to be 100% cancer free. In the last issue of the
magazine, Kalley Heiligenthal talked about the
difference of knowing God in the middle of the
battle and not just at the outcome. Tell us about
how God met you in your darkest hours?
[Andrew] It’s kind of like what I’ve been
saying, it’s the fact that when most people
would think that you would feel the farthest
away from God is when I felt the closest to
God. It’s not until I finally realized that this was
not in my control, and that was a good thing.
There’s a passage in Luke, I think it’s 12:24,
“Consider the ravens, they neither sow nor
reap, they have no storehouse or barn, yet God
still feeds them”, and that’s paraphrasing, but
that just shifted my focus.
I’ve learned that through trials we can’t just sit
here and say “Hey, God, come help me out!”.
We have to make a conscious effort to come
to Him. I hadn’t ever been through a trial that
big and I just expected God to kind of scoop
me up out of this. But with God not just taking
this one hundred percent away, and not giving
me peace right off the bat, this made me realize
that, “Hey Andrew, you can’t sit here and sing
all of the worship songs and say, “I love God”
and have Him take it all away without you doing
anything about it”.
That finally is when I realized that I needed to
do something, that’s when I saw my prayer life [WM] What advice do you have for people the whole timeline, how it’s going to flow and
getting stronger, I saw my reading in His word who are going through something that they how it’s going to end, and it will be for His good
getting stronger, my quiet time with Him became can’t see the other side of yet? and His glory.
realizing that this is a two-way thing. In order for [Andrew] The biggest thing I would say is, We’re humans and we can’t see the future and
God to truly give me all of this peace and comfort, skip the part that I did at the beginning, meaning we can hardly remember the past, I don’t even
I’ve got to come to Him, He will have His arm out don’t get down in the dumps, and don’t get remember what I ate for breakfast this morning.
and all you have to do is take it. It’s easy to want burned out right at the beginning, because it’s What our good is based on is what we know
God to just scoop you up out of this, and His a lot harder to get going if you’ve already given now, what God’s good is based on is what He
hand is right there… we’re just sometimes too up. Just realize right off the bat that it’s okay that knows for eternity. The biggest thing is to come
stubborn or too prideful to take it. That’s when you don’t have control. Even though you can’t to the realization that He knows the outcome,
I finally realized that I had to swallow my pride see the other side, know that the Creator of the you don’t, but that’s a good thing. You just have
a little bit, that I couldn’t get through this alone, universe loves you, cares for you, and has your to give up your pride, say, “I can’t go through
and that I don’t have everything in control. That’s circumstance in His hands and is going to work this alone…”, and reach out to God, He’s
when I realized that I just had to take God’s hand it out for His good… maybe not for your good. there waiting for you and happy to help you
in this and let Him pull me out. I guess I feel like God has been here from the beginning of time through it.
I grew really close to God in this time for sure. and can see until the end of time, so He knows
more influential in my life. That’s when I started
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