Keeping the Faith

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
(Proverbs 24:10)

What good is a faith that is untested? Anyone can say they have faith but the true measure of faith is what one does when faced with a challenge.

In September of 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I underwent chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery and by God’s grace I am alive and well.   

Fast forward 3 years. On September 20, 2010, while presenting to the Cancer Support Ministry of the First Baptist Church of Glenarden I made a bold declaration: I will never be stricken with cancer again in Jesus’ name.

At the time of that statement, I was in the throes of a fast I was developing which is now known as the 40-Day Surrender Fast. (Click to read Day 8 - Establish Your Faith: http://surrenderfast.blogspot.com/2010/09/day-8-establish-your-faith.html.)

Since that time many others have partaken in the fast with amazing results. Just recently another group started. On Monday, May 16, 2011 they were reading—of all the post—Establish Your Faith. I only knew this because one of the participants emailed me with a comment and I posted back.

Well as fate would have it, I was scheduled for a mammogram on the very day they were reading Establish Your Faith. At the conclusion of the exam the doctor told me that some calcification had been indentified which would need to be biopsied. I had the biopsy yesterday and the results of that test are to come in tomorrow.

So I repeat, what good is a faith that is untested? We don’t know what we believe until you are called to prove it. Well I believe I heard God correctly on September 20, 2010 and I refuse to think otherwise.

In fact, on the morning of the mammogram God had me to read Isaiah 55:11

So is my word that goes out from my mouth:
   It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
   and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

On my drive home I recalled what I had read and was greatly comforted. God always gives you just what you need often before you actually need it.

If you are going through something today that threatens to overwhelm you—DON’T LET IT. God has prepared and equipped you to overcome any and every challenge. You don’t have to take anything lying down; God has all power and the final say so.

The doctor is to call me tomorrow but in the meantime I am living for today, keeping the faith, and believing God at His word:  

·         No weapon formed against you shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17).

·         God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1).

·         What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us (Romans 8:31)?

And I declare it again—I will never be stricken with cancer again in Jesus’ name. Amen

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Wishing you God’s good success in every area of your life!
Dr. Celeste