Sid Roth welcomes Melanie Hemry & Gina Lynnes

Sid:  And my guest is Annette Omand and I’m speaking to her at her home in a suburb of Rotterdam, Holland and she is one of the testimonies in the book that we’re featuring this week called “Anointing for Healing.”  And Annette you had a son, a child with severe autism explain to me what autism is.

Annette:  Autism is total separation from in this case of some of the family; a total separation in the physical way; he didn’t want any physical contact, but also in communication.   There was no communication and also total separation actually from his own identity because he was filling his days with staring on a certain point and that was his day time.  And if he wasn’t doing that he was running through a room or he was hurting himself by banging his head on the floor or he was destroying himself.  Because we didn’t have any contact with Desmond, that’s his name; we didn’t know anything about him, I couldn’t even tell you what his favorite food was.  And beside that there was no development in his muscular skills or he was walking very strange and if he spoke it was only the main words and out of the main words we had to figure out what he meant.  But the strange thing with Desmond was that he had a high IQ, but he couldn’t do anything with it.

Sid:  Okay, so you went to a church and there was a prophecy and what was the prophecy about Desmond?

Annette:  Well, we went, I went to a church after a long time and I met a pastor and he just said to me because I told him the problem, my whole marriage everything was beginning to fall apart and he told me, and he looked me straight in the eyes and he said, “Did you know that God can heal Desmond?”  And even though I believed in God; even though I saw many miracles of Benny Hinn and many other people of God it was a big shock for me because I never even had the thought not just one single time that this could be also meant for Desmond, for my son.

Sid:  But after a period of time you actually went to a healing school and you started doing things different with Desmond, for instance he had this habit of just repeating over and over again the words, “I am Desmond,” his name, “I am Desmond, over all day long and you had him change that to what?”

Annette:  Yes, when Desmond was sitting on the floor he was shaking; we call it butter flying, in Dutch, and then he repeated “I am Desmond, I am Desmond.  And I discovered that the Word of God is so powerful and I discovered that the way we speak determines to get what God wants to give us; so I started to repeat something else and when Desmond did that.  And I said, “I am healed, I am healed, I am healed” and what happened was this instead of saying “I am Desmond” he started to speak all day, “I am healed, I am healed.”

Sid:  But two years passed, no results no change.

Annette:  No.

Sid:  I imagine between you and me, you got a little discouraged, but one day he came home and he looked into your eyes; explain that moment.

Annette:  He was coming home like every day, he went away 7:30 in the morning he came home 5:30 in the afternoon.  At 6:00 someone came to our house helping us giving him dinner and 7:00 always someone came to help us to get him into bed.  But this afternoon he stepped out of his bus and I opened the door and he looked me straight in the eyes and he said, “Mom, can I ask you something?”  And that was really strange because he was looking at me and then he asked me a question and he said, “Mom, why did you put me on a school with all these strange children, they behave strange, they don’t look at you, they shout and they don’t listen to anyone.”  And at that moment…

Sid:  Because he was in a school for people like himself and he was saying, “They‘re all very strange the way they act.”  Did you realize that he was healed was healed at that moment?

Annette:  Yes, I instantly realized that and you know my husband wasn’t a believer; he always let me go to church, but he didn’t believe in God.  But what I did I ran to the phone, I called my husband came home straight away because afterwards I talked to my husband, he said, “Well, somewhere I hoped that there would come a miracle.  So my husband came home and well, he started for the first time in his life a conversation with his son and we were convinced that he was healed, I was convinced by the Spirit of God and my husband was convinced by what he saw.  My husband gave his life to Jesus and I think I just cried.  Ha-ha.

Sid:  I am sure, and today and I just spoke with him on the telephone, he is preparing to enter law school!  Would you have ever thought that was possible?

Annette:    God gave us above anything we could ever think of and when they tested him for the second time, they found out that there was nothing left what was not normal anymore.  And the first year he broke every school record in sports and the year before that he couldn’t even ride a bicycle or catch a ball.  So everything was changed extremely and he developed within one year from an autist to a normal boy and that was a very very big miracle.  And the funny thing is that when he was diagnosed autism they said “Don’t make plans for the future, he will never be a doctor and anything like that.”  Well, he chose to go to law school but in the school that he is in he could also choose to become and doctor so it’s really amazing.  Ha-Ha.

Sid:  Alright, what about the mother that is listening right now and has a child with autism, do you believe there’s hope for their child or was it just something special God did for your son?

Annette:   I believe that because God’s words are written for those that believe them, and the only thing you have to do is to decide to believe what God has promised to accept the offer of Jesus Christ; that is all in the offer of Jesus Christ healing, healing is in the offer.

Sid:  I want to put Desmond on the telephone and he is twenty years old beginning to study law and I would like to know if you had any memory of what it was like when you had autism?

Desmond:  Well, that’s a long time ago, but what I remember of that period of my autism is that it was some strange feeling that you didn’t control what you were doing during the day.  It’s very strange it’s very difficult yeah; to translate in normal words do you know what I mean?  Yeah, it’s something and I know I said sometimes that I was like a marionette puppet and while strings was holding my body, but other words, I didn’t know but what I did was some other force forced me to do other things I did.  I think that that’s the best explanation, because if you never did make any of this in your life if you hadn’t had met it before it is very difficult to understand.  So with this marionette puppet it may be easier for the people to understand what kind of life I was in.

Sid:  Do you remember, I know that it was a long time ago, but do you remember the day you came home to your mother and you said, “Mom, can I ask you something?  “Why am I at a school with strange children and they don’t talk, they push one another down, they scream.”  Do you remember that day?

Desmond:  Well, when I remember it, it was like I was sitting in the bus and I was thinking with myself and something like that if you are controlled by other force, that sounds scary though, then you also you do not think for yourself because the force that was in you was thinking for you.  So I was sitting in the bus and I was thinking like a normal guy something that an autistic can’t do so there are centers, sorry for that, but I was thinking like, “What are those children doing at my school?”  I thought it was normal, but now it isn’t normal I see people laying down on the ground shaking, I see people getting people getting a knife to scare other people off with a knife to say, “I’ll stab you, I’ll stab you.”  I remember I had a boy in a class who signed in swastika on the board; so very scary it was it wasn’t normal so I was thinking about that.  And it was the first I was thinking about myself, so I came out of the bus, I say “Hi to the driver, I came to my Mother and asked “Mom, strange, people on the school, how is that, can you explain that, I don’t understand.”  And I think from that day on when I was thinking for myself, I really can say I was healed from that moment.

Sid Roth:  Desmond, would you pray for people with autism to be healed?

Desmond:  Okay, “Father in Heaven, God of all men, of all earth, I know that we know that you are a good God, that you have always a reward for the people who believe in you, who stands for you, who talks for you, who prays to you.”  “And I also believe that it’s in the Bible You say if you believe with your heart, without a doubt you can remove a mountain with just, just that little faith that’s enough to move the mountain, so the people God who believe in You who pray to You who ask You to help them, please God heal them because the reward for belief for them is healing and I know that you will do that for the people who believe in You, thank You. Amen.