LEUKEMIA
CURE

Topics: Faith; Healing; Miracles; Receiving Christ; Supernatural Occurrences

References: Luke 4:38–39; John 14:12–14; James 5:13–16

Our friend Debbie was dying of leukemia at a cancer center in Seattle. She had slipped into a coma. Her two adult children had flown in to say their good-byes. Now her husband invited me to come and pray.

I asked a friend to drive with me to Seattle. As we drove, John 14:12–14 ran through my mind:

“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”

Could we really do the things Jesus did? Would he really do the things we asked in his name?

At the hospital we approached Debbie’s bed. I silently asked the Lord what to pray. Debbie was a sad sight. What I was about to pray seemed impossible.

Nevertheless, I prayed, “Lord, I come to you based on the authority and power you have given me because of Jesus. Jesus, you said we would do even greater things because of your power in us. You told me in John 15 that if I abide in you and your words abide in me, I can ask anything and it will be granted. So, right now, in the name and authority of Jesus in me, I rebuke the cancer and death. In Jesus’ name I pronounce healing and abundant life.” We left the hospital and drove home.

Debbie continued to be on my mind, but I also knew the Lord had heard my prayer. A week later my phone rang. It was Debbie. She had awakened from her coma and asked the medical team to unhook her life support. She was told that I had visited her several days before and had prayed for her. “Would you please come back?” she asked. So the next day I drove back to Seattle to see what the Lord had done.

Debbie—alert and smiling—told me the story. For three days after we prayed for her, while still in a coma, she sensed that an angel was standing by her bed. On the third day she woke up and knew that the Lord had completely healed her. The doctors’ tests showed no sign of any cancer whatsoever.

We shared the gospel with her family. As a result of Debbie’s healing, her son and his wife received Christ and are now joyfully serving him. Four years later, Debbie is still in remission.

—Cindy Riches, Pray! (January–February 2006); confirmed by Mike Riches, senior pastor, Clover Creek Bible Fellowship, Tacoma, Washington