Just preach it. People need to hear what you have to say. Well, I know it works because I tried it. I was just a little girl but I believed that if God is like my daddy, and He is, my daddy cried tears of compassion. He wanted me whole but he couldn’t make me whole. My daddy could not make me whole, but he could pray. And he prayed and I believed and I went to God and I looked at Him as my Father. And I said,
“Father, You are God. Yes, but You’re my Father and You want me whole. So I ask You to heal me.” I didn’t tell Him how He had to do it. I didn’t tell Him when He had to do it. But I knew that He wanted me whole. So I trusted Him. And every time somebody would tell me, “No, you cannot have this. No, you won’t be whole. No, you’re going to be a cripple. You are going to be a cripple,” I’d say, “I will not receive that. I will not believe that. God is my God. He’s my Father and I receive it.”
That was, that was doubt talk that you were hearing. That’s right.
Coming from the devil. People were trying to feed doubt into me but I would not hear it. I would not hear it and I would not surround myself by the people that talked doubt. So you decided to talk faith talk and not doubt talk. The Bible says you walk by faith, not by sight. By the
sight of it you couldn’t walk (It’s right) in the natural.
In the natural there was no way for Cheryl Pruitt. But it says we don’t walk by sight. There was no way that you could walk, and there’s certainly no way you could become Miss America 1980. Never, ever, because not only was my leg in a mess, but after God healed my leg I had over 100 stitches in my face and I’ve never had any plastic surgery.
God just proved to me through a period of time that if we trust Him, if I’d be faithful and if I’d trust Him, He would take care of all the circumstances.