This story is going to help someone else too.. On my prayer walk tonight..

An example of Psorasis on the hands - from the internet

I no sooner let the dogs out of the car and began to walk, than a man walking towards me in the opposite direction, stopped me, we recognized each other, and he greeted me warmly with this question.. ‘Are you still moving to Russia?’. I recognized Mohammed, though we’d not crossed paths since probably last summer.

I said we were, but had things to do before that step was to be taken.. In what became a lengthy conversation, I remembered that he was from Turkey, so I asked him about the quality of dentists there. I would never have thought of it, except I had mentioned to my son the idea of visiting a dentist in Russia, and he surprised me by suggesting I just go to Turkey - which was easier to get to! (Truth). I had wondered why he thought to suggest Turkey, but the suggestion stuck with me..

I need a lot of dental work and 2 things prevent me from getting it done here.. the cost¹ - and I’m concerned about anesthesia in the USA, which I’ve heard is likely adulterated with covid vaccine ingredients.. (I’d believe anything at this point). So this year I’ve been spraying my mouth with a peppermint oil laced hydrochlorous acid in some gaping holes, to keep any infection in check.

Well, in fact, he told me, the dentists in Turkey are excellent; but he personally had to go to Albania to have work done, as he is not able to return to Turkey for political reasons.

As he mentioned the dental work he had done, his hand passed instinctively towards his face, pointing to his lower jaw, and I saw his fingers. The fingers on both hands in fact had ugly gaping wounds, as if he had burned them in a fire.

I asked him, ‘Did you burn your hands?’.

He said ‘No, it’s Psoriasis’.

Immediately I remembered the old woman with lobster red hands that looked like claws, who suffered from Eczema; and who Pastor Thurmond Scrivner healed by pointing out the root cause of the skin disease - in her case - self hatred., leading her to repent, and then praying for her. She was totally delivered.

What you need to understand, is that God goes out of His way to show us our error so that we have a chance to repent while we’re still living - and not die in our sins.

And yes, self hatred - any hatred - is a sin.. (Israel.. are you listening?)

One way He shows us our sin, is by a poetic resemblance between the sickness and the sin; Unrelenting anger, for example, can show up in vericose veins.. or hemmorhoids, or a brain tumor.. that is, things which can grow and grow until they burst, in a pictoral description of a seething pot.. it’s contents boiling till it blows it’s cover.

In the case of psoriasis or eczema, the skin shows the burning emotions in what actually looks (and can feel) like skin on fire.

Our skin - the largest organ of the body- is designed to protect us. But when that fails, when the poison comes from within, the skin will show the damage visually and painfully. Until the toxic emotion is removed; the skin will resist all attempts at cure.

I told Mohammed that I could help him with the problem, and pointed out that I had been a medical researcher for over 50 years; Then I asked him - ‘May I ask you 2 questions?’ He readily agreed..

First I asked - “How long have you had this condition..? When did the psorasis start?”

He said - Since 2016.

I asked my 2nd question: “Was there something new in your life, particularly something trumatic that happened that year?”

“Yes” - came the immediate reply.. “In July of 2016 Turkey suffered a coup attempt. The coup failed but it divided the country, and even families, and in fact many people were killed. In my case, my own family was on either side of the issues and I was singled out as being on the wrong side of the debate, by my own family. I wasn’t even IN Turkey (he was here in the US on a student visa).”

In fact, the division in his family and his own excommunication is still in force, and the pain of the attack, and rejection so traumatized him, that the young many cannot return to his own country, and continues to carry deep hurts and anger over the situation that he had nothing at all to do with..

That traumatic episode resulted in the searing anger and resentment towards the people that turned on him, in his own family, which ultimately led to the protracted searing of his fingers and the skin on his arms. It looks like a burn, because it shows the burning emotions still simmering below the surface of his skin - inside his heart.

I told Mohammed that Jesus said something that he would find very helpful.. ‘Be angry, but sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath’..

I also pointed out Proverbs 26:2 - “The curse causeless shall not come’., explaining how Moses referred to all sickness and disease as the ‘curse of Egypt’. Anything like a lingering disease, especially one as painful as Psoriasis, is as a curse. The GOOD news from this verse though, is that it points out that the ‘sickness’ or ‘psoriasis’ in this case, never happens for no reason at all. There is always a reason; and the reason for all disease is sin.

I was speaking freely in this case, as he was hanging on every word - as is the case when a person is hearing a truth that they recognize - that pertains to them individually.

I explained forgiveness to Mohammed from the standpoint of Christianity, in that, we are called to forgive as a ‘quid pro quo’, that is.. if we refuse to forgive others, neither will our father in heaven forgive us. (Check the sermon on the Mount for that point).

I asked Mohammed if he would be willing to forgive the people he was angry at., explaining that we forgive not because people necessarily deserve it, but because it is a commandment of the Lord. He was hesitant., and explained further to me the turmoil they had put him in, since the national division that was pitting Turks one against the other.. (Sort of like what is happening in the USA right now between the ‘Trump’ followers and the rest of the nation. This sort of schema has a diabolical design)..

Finally, he agreed to pray about everything and return a reply to me by email. I told him that if he would be willing to forgive, that I could pray for him and he would be healed, if not instantly than very quickly. THough HEALED of psoriasis is far better an outcome than the ‘shots’ the doctors want to give him for it, not promising a cure at all, but an ameliorating of the symptoms..

I’ll let you know what happens. Right now, the young man has the keys to his own deliverance. So do you. If you are suffering from Psoriasis or Eczema or some other skin disorder, the problem is inevitably tied to something you need to stop doing with your emotions, repent of it, and just ask the Lord to forgive you.

I did that in 1997, and in 1998 - exactly a year to the day I obeyed God and forgave a long list of people, and in 1999 I gave birth to my one and only child. Nikolai is 26 today, and is the gift (of obedience) that keeps on giving.

I’ll let you know what Mohammed decides…

And PS.. God just showed me.. just now.. what is wrong with someone I love!! OMG! Here’s an intenet photo of EXACTLY what they’re suffering..

I’ll write about this my next opportunity..

1. The cost in the USA, of what I need done, would buy me a recent model Tesla.