I was in my early twenties a newly wed and diagnosed with crippling rheumatoid arthritis. My hands had begun to look like I had very large knuckles and swollen fingers lots of pain. Could not hold anything just kept dropping things, even the phone. The doctor told me to get a hospital bed and a wheel chair because I was going to be a cripple and on lots of medication the rest of my life. I had just gotten married, graduated from college and was teaching school when I got the news. I was told to stop teaching because I could not take a chance and pass out from the medication. After 2 years and taking myself off the medication for six months, we had our first healthy baby boy. I had been told I would not be able to have children. Another 2 years our second healthy baby boy was born. I had to go back on the medication, 50 to 60 tablets of Motrin a day, sleeping pills and valium, with Maalox by the bottle and every 2 weeks drive 150 miles to get a shot of cortisone in the hip. My youngest was about 4 months old when I was listening to the 700 Club, while I was attempting to do house work, when Pat Robertson said," There is some one out there that has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and in the name of Jesus you are healed. “I hollered that's me and I claimed the healing for me. It has been 40 years and I am still free of the horrible pain and medication. God is good!!!
My Testimony – Angela Gorton
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