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Thoughts from God Ministries
HEALING MIRACLES ARE REAL
The secret things belong to the LORD our God,
but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may follow all the words of this law. Deut. 29:29
THE MIRACLE
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At first it just appeared to be a funny kind of lump in the area of my elbow on my left arm. The Doctor seemed to think it was just a pocket of fluid from my elbow and nothing serious.
After many months it had grown to the size of a golf ball and was becoming quite an irritant from being bumped and people asking about it. When I asked the Doctor what to do I was referred to a plastic surgeon to cut it out. This surgeon felt it was probably a cyst of some kind and not really a problem. They took it out and all was well.
The Pathologist was just routine.
Well, not so routine.
The report came back "malignant".
The tumor was automatically sent to a national cancer center for evaluation. They identified it as a Sarcoma type of cancer and relayed that surgery was usually the only effective means of treatment. I was told that this type can make its way into the bones and become bone cancer. It can also get into the blood and travel through out the body. Usually showing up first in the lungs. Lots of tests followed. They showed negative.
However the original tumor showed the margins to be positive. That means the cancer cells went all the way to the edge of the tumor and residual cancer was known to be still in my arm. The problem was that this tumor had been in my arm for well over a year and we had no way of knowing how far it had spread. The cancer surgeon said that there was really no choice but to go into the arm and remove every thing that looked like it had even touched that tumor.
Also to get a biopsy of the bone while they were at it. I didn't tell very many of my friends even though I wanted to ask them to pray I wasn't ready to talk about cancer. So very little prayer went up until the day before the surgery.
That day at church I asked the congregation for prayer after I explained to them what was going on and what was at stake. Every one prayed for me the best they could. At least one simply asked god for a miracle. One was so overwhelmed He couldn't even remember what He had prayed.
Personally I remember people praying for the doctors and the job they had to accomplish. I personally was simply believing that some how even after over a year that the surgeon would manage to get all the cancer, and the Margins would come back clear. Meaning the cancer was probably gone. And this would be accomplished without amputating my arm.
That was my hope. The truth is, I have prayed for a lot of cancer victims over the years and usually to not much success, as I define success. It seems to me that usually we lose this particular battle. One of my closest and most respected friends even pointed out that cancer was an unusually tough customer. With the pathology reports from three different clinics verifying the type of cancer, positive margins, and residual cancer invasion and colored pictures of the cancerous cells, can you imagine what I thought the report the second time might include?
I was hoping for clear margins at best. You know. For God to get rid of the cancer through the Doctors. that is has he usually does it. Does he not? The report didn't say clear margins, it said that there were no margins at all.
In fact there was no residual invasion of cancer. In fact there wasn't a sign of a single cancer cell at all. When I asked the surgeon what that meant, He said as a medical Doctor all I can tell you is that between the first surgery and the second surgery, something had "happened" in my arm.
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I have been a Christian for a good many years now and I can say with some assurance that the most meaningful thing in my life is having met and married my wife. The most significant thing is my salvation and relationship to the Lord.
However the most stunning thing is the disappearance of that cancer.
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The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
Considering the above scripture, all I know for sure is that the secret things,(Why God choose to take this cancer at this time) are known only to God.
The things revealed (the fact that He did take this cancer at this time) are known to us and should be taught to our children, that we all may believe and follow all the words of his law. (Gods guide to a happy and successful life.) As long as there is a God, and you are alive, then there is hope.
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