Tatie

Thank you, John!!! After I will contact them for a prayer. And I will bring up the diet to the nutritionist at the cancer center. Right now I am waiting to see the doctors there, I received a package from them today, it just looks unbelievable! I am so encouraged!

I love the simple faith message. I do believe in simple childlike faith. I believe it's our mind creeping in subotaging it with thoughts like: what if it won't work? You need a back plan, better yet, do everything, play it safe, increase your chances. I just finished reading "Sponteneous healing" by Andrew Weil, it's fantastic, he believes cancer is the failure of the immune system, so a person with cancer must first treat and boost his immunity, to strengthen it so it can start fighting malignant cells. It doesn't make sense to him to do chemo which weakens the immune system even further. It's the question of odds, what is the percentage helped by the chemo, against what stage is your cancer is at. He gives one expamle after another people recovering without chemo. I have to diagest this. Also, I am going to a cancer treatement center for evaluation of my cancer and recommendation of treatment, maybe they won't even recommend chemo, who knows. That would be the best news. I will let you all know what they say. I will go there after the Thanksgiving weekend. JOhn, very good advise about the nutritional healing, there is a website, I forgot the name, acres something, the pastor who founded it had colon cancer and cured himself with raw vegetable diet. The cancer center I mentioned has a nutritionist as part of the team as well as natural medicine doctor and immunologist, so I am sure they will prescribe a diet and supplements.

Is it really wisdom? I thought I was doing it out of fear that my faith alone won't work. I know about the people who didn't bring their children to the hospital when they were sick and just prayed for cure and the kids died. But what kind of modern medicine are we talking about? It depends what they want to do to you or to your kids, it can be pretty awful, modern medine wanted to cut all of my organs in the abdomen and pelvis, and I signed the concent, but I put in God's hands. In the 11th hour the doctors changed their mind about the radical surgery, basically I think they didn't think I would survive it. I think God saved me from it.

River, THANK YOU!!!! I burst into tears when I read your post. That's very encouraging! Thank you for sharing this about your mom. How did she beat it three times? Did she have treatement every time and was a new drug every time? My doctor tells me they are working on new drugs all the time and can always find something that works on your cancer. I am keeping the faith. I also have a son who is very supportive, he is coming home from college for Christmas vacation, I can't wait to see him. He doesn't put up with any nonsense talk about deing only trusting God for recovery. It will be good to have him home for 3 weeks.

Thank you. God bless you all.

Thank you. I agree about the calmness and confidence, I think God is giving it to me. I see more and more that healing is God's doing, everything is God's doing in fact, and the more I realize it, the more I am receiving. Thank you all for your advise. It was very helpful as I just got back from the hospital and was still very week, it was nice to talk to you and share my pain with you.

Thank you so much for your posts. I feel I have faith to be healed, but I am afraid to go forward. I am afraid to claim too much, I am afraid to say to the mountain: move away in the name of Jesus! Because that's what the task is. I feel I should do it. I feel that's what I am supposed to do. I feels this is why I am sick - to develop more faith. And it's growing, but I am afraid to be crazy.

I had cancer 2 years ago and got completely well. I proclaimed God has healed me, because it was so perfect, I was restored to my normal self and felt like I've never been sick. Now it's back and they can't even cut it out, it's stuck to 3 organs and to the old scar tissue. I have spoken to the chaplan at the hospital and she said maybe God has given me 2 years of life as a gift we don't know. Does God heal for 2 years? I don't feel this way, I feel maybe I relied on the doctors and not on God to keep me cancer free and now I should rely on God to heal me, I believe it was His Will they couldn't cut the cancer out because they were going to take all of the organs it touched or got stuch to like half my colon, bladder, ovaries, etc, so I would end up with bags instead of organs. I prayed all day before the surgery for God to guide the surgeon's hand and he closed me up and was not able to cut me up in pieces. This way I have a chance to recover I think and have all of my organs. I need extraodinary faith, what do I do, what do I think now, I am mixed up, did God heal me in the first place, if yes, why am I sick again? Please help!

Curious, thank you, great post. I think you got it!

Thank you, nebula! Yes, I agree, it shouldn't be about beeing good but about Christ. I am trying to learn to handle my frustrations in a more christian manner. Aren't we supposed to do that? Thank you for your advice to spend more time with God and to remember the commendments.

Where??? Where do you guys find these things? I am just using the free message board. If you show me where I are those things, I will look for another mesage board.

What astrology, where did you find astrology? Did you click on the link or somethign else? Thank you for your opinion, I appreciate it, if I didn't want to know it, I wouldn't ask. But self professing Christian would not speak like you did to me.

I wasn't talking about rules, I was talking about Christlike behavior becoming a second nature...

I am. I put my trust in God.

That's what a father of hypnosis Erik Erikson taught - that modern medicine was not desinged to deal with ilnesses caused by behavior. That's where the hypnosis come in. I would appreciate very much if you could comment on his teachings as a doctor and a Christian.

I usually don't "see" a picture, it's more like a feeling of them.

Me too. You can just talk about anything. I like that. But I did get emotionally involved once and it was hard, he didn't want to go further. He was probably married.

It's easy to make friends on the boards, isn't it? Do you think they will replace friendship in a flesh?

Thank you traveller! I love Easter too, I love Christmas also, those are the only holidays we celebrate, really. I love everyone here too, and also I am grateful to everyone for being there for me when I was sick. God's peace and love to you all! Tatie.

I've tried to go all women's boards, like Ivillage and Hermessageboards, I found them to be boring I am sorry to say. I like a mixed board, I think this one is. Issues that are disscussed here apply to all christians, and some times to women in particular. We certainly can discuss issues pertaining only to men or women and it would be more interesting to discuss from male and female perspective I think.

Hi, BlessEwe, I am definitely not a man.

Thank you, Martyr! I will implement your advice right away and begin my day in prayer and use every break no matter how little to stay connected with God.

What do you do to be more like Christ in every day living? How are Christians to differ from the worldlly behavior? I know I am faithful and good inside, but sometimes I see that my behavior is no different than that of an unbeliever. I don't mean in the major things, but in the every day behavior, like getting overwhelmed at work or getting mad while driving, etc.

"At this point, it is widely known that our spiritual battlefield is the mind. " What does it mean? That the spirit is in the mind? Or the mind is the battlefield for the spirits that themselves are outside of the mind and just use the mind to battle? Can you please explain?

I went over the verse again, I read it in a hurry at work and missed the fact that when the King forsook the counsel of the wise and listen to the counsel of his friends, it led to war.