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(Esther Kibunja - CURED !)

       I am Esther Kibunja of Silver Spring, Maryland.  In September 2000, I was diagnosed with lupus.  Before the diagnosis, I visited about seven doctors and several hospitals and none of them could tell me what the problem was.  As I came to know later, lupus mimics other diseases and it is hard even for the experts (doctors) to diagnose.  Many times those affected by it are given the wrong diagnosis and treated with the wrong medications.  Due to this, my condition became worse by the day, and when I finally got the diagnosis, lupus had severely inflamed by lungs and the lining of my heart.  The doctor said that there was not much they could do, and they gave me two weeks to live.  The only hope they gave was to take medication just to prolong my life but the side effects of that medication was worse than the lupus.  I was really scared but I refused to take the medicine.  I knew that if I took the medicine, I would have to deal with several other medical problems.  At that time, I decided to trust God with my life.

     I went home and decided to fast and pray for eight days for my healing.  By this time my body was swollen and stiff, I had shortness of breath, and most of the time I experienced numbness in my whole body.  On the seventh day of my fast, after midnight, I heard a voice, “GO TO ADVENTIST BOOKSTORE” I thought I was dreaming—I started reasoning out: To do what? What has that to do with my disease?  Anyway, since I could not even drive or do anything for myself I decided to take it as a dream and forget about it but on the eighth day, which was Friday, at the same time, I heard the same voice, “GO TO ADVENTIST BOOKSTORE”.  Now I knew God was speaking to me and if not Him, I knew I needed to follow that voice.  I waited until Sunday since the bookstore does not open on Saturdays.  My daughter took me there and after an hour of waiting to see what God had for me, I decided to buy some vitamins and go home.  On my way out to the cashier, on my left side, I saw the book  ‘God’s Way To Ultimate Health: A Common Sense to Eliminating Sickness Through Nutrition’ by Dr. George Malkmus.  I heard a small still voice (this was a different voice from the one I heard previously) tell me, “THIS IS IT”.  You should have seen the way I grabbed that book.  It was the only book of that kind on the shelf that day to my knowledge.  I was overwhelmed with peace in my heart.  I told my daughter to take back the vitamins, and as I was standing in line to pay for the book, a friend of mine from church came and asked what was going on with me because she had not seen me in church for a while.  She said I looked “beat.”  I told her I had lupus and that the doctors had given up on me.  She told me that I needed Barleymax.  I had never heard of it before and as she was explaining, her husband came and told her they needed to rush.  Anyway, I bought the book and went home.

    When I went home and opened the book, I found it was talking about the Barleymax, mentioned earlier by my friend.  I knew this was not a coincidence: God was directing me to something.  The author of the book is a Baptist pastor, George Malkmus of Hallelujah Acres health ministry, whose mother had been diagnosed with colon cancer. She was doing well with cancer without the treatment but after the chemo and radiation, the mother died.  The pastor was convinced that it was not the cancer that killed his mother, but the treatment.  After one year, the pastor was also diagnosed with the same colon cancer.  He refused to take the medical route of healing cancer because he knew that he too would die like his mother.  He chose to look for an alternative to heal his cancer.  He remembered there was a pastor friend of his who had mentioned to him about going natural to heal and maintain the body.  This diet and lifestyle change consisted of eighty-five percent raw foods and fifteen percent cooked with an elimination of all animal proteins and no white processed foods (i.e. white sugar, white flour, etc. The book explains all this.)  He also took a lot of carrot juice to boost his immune system (carrot juice is an immune system booster). He also included water, exercise and natural products to supplement what he was missing from animal proteins.  After one year of this program, he reversed his cancer and he still lives a vibrant life up to today. 

    Of course as a pastor, he decided to share this important message of “You do not have to be sick” with his congregation but they refused and rejected him.  But after people became more sick and desperate, they decided to try the diet as a last resort—food has no side effects.  People started getting well from all sorts of diseases and this prompted Dr. Malkmus to write the book.  The book is full of testimonies of those who experienced healing after changing their diet and lifestyle.  I knew this was the route God wanted me to take.  I got myself a juicer and bought everything the book had recommended. Overnight I became a total vegetarian.  I went on the diet ‘cold turkey’ and I started consuming thirteen  (eight ounce) glasses of both carrot and vegetable juices a day.  I was also taking the natural supplements as recommend in the book.

     After seven days on the diet, the swellings on my body disappeared.  After one month and a half, I had lost thirty-one pounds of unwanted weight and I could do almost everything I was not doing before.  I did not want to rush to the doctors yet because I did not know what was happening on the inside, so I decided to wait for another one and a half months.  After three month on the diet and lifestyle program, I was completely healed of lupus.  I saw one doctor specialist I had not seen before who confirmed that if he had not seen my previous records, he could have said it was misdiagnosed—definitely he was not going to endorse nutrition as a treatment option, but he told me to go ahead and continue with what I was doing because there was not a trace of lupus in my blood.  I saw my primary care doctor who also confirmed that I did not have the disease.  Finally, I went to the doctor who gave me the diagnosis and insisted that I needed more tests to be made.  He reluctantly did the test and he too confirmed that I had no lupus and gave me a clean bill of heath. Since then, I have never been sick and I have continued to eat and live right.

I am now a health minister trained at the Hallelujah Acres in Shelby, North Carolina.  I have dedicated my life to help others reclaim their health and live to fulfill their purpose and destiny in God.