The doctors said, “This is it.”
“I thought you said you were healed,” Doc said.
“I am healed.”
“You don’t look healed.”
“What does that have to do with it? Jesus said I’m healed; therefore, I’m going with that.”
Two weeks later, no trace of cancer was found in Jeri’s body. The doctors, however, had removed her female organs and told her she would never have any more children.
David was born three years later.
Today, at 91, Jeri Horton is still alive!
The Shadows Darken
After four years of battling cancer, Cherie confided in a friend. “I won’t say this to David, but I really feel like I’m done. I’ve seen and done everything I’m supposed to do.”
Although the friend didn’t share Cherie’s secret, the Lord did.
“Listen,” David told Cherie, “I’ll never stop standing with you and believing God. But if you’re tired and want to go home with Jesus, there’s no shame in choosing to go to heaven.”
Three days later, on Dec. 5, 2017, Cherie Horton left this earth filled with peace. She was 60.
Standing in the church next to his wife’s casket, David looked up to see George and Terri Pearsons walk in. Kenneth Copeland had rented a Steinway for pianist David Ellis to play at the memorial service. A video celebrating Cherie’s life was put together by KCM at no charge. Kenneth also told David he would fly him to all of Kenneth’s meetings for the next year. During every crisis in his life, Kenneth Copeland had always been the first to respond.
With the long illness and death of his wife of 36 years, David had reached the darkest of shadows that Brother Hagin had prophesied on their wedding day. He was a minister of God. A man of faith. He believed in the blood and the Name of Jesus. He trusted in Psalm 91. He knew the grace of God’s miraculous, healing power.
Yet, his wife and son were dead, far too soon.
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