LIFE AT 61 - GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD

Whenever I hear the term "God is AWESOME", I think back to the 1st time I heard the song, Our God is an Awesome God, kind of a 70's beat, but the words are still so very true today.  I do serve an incredibly awesome God.  Now I know there are some of you who might read this blog, and think Im off my rocker, or just plain nuts.  However let me stay on my soapbox for a bit.  I have PERSONALLY felt the healing power of an AWESOME God.  You might say, well how do you know you are healed?  Well that is very simple.  I have medical proof!  I have had 3 PET scans that tell me that.  The latest being on Monday December 31, 2012.  TOTALLY CLEAR!  I know of no other way of saying it, except to say it is a miracle.  Cancer does not just "go away".  YES I did have chemo and radiation, but often times, even with that treatment, some stays around to instill fear, and give a foothold to new onslaughts.  However when God heals, you are healed.  NOTHING, NADA, ZIP!

I remember pretty much when I believe God truly healed me.  I dont recall "feeling" anything magical, or mystical, in fact, I was just worshiping God singing in choir during Easter Sunday performances.  I came back to where my wife, Renita was sitting and she was almost in tears.  I inquired as to why, and she told me she saw lights around my head.  Ok, our church has many theatrical lights, and at the time I had NO hair, so many lights reflecting off my head...  THIS was not what she saw.  She saw what she explained as "mini strobe lights" flashing around my head, and she believed that was Gods healing power on me.  What reinforces this fact, is that I checked an email from a friend that said she had a dream about my healing, and that she saw "strobe lights" flashing around my head.  She knew there and then that I was being healed.  This is all very cool.  One thing that was interesting is that I had not started radiation at that point.  HOWEVER when I did I would ALWAYS pray before each treatment, and ask that the radiation would harm only the bad and not the good.  The very 1st treatment, they tell you what to expect etc.  They said that "some people see flashing lights" but that really is not possible.  Well Im here to tell you it is not only possible, it is true.  As I closed my eyes to go into the machine that gave the treatment, guess what I saw?  You got it, FLASHING STROBE TYPE LIGHTS!!!  Ya think??

I was convinced from day one that God was going to heal me.  Ive never had that type of faith in the past, but I did in this instance.  I guess when you are facing a giant, you look to the giant killer.  I remember the movie, Facing the Giants, there was one line in there from the guy that prayed for the student lockers every morning.  The coach came and talked to him, and told him of his discouragement, the man told him this line.  God is not finished with you here yet.  I dont know what plans God has for me this year, 2013, but I do know that He has something in store that I would never have dreamed of.  One thing that I really feel that I MUST do this year, is to tell this story to anyone and everyone who will listen to it.  I honestly believe it is that important.  I have no idea who might hear this, or read this, that really NEEDS to know this story of Gods mercy, grace, and healing power.

So what is the point of this particular blog?  I really dont know except to say that I really felt God leading me to write it.  Please feel free to pass this along to someone who needs to know of Gods healing.

Jeremiah 29:11  For I know the plans I have for you.  Plans for welfare, and NOT for calamity, to give you a future and a hope!

God has always intended for us to live in grace.  To have health.  He is NOT a mean God who wants to harm, He only wants what is good for His children.  God is indeed an AWESOME God!