Healed of Epilepsy - UBM [David Eells]

Let the theologians believe their powerless gospel but God just needs someone with childlike faith in His Word to set the captives free. Here is an e-mail conversation between Walt Lounsbury, who lives in the states, and his brother Wes, who is a missionary in Guatemala, and myself.

Dave,

Please pray with me and ask the Lord for a Miracle to heal this young girl (17). She is down in Guatemala. Here is the story:

Walt

Walt,

The Lord has put someone in our path that needs HIS healing. She's around 17 years old, she has epilepsy, and 6 years ago she had a seizure and fell into a fire. She must have been there for quite sometime because her feet almost got cooked off. She went to a clinic and they carved out the burned flesh leaving her feet resembling stubs. On top of this, the wound has never completely healed so besides the massive amounts of scar tissue, she has an external ulcer with has not healed for the accident. Yesterday she came to the orphanage with her mother and sister. We prayed over some hot water and had her soak her foot with the ulcer in it. The raw flesh on the ulcer was yellow, like dried puss. After about 45 minutes we took out the foot, cleaned it and wrapped it with a gauze bandage. They came back today for us to change the bandage again. We soaked the foot again to loosen the gauze (which was saturated with some type of dried oozing substance). Getting the last part off directly in contact with the ulcer was difficult because it had adhered quite strongly. As we pulled it off we noticed that the once yellow tissue had turned a very healthy pink, in fact the capillaries were so close to surface that there was a small amount of bleeding. Trevor and I BELIEVE that God is healing this girl. Think of Joshua circling Jericho for 7 days before it fell. He would have felt pretty stupid walking around with a trumpet if the Lord didn't PROMISE him beforehand. The same thing applies here. Please spend some special time in prayer for her. Also please give David a call and ask him to also. Trevor blessed her today and asked the Lord to make her healing a witness for all those who know of her, truly this is our hope. I been wondering if she wasn't demonically possessed with epilepsy, and that is what she was thrown into the fire, much like the mad man cutting himself with rocks and the epileptic that Jesus healed by casting out the demon. I never like thinking someone has an evil spirit inside of them. I was wondering if you could ask David if he knows how to determine such a thing. He said in his book that he has the gift of discernment of spirits. As much as you can help would be greatly appreciated.

Your bro,
Wes

Walt,

We will pray and agree with you and Wes. Epilepsy is a demon spirit. {Mt.17:15} Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is epileptic, and suffereth grievously; for oft-times he falleth into the fire, and oft-times into the water. {17:16} And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. {17:17} And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me. {17:18} And Jesus rebuked him; and the demon went out of him: and the boy was cured from that hour. {17:19} Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out? {17:20} And he saith unto them, Because of your little faith: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. {17:21} [not in ASV - But this kind goeth not out save by prayer and fasting.]

Is the girl a Christian? If she is she has a covenant right to deliverance because it is the children's bread. If not, only God can give permission to cast it out. Otherwise they will just come back worse. Ask her to confess her sins. My suggestion is to ask those involved to pray for discernment of spirits. Demons rarely act alone. Gather several people with faith, preferably filled with the Holy Spirit, and command the demons to come out in Jesus name. Then believe that they have to obey because Jesus gave us total authority over the demons. {Mk.16:17} And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons. Don't believe what ever they say because they often lie.

Wes can e-mail me if he wishes.

God be with you.

Dave

Walt,

Ask them to believe to heal and restore her body. Jesus paid for that too. Gal.3:13,14 - 1 Pet.2:24 - Ps.103:1-4 - Mt.8:16,17 - Acts 3:12-16; 5:16

Dave

Dave,
Hi this is Walt's brother Wes. Walt forwarded your email about the girl with epilepsy to me. She, her mother and her sister are staying with us now. The open ulcer on her foot is getting better every day, now it is much more shallow and the flesh looks healthy.

WES, I WILL ANSWER IN CAPS IN THE TEXT OF YOUR LETTER.

PRAISE TO GOD! LET'S CONTINUE TO BELIEVE FOR A TOTAL RESTORATION OF THE FOOT! GOD IS BIG. WE SHOULDN'T UNDERESTIMATE HIM.

Two nights ago I couldn't go to sleep, it was 1 in the morning and I was exhausted. I decided to go down stairs and work on a paper I was writing. I was using a computer bible program to search for texts. I can't remember which words I was searching but I came upon the story in Matthew about the epileptic (now this might sound very strange you, take it either way, but I'm almost certain that I read the word "epileptic" from the KJV, it wasn't until the next day when I read it again that I realized they had actually translated the word as lunatic in the KJV. Could it be that the Lord actually had me read epileptic instead, because of this girl?)

ABSOLUTELY WES, GOD HAS DONE SUCH THINGS AS THAT TO ME ALSO. I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE TELL ME THINGS THAT I NEEDED TO HEAR. LATER I QUESTIONED THEM AS TO WHY THEY SAID IT AND THEY AND EVERYONE AROUND THEM TOLD ME THAT THEY SAID SOMETHING TOTALLY UNRELATED.

What struck me most about the story was when the father said to Jesus "Have mercy on my son: for he is epileptic, and suffereth grievously; for oft-times he falleth into the fire" That's EXACTLY what happened to this girl! Six years ago her mother left the house and went to town to get something from the store (This family lives in complete poverty in a village a few miles from here). The girl usually woke up later in the morning, so her mother felt it was safe to leave early. When she came back she found her daughter lying in the fire, the flesh completely cooked on one foot and third degree burns on the other. After I read those verses I wondered if this girl had an evil spirit, since their stories were so similar.

SHE HAS AN EPILEPTIC SPIRIT AND POSSIBLY MORE.

I don't know exactly what I should be looking for so I feel uneasy about making a judgment as to whether someone DOES have a demon. Anyways the next morning, my wife went to use the internet (we don't have a connection at the house, everyone uses internet cafes) and printed out your email that Walt forwarded to me. She didn't mention it; she just left it folded on the desk. I opened it up and read. I knew immediately that God had given me a second witness, so that I could be SURE. I still have a lot of questions about what to do about it. I've never been in a position like this. I prayed last night that God would give me the discernment of spirits, but I don't really know what it means. I know that God has brought this girl to us, not only because of her foot but because of this spirit afflicting her. I have a good friend down here with me who is strong in the faith; he could stand with me. This is strange territory for me as you can tell. Is all I need to do is command the spirit of epilepsy to leave in the name of Jesus?

YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE AUTHORITY TO DO THIS. DEMONS KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE FAITH. THAT IS THE ONLY CONDITION ON YOUR PART (MK.16:15,16) (LK.10:19,20). IT WOULD BE GOOD TO MAKE SURE SHE IS A CHRISTIAN AND GET HER TO CONFESS HER SINS (JAS.5:16).

Should I expect the demon to say something before it leaves, or what?

NOT NECESSARILY BUT IF THE HOLY SPIRIT MOVES YOU TO COMMAND THEM TO GIVE THEIR NAME, DO IT.

What if she just sits there silently, does it mean my faith isn't great enough?

THEY DON'T ALWAYS COME OUT IMMEDIATELY BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO HANG AROUND TILL YOU SEE SOMETHING. WALK BY FAITH. JUST KNOW THAT THEY HAVE TO OBEY YOU.

Should I ask how many spirits are in her?

IF YOU FEEL TO, YES.

How can I believe them if they did tell me, I wouldn't want to leave one in there?

THEY WILL OBEY YOU IF YOU TELL THEM TO TELL THEIR NAME UNLESS THIS IS A MUTE SPIRIT.

Sincerely,
Wes

Dave,
The spirit of epilepsy has left the girl. A pastor and his church and I prayed over her. The spirit never responded, but the girl began to thank the lord and cry. She finally fell down after about five minutes. She was "as dead" like the scripture speaks about the epileptic boy. In the midst of this "sleep" she started to praise God very loudly and then went back under. It was very strange to me, nothing like I expected. She went to bed shortly after she woke. The next morning she and her mother were talking about the medicine she takes to fight off the epilepsy. Her mother told her, "the devil is tempting us, not to believe" and then they threw the
medicine away. She is perfectly fine now, her face looks different, and her eyes are more alert. These people are such awesome witnesses of faith to me. They can not even read the Word and they understand the gospel more than educated Christian Americans. Thank you very much for replying to my other email, all the information was very useful.

in Christ,
Wes

Wes,

Praise the Lord! See how simple it is. That poor girl would have suffered the rest of her life with that if she had not run into someone like you who was willing to stand in faith. Sometimes the demon will try to come back by temporarily putting a symptom on you and when you accept it he has permission to reinvade. Tell the girl and her mom to never accept it back. They have authority over the demons. Now just pray and believe for the restoration of her foot. Jesus paid for a complete healing.

Get my book; it has more on demons and healing.

God bless you,
David

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