In the Firing Line: (3) ‘The Cancer Scare’

8th July 2023 Five months after the momentous prophecy calling me to a Healing ministry, I experienced a frightening health scare. Sitting on my bathroom toilet I produced an issue of blood which looked like I had poured red wine into the pan. The words ‘bowel cancer’ raced into my mind! And what would this mean for the Healing ministry I had been called to exercise? I tried to be rational, telling myself that I had done several tests using the kits that the NHS send out when you’ve reached a certain age, all of which had proved negative. But this anxiety was soon put to rest more powerfully when a scripture verse entered my mind. It was 1 Samuel, 17v37, where the young shepherd David, facing the imposing threat of the Philistine giant Goliath, declared “The God who saved me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will save me from the hand of this Philistine”. Cancer is the giant among illnesses despite billions having been spent on the search for a cure, and I was now facing it for the first time! But, like David, I had two incidents in which I had been saved from harm in the enemy’s ‘firing line’ – the complete healing from a heart-attack, and the rescue from a falling smashed window in an Oxford street. (There were others I could recount, but these two were the most recent). Peace ensued.

By the following Monday the bleeding had stopped, but I thought it wise to make an immediate appointment with my GP. He put in place two hospital appointments, one for a Colonoscopy, the second for a body scan. While awaiting these NHS procedures I decided to visit Prophet David Opoku, who, immediately sensing my fear, declared “You have no cancer in you!” How good it is to receive the Scriptural Word backed up by the Prophetic Word! My peace was reinforced, but I still thought it important to go through the medical process which had been set up for me. I chose to stay awake during the colonoscopy, and was able to observe on the camera monitor the presence of real blood in my colon. But, no lurking polyps, nor any other possible cause of the bleeding, could be traced. This was confirmed a little later by the scan. There was no doubt in my mind Who was the cause of the haemorrhage. On returning to the south London church, a different prophet, Solomon, (who did not know me and was not informed by prophet David), called me out and declared that he had seen the word ‘Cancer’ above my head, but that it was being erased. I was immediately taken aback, but then realised I was getting the spiritual verdict that backed up the medical verdict.

So my medical records do still contain the incidences of ‘heart-attack’ and ‘mild diverticular disease’; but similarly as “being justified” means ‘just as if I’d never sinned’, so my “being healed” means ‘just as if I’d never had the bleeding that threatened cancer, nor the heart-attack that could have ended my life’