A Brother with Cancer and Jesus

Pastor Ock Soo Park's Testimony

JESUS SURELY HEALS

In Acts 3, after Peter raised the lame man, he said, “Why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?” The lame man was able to walk, not through Peter’s holiness or power, but by the name of Jesus Christ.

From time to time there are sick people who come to me to receive prayer. However, when a person with cancer visits me, I think to myself “Will I be able to heal this sick person?” Whenever I have these thoughts, I doubt 100 percent. “I can’t heal him. How can cancer be healed through my prayers?” Then again I think, “Would Jesus be able to heal this sick person?” Suddenly, I gain the heart that “Jesus can surely heal!” Then I think, “Would Jesus want to heal this person’s sickness?” At those moments, I opened up the Bible and read that Jesus never turned his back against a sick person. He never said he couldn’t heal them, but he healed them all.

IF JESUS COMES, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?

Once, a loving brother and his wife came to visit me. The brother was diagnosed with cancer and was in a serious state. They said, “Pastor! Please pray for us.” I wanted to pray for that brother. “Brother, sit down for a while. Let’s talk first.” Sitting across from the couple, I began talking to the brother. The brother was facing great difficulties because of cancer. “Brother, let’s say that Jesus were to come here at this time. What do you think would happen? Of course, I would stop talking and sit right next to you, brother. Then Jesus would come and sit where I am sitting and preach, right?” I said, “Yes, that is true.”

“After Jesus finishes preaching, would he say ‘I enjoyed speaking with you. I will be leaving now. Good bye.’” The brother replied, “He wouldn’t do that.” Then I asked,
“Then what would he do?”
Then he replied, “He would heal my disease and then leave.”
I asked him again.
“Brother, are you sure of that?”
He said, “Yes.”

WOULD THE LORD IGNORE US IF WE WERE LOST?

I continued to speak, “In the past, I didn’t know anything about Jesus. When I used to attend church as a young boy, I asked the pastor, “Pastor, if I believe in Jesus this way, would I be able to enter heaven?” Then the pastor looked at me with a straight face and said “Who knows? You have to get there to know. No one knows other than God!” Then I asked, “Pastor, then how are we supposed to believe in Jesus?” He began to say that we have to believe in God with all of our hearts and efforts, but even then we won’t know if we can go to heaven. At that moment, I became very hesitant and thought “I probably won’t be able to enter heaven!”

However, we are able to discover Jesus as we read the Bible. We no longer believe it to be so as we read the heart of God in the Bible. As we saw how Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in the act of adultery and saved her, no matter what kind of sinners we may be, Jesus doesn’t condemn us but rather saves us. Even though we have not met Jesus, we believe that we will go to heaven because we know the heart of Jesus. We see how the father accepted the prodigal son when the prodigal son returned to the father. The son might have thought to himself, “Will he accept me? Wouldn’t he turn his back to me?” Contrary to his thoughts, the Father accepted him. That’s when the prodigal son knew the father’s heart.

“Brother, just as you have stated, Jesus will not ignore healing you. If you read the Bible, Deuteronomy 22:1 of the Old Testament says, Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

Then it says, Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.(Deut 22:4)

God did not speak for the ox or the donkeys but for us. Will the Lord who said not to hide yourself from the ox and the donkey that has fallen from his way, hide himself from us when we lose our way? Not so. Will the Lord who said to surely help an ox or a donkey when they have fallen from their way treat us like so? He will not. He will surely heal us.” I spoke up to there and asked the brother. “Brother, do you surely believe that Jesus will heal you?”

“Yes, pastor. I believe” If Jesus has the heart to heal your disease, and if you believe that, then your disease is already healed. It’s a problem because God’s heart and our hearts are the opposite. If your heart and the heart of Jesus becomes one and flows with one another, Jesus’ heart flows into your heart. His power comes with it; therefore, that disease is nothing.” I prayed for the brother and the couple went home.

RECEIVING THE GRACE THAT GOD GIVES US BY FAITH

After a few days, he called me and said, “Pastor! All the pain has vanished!” I don’t do such works. God does them. After a few days, the brother asked me, “Pastor! Could I enter the Mahanaim Theology School?” I answered, “Yes, once your body fully recovers, then come.” I thank God who has given faith to this brother and has perfected him. God truly loves us and bestows grace unto us. Therefore, it is not that we have to do something well in front of God, rather we just have to receive the grace that God bestows by faith.

God wants to heal us of whatever disease we have. But when we don’t have faith, we listen to the voice of Satan; we think “I will not be healed! How can this disease be healed? I will end up dying!” Such thoughts are blocking off the work of God. The brother is not perfectly healed yet. But, his health is getting better. Without doubt, I believe that God will heal this brother and I can only give thanks to God.