Thank God for cancer

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Thank God for cancer

Postby secondsamuel » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:55 am

On June 15 I went to the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia. The next day they performed a CT scan and found a mass in the center of my chest (lung) then performed a biopsy and discovered that I have small-cell lung cancer. They offered chem-o-therapy of which I declined because I am already terminal with emphysema/copd. I believe that God allowed this calamity to come upon me in order to draw me closer to Him and It has indeed drawn me much closer, closer than I have ever been after 57 years on this earth. I believe we should be thankful in everything no matter what. God didn't zap me with cancer but He could have easily prevented it, there fore it is by His Grace that I am smitten and I thank Him for it....................any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated..............secondsamuel
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby kekc » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:02 am

we will all get a cancer one day or something like that and we will all die and no matter how long we live on this earth whether it is 10 or 20 or 40 or 50 or 57 or even 90 years it’s never enough, you always want to live longer but there is life after death for those who know Jesus and that is promised by the mighty Bible
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby Always_Pray » Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:26 pm

Thank you Jesus for your Testimony. Did this happen when you were in prison? (I only ask 'cause this is the Prison board - so I just was curious.)

I am so sorry that you have to face this suffering on earth - but, Praise the Lord you are closer to being in Paradise. Your Testimony encourages my heart. I will pray for your comfort in the midst of this physical illness. May God bless all your days.

Peace. --De
I shall pass through this earth but once. If, therefore, there be any good thing I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -- Etienne de Grellet
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby berrysaved » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:39 am

Ive seen many godly people crossover due to cancer in the few years ive been walking with the Lord. Ive also seen many healed of cancer as well. So ive come to the same conclusion you have on this matter. Sometimes the Lord uses these kind of circumstances to draw us close to Him. He lets us see our frailty so we can see His love and compassion. In ps.39:4 David asked the Lord to make him know his end,that he may know how frail he was. He goes on to show the vanity of the things we think are important. Then in verse 7 he says what do i wait for? my hope is in thee. Sometimes God allows such things to happen to us so we can see whats really important in life, and thats spending time at the feet of Jesus.I hope these words bring you comfort and God pours His grace on you in this time. Godbless you!
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby Always_Pray » Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:53 pm

Greetings and welcome to the forum, hon. I hope we see you around often!

Peace. --De
I shall pass through this earth but once. If, therefore, there be any good thing I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -- Etienne de Grellet
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby berrysaved » Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:25 pm

Always_Pray wrote:Greetings and welcome to the forum, hon. I hope we see you around often!

Peace. --De

Thanks, hey i live for this stuff . ;) Ill be around.
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby TalkingElmo » Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:20 pm

thank god for jesus who is gods cure for cancer, my freind god wants you healed and he would never ever allow you to be smitten to draw you to him or to teach you anything, he honours the sacrifice of his son by causing everything the cross provides to be added to your life, because all of our diseases were placed on jesus at the cross god would be totally unrightious to allow sickness and diseae on your body to teach you after putting all on the body of his son, it would be a declaration that the sufferings of christ were useless

the bible gives one reason why christians are sick; im so glad thare i only one reason, it makes it real simple and easy to fix, when we partake of communion in an unworthy mannor not diserning the lord body, for so long i believed that if i was unworthy when i partook i would be damned, that is not what it says, none of us are worthy, he came for unworthy people, it says unworthy mannor; its the way we do it as in doing it not in faith for reiceiving what it provides.

to partake diserning the body is to see that his body was broken smitten crushed and diseased instead of yours so that you can have his health, when the disiples were given the first communion with christ he said, take eat this is my body, the disiples were with him 3 yrs and aw him living in divine health and all the miracles come out of hi body to heal others, and they knew that he was giving them his health, he wants us to take it in faith that it i his way to protect us from what those who dont have him face in this life

look at the first passover, the isealis put the blood on the doorposts for protection, and ate the lamb in thare homes, the health of the lamb who is only a shadow of what we have in christ caused 2 and a half million people to walk out with not a feeble one amoung thare tribes, praise god for the true lamb jesus christ

the bible states clearly that chrit has set us free from the curse of the law who recieve righteousness by faith instead of works, the curse of the law is clearly defined in the book of dueteronomy as including every type of sickness and disease, jesus freed us from it becoming a curse for us

the bible also saws that thosewhoever of you are trying to be justified by law( law is the concept of my obiediance deserving gods favor and blessing) are under the curse and christ is made of none effect to you, can you believe that your performance is useless to earn gods approval , but that the only performance that matters to him is christs and that his perfect performance is all to your account and that it was so perfect that it ended the whole system of getting blessed only by diserving it? and that now christs whole inheritance that he diserved is now yours apart from your abillity to keep the rules?

so we have the communion in his health and life (the life is in the blood) and we have christ who is himself our healer living in us and yet he can be of none effect, but as we begin to see jesus as our healer, as we begin to see jesus as our righteousness and it not depending on what we have or have not done but on what he did and finished for us, he is made of great effect for us

grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of god and his son jesus christ, as you begin to see that the cross provided everything you will ever need to live in the abundance of life jesus wants for you and how all of our shortcomings and sicknesses and failings were traded at the cross for all of his perfection and beauty grace and peace which is healing and wholness is multiplied to you,,isent that beautifiul?

my freind the idea that god soveriegnly allows evil in a believers life is so destructive to powerful faith, because it causes a believer to become passive in that he becomes over occupied with self, inspecting himself, asking what about me needs to change that god would allow this?,,,and because of the wrong belief that god may have allowed it thare is no faith or even ground to fight it,,but it is not god teaching you or drawing you,,if it is evil its the enemy and we are to resist the enemy,,we arent told to resist god so it cant be god

its the traditions of men that cause people to not posses what the cross provided, wrong beliefs that preachers who dont know our father have heaped upon us but jesus wants you free, i would love for you to email me and get my number, i want to share what the lord has given me concerning the cross and i want you to get some materials i have for you that i believe will be of tremendious value to you,,you are loved very deeply
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby Always_Pray » Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:19 pm

Greetings and welcome to the forums, hon. I hope we get to see you around the boards often.

Peace. --De
I shall pass through this earth but once. If, therefore, there be any good thing I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -- Etienne de Grellet
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Re: Thank God for cancer

Postby TalkingElmo » Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:10 pm

thanks, i will be around
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