At just six years old, Neresa Jones faced a life-altering family tragedy. Her mother, Patricia Ann Taylor, was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor and scheduled for surgery to have it removed. However, during the operation, the medical team mistakenly removed her pituitary gland instead of the tumor. The devastating error caused her mother to suffer a severe stroke, leaving her completely paralyzed on the left side of her body and unable to speak. She became entirely dependent, requiring 24-hour care, and her weight increased from 130 to over 400 pounds due to the medical complications that followed.

 

Tragically, it was later revealed that the surgeons had been under the influence of narcotics during the procedure—an act of gross negligence that led to one of the largest medical malpractice lawsuits in U.S. history. Patricia passed away six years later, when Neresa was just 12 years old.

 

Raised in a Catholic household, Neresa and her family spent those painful six years desperately praying for her mother’s healing. They prayed the rosary, went to confession, and pleaded nightly for divine intervention—always ending their prayers with, “if it be Your will.” Despite their devotion, they saw no results. The unanswered prayers and her mother’s death left a deep impact.

 

It was after this season of loss that Neresa personally received Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. Yet, even then, her faith journey was deeply rooted in religion—strict adherence to rituals, repeated confessions, and striving for acceptance with God. She longed to be in right standing with Him but was still missing the full understanding of grace, righteousness, and God’s unchanging will to heal.

 

Fast forward to adulthood, Neresa found herself once again face-to-face with the painful reality of sickness—only this time, it was her own body under attack.

 

Years ago, Neresa faced a health crisis that brought her entire life to a standstill. At seven months pregnant, she was unexpectedly admitted to the hospital, where she remained for months. Confined to a wheelchair, she battled relentless dizziness, vision loss, and complete deafness in one ear.

 

After her discharge, further tests revealed that severe inflammation had compressed the nerves throughout her body, deeply affecting her nervous system. At her doctor’s recommendation, the back of her head was shaved and surgically opened to relieve the inflammation—but instead of relief, her condition worsened.

 

For months, Neresa was unable to turn her head, and even the slightest touch triggered excruciating pain. She went an entire year without picking up her newborn son because anything over five pounds caused crippling pain that left her bedridden. She couldn’t even comb her own hair for nearly a year. Her life, once free of medication, became dependent on thirteen prescriptions a day.

 

The bright, sunlit home she once loved was now cloaked in darkness, as even a single ray of light intensified her symptoms. She could no longer sleep lying down, spending seven straight months upright in a bean bag chair, surrounded by ice packs to calm her inflamed nerves. The vibrant, athletic life she had once known as a Division I athlete had become a life of physical limitation—all while caring for a toddler and a newborn.

 

During this time, she was surrounded by well-meaning believers who loved the Lord but suggested that God was using the sickness to teach her something or that it was somehow for His glory. Because her belief system at the time made room for sickness, she tolerated it. She submitted to it. She accepted it as “part of the process” or “God’s mysterious will.”

 

But everything began to change when she encountered truth—truth that challenged everything she had been taught about God and sickness.

 

Neresa came to realize that religion had robbed her of her inheritance in Christ. She didn’t need to strive for healing—healing had already been provided at the cross. God was not using sickness to develop her; He had already made provision for her to be whole. As she embraced this revelation, she received her healing—and since that moment, she has watched thousands of others receive the same truth and now walk in divine health.