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“ Be strong and courageous . Do not be afraid or terrified because of them , for the Lord your God goes with you ; he will never leave you nor forsake you ” ( Deuteronomy 31:6 , NIV ).

We need to dig into the Word , hold it in our hearts , and have the Word rooted deep because trouble will come . In March 2021 , I found a lump in my breast . At first , I ignored it and refused to think about it . I didn ' t tell anyone for a week . Then , one evening at a prayer meeting , a friend was praying for me and said there was something that I needed to do . I knew God was telling me this lump was something I needed to take care of and not ignore . So , I told my husband and then began the process of going to the doctor and test after test to find out what was going on . After months of tests and seeing many doctors , I was told I had stage 2 triple-negative breast cancer . It was the most aggressive type . When the doctor told me , I smiled under my mask because I knew my God was greater than any cancer .

Because of my foundation in the Word and knowing God ' s Word , I knew God ' s will for me was to be healed . I knew this was an attack from the enemy , and I was not about to give him the satisfaction of fear or worry . I struggled with the feeling of guilt and shame ; the thoughts of " you ' re a believer you shouldn ' t be struggling with this " and " if you truly believed you would just be healed " kept coming to me . Through prayer and a word given through my daughter , Tiffany , Jesus reminded me of Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego ; trouble came at them , and they were not delivered from the flames , but they walked through them and came out not even smelling of smoke . Jesus told me that I would walk through and come out on the other side .

In August , we served in Sturgis , and I also began my first chemotherapy treatment . I refused to let these treatments stop me from serving the Lord . I went to that first appointment , came back , and went right back to working the parking lots at the rally . I had chemo every week through

Thanksgiving and three more every three weeks . My final treatment was on February 3 . Although I hit a few minor bumps along the way , I never got sick from the chemotherapy . I was given one immunotherapy treatment , which was stopped when my body rejected it . This rejection took about four weeks of stopping all treatment for my body to recover . I knew by my third chemo treatment that the cancer was gone , but I continued through the treatments . After chemo , I had surgery to remove the lump , and God gave me a surgeon who was a Christian . The surgery went well ; he removed the lump and lymphoids from my arm . When the test results came back on the tissue removed , I heard the doctor say , " Praise the Lord , the chemo worked !" Now I knew that it was not the chemo that had taken the cancer . To hear the doctor say , “ Praise the Lord ,” was awesome . At that point , I was cancer-free , not complete with the process , but cancer-free .

I had five weeks of radiation to complete , where I had to stay in Rapid City and have treatment daily , Monday through Friday . During this time , I told God it was His time , and let me tell you , God moved . I cannot tell you everything because there was so much , but God introduced me to a whole new group of people I would soon be working with on the Native

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