Holding on to Hope
by Merva Zaleski
Psalms 25:5b ...for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
As I recall the blur of medical treatments during my breast cancer in 2004, I am filled with gratitude for how God provided hope in each experience! Upon receiving this news, fear tried to take over, yet God revealed His presence in each new chapter of the adventure. After the second lumpectomy, three lymph nodes were removed and my family was told that I was clear of any cancer cells after surgery. Hope! A week later, the pathologist reports showed that nodes #1 and #3 did have cancer cells present, which was going to lead to more surgery.
God blessed me with a team of excellent doctors who questioned this finding and asked that the slides be sent to Vanderbilt University for confirmation of the results. Hope! In the midst of these days of confusion, our dear friend Gary called my husband and asked to come and pray with us. As we gathered with a few friends who truly believe in God’s healing power, Gary asked me to physically stand on the medical report! We prayed that our God would change the words on the report! Totally believing in God’s ability to give us hope, we waited.
It should come as no surprise that the revised report came back: node #1—negative, node #2—negative, and node #3—negative. God HAD physically changed the words of the report! Never give up hope in our magnificent and powerful God!
Prayer: Thank You Lord that You NEVER leave me alone. My hope is not in earthly things, but totally in YOU! Thank You for the hope You surround me with today!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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Thanks Merva for sharing something so personal, God is truly using your testimony and life for all those who know you.
ReplyDeleteGod is so good, and yet I forget to trust in Him daily. My prayer is for Him to help me trust Him more with all of my day to day activities.
Bud
Merva,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing this story! God is our healer, and prayer is truly powerful to heal! We NEED stories like these that teach us to take everything to Him in prayer, and to put our hope in Him. I am encouraged by your story and your faith!
Caleb
I am so glad you shared this personal story, Merva. We all need to put more of our trust and hope in the one who will never fail us. Letting go of earthly expectations and clamping tightly on to heavenly assurance...that is the essence of HOPE!
ReplyDeleteDear Merva:
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. The power of God is so awesome. Some people don't believe that God performs miracles anymore, but your testimony definitely proves that theory is wrong.
Heidi
Your miracle from God hit me in a way I did not expect. I don't get too excited about how God works, and I want to. God demands our praise. It was my fist time hearing about this miracle, even when I read this story- , and I was like thats cool- but I wasn't excited and thanking God for it. I want to be more excited about what God has done and is doing and is going to do.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I think of that, it reminds me that the Lord is still in the MIRACLE business. He still keeps this world spinning on it's axis, makes the waves crash, makes a baby sigh and makes slides change. I cried that day, I laughed, I praised, I thanked....He is Our God and He is worth getting excited about.
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