{"id":29387,"date":"2025-12-01T03:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/?p=29387"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:20:19","slug":"from-terminally-ill-to-medical-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/from-terminally-ill-to-medical-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"From Terminally Ill to Medical Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"ghostkit-video ghostkit-custom-246OKk\" data-video-type=\"yt_vm_video\" data-video=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VdWb5zqSRBg?si=2YvN_A4oss6RdIlq\" data-video-aspect-ratio=\"16:9\" data-video-volume=\"100\" data-click-action=\"plain\"><div class=\"ghostkit-video-play-icon\"><svg class=\"ghostkit-svg-icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M5 4.83167C5 4.0405 5.87525 3.56266 6.54076 3.99049L17.6915 11.1588C18.3038 11.5525 18.3038 12.4475 17.6915 12.8412L6.54076 20.0095C5.87525 20.4373 5 19.9595 5 19.1683V4.83167Z\" fill=\"currentColor\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\/><\/svg><\/div><div class=\"ghostkit-video-loading-icon\"><span class=\"ghostkit-svg-icon ghostkit-icon-spinner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll never forget that cold day in October 2015, walking out of the neurologist\u2019s office with MRI scans and the unsettling words: <em>\u201c<\/em>You have a mass in your brain, unlike anything I\u2019ve seen.<em>\u201d<\/em> Still trying to process it, I returned to work only to learn that the company was bankrupt and I wouldn\u2019t be paid for my recent invoices. In a single afternoon, everything in my life seemed to collapse, and I found myself searching for God in the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weeks later, the news grew heavier. The mass was cancerous, inoperable, and too dangerous to biopsy. Its location meant it could stop my heart or lungs without warning, and doctors gave me about two years to live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Sunday, as my family and I struggled to absorb it all, my friend Franck paused the church service so the entire congregation could gather around us, pray, and cry with us. I wrestled with fear, but God continued to shape my heart until my prayer became, &#8220;Why not me? How can you use me here?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the years that followed, God opened doors for our family to serve. I helped reestablish HOPE <em>worldwide<\/em> in France, connected with a donor whose support helped hundreds in Bangladesh, served in Togo, and walked with others facing their own mortality. We offered God our \u201ctwo coins,\u201d trusting him to use whatever we had left to give. Then the doctors noticed something unexpected: the tumor had stopped growing. We believed it was an answer to prayer, especially my wife\u2019s bold prayer asking God to change his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually, specialists discovered the tumor sat in the same area affected by Parkinson\u2019s, but only on one side. A dopamine medication reduced the symptoms and slowly gave me back pieces of my life. In March 2020, the doctors told us they believed I would live a long life, even though they couldn\u2019t explain why. We could. 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