Category battling cancer

Face Time – Living in the Presence

– By Joe Fornear Our struggles can appear so high, wide, and long – sometimes insurmountable to us. Yet appearances are a poor monitor of the multidimensional realities of God. When the Lord set up the temple worship system in…

battling cancer, cancer support, comfort, emotions, handling trials, suffering, surrender, surviving melanoma

Joe Fornear
October 23, 2013

Beyond The Noise Inside My Head

Yet there was one voice that changed everything. One word from the Lord was worth days of spinning and casting about for emotional, physical or spiritual breakthrough. His “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12) brought a peace and freedom like no other.

battling cancer, cancer support, comfort, melanoma survivors, peace, surviving melanoma, The Word

Joe Fornear
October 11, 2013

Power Napping

– By Joe Fornear I hear it often when talking with people fighting cancer. “I don’t know how people do this without the Lord.” Indeed. In actuality, nothing in life was intended by our Maker to be “do-it-yourself.” We were…

battling cancer, caretakers, dependence, fear, goodness of God, guidance, handling trials, peace, rest, surrender

Joe Fornear
September 25, 2013

Does God Ever Give Us More Than We Can Handle?

So yes, God does give us more than we can handle, but only so we can handle much more eternally significant matters - through Him!

battling cancer, dependence, emotions, grace, handling trials, power of God, suffering, surviving melanoma, weakness & strength

Joe Fornear
August 23, 2013

Breaking Well

– By Joe Fornear The storyline of one TV show is not so different from that of hundreds of people who are diagnosed daily. A 50-year-old father and husband is informed his cancer is inoperable, so he launches a plan…

battling cancer, cancer support, dependence, suffering, surrender

Joe Fornear
August 2, 2013

Hug a Caretaker Today

So how does a caretaker handle an impossible load? The answer must be to tap into the supernatural. Human love has its limits. Divine love does not. He wants to give us His love to flow through us to others. Just ask and keep asking -- moment by moment.

battling cancer, cancer support, caretakers, emotions, power of God, resentment, suffering, surviving melanoma

Joe Fornear
June 7, 2013
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Don’t Release the Kraken… on Yourself!

Interestingly, before God restores Job’s health, family and fortunes, He asks him to pray for the well-being of his friends, releasing them from the scars they inflicted. After all, the Lord did not want Job’s nightmare to continue. Whether real or imagined, revenge only breeds more pain. So don’t release the Kraken… on yourself!

battling cancer, forgiveness, grace, handling trials, melanoma survivors, power of God, resentment, surviving melanoma

Joe Fornear
May 20, 2013
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Letting Go

That thing I'm clinging to... isn't really gone, it's put into the hands of the One Who gives His life to it in a way that keeps it safe from my worship and control.

battling cancer, dependence, handling trials, surrender, Terri Fornear

Terri Fornear
March 13, 2013

Give Your Burdens the Axe

If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success. - Ecclesiastes 10:10

battling cancer, cancer support, dependence, emotions, In His Grip book, melanoma survivors, Stronghold Ministry, surviving melanoma

Joe Fornear
February 20, 2013

Lighten Your Load in 2013

What is true for physical limits “carries” over to spiritual and emotional limits. We can only haul so many burdens before control squirts out of our hands. Nerves shatter. Tempers are lost. We stumble under the weight.

battling cancer, cancer support, depression and cancer, goodness of God, handling trials, melanoma survivors, rest, surrender, surviving melanoma

Joe Fornear
January 10, 2013