Healing of Dyslexia

 

Very early in her schooling, we recognized that our daughter, Monica Morgan-Dohner, had difficulties learning numbers and letters. She tried very hard, and we worked with her daily, but no amount of effort helped. Each day was a struggle for her. Small achievements, such as learning two letters, would disappear overnight. She received special helps in every year of school, beginning at age 6.

Dyslexia is a term that includes many kinds of learning difficulties. Monica could not recognize symbols – letters and numbers. Her brain “heard” the ending sounds of a word as the beginning sounds. She could not keep numbers in rows or columns, so while she was very good at counting, she could not manage sums on a page. Her eyes could not track, successfully, from one sentence to the next.

In February, 1994, her friend, Heather Harvey, who was also dyslexic, asked for prayer for healing. Heather was part of a group that had traveled to Toronto, Canada, to the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship. As she was prayed for, she became very still. Later, she told us that she had heard angels, directed by God, doing brain surgery on her. She felt she had been on a hard table, in a cold room, for this surgery. At the end, she heard God tell her to pray for her friends.

It was a 14 hour drive home for us all, and we could tell that something amazing had changed for Heather. She was playing word games with us, which she never had been able to do. She was also very focused on her plan to pray for our daughter, Monica.

Monica had not heard any of Heather’s story, so it was amazing, again, to hear her story. Her first words after prayer were, “Mom, I feel like I have all the pieces to my own puzzle, for the first time!” She told us that angels had cut her head open (“and it didn’t hurt!”). She reported that they took her brain out, and worked on a portion of it that was “dented,” and then she felt the tug of stitches across the top of her head. She was very impressed with the details and loved repeating them.

The next day, she burst into the house announcing, “I understood what was going on at school, today!” As she explained how different the day had been, we began to understand how terribly confusing every day previous had been.

Her afternoon tutor – a woman working on her Masters Degree in Teaching Reading – had just spent three weeks documenting all the characteristics of dyslexia that Monica demonstrated. One and a half hours of working with Monica, she told me that Monica no longer showed any of those characteristics. Monica didn’t yet read, but for the first time ever, she could learn!

Heather and Monica immediately began to pray for their other friends with learning difficulties, and we all saw many miracles. Sometimes, the people prayed for saw or heard something in the spirit; other times, they felt nothing at all, but later phoned to say how much easier reading and writing had become!

Before the end of the next school year, we were invited to Monica’s school to an “Author’s Tea.” Monica had volunteered to do a public reading of an essay that she had written! We cried, and thanked God, for the huge thing He had done!

Our small church was contacted by people in many parts of the country, and from many other countries. We prayed for people over the phone and for everyone who came. In the years since then, there has been no slowing of healing for learning difficulties. We have had the joy of hearing many, many amazing stories – it never stops being exciting to hear that someone is healed, and no longer struggling!

Our understanding is that the Lord wants to heal His children, young and old. We pray for healing of dyslexia and learning difficulties whenever we have the opportunity.

 

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