one of the the main
00:09:59 one of the main feelings that i felt
00:10:01 over and over and over again throughout
00:10:02 my childhood
00:10:03 was being
00:10:08 what’s the word misunderstood
00:10:12 so you know when you have autism when
00:10:15 you have aspergers when you have those
00:10:16 those mental difficulties you want
00:10:18 everything else that everyone else in
00:10:19 the world wants
00:10:20 you know you want friends you want
00:10:22 family you want uh love and acceptance
00:10:24 you want people to find you funny you
00:10:26 you know
00:10:26 like normal human things and
00:10:30 i remember trying so hard
00:10:33 in so many different cases and just
00:10:35 being
00:10:37 completely misunderstood every single
00:10:39 time um
00:10:40 i i couldn’t for example i i couldn’t
00:10:43 understand
00:10:44 sarcasm or irony or anything that wasn’t
00:10:49 even like um i guess you’d call it like
00:10:52 creative language
00:10:54 or metaphors or anything like that so i
00:10:56 remember
00:10:57 at one point when i when they tried to
00:11:00 send me to a school
00:11:01 for a little while um the teacher i had
00:11:03 like a piece of paper that had messed up
00:11:04 whatever and
00:11:05 she said i’ll just throw it out my first
00:11:07 thought was
00:11:09 throw it out where you know
00:11:12 it’s the whole thinking process right is
00:11:15 totally different
00:11:16 right and you know it’s very easy for
00:11:18 people on the outside to be like oh
00:11:19 you know keep plumbing kids but for me
00:11:22 it was it was heartfelt and it was
00:11:23 sincere like tell me where to throw it
00:11:25 out
00:11:26 because i i like it felt like he was
00:11:28 trapped inside of
00:11:30 the way you think versus the way the
00:11:32 rest of the world is it’s hard to
00:11:34 connect and you see these people who are
00:11:36 just able to
00:11:37 instinctively know how to act around
00:11:39 people how these things are working
00:11:42 and you’re on the outside of that you
00:11:44 you have to
00:11:45 there is no way of learning it
00:11:47 instinctively it has to be an active and
00:11:48 intentional thing
00:11:50 every time and i wasn’t capable of that
00:11:52 i can’t even imagine what that would
00:11:54 have been like
00:11:55 deborah would you share a little bit
00:11:57 about like you had kenneth copeland had
00:12:00 really planned i mean
00:12:01 it was god but the lord used kenneth
00:12:03 copeland
00:12:04 to instill hope and then you connected
00:12:08 with our ministry you brought your boys
00:12:10 and i just prayed probably a 30-second
00:12:14 prayer because
00:12:15 there was a long line i remember where
00:12:17 we were and this was at one of our
00:12:20 grace and faith conferences in the uk
00:12:23 there was a long
00:12:24 line and i had to get back and i said
00:12:26 sorry i’ve got to leave
00:12:28 and i think you were the next ones in
00:12:30 line and paul flanagan the director of
00:12:32 our school
00:12:34 says could you just pray for one more
00:12:37 and i’m yeah i prayed a 30-second prayer
00:12:39 but give
00:12:40 give people a little understanding it
00:12:44 wasn’t
00:12:44 my great faith is what i’m trying to get
00:12:46 at it was debra
00:12:48 and christopher they were believing and
00:12:51 all i was
00:12:52 was just the point of contact it wasn’t
00:12:54 my great faith on this thing
00:12:58 well yes we had um we had seen hannah
00:13:00 territories testimony a few weeks before
00:13:03 that
00:13:04 and christopher had gone and to the um
00:13:06 internet and he’d seen that you were due
00:13:08 to come
00:13:09 to england and so we immediately
00:13:11 arranged to bring our boys
00:13:14 and come to the conference but that was
00:13:15 a that’s a big thing for us to do that
00:13:17 wasn’t just like let’s pack let’s
00:13:19 pack everybody in the car and drive off
00:13:20 that was a huge
00:13:22 event for us the boys hadn’t actually
00:13:25 been outside the front door for about
00:13:27 nine months at that stage um it was
00:13:31 locked down in the mcdermott household
00:13:33 but that was just everyday life
00:13:35 and so it was huge it was a huge
00:13:38 preparation
00:13:39 we had to take our own pots and pans if
00:13:41 we wanted to
00:13:42 cook any food that james would actually
00:13:44 eat because he
00:13:46 he wouldn’t drink water that didn’t
00:13:47 taste the same or eat food that was
00:13:49 cooked in something else he would only
00:13:50 eat out of the same bowl i mean
00:13:53 we would only sleep on the same bedding
00:13:54 i mean we just picked up
00:13:56 the house and took it with us and um
00:13:59 and just getting them you know used to
00:14:02 the fact that we’re going to go
00:14:03 and there was the trauma and the dramas
00:14:05 that we had especially with james at the
00:14:07 time
00:14:08 um but we were determined because i had
00:14:10 been praying lord
00:14:12 um help me tim was improving slowly but
00:14:15 james had had a massive regression about
00:14:18 nine months before that and and i was
00:14:21 just not
00:14:22 seeing any improvements and i kept just
00:14:24 standing in faith saying
00:14:26 he’s healed and we’re going to just keep
00:14:28 on keeping on because this is a defeated
00:14:30 fur and
00:14:31 but nothing was happening and i kept
00:14:33 praying lord send me someone to
00:14:36 i can pray with someone to pray with me
00:14:38 who really believes
00:14:40 because i had tried to find other
00:14:42 ministers and other churches
00:14:44 but i hadn’t found anybody who
00:14:48 really believed up until then all i’d
00:14:50 had was the response of people looking
00:14:52 alarmed sympathetic
00:14:56 upset and basically trying to reassure
00:14:59 me that you know god sends special
00:15:01 children to special people and that’s
00:15:03 not what i was looking for
00:15:06 and so um so we we
00:15:09 when we found out about hannah’s healing
00:15:12 and i
00:15:12 saw this man is not intimidated by the
00:15:15 story that he was told about hannah
00:15:18 i thought if he’s not intimidated by
00:15:20 that autism’s nothing
00:15:21 this is a man who genuinely believes so
00:15:24 we were going to come here
00:15:26 no matter what and we made it but we
00:15:28 were about
00:15:30 four or five people behind in the line
00:15:33 when you turned around and said right
00:15:34 tea time’s over and you were heading
00:15:36 back to preach
00:15:37 and we’d only really got a very short
00:15:39 window of opportunity hadn’t we because
00:15:41 um
00:15:42 because of the boys and stuff so it was
00:15:43 like it’s got to happen it’s now or
00:15:45 never now or never
00:15:46 yeah james was starting to play up when
00:15:49 we knew that we were going to have to
00:15:50 get him away very quickly after that
00:15:53 so i just prayed a real simple prayer
00:15:55 but did it all
00:15:56 happen instantaneously or what was the
00:15:59 process
00:16:00 well you know what you prayed and when
00:16:02 you finished praying
00:16:03 you looked at it’s very profound
00:16:08 you are now the parents of normal
00:16:10 healthy children
00:16:11 and um that was huge for me and um
00:16:16 i i took it right there from that moment
00:16:18 on
00:16:19 for us for me that is it that’s when i
00:16:22 received
00:16:23 my boys complete healing from that
00:16:25 moment on as far as i was concerned
00:16:27 there were no more healthy children and
00:16:29 we slunk out the side
00:16:30 door because james was starting to to
00:16:33 get
00:16:34 restless and that was the end of the
00:16:35 conference for us
00:16:37 but that was when we went home and james
00:16:41 immediately for the first time in
00:16:43 over a year called on the little girl
00:16:45 across the road and asked her to come
00:16:46 and play
00:16:48 he played with her all afternoon in the
00:16:50 garden in the pedaling pool on the slide
00:16:52 and then that night he had the first
00:16:55 full
00:16:55 night’s sleep he’d had in the five years
00:16:58 of his whole life
00:16:59 praise i mean yeah but
00:17:02 as you said it didn’t all after that
00:17:04 happened instantly
00:17:06 we stood in faith for another two years
00:17:09 before tim was
00:17:11 um pronounced a hundred percent
00:17:13 neurotypical
00:17:15 and uh and three years all together from
00:17:18 there
00:17:19 for james when they said there’s no sign
00:17:21 of autism and they took the diagnosis
00:17:23 away
00:17:24 so it was a journey of
00:17:28 breakthroughs and then gradual healing
00:17:30 and then breakthroughs and then gradual
00:17:31 healing
00:17:32 but as far as i was concerned when you
00:17:34 looked at christopher and i
00:17:36 and said you are the parents of normal
00:17:37 healthy children from that moment on
00:17:40 my children were healed which meant that
00:17:42 every characteristic of autism that was
00:17:44 still lingering
00:17:46 was on its way out like a flower that’s
00:17:48 been cut it’s
00:17:49 going to die it’s going to go because it
00:17:51 cannot stay on healed children
00:17:52 amen so that’s when we just saw changes
00:17:57 and it just they it’s like they just
00:17:58 grew out of it yeah one of one of the
00:18:00 breakthroughs was was that the time that
00:18:02 we all went to the movies together for
00:18:04 the very very first time
00:18:05 it was one of those things that
00:18:07 everybody else did and everybody else
00:18:08 does
00:18:09 and we’ve never done it we’ve never been
00:18:11 able to the lights the noise the sound
00:18:13 and that
00:18:14 that day when we went to the movies was
00:18:16 just
00:18:17 it was a dream come true because i had
00:18:19 um
00:18:20 been allowing myself to think about that
00:18:23 the lord at one point said to me
00:18:24 dare to dream and so i started dreaming
00:18:28 about going to the cinema about going
00:18:30 out to dinner
00:18:31 about doing things with the family out
00:18:33 and about that normal people do
00:18:35 and um that was huge i mean christopher
00:18:39 was tearful he was so overwhelmed at
00:18:43 just being able to sit in a cinema with
00:18:44 his wife and two sons
00:18:47 and eat popcorn and enjoy the movie like
00:18:49 a normal family it was just
00:18:51 wonderful for those that haven’t seen
00:18:53 the video deborah said that that was one
00:18:55 of the dreams that she had and then at
00:18:57 the end of our video
00:18:59 it shows them going to the movie and i
00:19:01 tell you what it brings me to tears
00:19:03 every time just to think
00:19:05 just something that simple that you had
00:19:08 been stout on
00:19:09 for years and christopher when you got
00:19:12 the
00:19:13 nhs the national health service
00:19:16 diagnosis that they were totally normal
00:19:20 and no traces
00:19:21 that’s when you really got touched
00:19:24 through this
00:19:26 absolutely that that was i i i
00:19:29 obviously i had experienced it and i’d
00:19:30 seen it happen but
00:19:32 for me to be able to um
00:19:35 have that dare say official document
00:19:39 so we got a document that said uh
00:19:42 they’ve got autism and then we got a
00:19:43 document that said they haven’t that was
00:19:45 really
00:19:46 uh really important for me personally
00:19:48 for us to be able to
00:19:49 to show that and to be able to say you
00:19:51 know we’re not just
00:19:53 wishful thinking here we’re not just
00:19:54 kind of making stuff up or
00:19:56 hoping for things we’ve got the actual
00:19:58 uh diagnosis and in the uk
00:20:00 to get something like that from the nhs
00:20:02 is a it’s a big deal
00:20:04 it’s it’s not something that happens
00:20:05 very often so i was
00:20:07 it was at that point when we got that uh
00:20:10 document that i
00:20:10 i then said because i think we’d already
00:20:13 spoken to stephen bransford
00:20:15 a year before and it was at that point
00:20:17 we said right now we can tell the story
00:20:19 now
00:20:19 we can do we can really sort of go with
00:20:21 it because we’ve got we’ve kind of got
00:20:23 the beginning the middle and the end
00:20:25 all in one debra i would like you to
00:20:28 just plug your book a little bit i’ve
00:20:30 read her book and i tell you what this
00:20:32 book
00:20:32 is powerful and uh there’s nobody
00:20:36 else i know that has articulated all
00:20:38 these things about
00:20:40 autism and like you just mentioned that
00:20:42 james had regressed a little bit in the
00:20:44 book you explained exactly why that
00:20:47 happened because of a well-meaning
00:20:49 person just speaking something negative
00:20:51 it is a powerful book share with them a
00:20:54 little about that
00:20:56 um well yeah i
00:21:01 about the bit about his regression and
00:21:03 how it happened well i’m just talking
00:21:05 about the book encourage the people why
00:21:07 this
00:21:07 book would be a blessing yeah it’s
00:21:09 written in a unique style
00:21:11 it’s like deborah talking to her diary
00:21:14 that’s what it is it’s it’s dear mary so
00:21:17 that i found that that was the
00:21:19 the only way that i could actually
00:21:21 verbalize and get it out
00:21:23 is to imagine that i was telling
00:21:25 somebody my story somebody who was not
00:21:28 going to be critical
00:21:29 not who who actually loved us and cared
00:21:31 for us and i was going to just open my
00:21:33 heart and tell my story
00:21:34 as to a beloved friend and so that’s how
00:21:38 i wrote the book
00:21:39 and um i’ll tell you this andrew i’ve
00:21:42 had a lot of feedback from
00:21:43 parents of children with all sorts of
00:21:45 different diagnosis
00:21:47 and they’ve said it’s been incredibly
00:21:49 helpful so i would encourage people
00:21:51 anything that the doctors say is
00:21:53 incurable
00:21:54 read the book and you’ll see that
00:21:57 nothing’s incurable because this will
00:21:59 help parents of children
00:22:01 with with other issues it’s not just
00:22:05 for people with children with autism but
00:22:08 i have had a lot of feedback from a lot
00:22:10 of people saying how this has encouraged
00:22:12 them how it’s given them hope
00:22:14 and one of the biggest things is with
00:22:17 these
00:22:18 incurable disease chromosomal disorders
00:22:20 autism whatever it is
00:22:22 even things like accidents where people
00:22:25 children have been
00:22:26 brain damaged or lack of oxygen where
00:22:28 they were okay but now they’re not
00:22:30 um what what i
00:22:34 feel has come through in my book was
00:22:36 that
00:22:37 it’s not intimidating i
00:22:40 i’ve it was so easy for me once the lord
00:22:43 had said i will heal your sons
00:22:44 i was not intimidated by autism and any
00:22:48 of the symptoms
00:22:49 once i found out that it had been
00:22:51 defeated at the cross
00:22:53 now um tim had other issues that were
00:22:56 not related to autism that were related
00:22:58 to form of brain damage that he got in
00:22:59 the womb when we had a car accident
00:23:01 james was dropped on his face as the
00:23:03 baby of
00:23:05 just a few weeks old onto a tiled floor
00:23:08 so they weren’t sure if the autism was
00:23:10 part of the brain damage or the brain
00:23:12 damage was part of the autism they just
00:23:13 didn’t
00:23:14 know but it his brain wasn’t okay so
00:23:17 whatever the problem is
00:23:18 whatever the diagnosis is the thing is
00:23:22 is once you realize that it is a piece
00:23:25 of cake for jesus
00:23:26 that it’s not a baby you can diminish
00:23:29 and demean these symptoms they can stop
00:23:31 intimidating you stop making you
00:23:32 frightened stop making you project
00:23:34 forward and think what’s going to happen
00:23:37 if something happens to me who’s going
00:23:38 to look after this child what
00:23:40 their future going to look like but you
00:23:42 can actually diminish say this has got
00:23:44 no
00:23:45 right to stay and their future is bright
00:23:47 their future
00:23:48 is going to be what god has ordained
00:23:50 them to be he has a future for
00:23:52 them and the enemy hasn’t got the power
00:23:54 to derail that
00:23:56 if we stand up and say thus far no
00:23:58 further you have no right and you will
00:24:00 not
00:24:01 mess with my children and you know one
00:24:03 of the titles i was thinking about for
00:24:05 my book was love enraged
00:24:07 and what i would like to encourage
00:24:09 people and i think this is something
00:24:11 that
00:24:11 has come through in my book as well is
00:24:13 that when we
00:24:14 love our children passionately and we
00:24:16 realize that the enemy has been
00:24:18 bullying them and that all the suffering
00:24:21 is illegitimate and has no right
00:24:23 then you can dare to become enraged and
00:24:26 that is what happened to me i became
00:24:28 enraged and that was when i said
00:24:32 okay thus far no further this is
00:24:35 not going to stay on my children this is
00:24:37 not going to be part of their identity
00:24:39 my children are going to be who god
00:24:41 created them to be
00:24:43 they are free and they’re going to be
00:24:45 live out the life
00:24:46 god has designed for them to live and
00:24:48 you know the lord did say to me that he
00:24:50 would restore the
00:24:52 years that tim had lost and that james
00:24:55 had lost
00:24:56 that the enemy had stolen god is a
00:24:58 restorer
00:25:00 and that is what’s happening now all
00:25:02 these years
00:25:03 later it’s been eight years since
00:25:05 stephen came and filmed that testimony
00:25:07 and during that eight years i mean tim
00:25:10 has just blossomed
00:25:12 he’s just he’s a blessing
00:25:15 yeah sir uh so you know there’s a
00:25:18 scripture
00:25:19 jesus said uh that since the days of
00:25:21 john the baptist the kingdom of
00:25:23 heaven is preached and it suffers
00:25:25 violence and the violent take it by
00:25:27 force
00:25:28 i struggled with that for years but i
00:25:30 believe that now what it means is that
00:25:32 you’ve got to get this
00:25:34 violence to where you are not going to
00:25:37 allow the devil to steal from you what
00:25:40 god has provided
00:25:41 and you are exhibiting that all of you
00:25:44 and
00:25:45 the same thing was said by nikki nikki
00:25:47 threw her
00:25:48 arm across my chest knocked me out of
00:25:50 the way and got
00:25:51 up and uh julianne last night was
00:25:55 talking about she drew
00:25:56 a line in the sand and you know one of
00:25:58 the reasons people are sick is because
00:26:00 they will
00:26:01 tolerate it you got to get sick and
00:26:03 tired of being sick and tired
00:26:06 and one of the things that i love about
00:26:08 the mcdermott testimony
00:26:10 is that it wasn’t instant i it would
00:26:12 have been wonderful if it was but
00:26:14 you are such an encouragement to people
00:26:18 who don’t just instantly see something
00:26:20 happen but
00:26:21 you once you had that word that you are
00:26:24 the parents of two
00:26:25 normal healthy children you had a word
00:26:28 from god and from then on the devil
00:26:30 it was just a matter of time until he
00:26:32 was it was just a matter of time
00:26:35 it was never going to stay after that
00:26:37 that was
00:26:38 it and you know i remember tim and i
00:26:41 sitting watching nikki’s testimony
00:26:44 and tim was just so excited i remember
00:26:47 he jumped up and he said
00:26:49 wow if god can heal all these things and
00:26:52 he had a chip on his tooth
00:26:54 tim you tell the story of the chip on
00:26:55 your tooth yeah so um it was
00:26:57 the result of eating toffee a little bit
00:26:59 too enthusiastically
00:27:00 [Laughter]
00:27:02 and uh and like i felt you know it
00:27:05 wasn’t
00:27:05 impacting my life but i could feel it i
00:27:07 was like
00:27:09 i’ve got a chipped tooth oh my gosh um
00:27:12 and i was when i was how old like
00:27:15 you were about 12 12 ish yeah
00:27:19 no no you were about 14 sorry
00:27:24 anyway but uh yeah so i
00:27:28 you know we were listening to these
00:27:29 healing testimonies and stuff and i was
00:27:30 really
00:27:31 i was still in the place of like you
00:27:34 know i don’t know
00:27:34 how far you know how far i can push this
00:27:37 i don’t know like
00:27:38 where the limits are if there are such
00:27:40 limits i don’t know
00:27:41 like you know with i i was i was
00:27:44 ignorant
00:27:45 um but within that ignorance i was very
00:27:47 enthusiastic
00:27:49 um and so i was like well okay well if
00:27:52 god can heal these people of these
00:27:54 debilitating
00:27:55 you know uh life-threatening diseases
00:27:59 he can heal a chipped tooth and so i
00:28:01 prayed over i commanded the tooth to be
00:28:03 healed
00:28:04 and then subsequently completely forgot
00:28:07 about it
00:28:08 a couple days later i’m eating i’m like
00:28:13 my tooth’s back wow
00:28:16 i haven’t heard that yeah boy that is
00:28:19 miraculous
00:28:22 and uh so how’s your tooth now it’s
00:28:24 great yeah
00:28:25 awesome man this is so
00:28:28 encouraging i know the people that are
00:28:30 watching are sitting here thinking can
00:28:32 this
00:28:32 really happen it’s happened
00:28:35 oh yeah you’re hearing these testimonies
00:28:38 and i remember
00:28:39 james and timothy i don’t remember i
00:28:41 didn’t visit with them but i remember
00:28:43 them when i prayed for them and
00:28:45 to see them now james was at my
00:28:48 conference last year grace and faith
00:28:50 and i mean he was just all praising god
00:28:53 and happy and to see what god has done
00:28:56 in this family
00:28:58 god will do that same thing for you
00:29:01 right now there’s he’s no respecter of
00:29:03 persons
00:29:05 never would you just do this if you just
00:29:07 quickly take that
00:29:08 faith that god placed in you for your
00:29:11 two boys
00:29:12 and just release them towards people
00:29:13 that are watching and encourage them
00:29:16 okay firstly whatever the diagnosis is i
00:29:19 just want everybody
00:29:21 to realize that jesus
00:29:24 is huge and great he has paid the price
00:29:29 and he has out of every diagnosis that
00:29:33 can be diagnosed
00:29:34 and with that in mind and i just want
00:29:37 the parents and the people who are
00:29:39 praying for for loved ones to not to
00:29:42 diminish and demean
00:29:43 in their mind the diagnosis no more fear
00:29:46 no more intimidation
00:29:48 so lord right now i just appreciate that
00:29:50 they cannot and will not stay
00:29:52 and in the name of jesus right now i
00:29:54 curse every disability
00:29:56 and i say be gone in jesus name i
00:29:58 declare
00:29:59 every child and every loved one
00:30:02 represented
00:30:03 here in the sound of my voice now and
00:30:05 anytime in the future
00:30:06 i declare healing complete healing
00:30:09 complete freedom i see chains
00:30:13 breaking chains breaking and i just
00:30:16 command
00:30:17 freedom in jesus name and i thank you
00:30:19 father god
00:30:20 that you are just pouring out your
00:30:23 healing power as people’s hearts are
00:30:25 opening up to dare
00:30:27 to believe what you have provided and i
00:30:30 thank you for it and you know i just
00:30:32 see now lights bursting like like like
00:30:35 um
00:30:36 fireworks going on and i believe that
00:30:39 every
00:30:39 healing will be another light in the
00:30:41 darkness another
00:30:42 another light for testimonies
00:30:46 after testimonies after testimonies and
00:30:48 that healings will just break out
00:30:50 all over the world as people realize
00:30:54 that they can be less and less
00:30:55 intimidated so father god thank you that
00:30:57 you are doing a mighty work
00:30:59 thank you that you have provided healing
00:31:02 that it is done and that we are set free
00:31:05 in jesus
00:31:06 name amen amen amen deborah
00:31:10 how can they get your book my book’s
00:31:13 available in
00:31:14 andrew mcministry’s bookshop and on
00:31:16 amazon
00:31:17 yeah so right over here you can go get
00:31:19 the book if you’re here
00:31:20 otherwise go to amazon