Healing Testimony - Autistic & Schizophrenic child delivered & restored!

In 2013 I was honored to find myself in the field of Child behavior therapy where I was given an assignment that took me in for a giant surprise by the Lord. I did not realize at the time that I was going to be part of his miraculous plan in the next 3 years. For all I knew, I was just some simple girl looking to survive this city and find a decent job for my needs and the fact that I LOVE kids was a plus. I entered this new season of working with children that had special needs and disorders not knowing what my role would be in the kingdom but I just did my best in all interventions taught to me during training. I was never much of a science medical terminology geek, but somehow I pulled it off. The reason why I knew the job was a divine appointment was that I was hired so quickly with such favor and grace even though I didn’t pass the first two exams required for the position. Crazy how God doesn’t let the world’s requirements get in the way of his plan. I was about to quit and say this field wasn’t for me because the material was too difficult and I was surely convinced that I was not capable of such a position because of my test results. Before I could even think about quitting the hiring team called me and explained that they don’t normally let their candidates re take exams but they felt such optimistic vibes for me that they told me to re-take it. I had a few extra days to study the terms, interventions and procedures and was excited to say I passed both exams with 100%. Whoa!! that was above average for this distracted by everything lazy girl I believed I was most of my life. Sometimes you come to find that what you believe about yourself is not actually reality when God proves you wrong though His unmerited grace IN MY FACE!!

I could write a story of favor and grace about each child God allowed me to work with on this journey. One in particular almost got the best of me until God scored his double win for the glory after I almost drowned in depression convinced that this one little girl in particular has 0 hope.

For confidential purposes I will call her Kate. Kate was a beautiful 7 year old little girl who was diagnosed with severe autism and mild schizophrenia. Her behaviors were so severe that my supervisor mentioned to me that she had never seen autism like this. She was convinced that her disorder was something far off but since she was already with our company that we would do the best we could to handle all her behaviors. The first day I started on her team I was terrified. I wanted to be taken off immediately because this little girl was a nightmare at the first glance of meeting her.I honestly didn’t think I could do anything for her.

Her head always looked down at the floor while her hands covered her rosy cheeks as she randomly would scream horrifying screams of terror whenever she would get the chance to. I had to remain a distance away from her they told me because she tended to aggress in full force. I thought to my self this little girl is so small what can she possibly do to hurt me. Man was I wrong. I would go home with cuts all over my hands and arms because of her grabbing and chunks of my hair were pulled off form time to time. There were days where it tool 3 grown adults to restrain her from almost killing herself. 8 therapists assigned to her team quit the case because it was definitely an underpaid job at that point dealing with this little girl. Kate would not sit or eat or talk for the following 6 months I worked with her. She slowly started warming up to me but still kept her distance and 2 or 3 hours of self-injury and tantrums were the routine with this girl daily. I started to realize I would go home feeling beyond drained and life did not seem bright for me. Staring down at all my scars on my hands and arms I felt exhausted and slowly fell into a depression myself. I was sad for this girl, but I became sad for myself too. I started sleeping for hours at a time and tried to drown myself away in alcohol and drugs with my friends to convince myself I was happy about life. While wallowing away at these temporary highs of life I found myself unhealthy sick and fell completely out of my physical shape in only 6 months. I started slowly killing myself. I binged on junk that filled a crazy hungry void inside screaming for more junk. I drank and got high on pills that left me feeling like death the next few days after. What on earth have I done? The fun healthy average athletic girl was now the unhealthy sad girl. I completely lost myself in the spirit and new that I needed help fast. It seemed that Kate and I had similar behaviors and we were both now self-torturing ourselves to death.

The Escape

Browsing on facebook I came across a post from my old youth pastor over 10 years ago that offered prayer for anyone who needed deliverance or was sick. I saw his post and out of desperation I wrote him immediately asking him to pray for me . I don’t think he realized that God was about to use him to fight for two dying girls in need of a touch from heaven. Seriously God is so good and will use even text messages to connect his people for kingdom purposes. Through text message God healed me of depression. It was a moment I cant explain with just words till this day. I felt fire on my face and hands as Grant Owen prayed for me gave me words to say out loud. (complete story in another testimony)

For Kate God had huge plans and I was not aware that her spiritual turmoil was the cause of this depression and had Grant not told me what he felt in his spirit I would have never imagined the power of the spiritual realm would be this real. I believed in this world but was not face to face with it for many years of my walk with God.

I went to visit Grant and Christina after being healed from depression and God was not done yet. After talking with Grant for a bit he was lead to pray for Kate and with a simple 30 second prayer of faith and authority Grant prayed for Kate and her healing.

Gods healing power

The following week the miraculous happened. The reason for my time at this company all made sense. It was all worth it for Kate and I would do it all over again for her. Her behaviors began to drastically change and as I would pray in tongues under my breath as Grant told me to do, I continued to cover her in prayer. Kate began to eat ALL her food, she was able to finish all her work at school with tantrums reducing to screams for a break instead of 3 hour insanity episodes. Her words began to come out of her pretty little face she began asking me to hug her. This little girl was transformed by the renewing of the spirit. Its amazing to see how God doesn’t need the worlds permission to use his children for any purpose and plan. God is good and I’m happy to testify that Kate is healed from her consistent spiritual torment. The graphs had such a significant change that the behavior team, LAUSD and supervisors came to observe her breakthrough. Praise God for His love and mercy.

MoMo

here's her behavior graph that shows the drastic shift in her behavior.

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