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Journaling the Journey: Part XLI
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Oct 10, 2023
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"My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." II Corinthians 12:9
"My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." II Corinthians 12:9
The Lord spoke to me as Mary Ann and I were praying about the sufficiency of His grace. I have had cancer for almost ten years, and I have experienced very little fear or anxiety concerning it. When I was diagnosed with high grade bladder cancer one of the nurses was amazed how well I took the news laughing and joking because I also had the joy of the Lord.
Before I was admitted to the hospital, I had been bleeding for 5 years thinking it was a kidney stone or something minor, so I stood my ground like I always had done and prayed. One day I woke up swollen and sore and so I went to the ER where they said I had a liter of blood in my bladder, and they put a catheter on me and said my kidneys failed! The nurse said I would be on dialysis the rest of my life but the next morning they had returned to normal.
I spent two weeks in the hospital with unbelievable grace on me even after the biopsy in which the doctor told my wife he saw an angry beast in my bladder, and when I got out, I went to a urologist who told me he would have to take my bladder out, but God directed me to a Ukrainian doctor at UTSW who told me I had a 70% chance of saving it. He was right and God saved my bladder. A year ago, the cancer came back, and my doctor removed it and again this year to his amazement it came back again but God's grace remains sufficient!
This last week was different having a CT scan to see if the cancer had spread, I was tormented for days before and waiting for the results a week after I experienced fear, doubt, unbelief and anxiety! The Lord told me that the grace I had received for the cancer was needed, but there was no grace given for the CT scan because I didn't have anything to have grace for! Praise God, it was an attack of the enemy!
Therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. II Corinthians 12:9
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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