Life as a Survivor and Daughter of the King!

A 14-year-old girl was diagnosed with stage four Ovarian cancer.  She was given less than six months to live.  She went through surgery to remove a five pound tumor and to place a shunt in her chest. Now she has a 12 inch seam down her stomach, a small mark by her shoulder and an amazing story.  Without knowing it, her family bore the burden of knowing the outlook all while, she slept and fought the battle.  It was just as hard for them to watch her suffer as it was for her to fight.  The doctors gave her little hope to getting out of the cycle but when she went in for her third week of chemotherapy. She told her Mom she wasn't sure she could handle another week of this stuff.  The last time it had taken her an extra day to recover because of how much was in her system and this time she knew it would be worse.  She and her Mom prayed and cried together and headed to the doctor's office knowing that God had a plan.  They had all of their bags packed for the hospital, with books, games, and movies to watch. The doctor told them to wait while he made a call.  After about 30 minutes of waiting he came back in and said she was no longer a patient. All the scans were clean and there was no reason to proceed with the chemotherapy!  What great news!!


Many of you know that story but I was reminded last night of how far I've come!  Not only did God decide to continue my life here on this earth but he has blessed me with the gift of salvation!  My pastor was talking about how we were dead before Christ. Some of us look at our lives and think we are so close to being a good person and making it to heaven that if we just find God he is the "extra credit" we need to make the "passing grade" to get there.  I realized that was so me!  I thought that.  I wasn't that bad as a child, I grew up in church and did what my parents asked me to most of the time.  One thing we all need to realize is that no matter how good we are we will not get to heaven without Jesus.  We are told in Ephesians that we were ALL FAR AWAY!  It doesn't matter how bad we are God is still waiting with open arms to pick us up when we cry out to him and comfort us and remind us that He is with us, Emmanuel!  Many of you know that I've been going through some hard times these past few weeks and God has blessed me with an understanding and wonderful family as well as great encouraging friends!  I am blessed to know that God knew the things I was going to do in my life and he still died for ME, a dirty little sinner!  WOW!  What a loving God!

I was also reminded last week that my identity is found in Jesus Christ and God the Father.  I've been really upset with the scale for weeks now.  Whenever I would weigh, (which was almost daily) I would get upset if it was higher than my last one. Anytime I gained a ounce I would get upset at the stupid scale and start eating even less.  I am no longer placing my identity in a number on the scale, yes I still have a goal weight but that may change the better I feel about my body.  I am a daughter of the King and in the Psalms it says "The KING is ENTHRALLED by your beauty, honor him for he is your Lord"  I want to honor him in what ALL I do that includes exercising and eating as well as the volunteering and working and school and everything else I do.  My body is his temple and I want it to be as clean and healthy as possible so if he calls me to do something I can do it.  I don't want to be held back by my lack of training. That goes for my spiritual growth too!  I am working on me this year!  I am focusing on physical and spiritual training!  Pray for me as this road will not be easy.  The devil is going to try to distract me and he knows how to do it well so Please Pray that I will be equipped to flea the temptation when it comes!

I know this was a long one!  Thanks for those that stuck it out through the whole thing!  Hit me up whenever!   Ask me how I'm doing with the training!  I'm open to ANY help and motivation!