My Testimony of Healing, Hope, and the Hand of God

"There was a moment when life changed as I knew it.

I was told I had ovarian cancer on Friday. Then, on Monday, I also had Kidney disease. By the Thursday of the same week, a phone call from the doctor said I am so sorry, but I have to tell you that you also have colon cancer, and we detect that it's pretty serious. Each diagnosis felt like a new nail in the coffin. I didn't just feel sick—I felt like I had already been buried.

As if that was not bad enough, by the following Monday, another phone call, your vitamin D is so low it's off the chart. We need you to go to the chemist. We sent through an urgent prescription to start 20,000 units straight away. By the same evening, a few hours later, another call, we got the other result: your vitamin B12 is extremely low, and you are very anaemic, as well as you are very dehydrated. My mind raced ahead to the funeral. I imagined who would come, what they'd say, how I'd be remembered. It was overwhelming."

"The weight of those words from doctors broke something in me… two weeks of non-stop negative diagnoses, but it also opened the door for God to show Himself strong."

"I won't lie. I quarrelled with myself, fearing not having fulfilled the purpose God had assigned to me.

My mind had me buried long before any disease could. The fear didn't just knock on the door; it moved in. But even in that mental storm, something more profound began to stir."

And I remembered: 'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me…' (Psalm 23:4).

"For a brief moment, I didn't realise it at first, but God was with me—even in the valley, even when I thought He'd left."

"After multiple reports, multiple doctors, and multiple confirmations, suddenly, at the final hurdle, the tests said something different. No cancer. No ovarian cancer. No colon cancer. No kidney disease.

Medically unexplainable—for the doctors were so sure. They even told me, 'You've got it very bad.' Maybe. But for me, there's no doubt that God stepped in. My only explanation is that He was in control all along."

The same God who allowed the storm, calm it. Not because I had enough faith. Not because I prayed the perfect prayer. But because He is sovereign, and He is good.

"Here's what I've come to believe more than ever: God is in Control of it all—the diagnosis, the delay, the healing, the hope. Even when I couldn't see Him working, He was. Even when the evidence said it was serious and my mind said I was dying, His Word said I would live. And being God, He had the final word."

'Many are the plans in a person's heart, but the Lord's purpose prevails.' (Proverbs 19:21)

I refused to speak the prognosis, to utter the word, to tell anyone—in case I gave power to those diagnoses, for power is in the tongue.

'Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?' (Lamentations 3:37)

Footnote:

"I don't share this to say my story is more special than anyone else's. I share this: if you're going through something that looks like it's the end, remember, God is not done. He is still in Control. The enemy might shout, but God writes the final chapter."

After three months of testing back and forth, having surgery, and getting to the final hurdle, God stepped in, and I came out of this with clean results and renewed faith. I know what it feels like to stare death in the face—for by the power of the doctors' lips, my mind raced forward to death. Each negative result told me there was no hope, but not for the first time in my life; I knew the doctors were not God.

But I also know what it means to say, 'But God.' I will spend the rest of my life telling others:

He was in control all along. For the last three months of holding it all in—still carrying on with my work, going to church, praying, fellowshipping, giving Him the praise, glory, and honour—He kept me standing, allowing me to set my face like flint, not turning to the left nor the right.

My greatest fear was not dying. It was in not fulfilling all God had for me to do. So whatever it takes, whatever I need to do, wherever I need to move to, I endeavour to fulfil God's assignment on my life.

Written by Angela Doreen -May 2025 #ChristianBlog #FaithOverFear #BibleVerse #JesusSaves #GodIsGood #PrayerWorks #GraceUponGrace #WalkInFaith #ChristianLiving #WordOfGod #ourdailybread #JesusChrist #holyspirit #JehovahJirah #beliversinchrist #bornagainbelievers #christiantestimony #Christianity #Prayers #Christiandevotions #Christianencouragement