Thriving After Cancer: Pray and Support Your Sister

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Dr. Missy Johnson demonstrates the faith and courage one needs to go through the painful and dangerous battle of breast cancer and to thrive after cancer. Johnson was diagnosed with Stage 3c breast cancer. During Dr. Missy’s battle with cancer, her sister was also diagnosed with the same. Unfortunately, her sister did not survive. 

Even in the midst of the physical and spiritual war, Dr. Missy decided that giving up was not an option. Dr. Missy shows women you can thrive and not just survive such a trial, through prayer, by supporting others, coaching others to reach your potential, and sharing her story. She wrote a short movie called “The Party” about a woman whose breast cancer returns just as she was planning a party to celebrate her 5th year in remission. “The Party” aired on BET HER on October 9 th as a part of “The Waiting Room Series.

 Hope the short movie repeats as it will encourage and bless someone who is going through and lets them know that there is hope and there can be victory through and after the storm.

As we take heed of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I encourage you to exercise self-care and schedule timely checkups. Don’t allow fear and procrastination to stop you.

My mother is a breast cancer survivor. Now 93 years old she found the lump in her breast and had a radical mastectomy at age 48 years young. I celebrate my dear friend Cheryl who has battled this disease but is coming out thriving.

I have lost four (4) cousins( Sandra 42, Pamela, Denise, and Barbara) to this vicious disease. One this year and my dear cousin Pamela last June.-

I encourage you to be a support to someone, pray for them, and again see to your health.

Support

Be a source of support for someone going through this vicious illness or any disease. As the Waiting Room Series and the “The Party” reveal, a woman needs a sister, relative, or friend to be a source of support, to attend treatment, to talk to, and to be there when she calls for help. We need each other and while God is the source of our strength, He wants us to be ambassadors to one another. The strong help bear the burdens of those suffering, grieving, and hurt if possible.

Pray

Pray:• Pray one for another that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous man is effective and has great strength.” James 5:16. Pray:

• Thank the Lord for breast and prostate cancer survivors and their continued emotional and physical healing and health and return of functionality of the affected body part to operate as it was created.
• Praise Jehovah Rapha. Continue to speak life and healing over them. GIVE THEM A HUG.
• Pray for those who are going through symptoms and treatment. Speak healing scriptures over them. Pray that persons get timely treatment and the right medical treatment.
• Bless healthy cells to live.
• Pray to break any curse of death over the person and speak life to them. They shall live and not die.

• Pray that the Father heals ________ by the power of the Word. Thank the Lord for sending Jesus to bear our sins in His body so that by His wounds ___might be healed. (Ps. 107:20; 1 Peter 2:24).

 • Pray that righteous intercessors and church leaders will pray with faith-filled powerful and effective prayer to uplift the sick, the depressed, the oppressed, and persons without hope. ( James 5:14-16).

 • Pray that ______ continues to trust you Lord and your Word, regardless of his/her physical condition. May ___ be strengthened in faith that you have the power to do what you promised. (Rom: 4:19-21)

 • Pray that ______ weeping will turn to joy and grant him/her a cheerful heart. (Psalm126:2-6)

 • Pray that the sick will be comforted and that they will grow in character as God walks them through the ordeal.

 • Pray that God will provide for the financial resources to meet the financial needs of the sick.

 • Pray for the caregivers of the sick and shut-in.

 • Pray for the compassion and skill of the doctors, nurses, and other medical staff.

Self-care

Self-care is important. Begin to write a Personal Health Plan for yourself. Assess your health and write goals for yourself that are practical. Review your general health based on what you have observed about yourself or what the doctor has told you. They should be realistic to fit you and your lifestyle. Include the improvement of your diet, the need for exercise, and mental and spiritual healing needs. Answer the questions: What is the best plan for me? How do I carry out this plan? How often? How much? Make a timeline for the implementation of your plan. Pray and ask the Lord to guide you.

 Ask God to give you wisdom and strength to take action to improve your health. Now make doctor appointments, set an exercise schedule, and improve the kind of foods you eat. 

Linda Fegins is the author of “The Courage To Be First “which will come out the first of the new year. Linda “The Prayer Leader” serves as prayer leader and teacher/trainer on the “Prayer Boot Camp” with the Global Mission Prayer Force and as a former guest intercessor and volunteer for Girlfriends Pray a global prayer ministry. She served as Prayer Coordinator for over 13 years( later Director over the Prayer Ministry) for the Lydia Circle Christian Business and Professional Women.

As part of the Lydia Circle, she has lead over a dozen prayer boot camps, and has lead prayer services and workshops in the Bahamas and in South Africa, and was on the prayer team of a medical missions trip to Jamaica under the leadership of Rev. Jackie McCullough. She is also a member of the National Church Prayer Leaders Network and serves on the Intercessory Prayer Ministry of her church where she was once the prayer leader. Copyright October 11,2021.