Derek: And it's not that it wasn't a battle it was, she had a lot of overcoming
Derek: to do. But she had the tools that we didn't have before and the
Derek: knowledge and the wisdom and we had hope again.
Derek: And God really met us here
Derek: and delivered us. I think it was Psalm 34:4 was one
Derek: of our our verses that we wrote on the mirror in the bathroom that:
Derek: "We sought the Lord and he delivered us from all of our fears".
Derek: All right. I'm Derek Brashear and my wife Melissa.
Derek: And we're from central Illinois.
Derek: We heard about Be in Health through a counselor that we had used years
Derek: prior and she knew something about it.
Derek: So we that's
Derek: how we initially found out about it.
Missy: I went to her with two verses.
Missy: One was 3 John 3 "Beloved I wish above
Missy: all things that you may prosper and be in health even as your soul
Missy: prospers". And then the other one was Epheisans 6:12
Missy: where it talks about: "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood
Missy: but against the powers of the darkness of this age" and on it went.
Missy: So with those two she pulled out the white book.
Missy: And started to minister to me.
Missy: And. That got me to the point where we decided.
Missy: Hmm, There's something to this Be in Health and
Missy: we decided to investigate it further on our own.
Missy: And that led us to Thomaston Georgia.
Derek: If I had to describe our life before Be in Health
Derek: I would say it was chaotic.
Derek: And disorderly and we were living in fear.
Derek: We were starting to lose hope for her health.
Derek: We were overwhelmed with our business because she needed
Derek: a lot of care at the time and I'll let
Derek: you take it from there.
Missy: I was pretty well isolated to my room.
Missy: We had gone to about five specialists
Missy: trying to figure out what was that I had.
Missy: It boiled down to
Missy: multiple chemical sensitivities and environmental illness
Missy: and in the midst of our storm.
Missy: Derek ended up three times a day cooking for me
Missy: bringing the meals to my room and if I was to leave
Missy: my room. This is what I needed to do.
Missy: I would put on these goggles.
Missy: And then put on this mask.
Missy: And that was to help tolerate what was in the air.
Missy: What was in the environment because I had become allergic
Missy: to about everything in the air that you
Missy: can think of chemicals bacteria's mold. In fear of
Missy: being sick not sleeping and all the other symptoms that
Missy: that come with multiple chemical sensitivities.
Missy: This this was always by my side.
Missy: It had become part of me.
Derek: I'm tired of running a business taking care of our son
Derek: we homeschool. So I did most of that.
Derek: I did the cooking the cleaning and so
Derek: when we heard about Be in Health it was we had
Derek: tried all the doctors and so we were starting to get some hope.
Derek: I'm like well let's at least try God.
Derek: We've tried everything else. And we're Christians and we're going to
Derek: church. But there was something that was pulling
Derek: us here.
Missy: When I got here.
Missy: It Was really.
Missy: Connecting the dots for me and
Missy: one of the things that I remember learning was that if you are gonna
Missy: go through this it's a fight. It's a battle.
Missy: And so I was prepared for that.
Missy: I was so tired of living in this prison that that
Missy: I had kind of formed then and
Missy: the enemy helped me to form that that I was ready to break through and
Missy: whatever that took we were gonna do that together we
Missy: were going to overcome this.
Missy: And with Derrick support we did.
Missy: And I remember on the second day out
Missy: of fear and in wanting to control the environment
Missy: I learned better.
Missy: I repented to Derrick for ungodly order.
Missy: And by this point he's
Missy: really liking the program
Derek: And I'm not even there so...
Missy: He's at home watching our son and
Derek: But by day Friday, I really didn't know what was going on.
Derek: I thought well I hope she's OK and things are going along and she calls
Derek: and says on Friday: "May I stay another week and go through the with the
Derek: WoW program?" And I said well if this is helping.
Derek: By all means please stay another week.
Derek: And we were glad she did.
Missy: Yes.
Missy: Freedom!
Derek: Much better!
Derek: Boy do you wish you had known about it about 20 years ago.
Derek: Just the freedom to just leave her just to leave the house
Derek: and to actually participate in our family and not be isolated to a bedroom
Derek: on a bed all the time that you know sleeping.
Derek: And so we came out of
Derek: just this bondage.
Derek: And she walked out very quickly
Derek: out the gate. And so she was driving places and going
Derek: places she hadn't been in a year.
Derek: And within a week.
Derek: By five months later our son could eat anything he wanted
Derek: to eat. And he was reduced to five foods.
Derek: And Melissa could go anywhere she wanted to
Derek: go. And it's not that it wasn't a battle it was a she had a lot
Derek: of overcoming to do. But she had the tools we didn't have before
Derek: and the knowledge and the wisdom and we had hope again.
Derek: And God really met us here
Derek: and delivered us. I think it was Psalm 34:4 it was one
Derek: of our our versus that we wrote on the mirror in the bathroom that:
Derek: "We sought the Lord and he delivered us from all of our fears."
Missy: I would say if you have any desire at all to come to Thompson and
Missy: Georgia. To follow it.
Missy: There are amazing people here.
Missy: That will provide a safe place to.
Missy: Connect with God in a way that maybe you have never connected before.
Missy: I know what happened for us that not
Missy: only did we find freedom and victory we also found a love that
Missy: keeps pulling us back to Thomaston Georgia.
Missy: God has something special for all of us and this really is
Missy: a place to discover what that is.
Derek: I think when when you're in the muck
Derek: when your wife is sick and your business is stressful
Derek: you're taking care of everything you'll try anything.
Derek: So, I just felt like
Derek: my wife had a chance and so
Derek: I'm glad she went and.
Derek: I don't know. I don't. What would I say to someone who was a spouse
Derek: just encourage them to come no matter what it takes to get them here.
Derek: No I just set her I'm like "Go".
Missy: But you did some pounding on doors and praying for me before...
Derek: I did.
Missy: Which gave him the peace to say go
Derek: I had to pray about my wife coming
Derek: here to Be in Health.
Derek: Everything was just lining up for her to come here.
Derek: It wasn't that it was easy and there were the enemy didn't want us here.
Derek: But we just felt like this was the place where we
Derek: were going to.
Derek: I was going to finally hear the answer.
Speaker: I would like to encourage someone that
Speaker: has a sickness or an illness that God is no respecter of
Speaker: persons. He loves you and he wants you to have freedom
Speaker: too. That's why he sent his Son so that we could
Speaker: be free and that we could overcome and
Speaker: what He has done for us and our family.
Speaker: Our son was only able to eat five foods and
Speaker: now that he can eat whatever he wants to eat.
Speaker: He's not bound in fear anymore.
Speaker: He's willing to take on adventures and try a roller coaster
Speaker: and go swimming and things that.
Speaker: Troubled him before and that we have freedom in going to
Speaker: churches and being with family and travelling and not worrying.
Speaker: We were talking the other day that it almost seems like we were never
Speaker: sick. We're getting to that point where it's hard to remember what
Speaker: that was like because we have found freedom and we've just stuck with
Speaker: it and the enemy has come against us and we just stick
Speaker: with what Be in Health has taught us and we're able to overcome.
Derek: And I got my wife back.
Derek: She got her life back!
Missy: And we got our family back and it's
Derek: God really restored us and gave us the tools to overcome.
Derek: Whatever comes against us.
Missy: I'd like to say God loves you!
Missy: He loves you more than than we can even comprehend
Missy: and have the faith that if you take that step,
Missy: He's going to meet you and He knows what you need before you
Missy: even start praying.
Missy: So pray to Him and.
Missy: Leave the consequences of your decision to come to Thomaston
Missy: in his hands and He'll take care of it like He took care of
Missy: it for us.
Speaker: Awesome. Awesome.
Missy: Yes it has been awesome.
Missy: God is good!
Derek: Amen. Amen!