On Saturday evening and Sunday morning, the kids and I participated in the local “Relay for Life,” a twenty-four hour event about cancer. They raise money, walk laps, and join together to fight against cancer. We’ve been doing it for years, but this time, I walked seeing things a little differently.
As I was walking my laps, I kept reading the word “Hope” everywhere, but I never heard or read the Name “Jesus.” I’m so saturated in His heart, that I couldn’t understand it. Without Jesus, what does hope mean; what does it do? I kept seeing and hearing that word and never heard a thing about Jesus. I heard about having a “foundation” but no mention of God, and I wondered why I hadn’t noticed these things before.
Every year I walk, and every year I’m in a different place in life with a different perspective I see things from. This year, I felt like I was walking laps of defeat. What makes cancer so powerful that it doesn’t bow to the Name of Jesus? I’ve learned I stand in victory in His blood, so defeat has a different effect on me. I was becoming angry and started praying, declaring, releasing Him into the atmosphere.
As I talked with God about quite a few things, including this business He’s trusted me to run, I almost thought I was under a spiritual attack, but then I became aware of the overwhelming comfort I was feeling and knew it was God teaching me things: letting me experience some feelings, letting me bring them to His throne, letting me hear His thoughts on each matter. It was amazing! I even told the Holy Spirit, “No wonder You’re called Counselor! You’re so good at it!” It turned out to be an amazing time of walking with Him for hours.
In circling the track over and over again, I saw a few different signs, sayings, wishes. One of them stood out to me the most and looked like it had been written by a child: “I wish cancer got cancer and died.” I could just picture a pastor preaching that and saying, “That’s a good word right there.” …out of the mouths of babes.
Jesus is everything to me. I just can’t imagine living without Him. The other day, I saw a cartoon on Facebook of a man sitting with Jesus, and he was asking Him something like, “Why are You letting all this bad stuff happen,” and Jesus replied, “I was going to ask YOU the same thing.” We have dominion. Let’s fight with His Name and claim our Victory!
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