Praying for Cancer

Me - Good morning Lord. Do you care if I get a cup of coffee while we talk?

JC - Not at all. It will taste wonderful this morning.

Me - Lord, what can you tell me about cancer?

JC - Patrick, cancer is indeed ugly. It is just like any disease, the flesh succumbs to the attack of the enemy on the world. The world is full of evil agents warring against man, and eventually man begins to erode. You have authority over these agents, and you can battle them.

Me - How do I war against what I don’t know, and what I don’t see? I can see cancer taking its toll on (name omitted), but I can’t see the enemy behind it.

JC - Can you see me?

Me - Only in my mind’s eye. I want to see you differently sometimes.

JC - Just as you see me, you can see the enemy. Most people fear the enemy and refuse to look. Do not fear, only I have overcome him.

Me - Yeah, Lord, it scares me a little bit. Like Fear, the first time I saw him, he was so frightening, and he turned out to be so small.

JC - The enemy is a deceiver, and will do everything he can to keep you from stepping into the role of sonship I have given you. But you are my son, my friend, and my ambassador on earth. Use your authority. Demand righteousness in the earth, and you will see it.

Me - How do I do that?

JC - Love.

Me - Can you please explain that, Lord?

JC - You are already understanding it in your mind. Yes, you have two different examples of me in the earth demanding righteousness. Once in the temple, and once on the cross.

Me - Lord, what enraged you so much in the temple?

JC - It had become a center of greed and corruption. The Father’s heart for His people has never been legalism, but He gave them the law to set a standard of what righteousness looks like, and not only had they rejected the law with their deeds, they had completely rebelled against righteousness, and turned the center of their worship into a den of thieves, which was completely contrary to who I AM.

On the cross, you see a different picture. I learned in the temple, that no matter how much I fought the unrighteousness in the earth, there was only one way to defeat it. The Father had planned it from the beginning. Righteousness only comes from the creative act of love. There is nothing else that can spread it. Compassion in my heart drove me to the cross, compassion for the very ones that killed me. That kind of love changes hearts.

Me - I understand that Lord. But how does this apply to warring against sickness and disease and the enemy?

JC - Patrick, what I did, is done. The enemy of this world is defeated, and in confidence you must demand his total surrender. Any emissary that goes rogue from his king eventually loses authority, once the world knows that he is not representing the word of his king. But, if he aligns himself with his king wholeheartedly, nobody questions his authority. Are you wholeheartedly aligned with Me?

Me - Lord, you know my heart better than I. You answer.

JC - Patrick, I know of few people who can boast of a heart more desirous than yours to know Me and love Me. But you are thinking in the wrong terms. If I tell you that you have authority, if I tell you that you are a writer, if I tell you that you will have a book by fall, when you stop typing my words, what happens in your mind?

Me - I doubt most of it.

JC - “Most of it” is a little harsh. But, yes, you doubt. You have been trained to doubt. You have had to live from doubt, so it is the only way you know. Now, I tell you, stop doubting and take command of the authority I have given you. Align your being with my heart, and live from that. Do as I do, go where I go, and say as I say.

Confront your enemy, and prevail in the power of my blood and in the authority given you by my Name. David did not see a “giant” to fight. He saw an unrighteous philistine taunting, cursing and demoralizing the people of God, who were supposed to be the authority and representative of the prevailing righteousness in the earth. David was the only one who saw this, and he took his tools and it only took one shot.

Me - Please help me to see with your eyes, Lord, to see the spiritual things that I cannot understand right now. Give me strategy and wisdom to walk in the power of Your might. I want to be able look at cancer and act as David, confidently confronting it like he did Goliath. Not just cancer, but anything.

JC - Patrick, but cancer is just another malady, no malady is any different. It doesn’t matter if it is a headache or tuberculosis or cancer. It is the same enemy taunting the people of God.

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Me - Lord, I need help with creativity. I know this and spiritual battle are related, but I am having a hard time with finding creative and original ideas about writing.

JC - That is good Patrick. Don’t give up. You are not flowing, however. Try an exercise. I want you to free-write about the characters in what you are writing, and look back over it. DO NOT use the delete button for anything. Just write and write and write and do just as you do with me. Write with your minds eye focused on the one about whom you are writing. Try it. You will be amazed.

Me - OK. I can do that. That should be interesting. Lord, I want the story to accurately reflect You. And although I can see the principle of repentance in the story, I “feel” something deeper in it, but I can’t put my finger on it.

JC - Ah, I love you Patrick. You are so much more spiritually attuned than you know. Yes, of course there is more to it. And I know you see the Father’s heart to “forgive and forget.” But I really like your title for the book, “A Kingdom like this.” I could not have said it better myself. My bride is the prodigal. You are the prodigal, the kingdom is the father’s house, and the celebration is eternity. Who is the fattened calf?

Me - Are you the fattened calf, really? That doesn’t seem right.

JC - A feast is impossible without food. Just as eternity is impossible without eating My broken flesh. The Father saw YOU, so long ago, and He ordered that I be slaughtered for your homecoming, because you are so dear to Him. Is it starting to make sense?

Me - Wow. yes, but I have never heard that little snippet. OK, I will freewrite today, and I will look harder at the story. Please help me out. Jesus, I am so in love with You. You truly are such a wonderful friend. Thank you Papa. I am so overcome by Your love for me, that I cannot stand up under its weight. Holy Spirit, you are beautiful. Please break off the crust in my heart that is holding You inside of me, and flow freely into me and from me. God, you are wonderful.