March 6, 2025 • 42 mins
Frank and Darcie Montgomery return after a brief hiatus to explore the profound connection between faith and healing in both mental and physical health challenges. The couple shares deeply personal experiences with anxiety and epilepsy, explaining how spiritual authority through Christ provided freedom where medicine alone could not.
Through vulnerable storytelling, Frank reveals his journey with severe anxiety attacks that began in 2015. Despite medical intervention and medication, true relief came when he recognized the spiritual dimension of his condition and verbally bound the spirit of anxiety in Jesus' name. This revelation transformed his approach to mental health, demonstrating how taking thoughts captive can lead to supernatural peace.
Darcie’s testimony of complete healing from epilepsy stands as the centerpiece of this powerful episode. After suffering from seizures for nearly thirty years—from age nine until adulthood—her condition progressed from partial complex seizures to full tonic-clonic episodes that severely limited her daily life. She describes the physical toll, the fear of sudden death, and the impact on her family, particularly her son who would sleep on her bedroom floor out of concern. Yet in the midst of this struggle, Darcy maintained gratitude, believing God would use her condition for good.
The Montgomerys challenge listeners to expand their faith beyond modern skepticism, asserting that the God who performed miracles in biblical times remains unchanged today. Their testimony serves as compelling evidence that mountains of chronic illness and mental health struggles can truly be moved through faith. As Darcy proclaims, "I am healed," her story becomes an invitation for others to embrace the possibility of supernatural intervention in their own lives.
Whether you're battling anxiety, chronic illness, or simply feeling spiritually defeated, this episode offers hope that restoration is possible through faith in Christ. Reach out to The Restored Podcast on Facebook or email therestoredcast@gmail.com to connect and share your own journey toward healing.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
you were listening to the restored podcast with frank
and Darcy Montgomery.
Well, we're here on episodefour.
Finally, finally.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We missed a week.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Not that we didn't try, because we did, but there
was some issues, issues beingwork schedule, technical
difficulties, my wife notwanting to agree to the subject
matter that I wanted to talkabout, and so creative
differences, but we're all good.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
now we're on the same page.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's not easy walking in or down the path that God
wants you to walk, and I thinkthat's key.
Whenever you are obeying Godand allowing Him to direct you
in what you should be doing andhow you should be doing it and
where you should be doing it,and you are completely following
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him, you're going to haveroadblocks, you're going to have
speed bumps, you're going tohave difficulties and trials.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So that you can lean on him for your strength and not
on yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, not only that, but you'll be attacked by Satan.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think Christians maybe not as much now as have in
the past portray this life ofpure bliss and rainbows and
butterflies after you give yourlife to Christ.
But I mean, it's evidentthroughout scripture that that's
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just not the case and it's notthat God does things to you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He allows things, but he doesn't do them to you, and
not everything that you gothrough that's difficult is an
attack from satan no, some of itis by our own doing yes
consequences from our choices.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Um, I was talking to hayden last night.
I mean, every choice you make,there is a consequence.
That consequence can either begood or that consequence can be
bad.
And I think that's anotherrabbit hole that we could go
down.
And you know, we could savethat for a future episode if you
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want.
But yes, the church is soquickly to cry.
Oh, satan's attacking me whenthings aren't going right and
I'm like well, hold on, brother,you can't afford to pay your
rent because you were at theCowboys game last week.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's not Satan attacking your finances, that's
not God, you know, testing you,that is.
You spent money.
You didn't have to go dosomething fun when you had
responsibilities of paying yourmortgage or paying your utility
bills or whatever that might be,and we're quick to get up or
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tell our friends oh, satan'sattacking me so hard from this
or that.
And yes, he does.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right, and I mean usually he will find a place
with each person to attack andthat's how you can kind of tell
if it's the same thing, because,like with me, when I am under
attack it is in my health orit's in my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But that's also the two places where God has greatly
transformed your life.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And Satan knows that he's no dummy.
You know, he's not just someidiot roaming the earth and, you
know, gets lucky every now andthen.
He is very smart, he is verycrafty and he knows exactly
where to hit us.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And that's why you need to you know equip yourself
and find how to you know standagainst those attacks.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So we just brought up that he likes to attack your
health and your mental state.
And I'm just going to hit onmental state real quick 90, I
would say at least 90% of yourthoughts that are in your head
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come from Satan.
Right, and that's why thescripture tells us we have to
take every thought captive, yourthoughts.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That are in your head come from Satan.
Right, and that's why thescripture tells us we have to
take every thought captive.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We have to make it obedient to Christ after you
take it captive Absolutely andthat's forget that part, that's
part of making it.
You know, taking that cut, take, making that thought and taking
it captive that's part of it ismaking it obedient to Christ.
As we are being renewed, as ourminds are being renewed by the
word, by prayer and worship wehave to filter what comes into
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our mind.
Filter what comes into our mindand when something comes into
our mind, we either A dismiss itand forget about it or we take
it and we run with it, but in anobedience to Christ.
And I think so many peoplethink that when a thought comes
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into their mind, you know thatthat's who they are Right.
So many people deal withdepression, anxiety, bipolar
schizophrenia, anxiety, bipolarschizophrenia, and we're not
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going to get into what's leadingto maybe that epidemic of
mental health.
Part of it is human but part ofit is Satan.
And I remember growing up andwhenever you and I first got
together and when Hayden wasborn, hayden had some struggles
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and you know you grew up in ahousehold that I won't say.
Medicine was God.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But medicine was the cure-all.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean I spent from the time I was five until I was
18 or older on ADHD medicationsand antidepressants.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And little disclaimer .
Those things help.
I don't think they are thecure-all.
They treat symptoms and theyare needed at times.
So I don't want anybodylistening thinking that I am
sitting here saying, you know,nobody needs antidepressants,
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nobody needs anti-anxiety,nobody, you know needs
absolutely.
You need those things.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But all that mental health comes from satan and
that's been a big struggle in mylife and now I can say that god
has healed me.
Um, he's healed me in themental areas of it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I still have adhd, but I don't have the depression,
the anxiety, the suicidalthoughts, any of that anymore
see, and I grew up in ahousehold, I mean my, my parents
were older and my parents wereold school and I mean when you
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were feeling down.
When you were feeling down,when you were feeling quote
unquote depressed hey, buddy,you got to shake it off.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Pull your boots up by the bootstraps and get to
marching and carry on and pushthrough it, and that's what I
learned to do.
I learned to push through it.
But that can also be damaging,because a lot of times those
emotions, those things that arecausing that, just get pushed
down.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But I mean, I started taking antidepressants or not
antidepressants?
Well, yeah, they areantidepressants but they also
treat anxiety.
I started taking them somewherearound 2015, 2016, and I
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remember it like it wasyesterday.
We had just purchased thecompany.
I'd gone through a two-yearprocess of getting funding and
all of that to purchase thecompany.
We were about to take avacation, something that we
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hadn't done as a family together, just the three of us.
We were getting ready to take avacation in a few days and you
and I are laying in bed and wealways we would turn the TV on,
and we still do this.
We turn the TV on and just forsome background noise, as we're
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winding down to go to sleep.
And so we hadn't been up doingstuff, we hadn't been, you know,
exerting ourselves.
And I'm laying in bed, and Ithink you've already rolled over
and almost asleep, and my heartbegins to start pounding in my
chest very, very fast, very,very fast.
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I don't say anything to you.
I get up, I put my watch onthat, I can check my heart rate
and I believe it was somewherearound 150, 160 beats per minute
.
That's crazy, and I remember Iam freaking out on the inside
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because A I'm overweight andI've been told for all my adult
life, if you don't lose theweight, you're going to die of a
heart attack.
Well, there I was in 2015.
And I was 34 years old at thetime.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Something like that, and I thought I was going to die
that night of a heart attack.
But I, very calmly after I putmy watch on seeing my heart rate
, I, very calmly, I sat on theedge of the bed and I told you I
think I'm having a heart attack, you need to call 911.
And they come.
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And long story short, aftermany trips to the ER, I think we
had three or four.
One that night by ambulance, butturns out it was just anxiety.
And it took a few months beforethe doctor got through to my
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head and you know cardiologistsvisits, stress tests, er visits,
ekgs, chest x-rays, blood work,everything and every doctor's
you know, telling me yourheart's fine, you're not having
a heart attack, you didn't havea heart attack, your heart's
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fine.
And it took about three monthsbefore my doctor finally
convinced me okay, it's anxiety,take this medicine.
It's anxiety, take thismedicine.
So I started taking themedicine and over the past year
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God's really been dealing withme about how I depended on that
medicine for my anxiety, and soyou had already gotten off a lot
of the medication that you wereon and I decided, okay, I am
going to stop taking myanti-anxiety medicine.
I you know I did it the rightway.
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I began taking less over thecourse of a few weeks and then I
stepped it down again until Iwas completely off of it.
But a couple weeks ago I'mlaying in bed and I heard
someone teaching on mentalhealth and they said that it was
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a spirit of anxiety.
And if it's a spirit of anxiety, I have the authority in Christ
to bind that spirit here onearth and take control of that
spirit.
And I just remember that night.
I mean, it was like a flashbackto 2015.
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I was laying there in bed and,bam, my heart started racing,
pounding out of my chest.
And my first instinct I got up,I started pacing.
I had you know, I was doinglike I used to always do.
I was doing like I used toalways do.
I'd put my fingers on my wrist,on that vein in your wrist, to
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check your pulse, which Ialready knew it was going crazy
because I felt it in my chest.
But then the Holy Spiritbrought to memory.
In the middle of that anxiety,panic, attack, the Holy Spirit
spoke to me and reminded to mewhat I had heard in that
teaching.
And right there I just saidspirit of anxiety, you have no
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authority over me.
I bind you in the name of JesusChrist.
You have no control over mythoughts, you have no control
over my body.
And within five minutes I wasasleep over my body and within
five minutes I was asleep.
And so we have control overthat stuff.
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Medicine does help treat thesymptoms, but when you realize
that Jesus died for that on thecross, just as he did our sins,
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it is so empowering and sofreeing to know that we have
that capability.
So, with that being said, I wantto encourage anybody out there
that maybe deals with anxiety,deals with depression, deals
with any other quote-unquotemental health.
If we know that that is anattack of Satan on our minds,
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then we have the power over thatthrough Jesus Christ.
And one thing that I had tolearn was, if you were talking
to anybody or anything otherthan yourself or God, you have
to verbally speak it out loud.
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You can't just say it in yourmind.
Satan doesn't have that power.
Satan doesn't have that abilityto hear your thoughts, to hear
your inner conversations withyourself or God.
In order for Satan or an evilspirit to hear it, you have to
speak it out loud.
Are going through that time,through an attack.
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I want you to verbally bindthat spirit and bind it in the
name of Jesus Christ, becauseit's only Jesus that gives us
that authority over evil spiritsand Satan.
That authority to you know,take control and demand that
they do something.
So if you are, you know,battling something, just speak
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to that spirit and speak to thatspirit in the name of Jesus
Christ, and bind it and remindthat spirit that it does not
have authority over you, it doesnot have control over your
thoughts, it does not havecontrol over your emotions and
it definitely doesn't havecontrol over your body and I
guarantee you you will feel animmediate change from inside,
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just like I did that night.
Recently, whenever you know, Ihad the panic attack and I just
talked about it.
I mean immediately.
My heart went from if I wereguessing my heart was probably
racing about 120.
And again wasn't doing anythingphysical to exert, you know
myself to get my heart rate upto that.
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It was pure anxiety.
And whenever I spoke to thatspirit and reminded it that it
doesn't have the authority overme because of Jesus, I mean
immediately I felt that changeand immediately I went from
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freak out mode heart racing tosnoring.
Earlier you mentioned alsoabout where Satan attacks you
physically and I I kind ofwanted to hit on that and you
have dealt with.
You have dealt with somethingbasically almost your entire
life, from very early on.
About the age of nine was whenthe first one is when the
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symptoms first started appearing, and so I want to talk to you
about that.
You were, you were.
I'm not going to say your age,but I don't care, I'm 39 so for
about and I can't say 30 years,because where we're going with
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this it's just shy of 30 yearsbut at the age of nine you
started having quote unquoteepisodes, and so walk us through
that and walk us through whatwas going on with you.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Those episodes actually were.
I would get like a sense thatsomething was happening.
I'd get dizzy, I'd have deja vu, I'd throw up.
It was bad.
And we went to the pediatricianand he told my mom and me that
it was hypoglycemia, which mygrandpa was a diabetic, so maybe
, and so we went with that fornine years, which my grandpa was
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a diabetic, so maybe, and um,so we went with that for nine
years, or actually we went withit till I got pregnant with
Hayden.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And there was also a time.
I mean you can look back andremember now.
I mean there was one time youwere in the shower and I think
you passed out and your stepdadhad to come pick you up out of
the shower.
There was a car accident onetime.
And now, looking back, now youknow what caused it, but at the
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time it was.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I was 18.
I was my senior year and I was18.
It was my senior year and I wasdriving home.
I was at the end of our roadwhen it happened and I don't
remember any of it.
The car was totaled and I got alot of injuries from that
accident, but I couldn't tellyou what happened before.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So then we fast forward to.
You are now 20.
We are together and you getpregnant.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And I think the symptoms changed.
I don't know really how ithappened, but you had me talk to
the doctor and they diagnosedit as epilepsy.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
If I remember correctly, I believe you were
describing to your OB Okay, andshe recommended a neurologist,
and so we went to theneurologist.
You had an EEG done and youwere diagnosed.
You weren't diagnosed withepilepsy at that time, but you
were diagnosed with partialcomplex seizures.
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With partial complex seizuresand for those that are listening
that don't understand that youcan describe the feeling you
have, but from somebody elsewho's watching it, you would
just look like you're staringoff into space, but essentially
what it does is you don't losecontrol of your facilities, but
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yet you quote unquote You'resemi paralyzed, is what it feels
like, okay, I mean that's inthat moment you are and, like I
said, there's the deja vu,there's the dizziness.
The nauseousness.
So you were diagnosed withpartial complex seizures.
You didn't lose control ofyourself and start seizing and
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convulsing any of that, and yougot on medicine and you lived
with it and dealt with it onmedicine and then I guess it was
probably around 2016, somewherearound there you had your first
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full-on grand mal.
I think they call them tonicclonic seizures now and it
freaked me out yeah we wereliving with your parents at the
time and I woke up to youconvulsing, um, making weird
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breathing sounds, and in thatmoment it was scary and it took
me.
It felt like it took me foreverto click with what was going on
and I had some medical trainingat the time.
I worked in the ER as a patientcare tech for several years and
was on a journey to become anRN, so I had a little bit of
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medical training.
But when you're living in thatmoment it's scary when it's you
and somebody you love facing it.
So it took me a minute torealize what was going on.
But we ended up calling 911 andyou went to the hospital and
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thank God you know it wasn'tanything other than a seizure,
because just, I mean pure Don'tsay that, because there is a
thing called sudden death andepilepsy where you for no reason
, like Cameron Boyce, the actor,that's what he died from.
No, absolutely, and I'm not, I'mnot saying just, but it was
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just a seizure, it was justepilepsy.
It wasn't a blood clot in yourhead or you know something like
that causing you to seize, itwas epilepsy.
And you were diagnosed withepilepsy and over the course of
I don't know a year, youprobably had what?
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Three or four tonic-clonicseizures.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
One of them.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Then you tell me that I went blue and oh yeah, that
one scared me because you weregoing through it and, um, I had
refreshed my knowledge onseizure first aid and so I knew
if you were having a seizure, Iknew what to do, I knew you know
how to proceed, and you don'tnecessarily somebody who has
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epilepsy, you don't necessarilysomebody who has epilepsy, you
don't necessarily have to call,you know the ambulance
paramedics every time they havea seizure.
But your lips were blue andthat scared the ever loving
daylights out of me, and so Icalled 911 again and again you
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were fine, other than theseizure.
Yeah, um, but you lived withthat and you had the tonic,
clonic seizures, which were bad,and anybody who has lived with
anybody or knows anybody thatsuffers from epilepsy, when you
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have a major seizure like that,it wears your body out.
It's equivalent.
I believe I heard a doctor saya 30-second seizure is
equivalent to you running amarathon as far as what your
body goes through during thattime frame.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And it's painful.
I mean, it's so painfulafterwards and every time I had
one I would bite my tongue sothere'd be that pain and then my
muscles would be all sore frombeing tensed up like that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And it would be.
It would be days.
Recovery from a seizure yeah,before you really started
feeling back to Darcy again.
And so many times I rememberduring that process you would
cry, but during those tears youwould also thank God for
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epilepsy.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I did Explain that I felt like he was did Explain
that.
I felt like he was going to usethat and I just I was grateful
that I was alive and that itwasn't ever any worse than it
was, but I felt like God wasgoing to use that in my life to
bless others.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So you took that and ran with that.
At some point you began prayingfor God to heal you of epilepsy
.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Right, and I didn't really know about healing
Supernatural healing never.
I'm going to be real and honestwith you.
Those preachers on tv thatwould talk about that, they
creeped me out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
but then we started going to some kenneth copeland
events and at one of thoseevents I did the altar call and
so walk me, walk me through thatwhy you did the altar call,
what made you do that and justwhat you felt during that
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process.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
All I can say is I felt in my spirit to go down.
I didn't even at that timethink about really the healing
or anything.
I just felt like I was calleddown to that altar and so I was
obedient and I went.
And then shortly after I wentdown there and they laid hands
on me, I stopped having thepartial complex seizures because
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during this time that all thesebig seizures were happening,
the partials were stillhappening multiple times a week
and as they started to taper off, yeah, I think that's something
to that.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I missed in in talking.
Was that, yes, you startedhaving the tonic clonic seizures
but you still had the partialcomplex, and the partial complex
were rough on you as well, butthose never stopped.
I mean you, from pretty muchthe age of nine till you were
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healed and that's where we'regoing for here is you have been
supernaturally healed by Jesus,by God.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I haven't been on medicine in a long time and the
funny thing is I don't know ifit happened at the Kenneth
Copeland event, because was itlike six months before that we
had an MRI on my brain and theysaid there was no scarring on my
brain at that time?
Okay, but I was still havingstuff for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
You were still having the partials, even when doctors
felt like your epilepsy wasquote-unquote under control, and
by medicine, you were stillhaving the partial complex.
By medicine, you were stillhaving the partial complex.
And those would still, you know, mess with you not only
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physically but also mentally,because they were draining on
your body and your mind.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And they not only had an effect on me, they had an
effect on you and Hayden.
During that time, when you weregone, hayden slept on the floor
.
I'd wake up and he'd be on thefloor and he's like mom, I'm
just watching over you.
So I'd throw him up in the bed.
But I mean, this is at thispoint.
He's either an eighth grader orfreshman in high school and he
was still so concerned about meand that that put some guilt on
me.
But you, I am healed.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Praise God, and I can speak to this because, as I
said, even when the doctorsconsidered your epilepsy you
know, under control by themedicine you were still having
partials and from the moment youwere healed, you haven't had a
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partial.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And you've had periods, menstrual cycles, and
because and I say that becauseyour hormones would really mess
up what was going on and usuallybring on an onset of partial
complex.
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And when you were having thetonic-clonic they were always
either a day before you startedyour menstrual cycle or a day
after you ended your menstrualcycle, ended your menstrual
cycle.
So your hormones were tied tothat and that was medically
spoken to us by a doctor thatthey can affect the epilepsy in
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your body.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And not only that.
I mean I've had a lack of sleepwould cause them, stress would
cause them, and I've had all ofthat lately and not even a sign.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
The Bible tells us that if we have faith as small
as a mustard seed, we can say tothis mountain move from here to
there, and it will be done.
Now, when Jesus is saying thathe's not speaking literal.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
But epilepsy was a mountain in your life.
Right drive unless if it was,you know right around our house.
You know just regular surfacestreets, no highways, nothing
like that.
You wouldn't drive because ofthe fear of having a seizure and
I mean technically.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I shouldn't have been allowed to, because in texas if
you have a seizure you have tobe seizure free for three months
before you can drive right.
Right and the doctors weretalking about taking my license
at one point.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So I just really wanted to take this episode and
we've hit on it before aboutrestoration.
You know in every aspect ofyour life and your health has
been restored.
You no longer have to takethree pills every night before
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you go to bed.
You no longer have to go to aneurologist.
Thank you and be seen by aneurologist.
You've been healed by the greatphysician.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Right, and even with that I still feel like an
advocate for those with epilepsy, like they are still big on my
mind and I pray over them everynight.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Well, that's because you know how it feels and you
know what it's like to live withthat and go through the day to
day.
You know, not knowing if youwere going to have a seizure and
you brought up Cameron Boyceand that was a big fear of yours
was that you know you might goto sleep one night and never
wake up because of what is itcalled sudden onset.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Sudden death and epilepsy.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And so that was a fear that you walked around with
every day.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It was.
It affected my life so much inso many ways, and once that
healing took place, the mentalhealth healing took place also.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
But I want to comment even before the healing, you
started changing your mindset.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I did.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Before the healing, you decided you weren't going to
allow epilepsy to control you.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You weren't going to allow you know fear, fear wasn't
going to control me anymoreabsolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And you started, you know, taking on more
responsibility.
You know, as far as drivinghere, they're doing things that
you wouldn't have previouslydone because of the fear that
you had of having a seizure andA hurting yourself, but B
possibly hurting somebody elsein the process.
And so you started changingthat mindset, before you were
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ever healed, that hey, I'm notgoing to allow this to control
me any longer.
Yes, I have it, yes, I'mcognizant of and aware of the
safety that I need to have, butit's not going to control me
anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
And so you change that mindset.
And then I remember you, youjust so nonchalantly, whenever
we came home from that event,you just, I mean, like you were
telling me about the weather,you're like God healed me from
epilepsy.
Tonight I don't even rememberthat.
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I was like how do you know?
And you were just like I justknow, I just feel it, I just
know that I am healed and praiseGod, you have been seizure free
.
Tonic-clonic.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Over six years on that one.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Tonic-clonic partial complex.
Any symptom of epilepsy youhave not had since that moment.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And I try.
I used to twitch at night,right.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Oh, all the time.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
I don't twitch at night anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Not once.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So I just want that to be another testimony out
there to encourage people and toknow that what the word of God
says is true.
The Word of God is true and theSpirit of God that abides in us
now is real and the power thatwe have because of that spirit,
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the power that that spirit hasbecause Jesus Christ died on the
cross, defeated death, rosefrom the grave, we can be healed
.
I'm not saying go do stupidstuff like if you are on
life-saving medications, youknow that sort of thing.
Don't just stop taking yourmedication because you've
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decided that you are healedRight A, get the proof A so that
you're not doing anything dumband taking it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Use.
Wisdom is what you're trying tosay.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Absolutely Use wisdom , but also get that proof so
that it can be a testimony toothers, to the unbelievers.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And so that small little bit of faith, and I could
be wrong, but I don't think youwere fully healed until you
started claiming it, Until youtold me that night I've been
healed of epilepsy.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
So I praise God for your restoration and your health
and I pray that through yousharing that, others will be
inspired, others' faith will begrown, Because I think so many
times when you have healingministries, the first thing to
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say is oh, that's fake.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I was one of those.
I promise you I was and youknow that I was.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I didn't know that I was, but my question to you or
any other Christian, any otherbeliever why is it fake?
I mean, God is the same Godtoday as he was in the days of
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Moses, I had never learned abouthealing.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
That wasn't anything I had been exposed to.
So you know, and I was atelevangelist and he's a little
wild and so I kind of questionedit, but it has shown me so much
.
I have learned so much in thisprocess.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So we serve a God who's the same God as he was in
the days of the Bible.
We serve the same God that camedown to this earth and put on a
human body to go througheverything that we went through
and the miracles that Jesusperformed on earth healing the
blind, healing the leprosy,healing the lame, raising people
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from the dead that can stillhappen today.
Our faith is just so small.
We have been so watered down asChristians, as believers, that
for some reason and I think alot of that is Satan in our head
telling us that that can'thappen anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Right, and that's what I thought.
I mean, I was like I saw it inthe Bible, but is that relevant
to today?
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
And I was the same way.
I was a proponent of you knowhealing, but I would always say
God uses doctors.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Today, to do that healing.
You drive me crazy when youwould say that.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
But now I am proclaiming it from the
mountaintops that God can andwill heal you.
All you have to do is believe.
Now, does God always heal?
Does God always heal?
Sometimes our healing, you know, comes through death on this
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earth and we are fully restoredin heaven, right, but God can
and God will Miraculous heal youon this earth.
And so I just want to say outthere to anybody listening, if
there is any doubt in your mind,pray.
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Pray for the Holy Spirit toremove that doubt.
Pray for God to work on yourlife and to build your faith.
And that's why I share all ofthese little things that build
our faith, because faith comesthrough the hearing of the word
and, and you know, we build ourfaith through the testimony of
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others.
And when you hear that, youhear these little things, you
hear big things, but all thoselittle things build that faith
up and make that faith stronger.
So when you do need the faithfor the big thing, you have it.
And I think of something mysister told you whenever you
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told her about the healing, andshe just says she said that that
requires a ton of yeah my faithhad grown and I'm so thankful
for everybody that poured in andyou know.
Praise God, the Montgomery's areliving in an epilepsy-free
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house.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
With a restored marriage, a restored family, and
I thank anybody and everybodywho is listening and I hope that
your faith has been encouragedthrough this and I hope that
your faith has been made alittle stronger, as always.
If you have any questions forus, feel free to reach out to us
on Facebook, at the RestoredPodcast, or you can send us an
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email at therestoredcast, atgmailcom.
We would love to hear from you,we would love to pray for and
with you and, as always,whatever you send us in private
will not be made public, unlessif you request that, until next
week.
I am Frank, alongside mybeautiful wife, darcy, and you
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have been listening to theRestored Podcast.
you were listening to the restored podcast with frank
and Darcy Montgomery.
Well, we're here on episodefour.
Finally, finally.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We missed a week.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Not that we didn't try, because we did, but there
was some issues, issues beingwork schedule, technical
difficulties, my wife notwanting to agree to the subject
matter that I wanted to talkabout, and so creative
differences, but we're all good.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
now we're on the same page.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's not easy walking in or down the path that God
wants you to walk, and I thinkthat's key.
Whenever you are obeying Godand allowing Him to direct you
in what you should be doing andhow you should be doing it and
where you should be doing it,and you are completely following
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him, you're going to haveroadblocks, you're going to have
speed bumps, you're going tohave difficulties and trials.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So that you can lean on him for your strength and not
on yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, not only that, but you'll be attacked by Satan.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think Christians maybe not as much now as have in
the past portray this life ofpure bliss and rainbows and
butterflies after you give yourlife to Christ.
But I mean, it's evidentthroughout scripture that that's
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just not the case and it's notthat God does things to you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He allows things, but he doesn't do them to you, and
not everything that you gothrough that's difficult is an
attack from satan no, some of itis by our own doing yes
consequences from our choices.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Um, I was talking to hayden last night.
I mean, every choice you make,there is a consequence.
That consequence can either begood or that consequence can be
bad.
And I think that's anotherrabbit hole that we could go
down.
And you know, we could savethat for a future episode if you
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want.
But yes, the church is soquickly to cry.
Oh, satan's attacking me whenthings aren't going right and
I'm like well, hold on, brother,you can't afford to pay your
rent because you were at theCowboys game last week.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's not Satan attacking your finances, that's
not God, you know, testing you,that is.
You spent money.
You didn't have to go dosomething fun when you had
responsibilities of paying yourmortgage or paying your utility
bills or whatever that might be,and we're quick to get up or
(03:40):
tell our friends oh, satan'sattacking me so hard from this
or that.
And yes, he does.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right, and I mean usually he will find a place
with each person to attack andthat's how you can kind of tell
if it's the same thing, because,like with me, when I am under
attack it is in my health orit's in my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But that's also the two places where God has greatly
transformed your life.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And Satan knows that he's no dummy.
You know, he's not just someidiot roaming the earth and, you
know, gets lucky every now andthen.
He is very smart, he is verycrafty and he knows exactly
where to hit us.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And that's why you need to you know equip yourself
and find how to you know standagainst those attacks.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So we just brought up that he likes to attack your
health and your mental state.
And I'm just going to hit onmental state real quick 90, I
would say at least 90% of yourthoughts that are in your head
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come from Satan.
Right, and that's why thescripture tells us we have to
take every thought captive, yourthoughts.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That are in your head come from Satan.
Right, and that's why thescripture tells us we have to
take every thought captive.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We have to make it obedient to Christ after you
take it captive Absolutely andthat's forget that part, that's
part of making it.
You know, taking that cut, take, making that thought and taking
it captive that's part of it ismaking it obedient to Christ.
As we are being renewed, as ourminds are being renewed by the
word, by prayer and worship wehave to filter what comes into
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our mind.
Filter what comes into our mindand when something comes into
our mind, we either A dismiss itand forget about it or we take
it and we run with it, but in anobedience to Christ.
And I think so many peoplethink that when a thought comes
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into their mind, you know thatthat's who they are Right.
So many people deal withdepression, anxiety, bipolar
schizophrenia, anxiety, bipolarschizophrenia, and we're not
(06:30):
going to get into what's leadingto maybe that epidemic of
mental health.
Part of it is human but part ofit is Satan.
And I remember growing up andwhenever you and I first got
together and when Hayden wasborn, hayden had some struggles
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and you know you grew up in ahousehold that I won't say.
Medicine was God.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But medicine was the cure-all.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean I spent from the time I was five until I was
18 or older on ADHD medicationsand antidepressants.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And little disclaimer .
Those things help.
I don't think they are thecure-all.
They treat symptoms and theyare needed at times.
So I don't want anybodylistening thinking that I am
sitting here saying, you know,nobody needs antidepressants,
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nobody needs anti-anxiety,nobody, you know needs
absolutely.
You need those things.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But all that mental health comes from satan and
that's been a big struggle in mylife and now I can say that god
has healed me.
Um, he's healed me in themental areas of it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I still have adhd, but I don't have the depression,
the anxiety, the suicidalthoughts, any of that anymore
see, and I grew up in ahousehold, I mean my, my parents
were older and my parents wereold school and I mean when you
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were feeling down.
When you were feeling down,when you were feeling quote
unquote depressed hey, buddy,you got to shake it off.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Pull your boots up by the bootstraps and get to
marching and carry on and pushthrough it, and that's what I
learned to do.
I learned to push through it.
But that can also be damaging,because a lot of times those
emotions, those things that arecausing that, just get pushed
down.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But I mean, I started taking antidepressants or not
antidepressants?
Well, yeah, they areantidepressants but they also
treat anxiety.
I started taking them somewherearound 2015, 2016, and I
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remember it like it wasyesterday.
We had just purchased thecompany.
I'd gone through a two-yearprocess of getting funding and
all of that to purchase thecompany.
We were about to take avacation, something that we
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hadn't done as a family together, just the three of us.
We were getting ready to take avacation in a few days and you
and I are laying in bed and wealways we would turn the TV on,
and we still do this.
We turn the TV on and just forsome background noise, as we're
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winding down to go to sleep.
And so we hadn't been up doingstuff, we hadn't been, you know,
exerting ourselves.
And I'm laying in bed, and Ithink you've already rolled over
and almost asleep, and my heartbegins to start pounding in my
chest very, very fast, very,very fast.
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I don't say anything to you.
I get up, I put my watch onthat, I can check my heart rate
and I believe it was somewherearound 150, 160 beats per minute
.
That's crazy, and I remember Iam freaking out on the inside
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because A I'm overweight andI've been told for all my adult
life, if you don't lose theweight, you're going to die of a
heart attack.
Well, there I was in 2015.
And I was 34 years old at thetime.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Something like that, and I thought I was going to die
that night of a heart attack.
But I, very calmly after I putmy watch on seeing my heart rate
, I, very calmly, I sat on theedge of the bed and I told you I
think I'm having a heart attack, you need to call 911.
And they come.
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And long story short, aftermany trips to the ER, I think we
had three or four.
One that night by ambulance, butturns out it was just anxiety.
And it took a few months beforethe doctor got through to my
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head and you know cardiologistsvisits, stress tests, er visits,
ekgs, chest x-rays, blood work,everything and every doctor's
you know, telling me yourheart's fine, you're not having
a heart attack, you didn't havea heart attack, your heart's
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fine.
And it took about three monthsbefore my doctor finally
convinced me okay, it's anxiety,take this medicine.
It's anxiety, take thismedicine.
So I started taking themedicine and over the past year
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God's really been dealing withme about how I depended on that
medicine for my anxiety, and soyou had already gotten off a lot
of the medication that you wereon and I decided, okay, I am
going to stop taking myanti-anxiety medicine.
I you know I did it the rightway.
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I began taking less over thecourse of a few weeks and then I
stepped it down again until Iwas completely off of it.
But a couple weeks ago I'mlaying in bed and I heard
someone teaching on mentalhealth and they said that it was
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a spirit of anxiety.
And if it's a spirit of anxiety, I have the authority in Christ
to bind that spirit here onearth and take control of that
spirit.
And I just remember that night.
I mean, it was like a flashbackto 2015.
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I was laying there in bed and,bam, my heart started racing,
pounding out of my chest.
And my first instinct I got up,I started pacing.
I had you know, I was doinglike I used to always do.
I was doing like I used toalways do.
I'd put my fingers on my wrist,on that vein in your wrist, to
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check your pulse, which Ialready knew it was going crazy
because I felt it in my chest.
But then the Holy Spiritbrought to memory.
In the middle of that anxiety,panic, attack, the Holy Spirit
spoke to me and reminded to mewhat I had heard in that
teaching.
And right there I just saidspirit of anxiety, you have no
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authority over me.
I bind you in the name of JesusChrist.
You have no control over mythoughts, you have no control
over my body.
And within five minutes I wasasleep over my body and within
five minutes I was asleep.
And so we have control overthat stuff.
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Medicine does help treat thesymptoms, but when you realize
that Jesus died for that on thecross, just as he did our sins,
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it is so empowering and sofreeing to know that we have
that capability.
So, with that being said, I wantto encourage anybody out there
that maybe deals with anxiety,deals with depression, deals
with any other quote-unquotemental health.
If we know that that is anattack of Satan on our minds,
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then we have the power over thatthrough Jesus Christ.
And one thing that I had tolearn was, if you were talking
to anybody or anything otherthan yourself or God, you have
to verbally speak it out loud.
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You can't just say it in yourmind.
Satan doesn't have that power.
Satan doesn't have that abilityto hear your thoughts, to hear
your inner conversations withyourself or God.
In order for Satan or an evilspirit to hear it, you have to
speak it out loud.
Are going through that time,through an attack.
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I want you to verbally bindthat spirit and bind it in the
name of Jesus Christ, becauseit's only Jesus that gives us
that authority over evil spiritsand Satan.
That authority to you know,take control and demand that
they do something.
So if you are, you know,battling something, just speak
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to that spirit and speak to thatspirit in the name of Jesus
Christ, and bind it and remindthat spirit that it does not
have authority over you, it doesnot have control over your
thoughts, it does not havecontrol over your emotions and
it definitely doesn't havecontrol over your body and I
guarantee you you will feel animmediate change from inside,
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just like I did that night.
Recently, whenever you know, Ihad the panic attack and I just
talked about it.
I mean immediately.
My heart went from if I wereguessing my heart was probably
racing about 120.
And again wasn't doing anythingphysical to exert, you know
myself to get my heart rate upto that.
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It was pure anxiety.
And whenever I spoke to thatspirit and reminded it that it
doesn't have the authority overme because of Jesus, I mean
immediately I felt that changeand immediately I went from
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freak out mode heart racing tosnoring.
Earlier you mentioned alsoabout where Satan attacks you
physically and I I kind ofwanted to hit on that and you
have dealt with.
You have dealt with somethingbasically almost your entire
life, from very early on.
About the age of nine was whenthe first one is when the
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symptoms first started appearing, and so I want to talk to you
about that.
You were, you were.
I'm not going to say your age,but I don't care, I'm 39 so for
about and I can't say 30 years,because where we're going with
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this it's just shy of 30 yearsbut at the age of nine you
started having quote unquoteepisodes, and so walk us through
that and walk us through whatwas going on with you.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Those episodes actually were.
I would get like a sense thatsomething was happening.
I'd get dizzy, I'd have deja vu, I'd throw up.
It was bad.
And we went to the pediatricianand he told my mom and me that
it was hypoglycemia, which mygrandpa was a diabetic, so maybe
, and so we went with that fornine years, which my grandpa was
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a diabetic, so maybe, and um,so we went with that for nine
years, or actually we went withit till I got pregnant with
Hayden.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And there was also a time.
I mean you can look back andremember now.
I mean there was one time youwere in the shower and I think
you passed out and your stepdadhad to come pick you up out of
the shower.
There was a car accident onetime.
And now, looking back, now youknow what caused it, but at the
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time it was.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I was 18.
I was my senior year and I was18.
It was my senior year and I wasdriving home.
I was at the end of our roadwhen it happened and I don't
remember any of it.
The car was totaled and I got alot of injuries from that
accident, but I couldn't tellyou what happened before.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So then we fast forward to.
You are now 20.
We are together and you getpregnant.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And I think the symptoms changed.
I don't know really how ithappened, but you had me talk to
the doctor and they diagnosedit as epilepsy.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
If I remember correctly, I believe you were
describing to your OB Okay, andshe recommended a neurologist,
and so we went to theneurologist.
You had an EEG done and youwere diagnosed.
You weren't diagnosed withepilepsy at that time, but you
were diagnosed with partialcomplex seizures.
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With partial complex seizuresand for those that are listening
that don't understand that youcan describe the feeling you
have, but from somebody elsewho's watching it, you would
just look like you're staringoff into space, but essentially
what it does is you don't losecontrol of your facilities, but
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yet you quote unquote You'resemi paralyzed, is what it feels
like, okay, I mean that's inthat moment you are and, like I
said, there's the deja vu,there's the dizziness.
The nauseousness.
So you were diagnosed withpartial complex seizures.
You didn't lose control ofyourself and start seizing and
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convulsing any of that, and yougot on medicine and you lived
with it and dealt with it onmedicine and then I guess it was
probably around 2016, somewherearound there you had your first
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full-on grand mal.
I think they call them tonicclonic seizures now and it
freaked me out yeah we wereliving with your parents at the
time and I woke up to youconvulsing, um, making weird
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breathing sounds, and in thatmoment it was scary and it took
me.
It felt like it took me foreverto click with what was going on
and I had some medical trainingat the time.
I worked in the ER as a patientcare tech for several years and
was on a journey to become anRN, so I had a little bit of
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medical training.
But when you're living in thatmoment it's scary when it's you
and somebody you love facing it.
So it took me a minute torealize what was going on.
But we ended up calling 911 andyou went to the hospital and
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thank God you know it wasn'tanything other than a seizure,
because just, I mean pure Don'tsay that, because there is a
thing called sudden death andepilepsy where you for no reason
, like Cameron Boyce, the actor,that's what he died from.
No, absolutely, and I'm not, I'mnot saying just, but it was
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just a seizure, it was justepilepsy.
It wasn't a blood clot in yourhead or you know something like
that causing you to seize, itwas epilepsy.
And you were diagnosed withepilepsy and over the course of
I don't know a year, youprobably had what?
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Three or four tonic-clonicseizures.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
One of them.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Then you tell me that I went blue and oh yeah, that
one scared me because you weregoing through it and, um, I had
refreshed my knowledge onseizure first aid and so I knew
if you were having a seizure, Iknew what to do, I knew you know
how to proceed, and you don'tnecessarily somebody who has
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epilepsy, you don't necessarilysomebody who has epilepsy, you
don't necessarily have to call,you know the ambulance
paramedics every time they havea seizure.
But your lips were blue andthat scared the ever loving
daylights out of me, and so Icalled 911 again and again you
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were fine, other than theseizure.
Yeah, um, but you lived withthat and you had the tonic,
clonic seizures, which were bad,and anybody who has lived with
anybody or knows anybody thatsuffers from epilepsy, when you
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have a major seizure like that,it wears your body out.
It's equivalent.
I believe I heard a doctor saya 30-second seizure is
equivalent to you running amarathon as far as what your
body goes through during thattime frame.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And it's painful.
I mean, it's so painfulafterwards and every time I had
one I would bite my tongue sothere'd be that pain and then my
muscles would be all sore frombeing tensed up like that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And it would be.
It would be days.
Recovery from a seizure yeah,before you really started
feeling back to Darcy again.
And so many times I rememberduring that process you would
cry, but during those tears youwould also thank God for
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epilepsy.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I did Explain that I felt like he was did Explain
that.
I felt like he was going to usethat and I just I was grateful
that I was alive and that itwasn't ever any worse than it
was, but I felt like God wasgoing to use that in my life to
bless others.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So you took that and ran with that.
At some point you began prayingfor God to heal you of epilepsy
.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Right, and I didn't really know about healing
Supernatural healing never.
I'm going to be real and honestwith you.
Those preachers on tv thatwould talk about that, they
creeped me out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
but then we started going to some kenneth copeland
events and at one of thoseevents I did the altar call and
so walk me, walk me through thatwhy you did the altar call,
what made you do that and justwhat you felt during that
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process.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
All I can say is I felt in my spirit to go down.
I didn't even at that timethink about really the healing
or anything.
I just felt like I was calleddown to that altar and so I was
obedient and I went.
And then shortly after I wentdown there and they laid hands
on me, I stopped having thepartial complex seizures because
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during this time that all thesebig seizures were happening,
the partials were stillhappening multiple times a week
and as they started to taper off, yeah, I think that's something
to that.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I missed in in talking.
Was that, yes, you startedhaving the tonic clonic seizures
but you still had the partialcomplex, and the partial complex
were rough on you as well, butthose never stopped.
I mean you, from pretty muchthe age of nine till you were
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healed and that's where we'regoing for here is you have been
supernaturally healed by Jesus,by God.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I haven't been on medicine in a long time and the
funny thing is I don't know ifit happened at the Kenneth
Copeland event, because was itlike six months before that we
had an MRI on my brain and theysaid there was no scarring on my
brain at that time?
Okay, but I was still havingstuff for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
You were still having the partials, even when doctors
felt like your epilepsy wasquote-unquote under control, and
by medicine, you were stillhaving the partial complex.
By medicine, you were stillhaving the partial complex.
And those would still, you know, mess with you not only
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physically but also mentally,because they were draining on
your body and your mind.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And they not only had an effect on me, they had an
effect on you and Hayden.
During that time, when you weregone, hayden slept on the floor
.
I'd wake up and he'd be on thefloor and he's like mom, I'm
just watching over you.
So I'd throw him up in the bed.
But I mean, this is at thispoint.
He's either an eighth grader orfreshman in high school and he
was still so concerned about meand that that put some guilt on
me.
But you, I am healed.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Praise God, and I can speak to this because, as I
said, even when the doctorsconsidered your epilepsy you
know, under control by themedicine you were still having
partials and from the moment youwere healed, you haven't had a
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partial.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And you've had periods, menstrual cycles, and
because and I say that becauseyour hormones would really mess
up what was going on and usuallybring on an onset of partial
complex.
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And when you were having thetonic-clonic they were always
either a day before you startedyour menstrual cycle or a day
after you ended your menstrualcycle, ended your menstrual
cycle.
So your hormones were tied tothat and that was medically
spoken to us by a doctor thatthey can affect the epilepsy in
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your body.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And not only that.
I mean I've had a lack of sleepwould cause them, stress would
cause them, and I've had all ofthat lately and not even a sign.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
The Bible tells us that if we have faith as small
as a mustard seed, we can say tothis mountain move from here to
there, and it will be done.
Now, when Jesus is saying thathe's not speaking literal.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
But epilepsy was a mountain in your life.
Right drive unless if it was,you know right around our house.
You know just regular surfacestreets, no highways, nothing
like that.
You wouldn't drive because ofthe fear of having a seizure and
I mean technically.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I shouldn't have been allowed to, because in texas if
you have a seizure you have tobe seizure free for three months
before you can drive right.
Right and the doctors weretalking about taking my license
at one point.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So I just really wanted to take this episode and
we've hit on it before aboutrestoration.
You know in every aspect ofyour life and your health has
been restored.
You no longer have to takethree pills every night before
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you go to bed.
You no longer have to go to aneurologist.
Thank you and be seen by aneurologist.
You've been healed by the greatphysician.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Right, and even with that I still feel like an
advocate for those with epilepsy, like they are still big on my
mind and I pray over them everynight.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Well, that's because you know how it feels and you
know what it's like to live withthat and go through the day to
day.
You know, not knowing if youwere going to have a seizure and
you brought up Cameron Boyceand that was a big fear of yours
was that you know you might goto sleep one night and never
wake up because of what is itcalled sudden onset.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Sudden death and epilepsy.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And so that was a fear that you walked around with
every day.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It was.
It affected my life so much inso many ways, and once that
healing took place, the mentalhealth healing took place also.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
But I want to comment even before the healing, you
started changing your mindset.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I did.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Before the healing, you decided you weren't going to
allow epilepsy to control you.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You weren't going to allow you know fear, fear wasn't
going to control me anymoreabsolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And you started, you know, taking on more
responsibility.
You know, as far as drivinghere, they're doing things that
you wouldn't have previouslydone because of the fear that
you had of having a seizure andA hurting yourself, but B
possibly hurting somebody elsein the process.
And so you started changingthat mindset, before you were
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ever healed, that hey, I'm notgoing to allow this to control
me any longer.
Yes, I have it, yes, I'mcognizant of and aware of the
safety that I need to have, butit's not going to control me
anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
And so you change that mindset.
And then I remember you, youjust so nonchalantly, whenever
we came home from that event,you just, I mean, like you were
telling me about the weather,you're like God healed me from
epilepsy.
Tonight I don't even rememberthat.
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I was like how do you know?
And you were just like I justknow, I just feel it, I just
know that I am healed and praiseGod, you have been seizure free
.
Tonic-clonic.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Over six years on that one.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Tonic-clonic partial complex.
Any symptom of epilepsy youhave not had since that moment.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And I try.
I used to twitch at night,right.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Oh, all the time.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
I don't twitch at night anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Not once.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So I just want that to be another testimony out
there to encourage people and toknow that what the word of God
says is true.
The Word of God is true and theSpirit of God that abides in us
now is real and the power thatwe have because of that spirit,
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the power that that spirit hasbecause Jesus Christ died on the
cross, defeated death, rosefrom the grave, we can be healed
.
I'm not saying go do stupidstuff like if you are on
life-saving medications, youknow that sort of thing.
Don't just stop taking yourmedication because you've
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decided that you are healedRight A, get the proof A so that
you're not doing anything dumband taking it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Use.
Wisdom is what you're trying tosay.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Absolutely Use wisdom , but also get that proof so
that it can be a testimony toothers, to the unbelievers.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And so that small little bit of faith, and I could
be wrong, but I don't think youwere fully healed until you
started claiming it, Until youtold me that night I've been
healed of epilepsy.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
So I praise God for your restoration and your health
and I pray that through yousharing that, others will be
inspired, others' faith will begrown, Because I think so many
times when you have healingministries, the first thing to
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say is oh, that's fake.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I was one of those.
I promise you I was and youknow that I was.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I didn't know that I was, but my question to you or
any other Christian, any otherbeliever why is it fake?
I mean, God is the same Godtoday as he was in the days of
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Moses, I had never learned abouthealing.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
That wasn't anything I had been exposed to.
So you know, and I was atelevangelist and he's a little
wild and so I kind of questionedit, but it has shown me so much
.
I have learned so much in thisprocess.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So we serve a God who's the same God as he was in
the days of the Bible.
We serve the same God that camedown to this earth and put on a
human body to go througheverything that we went through
and the miracles that Jesusperformed on earth healing the
blind, healing the leprosy,healing the lame, raising people
(39:17):
from the dead that can stillhappen today.
Our faith is just so small.
We have been so watered down asChristians, as believers, that
for some reason and I think alot of that is Satan in our head
telling us that that can'thappen anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Right, and that's what I thought.
I mean, I was like I saw it inthe Bible, but is that relevant
to today?
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
And I was the same way.
I was a proponent of you knowhealing, but I would always say
God uses doctors.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Today, to do that healing.
You drive me crazy when youwould say that.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
But now I am proclaiming it from the
mountaintops that God can andwill heal you.
All you have to do is believe.
Now, does God always heal?
Does God always heal?
Sometimes our healing, you know, comes through death on this
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earth and we are fully restoredin heaven, right, but God can
and God will Miraculous heal youon this earth.
And so I just want to say outthere to anybody listening, if
there is any doubt in your mind,pray.
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Pray for the Holy Spirit toremove that doubt.
Pray for God to work on yourlife and to build your faith.
And that's why I share all ofthese little things that build
our faith, because faith comesthrough the hearing of the word
and, and you know, we build ourfaith through the testimony of
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others.
And when you hear that, youhear these little things, you
hear big things, but all thoselittle things build that faith
up and make that faith stronger.
So when you do need the faithfor the big thing, you have it.
And I think of something mysister told you whenever you
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told her about the healing, andshe just says she said that that
requires a ton of yeah my faithhad grown and I'm so thankful
for everybody that poured in andyou know.
Praise God, the Montgomery's areliving in an epilepsy-free
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house.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
With a restored marriage, a restored family, and
I thank anybody and everybodywho is listening and I hope that
your faith has been encouragedthrough this and I hope that
your faith has been made alittle stronger, as always.
If you have any questions forus, feel free to reach out to us
on Facebook, at the RestoredPodcast, or you can send us an
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email at therestoredcast, atgmailcom.
We would love to hear from you,we would love to pray for and
with you and, as always,whatever you send us in private
will not be made public, unlessif you request that, until next
week.
I am Frank, alongside mybeautiful wife, darcy, and you
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have been listening to theRestored Podcast.
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