The Healing Journey of Merci Santos, who was supernaturally healed of Multiple Sclerosis.
and there were two or three times where
I walked into church and I felt the heat
of the Holy Spirit and I walked but for
some reason I couldn’t retain it I
couldn’t understand Lord I you just
healed me but why am i sick again I
began to feel helpless the frustration
of not being able to fix something when
you’re a fix-it guy I was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis more than 20 years
ago at that time I had paralysis of my
left side and vision loss in my left eye
years went by I would have some symptoms
some would come they would go it was
only about nine years ago when I moved
to Florida where it really hit me really
bad I was still working but half of the
times I couldn’t walk I couldn’t drive
so I would say every six weeks I was
admitted into the hospital I was given
solu-medrol which is a steroid for about
four or five days at that point it would
make me a little stronger and then I
would try to function again go to work
take care of my baby six weeks later
here we go again
this was the solu-medrol which is a
steroid that was given to me every other
month I used to go to the hospital and
if I didn’t go to the hospital then they
used to send me a nurse to administer
the steroids here at home choose to come
to three days sometimes and they used to
the port and the port would say my arm
and then they would administer of the
steroid until it was done three or four
days it depended how long the doctor
would order it for it came to a point
where I had another Talent
the doctor said you can’t work anymore I
couldn’t walk at that point I couldn’t
use my arms
I couldn’t swallow a heavy countenance I
had numbing all over my body and I had
pain all over my body I would get muscle
spasms even in my face my back and my
arms and my legs
I had an inability to speak
I had cognitive problems I just had it
all I remember at one point and I had a
little girl that I had to take care of
praise God that I had my family and my
mother who helped me but I remember
trying to take care of my daughter and
crawling on the floor because my legs
could not hold me up I just could not do
anything I couldn’t take care of her I
couldn’t cook I could barely take care
of myself put on a pair of socks
get dressed write a check out I’d go to
call my mother and a Crone remember who
I was calling what number I was calling
I couldn’t drive I was basically just
home when I was little of course I
didn’t understand what was going on I
all in that one was that my mom was sick
it was really hard for me to see her
like that because of course I understood
what sickness was and that she wasn’t
well and she couldn’t walk sometimes and
I had to call the ambulance for her once
because she couldn’t breathe I had
control of nothing my arms my legs I had
no control so I was in a wheelchair half
of the times I was welcomed with a cane
I had to use a walker I couldn’t drive
on my own I needed somebody to go with
me everywhere I went I couldn’t be
independent anymore I mean it hurt my
heart it broke my heart to see her
suffer each day and when my grandmother
came to pick me up I would always worry
I would had an anxiety attack because I
didn’t know how my mom was
each day I felt like I could wake up
with my mom would be gone which is
really hard for me
I began to feel helpless the frustration
of not being able to fix something when
you’re a fix-it guy you’re the kind of
person that you know okay you see a
problem BAM you’re on it you want to fix
it this all I could do is see and all I
could do is hear what she was going
through and that gave me a great deal of
frustration and anxiety but not but not
being able to help her with that I felt
powerless I don’t care what you see I
know I’m healed that’s what I could same
by His stripes I am healed and I kept
hanging onto that hanging onto that no
matter how bad it got every time I was
in the hospital I Who am me it’s okay
I’m going to walk again and I had time
where the Lord actually spoke to me and
give me scripture he gave me acts 3
where I couldn’t walk and I walked again
and there were two or three times when I
walked into church and I felt the heat
of the Holy Spirit and I walked but for
some reason I couldn’t retain it I
couldn’t understand Lord I you just
healed me but why am I sick again
tell me what I’m doing wrong tell me
tell me what I’m doing wrong do I have
to do something different and that night
I had seen Andrew one night before and I
used to wonder who is this man why is he
speaking that way hmm
but that night if I was going to shut
the TV off he was staring straight at me
and he said to me
what you’re doing wrong is that you’re
not playing right you need to play
different but let me just put it to you
this way if what you’re doing isn’t
working why is it that you are so
adamant about holding on to the concepts
that aren’t working for you I’m just
asking you to open up your heart just a
little bit to consider that maybe
there’s a better way to pray to consider
that maybe some of the foundational
things that you’ve been believing about
prayer are wrong and just open up the
door just to crack so that if there is
something wrong that we could make a
scriptural adjustment here and it could
help us in our prayer life and that was
my answered prayer the Lord was speaking
right right so Andrew the first time I
heard Andrew preach on the gospel truth
program to tell you the truth prior to
that I was gaining the channels and I
saw him and I would catch him but he
didn’t really grab my attention because
he just sat still and was kind of not
necessarily monotone wasn’t that boring
but it wasn’t a stimulating visual
experience as you would expect on
television to capture your attention as
we are accustomed to so it was a
different kind of programming visually
speaking the message it took a while for
me to get over the visual to allow the
message to enter in once I allowed that
to sink in that’s what had me hooked and
that’s because it was the truth I watch
Andrew every day there’s not one day
where I miss and I just started applying
those principles
from the word in my life I just started
changing from the beginning she started
walking and she will mask till this day
I just saw her her features facial
features and the way she acts it’s just
amazing what God has done within her she
he’s totally renewed her and she’s not
sick anymore
my healing wasn’t instant it was
progressive it was a gradual healing I
don’t know if it was because of my
belief well actually I think it is
because I wasn’t taught I wasn’t taught
the right way I was becoming from a
different doctrine I was being taught by
my pastor but when Andrew put it so
clearly that’s what freed me that’s what
freed me and then as the more I learned
the more I applied the word then the
healing healing will come the healing
will come just gradually gradually and
that was okay for me because I knew that
I was healed you know whether it came
instantly or not I knew I was healed and
no one was gonna change that she knows
that God does not want her ill she
totally believes that God has already
healed her
so when symptoms come up in her body
right away she is speaking to the
specific symptom and in the name of
Jesus that symptom evaporates almost
instantaneously if not art right on the
spot
I mean she just speaks to it and her
faith is to receive that healing right
then God has already done his part we
aren’t waiting on God to answer our
prayer God has anticipated every problem
that you’ll ever have
through Jesus he sent Jesus here Jesus
paid for the forgiveness of your sins he
eat all of your diseases he delivered
you from all of the oppression he’s
already provided whatever it is that you
need before you even existed the Lord
anticipated your problem and made the
supply before you ever had the need
everything that God is ever going to do
has already been done through Jesus he
put this same power that he used raising
Jesus from the dead inside of you it’s
resident in you and now instead of
approaching God as a great beggar and
saying oh god we are powerless we have
nothing we’re just looking to you please
move pour out your power Oh God heal oh
God deliver which is the way most people
are praying instead we’re supposed to
come and say father thank you that in
Christ everything I need is already been
provided you’ve given me this authority
and so now you take your authority and
you speak to your Mountain Matthew Mark
chapter 11 verse 23 you speak to the
problem don’t talk to God about your
problem but talk to your problem about
God take your authority speak and
command things to respond command the
power of God to flow and see if you
start taking that authority and using it
that way you’re going to see different
results I don’t need anything I have the
power of God in me I have the Holy
Spirit in me any little thing I just
rebuke it in Jesus name and it has to
and it doesn’t Andrew Wommack said you
know why you have to be a fanatic well
you know what I am a fanatic and that’s
the way I’m going to leave my life a
fanatic to Jesus
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