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Anne Graham Lotz Gives Update on Breast Cancer Surgery, Praises God for Outpouring of Prayer

Image source: Facebook/Anne Graham Lotz
Image source: Facebook/Anne Graham Lotz
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By Will Maule
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September 21, 2018

Anne Graham Lotz has given an update on her health situation after having surgery for breast cancer. Earlier this month, Lotz revealed she had the illness in a powerful blog post, in which she wrote that the cancer battle ahead was simply “the Refiner adding fuel to the fire in my life.”

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In her most recent update on Facebook, Lotz, who lost her husband to a horrific drowning accident three years ago, said that she was praising God for all the prayers that have been poured out for her at this time.

“All went well. Cancer seemed contained with none apparently in the lymph nodes,” she wrote after getting out of surgery. “Praise God! I stayed overnight and returned home this morning. Thank you for your prayers. God has poured out His blessing. I’m at peace with joy and expectancy that this is a journey He wants me on. I love following the Shepherd!!”

Anne’s brother, Rev. Franklin Graham, also gave an update on his sister’s wellbeing, again asking for healing prayers.

“I want to thank everyone who prayed for my sister Anne this week as she had surgery for breast cancer,” he posted on Facebook. “We thank God that it went well. She is at peace, safe in the hands of God. The Word of God tells us, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7).”

Graham Lotz has previously reflected on the extraordinary coincidence of receiving her diagnosis on the anniversary of her husband’s death.

“On the afternoon of August 17, 2015, between 3:00 and 3:30, as you may know, I discovered my husband, Danny, unresponsive in our pool,” she wrote. “Two days later he was Home! Three years to the day, on the afternoon of August 17, 2018, at the very same time of day…3:00 to 3:30…I was diagnosed with breast cancer. When I realized the strange “coincidence” of the timing, I came to the chilling conclusion that it was an assignment from the enemy.”

Despite feeling fear and trepidation at the moment of hearing those awful words, Graham Lotz said she then sensed God’s presence with her and felt the Spirit lead her toward a powerful truth.

“I heard the soft, gentle whisper of the Spirit, reminding me that it was on a Friday, during that very same time…between 3:00 and 3:30 in the afternoon…that God’s Passover Lamb was sacrificed,” Graham Lotz explained. “Jesus died on the very same day of the week, at the very same time of the day, crushing the head of the serpent, forever defeating the devil and death.[2] Praise God! The cross…the blood of God’s Lamb…trumps anything the devil can throw at us or assign to us!”

“So I am left to worship and totally trust our God who is ultimately in control. Of everything,” she declared.

Posted by Anne Graham Lotz on Wednesday, September 5, 2018

She concluded the post with a prayer penned by famed Christian missionary, Amy Carmichael, saying that it expressed her “heart’s desire” for this next season:

“From prayer that asks that I may be
Sheltered from winds that beat on Thee,
From fearing when I should aspire,
From faltering when I should climb higher,
From silken self, O Captain, free
Thy soldier who would follow Thee.

From subtle love of softening things,
From easy choices, weakenings;
Not thus are spirits fortified,
Not this way went the Crucified,
From all that dims Thy Calvary,
O Lamb of God, deliver me.

Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire,
Let me not sink to be a clod:
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

–Amy Carmichael

Keep praying for Anne Graham Lotz and her family as she continues to battle this awful disease.

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