Update from Paula 10-29-10

First, I want to share with you that my cancer markers have gone from 162 (from 10/7/10) to 112.4 (10/21/10)!!!  A 30% drop from the last treatment!!!  I was rejoicing and so was the nurse when she called and told me.  God is so good all the time!!!

 

It is so easy to rejoice and be thankful when everything is going great but it isn’t when things are not.  As I have daily been on this journey, Jesus has met my every need.  What I am learning from His daily manna for me, is transforming me.  Another thing that I said very early on after hearing my diagnosis was, “I want Jesus to get all the glory and praise through all of this.”  That is easy to say in the heat of the moment but when things are not good it is easy for me to lose sight of praising and giving Jesus the glory.  When things have not been good, when I choose to refocus and direct my praise to Him, my outlook changes.  I know that this is what Jesus is teaching me and I’m so thankful.  He wants me to make the choice to praise Him in the good and bad.  When I make the choice to praise and worship Him, He wants to abundantly bless me.

 

Truthfully, as hard as this journey has been, I’m finding that I am excited to see what Jesus is going to do along the way.  I’m finding that I do not want to have this journey end too soon.  It sounds ridiculous but when Jesus is transforming me, it is a rewarding blessing to me.

 

I want to leave you with two verses that I have been claiming and praying lately.  My prayer is that you will also want to claim and pray these verses for yourselves.

 

~1 Peter 2:24 (NLT) He personally carried [my] sins in his body on the cross so that [I] can be dead to sin and live for what is right.  By his wounds [I am] healed.

~Psalm 118:17 (NLT) I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the Lord has done.

 

Love,

Paula

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