Loose & Bind

Margarita R. from California

On the morning of Thursday, January 12th, 2023, I was sewing garments in the dining room of my mother's home. My mother, Maria, had just finished her breakfast and was working on a puzzle with her in-home nurse. At approximately 10:15 am, I heard the nurse call out, "Maria, Maria," with concern in her voice. I then turned my attention to her and found my mother slumped forward in her chair with mucus and saliva coming out of her mouth and nose. My mother was not responding to the nurse's calls and apparently had stopped breathing, so the nurse instructed me to call 911.

My first thought while dialing 911 was to get my anointing oil from the other room, anoint my mother, and pray healing scriptures, but the dispatcher had answered the call and began to instruct the nurse and me to place my mother flat on her back and see if she would start breathing. I informed the dispatcher that my mother had a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate order), so no CPR could be performed on her. Since she had not begun to breathe, we were then instructed to turn her on her side and clear her mouth and nose of the saliva and mucus. While doing this, I remembered that my daughter, Sayonna, had shared with me that she learned from Pastor Nancy Dufresne that we have healing power constantly flowing through us. I immediately declared that no weapon formed against my mother would prosper.

The paramedics then arrived, and the dispatcher ended the call. One of the paramedics was on the phone with my other daughter who lives with my mother, but was at work. He was asking her questions about my mother's meds, and the others were trying to get my mother's vitals and get her to start breathing. Immediately I thought, "Bind and loose," then I got a check in my spirit to "loose and bind," as I remembered what Brother Richard Roberts shared during the Holy Ghost Meetings in Murrieta that I had just attended - to loose, then bind. I then said out loud, "I loose the spirit of life to do what He needs to with my mother, and I bind the spirit of death's power over my mother. Death, you have no right to her." Now it wasn't exactly how Brother Roberts stated to do it, but it worked, because immediately after saying this, my mother went from laying on her back, not breathing, to sitting straight up as if nothing had just happened to her. The paramedics and nurse had looks of shock on their faces, and I just started thanking and praising God. I got the phone from the paramedic and informed my daughter that my mother had just sat up and was now responding.

The paramedics informed us that since my mother was elderly and had gone a while without breathing, they were going to take her to the hospital for a routine checkup. My mother was released from the hospital later the same day.