Dear friends:

As the Holy Spirit leads, one of the things that I joyfully am called to do is to "declare the works of the Lord" (Psalm 118:17). This is a good one.

Ron White is a medically retired major in the U.S. Army and Vietnam combat veteran and an email friend. In the early 1980s, he came down with amyotrophic lateral scerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, and was told he would not live past 1983. According to human wisdom, ALS is terminal. I had a good friend to die from it in the mid-1980s.

But after he was prayed for in a church he was visiting, God supernaturally healed Ron, and Ron has since had a healing ministry and has seen others healed.

Below is his outstanding testimony, as described to a friend of his who also has ALS.

I am passing this along to give glory to God and to also encourage you as you may have or face any physical problems. His testimony is an excellent teaching in itself about God's principles. Ron mentions Charles Capps' booklet on healing and I have a copy. It is outstanding. Harrison House Publishers has the booklet on sale for $1.59 each, marked down from $1.99. Minimum order of ten. See http://www.harrisonhouse.com/BookDetails.asp?ISBN=089274815X or order from your local bookstore. I order multiple copies to share with others as a ministry.

This is very long, but I believe it is worth it, if the Lord lays it on your heart.

God bless you,

Jim
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Prior to onset of ALS, I was very active physically. My two neighbors and I would jog five to 42 miles per week in evenings to relieve stress, carrying on conversations the entire time without getting winded. One friend was a chaplain and the other the "top cop" or provost martial for the military installation. I was a major on active duty in the army and served as the Executive Officer of the U.S. Army Intelligence School at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. The job was highly demanding, stressful, and I was the number three person in a 2,300-person organization with a $42 million budget. My predecessors in the same job worked for one year, and at the end of 11 to 12 months, they were near basket cases, yet I had worked in this stressful job for two full years and was looking forward to my third year, when I had a reduction in size of my left calf---my first symptom.

When I casually mentioned this reduction in my left calf, my boss ordered me to immediately go to the hospital. (My boss thought very highly of me, and due to his being friends and next-door neighbor to the hospital commander, I received VIP treatment----this resulted in my being seen by dozens of neurologists over the next several months.) One week, my left calf was larger than my right (as it had been all my adult life), and the next week, it was smaller. No pain. Nothing that caused me any worry, but doctors knew that I had some type of neurological problem that needed investigation.

So, they sent me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., where I spent 30 days inpatient and had all kinds of neurological tests done. Myelogram to check for spinal tumor, compression of nerves, or injury. Electromyographies (EMG), CT scans, and so on. Besides a staff of a half dozen or more neurologists at Walter Reed, I was seen by the president's own neurologist, plus doctors from Bethesda Naval Hospital, plus doctors from Presbyterian Hospital in Washington, D.C.

At the end of 30 days, I was released with instructions to return in six months for more tests----as yet, undiagnosed.

In the following weeks, I was seen by some of the best neurologists on the east coast and by some who literally "wrote the book" on the field of neurology. Harvard, Yale, Boston General, Boston University, Tufts New England Medical Center (where the Journal of Neurology is written monthly), and doctors from Framingham, MS; New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and other places examined me and my medical records and tests---again, thanks to the prestige and favor I had through my boss. My wife and I later counted the approximate number of neurologists whom I had seen, and it exceeded 55 total (but on one very special occasion, there were over 40 in a session all at one time). All kinds of tests, muscle biopsies, muscle disease experts, and different specialists with different specialties in neurology saw me. (Concerning total number of doctors, I also had a medical board, medical review board, who reviewed all the tests, records, diagnosis, prognosis, and agreed with them---bringing the total to over 65, perhaps closer to 75.)

Onset was about the first week in August 1981. I spent September 1981 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and the next three months being tested in the Boston area. The dx (diagnosis) was given to me on January 5, 1982.

The muscle atrophy started in my left calf, then progressed to my left thigh, then to the right leg, trunk, arms and neck. I kept the dx out of my official military medical records from January to July 1982 (thanks to my civilian neurologist who wasn't required to abide by military regulations). But by July, I was having speech, swallowing and breathing difficulties, and I experienced apnea twice while sitting at home reading a newspaper on a Saturday morning----I simply stopped breathing for about two minutes each time. It was at this time that my doctor suggested I put in my retirement papers, so I could still help my family after my retirement.

I was medically retired September 1982, and my medical board certifications said that, based on bulbar symptoms affecting speech, swallowing and breathing, White would not live more than six months, and certainly would not be alive at his next birthday in July 1983. (This is a near quote.)

We retired to my home state of Oklahoma, by my wife's choice, after she received counselling from a wonderful counsellor who had also faced a terminal illness, plus terminal wounds in Vietnam, and won both of them, reportedly by his faith and trust in God. (I didn't realize it at the time, but God already had the ball in motion in my favor, putting all kinds of wonderful people in my path and giving me indications of things to come.)

I began working for the ALS Association as Regional Vice President over five states (OK, TX, KS, NM, CO) and conducted patients meetings for information, research progress, research goals, and organized patients' support groups, fund raisers, made TV and radio interviews and commercials, and dealt with a myriad of issues with families in my five states. I also attended ALSA quarterly, semi-annual and annual meetings and banquets in California.

By January 1983, I literally had one foot in the grave. Doctors' prognosis were accurate, in that I was virtually living my last weeks.

I was sleeping an average of about 20 hours per day. I slept in a recliner in an elevated position to prevent choking in my sleep, plus, the atmospheric pressure on my chest made it difficult to breathe at all. My breaths were so shallow that my wife would come by my chair where I was sleeping, and she couldn't see my chest move at inhale or exhale, nor could she see a pulse in my neck as she formerly could. So (as she later told me), she would put her cheek up to my nose to feel me exhale to see whether I had already expired. I could no longer be understood talking on the phone. I was still trying to walk and drive, but I stumbled, tripped and fell a lot. I had lost about 80 to 95% of all muscles in my body. At 5' 10 1/2" I had never weighed more than 160 pounds in my entire life, so I was nothing but a bag of skin, bones, ligaments and blood vessels at my worst. One of the last meals during this period consisted of one English pea, one bite of mashed potatoes, and one tiny bite of chicken fried steak; when I took a sip of water, I choked so badly that I was exhausted, so I excused myself to return to my recliner to sleep another 20 hours. The looks on my little girls' and wife's faces at that moment is forever etched in memory and still bring tears, even today.

In my early military days, I had a friend who served with me when we were both assigned to Fort Devens, MA as privates and PFC, then we both attended OCS and ended up in Vietnam as lieutenants. He got out of the service, and I tried to maintain contact through mutual friends. The last time I saw him was about ten years earlier to this time when he was driving an 18-wheeler truck and when I was in German Language school in Virginia.

This friend, Robert Young, had called me from Kansas where he, his wife and children lived and had tried to come down for a visit in Oklahoma City where his parents and siblings also lived. He finally made that trip to visit on February 19, 1983, a Saturday, and we visited that day as much as possible. As he was getting ready to leave, he invited me to attend church with him the following day, to which my wife agreed, and we met him the next morning.

At this church service, there was much singing. Then, before any sermon, the pastor invited anyone forward for prayer who had any kind of need. My thought was, "Well, I think I have a need. I think I'll go forward for prayer."

I stood in line (there were perhaps a hundred or so people in line for prayer for various needs). Pastors asked me what I wanted the Lord to do for me, and I explained that I had ALS, a terminal disease in which all the muscles waste away, and that I would like to be healed of it. They laid hands on me, anointed me with oil. Three different pastors did this. I didn't know that I was supposed to return to my seat following prayer by the first pastor, so I got three doses of prayer and three anointings with oil by three pastors. []

That was February 20, 1983.

I didn't feel anything that day. I didn't have lots of faith, like so many unknowledgeable folks may try to tell you. I didn't even know anything had happened. Following the service, we bid farewell to my friends who had to return to Kansas to get children in school the next day.

In my capacity as Regional VP for ALSA, I had been following ALS research by a neurosurgeon in Houston, TX. He seemed to be unorthodox and unusual in personality and approach to medicine---my kind of guy. So in January 1983, I had made an appointment to see him on an outpatient appointment the first week in March 1983 (about ten days after I received prayer on February 20).

One facet of his research was on lead poisoning. Reportedly, he had treated two or three people who had lead poisoning and had been misdiagnosed with ALS, so he was treating them with EDTA (calcium disodium Ethalene-Diamene-Tetraacidic Acid) chelation therapy. Because I had been in a hunting accident and shot with over 42 lead shotgun pellets in the face, neck, head and shoulders on December 19, 1958 at age 15 and still had a dozen lead pellets in me, I was vitally interested in his research.

In his outpatient examination of me in March 1983, he all but forced me to do things I had been unable to do in several months. I actually argued with the doctor, telling him he was nuts and other things to try to get me to do some of the things. In exasperation, I tried to do as he asked, and much to my surprise and amazement, I was not only able to do them, but I found it was as easy to do them as any time in my entire life. I was shocked. Amazed.

He told me he didn't think I had ALS and wanted me to return for inpatient testing a month later. (I later learned that he told ALL his ALS patients this exact same statement, so he could get them back to Houston to use as his guinea pigs for his pet research projects. I referred several patients to him, and he told them all the same thing.)

But I left his office that day on cloud nine, hardly able to think or believe what I had just experienced.

Then, as I was getting on the elevator, I had this first-in-my-life-experience of hearing Satan, the devil, old Lucifer, the fallen angel, speak to me. He said, "Now, Ron. If I were you, I wouldn't tell my wife what the doctor just told you. You know that the 65 or more doctors couldn't possibly be wrong, and if you try to tell your wife what the doctor just told you, it will only cause worse emotional problems than you already have. I wouldn't tell her any of this, if I were you." (This was like some little parrot sitting on my shoulder talking to me, just as I was getting on that elevator that day. It was a pretty nice sounding voice, and it sounded entirely rational and logical.)

So that's exactly what I did. When I flew back to OKC and got home, I simply said to my wife that this doctor wanted me to return for tests and didn't mention his thinking that I didn't have ALS.

Then, that same afternoon and evening, as I was talking to other PALS around the state, I began to talk to one PALS named Bill who lived in Norman, OK. I hadn't talked to him in a few weeks, so I was telling him about my friend Bob Young, attending church with him, being prayed for, then my medical appointment today (that day)----and suddenly it hit me "like a ton of bricks" (as we say) as I was talking to Bill on the phone----the only way I could have done those things in the doctor's office today is that the Lord gave me a healing touch ten days ago!!!! I'm HEALED!!! I'M RECOVERING!!!! PRAISE GOD, I'M HEALED!!!

So, that was a Monday that I was talking to PALS named Bill, and I knew that this same church had services on Monday nights that most referred to as "Miracle Monday" services. I asked Bill to meet me and attend the service that night. He gave all kinds of excuses, saying it would be impossible for his wife to get home from work at the bank so early on a busy Monday, but in the end, he met me at the service, went forward for prayer as I had done.

Now Bill was almost as bad as I was, worse in some areas. For example, his arms and hands were almost entirely paralysed, and his speech was worse than mine. I had called the senior pastor of the church, told him about my previous visit and prayer, told him about my visit to the doctor this day and what the doctor had said, and I told him that I believed I was healed of ALS----would it be okay if I brought another ALS patient to the service for healing tonight? (The pastor was in a meeting and on a speaker phone, so when I made these statements and asked the question, the folks in the meeting went ballistic in shouting, laughing and applause. I was told later that my statements and question brought many tears of joy to all the staff.)

(There are many other segments of the story that are good, such as my being interviewed on Channel 5 TV and being on the news a few days earlier, one of the pastor's wives, Lorena McFarland seeing me on TV, speaking my healing into existence [like Charles Capps teaches in his book], her seeing me in the service on Sunday Feb. 20th, and other things that I will abbreviate here.)

Bill went forward for prayer that night, and as the pastor was praying, he stopped and told Bill, "Now Bill, the power of the Holy Spirit is going to go through you in a moment, and when it does, I want you to lift your hands as high as you can and begin to thank and praise the Lord for your healing."

So the pastor again began to pray. Within seconds, Bill lifted his formerly paralysed hands above his waist, then shoulder high. The pastor opened his eyes and said, "That's it, Bill, just raise your hands and thank the Lord for your healing."

Suddenly, Bill lifted his hands straight up in the air as high as he ever had in his life and began to make fists and stretch his fingers out and clench them again, and he began to lift his weight up on his toes like he was about to jump off a diving board into a swimming pool!!!

The church was packed with people and the entire place went absolutely ballistic.

Bill received instantaneous healing that night. In a matter of a very few minutes.

Then, I began to have prayer for others, some in person, some by phone, and others were healed.

The very first one I met and prayed for was a visitor from Arkansas to OKC. He was vile and had a foul mouth like I used to have. He also threatened me by saying, "If you're one of those Christian nuts, I've got a 12-gauge shotgun right here beside my chair, so if you even mention the name of Jesus or anything of that nature, I will blow your _______ head off." He was angry and sounded like he meant every word of his threat. (He did not use the word "nuts" but a lot of gerunds and participle phrases.) []

Well, I've never been one to be easily intimidated. I must have weighed 140 pounds sopping wet at this time, but I used to stand up to general officers when only a captain, and had fought in a war, drove into the middle of enemy territory under fire to save a woman and her children, and other things, but I was a bit concerned about this guy who sounded a bit like a lunatic who had also been dx'd with ALS.

As I got out of my vehicle to meet this guy at the 1:00 P.M. appointment, I breathed a prayer and said to God, "Lord Jesus, if You will open the door for me to witness about You, I will witness to him about Jesus, in spite of the threats."

I knocked, was invited in, saw the double-barrelled shotgun beside his chair, exactly as he said, and within two minutes I was telling the man about Jesus and that Jesus died for his sins and paid the price in full for his salvation and healing, that he needn't be plagued with ALS all his life, nor should he believe what the doctors say, that one has a terminal illness and to go home, get one's house in order, and prepare for the inevitable.

I led the man in a prayer of forgiveness to receive the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, then anointed him with oil, prayed for his healing, and the man was healed in minutes, doing things he couldn't do when I arrived.

Then, in July 1983, I was a guest on TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) Christian TV and interviewed by Dr. Dan Shaeffer about my healing of ALS. He interviewed me for about a half hour, then as I was leaving the studio, one of the phone prayer partners, Roger Short, who receives calls for prayer called to me, indicating a woman with ALS asked if I would pray for her over the phone. I agreed.

She was a woman in her 70s, home alone at the time, since her daughter had just gone to the store. She was paralysed in her legs and trunk, had to be lifted from bed to wheel chair, then from wheel chair to the arm chair where she was when she called for prayer.

I prayed for her, then asked her to "prove God" and to put "action" with her faith, since faith without works (action) is dead (without results), so I asked her to do something she was unable to do before prayer.

To make a longer story shorter without relaying many other notable events, she got up out of her chair and walked---not once, but twice. Then began to almost jump and walk rapidly around her living room, kitchen and dining room----screaming at the top of her lungs every time she did something she couldn't do earlier. (She literally caused the hair to stand up on the back of my neck with her shrill screaming----I was thinking that she may have fallen and couldn't get up or something worse!!! Oh, ye of little faith!!!)

She was also healed instantaneously, within minutes of prayer.

So, because I took this call and was the one who had prayer for the lady, I filled out the "Praise Report" to be sent out to Dr. Shaeffer. As he read it, he said on live international TV, "Folks, I have to read something very important. We just interviewed Major Ron White who was healed of ALS by the Lord Jesus, and he just had prayer for a lady who is a member of my church. She had ALS, and she hasn't been able to attend church for over five years due to this disease, but she has just been healed and is up walking around praising God. Folks, let's give the Lord thanks and praise!!!" (The TV studio audience went wild.)

The following morning was Saturday, and I intended to sleep late, due to the exciting activities of the previous night that wouldn't allow me to sleep. I had given the lady my home phone number and invited her to call anytime. So at about 8:00 A.M. Saturday, she woke me up and said in her "little ol' granny voice", "Mr. White? Do you remember me? I'm the one you prayed for last night."

I said, "Yes ma'am, I remember."

She said, "Well, you told me to call anytime, and I just wanted you to know I'm doing my favorite hobby and pass time activity that I haven't been able to do in five years."

I said, "Yes ma'am. What might that be?"

She said, "Baking blueberry pies." And she began to laugh and cry in joy. Then she said, "I really just called to let you know that I'm still healed."

It was a beautiful Saturday morning!!!

About ten years later and after we moved to Colorado, I called that lady's phone number in OKC and learned from her surviving nephew that the elderly lady had lived several years in very good health and suddenly died in her sleep of old age and natural causes in her 80s. He said she was very happy and led a very full life all the way up to the very night she passed on. He was pleased that I had called.

Another example.

An elderly couple came to our church and introduced themselves. The wife had ALS. The husband, whose name I understood as Charles, was terribly hard of hearing and wore hearing aides. I had prayed for the woman several times, and she seemed to get slightly better at times, then she would regress a bit, then get better, then slide down hill a bit.

One day, the husband called to apologize for their not attending church and that his wife had forced him to call to explain that he was sick. (Actually, I knew their son had just been indicted for fraud of several hundred thousand dollars and had tried to swindle another family out of their farm, and the elderly couple were embarrassed.)

I was having to shout at the top of my lungs for Charles to hear me over the phone, and even then, he kept asking me to repeat myself over and over.

Finally, I understood that Charles had influenza, so I asked if I could pray for his healing of the flu and for his hearing. He agreed.

Following prayer, I shouted, "Well, how do you feel, Charles?"

He shouted rather angrily back at me, "I FEEL FINE!!! AND MY NAME IS NOT CHARLES!!! IT'S JOE!!! AND WOULD YOU STOP THAT CONFOUNDED SHOUTING AT ME ON THE PHONE???!!!!"

I didn't answer immediately, but when I realized what had just happened, I was laughing so hard that I could hardly answer. I had been calling this guy by the wrong name for months, PRAYED for the wrong name for healing, yet "Joe" was healed of influenza AND deafness!!!

God certainly must have a sense of humor.

The wife? I don't know. I never saw them nor heard from them again "directly", but I heard from friends that they were too embarrassed over their son's misadventures, and the wife was doing very well physically. She was emotionally distraught, but doing well physically, so I took that to mean that she, too, was healed of ALS.

I have had prayer with and for many. Some have been healed. The majority have not been healed----at least, more have not been healed than those who have been. Of the several hundreds, I've only encountered about four PALS who absolutely refused to allow me to pray for them---one was Jewish, one a Mormon (who allowed me to pray for him, but wouldn't allow me to anoint him with oil because I wasn't "anointed" by one of their church elders), one was Muslim, one was a pitiful man who had been so despised and rejected by his family that ALS was the only way and time in his life that anyone had given him any attention, so he didn't want to be healed----he preferred to die with his family's attention and approval than to get better and again be faced with the possibility of being rejected. Sad.

For several months after February 1983, I will tell you that the devil, Satan, Lucifer, the fallen angel, tried any number of times and ways to steal my healing, tried to get me to lose faith, tried to get me to think I wasn't healed or to cause me to doubt. Fasciculations was one of these ways. Every time I would have a muscle twitch, he would say, "See, Ron, you aren't really healed!!! Get real, man!!! You know what fasciculations mean better than most. Just look at your shirt sleeve move!!! You aren't healed!!! All those bright doctors were right. All of them COULDN'T be wrong, Ron. Really!!!"

And similar things. And this type of thing was experienced all through the summer, fall and winter of 1983. The devil tried his best to get me to renounce my healing, admit to ALS, get me to speak ALS, get me to speak ALS back into existence, and a number of different things, especially if I accidentally tripped or fell or dropped something or had muscle cramps or choked on water or other thing. Even when I first began to tell folks at church in March 1983 that I was healed, many would nudge others or roll their eyes like, "Yeh, right!!! Ron doesn't need a neurologist---he needs a psychiatrist now!!!"

Finally, I got tired of this type of thing, and one day as I was walking out of the house to our patio, I began to have fasciculations in my left arm when the devil began his routine onslaught of negatives, so I got pretty angry. I said, "SATAN, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, GET AWAY FROM ME, AND LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'M HEALED, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND NOTHING YOU SAY OR DO IS GOING TO PREVENT MY BELIEVING THIS FOR AS LONG AS I'M BREATHING!!! SO GET AWAY FROM ME!!! I REJECT YOUR LIES!!! I REJECT YOUR HATE!!! I REJECT YOUR DOUBT AND UNBELIEF!!! I'M HEALED OF ALS, AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, SO I COMMAND YOU TO FLEE, TO GO, AND LEAVE ME ALONE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!!!"

And he did. He left. And he didnt try to convince me I wasn't healed for several more years.

It was a constant battle against Satan, against my own mind, and against all logic, all rationalization, all medical scientific evidence, and against the signed statements of over 65 very bright doctors. For almost a year.

It was a "process".

Unlike a few folks, and like most folks whom I've seen recover from ALS, I was healed gradually. The examples above were healed in minutes, but my healing was gradual. Over a long period of time. God gave me about 80 to 85% of my STRENGTH back in a matter of a few days to few weeks----but to this day, I only have about 65% of all the muscles and muscle bulk or mass returned that I lost by wasting and atrophy.

I will also say that I have not received 100% restoration of muscles and strength as others have. I firmly believe, however, had I not asked God to show me effective treatments and/or cures for ALS, that I would most definitely be 100% recovered today. God knows I'm not a doctor or research scientist. One way I've been doing unscientific "research" is by trial and error on my own body. If something I try is good or beneficial, then I know and feel the difference. If some "trial" thing or drug or whatever is detrimental, I very definitely know it in a matter of days or weeks. In essence, I've been using my own body as a living, walking test laboratory for the past 20 years----off and on, a few days or weeks or months here and there. If something is detrimental, I stop, and I always recover in hours or days. (AND I DO NOT SUGGEST THAT OTHERS DO THIS!!!!!)

Some may think this is a pretty stupid thing to do, and they may be right. But they don't know that I pray and have prayed about this subject many times, and I have a peace about whatever test, trial or whatever before doing it. I trust the Holy Spirit in this, and I firmly believe He has kept me from trying some things that would have been harmful.

Now, perhaps I haven't fully answered your questions about the "transition" or "transformation" from going downhill to recovering, but perhaps with the circumstantial subjects and activities that I actually lived, along with other examples, perhaps I've helped answer at least part of your questions.

When I tell you it is very important to do this or that, please believe me that it is very important. For example, the things that Charles Capps teaches in his book and the power of the tongue----it's the power of the tongue, prayers, faith, belief and trust in God and His Word, and fighting the devil that are major reasons I'm alive today. Without a doubt. I know some folks who didn't take my suggestions seriously, were healed, then lost their healing and died----some because they weren't consistent----some only wanted their healing so they could return to their old ways (and they died)----some didn't want to stay focused on Jesus, His Word, or didn't want to pray or develop a daily prayer life----some didn't want to make Jesus first priority in their lives----some didnt want to bother with living the seven priorities that I outlined to you----and other "reasons" or "logic" their way instead of God's way.

One man was a Baptist. Their church didn't believe in baptism in the Holy Spirit, didn't believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit as outlined in I Corinthians 12 and 13, and following the man's healing of ALS and his total recovery, his pastor talked him out of his healing, and the man died within about eight months. He was totally healed and restored to health, but again experienced ALS symptoms and went downhill and died----and he absolutely refused to call and talk to me after his pastor began the deluge of negatives, saying to the man that healing and other gifts stopped when the last Apostle of the New Testament died, so any healing today is of the devil!!! Unbelievable!!! But what this pastor said and the man's again experiencing ALS symptoms and dying is true!!! He believed his pastor over God's Word and promises in Scripture!!! (Take note of this and beware!!! YOU must know what Scripture says FOR YOURSELF, so YOU know, NOT what someone else TELLS you it says!!!!)

Another man, polished, well-heeled, wealthy, former pro-football star, son of a retired Air Force colonel, was healed. Then, he made arrangements to come for another visit to OKC from Dallas to see me, and leave his absolutely gorgeous wife at home----he wanted to meet his old girlfriend in OKC and sleep with her. He didn't want to live the life required of Scripture, and he couldn't lay his old ways aside that he had been living since college days as the popular "stud" to whom the girls flocked to in droves. He died. Healed and near 100% recovered over a period of months, and then got back into his old ways and died. He had so much potential to reach many other folks for the cause of Jesus Christ and to be such a wonderful blessing to so many others!!! He had charisma and appealed to most every type of person, which is one reason he was so successful in the stock market. His good looks, worldly successes, and lust for beautiful women proved to be his undoing.

I've found this to be true of many folks who come down with ALS----at least, among many of the men. Many have committed adultery or had affairs right before coming down with ALS. Not all. But more than 50% of men and a significant portion of women.

This and many other reasons is one of my basis for discussing and emphasizing the importance of repentance and forgiveness.

Unforgiveness or lack of forgiving or asking for forgiveness is the most common (and perhaps the primary) reason that many prayers are hindered----not answered----which may include lack of healing, lack of blessings, lack of whatever one's need.

This is emphasized by Jesus Himself in the New Testament.

One doesn't need to go into explicit gory details about some sin----one need only to go to another person and say, "I have sinned against you, and I'm sorry. Will you please forgive me?" Paul admonishes us to "confess our sins one to another" in the New Testament---confession to God is important and paramount, but it is also important to confess sins and ask for forgiveness of humans, coworkers, spouses, parents, or others.

When people are healed, I'm happy. Ecstatic.

It's when people are NOT healed that I grieve. Terribly.

I've spent so much time in grief over those who were not healed, that I began a long process of studying the Bible to determine "hindrances" to answered prayer, hindrances to God's will, and anything and everything that might prevent one's being healed.

As a result, and for the past several years, if someone isn't healed in a few weeks or doesn't show very positive improvement in a few months, then I begin to counsel with the person to attempt to determine the "hindrance". I normally go through and review all the things I've attempted to teach or share. Then I begin to look further and attempt to investigate the possible hindrances. Why? Because Jesus paid the price in full for our salvation, healing, and well-being in all things, and if we don't receive the things for which the price has been paid in full by Jesus, then something is not right on our end. HE has done His part----in full. So any hindrance MUST be on OUR part. (And I don't say this to cause anyone to go on a "guilt trip" over anything----NOT AT ALL!!!)

I say all of these things to say this: God has many hundreds of promises in the Bible. Promises for good, and not for evil, to give us a future and a hope.

But virtually EVERY promise has its condition. A condition or prerequisite in order for us to receive the promise. When we meet the conditions, then the promises are ours to have and keep. It's that simple. For example, salvation or eternal life has the conditions/prerequisites that we believe in Jesus Christ, repent of sins, invite Jesus to come into our hearts, and try to live life by Scripture. That is, faithfulness and obedience to God and His Word. When we do this, then any and all God's promises apply and are available to us.

Further, because God so loved the world (us) that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish (die) but have eternal life, He gave His Son Jesus to die for all mankind----every soul on earth. And whoever believes in Him (the condition) shall receive eternal life (the promise).

Just as God intended for every man, woman and child on earth to receive the free gift of eternal life for which Jesus paid the price in full, so too, did Jesus pay the price for our healing---for as it is written, it's by His stripes that we are and were healed. If Jesus paid for our salvation, and salvation is for us all (which it is), then so was our healing paid for by Jesus and is available to every one who believes.

But salvation and healing are NOT given automatically and without condition---otherwise, every soul on earth would be saved, healed and have perfect health.

WE must MEET THE CONDITIONS!!! For salvation. For healing. For whatever.

Few seminary graduates (clergy) give any indication of knowing these simple facts, but these are very true.

I've had seminary graduates (clergy) tell me, "Oh, Ron, you are placing this 'condition' thing on people, so you have an excuse, in the event someone is not healed."

My response: Far from it. I have studied the CONDITIONS so I can counsel with folks concerning things in Scripture that I KNOW have conditions in order to receive the promise. JESUS PAID THE PRICE IN FULL, so whatever the price is paid in full is OURS!!!! If we meet the conditions. And I want to determine whatever little or big hindrance there may be, so that EVERY PALS can receive what is paid for in full!!!

We don't leave a new car on the dealership, if we've paid for it in full, do we? So why leave ALS in place, when the price for healing of ALS has been paid in full??? Maybe we merely have to sign a title. Perhaps we only have to do some small thing, like pick up a key. And it's worth it to me and to many others to determine what that "little thing" might be, and I can't know this much of the time without further counsel, further investigation, perhaps asking questions. Often, it may be some small insignificant-to-me or others that it may seem silly to us, but it may be very important to God. The subjects are so many and varied that I rely on the Holy Spirit to tell me what the hindrances might be.

For example, a couple came from California to visit, to receive counselling, and to "explore" this "healing" thing. The wife had ALS. She was raised Mormon, and the husband was raised Methodist, but both were near atheists, and neither could tell me what they believed. The wife had been married and divorced seven times and the husband married and divorced six times. The Holy Spirit showed me that the tiny, petite woman, kept marrying husbands, because she wanted a "father" figure as a husband, and her current husband had gone through so many wives because he was looking for a "daughter" figure as a wife. Their current marriage lasted longer than all previous marriages combined, because they had "found" what they wanted in a spouse. (I think this is funny, and I can't keep from laughing whenever I think of the couple---even though the situation is really sad by any perspective.)

So, after hours and hours of convincing them that they needed to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and to receive the gift of eternal life, I prayed over them, broke curses over them, did a deliverance (exorcism), and a few other things. I led them in prayer and asked each of them to ask God to cause them to grow up and be the mature Christian and person that God originally intended. I led them in prayer to say things that would ask for healing of their unnatural desires (without actually coming out and saying these things), and as soon as we said "Amen", the little petite wife said, "I've got to stop this silly little girl thing and grow up and be the wife my husband needs."

I could hardly keep from laughing out loud right there and then, and the husband's mouth flew open in shock and surprise---and he said, "Yeh, and I've got to do the same thing and be a man and husband. Clowning around was fun, but I don't think it's going to be fun anymore."

When I told my own pastor about these experiences, he was laughing so hard that he ended up in the floor and slapping his thigh, yelling for me to stop, stop, please stop---and the entire church administrative personnel were crowding around to learn what was happening to their spiritual leader who was rolling on the carpet laughing and crying at the same time.

When I told him that we need to stop using the Scripture about evil spirits returning seven fold and using this as some excuse not to do deliverances (exorcisms) without the person's "permission", he was laughing so hard that he was begging me to stop. (Perhaps you don't understand why this is so humorous to us, and it might require some time, knowledge and experience to do so.)

I was joking, hamming it up a bit and clowning around with my pastor while he was rolling on the office carpet, so I said, "I can't vouch for what this sixth and seventh marriage is going to turn out to be, but I can guarantee you, it will never be the same. No more 'daddy' and 'honey daughter' thing with that couple!!!" With that comment, my pastor was literally screaming, laughing and crying at the same time with tears running down his cheeks.

The woman was healed of ALS, and I never heard from them again after their return to California. I hope she kept her healing. And stayed married to the same person.

Many who don't stay in contact with me lose their healing for some small thing, easily rectified, if they would simply maintain contact----not that I'm anything special, but one doesn't receive in just any place the quality nor quantity of biblical counsel that I normally provide. I've been in lots of different Protestant and Catholic churches, counselled with dozens of Mormons, Buddhists, Muslims, and others, and not one of them provide what I provide---not one church, not one priest, not one pastor, not one bishop, not one psychologist, not one doctor, not one lay person. And it's NOT me who provides anything----it's the Holy Spirit who does it all---through me---but BY the Holy Spirit. So only He can take credit for anything. He and He alone. ALL glory, honor, credit, and praise belong ONLY to the Lord Jesus!!!

In summary: "Transition" and "transformation". My friend, I'm still in "transition" and still being "transformed" 22 years after onset and 20 years after healing. I have not "arrived" spiritually nor physically. The "primary" transition and transformation is a spiritual one. It is ongoing. Continuous. And will be continuous. Throughout the rest of my life. Until God gives me my "new" immortal body. The transition and transformation is also emotional, both funny and sad, both joyous and less so in some regards.

The "time" or "timing" of the transition and transformation is not specific in most cases, and it would probably be futile for me to address an applicable time or timing in your or anyone's case----except to say, it pretty much depends on you, your attitude, and your willingness to accept, believe, receive and practice the contents of God's Word, the Bible. Generally, the sooner your transition and transformation spiritually, the sooner your physical transformation and healing---not always, but generally.

As I've said before to others, God may have used ALS to get your attention, as He did to me. Everything happens for a reason and purpose (or many), including ALS. Further, God ALWAYS "wants" to turn bad to good, but His "wanting" to turn bad to good may be entirely dependent on OUR choices----not His. He has already done all the real "work" on our behalf----God the Father gave His Son to die for us---God the Son gave His life for us and received stripes by beating and scourging that we might be healed. So, since God the Father and God the Son have already done their part, the rest is up to us. To believe, receive, and meet His minimal conditions.

And that's not too tough, is it? The "real" work is already done. Ours is to believe, receive, not doubt, meet minimal conditions, and drive that new car right off the dealer's lot. It's OURS!!! Paid for IN FULL!!!!

So get that "key" out, my friend. As the Volkswagen commercial says, "Drivers wanted!!!!" Okay???

There is absolutely nothing that prevents your getting up out of your chair right this minute and dancing a jig around the house where you are. Absolutely nothing. It's your choice!!! You and I prayed. We prayed in agreement as two or more. We joined our faith together---and our combined faith is just enough---just enough for you to receive your healing of ALS!!!

If this doesn't happen, then we need to talk. And pray. To determine what, if any, hindrance there may be. BUT A WORD OF CAUTION HERE: Do NOT go on some guilt trip, if you don't or can't dance a jig this minute!!! God's timing is important, just as He wanted to use my healing as a witness to the orthodox Jewish neurosurgeon in Houston who had not yet believed in Jesus Christ as the true Messiah. God may have His own timing for manifestation of healing or any other for His own reasons. Far be it from me to attempt to pre-empt or assume God's timing!!!

Yes, we live in a "now" generation that wants their sound bytes and news or emails in details that can be put on a 3 X 5 card, or we want or McDonald's hamburger yesterday or pay check and wealth before age 30, but God's timing isn't normally anything like society's or the world's. The "now" generation is not God's way. God is never late. God is ALWAYS on time. God NEVER gets in a hurry. About 99.999% of the time, we may be the ones in a great hurry, but in actuality, God is waiting on us or waiting for us, perhaps waiting for us to learn, perhaps to grow, perhaps to mature a bit, perhaps to do, perhaps to believe and receive, or perhaps some other huge-small things.

We may think, "Hey, God!!! It's ME!!! I need this or that!!! Do you hear me, God???!!! Why don't You hurry up??? Don't You know I NEED this or that???!!!"

And He is most likely up there smiling, in essence saying, "Hey guys, I love you, and I want My very best for You. I paid the price for it all. But you need to go get the 'keys' before you can drive that car home. The 'keys' are in My Word. Plus, I sent you some folks who will help you learn how to use those 'keys', apply brakes, or shift gears and accelerate. So you aren't waiting for Me---I'm waiting for YOU!!!"

A few of spiritual "truths" may be worth repeating here:

1. The stronger I got SPIRITUALLY, the stronger I became PHYSICALLY. (This is not a feeling, is not attending mass or church, but it is "relationship" with the Lord Jesus, communing with the Holy Spirit minute by minute, and growing, maturing in Him by faithfulness and obedience to God and His Word----ALL of it. YOUR relationship, not the priests', pastors', Ron's or someone else's, but YOUR relationship with the Lord.)

2. YOU are not waiting for God to do something (healing), HE is waiting FOR YOU!!!

3. The sooner YOU become what God wants, the sooner God gives what you want!!! In that order or sequence.

Now, on whom does that place the onus of responsibility??? Who is waiting on whom??? Timing??? It's all in your own hands. Your own priorities. If you want fast healing, then grow fast spiritually. Meet all His conditions until the right one counts. To learn what those conditions are, one must read, study, and learn His Owner's Manual, the Bible. Plus, He sent you a friend named Ron to help you out whenever, however, with whatever. And please, please, don't allow this to be frustrating in the least to you----God doesn't want this to be a frustrating experience, but one of joy, hope and everlasting peace. Not that you won't encounter frustrations---you will, if you're a living human---but in all my "walk" with the Lord, most frustrations came from myself or other humans, not God, not the contents of His Word, not in living and serving Him in faithfulness and obedience.

He most likely has your attention, now, right? And you now know that He has some pretty wonderful things in store for you, most likely a "higher calling" on your life than ever previously imagined. You are in a "transition" and "transformation" period, whether you know or realize it or not. You've just begun. The journey may not be all rosy and smooth. But it will be full of wonderful blessings beyond description, if you will be faithful and obedient to God and His Word.

It's YOUR choice. And when you've done all, stand. Paul tells us this---when you've done all, to simply stand on God's Word and believe it as if your very life depended on it---which it does. When you "stand", you are giving ALS to God, almost like stretching your arms and hands out as if holding a plate or platter and saying, "Here, Lord. I give this ALS bug to You. I don't want it and don't know what to do with it, but I'm sure You know, and You can get rid of it for both of us." Then rest in Him. In peace. With the full knowledge and belief that He will do exactly as you ask in accordance with His will and Word.

You won't do this alone nor by yourself. You have God the Father. Your have God the Son, Jesus Christ. You have the Holy Spirit. You have the Word. You have the blood of Jesus. You have prayer. You have your loving wife who can join you in prayer and in agreement. And you have me. As Paul wrote (and this is one Scripture I ask you to memorize today), "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Say it again. Memorize it right now. Another is, "With God, nothing is impossible." Another is, "ALL THINGS are possible to him who believes and is called according to His purpose." Memorize these three simple Scriptures today and say them over and over to yourself every day for the rest of your life. They are NOT "simple" but they are simple and easily learned.

Now, it doesn't matter what others may think, say, or do, nor is it all that significant that others may think you or I are nuts for thinking or doing or saying such things. It's what God thinks that truly matters. Agreed??? Laugh a lot. Smile a lot. Have joy. Proverbs says laughter is good medicine---laughter releases all kinds of endorphins, amino acids, and good brain chemicals that bring healing. Sing and listen to good Christian music. As Scripture says (and the fourth I want you to memorize today), "The joy of the Lord is my strength." Say it aloud. Again. Repeat it over and over. The joy of the Lord is my strength!!! (When you speak these Scriptures aloud, repeatedly, and when the meanings of them get down in your heart and soul, they will be reality. Without a doubt!!! When they do, nobody on earth can prevent your dancing a jig!!!)

1. I can do all things through Christ who STRENGTHENS me!!!

2. With God, nothing is impossible!!!

3. All things are possible to him who believes and is called according to His purpose!!!

4. The joy of the Lord is my STRENGTH!!!

You are embarking on the most joyful, beneficial, challenging, rewarding journey of your life, my friends.

Make it count.

Hugs and blessings to you,

Ron White

Father, in the precious name of Jesus Christ, I plead the blood of Jesus over, and may Your Holy Spirit minister to, John's, Evelyn's, Marcie's, Linda's, Bill's, Rita's (especially for migraines), Ken's, Mike's, Sue's, Don's, Jana's, Stephanie's, Nicki's, Wilma's, Orville's, David's, Lyn's, Marcie's, Jan's, Judy's, Beth's, Libby's, Robert's, Eileen's, Jim's, Howard's, Goldie's, Mark's, Sydney's, Harry's, Michael's, Paige's, Faye's, their families' and others' hearts. May Your perfect divine will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. By Your Word, we know it is ALWAYS Your perfect divine will to save and to heal in all cases for every person, for the price for these is, and has already been, paid in full. Now, may we appropriate that for which You have paid on our behalf, and may Your work and payment not have been in vain. By the power vested in me by You, Holy Spirit, I speak healing and wholeness to each and all of these, that You shall receive praise and honor. We thank You, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Dance a what???? Just DO IT!!! BY FAITH!!! IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!!! I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!!!!