My healthy body has a trespasser, it is apparently fighting a form of cancer. This is by far one of the hardest blogs I have had to write for many reasons, however I need your help.
I am going to warn you this will be interactive as I need a favor. I have been witness to innumerable miracles in the past couple months and I need another. A big one.
I am going to ask you to sing and to pray along with us…. Keep reading.
Before an army went into battle in the Old Testament the singers, the worshippers went first. I have written about this before - the power of music, the power of praise. It is an incredible spiritual weapon that we have to fight unseen enemies and seen enemies with.
The walls of Jericho fell when they sang and shouted.
I had emergency surgery two weeks ago and that in itself was a miracle. I went for a consult for what I thought was one thing and ended up in surgery that same day as it turned out to be something quite different. The same day! Besides a miracle what else would you call that? The news back was not great. The pathology came back with that dreaded C word. Nothing in the reports was positive.
Now some of you and rightly so will say “that’s not fair”, “this can’t be happening “, “God wouldn’t allow that”, “she has had enough to deal with”. All of those things are true, and yet here we are, not even 2 months since Brian passed, and my Martha and now more hard things to process.
Do I hate God? Not at all. Do I blame God? In total honesty I have some questions and moments and I would be lying if I said I don’t get mad at Him sometimes. But as I have told my kids…. Life is hard, I would much rather go thru life with God than without Him. I cannot imagine doing life without Him, not ever.
I have seen God do instant miracle healings. I have seen Him do miracles that take more time and people walk into them and I have seen a miracle be the healing of going to heaven. Our version of a “healing” and Gods are not always the same. I have certainly been taught over and over, especially this past 3 years, to expect God to show up but in His own way. Not my pre-conceived idea of what it should be or what it may look like.
God is not a genie in a bottle - ever. We do not rub the lamp and out pops a magic genie who grants our wishes. That is us manipulating God to our way of thinking trying to adjust our world. In this way of thinking I am in charge and want God to follow my rules and do it my way.
That is not Godly order.
A part of our universe is the unseen spiritual world. There is a physical and an invisible world at all times around us. God is in charge of both. We have a rough time in the physical world especially lately. It’s tough out there.
But it is also tough in the unseen spiritual world, because there is an enemy there as well. He seeks to maim, kill and destroy: that is his written down job description.
So what are we to do? Well I feel I am firmly in a battle both physically and spiritually. So I need some singers and prayers to raise up a war cry. I need an armies power as I am not feeling strong. That is how an army works - together. An army is not a hospital, it is a well trained group of people who know their position in the group, and we band together. One person is not an army alone - ever, so I need reinforcements.
Today is New Year’s Day and at 1:30 and 3:30 today we here on our land will be celebrating and declaring and praising by singing the song “I Raise A Hallelujah “. If you can, wherever you are will you play it and sing it with us?
Have you heard the story about this song? One of the chorus lines is : “our weapon is a melody.” A little boy was given a miraculous gift when people sang and prayed for him. The link is below.
In the song is a time where you raise up your own voice with your own words and heartfelt prayers to God. Let us lift up our loved ones, including me, before the throne of grace and pray. Declare the glory of God to shine through the darkest times, thank Him for the grace of His healing. Healing only comes because Jesus paid for it with His broken body. Thank Him.
If you cannot join us at those times from where you are, it is totally okay, join us when you can possibly tomorrow or the next day, or next week. Maybe every day for a while. Music, sound is an incredible spiritual weapon, feel free to use it!
So here is the thing I want to be clear about. I want to be healed- yes! I would love to have the miraculous gift of instant healing. But I am also very aware that sometimes healing comes with surgery, treatments or heaven. I have lost a good many friends and loved ones to diseases. It is not because of their lack of faith, it is not because they did not believe or say or do the right things. Please understand this, it is not what I am implying or saying. I prayed, begged, declared for many of these dear people. In my years at the Prayer Room I have seen it all. Instant healing in some cases, slower but still healing and healing through doctors and treatments. I have learned that the healing was not from me, I cannot will it, it is not based on want to. It is random, unexpected, unexplained and always miraculous.
My part is to understand that man’s rules do not govern me and to continue to understand who I am as Gods child. I am a child of God. His Words are mine too accept and nothing else. I do not join myself with cancer, I fight it saying I have a healthy body struggling with an intruder.
The Word of God is active and real - it is our most powerful weapon in this universe.
So as I was laying there waiting for surgery and talking to God, asking where He was in the room. He assured me - this is not happening to “me- Jane” it is happening to “us”. You see the Holy Spirit lives inside me and He is fully aware of what is happening and I am never alone, it is happening to “us… me and God.” What peace came when I remembered that. Perhaps you or a loved one needs to hear that today, we are not alone.
Does that make it easy? Heck no.
Do all the worries stop? No but I’m working on it.
Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for boldly stepping up and taking your place in the battle for myself and our loved ones. Bless you, and may the walls of Jericho come crashing down!!!
Link to Raise a Hallelujah song:https://ca.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=song+i+raise+a+hallelujah&type=E210CA1357G0#id=2&vid=284baffa01564d66883f0b5e0eb3a357&action=click