testimony

I have a great testimony to share with you guys!

It is something that happened recently which really put my faith to test and from this experience I learned the power of Praise and Prayer, the ultimate weapon.

Last Friday, my dad send an email telling me that my mum has a re occurrence of breast cancer. *Tips: Never jump into conclusion until confirmed by medical report.* It was the most dreadful moment as I read through the sentence over and over again, just to make sure I had not mistaken any words. I called my mum and she told me that she felt a lump at the same spot where she had the tumor excision few years ago. She went for mammogram and was still waiting for the result. It is so not true when people said studying medicine can help reduce fear because you know better medically. In fact you felt worse because you know the odds. The literature said re occurrence after local excision without LN involvement is 15% in the next five years. 15% might seemed relatively low but when you felt a lump at exactly the same spot, the human pessimistic instinct kicks in and amplifies it to 115% to the worst case scenario. My mum was optimistic however, she said it could be a fibroadenoma and she still believes that God has healed her 4 years ago. If just so happened that I came across the blog of an old friend who has lost her mum through breast cancer a few months ago. And another friend of mine who wrote on facebook how he missed his mum after she too had die from cancer few years ago. I did a few literature search on recurrence of breast cancer and most of them indicates increased risk if patient is obese and smoking, which my mum is not. I felt anger of how unfair this is, my mum tried all she can to stay healthy and yet she fall into that 15%. (Already, I am making up my mind towards that direction). That night, I have a really long talk to God (mainly the why why why). On Sunday, He gave me three words - faith, pray and praise.

"...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." Matthew 17:20

When Paul and Silas were imprisoned, they prayed and sang hymns. Suddenly there was an earthquake and the prison doors flew open.

I started to praise God and thank Him the healing that he already has done few years ago. Today, I received the news about the report of the mammogram. Apparently the lump is a surgical scar from previous operation. See, God is telling me to have faith even as small as a mustard seed because our God is a faithful God. =)