So in 2013 I came down with what we thought
was just the flu. Kind of started getting
stomach sick. And so this became a daily
thing where I was nauseous, in a lot of
pain, vomiting, passing a lot of blood,
vomiting blood. There was a period of
time where I would have to wake up two
hours before my alarm to take medication
just so that I could actually get out of
bed. At the roughest point of the disease
I had lost 40 pounds.
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So I work in health care, I'm a PA
Physicians Assistant I work in emergency
medicine I've been doing that for eight
years. And it was difficult as the years
went on realizing that I could help my
patients but I couldn't help my husband.
I don't know I think that was the hard
part just watching him kind of go
through something that I couldn't fix.
We'd spent so much time getting so many
different opinions and diagnosis almost
from different people that at at some
point I just felt like maybe it was just
all in my head and I even asked a doctor
that question I said I can handle it
just tell me am I making this up is this
in my head.
And that's kind of when we started
seeing a new doctor here in town an
environmentalist and he diagnosed me
with a rare form of MS that resides in
the gut. I think the darkest moment came
when Amanda and I were thinking about
other people that we've prayed for that
we had seen healing and restoration for
and it wasn't coming for us and just
going God what is the purpose of this
why would you want somebody who's
serving you to suffer this much. Brandon
Lake one of the worship leaders at
at the church and a dear friend of
mine
kind of pulled me aside and said hey man
I know you're struggling but I just feel
like I gotta tell you the Lord is gonna
use your story and it's he's gonna use
it soon so just hang in there if that
gives you any hope. So this was the 25th
of March I was playing that weekend at
church. Lance
Gatch was playing that weekend with me and
he said he has a friend in Nashville
named Joshua Silverberg. 
So Micah came
home and was like Lance told me about
this guy that has some healing prayer
something we should talk about it and I
remember both of us kind of
sarcastically chuckling like I guess you
could get healed over the phone what
else we have to lose at this point like
sure let's try.
so Tuesday March 27th I see they have a
call from Josh. So I answer the phone and
I had obviously never met him this is my
first time ever speaking to him I don't
really know anything about him. So we
start talking and he finally gets kind
of a place where he starts praying for
me and the only way I can describe the
feeling is just like there was this like
electricity that was kind of pumping
through my body I felt like as he
started to pray for me. He said Jesus
give Micah back everything that Satan
has taken from him. And in that moment it
was like a lightning bolt it just broke.
His countenance changed like his
shoulders were heavy his eyes were heavy
and I remember instantly seeing that
come off. 
I jumped into the air with this
energy sitting right here and he said
what are you feeling and I was like the
only thing I could say was I feel the
opposite of fatigue whatever that is
that is what I feel right now. So he says
well test it out go run around or
something so I get up and I'm running
around my yard on the phone with this
guy that I just you know don't know it
all screaming like a crazy person and
he's doing the same he's in Nashville
running around his yard screaming
freaking out.
And in that moment I was completely
healed and completely released. We had
been on the phone for about an hour and
he says hey I'm really sorry I have to
go, he was asked to speak that night at
his church on healing. He then he was
like well hey if you want you can watch
this service online. We log in watch the
service and not only do I get healed, but
within an hour
Josh shared my testimony that night and
there were people in the room that were
healed through it.
It's crazy to think that something that
we had accepted as as normal this
sickness just became okay this is part
of our story now this is our our burden
to bear, the thorn in my side. The Holy
Spirit changed it in a second over the
phone with a stranger. 
If he had gotten healed gradually over a couple months
I would have been able to chalk it up to
some kind of treatment or medicine or
whatever that he had been on but because
it happened like in an instant before
my eyes
I knew it had to be Jesus like I didn't
have I didn't have any way to argue it
or to not believe what had happened.
You learn how to pray without getting
answers for a long time too. Which I think is
something really painful that I would
never have admitted before but there
were many years of no answers to those
prayers. But now we got one.
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So this year I do have the honor of getting to play
with NEEDTOBREATHE again.
Love playing with them. But it's a whole
different experience because I actually
get to fully enjoy it. Not having to
fight through just to get to the show
just to to do my job but actually I get
to spend time with people and build
relationships and really enjoy each
moment for what it is which is so
different than last year and it's such a
gift.
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