“My Fear Melted Away”
He [Jesus] replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Phyllis G. writes:
About ten years ago, my doctor told me I had cancer and needed surgery.
I was totally unprepared for this diagnosis. I tend to be a bit melodramatic. I was sure I would die in surgery or soon after. I even called the funeral home and told them not to embalm me because the Lord might raise me up. Every time I thought of my children and grandchildren and how sad they would if I didn’t survive, I wept uncontrollably.
Worse than those thoughts was the paralyzing fear that gripped me.
That Christmas, before my surgery, I couldn’t remember for whom I had bought Christmas gifts. As a result some in the family received two gifts and others received none. The fear immobilized me. All of the marvelous scriptures that I quoted to others to give hope were not helping me.
Then one night as I prayed, a voice within me spoke to me and said, “Your fear is not of the Lord.” Well if it was not of the Lord, then it had to be the enemy attacking me with a spirit of fear.
With this revelation came the scripture, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move” (Matthew 17:20). As I continued in prayer I felt faith rise up in me such as I had never felt before.
I could see that fear was a mountain whose shadow fell on my whole life at this crucial time. It blocked out even the faith I desperately needed. In The subsequent days I grew stronger and stronger in my faith so that by the time I had surgery the fear was gone.
Even though I indeed had cancer, I am alive ten years later to tell my story. I truly believe what the Bible says, “Faith can move mountains.”
Praise be to God!
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Please note that the views expressed in this story are not necessarily the views of the American Bible Society. Story posted on October 24th, 2007 and filed under Illness, Praise, Your Stories.
October 24th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Fantastic story, everyone should read this!
November 10th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Wonderful story and I know where you were at because my wife went through lung cancer surgery a year and a half ago and we lived in the same fear until Jesus spoke to both of us and made us at ease. She goes back in 2 weeks for her 6 month scan.