How Mama Got Raised Up

A long time ago my mama was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Now Mama was a woman who really wanted to trust the Lord through the disease. God helped her to not get scared by what the doctors told her. She just started praying and asking God whether she should take medicine or have a surgery to take the tumor out. And God told her, “No, don’t take them. Just trust Me.”

After the months went by, she started feeling a lot better. She was able to do school with us, and adopt my sister and I. Before we both got adopted, then Mama went to another doctor’s appointment and her tumor had shrunk half the size! I had felt like God had healed her cancer.

A year later she was starting to feel very ill. So she had to lay in bed and have quite a few naps. Some of our friends had to watch us. During that time I felt like she was getting worse. A week later she started getting very, very sick. She was at the point that she started dying. I was kind of scared that I might lose my mom. So we were all praying and asking God to raise her up.

And then, a few days later, she started feeling better. And then, all of a sudden, one day later, she started walking from the bathroom all the way to the kitchen table! There was a Scripture that God had put in her mind. That Scripture was: “I am the Lord that healeth thee.”* (Exodus 15:26) I was so happy! So then we decided to have a song service, just that day. And Mama also told us that the cancer was totally healed! And that is how Mama got raised up!

—Ellianna, age 8