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PROVERBS 23:10 ASV
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless...
It’s been one of the joys of my life to watch my husband Mark father our children, even now that they’re grown, as we all work together in the ministry as a gospel family. It’s also just as awesome to watch my sons, Josh and James, father their own children in the ways of the Lord. What a divine privilege.
I really miss my dad. He and I were very close, and he died way too young. My father passed away when my two children were not very old. I loved my father very much and would have loved for him to see how his grandchildren grew up and how our ministry has flourished. I still think about him at Christmastime and at other times, even though it’s been quite a few years ago now.
Mark and I have been blessed with great leadership. We miss our pastor (now in Heaven), Dr. John Osteen, and we miss our spiritual fathers who are also now in Heaven—
Dr. Lester Sumrall, Dr. Roy Hicks, Sr., Dr. George Evans, and Dr. Hilton Sutton. Each of them imparted something special into our lives.
time. That’s where I put my faith. If cancer had spread to my lymph nodes, to me that would be the second time. The cancer was the first.
I often think of my mom who passed away years ago, but I thank God I have had two spiritual moms. Dodie Osteen is one of my spiritual moms. I have looked up to her my entire min- istry. Her love for God’s people and passion for the sick is supernatural. I never realized I would need that anointing in my own life when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2008.
It was on my surgery day that my husband and I decided to call Dodie Osteen. As she prayed with him over the phone, she told him to give me this verse:
I got out her book on healing and began to confess the heal- ing scriptures every day. Nahum 1:9 jumped out to me. It was one of the many scriptures I had been confessing for several weeks. It says that the affliction will not come back the second
Though I had been confessing many scriptures from her book every day, she specifically selected this one to give to me; and it was the very one I had been confessing and standing on. She asked Mark if she could share my prayer request regarding the surgery with a few of her friends, and he said she could.
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NAHUM 1:9
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.