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Mysterious Knee Pain and A Miraculous Cure!
As a wife and mom of four, Caradi Wells of La Puente, California is always on the move.
“Besides laundry and chasing a toddler, I mean, I'm busy working and picking 'em up from school, dropping 'em off. So, I'm always rushing, always got the baby on a hip. That's just my life.”
In late November 2023, her left knee began giving her trouble.
“It just became super painful, and it started to feel like a knot in the back of my leg. I couldn't bear the pain. I literally could not even stand up to do my dishes, it was getting so unbearable. It went from like maybe happening once in a while to happening every day. And that's when I started to get worried. I was trying to be a tough girl. I was like, no, I'm not gonna go to the doctors. I'm just gonna just keep doing what I need to do. Massage it, just kind of nurse it. A few weeks later, I decide I’m gonna go to Disneyland with the baby and I’m just gonna walk it off. I’m just thinking I need to stretch. I need to get my steps in.”
Then, while they were waiting in line for their first ride, her three-year-old ran off.
“So, I dart out after him and I take a couple of steps and I pivot and as I’m pivoting, I hear a pop! And all of a sudden, my knee just buckles, and I can’t move. Next thing you know, they’re calling for a medic and they’re bringing a wheelchair. I’m not going to lie, I was embarrassed. I was like, “Are you kidding me, Lord? (laughs) I just got here! I was like, this can’t be happening.”
After resting for a while, Caradi drove home.
“They do an x-ray of my knee and they tell me, ‘Look, we can't see if you have an ACL tear. We can't see what's going on with your meniscus. We're gonna have to forward you on to see a doctor, an orthopedic specialist to get an MRI.’ I was distraught a little bit about the diagnosis. It was absolutely scary to think of my knee being outta commission.”
They scheduled the MRI for early January and sent Caradi home with a knee brace and ibuprofen. Neither were much help.
“I couldn't physically go up a little incline or down a little incline or going upstairs at all. So, I was really scared that I was gonna end up with some kind of a knee issue long term. I'm having to trust God in this situation and just say, ‘God, please, like I need some help here.’”
Then, on January 2, 2023, she turned on the 700 Club during lunch. The hosts were praying.
“On my lunch break, my favorite thing to do is watch the 700 Club and my favorite part is the prayer. On this day it was Gordon, and he was praying, but then he invited everybody into prayer and said if we had a part in our body that needed to be healed, to put our hands on that body part and to touch and believe. In that moment I was so desperate. I needed God so badly. I was tired of being in pain. I just needed help. And so, I just stopped what I was doing, I put my hand on my knee, I touched and agreed, and I asked the Lord, ‘Lord, please.’”
Gordon prayed, “Anyone infirm, we just declare over you: God is your healer; he is your source. He is the one that says ‘Yes, I died for you.’” Receive him now and believe now on what he died for you to have, and you will be healed. We come into agreement with you now, touching it. We say over you now, be healed and be made whole, in Jesus’ name.”
"And then I also added on top of Gordon's prayer, ‘I have a three-year-old, Lord, and you gave me him to run around and chase. So, I believe you're going to heal my knee to be able to chase him.’ Hey, who says you can't add a little something to the prayer? I did!! (laugh) I just believed it with my whole heart that my knee was gonna be healed.’ The crazy thing is, I did that prayer and then I was like,
“My knee's healed!” and I just got up and went about my day.”
The next morning, my husband goes, ‘Caradi, aren't you gonna go get your MRI for your knee?’ And that's when I realized I had no swelling in my knee. I was moving around, I was bending, I was doing dishes, I was hauling the laundry, and I didn't even realize it! I believed God for it. And my knee hasn't hurt since. I'm so excited. We have gone on so many trips since then. We've gone hiking. We play outside. I'm able to go on our neighborhood walks. Once it happens to you in a miraculous way like this, you can then walk in that power to show it to others so that they could tap into heaven and partner with God. And you know, the Lord says to ask God, and he will give it to us. Look, this is all I gotta say to you: if it happened for me, it could happen for you. Just believe God for that healing today.’”
Bringing the Bible to Life in Your Family
Jason and Brittany Taylor sold their home, minimized their lifestyle, and became full time RV residents to save money to go on the mission field. While homeschooling their two sons, Brittany introduced them to her favorite animated series from childhood, Superbook.
Brittany recalls, “I think the first time I showed Superbook I was like, "How is this going to land?" Because I loved it as a kid and I just watched their faces.”
Jason adds, “They were surprising me in many ways, Bryson’s reading scripture, you know they’re tying it in with their reading and learning.
Brittany continues, “When I would start Bible in the morning it would be like, "We're going to watch Superbook. I want to watch two episodes today. I want to watch three." I'm like, "No, we're going to do one." And that really told me that, "Okay, Bible's going to be exciting."
Their son Bryson describes an episode, “Either Chris Troy or Gizmo get in a problem, and then Superbook comes and teaches them something about a story of the Bible. And then at the end of the story they fix the problem with what they learned in the Superbook.”
“When I'm at work I know that they're really learning,” says Jason. “Because when I get home it's, "Hey, what Superbook did you guys watch today tell me about it. And finally I started watching them a little bit and I was like, "Wow!" I was like, "These are very well done."
Their youngest, Noah chimes in, “Superbook is my favorite God show. And I learn about Jesus every time I watch it every day.”
Brittany adds, “Then we found the app that is Superbook and it has games and it has videos and it has the Bible.”
“We get out the Bible, we do scriptures,” says Bryson. “We even do Bible background, and it tells us what they used in the Superbook and where it was in biblical times. And then there's signposts where it tells them about how that relates to Jesus.”
Jason states, “It's almost like you have the actual Bible and then the Superbook and then real life and it seems like they're starting to kind of make connections on all that.”
Bryson responds, “Someone does really something bad to you and you have to think like, "Man, I can forgive them right now and show mercy to them.”
“Honestly the signposts when it talks about Christ are teaching me, and I have a master's in divinity and I'm like, "I didn't know that." So it has this way of relating to all ages,” says Brittany.
All over the world families like the Taylors can enjoy Superbook episodes and the app for free, thanks to generous donors like you.
Brittany warmly states, “Superbook has been the, and I'm really not exaggerating, the greatest gift to our family. And it was a gift to me as a little girl and it’s a gift that’s being given to my children. And I think that’s so special because there’s nothing more precious than giving your kids Jesus.”
My Last Shot at Freedom, My Last Chance to Live
Marcela says, “It was in middle school where I started noticing waking up with depression and waking up just angry and having really weird behavioral and emotional issues, that's when I realized I don't have a lot of my memory from childhood.” There is one memory that stands out from Marcela’s childhood, one she could not forget - being lured into a bedroom by her father’s best friend - when she was six years old. “All I remember after that is laying down on a bed, being pinned down with his arms on top of my arms, just pressing me into the bed and remembering me feeling like, how do I get out of here? How do I get out of here?”
From that moment on, Marcela’s young mind was distorted with thoughts of murder, hate and violence. She says, “And I would think About killing him. And I would have dreams. And I look back now and I'm just I realize that I just wanted them to hurt the way I was hurting. I didn't have words for it. I was never talked to about people touching you. That was just unfathomable for that to happen, especially with a family friend. It was just the hatred and the pain on the inside manifesting into these dreams.”
By the time she was in middle school she directed her thoughts of hate and rage back at herself. “And it was constantly how terrible of a person I was, how terrible of a kid I was, how ugly I was, how fat I was, how much of a failure I was; constant. That was my normal, was to be constantly having those intrusive thoughts.” She says.
She had emotional outbursts, then began cutting herself, hiding the root of her pain, even from her mother. Marcela says, “And I remember just telling her, ‘I feel like someone died. I feel like someone died.’ And that's the only way that I could express how I felt. And I think when I was cutting, I was expressing something that I didn't know how to explain. I would be in class and I would be thinking about how I could cut myself, so I'd be thinking of what sharp objects I could go and get to go cut myself. I just became obsessed with hurting myself.”
She also began using food and starvation as a form of self-punishment and control. “Eating until I was physically in pain, and then going and vomiting. And the life of someone who's bulimic is really lonely, it's terrible. It's strenuous. It's not easy.” She says, “You put your body through a lot to do it. And I was, I became addicted to it. All I would think about is that there's food on the table. How do I get to it? And then how do I throw it up -every day.”
One day, exhausted from the compulsions that were destroying her, and desperate for hope - Marcela prayed. She recalls, “God, if you're real. Take this from me and I will never go back.”
Soon after, she stumbled upon a local pastor’s online sermons. A spark ignited in her spirit. “He was just talking about the Bible.” She says, “He was talking about dying to yourself, being born again. And I was like, ‘If there, if that's real. Like if you really get to live another life,’ I remember thinking that I was like, ‘I want it. if I can throw away all that I've done wrong. And I can really, like, not like kind. Of, oh, I forgive you.’ But like the way he was preaching about it, ‘like really live a whole new life.’ I was like, ‘sign me up.’
She began going to church and reading the Bible, “The more that I read the Bible, the more sound my mind became. And I could not get enough. I would just digest the word. She says.
Marcela, gave her life to Christ and began going through deliverance, submitting her heart and mind to Christ’s authority.
She says, “I now had the Holy Spirit and ability to say, I know the temptation, but I don't have to do that. And so the self-hate was like, you don't hate yourself. And I learned more about the enemy, I learned more about the devil. I'm like, oh, he hates me. This is the enemy versus me, and the Lord now in me saying, ‘You don't get to be here anymore. You don't get to take territory in my thoughts anymore.’ Depression, anxiety, fear, go in Jesus’ name. I'm realizing for the first time. Oh, what Do you mean? They can like leave? I was grasping that, what do you mean ‘fear leave, go. Anxiety, depression,’ I'm like, ‘wait, no, those are like, those are my diagnoses.’ Like, those are, that's me. All of that responding to one name, Jesus. The power of Jesus in display. Not like oh, go to church and do it routine. I mean the power of God in the room. In the name of Jesus, and all of that darkness coming up and having no choice but To leave me. like, you don't, you don't have a hold on me. Those were lies from the pit of hell, and you have no ground on the inside of me.”
Marcela was set free from the mental prison and compulsions that used to bind her, receiving a new life in Christ. “I always have help. I always have hope. She says, “I can always find joy. Like the person I was before, I can't even recognize. The Lord led me to say the words I never wanted to say and so I said, ‘Lord.’ I was like, ‘father, I forgive that man for holding me down and pinning my arms to the bed,’ I mean, detail specific forgiveness. And I was like, ‘and I bless him, and I repent for the dreams. I repent for wanting to murder him. I repent for all of that.’”
All that had been lost has now been restored under the lordship of Jesus. “I couldn't feel purity. Today, that's what I feel.” She says, “And that's what I am. And I feel complete peace, complete freedom, complete deliverance, complete healing. And just knowing that the Lord is God and He's the God I serve and that's my father.”
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