 So, Gloria, first, can you just tell us the problem that you're facing and for how long you were having that problem? I dealt with hypothyroidism and I probably dealt with it probably most of my whole life but it was diagnosed about 20 years ago. So we know that you have a wonderful testimony to share with us. Can you just start from how you started receiving healing and then just go from there? Well, first I'd like to explain if those of you that don't know what hypothyroidism is, what happens to your body? So for one thing I was cold all the time and we're not talking just woman cold, it's just cold freezing all the time and so it makes you very anxious then and you're very tense. Also you're very tired, you just get exhausted and also just completely exhausted. For me my skin got dry and also your metabolism slows down so you start, it's easier to gain weight and you feel like a slug. Probably the worst thing that happens to you when you have hypothyroidism which means your metabolism is not, your thyroid is not working properly, it's moving really slow is that you have constipation. Not very fun to talk about but that is actually a very dangerous thing. So they did a test on me and they said when you eat a meal it should leave your body in 12 hours. It was leaving my body in 96 hours. That to me is an open door to colon cancer and I was drinking tons of water, I was taking fiber, anyone that knows me know I ate more fruits and vegetables and probably anybody I was doing everything I knew to do in the natural to be obedient to take care of my body and it wasn't helping so it was very frustrating. So what happened then you said you were dealing with this for about, you got diagnosed about 20 years ago, these were the problems that you were suffering with. So how did you begin to receive that healing? Well the first thing was that I knew that God's will was for me to be healed and that's something you have to have as a basis line but and so I would start to confess my thyroid is strong, my thyroid is strong in the Lord and then the power of his might. I would confess healing and I would speak to my thyroid and I would do all these different things which is great. However then I decided you know I'm going to take it in my own hands, I started taking this natural thyroid and with the natural thyroid I thought this is good, at least it's natural and then I thought you know though almost kind of I'm going to force God's hands, I'm going to stop taking it, I'm just going to still confess and believe well I started gaining weight, having more issues and all of that and I was frustrated because I'm standing in faith and so finally after about a year went back to the doctor, she's why did you get off this, what are you doing, well you know and she's a Christian but doesn't really understand what it's doing. So I said God what is it because I've seen God move instant healing, I love instant healing but sometimes there's strong holds, there's things in our life that are is keeping a sickness and disease in our body and I didn't really understand that piece. So as I'm praying saying God what is that because I've always wanted to see healing in my life and healing in others and why are people not receiving healing. So about 10 years ago the Lord brought this man to our town here in Tri-Cities and his name was Art Matthias and he did a teaching here at one of the local churches and it was a turning point in my life regarding healing and he talked about the emotional and the root causes of disease and how sometimes we have bitterness, hatred, we are harboring things and it locates in our body and we start to experience sickness and disease and so through that conference and learning how to pray for people and things like that I started saying okay I want to receive healing for my thyroid so I looked up what thyroid with the root things were so was self-hatred guilt fear and anxiety so I said Holy Spirit where are those areas of self-hatred where I'm just never can forgive myself the fear where do I get anxious and all that and the Holy Spirit started showing me in my own personal prayer life different areas sort of setting me free and that's really great and then so I was feeling better in many areas but my thyroid wasn't changed and about six years ago the Lord told me he says you really like to do a lot of stuff you and God and not ask for anybody's help he says I want you to humble yourself and I want you go to a Christian counselor and I want you're gonna discover some things that you didn't know about and I was like but God I just want to do it you and me and I was like no you're gonna humble yourself you're gonna go get some counseling and I said but I don't know who to go to and Laura says I'll show you so I started I asked him and I pulled up the phone book and I went online and the Lord led me to a wonderful beautiful Christian counselor here in town and so I went to her for about two months every week as we were going through things the Holy Spirit brought out things even deeper that I didn't get on my own and the last time I went to go see her the Lord revealed just some intense lies that I had about myself and and so and I'm in the middle of really getting it out and it was the end of the session and she said I'm really sorry but there's a 10 year old boy and he is going to be he's gonna be coming is I have to you know ministered him and I said that's totally fine so the Holy Spirit will complete the work so the next day I had a prayer walk I love to walk along the river and communicate with God and while I was there the rest of the peace God just downloaded that lie exposed it and set me free and I felt amen let's put our hands together for Jesus it's very important to continue to listening very intently to this this story because I believe that this story is going to set some people free in the house today on your mindset of things that may be holding you back from your very own healing and deliverance yourself so listen carefully and draw from it the faith you need to receive for yourself in Jesus name so we go ahead and continue Gloria so when that happened at the river I felt this shift in my body I can't explain it and I knew my thyroid was better and so I was all excited because it was like August and that's around the time that my doctor would want to check my thyroid every year so I went to her and I had it checked and I go in for my appointment and she says this is amazing she says your thyroid is so much better I'm gonna reduce your dosage in half amen put our hands together for Jesus so I took that and I said I'm taking that Lord as your touch as your healing and I'm standing and I'm gonna continue to stand I'm not giving up and I'm not gonna lay down and say this is good enough I'm going for the full package and so what I really encourage people to is that healing isn't always instant is this is not glamorous but hang in there and so that was like August I didn't feel really good I didn't go back to the counselor actually emailed her said man I'm walking to this new freedom thank you for what you did for me and the Lord and all that and then about that next spring I felt all this setback in my life you know sometimes things are going really good but then the Lord says okay I'm gonna get something else out of you and all these obstacles can come up and so I was so frustrated like I was praying and I was doing different things and the Lord said okay well you did this you know you've done this and you did the other things I want you to reach out and someone else is gonna minister to you and I'm like okay you know part of it doesn't like to bother anybody and all that so I said okay God I'm open so the Lord brought me this gal in the Seattle area who's doing the sozo which is a prayer ministry out of Bethel Church in Reading and I've never met this gal but she was ministering my sister and I started doing prayer ministry over the phone and the Holy Spirit through that prayer ministry started revealing things that I in a way deeper level and I was just like amazed and cried and all that I was seeing him get me free and towards the end of the summer there was an experience that I had that I believe oftentimes help hinders a lot of Christians and what my experience was I grew up in a church that my parents love God people love God but you had to come down to the altar and get right and your whole focus was on your sin consciousness was God was always mad at you you never really pleased him you can never do enough and so I was down to the altar I'm 10 years old and the thing is is that I was just crying to God because I would get mad I was in public school it wasn't cool to be a Christian then and people are a lot really cruel they were cruel to me I was huge and I was and I would hate to see how mean kids were so I'm down at the altar and I'm saying God I'm trying not to sin but I hate people sometimes and I'm mad at them and they hurt and I don't like this and I'm trying not to hate and all of that and I remember my pastor came up to me he was a very loving man and I said I'm trying not to sin I'm really trying not to sin and he said to me something that in his heart who was trying to help me but he said to me you know what really helps me not sin and I was like oh what you know I love my pastor he said well I imagine that every time I sin I've nailed Jesus to the cross again and I've crucified him again and that helps me not sin so I don't know about you but as a 10-year-old child I looked up at and and this is what the enemy spoke to me and I didn't know it was the enemy that he goes you thought you were bad Gloria you're absolutely wicked and he had no idea right I mean I know he wouldn't I mean I forgave him and all that I remember that experience and I remember thinking I know that's not right somehow but I couldn't put my finger on it so I'm sharing it with this girl sozo and she said glory that's really messed up and I went it is and and all of a sudden though the Holy Spirit showed me the lie I believed because all my life when something bad happened to me I thought God was mad at me I thought he hated me and now I would never tell anybody else that and I really didn't have that understanding up here but I had it here and if something bad happened to you I wouldn't think God hated you but I really had that and I think a lot of times as Christians there are different things that we've learned in our the legalistic experiences that have kept us from loving God and we didn't know why and so the Holy Spirit showed me that I the root belief that I had started there that God was angry at me for hurting his son over and over and over and she said that's not true because Jesus died once and no one can ever crucify him again I said wow I said I know that scripture but I didn't know that I needed to know it like I know it now I need to know it now and she said that's really messed up Gloria I love you you gotta get free of that religious legalistic thinking she says you need to get Joseph Prince dust and rain and I said oh okay well yeah it looks like a good book I like about authority she was no it's about receiving freedom from condemnation you got to get that book I said okay I'm getting that book I get that book and as I read that book and God starts revealing to me the condemnation that I was under the Lord started setting me free and I remember this one day a particular I felt another shift in my body and it was August of the next year and I know I go to the doctor and she takes my blood and she says I don't know what you've done but you don't need thyroid anymore amen that's what our hands together for Jesus wow I really hope that all of you are understanding the significance of this testimony and what it means for you and for me that what Gloria is explaining here is that is God's desire not for us to only be physically healed but spiritually saved and oftentimes God Almighty will save us spiritually in tandem with our physical healing that as you become more free that your body will become free as well that it goes one-in-one hand-in-hand and oftentimes we as Christians we become so discouraged by the fact that you know when somebody lays our hand on us we expect that the pain will instantly go or we receive that that healing instantly and the pain goes and then next week that the pain kind of comes back and we surrender our healing back to the enemy and we let it go but I want you to understand from this testimony is that God wants to take you on a journey because he doesn't want you to only be healed but he wants you to be spiritually saved and set free from the lies of the enemy the strongholds of the enemy so that you can maintain that healing forever in Jesus name so I hope that you understand the importance of what Gloria has testified today that as God took her on the journey to set her mind free to set her spirit free that God Almighty supernaturally removed all of the sickness in her body and she's standing here a healthy woman before you today to testify to the glory of God amen amen so Gloria we're so thankful for the testimony that you have shared with us today because we know that this is this testimony is setting some people free right now even as we speak and the God Almighty we believe is going to continue to minister to you throughout the rest of the service so just open up your heart and be ready to receive you'll receive today from the message receive right now from the testimonies and God Almighty will continue to do it for you so before we let you go Gloria we just want you to give us some advice to people who might be experiencing a sickness in their body right now or who is also going through a process and in their journey of healing I want you to know that God's will is to be healed he died on the cross for your sins and for your healing so faith can only begin where the will of God is known and John said I pray beloved that you would prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers so if there's any area that your soul your mind your will and emotions none of us get out of this life without being hurt without being offended without having the enemy no matter how good of a Christian home you were raised in that he will twist things so that you believe lies none of us get out of there without having those experiences so whatever it is God has freedom for you spirits soul and physically