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November 11, 2024 16 mins

Christian worship leader Skye Reedy’s formative years were marked by pain and loss. Her own debilitating chronic illness followed by the death of her mother drove her away from her once close relationship with God. But He never stopped pursuing her. In this episode she describes two moments of supernatural healing in the presence of God.

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S1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Snapshot Testimony podcast. I'm your host, Ali Domercant.
In this podcast, I ask my guests to share one
pivotal moment that helped shape their faith in Christ. In
this episode, you'll hear from worship leaders Skye Reidy. Her
childhood was marked by pain and loss. Her own debilitating
chronic illness, followed by the death of her mom, caused

(00:20):
her to walk away from her relationship with God. But
he never stopped pursuing her. In this episode, she describes
two moments of supernatural healing in the presence of God.
The first was emotional and spiritual, and then years later,
an unexpected physical healing. I think you'll be encouraged by
this testimony, and I hope you'll share it with someone

(00:40):
who needs some encouragement in whatever hard thing they're facing.
Here's a snapshot testimony from Skye Reidy.

S2 (00:54):
I think the most pivotal moment of my life and
my faith, really was when I was in college and
I had I had been through a lot in my
young life. I was diagnosed with a very serious autoimmune
disease when I was a very little girl. And I

(01:16):
walked through that, basically living in hospitals and doctors offices
and at home, sick for most of my childhood and
into my teen years. And, um, and my family was
just walking through a great time, um, of, of trial
with all of that. And, um, there were even other
family members that were also sick, and my mom especially

(01:40):
was very sick. And when I was in high school,
she ended up passing away at the end of my
junior year of college. And I was raised in a
beautiful home of faith. My parents loved the Lord, and
I met Jesus at a very young age and just
fell in love with him, fell in love with his
presence and worshiping him. And, um, I, I got to

(02:03):
that point in my 16 year old life, and I
just really didn't have a box for what I had
walked through at that point. So I basically pushed my
faith away for a couple of years, and I moved
away and went off to college. And, um, and I
had some amazing friends that loved the Lord and would
constantly invite me to church and would just talk to

(02:25):
me about what God was doing in their lives. And, um.

S1 (02:28):
Can I interrupt real quick? Sure. How did you feel
about that? Because anyone who's ever, um, kind of been
in a state of maybe rebellion or running from the Lord.
Did you welcome their, uh, intervention or their, um, peppering
you with. Hey, God is good. Let me tell you
about Jesus. Was that welcome, or was that, like, I've

(02:50):
heard it all? I don't want to hear it.

S2 (02:51):
That's a good question. I think in the beginning it
was very much a full shut off. I think that
my solution to dealing with pain was shutting down my heart.
And I think at that moment in time, I didn't
want to hear anything. And I had friends that tried
and for a little bit it was just too much.

(03:12):
And then I think when I moved away and got
some perspective of, um, you know, how big God is
and how he was moving all over the world, I
started to open up again and I could I could
feel that he was not going to let me go,
that he was not going to let me just walk away,
that his love was actually pursuing me. And he was

(03:33):
doing it very tangibly through the hands and feet of
Jesus and the church, his people.

S1 (03:39):
Were you angry with God? Were you? Did you stop believing?
Or as best you can describe, what was the emotion
that you felt toward God, or were you kind of
numb in that in that season because it sounds like
you had endured a lifetime's worth of pain in, you know,
your short 16 years, what was the emotion that you

(04:00):
felt toward God?

S2 (04:03):
I think all of those things that you just said,
I was a little numb. I was a little angry.
I was a little questioning, is God real? Is he good?
What does it mean to follow him? What does it
mean to, you know, have a relationship with him? And

(04:24):
I think I wanted answers and I wasn't exactly sure
how to find them at that age. Um, and, you know,
being raised in a Christian home, that was that was
what I knew. And and yet I had seen this
incredible pain, um, just like you said, a really a

(04:47):
lifetime of pain as, as such a young girl. And
so all of those emotions were mixed up in my
heart and. But I could constantly feel the Lord literally
chasing after me everywhere I went. Yeah. It was.

S1 (05:05):
Forgive the interruptions I just when a question pops in
my mind because I can hear someone going, okay, you
could feel the Lord chasing after you. What is that?
Describe what you mean by that. For somebody who's listening
and goes like, was someone running? Were you like looking
over your shoulder? Like, what does that mean?

S2 (05:24):
I think God can be very practical. And he he
uses his church and he uses his people, the hands
and feet of Jesus to pursue, um, the ones that
he loves. And so he would send people in every
step of my path.

S1 (05:43):
Like emphasis on the every, every step.

S2 (05:47):
It was just so obvious that he he just surrounded
me with people who lived. Exactly. You know, what they
preached and the love that especially I needed. As you know,
a girl who now didn't have a mother, the mothers
that he sent to mother me, the, the, the sisters

(06:09):
that he sent to wrap their arms around me and
be family to me in a time when I really
needed family. It makes me emotional to think about it. Yeah. Um,
you know, and God also just speaks to me a
lot through confirmations. You know, I'll pray and just ask
that he would just confirm his word over and over
in my life. And I don't think I knew that's

(06:30):
what I was doing then, but, um, you know, there
was still a part of me that was holding on
to I think his truth is written on our hearts.
And there was a piece of me that just couldn't
get away from what I knew to be true. And
I think I tried everything to get away from it.
And he just didn't let me go. And I'm so

(06:50):
grateful that he didn't. And it was. I found myself
in a church service, um, a couple years into college,
and the pastor said, you can hold on to your
pain or you can hold on to God, but you
can't hold on to both. Mhm. And I that was
such a pivotal moment in my life. I realized that

(07:13):
it was my pain and my anger that was keeping
me at, you know, I was putting my arms out
and saying God, don't come any closer. And I think
in that moment I just let every guard that I
have down. And I experienced this transformational, healing love of
God and that that marked my life. Um, since that day.

(07:38):
And I'll never forget it.

S1 (07:39):
Wow. How did your relationship with God change? Um, when
you when he called you back, when he kind of
broke down those walls that you had erected. How did
it change from when you were a little girl going
through your, you know, your young years and then now
you're a young adult, kind of your reintroduction. How was

(08:02):
it different?

S2 (08:03):
I think it was much more surrendered. I, I remember
sitting in that seat in this church and just saying,
you are real. And if this is what is real,
everyone needs to experience like this healing love of God.
And so God, I, I think you can have my

(08:25):
whole life at this point. You know, there are things
that matter and there are things that will pass away.
And this is what matters. And so if you want
my life, if you want me to go into ministry,
whatever you want me to do, if you want me
to go work in a Walmart, I will say yes
to whatever it is that you want me to do.

(08:45):
And I think it was just that as I look
back on it, I had never completely walked away from
my faith, and it was this step of maturing, of okay,
the storms of life are going to come, and we
don't always have answers, but it's not. It's not for

(09:05):
me to push the Lord away. It is so important
for me to stay tethered and stay close, even in
my pain, even in the questioning, even when I don't
understand what I need most, is the presence of God
and intimacy with the Lord and not some God who's,
you know, he's the King of kings and the creator

(09:26):
of the universe, but he's not far off. It is
a relationship that is our very breath of life and
living water that we need, especially in the hardest of times.

S3 (09:38):
Sure.

S1 (09:39):
Now, how does that you know that that you mentioned
the healing love of God, that that intimacy? How does
that affect your role as a as a worshipper, as
a worship leader, trying to help others usher them into
the presence of God?

S2 (09:53):
Yeah, yeah. Well, a few years after that, I was
actually I started I had started to learn about healing and, um,
it wasn't something that I really learned about as a
young girl as I was walking through everything. But I
got older and I was still dealing with some of
the symptoms of the illness that I had walked through. And, um,

(10:14):
one day my husband and I were just I had
gotten married. At that point, my husband and I were
just sitting at home watching a church service online, and, um,
there's no other way to describe it, but I just
felt the very tangible and weighty glory of God just
fill our home like it talks about in the Bible,
when the priest would would worship the Lord and the

(10:35):
glory would just, like, feel weighty and would fall. And
we felt that in our home and all of a sudden,
this chronic fatigue that I'd had my entire life just
lifted off of my shoulders, and I knew that I'd
been healed in that moment, and was tested a while
after that and was in fact healed. And it was
another one of those marquee moments where God was showing me,

(10:56):
this is this is what happens in my presence. This
is what happens when you aren't even necessarily praying for healing,
but you're just coming to be with me and to
sit with me and to know me more. And so
I think that that's something I carry into every time
I go to worship the Lord, whether I'm leading or
whether I'm just in the room worshiping with with people,

(11:18):
it's my prayer that people would experience and have a
real encounter with the person, um, of the Holy Spirit
because he is healing. His love is so transformational. Um,
and like I said, it's just living water and it
breaks down all of these things that are even unseen

(11:39):
to our own eyes. Um, and one word from him,
one moment with him can change someone's life and I am.
I am a product of that. You know, many times over. Yeah.

S1 (11:50):
So what would you say to the person who. Their
pain has driven them away from God and they're still
that that divide. They've. Yeah. Maybe they've been in church,
but they were hurt or any number of things that
happen throughout a life. What would you say to the
person who's who's skeptical? They maybe saw the title clicked

(12:11):
on this. We're curious about your story, but their hurt
has caused a divide that they're not sure can be bridged.

S2 (12:20):
I would say that pain is one of those things
that sometimes words almost don't do the job, and it's
really the presence of God that we need, and we
need to come close to him and draw close to him,
because there's healing work that needs to be done. Um,

(12:40):
when we live on this side of heaven and we all,
every single person walks through things that are beyond our understanding.
That's what I love about worship. I think that it
is so healing, and it's one of those things that's
ministered to me over and over again. When there are
seasons of life and there are things that just simply

(13:02):
can't be talked through. Sometimes you need to just find
a place where you can just sit with the Lord,
and you can let it all out. All of your disappointment, disillusionment, pain. Um,
you know, that was really something that I felt like
he allowed me to do. And that can be that
doesn't have to be in a church, that can be

(13:23):
in your living room, that can be you putting on,
you know, worship music in your car. That can be
you on a walk. Just finding that place where I
think we can really be honest with the Lord of
what we're walking through, because he already knows. But I
think when, when we get to a place where we
can express it to him and then allow ourselves to

(13:48):
just wait in his presence and not try to be
the ones to fix it ourselves, but to just wait
on him. I think waiting on the Lord does so
much more than we know, and it's actually the waiting.
Just like that verse says, it's actually the waiting on
the Lord that is strengthening us.

S3 (14:08):
Yes.

S1 (14:09):
Yeah. Wait on the Lord will renew their strength. I mean.

S3 (14:12):
Yeah.

S1 (14:12):
Your story is so. It's so beautiful and it's it's
so real. And there's a I don't even know how
to describe it, but the for so many people, you know,
that that pain keeps them from, from God, from the,
from the only one who can actually heal them. And

(14:34):
so I think, you know, the encouragement is to, to
kind of like press through, you know, as hard as
it is. But to to come to the one who
can heal. Because otherwise what do we do with our pain,
you know? Yeah. Try to bury it. Try to, you know,
turn to things, turn to substances. So many things that

(14:55):
people turn to to deal with pain. But the one
who can heal is the one to go to. And
that's your testimony, which I love. What are you excited
about right now? When you look forward to, you know,
what's happening with you personally? What's happening with your music?
What excites you?

S2 (15:13):
Oh, that's a great question. Well, I just released my
very first album. It is called Your Church, and it's
actually all about healing. It's there's a song on there
that was written out of my own healing testimony, and
there's a song on there called Your Church, which is
for people who have walked through, you know, painful circumstances

(15:37):
around church or.

S3 (15:39):
Yeah.

S2 (15:40):
Um, you know, just questioning things. And we just really
prayed that it would find people who needed exactly what
we're talking about. Just needed a space to be close
with the Lord and let you know. Music and and
his presence just wash over and minister to them. So
I'm so thankful that that is out now. And I'm

(16:01):
going to be, uh, traveling soon and getting to just worship,
doing some worship nights, um, with people to these new songs.
And I'm also working on some new music, but it's
just a beautiful time to see the Lord ministering in
the way that he is. And however I get to

(16:22):
be a part of that, I'm I'm looking forward to
in this season.

S1 (16:26):
Thank you so much for hanging with me for this
week's snapshot testimony. I hope my conversation with Sky was
as encouraging to you as it was to me. I'm
your host, Allie Domercant, and together we're sharing the moments
that shape a life of faith in Christ. Thanks for listening.
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