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by Ronald C. Jordan It had been as normal a week as any for April Nelson as the energetic young single mom scurried about, making sure she had everything she needed for her trip to Washington, D.C. It would be the second straight year she had traveled to the nation's capital to attend the annual Christians United for Israel Summit, and April was looking forward to spending the time away with fellow believers. That's when the first symptoms occurred. was packing and just trying to get things together and I was running into the walls," April recalls. "My balance was a little bit off, too, but I just thought, Well, I'm tired. I've had a lot to do this week with work and now getting ready for this trip, I just need to get some sleep." Satisfied that physically she was OK, April f inally made it to the airport and was off to Washington. T h e n , i t h a p p e n e d a g a i n . The fatig ue returned and April 's equilibrium was off. "ere was something wrong, and I didn't really know what," April said. Again, she reasoned: I'm just tired, I need to get some rest. "On the day before I was leaving to On me, I woke up in my hotel room go hom go hom erything was off in my body," she ve and ev I knew something was wrong so I I said. "I y roommate call 911." y had my fore the ambulance arrived, fo Bef had collapsed. h April h hospita l, doctors f irst that April was suffering me dehydration and had al symptoms. Two CAT they diagnosed multiple ooked at your brain, we hings we don't like," the her. anted to keep me in the ver the weekend to run and determine treatment, s scheduled to f ly home e day," April recalls. "ey ant me to risk traveling, ested I have my family Washington." is is a serious thing," the ors told her. "If you leave now, you can die." 'You're Supposed to Go Home' D e spite t he doc tor s' arnings, April sensed that she was to return home to her family and friends. "e people who had traveled to Washington with me, and my family back home felt the same way," she said. During her overnight stay at the hospital, people called and said things like: "I think you're supposed to go home." Or, "Don't allow the doctors to tell you to do something that is not in your heart." During that time of struggle, the Lord gave April a word. "He said, As quickly as this thing has come upon you, that's how quickly it's going to go. So, I wasn't afraid. There was pressure coming at me from the doctors to stay, but I just told them I wanted to go home. So, they released me." When she returned to Fort Worth, April was immediately surrounded with spiritual support. "My father had told me, 'We're going to beat this thing here at home,'" April said. " W hen I got home, he prayed for me, laid hands on me and commanded healing to come forth." The next day, April remembered s omet h i n g she ' d he a rd Jeremy Pearsons say a month earlier during a teac h i n g at Ea gle Mou nta i n International Church. "e next time something comes against your body, whether it's a sma l l thing, a major thing or a serious thing, focus on the love of God," Jeremy said. "Meditate on the love God has for you and see what that will do in your body." On Sunday, April went to church despite feeling weak from symptoms that had returned. "My coordination and ba lance were off, so I needed to be assisted ever y where I went," she reca l ls. W hen she ret u rned home from church, April pulled out a message by Pastor George Pearsons, Jeremy's dad, titled My Father Loves Me. " Because I was sti l l think ing about what Jeremy had ministered about God's love, I got that message and began to listen to it," April explained. "I knew God loved me and that He had healed me. So, like Jeremy had encouraged, I put my " I " It's Just a Name! had co h April h the h At mined m determ extrem e from e logica l neurol later, scans sis. s scleros e've lo e "We me th o see so rs told r doctor hey wa h "Th tal ov t hospit tests e more I was but same e the n't wa n did sugge and me to W m com "i docto here 'Y to wa 6 : B V O V "The Lord told me that as quickly as this thing had come, that's how quickly it had to go. And that's exactly what happened."