Allergies Completely Gone
My name is Suzanna and I want to share with you my story of how good and faithful God has been to me. I am a person who has always been intrigued by people in the bible who have had an open, sometimes unusual, but never-the-less, a deeply personal relationship with God. Why not try!
About 9 years ago (2011), my health started to decline. I found myself in a battle with dust mite allergies. I was constantly breaking out in hives and became dependent on antihistamines to get through each day. I also had polycystic ovarian syndrome and had been prescribed oral contraceptives which I also became allergic to over time.
I married my husband BJ (2012) and after a couple of years we wanted to have children. No success. We ended up resorting to fertility treatments which, you guessed it, I was also severely allergic to. These failed too. But eventually, God was gracious to us and miraculously, we were able to have 3 beautiful children, despite not having any cycles for 4 years. God has since restored my cycles in full, for which I give all praise to Jesus!
My first birth, however, was extremely difficult and left me in crippling pain. I had constant sciatica nerve pain shooting down my legs, plantar fasciitis in my feet, scoliosis and arthritis in my spine. Honestly, I felt like a crippled old lady whilst only being in my 20s. In my heart, I was a capable diligent mother but my body struggled to keep up with simple tasks like unloading prams and tying up the kids’ shoes. Some days simply walking was a burden. Every step was painful.
This part may sound crazy to you but I am quite happy to be transparent and honest. One morning I went out to my washing line and while hanging out the clothes, I had a heart to heart with God. I said, “I know you can heal me Lord. I believe you can as you have healed me many times before. Are you going to heal me again this time?” In response, I felt He said “Suzanna, walk around your house seven times”. Obediently, I did this, knowing that if God asks you to do something seven times, it’s important (like Joshua instructing the Israelites to march around the wall of Jericho seven times or Naaman dipping himself in the Jordan River seven times). When I had finished circling the house, God said “Suzanna, wait for a kookaburra to land on your fence and this will be the sign to you that I will heal you”. So I said, “Ok Lord, where is it?” And He said, “Go on about your day, I have sent it, it is on its way”. So I did.
I kept looking out at my fence day after day. It got to Sunday and we went to church. I was standing in the parents’ room and was desperate to hear the message. Not easy with a crying baby in my arms. I rocked the baby and stood as close to the speaker as I could. The message was about Elijah standing up to the prophets of Baal. God showed everybody in an instant that He could miraculously burn up a sacrifice with fire from heaven and then send rain to a drought stricken land.
When we got home we had to unload the car in the pouring rain. After eveyone was sorted, I settled on on the couch in my lounge room and looked out the window. And there in the pouring rain, was a saturated kookaburra sitting on my fence. I realised, I had been looking out in faith and hope for seven days and here was my sign from God that He was going to heal me. I learnt that God’s timing is not our timing. Some miracles are instantaneous and others will take time and we have to seek the Lord as we wait.
Unfortunately, my allergies worsened. The dust mite allergy became so severe that I had to strip our home of all soft furnishings and carpet. I had special bedding that I had to hot wash every 5 days so I wouldn’t have an asthma attack. I had to wear a mask when folding my washing or vacuuming with our special filtered vacuum, and still I would have 2 days of migraines to recover from after doing these tasks. One year, I had about 20 rounds of antibiotics to help combat all the sinusitis I was facing. I developed an inflammatory problem and became hyper-reactive to many foods. I had recurring UTIs¸ and couldn’t even wear regular deodorant because it would burn my skin and raise all my lymph nodes. I tried an allergy desensitisation program which made things worse. My mouth became full of ulcers and all my joints would ache. I saw ENT specialists, had multiple CT scans and MRIs. Doctors would shake their heads at me and say they couldn’t help, they did not know what was causing all these problems. I undertook intensive rounds of chiropractic care to help with my spine issues and sciatica as well.
Pretty bleak! Yeek! In all this suffering, however, I trusted that the Lord would remain faithful to His promise. When I felt like I was walking in the valley of the shadow of death, Jesus would restore my soul with a dream. In my dream, my sick body would be lying on green pasture beside still water and Jesus would whisper to me “I am with you”. This is like Psalm 23. He gave me hope and enough strength to carry on again.
During the covid lockdown, like so many others with young families, I felt more alone than ever. I became increasingly anxious. I studied the bible and saw how Jesus had suffered so greatly and knew He would understand exactly what I was going through. But Jesus reversed it all through His death and resurrection. He did not die and leave me without hope of restoration. So I decided to fight back.
I emailed my family saying “I feel like I have all these Goliaths to battle every day, but like David, the Lord is on my side. Goliath won’t win this battle! By Jesus’s stripes we can be healed. I want you to pray with me against these symptoms until they are all gone”. I listed all my symptoms and ailments. The total was 40.
My symptoms were: Reflux, Plantar Fasciitis, Sciatica, Scoliosis, Sway Back, Lower Back Pain, Stiff Neck, Neck Pain, Whole Spine Position, Runny Nose, Fatigue, Nausea, Dizziness, Ovarian Pain, Hives, Face Flushing, Shortness Of Breath, Asthma, Migraines, Sinusitis, Sinus Pain, Light Sensitivity, Ear Pain, Sore Throat, Throat Swelling, Post Nasal Drip, Deodorant Allergy, Hormone Allergies, Antibiotic Allergy, Dustmite Allergy, Food Allergies, Exercise Induced Allergies, Anxiety, Insulin Resistance, Arthritis, Inflammation, Mouth Ulcers, UTIs, Lipomas, Vitamin Deficiencies, Sore Enlarged Lymph Nodes, Sore Breasts And Benign Lumps.
We proclaimed 1 Samuel 17: 47 “All those gathered here will know that it is not by the sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” So we prayed against every symptom, the battle is the Lord’s. Can you believe this?!! A few weeks later, I fell down some stairs and basically undid all of the progress made by the chiropractor on my spine over 6 months and the sciatica became worse than ever.
Here it comes. The paragraph you have all been waiting for….
Then, on July 19th 2020, as covid restrictions were lifted, we were able to go back to church for the first time. I was so excited to be sitting in the service with my 5 year old son Hamish. While the pastor was speaking about the manifest presence of the Lord, I was having an allergic reaction to the carpet in the room, but my heart was rejoicing, and thankful to be in God’s house amongst fellow believers!
We stood up for worship at the end of the meeting. As I was in prayer and praising God, I had an out of body experience. I was watching myself standing in worship and saw all of this black dust and ash and chunks of black stuff being pulled out of my body. At the same time, I could see a white light inside my body repairing every part of my spine and all the nerve damage in my legs and feet and for the first time since having children I was pain free! Then, the light moved into my head and my lungs and all the allergic heat left my face and I could breathe through my nose again!
I found out later that while God was doing this, my mother was on the beach in New Zealand praying that God would pull every horrible thing out of my body and that He would restore me with more strength and energy than I had before. My sister was also praying for me at her church. My son was dancing next to me in the Spirit acting out David killing Goliath! Then Pastor Blake got up on stage and proclaimed “Someone has been weighed down with one thing after another coming against them and I want to say to that person the battle is the Lord’s.” On hearing those words, all the ash had gone from my body and I could see myself standing there, transformed into a woman in a purple gown with a crown on her head. Something I had seen in an earlier vision. I was praising the Lord! God is so amazing!
I am healed (2024). Since that day (2020), I have been able to jump, run and bend down to tie my children’s shoes pain free. I can fold my washing and vacuum without a mask and sleep without plastic on my bed! I do not have to have an air purifier running constantly at home. I can go anywhere without carrying an asthma inhaler and without loading up on antihistamines every day. In fact, I have not touched one since that day. Jesus performs miracles today!
I encourage whoever hears this and whoever needs a breakthrough, to trust the Lord. 1 Peter 5:6-11 says, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
Suzanna’s story