Cancer Killers

Last night I was watching a programme on Channel 4 called 'Teenagers Fighting Cancer'. It was very moving. One scene showed a young man called Adam. He has suffered with cancer for over a decade and, at the tender age of 26, had to face up to the spread of this vicious disease into his lungs after a four and a half year remission. His Doctor explained the circumstances and Adam grew very upset; he thought there were no further treatment options and that he was going to die. Thankfully, he was wrong but the future was still bleak as Adam now had to face further radiation therapy on his already emaciated, suffering body.

Just recently I have picked up a book by Smith Wigglesworth, a man used very powerfully in the healing and deliverance ministry. This contains some short messages based on his own Sermons/Bible Studies and is extremely provocative in that he lived a life punctuated by daily signs, wonders and miracles. In addition to this I am working through the Book of Acts and I have been astonished by the sheer volume of signs and wonders which preceded the preaching of the Gospel in the opening Chapters: it seems that for the early Church at least, supernatural demonstrations of God's power and the preaching of God's Gospel went hand in hand. The results were awesome to behold.

As I watched Adam going through this agonising journey, battling these hated invaders slowly taking over his chemo-ravaged body, I imagined what it would be like to simply pray in the Name of Jesus and see him healed. The challenge to myself (and to you) is that this should be normal life for all Christians. I don't care about cessationist theories and arguments advocated by people who have never seen God heal people and so form a theology based on that experience. I believe in Jesus so I have to believe in healing; not just for my sake but for the sake of people like Adam.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/teenagers-fighting-cancer