In my previous write-up, I took time to stress on how taking of fruit and vegetables boost ones immunity which in turn help to fight all kinds of diseases including terminal ones like cancer. I is important at this point to emphasise on the other variables that goes with this dieting.
Praying Through the Battles of Life
Proverb 21:31 tells us that the horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD. This passage can be inferred to mean that dwelling on the fruit and vegetable therapy without getting God involved may not yield positive result. Naturally, I love praying.
When the doctor told me I had fibroid, I immediately went into prayers and fasting. My family and friends across the world fasted and prayed for me. I attended Christia programmes and was quick to solicit for prayers which the benevolently did. I visited healing and deliverance ministers to be prayed for. Unfortunately, as the more I asked God for His miracle touch, the worst my situation grew. It can be very pleasant if one pray and get result to his prayers speedily. I was already used to getting such speedy result in time past but this time around, my health situation seemingly defied prayers. I however persisted in prayers.
Close minister friends who knew kept calling to encourage me. Day and night, I wept before the Lord in prayers. I consistently felt His presence each time I prayed but wondered why my condition was getting worse. I asked myself several questions. It was very devastating. I recalled how profusely I was loosing blood.
I watched the programme of Benny Hinn and other men of God on television and saw how people were testifying of their healing. I kept telling myself: “I shall receive my healing and also testify one day.” The story of the woman in Matt. 15:26 were always in my mind. I reflected on how she persisted. She held to Jesus to heal her daughter even when Jesus referred to her as a DOG. She knew what she wanted so she did not take offence. Her story was a great encouragement. If the woman was regarded as dog and yet was a beneficiary of God’s healing power, I knew that the daughter/father relationship I had with God was superior and no matter how long my miracle tarry, I was going to be made whole.
I did not only pray but continued to make positive confession. I said it to myself hat God who has done it for her will also do it for me. I was so sure that one day I will wake up one day to discover that the fibroid had disappeared. While I was still trusting God for healing for the fibroid, the Doctors discovered a lump on my breast and removed it. It was like the situation was deteriorating. The lump was taken to laboratory and tested. The result was cancer. The lump surfaced again and this time, major surgery requiring the removal of the breast was recommended.
In the face of all these, I have no other option but to hold Him very firmly. I was persuaded that He is Jehovah Rapha – The Great Healer. He is the Balm in Gilead. I encouraged myself with more passages from the Scripture. I am aware that when Jesus was invited to attend to Lazarus by Mary and Martha, He never showed up until Lazarus died. I refused to give up. You may be going through the same experience like I did now, please don’t give up. Keep holding unto Him. Lazarus was brought back to life after he had gotten rotten in the grave. Your case is not beyond God’s healing power. If He did it for me, He will do it for you.
In January 2007, Bishop Omiunu called from Benin that the Lord said he should tell me that He has given them my flesh but not my soul and that I should go for the operation. Before this message I had dreamt that I was operated.
After the removal of my breast the doctor came out with further complicating report. The cancer cell had spread to the second breast and in the arm pit. He advised I go for the chemotherapy but I refused and continued to seek God. If you seek the Lord you will definitely find Him. He is faithful. We held prayer vigil in the house every single night. I went into two months of vegetable fasting and praying. The result was tremendous.
The place of prayer cannot be overemphasised. Let us not be weary of God. It will come in His time. He is compassionate God that is moved by our tears. Even if we are to take drugs, God must be involved in the drugs, but I have come to discover that not all sickness require drugs. We need to seek the face of God to know what to do at every point. He feels proud when we trust in Him knowing that He is able. Glory be to God, today I am completely whole. The entire cancer cell in my body had completely disappeared. This can only be God!
This piece will continue next week.
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