Cancer on the Run:  by Joey

I am wondering how many of you have been in a place of such weakness that all you can say is: Father this is a pit I cannot find my way out unless you show me. I am wondering too if some of you have been in a place that has said: Father I believe... help my unbelief. Or maybe some of you have been faced with situations so despairing that your prayer has been Father: don’t let me grow bitter in the circumstances. I have!
 
And I am here to tell you that despite my greatest fears... the Lord has been as a tap root of faithfulness: that is overtaking me where I see only shifting sand and setting me on solid ground. And though my circumstances have not changed, He is changing what and who I believe. He is changing how I believe and he is changing my why I believe. Strengthened by the revelation of Selah as being Gods’ peace within: I have begun to experience in a fresh way what it is to be still, to interrupt the pace that so easily takes over, and wait. Ps.40:1 I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. 
 
I can hear some of you saying: But...Believe me, I know that place. Yet he is showing me again with such gentleness the way into that peace...is now faith. And what is that faith???? It is to remember that the battle is not ours but the Lords. 2 Chronicles 20:15 Thus saith the Lord, be not afraid nor dismayed...Ye shall not need to fight in this battle SET yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord “IS”... with thee. Again: enter stage left Selah.
 
As I have begun to walk this out I am reminded that: man is 98% water. We believe water to be the gift of His life in us revealed in His word. So if I am only 2% of this equation: then as I stir up that gift which is Him is that not a place of peace that passes all understanding? Oh, I know there are a lot of things that can steer us away from that. But it is said we are to call forth the unseen as though it were... knowing that It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort but on God’s mercy. And that before we have finished speaking He will answer. Think about it and tell me there is no rest in the storm. Leaving me to say: Hos.6: 1-3 Come and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 
 
I know this may seem oversimplified to some and to others maybe you have never had to prove the Lord and find this to be so. For me, it has become my daily bread for the circumstances I face. Knowing that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength...strength to run the race, strength to go the distance and press to the mark of the high call. Written in 2003 during a bout with cancer and now that it is over it remains just as true The only thing I prayed when that happened was to have faith in the end. Bless the Lord he has sustained me and kept me and I will praise HIM. 

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