“I was 49, in the prime of my life… My husband and I were hiking, biking, in boot camp. Then in one moment—one conversation—everything changed. The doctor walked in and said, ‘I don’t have very good news for you.’ I had breast cancer. It had already spread to several lymph nodes. I remember thinking, How long am I going to be here? Am I going to see my kids get married? Am I going to see grandkids? That one moment changed everything.”

“I saw God in all the details. I was terrified about finances after I had to stop work. One morning, I went to Booster Juice and walked into the bathroom—there were coins all over the floor. And God just said to me, ‘I can provide any way I so choose. My resources aren’t limited.’

Then a $700 gift showed up at my door so I could buy a wig. Someone else gave us a truck. Another woman I didn’t know wrote me every single week. And one day, when I told Fred I felt ugly, like a boy, I got in the car and a man rolled down his window at a red light and said, ‘You have the greatest hair.’ Even now, I say these are gifts from God. Every one of them. He’s in the big and the small.”

“I was praying in January before I knew I had cancer, and I heard the Lord say: ‘This will be a year of miracles and breakthrough.’ Then I got stuck on Romans 4:19–21. It says Abraham faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—but he didn’t waver in unbelief. He was fully persuaded God had power to do what He promised. That verse was for me.”

Isaiah 43:2 also became my promise. It says, ‘When you pass through the waters, I will be with you…’ And that word through shows up three times. We are going through it. We are not meant to drown in it.

Isaiah 42:16: ‘I will lead the blind by ways they have not known… I will turn the darkness into light.’ What was unfamiliar to me was not unfamiliar to God.”

“I believe God wants the first part of everything—especially the day. I get up at 5:15 every morning, make my coffee, go back to bed with my Bible, journal, and worship music.

People say, ‘I don’t have time for God.’ You’ll never have time if you don’t make time. You wouldn’t go into battle without weapons, and yet Christians go into every day without the only offensive weapon we’ve been given—the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God."

I’m not great at memorizing, so I write out scripture. Books and books of it. I journal my prayers. I pray on paper. I listen to worship and teaching when I clean. I fill my life with the Word.”

“You don’t have to accept everything the doctors say. I never opened the cancer binder they gave me. I locked it in the basement and later threw it away. Those were facts—but God trumps facts.

If you’re in a dark place, fill your mind with truth. Philippians 4 says to ‘think on things that are true’—and most of the time, we’re believing lies. You become a servant to whatever you fill your mind with.

And remember this: The devil never has the final say. Romans 8:18 says, ‘Our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.’ God will have the final word. He always does.”