LAMED with My Testimony

Dr. Teresa Allissa Citro
Dec 14, 2017
7 min read

TESTIMONY BY: Dr. Teresa Allissa Citro

It’s very long, but I believe God is trying to reach someone through this testimony. I pray God encourages you today to believe Him no matter what.

"Lamed. Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens."

Psalm 119:89

Two years ago, my family and I walked through a very difficult time when my son Justin became very ill. No parent is ever prepared to see their healthy child all of a sudden become so ill and then realize they are powerless to make it go away.

God placed the above verse in my heart. I woke up in the middle of the night. I prayed, went back to sleep. I know this testimony and this word is for someone out there. I went to the King James Version of this scripture and from the rest of the translation one word just jumped up. It was different. That word was, “Lamed!” I thought how weird it started with that word, and what does this word mean, God? I looked it up. The meaning of the word "Lamed" is "staff" and is used as a verb for learning, and it also means "taught, trained pupil, to learn, to become, teachable, or trained."

Aha! It all made sense now. God’s word is useful for teaching and instruction. How appropriate.

Now, it made perfect sense to me why the word "Lamed" is used. God gave me His word Justin would be healed without medicine. I don’t know why God chose not to use meds to heal Justin. After all, I was a graduate of a medical school, headed to practice medicine. I love the field, and I thank God for our medical knowledge. It saves lives. I have participated in helping build medical clinics in third world countries and even support medical teams going to help the sick. So it’s not like I’m against medicine. Through Thread of Hope, I support strongly the medical field and how it plays the role to heal people of all sorts of diseases.

"Back, this week, 2015, I rushed my son to the emergency room in the middle of the night. I will never forget that night. I opened the back door, and my mom was behind me, standing at the door saying, 'God is with you, Justin, everything is going to be okay. I’m praying to the God of the impossible, and you are healed!' I said, 'Yes, Lord, Amen!" Just as I uttered these words, I heard God say, 'Trust me, I’m in this trial.' Of course, I trust God, but I started crying immediately because I knew God was about to test me in a whole new way. My son lost 50 pounds. I was scared to death... Best hospitals, best doctors - everyone I knew in the field I called personally couldn’t figure out what was happening. One word kept coming up autoimmune disorders, and every time I rebuked it. Blood work was done every few days, and security guys at hospital now knew me by name, and even parked my car at no charge. Maybe they felt sorry to see my red, swollen eyes every time I got there. Their smiles, their kindness, their attitude of let us give you this gift of parking your car for free was just a little God reminder to me everything was going to be okay. Don’t ask me which hospital because I don’t want anyone getting into trouble. His doctor gave me a list of terrible diseases it might be and, immediately, sent us downstairs for blood work. I was in the elevator with Justin to go get the blood work done. I was feeling sick to my stomach. Begging God to please remove this from my plate. 'God, I seriously cannot take one more heartbreak. Please, I’ll do anything you want make Justin well now, please God.' His gently reminder, “Trust me!” My Teresa flesh reply, 'Ok, God, you created this mind of mine. I know what you're saying, so I guess you're going to make me suffer as if I haven’t suffered enough. Ok, I guess I don’t have a choice here, I’m brazing myself. Please don’t leave me now!' As the elevator doors opened. I took Justin to get his blood work drawn, and I left to find a private place to pray. I went to this long hall way, I was alone, I started to pray in my mind. God said to me, 'Rebuke every diseases that doctor told you upstairs. Trust me, I’m going to heal Justin, supernaturally, with no medicine.' I now really hit my breaking point. I couldn’t stop crying hysterically. Here is where I made my mistake: I focused on the problem and not on the Word of God and His promise to heal him supernaturally, without medicine. As I was praying, I told God, 'I'm all alone God, don’t You care? Don’t You even care about my life I chose to give You? Now You want me to rebuke those horrible diseases, and it’s obvious You're going to let Justin suffer with one of them, and in the process I’m going to suffer too. I'm here by myself. Ok, I will rebuke those diseases.' I began to rebuke one by one in my mind. Then this young African woman came out of an office. She said, 'Hey, what are you rebuking out there?' She startled me. I wasn’t speaking anything out loud. I was praying in my mind. I asked her, 'Excuse me?' She replied, 'What are you rebuking? I am on my break, in my office, and God told me to open the door and come out here. I see you are only one there. God showed me you are rebuking something. What is it?' I told her. She grabbed my hand and took me to the blood work station where Justin’s blood work was. She found his and had me place my hand on it with hers on mine. She said, 'Go on, Mom. Rebuke what’s in that blood.' I didn’t care that there were employees there. I rebuked one by one every single disease that doctor said. Blood work came back normal. We left for a one-month vacation, but Justin wasn’t feeling well. It wasn’t a good vacation. I returned home. This time with a CAT scan. God told me go in with him and pray over the images. At hospital they told me, 'It’s radiation we prefer you stay out here!' I told the guy, 'Please, let me go in. I have to pray for each image.' He told me, 'Ok, I’ll let you in just change your clothes, and I will give you the protective blankets to wrap around you. Do not remove them.' For every imagine I prayed, 'In Jesus name this image will show itself absolutely perfectly clear, as white as snow! Justin had close to 4 thousand images. Doctor said, 'Every single image taken was clear and pure white.' And then came the colonoscopy. I sat there praying this time. God told me, 'Remember, I promised to heal Justin. Trust me in this. I promised to never leave you nor forsake you. I’m with you, and I’m with Justin.' That was a moment I’ll never forget. As my eyes were closed hearing what God was telling me, the doctor came to find me and gently touched my arm. I opened my eyes. The look told me Justin had ulcerative colitis, finally a diagnosis and not a good one. Medicine was prescribed. After one dose, Justin became violently ill. Every single new medicine tried he got sick, Doctors beside themselves. One last medicine to try. After 5 days of using, Justin hair began to fall out, like massive hair fists in my hands. I honestly, thought I was going to faint. My whole body shock, my vision went black, thank God, there was a chair behind me. Same day Justin had a massive allergic reaction, his body was filled with huge hives, we were at Disney, vacation #2. He had to be rushed by ambulance to hospital. All the time me asking, 'God what is happening? What are you doing? I don’t understand? What do you want me to do? Name it. It’s done!' Same respond , 'I’m healing Justin, trust me!' This time he added, 'Where is your faith? And how am I supposed to teach Justin faith? Get out of My way, and let me teach your son what I need to teach him!' Ok, well, that got my attention. Hey, God wasn’t going to have my attitude. I understood perfectly well what He was saying. Ok, I’ll get out of your way, God. Justin called the doctor and told doctor he was done, no more meds. God had healed him, and he was going to try using a product that was all vitamins based, naturally, and would not cause all those adverse side affects. Doctor agreed because there was no more medicine left to try! Here we are TWO years later. Justin is healed. God used this illness to build his faith, my faith, countless number of people’s faith, who know the story, and because of this illness, God used same products to heal other members of my family and friends. Diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and Ellianna’s blind eye. She took off her glasses. I can’t believe the faithfulness of our God. Matthew 16:19 states, "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." And we can take God at His word, a binding word. When a contract is binding it can’t be changed. So is the Word of God that comes forth and what He says shall happen. We can trust Him. God speaks a word, and it becomes binding. It is settled in the heavens. It shall be manifested on Earth just as He said. God did more than just test Justin’s faith. My trust level soared. People were healed because of Justin, and two years later, the healing still stands, and Justin gained back the weight, plus some, and eats everything and no symptoms. Only God, Folks, only God! Praise His name!"

Friends, what has God told you? Hang tight to His word. It will not return void. move out of His way, and let Him do it His way and on His time. You are to trust Him no matter the circumstances. Let God give you supernatural faith to believe the impossible for you and all those around you. Our lives are living testimonies of the goodness, greatness, and love of a true and living God!