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A New Kind of Faith
So I got the dreaded phone call. My first serious boyfriend told me that the doctor’s were 90 percent sure that he had cancer. Although the final results would come back a week later, I was terrified, devastated, and hopeless as I tried to be brave for him.
That night I cried out to God. As I read Jesus' words, they hit me in a new way. He said to the sick that came to him: “By your faith you are healed.” He said to his followers: “If you ask anything in my name it will be given to you," and "I am with you always."
As I read about people’s encounters with Jesus, I felt like Jesus was asking me, “Shannon, do you really have faith in me, that I have the power I say I have, and that I will fulfill the promises I make?” That week I prayed believing Jesus was in the situation – I knew that his presence and power would give us the strength to go through whatever the outcome would be. I had a new kind of faith as the Bible came alive to me. The results came in and the doctors were confused because there was no cancer! Trusting my life to Jesus is living with a new kind of confidence in his presence to give me the strength to handle whatever circumstances life may bring.
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