Healing Begins with the Healer, Part 1
by Karen Hunter Watson
Copyright 2008 

Everyone likes a story and this is a story I would like to share with you. I found the healer in me when I was 33 years old. I had just come off of a 9 month consecration, where I had to trust Spirit for everything. I did not work a job or have any visible means of income because I trusted Divine Love for everything. I allowed myself the opportunity to be completely immersed in Spirit. Now 9 months later at my birthing stage I found myself living with my play mom exercising some of the spiritual gifts that Spirit had opened up in me.

She had recently gotten married for the second time in her life, at the age of 60, and she was having health challenges. Momma H was a registered nurse who had never been sick a day in her life outside of a cold. Now at the prime of her life she was experiencing sickness at a level that she had only seen before in others.

She and her husband lived in the house he and his first wife had lived in at the time of her death. The house was carrying the spiritual aftermath of death. And because of that it was considered haunted. Momma H was a very spiritual person and a woman of prayer. When I came to live with her, to help care for her, I found myself in the position of doing rescue work, (sending the negative spirit back to it’s home,) even though the energy felt like it was home because it was Mr. H’s first wife’s Spirit that was haunting the house.

Now I could understand why people used to say that the house was haunted. I used to see lights on in my part of the house that would go off and on and there was no one there, I could see it from downstairs looking up at the window and when I would go to the room the light would be off.  I remember once during that time I could not afford to pay my phone bill so they turned off my phone. One day I was led to go to the \phone and pick up the phone (action without thought) and when I picked it up my play mom was on the phone (I had a lot of spiritual mothers) and she was very upset because she had misplaced her rent money. Mother was clinically blind. I prayed with her and told her to go to the bottom of her head board and she would find it. She went there and it was there. After she hung up I went back to the phone to see if it still worked and the line was dead, no dial tone. What can I say, miracles happen!

Getting back to my story -- it was obvious to me that his first wife was not pleased with another woman living in her house and she was making it known to all who would pay attention. So I found myself doing a Spiritual house cleansing to get rid of the destructive energy. After a few months of healing work Momma H’s health began to improve and she began to feel better.

One day my youngest son and I went shopping and while we were out my legs gave out on me. If it had not been for my son being with me I don’t know that I would have made it home. When we got home Momma H told me to come there so she could pray with me. So we prayed, believing that God would heal my body. What I didn’t know then, but know now, is that the energy that I had come against, came against me. I was very young in my work and had never done anything like that before, so I did not know how to protect myself against the energy that I had released out of the house. I was not prepared.When you engage in this kind of work and you need to make sure you have the knowledge required to protect yourself. At the time, all I knew was that I couldn’t walk.

I had been going to a sanctified church and they believe in the power of healing. I was saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost, so when I went to bed I knew that I would be healed. I was in a lot of pain but I did not take any medicine because I did not believe in pharmaceutical drugs for healing I believed only in the power of God. I only knew what I had been taught, “Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world”. I knew that I had the greatest power in me, the power of life, therefore nothing could stand up against that. My innocence and complete trust in Creator God/Goddess was the stepping stone that I needed for my complete healing. I used to say that, "that night I wrestled with the Devil," but I now say I wrestled with that small disbelief that kept trying to tell me that I could not be healed. I wrestled all night long in constant pain and when I woke up the next morning I was determined to go to Church. I said over and over again to myself, " I can walk, I can walk. I can walk."  I sat up on the side of the bed, put both of my feet on the floor believing that I would “Rise up and walk,” and I did. That morning in church I was one happy camper. I rejoiced and gave the Glory to God.

I maintained my healing until one day several months later the same thing happened again. I was on my way to work (my job was done with Momma H and I was working at an Insurance Company) and my legs gave out on me again. I made it back to the house and borrowed a pair of crutches that belonged to my aunt (who I was staying with). I was determined to go to work but when I got to the bus stop I almost fainted. I went back to the house to call a cab to take me to the hospital. the Doctor examined me when I got to the hospital and found out that my body was full of toxins, so much so that they put me in an isolated room and any one that came to visit me had to wear a mask for their protection, as well as my own.

This is where I got my first lesson in healing through medical science, (you live and you learn.) Through the wonderful work of the Doctors my body was healed of all of the infection and I had no reoccurring episodes. Years later Spirit revealed to me that all of the infection that I had in my body came from improper fasting practices. During this time the church taught us to fast, not eating or drinking anything, during the fasting period. And I would go on long fasts for 21 days at a time just drinking water. But what was not stressed to us, which I am sure, was because they did not know themselves, was it is very important while fasting to purge the body before and during a fast with an enema. 

So the point that I would like to make at this time is “healing must begin with the healer.” It is very important to educate ourself about  the spiritual practices we are planning to engage in.  Not having the knowledge of the practices that we are doing can be detrimental to ourself and others.