Beauty For Ashes
(A Testimony by Cheryl Hendrix)

In 2001, my oldest daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had surgery but they didn't get it all. She began having seizures and became paralyzed on her left side. I was her caregiver and taking her to the doctor while her husband worked. I was raised to believe that God healed and didn't doubt it. If we were sick and Daddy prayed, we got well.

As I was sitting in a doctors office one day I kept reading and re-reading the little "No Cell Phone" sign. I got angry with myself for letting my eyes wander back to it so many times, but back home that night it hit me. 'We read the Written Word if it's before us.' I made a lap quilt for my daughter. I had fabric paint and cut white squares and hand-painted healing verses on the squares and took it to her, knowing that as it covered her she'd glance down and read those verses. God is not a man that He should lie. His Word works. Well, not giving credit to the quilt, after five long years Beth is completely well today. No cancer, no seizures and no paralysis. If people would just put the healing verses within them and get them grounded and rooted in their spirits, they'd get well. We should have our very young children memorizing them. Just think what the Word might do for them if they grew up believing that what God says.... He'll do.

I also believe that God uses doctors. I know doctors get away from that sometimes but God gave them the knowledge to do what they do and God put everything in this earth that they use to make the medicines. On two different occasions in my life, the doctors have said "Only God could have done that."

© Cheryl Hendrix
Posted March 23, 2007

* My Note: Although I truly believe what Cheryl Hendrix said and I too, have had numerous healings, God's Word must be divided evenly. There is a time when God will call us Home and no amount of faith, prayer and believing will heal us. I just didn't want someone who lost a loved one thinking that they may not have believed enough or their faith was probably not strong enough. No. If you lost a loved one then it is because the Lord allowed it for whatever reason and everyone's time eventually comes. Even though Cheryl Hendrix' daughter was healed of cancer, sadly enough Cheryl herself, passed away from cancer several years later. It was not because her family's faith was not strong enough. It was simply because God called her Home. - Cheryl Taul

"To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die;"
(Ecclesiastes 3:1)