Whenever I come in contact with an individual born with a speech impediment or stuttering, I cringe. When encountering a stranger or someone I know who struggles to get words out of their mouths, I feel utterly helpless. As a former stutterer, every condition and degree varies from person to person. While I want everyone to be healed, I have been unable to intervene until know.
They brought to Him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him, Mark 7:32.
Prior to completing his gospel, John Mark a member of the apostle Paul’s ministry team either interviewed or spoke with an eyewitness to one of Jesus’ many miracles. Known as Mark to avoid being confused with the disciple with the same name, this gospel contains a prayer spoken by Jesus. Although the man in this passage was deaf and mute, the word Ephphatha can be used as to prayer to heal stuttering.
Jesus, taking him aside by himself, away from the crowd, put His fingers into the man’s ears, and after spitting, He touched the man’s tongue [with the saliva]; 34 and looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to the man, “Ephphatha,” which [in Aramaic] means, “Be opened and released!” 35 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he began speaking plainly, Mark 7:33-35.
To avoid setting desperate people up for failure, there are multiple variables that cause people to stutter. For some its a medical condition, others stutter due to nerves or a lack of air that lead to shortness of breath. According to the Bible, demons and unclean spirits have the power to cease or constrict one’s ability to verbalize thoughts or feelings. Meanwhile, doubt, a lack of faith and unbelief cause many to stammer and stutter for a lifetime.
Jesus replied to them, “I assure you and most solenly say to you, if you have faith [personal trust and confidence in Me] and do not doubt or allow yourself to be drawn in two directions, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen [if God wills it]. 22 And whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive,” Matthew 21:21-22.
Prior to being healed of stuttering during my final full year of college, Christian friends questioned my faith whenever I stuttered. While my roommates and a church friend laid hands on me, claiming Ephphatha, my healing was gradual, not immediate. Even now when I stray from God, spouts of stuttering return until I draw near the Lord again. I want to share my testimony to give the defeated a glimpse of hope for the future. I’m not sure why God choose to heal me, but I believe faith, godly friends and the power of God to open and release tongues via the Holy Spirit can serve as a prayer to heal stuttering.
by Jay Mankus
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Praise be to God.. I am very happy that you were healed of your stammering.. I too have the same problem and its hereditary.. I am praying to jesus to heal me.. Please keep me in your prayers. God bless
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I’m also having same challenge. I wasn’t born a stutterer but i take it as a purnishment from God since children. I and some kids back then use to make jest of a boy whose stutter is very chronic. I took it as a joke because that was what it seemed to me, to cut the long story short, i can’t remember the last time i spoke with ease and i feel really embarassed talking to people outside but some think i have pride unknowing to them that i’m only trying not to embarass myself. I’ve pleaded to God for forgiveness and i’m still believing. Just can’t cry it out, it’s weakens my heart daily.
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I grew up in a Roman Catholic Church which overemphasized the wrath of God. People cope in various ways to deal with the pain and frustration deep down in your heart and soul. Lamentations 3:19-24 exclaims that God’s forgiveness is fresh and new every morning. I stuttered for nearly half of my life and experience stuttering fits every now and then. All you can do is keep on knocking on God’s prayer in prayer, Matthew 7:7-8. In the meanwhile, stuttering is like the apostle Paul’s thorn in his flesh, 2 Corinthians 12:6-10. Until complete healing is received, use this passage as a daily prayer so that in your weakness of stuttering, Christ Jesus may be strong and help you to one day experience victory over this condition!
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It’s hard to let go when you don’t have control over what you say, but keep hanging in there so that the peace of Christ will dwelll in your heart and mind.
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Pray for God to heal me of stammering too
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God has a reason for all trials that we endure on earth. I pray that the Lord will heal you emotionally, mentally and physically as the concept of verbally expressing myself was a huge mental barrier for me to overcome.
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Plz pray for me too
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I want to stop stuttering my own is not that critical but I want to stop please help me.whenever I hit my lap then I can speak but sometimes if I want to speak it either I stand there looking with mouth open like 30seconds before I can speak so please help me to be what I wanna be in future I am sure God heard my prayers 🙏
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Stuttering and or stammering is one of those mysteries in life that we may not know why it occurs until heaven. Prayer and self control
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I am 53 years old and I have stuttered my whole life, I have gotten better over the years but when I have to introduce myself and sometimes at random dsys are worse than others and around people I’m comfortable with. It brings such humiliation and embarrassment. God has called me to be a prophet and I feel this unction to preach/ teach but I struggle to carry on a conversation or say what I really want to cause of my stuttering. But my hearts desire is to do his will. The thoughts of getting up and speaking petrified me in the natural. I’ve prayed, fasted been in prayer lines. I’ve renounced things if I was involved knowingly or unknowingly. I want free to do what God has called me to do! Please pray for me! I’m so tired of this. I want to be loosed and I know God does to but my healing hasn’t come.
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I earnestly seek God’s healing on this speech blocks affecting me.
Please keep me in prayers
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Please pray for me as well together with my sister and brother. Amen
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Praying for God to release your tongues so that you can experience the freedom of expressing yourself without fear or stuttering.
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I am healed in Jesus name.
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The Lord is more powerful than the human mind could ever imagine. Amen!
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