It's Supernatural!

Sid Roth: Hello, Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it's naturally supernatural. My guest had cancer and was given 11 months to live. God did not agree. I can't wait for you to hear the supernatural purging prayer. Next.

Welcome, Holy Spirit. Go and flow. My guest, Kathleen Young, is a homeschool mom of six. She was at the doctor just for a routine check-up and after 83 tests was finally diagnosed with incurable cancer, 11 months to live. Kathleen, explain that surprise diagnosis.

Kathleen Young: I couldn't imagine that God gave me six kids to leave as orphans. So I remember immediately wanting to deny the facts, but I didn't know where to go. I remember from growing up hearing about Jesus healing, so I knew that Jesus healed.

In the later years of my life, as I started homeschooling, I got in homeschool circles, and a lot of my friends actually were cessationists. They did not believe that Jesus gave us the power to pray over people, that the gifts were still working. They maybe believed that randomly sometimes that could happen.

I had a hard decision to make. It was where the rubber meets the road, as the idiom goes. Am I going to believe what I've been around lately, or am I going to believe the Jesus that I came to know when I was 10 years old, that childlike faith where Jesus heals? I decided at that moment, I'm going to pray for a miracle. I'm not going to believe the things that had been told to me from the cessationists.

Sid Roth: Well, God helped Kathleen get deliverance. By the way, she didn't even know she needed anything like deliverance. Tell me about the deliverance.

Kathleen Young: This happened early on. When I was first diagnosed, I actually wasn't too sad. You would have seen me smiling a lot because I was like, Jesus still heals, I have the faith of the woman with the issue of blood, I'm going to touch the hem of His garment and this is going to be over. Every two weeks they would run tests and they would see that it was still getting worse. I remember it was the second grouping of two-week testing.

Sid Roth: And they did 83 tests on you.

Kathleen Young: In the beginning, yes, including a bone marrow biopsy. So there's no doubt in anyone's mind, really, that I really did have this incurable disease. But my husband still wanted me to get a second opinion. I was thinking by the time I get that second opinion, I'm going to be healed.

What happened was when I got that second grouping of tests and they came back with the same diagnosis—it was a different hospital, the first one was Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second one was James Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio, two separate entities—they still came back with the same bad diagnosis. When that happened, I was overcome with fear, a fear that would keep me from swallowing.

I wasn't able to eat. I wasn't able to sleep. I ended up in my war room crying all the time.

Sid Roth: Why did you call it a war room?

Kathleen Young: I was just building it then. I just started putting up healing verses. At this point, I'm only a month into this whole thing. So I had some healing verses up. It was a small war room at that point. That's where I went. I would just cry and read the healing verses, trying to increase my faith.

The pastor's wife, Erica, ended up noticing how overcome I was. She pointed out to me that there was something else, something very demonic about it. I remember thinking I was a little bit offended at the time. I thought, "I don't have a demon. I just got diagnosed with this. You would be upset like this too."

Sid Roth: If someone walked up to you and said you have a demon, that's not a good conversation. Norman Vincent Peale would not have recommended it.

Kathleen Young: He wouldn't say it exactly like that, but I took it that way. I think a lot of people do because now I'm in the deliverance ministry. I understand that people see that as something scary. I kind of took it that way and I was offended, but none of it would I ever verbalize. I kept it all in my head.

She asked me, "When did you first start feeling this way? Can we talk about when's the first time you felt overcome like this?" She walked me back into my childhood and there was a very traumatic thing that happened. She prayed with me over that. We renounced the spirit of fear and she showed me how to use Luke 10:19 to take authority over it and command the spirit of fear to leave me. And it did.

Even though I still had the death diagnosis on me, I was able to swallow. I was able to eat. I was able to sleep like Jesus on the boat. I was able to begin to walk through this journey that I had ahead of me. I felt more free than ever, but I still had the death diagnosis there. So it was a spirit.

I could not have gone on and started battling. I ended up using God's Word as medicine. I could not read God's Word until the spirit of fear was gone because I couldn't focus. I couldn't take my medicine. What happens if someone can't take their medicine? It was the only medicine I had.

The doctors couldn't offer me any cure for this. My cure was God's Word. I couldn't stay in God's Word and focus if I had the spirit on me. I needed deliverance. Once I got into the Word and started lapping through the Bible, I started getting more deliverance, sovereign deliverance from other things I needed deliverance from as well. That fear was so overcoming and so overpowering, it was stopping me completely. I honestly believe people die because of the spirit of fear because it causes them to be so overwhelmed they can't reach out for help.

Sid Roth: Now, your treatment for bone cancer was from God. Why do you say that?

Kathleen Young: Because I started using His Word. Proverbs 4:20-22 says, "Keep God's Word within your sight, within your hearing, within your heart, and it will be life to those who find it and healing to their whole body."

Also Jesus said it in Luke 4:4 and Matthew 4:4. He said, "Man does not live on bread alone, but every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." It's in other places too. Those are just three real quick that I can think of that tell us that God's Word has the power for us to live off of.

I took it very seriously. I took God at His Word and I started lapping through the Bible. As I did this, I got strategies. I would see Caleb fighting and willing to fight giants when all the other Israelites were walking the other direction. They did not want to do it. I could see Joshua. I could see Gideon. I could see all these mighty giants. David was fighting and he says, "I come at you not with sword and spear and javelin, but in the name of the Lord of Heaven's armies."

I was like, "I don't have medicine or whatever this other is. I don't have anything. All I have is the name of the Lord. I'm coming up against that." I started imitating these giants of the past, these giant demon slayers. I even made a declaration for Caleb and I say that in the mornings, a daily declaration.

Sid Roth: Tell me about that visitation of your son with a scripture that he probably didn't even know was in the Bible.

Kathleen Young: This fight was still very real. I did have the spirit of fear lifted from me, but it doesn't mean I didn't struggle at all. That comes with being human. It was a very real thing. I was still able to function, though, and focus. One night, I was kind of fearful. Everybody else was in bed, everybody else was asleep.

That was actually the hardest time, when I wasn't busy with the kids or doing my responsibilities. I would have to fight bad thoughts. Even with the Bible playing sometimes, I still had to fight thoughts like, "What's going to happen?" The "what ifs" will get you in trouble, but it still happened at times.

Sid Roth: How old was he at that time?

Kathleen Young: I think he was about 11 or 12. He said, "Do you know if there's a Philippians 1:28?" He knew there was a Philippians, and I did too, but I didn't know how far it went in the chapter. I said, "I think so." He said, "Well, that's for you." Then he went back to sleep. I went and looked it up.

When I looked it up, it says, "Do not be intimidated in any way. This will be a sign to you. They will be destroyed even by God Himself." It just felt like it couldn't have been a better verse for me at that time. Only God knew I was struggling. He used my son. My son didn't know I was struggling because I always made my words positive.

I always kept speaking life. In fact, they didn't realize how serious it was. They were mighty warriors, but they didn't realize that Mommy could die. They just knew Mommy was sick and we were going to pray for her. That's the extent of it. They did not understand. Now they do, but they didn't then.

Sid Roth: Then, the miracle happened. Tell me about it.

Kathleen Young: Going through the Bible increased my faith. By the time I got to 11 months, when I was supposed to die, I had the blood work done. All this time, it had been getting worse. My blood work had been getting worse, my immune system was getting worse, and my cancer was going higher.

But when I got to the 11-month mark, it was like God making a bold statement. "Man has proclaimed death over you. I proclaim life." I got a miracle. The cancer plummeted and my immune system skyrocketed.

Sid Roth: This is the proof. What did the doctors think of this?

Kathleen Young: My doctor asked me immediately, "Did you go somewhere else for some type of alternative treatment?" I said, "Yes, I went to God for my alternative treatment."

Sid Roth: Kathleen is so happy. You would be happy. She's going all over the place talking in hospitals with people that have incurable things, just giving God all the glory. You too can receive your healing. To get Kathleen's free digital audio download, God's Healing Strategies, which includes the purging prayer, go to SidRoth.org/4201D.

Life was going so well for Kathleen. Then she was hit a second time with cancer, and it was worse. Be right back.

Kathleen had a major miracle. She's speaking at churches, people are getting healed, and then she gets hit with cancer a second time, even harder. What happened?

Kathleen Young: It was very surprising. My back started hurting. By the time I got to the hospital and was admitted, my back was broken in five places. The cancer had come back with a vengeance and was eating through my bones. I had bone lesions from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet.

By the time I got to the hospital, I was in pretty bad shape. They did an MRI to see how many breaks, and they broke my back again a sixth time just doing the MRI. They were hurting me trying to help me. I was in really bad shape. They tried to get a brace to put around me.

They offered me blood because I was super anemic by then. My hemoglobin was 5.4, and it's supposed to be around 12. They wanted me to take blood, and I remember thinking, "No, Jesus is going to heal me. I don't need someone else's blood." My doctor said, "This might be your only hope." When he said that, I felt the Holy Spirit say, "Someone else's blood has always been your only hope."

I felt like the Lord wanted me to take this as a prophetic act. I had taken His blood for my actual salvation, but I would take this blood as well. While I took the blood, I took communion. I videoed my kids back home and made it a teaching moment. I showed them that Mommy was doing communion and by His stripes, I am healed.

Sid Roth: So you're in the hospital. That alone is a trauma in my opinion. Your body's failing, the pain is unbearable. Describe the circumstances. I've been in a hospital with nothing like what you had, but just being there, I didn't like it.

Kathleen Young: What really encouraged me and kept me from giving up hope is my pastor, Pastor Aaron. He called me and told me that he had a prophetic word for me from God. My pastor doesn't just say stuff to make you feel good. He speaks hard truths sometimes. I knew that if he had a word from God, it was fact.

I'd never known him to exaggerate or to say something just because it would sound good. So when he said that God told him that I was like Peter in the prison cell and that I was going to come out—the church was praying earnestly, he told me—I took it as if God Himself said it. If God came into your hospital room and said, "I've got this. It looks bad, but I've got this. I'm going to bring you out," you would believe Him, right? That's the way I took it. I took it like God Himself had told me, "You're coming out."

Sid Roth: That's called faith. There was a point where you heard a testimony and something happened in you.

Kathleen Young: Our church was having revival at the time. Eric Newberry was there sharing a testimony about his wife, Sami, who had been healed from a very rare blood disorder similar to mine. When he shared that testimony of how she was healed, it encouraged my faith.

By this point, I was pretty tired. I was 21 days in. I'd been admitted 21 days from the time I went into the hospital to the time I heard this testimony. I'd prayed all the prayers I could think of to pray.

Sid Roth: Did you reach a point where you almost gave up?

Kathleen Young: I don't know how I didn't, but I didn't. I do remember feeling overwhelmed, but I never remember thinking that I was going to die.

Sid Roth: You woke up the next morning after hearing that testimony. What happened?

Kathleen Young: I was healed. I was completely healed. I didn't feel any pain. I was able to get up and do things I had never been able to do before. I didn't have the back brace on that they'd made me.

I had six breaks in my back, so it was amazing. I shouldn't have been able to walk.

Sid Roth: What did the doctors think when you walked out of the hospital?

Kathleen Young: They ran more tests. The blood work showed an 87% reduction of the cancer. I believe I was completely healed, but some of it hadn't completely come out of my system yet. The next time through it was 91%. It just kept working. I just had a checkup last month and I am 100% in remission and totally healed.

Sid Roth: Now, you're seeing some very unprecedented types of miracles. Very briefly tell me about the man that was a cross-dresser.

Kathleen Young: As I've gone out to share at conferences or churches, oftentimes people get healed, or the Holy Spirit is there in power. One time I was speaking in a church and there was a man there dressed like a woman. He came forward at the end.

All I shared at the church was my healing testimony. I didn't share about getting right with God or mention one word about gender identity. I just feel like the power of God was there. There are times like that where God's just bringing conviction on people.

He came forward and gave his heart to the Lord and said that when he comes back next week, he's not going to have on women's clothing. That happened with other people too. I remember people coming forward and confessing adulterous affairs and big things that I never mentioned, but the power of God was there. The power of God is not just there to heal physically, but emotionally and spiritually to bring your heart right with God.

Sid Roth: I'm a feeler and I feel the power of God. Are you a feeler? Do you feel what I feel? He's here. Pray the purging prayer right now. Look into the camera.

Kathleen Young: We're going to pray. Just close your eyes and say: "Holy Spirit, come right now. Help me purge myself from what is dishonorable. Make me a vessel for honorable use. Set me apart as holy. Make me useful to the master of the house. The house is my body, God's temple.

Lord, You are the master of my body. Make me ready and prepared for every good work. I submit my will to You. I die to my own needs. I die to my own desires. I die to my own insecurities. I submit my body and my mind to You. I submit my spirit and soul to You. I ask You to make me become less and less so that You become greater and greater.

I invite You into every place of my very being. I ask You to take over every part of my life so that I no longer live, but instead it is You who lives in me. Holy Spirit, I give You permission to fully have me. I fully submit my will to You. I ask You to reach out through me and love every person I ever cross paths with.

Lord, use that love to fulfill Your great commission. Use me as Your vessel to snatch souls from the fire, to heal the sick, to cast out demons, and to change this world everywhere I go. In Jesus' name and by Your blood, Jesus. Amen."