My name is Susan Thornton. Tyler is my middle child and youngest son. At the age of 9, Tyler started having seizures. There was no known medical reason for the seizures. They only happened at night/very early morning and during the summer time. They started out with very mild twitching of the face with drooling and progressed over time to grand mal seizures. After a couple of the twitching episodes, my husband and I took him to the pediatrician who referred him to a neurologist. This neurologist did some tests and wanted to put him on drugs, even though the couldn’t tell me what was causing these seizures. My husband and I felt very uneasy about putting him on drugs. We read that the drugs can cause more seizures and there was even a possibility of a life-threatening reaction to the drugs. To make a long story short, we decided not to put him on the drugs and trust God to heal him. Every time a seizure would take place I would go to Tyler and pray. I told him to pray and call out to Jesus. After the seizure was over I asked Tyler if he could hear me talking to him and telling him to call to Jesus, he said yes, that he was calling on Jesus with all his might.
We were trusting God to heal him and at the same time he was still having seizures. I prayed one day and asked God to give me something to help me keep the faith for his healing and to help me understand what was going on. That is when I did a search on the internet for “Healing from seizures”. I needed to find someone who had been healed from seizures to strengthen my faith. This search led me to Reverend Jill and her son Tadd immediately emailed Reverend Jill and told her my story. God used her and her son Tadd to give me strength when I thought I would just cave in. I admit I was not always strong, but that’s when He stepped in and picked me up and carried me through. Tyler continued to have seizures over the next 3 summers. My family continued to hold on to the promises of God.
The last seizure Tyler had was July 2004. Tyler was home with his older brother. I was in nursing school and had to leave home early for clinicals. Tyler and his brother, Matt, were the only ones home. Matt called me to tell me what happened and I called my parents who rushed over to take care of Tyler. I found out later that Matt prayed for Tyler when the seizure started. That had never happened before. Matt had never been involved in the seizures before. This was truly a fight that the entire family had to engage in battle. That was the last seizure Tyler will ever have. I don’t understand everything that happened, but I know that Tyler has received the manifestation of his healing! Praise the Lord!
Tyler is a healthy, wonderful boy. He played basketball for his middle school varsity team and is growing into a Godly young man that will serve the Lord with all his might. I thank God for what he is doing in our family. I also am so thankful that Reverend Jill and her family have answered the call God has placed on their lives.
Kevin, Jill’s second son, was born with a slightly crossed eye. With prayer and standing on the word of God, Jill & Mike received their miracle. Kevin’s eye got healed, with no surgery.
