Rejecting Defeat: Disease Eradication vs. Disease Management

I want to share a personal story of struggle with disease and the ensuing battle along the way. My wife Aina was diagnosed with skin cancer below her left eye six years ago. We went to a dermatologist, who sent us to a doctor specializing in skin disease, who in turn sent us to a cancer specialist. After examining my wife, he told us the only solution was to remove the eye and all the tissue around the eye through surgery.

Aina did not say anything and I felt numb in that examination room. I quickly prayed and then told the doctor that we were not interested in surgery. He told us it was a poor decision since the cancer would move into the eye, follow the nerve to the brain, and kill her.

I began to search for a different solution to deal with the cancer and contacted a member in the church who had dedicated his life to alternative medicine. He suggested an aggressive treatment plan, which included using black salve and a number of other herbal products. I also started reading certain Scriptures during our daily devotions, but instead of dying off, the skin cancer spread even more around the eye.

By April of 2016 the cancer had grown to a tumor that blocked half the eye. I decided to seek additional help and took Aina to a different hospital this time. We were referred to an eye doctor, who after an examination sent us to a skin cancer surgeon. Unlike the other doctor, he told us that the best course of action was radiation and so Aina began a series of 35 treatments a month later.

TURNING TO GOD
In seeking out a doctor and heeding his medical advice, we weren’t abandoning God, but using His mechanical arm of radiation. However, I felt the need to also start a spiritual battle that was more intense than what we had done previously. As I prayed and asked the Lord for direction, the Holy Spirit gave me the following plan:

Begin and continue a specific spiritual warfare every morning after breakfast using Scriptures to direct our prayers.

I would proclaim that the Word of God is powerful and that it will do what God wants it to accomplish.
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From the Desk of John Torell
September 9, 2018

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