God Even Uses Beauticians

By Maria Stewart

GOD LOVES AND USES ORDINARY PEOPLE.

God loves us. Not because we are lovely or perfect. It's because He is love. Most people think they are significant and He only uses pastors, preachers, or well-studied scholars. The truth is, He uses anyone that is willing to be used.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Mar 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798890416148

Maria Stewart

Maria Steward is a hairstylist who lives on Long Island, New York. She has been through many trials in her life. She was abused by an alcoholic husband and had to raise three children on her own. She's had a family member murdered and a dad that abandoned her. Through all of this, she found Jesus and He saved her. He supernaturally uses her, a self-described "insignificant beautician" from Long Island, so He can you, too.

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Introduction

My name is Maria Stewart and I’ve been a simple hairdresser for over forty years. When I think about how many people I see every week, I am thankful how many God gives me to pray over. Some knowingly and most unknowingly. I know God hears my prayers for them and I pray that he answers all of them and I am so thankful I get to do so. I have seen and heard some pretty miraculous things over the years that I will share in this book about my clients and my family. I’ve learned over the years that God uses ordinary unperfect people like me to do extraordinary things for Him. God uses us and heals through us not because we are perfect, but because He is. I love that He uses us!

It gets me so excited when He works through me, He can work through anyone. If you seek God and draw close to Him, He will always draw close to you. The blood of Jesus is the reason for everything! He died at Calvary so that we can be saved, healed, blessed, and protected! All we have to do is speak His finished work over our life and believe He died on the cross for our sins and believe He is the son of God. All He wants from us is a personal relationship with Him. By His stripes we are and were healed! 1 Peter 2:24. I’ve been saved since I was nineteen and it took a long time to get to where I am today. I’m still a work in progress! I hope the stories I share about healings and miracles brings you closer to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

In my prayers for people over the years, I’ve learned that Jesus has a wonderful sense of humor. People think God as being stern and rigid. I know Him as loving, caring, and funny! Whenever I feel weak and unworthy, He shows Himself strong and even makes me laugh. I so look forward to the rapture of the church. It’s so hard at times to live on this earth with so much uncertainty, evil, and turmoil! In all of this I will continue to pray for and over my, children, family, friends, clients, and leaders until Jesus returns for His church.

I believe there is spiritual warfare on this earth and we are put here to fight this spiritual battle, and lead people to the Lord! Our prayers and intervention really matter! I hope my stories inspire you and draw you closer to Jesus. God gave us a spirit of love power and a sound mind. We must use it and be about our Father’s work every day until His return for His church. To God be all the glory forever and ever, Amen!

Prelude:

The Bible says life and death is in the power of the tongue.

When I was young, I was borderline overactive thyroid. When I got older, after menopause, my thyroid was showing a little under active. The doctors wanted to put me on meds over the years. I tried half of the lowest dose of two different pills and had adverse reactions. I prayed about it and was fine for many years. My physical this year showed a very low thyroid function supposedly. I felt fine with no anxiety or symptoms, but the doctor barked at me, If you don’t take the meds your hair is going to fall out and your heart is going to become enlarged! I couldn’t understand how my blood test could be so off if I’ve been feeling fine. I was working out walking, eating well, etc.

I went home and got the pills but didn’t take them. I looked at the bottle and read the side effects said: you can feel jittery, hair loss, heart problems, and you may get bone loss!

Are they kidding me! Let me see. I thought to myself. If I don’t take the pills, I can have all these things and if I take the pills, I can have all these things? I didn’t feel peace about it so I called for prayer.

The Andrew Wommack healing college is my go-to when I need prayer, also CBN and Day Star. They taught me the proper way to pray, and I’ve learned so much from them. I became very anxious after the doctor speaking this over me and I had a major anxiety attack and continued feeling anxious. I felt like I was being attacked by the devil. I thought, Why would our good Father in heaven want us to take medication that can harm us with side effects? This can’t be from God.

Jeremiah 29:11, NIV, says, I have plans for you saith the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a future and a hope. 1 Peter 2:24, NKJV, says, he died on the cross and his shed blood took our sins and sickness and by his stripes we were healed.

We are already healed according to the word of God! It’s already been paid for. I thought, how am I going to be any good to God if I feel this way. God does not want this for me! The word of God says so. I am already healed! So, I continued with my calls to the Andrew Wommack prayer line.

I explained what had happened at my doctor’s office and what he spoke over me, and that I knew the word of God is medicine to my body and asked if she would pray with me. They are so awesome when they pray, I’ve gotten men and woman at different times I called, but this time I got a woman and she prayed with me and we spoke to whatever was oppressing me and cast the anxiety, thyroid problems, and whatever else that was bothering me out of my body in Jesus’s name!

I did this every day along with listening to all kinds of healing YouTube videos, to let the word of God sink in whenever I felt negative thoughts coming against me. I felt so much better and claimed my healing. I also decided never to go back to that doctor that spoke to me like that. They also said I was one of those people when I told them I don’t want to take meds. Whatever one of those means. What kind of doctors are these that talk to their patients this way? I decided to go to another doctor for a second opinion and retake my bloodwork. I wanted God to have my healing glory in this matter and tell all of them what the Lord had done for me. Praise and Glory to God!

I prayed about my new doctor before my visit. I had two anointed prayer cloths, one from a Aquila Nash from the prophetic whisper show and the other from Day Star, heart for the world show. I stuck one in my right side of my bra and the other in my left side. They were healing anointed cloths, like the ones Peter anointed in the Bible for healings. I also called in for prayer before I walked in the doctor’s office to Andrew Wommack’s healing ministry and also had my little grandchildren anoint me with oil and pray for me. My friends in my Bible study group also prayed for me. Lol! I was determined to keep and fight for what was already mine In Jesus’s name. You have to know, the grandchildren that prayed over me are five, six, and seven years old! I’m teaching them early! Praise God?

So, I met my new doctor and told her what had happened and what was spoken over me and that I believed in God’s healing power and that I was prayed over and wanted a second blood test. To my surprise, she smiled and said she believed and that her mom is good Catholic and believed in God’s blessings and healing and miracles. I thought that was very cute of this doctor to say that. I immediately liked her. They took blood and I left the office.

When I came home from the doctor, I decided to go for a walk and listen to praise music to get rid of being anxious and worried and fighting negative thoughts wondering if God really knows what I’m going through and if He cares.