Healing/Prayer Blanket Testimony
I started making blankets for the Lord two years ago in the fall of 2001 when we had moved from Portland,
OR to a small town in Kentucky. The Lord connected us with a family whose 5 year old daughter had been
diagnosed with a life threatening illness since she was a baby. One night this family invited us for dinner
and the child's mother shared with me about the miracle of her daughters life. One day they felt led by the
Lord to buy me a sewing machine because they had seen the flags and banners i had sewn by hand. I had
never sewn on a sewing machine before so they gave me a lesson.
I loved sewing and as soon as I would start the sewing machine up I would naturally start praying.
The Lord started showing me that whenever I turned the machine on and started to sew that it was an act of
intercession for this little girl's healing. One day while I was sewing/praying I actually saw and felt smoke/incense
coming out of the top of my head. So throughout the one and one half years we lived there when different medical
situations would come for this child I would start to sew and pray.
One day the secretary at the church we were at gave me a piece of fleece material and asked me to sew a
blanket for her grandson who was a few months old. At the same time there was another child, Anna, at the church
who had been battling a liver illness. She was in the emergency care and I had felt a burden to pray for her. so I
began to sew a binder on this piece of fleece, but the color thread wasn't right, then the binder wasn't right and so on.
It took me a week to finish sewing around this piece of fleece, but the whole time while I was ripping out and sewing I
prayed for Anna. the Lord started to show me that it was intercession for Anna. also during this time of prayer I heard
the Holy Spirit tell me that He wanted me to make blankets for His children that are sick. He told me if I would be
obedient to sew and pray over them that He would use the blankets to heal His people. Also that all the blankets I sewed
on the machine, given to me by the family of the little girl diagnosed with the life threatening illness, were to be a seed sewn
toward this child's healing. He also gave me the scripture in Acts 19:11,12 "And God wrought special miracles by the
hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from
them, and the evil spirits went out of them." I believe He was showing me what He was going to do through these blankets
if I would be obedient to make them.
So I bought myself some fleece, began to make blankets, and as the Holy Spirit led, I gave them out to those believing
for their healing. When I started making the blankets the little girl who gave me the sewing machine, along with her mom,
grandmother, aunt and I were meeting frequently to pray together. I would bring the blankets along for us to pray over during
our prayer time. I believe this season when the five of us prayed together, was a birthing time for the healing/blanket ministry
the Lord was starting to release.
The Lord started giving me very specific simple instructions for the blankets. He told me to sew red thread around the edge
for the covering of His blood. If I wasn't able to use red thread, He showed me that blue was for peace and rest, green was for growth,
prosperity, life and that purple was for power, authority and deliverance. He would show me which patterns to buy and what their
prophetic meaning was, revelation about the colors, and the scripture that went with the pattern. The prophetic meaning, colors and
scripture for the pattern helps direct the prayer over the blanket; fire, feathers/covering psalm 91, fruitfulness, leaves for healing, pink
for healing, yellow for His glory etc.
I had been sewing the blankets about a month, when one day while in the town's Christian bookstore I saw these labels with the
scripture Act 19:11,12 for sale. I knew I was to purchase these labels and start sewing them in the corner of the blanket, since this was
the scripture He had given me and the message of His plans. The Lord began to show me that when I would sew the blankets that this
was a holy time of worship and intercession as His priest. I always anoint my hands before I start each sewing/prayer session and begin
by praying our Acts 19:11,12... that the Lord would anoint my hands to wrought special miracles of healing like Paul's... Then I always
will pray for the specific needs of the person I am making the blanket for. He also shoed me to anoint the 4 corners of the blanket with
oil for the 4 corners of the earth & total covering of His anointing. The Holy spirit instructed me to roll the blankets up and tie them with
the cord I cut off the fleece.
Many months later I was given a book by Kenneth Hagen and in it was several pages about Acts 19: 11,12.
In the book there is a chapter called "Anointed with Power". This chapter talks about how God had anointed Paul with power. When
Paul laid hands on those cloths, they became storage batteries, so to speak, of God's power. Then, when those cloths were laid on
peoples bodies, that power was transmitted to their bodies, the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. It
went on to say that God anoints men and woman with healing power today and anyone may receive of that anointing by faith. I
realized when I read this, why the Lord has me roll the blankets and tie them. They look like a battery and are a storage battery of His
power. When the blankets are opened and laid upon His people His anointing/power is released. During this time I had such a desire
in my heart for the Lord to impart into me this power/gift of healing. I would pray constantly for the healing anointing power to be
imparted to me.
After we had moved to Florida, at the new church we were at, a man came to the church named Supressa from
South Africa. He was involved with Heidi and Roland Baker's ministry in South Africa. Supressa carried the healing power anointing
and that night he called forth those who would like to have this healing power anointing imparted into them. I stepped out in faith,
knowing that this had been a desire of my heart for awhile. As soon as he touched my wrists I could feel the transfer/release of the
healing anointing in the palms of my hands and I have felt it ever since. I truly believe the gift/power of healing was imparted that
night to me and it is released out the palms of my hands, I can feel it.
Now when I sew the blankets the Lord showed me to place my
left palm on the material as it passes through the machine and my other hand up to Him. My belly contracts and pushes up and out a
Power from deep within which I believe is released through the palms of my hands. Once I heard the Lord tell me out of your belly
shall flow rivers of living water!
Next the Lord started to show me that I was to make the blankets available along side our worship CDs
at our tape table when we are at conferences. He showed me that it would help to get them out because He was going to send them
all over the world to heal His people. Also selling them would help supply the funds for buying many more yards of fleece to make the
blankets. I am known at the fabric stores as the fleece lady because of the many bolts of fleece I have in my carts. The Lord always
opens a door for the blanket testimony and to why someone would want so much fleece. Many testimonies have come forth about how
the blankets have brought comfort, rest and peace. There have been testimonies of a burning radiating heat/sparks, some have been
healed of sleeping disorders, food allergies, depression, drug addiction, back pain, and witchcraft. People having more serious illnesses
have written that they can feel their healing manifest a little each day, they cover every day with their blankets.
As for the little girl whose mom had a leading of the Lord to buy me a sewing machine, she just turned 7 last August! she grows stronger
everyday and this year she was strong enough to go to school! Thank you Jesus! An awesome testimony came forth a while back from
her Aunt. Her Aunt called me on the phone overcome by the experience she recently had with the Lord. She had been diagnosed with
a cyst in her uterus and the doctors were wanting to remove her uterus. She felt she was to really seek the Lord on what to do and had
decided to wait and believe the Lord for her healing. That morning she woke up and saw blood all over her bed, her first thought was
that the cyst had burst and she was bleeding. Then when she looked closer and realized that what she was seeing was her healing
blanket that she slept under every night. The blanket was saturated in blood, His Blood!!! The Lord was allowing her to see His blood
in the supernatural, she was overcome. He showed us through this testimony that the blankets are saturated in His blood and there is
healing/power in the blood. That was why He told me to sew the red thread around the edges for the covering of the blood. In the
supernatural the blankets are covered in His blood and it is the blood, His anointing/power that we feel on the blankets.
I am truly blessed and so thankful that the Lord has chosen to use me this way for His Kingdom and purposes. Many times I am
overwhelmed with tears and feel so close to Him while making the blankets. It is a very special time I spend with Him. Other times it
seems so funny to me, how I had never sewed before and now this is what I do, I make blankets for Jesus!! In the past six months He
has opened several doors for His blankets to get out to heal His people. I sew and pray over between 50-75 blankets a week. Glory be
to God in the highest!!!!