Toward the end of my mother's fight with the "c" word, it only got worse, contrary to what we were taught in the Word of Faith. None of the prophecies from God spoken at our Bible study were coming to pass, either. Well, to be honest, remember, these teachings set you up for failure, but it is masked and sold as "faith", or "fighting the good fight of faith." Meaning that they tell you to keep confession and believing no matter how bad things look, until you get what you confess, or until finally sink with your ship. But rather than throw you a life line when you start to sink, most Word of Faith minions ignore you and allow you to drown on your own, because they tire of trying to save you, or some of the really cruel minions throw you a lead weighted "lifesaver" to be rid of you. That means you are sneered at and labeled as a "faith failure", when your miracle doesn't happen, or they harass and ridicule you when you, God forbid, finally go the medical route, which in our case, was too late, that ship had already sailed.
In regards to Scripture, all false teachings have a measure of truth in them, standing in faith is a biblical teaching, but they mix sound biblical teaching with the doctrine of demons. They don't take biblical teachings in context, they cut and paste them, or wrest them to fit their purposes. Neither I, nor my mother were fighting the good fight of faith, we were actually fighting God and his disciplinary correction. And when you fight The Almighty, whether in ignorance, or willful defiance, you will lose every time. I want to be frank with this dear reader. God made my mom sick for a reason, to get her to turn to him in repentance, Satan had no reason to make her sick, she was already ignorantly giving him her allegiance. There is nothing like a festering putrid sore placed under the nose to get a person to start asking some questions. But, to be honest, she was too far gone in the 'faith,' and I didn't know what I was doing. I mean, I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know exactly what was wrong, or what to do about it. That is absolutely humbling in a horrifying way.
I finally broke down and gave into the temptation of being reasonable, so I asked my mom why she waited so long to get medical care and she said, "Honey, I thought I was in faith by not going to the doctor, but I guess I wasn't." Finally! The hardened shell had started to crack, but more had to be done. These teachings are so cruel that it is mind boggling why anyone would want to adopt them. But, as I have learned the hard way, as with all secret societies, cults, and heresies, it is a slow duping process. If they truthfully told people what they were really about, then no one in their right mind would follow them. These satanically inspired megalomaniac fishermen hook people with lures such as: greed, secret knowledge, and/or the promise of providing power and control. And then, while their prey is feeding on the bait; they slowly reel in their catch. Their catch might jump the line if they real them in too fast, so they go nice and slow. That is unless of course they considered a certain person to be special, then that person is elevated to what they call: "the fast track." That is not a compliment by the way, that only means they sense that person is more like one of them, and are therefore a desirable and promising initiate, maybe even a future false teacher, and pack leader.
Anyway, the more you are lulled into, and buy their lies, the less likely you will be alerted to the fact you are slowly being fleeced, skinned, cut up, cooked, and then eaten. They know that a frog placed in boiling water would immediately jump out, so they only turn up the heat slowly. Yes, The Almighty was trying to get our attention. So he sent his sore judgement of illness to shock us into reality. Did he fully get our attention? Not quite yet. Our consciences were already some what seared. One should never under estimate the Satanic hold that these and other false teachings can have on a person, they are indeed strong holds inflicted by "the strong man", but fortunately for us, The Almighty is stronger still!
Yes dear reader, through our Lord's holy refining process, I was slowly melting and yielding to the Lord's holy and righteous smithery. I was beginning to turn to him and his word first for support, and answers, and less toward: "The Peeps." I was finally beginning to question the decades of teachings I had received. I was beginning to develop an insatiable hunger for the real God of the Bible, and I was determined to not draw back from Him, not this time! I had faced life and death with my brother passing away, my miscarriage, our son's mental health, my husband's health [he suffered a near ruptured appendix], and my mom's first bought with rapidly failing health.
But this one was bone crushingly hard, because cancer is considered to be a death row sentence. Not many escape it's imprisonment by a daring planned escape through medical treatment. Or if a person manages to miraculously survive the brutal cure, the chances of being caught and imprisoned by the disease once more are relatively high, even before 5 years are up. As my mom was sick and yes, dying, a slow painful death via a mixture of cancer, natural remedies and Word of Faith diatribe, I was slowly and painfully dying too - inwardly. Yet, amazingly, she never complained, never was cranky, or rude; sadly, I know I would have been all of those things if I were in her place. She amazed me even then, with her grace and patience. That is the good part of the Word of Faith heresy, they tell you not to complain. Remember, no negative words. Even so, my faith started to crumble the weaker and sicker she got, but amazingly, that only made me more determined to hang on to it. I would not allow myself to admit defeat, and neither would she. According to Voltaire, "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Unfortunately, he's right, it is difficult, but not impossible, thanks be to God!
But this one was bone crushingly hard, because cancer is considered to be a death row sentence. Not many escape it's imprisonment by a daring planned escape through medical treatment. Or if a person manages to miraculously survive the brutal cure, the chances of being caught and imprisoned by the disease once more are relatively high, even before 5 years are up. As my mom was sick and yes, dying, a slow painful death via a mixture of cancer, natural remedies and Word of Faith diatribe, I was slowly and painfully dying too - inwardly. Yet, amazingly, she never complained, never was cranky, or rude; sadly, I know I would have been all of those things if I were in her place. She amazed me even then, with her grace and patience. That is the good part of the Word of Faith heresy, they tell you not to complain. Remember, no negative words. Even so, my faith started to crumble the weaker and sicker she got, but amazingly, that only made me more determined to hang on to it. I would not allow myself to admit defeat, and neither would she. According to Voltaire, "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Unfortunately, he's right, it is difficult, but not impossible, thanks be to God!