Raising the Dead by Chauncey W. Crandall

Author:Chauncey W. Crandall [CRANDALL, CHAUNCEY W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobography, Medical, Nonfiction, Retail
ISBN: 9780446574815
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2010-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

The Battle

After the bone marrow transplant, Chad made steady improvement. He gained weight and his color started coming back. When his blood counts improved sufficiently, we flew back home, with a sense of tremendous gratitude. The bone marrow transplant turned out not to be that bad after all, we thought. Slowly, we gained confidence that Chad was going to make it—that this nightmare was coming to an end. Once home, Chad was able to take part in a wedding and soon thereafter was back hitting tennis balls.

What Chad and the rest of the family had been through at M. D. Anderson taught us so much about practicing our faith in the midst of a battle with evil. Cancer is an evil; just because you can see malignant cells under a microscope doesn’t mean they aren’t an expression of Satan’s will to destroy God’s creation. The thorns on a vine, which anyone can see with the naked eye, are the result of evil influence, as Genesis tells us (3:18). Satan comes to kill, steal, and destroy. Cancer is a demonic spirit; like so many things that reflect Satan’s character, cancer takes a good thing—cell reproduction—and introduces subtle twists that make it destructive, in fact, a killing machine.

Cancer opens one’s eyes, in a sense, to the spiritual battle in which we are all engaged at every moment. When are we not being assaulted, in one way or another, by evil? It’s vital that we learn to act on what God tells us—to play our part in the establishment of God’s kingdom—even as we suffer all “the wiles of the devil” (Eph. 6:11 KJV).

As much of our time at M. D. Anderson was spent waiting—waiting between tests, for the next treatment, for enough time to pass for another procedure to be performed—I became restless and felt called to be doing the Lord’s work in some way if I couldn’t be helping patients as a doctor.

One of the books I was reading about miraculous healing, How to Heal the Sick, was written by Charles and Frances Hunter. I found their ministry was based just outside Houston in a northern suburb called Kingwood. Charles and Frances have often been called the “healing Hunters” and were used greatly in the charismatic movement of the 1970s and since.

Being a pushy kind of guy, I called Frances Hunter one day out of the blue. “Frances,” I said, “I don’t know you, but I need your help. My son is sick, and all I want to do is volunteer for your ministry. Can we do that? If it’s okay, I’ll bring him to you, let him rest in a sleeping bag, and we will do whatever you want us to do.”

Frances said, “Sure, come ahead. We’ll pray for him.”

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