I was diagnosed in 2000 with breast cancer. “The way we ‘cure’ your type of cancer is to treat the disease until it goes into remission,” doctors told me. “There is no such thing as a total cure.” So I prayed for remission. And guess what? I got remission!
But at the end of four years, the cancer returned, spreading into my bones and throughout my lymph system. Then the Lord led me to Hartland Lifestyle Education Center, where I gained the tools to help me get on the path to health. That’s also when I changed my prayer. I stopped praying for remission. I was now praying for total removal! In March 2007 I left Hartland in search of a cure.
I sought out three doctors in Los Angeles, California, but they gave me no hope of recovery. One of them told me, “Linda, it doesn’t look good. You have so much cancer in you. I don’t know whether your body can respond positively to any of the treatments we have available.” But I went ahead with the treatments anyway, trusting God to answer my prayer.
I believe God gave me Psalm 118:17 for this hour of trial. It reads, “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.” Somehow, deep down, I sensed that God was about to do something very special.
I began to seriously consider being anointed. Providentially, Dr. Colin Standish was going to be in Glendale, California, just 25 minutes away from where I was living at the time. I spoke to him about it, and he anointed me on Sabbath evening, January 19, 2008.
The following Wednesday the clinic did a complete series of diagnostic tests on me. A week later one of my doctors, a Muslim, called me. He anxiously explained that he had the results of my tests in front of him. Simply put, there was no longer any cancer present. “Do you mean that there is no cancer in any of the three areas you have been treating?” I questioned. (They hadn’t been treating all of it – just three main sections.) “No,” he replied. “There is not a speck of cancer anywhere.”
“Linda,” he added, “there is no other conclusion that can be drawn, other than that your God has heard you.”
I rest confidently in the knowledge that what happened to me can happen to anyone who is fervently seeking the Father’s will. I wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for His mercy and grace! Christ’s promise is sure: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33.
