Healed of Food Allergies

By Wendy Jobe - December 2007

Editor’s note: At a recent Friends and Family Service, Wendy Jobe shared a remarkable testimony of God’s healing. The Lord surprised Wendy during a church service with his presence in a tangible way. We rejoice with Wendy and celebrate the grace and goodness of our Living God.

Two years ago, I found an explanation for why I had been feeling so ill for the previous several years. I had had body aches, horrible headaches, stomach cramps, nausea, fatigue, sinus infections along with laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, and tonsillitis.  My doctor finally gave me an allergy test and discovered that I was allergic to a host of foods (wheat flour, gluten, milk, eggs, peanuts, oranges, tuna fish, and a lot of other foods) that I had been consuming daily. I had been poisoning myself. After a period of detoxication, I changed my diet and my health radically improved. For two days after I found out about the allergies, I really struggled with God. I was not happy thinking about never being able to eat pizza and bread again! After that, I decided to accept that God knew this was happening and maybe He had a reason and a plan.

Then, in early November of this year, I was at church one Sunday, enjoying the worship, but sitting down because I had had some “forbidden” food which was making me feel sick. During the worship time, a few of the men spontaneously began making a circle around the worship center while we sang. My husband took my hand and led me to be a part of the circle as more and more people began making their way to the edge surrounding the sanctuary. It was a powerful moment as we sang, holding hands, standing together in a big circle worshipping the Lord. At that time, one of the men of the church began walking around the sanctuary waving a flag in worship. When the flag breezed past me, I felt God’s presence just flow through my body and the word “healing” popped into my head. When the songs ended, and we returned to our seats, I asked my husband, Duane, if he felt God’s presence come over him in a strong way when the flag went by. He said that he had not. I thought about what it was that God was speaking to me, and I felt prompted that God was speaking to me about healing my food allergies.

I was so surprised that I didn’t even mention it to Duane for about a week. I decided to test it out by eating some of those allergen foods to see what might happen. What happened was nothing! I ate bread and had no reaction. I drank a glass of milk and sat waiting for the inevitable to happen and it never did. After about a week I told Duane everything that had been going on and we hesitantly rejoiced and kept waiting to see if anything would happen. Now, it is the beginning of January and I am healthy and happy, and eating a diet that would have knocked me off my feet just three months ago! I’m still amazed at how that could have happened!  

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