Cindy Kiser was diagnosed with a brain tumor as a child. But through daily meditation on healing scriptures, a Bible-believing church, and a long-time partnership with Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM), her family didn’t stop praying and stood in faith for months. Then came the day the doctors said they wouldn’t have known she ever had a brain tumor!
Cindy was only 12 years old when the frightening symptoms began to surface.
“I started having excruciating headaches,” she said. But the pain came with an alarming twist: “If I sat or stood up, things would start going gray.”
Her parents pursued answers relentlessly, scheduling appointment after appointment. “They started taking me to different doctors, trying to find out the problem,” Cindy remembers. Eventually, one physician recognized the signs of a neurological issue and sent her straight to the hospital.
A CT scan showed an enlarged ventricle in her heart—evidence that excess fluid was building pressure inside her brain. Cindy underwent surgery, and doctors placed a shunt to drain the fluid.
Only after that operation did an MRI reveal what the CT could not.
“After the surgery was when they did the MRI,” she explains. “The MRI showed it was a brain tumor.”
Because of the tumor’s location, the neurosurgeon did not want to remove it. The risk of damaging healthy brain tissue was too significant, and there was no clear path to do so safely. With those medical limitations, Cindy’s family chose to continue following medical care while clinging to God’s Word and speaking healing scriptures daily.
Watch Cindy’s story.
A Faith That Speaks
A friend of Cindy’s dad invited them to a Bible-believing church that taught divine healing. Cindy says the church family wouldn’t let her battle alone: “They were praying for me constantly. I was having hands laid on me.”
Their faith was specific and steady. “We believed that the brain tumor would die from the roots,” Cindy said. At home, she joined that agreement with her own words: “I kept speaking to the tumor.”
Her parents also gave her a daily routine centered on healing scriptures.
“They would leave to go to work in the mornings during the summer and tell me to read my healing scriptures three times each day,” Cindy said. “So, I did that…and it was just constantly feeding my faith.”
Those healing scriptures became more than encouragement—they became the language of her day and the anchor of her mind.
Cindy points to her family’s long relationship with KCM as part of that steady faith culture.
“My parents were Partners of Kenneth Copeland Ministries…. I remember them always being Partners,” she said. “Once I was old enough to become a Partner myself, I became one.”
She added that the teaching her parents learned and passed down helped them persist. “Having that teaching…helped my parents to believe, and it helped me too.”
Over time, scan after scan brought partial good news: the tumor wasn’t growing. “That was a tremendous blessing,” Cindy said, “but we wanted it to be gone completely.”
Then the day came when the neurosurgeon compared older scans (sent from Charlotte, N.C.) to newer images captured in Georgia.
“He looked at the scans…the old ones and the new,” Cindy recalled, “and said that if he hadn’t seen the previous scans, he wouldn’t have known anything was ever wrong.”
Cindy still smiles at her own surprise. “After all that time…I was like, ‘Oh my goodness. It’s finally gone.’”
Her testimony—healed of a brain tumor—reminds others not to quit early. “A lot of people think, It’s not working, but it was working…it just took a while to see the full manifestation.”
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