“While we are influenced by circumstances, we, too, can have an influence.” – Jonas Salk
My 5th round of chemo is complete, which means I am 5 steps closer to being cancer-free. My mind is filled with wonderful memories and special places that I can go to in the middle of challenging moments, like entering the MRI machine or being poked with needles and pins leading to the chemo drip. Taking deep slow breaths and guided imagery have been Godsends for me. Even in what feels like the “dark night of my soul”, I find and choose joy!
Above all remedies for fear, worry, doubt and frustration, God’s Word is the best medicine ministering to me continuously. My friend Sonara shared this wonderful, timely devotion below confirming this very fact: the Word is for me – Water and Nourishment for my Heart, Mind, Body and Soul. I am revived and refreshed by it every single time I dip or dive in deeply!
Word Water (from aDevotion):
God’s Word Is Medicine
God’s Word Is Medicine — for any weakness or sickness in body, mind, finances, family, marriage, etc. Whatever sickness or disease you suffer from, God’s Word can cure it. God’s Word is effective for any condition. It works as a preventative as well as a cure. There is no cost and no danger of taking an overdose. Like any medicine, God’s Word must be taken to be effective. It will not work sitting on the shelf. And it has to be taken according to the directions. But if you will follow God’s directions as faithfully as you would follow the directions of a human doctor, you will see wonderful results.
Here are the directions:
PROVERBS 4:20-23 NKJ 20 My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. In verse 22 the Hebrew word translated health is translated as medicine in some translations.
PSALM 107:20 NKJ 20 He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions. God’s Word will heal. It is full of God’s power and carries the authority of God who spoke it.
JOHN 8:31-32 NKJ 31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” You have the guarantee of Jesus — His Word will produce freedom. But, you must abide, or continue in His Word. You must feed it in until you know that you know that you know the truth. Then you will act on that truth — and it will make you free. God’s medicine works by taking His Word into your being. You do that by listening to the Word, reading the Word, and speaking the Word. You must fill your thoughts with the Word of God. The more of God’s medicine you take, the better off you will be.
SAY THIS: I will take God’s medicine daily and it will bring healing into my life.
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Ty Gray-EL
God bless you my sister. I wholeheartedly agree in prayer and sentiment that you are 5 steps closer. You have already taken the initial stride necessary for healing by centering your mind on the One that created you in the first place. My mother used to say ‘all sickness is not death; all that’s lost is not forgotten and all goodbyes aren’t gone.’
I hope you recall how we met. The story of Shekinah Moon led me to you and if you recall, she was a healer. She was able to touch people and all their illness would be absorbed into her. She would then discard them; throw them off as if you would a wet raincoat.
I suggest that in your quest to heal folk you may have absorbed some toxins and bore the brunt of other’s illnesses. It is now time for you to discard them, throw them off, the same as you would a soiled garment. It is my prayer that you find it easy to discard that garment and apply the one so aptly described in Ephesians 6:10 & 11. Don yourself with the whole armor of God…Blessings to you…