The light in her
eyes and joy of face was evident as she spread her hands to give glory to Him
who saves to the uttermost. How different from the woman who with sorrow said “Help me!” over five weeks ago. Bitterly she cries in the night, as tears stream down
her cheeks. No one consoles her of all her friends Lam
1:2(ISV). She is a widow; her late husband’s relations
had not been supportive when he was ill unto death. In fact one of them had already started taking possession of the
property before the man died. His illness had sapped their resources: she
who used to assist her siblings now turned to need assistance herself. Tears
came to her eyes as she considered her state. “It all began when he left” she said.
An accident
following her widowhood left her moving with crutches and an open leg wound.
Brethren from Scripture Union rallied to raise money for that treatment. Now
many months after she complained there was a painful dark patch at the sole of
the same leg. Knowing it could be cancerous she was quickly prepared for
surgery and the patch of skin was taken off to the laboratory for analysis. The
result was what I feared: Malignant Melanoma. This skin cancer has to be tamed
early. If it breaks loose into the body
the prognosis becomes very poor. A terminal illness then follows. The
report seemed favourable, and the resulting defect on the foot had been skin
grafted, we hoped that would be the end. Alas,
part of the graft got eaten up by the cancer and another surgery followed. When
another growth appeared five weeks back she became sorrowful and asked for
help.
Unknown to her
the Scripture Union brethren organized a fasting and prayer session for her.
She also fasted and prayed with her offspring, and saw what appeared to be a
mirror monitoring her, and pot brewing evil for her. No weapon that is forged against you will be
effective. This is the heritage of the LORD's servants, and their righteousness
from me," says the LORD Is 54:17(ISV). Being led of God she approached a sister for
agreement prayers before this last admission and there realized she had
identical revelations with the Scripture Union brethren. Money was again raised
and despite the strike she was admitted for surgery. If this failed an
amputation might be called for. It was a straightforward surgery and should
have had a simple post operative period. When the donor site started having
problems it occurred to me Satan was actively fighting this Christian woman and
also lifted her in prayers. There is no one
like the God of Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens with its lofty clouds
to help you Dt 33:26(ISV). Then came the turnaround: when the change of
dressing came up a few days ago the graft and donor site were doing excellently
well. As I went through my mail this Friday I came across the latest results of
her last surgery. I was excited and went down to the ward to tell her. She
danced on the bed as she raised her arms in praise to God. No single trace of the cancer could be detected again.
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