Nothing is impossible

I live with many on-going health issues day to day and attend hospital on a regular basis to monitor these problems, it was during one of these routine checks that I was told I have a "large growth" in my left lung, I was shown this mass on the x-ray and the Dr. told me I would need urgent surgery to remove this. An emergency CT scan was scheduled for the following week, I was told that I would then be admitted and have to undergo surgery to remove the mass and possible some of the lung.

I went home that day and while trying to keep up normality for my young children I would break down every time I was alone. I feared the worst and wondered if I would be around to continue to watch my children grow up. I felt very scared and vulnerable.

I prayed constantly with every waking moment I asked for this to just go away so I could continue to raise my children right and prayed that my children would not have to see me go through this, I talked to God every chance I got, time seemed to slow down and the agony of waiting for my next appointment was unbearable.

On Sunday I attended service as usual and silently cried through the whole service. Pastor Agu was talking about people's hidden turmoils and how we should pray for these people. I prayed that no one else was going through what I was going through.

After the service a few close friends and fellow members prayed for me and I remember them saying to me when I go back for the CT scan the doctors would scratch their heads in shock as this mass will have disappeared. I hoped and prayed this would be the case but I just didn't know how this was possible in just 4 days.

The day of the CT scan came and I laid there in that machine wondering if this was going to be the start of a long and painful time for me. I wasn't given the results there and then but told to go home and come prepared the next day to see the consultant before admission. That night I went home and prayed harder than ever before. I sat and looked at my sleeping babies and cried, I told God that I want to be around so I can keep my babies on the path to Him. I told God that only I could give then the love of a mother and being a single parent I feared what would happen to my children if anything happened to me during surgery. I stayed up all night and prayed until day light.

I waved my children off at school and went to hospital having arranged for a friend to come and stay with them while I was in hospital. I sat there in hospital and waited for the consultant for what seemed like a life time, eventually he called me in to his office. He sat down and stared at the results of the scan on his computer, after 5 minutes he got up and left the room without saying a word and came back with another consultant. They both now stared at the screen and eventually they turned to me and said "The lump that was growing in your lung has completely gone" they both rubbed their heads telling me that they had never seen such a thing.
I was sent for a repeat scan there and then and came back 30 minutes later where they were both waiting. They looked at the new scan results and again they confirmed that the scan was clear.

I felt numb with disbelief at first but when I was sent home with no further follow up appointment it started to sink in. The impossible had happened. I prayed and others prayed that the lump would vanish and the doctors would be shocked. It happened. It worked! I had prayed with all my heart and my prayers were answered.

That was a few months ago now and still I am in awe. I talk to God all the time and thank Him every day for what He has given me. My life, my children and my faith.

Praise God.