Chemo Chair Prayers

David, who wrote this Psalm23, could say he wasn’t afraid of anything, not even the valley of the show of death. It wan't because there was nothing there to be afraid of, but because he knew He wasn’t alone. 

These familiar words might be encouraging but at the same time, it's one of those bible verses that’s easy to believe when life is all roses and butterflies but, when the rubber (AKA cancer) hits the road… not so much.   

The reality is, cancer is often a long dark journey through the shadow of death where it’s easy to feel alone. We wonder where God’s got to and, however much our friends and family love us, we’re the only one that sits in the chemo chair or has the tumor growing inside us.  

That’s why we’re tackling the battle with loneliness on this episode. 

Asking and finding solutions to questions like;  As we journey through the shadow of death, why do we so often feel alone and what can we do about it?  How do we find the confidence to say I will fear no evil because I know I am not alone!! Join us as we dive in and then pray through our guided prayer practice using the acronym TRUST. Listen in and strengthen your trust in God. 

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People say the stupidest things when you have cancer. 

Like me, you've probably heard things like "Oh, my uncle died of that!’ or the old platitude, " Don’t worry, God won’t give you more than you can handle" or the old chestnut "God uses all things.” 

It drove me bonkers. 

We’re already hurting and wrestling with doubt and fear, and the last thing we need is to be nervous about what people are about to blurt out or have the hurt of their unthinking words piled on top. It hurts and it is terribly hard to just shrug the words off. 

What if we could just carry on, not letting them rattle, hurt or annoy us?  What if there was a way to rise above the careless comments and walk in a place of peace...where things people said didn’t impact us. Well, my friend, there is. Listen in. 

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Whether you were diagnosed yesterday, last week, last month or you’ve been on this cancer journey a while now, you can’t have escaped times of not knowing. We wait for test results - will they show the cancer is back or spread or will I get the all-clear? We don’t know how we’ll tolerate the chemo, we don’t know how our kids are going to be impacted by our disease, we don’t know if or when we’ll ever get better and we certainly don’t know if this is it. 

There are sooo many unknowns.

 We live in them daily as cancer survivors and if we’re not careful they can become all-consuming. I’ve heard from so many of you saying these unknowns turn into fear, what-ifs, sleepless nights, and as we talked about in Ep 8 catastrophizing. 

So what are we meant to do? 

It’s not like we can change anything - unknowns are a reality we have to live with. So how do we do that so they don’t just consume us, but we can actually use them to build our faith and trust in God?  

Listen to my CHEMO CHAIR CHAT with Marissa Brewer Henley as she not only shares about being diagnosed with cancer when her kids were little and the unknowns she faced as she walked through cancer and still lives with today. I love that she gives us some super practical things we can do when we're living in the fear and anxiety of the unknowns before praying with and for you.

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To download your TRUST prayer bookmark:  go to www.chemochairprayers.com

Let's connect on social media INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK

And why not read my book, Breathe Again: How to Live Well When Life Falls Apart  

When life's easy trusting God is too, but when we're diagnosed with cancer we often struggle to trust him. It just doesn't seem as simple as it once did. We want to trust God, we know we should trust him but it's still hard. We find ourselves asking if God really is trustworthy and if so, how can we build our trust in a God who allowed us to get cancer. 

 In this week's episode,  I give you 10 simple steps to trusting God when you don't feel like it before we pray through our prayer practice using the acronym TRUST. Listen in and strengthen your trust in God. 

To download your TRUST prayer bookmark go to www.chemochairprayers.com 

 Let's connect on social media INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK 

 And why not read my book, Breathe Again: How to Live Well When Life Falls Apart  

When life's easy, trusting God is too, but we often struggle to trust Him when diagnosed with cancer. It just doesn't seem as simple as it once did. We want to trust God, we know we should trust him, but it's still hard. We find ourselves asking if God really is trustworthy, and if so, how can we build our trust in a God who allowed us to get cancer. 

In this week's episode, I give you 5 simple steps to trusting God when you don't feel like it before we pray through our prayer practice using the acronym TRUST. Listen in and strengthen your trust in God. 

 To download your TRUST prayer bookmark go to www.chemochairprayers.com. 

Let's connect on social media INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK 

 And why not read my book, Breathe Again: How to Live Well When Life Falls Apart  

How do we build great faith, especially when we have cancer? 

 We long to have great faith; a faith that doesn’t waver and wobble in the hardest storms. We want our faith to hold us firm, keep us safe, calm. and full of hope and peace when our cancer journeys are the hardest. We long for solid ground beneath our feet, but more often than not, then, it feels like shifting sand.  

One moment our faith feels pretty good then in the dead of night or as we lie on the scanning machine as it whirs around us, it seems to give way beneath or, if it doesn’t crumble completely, it lacks the robustness we need. And we end up back at square one, struggling to believe we have enough faith and assuming what little faith we do have isn’t strong enough.

 I’ve been there myself, but it's the biggest tragedy we face because just at a time when we need great faith most, we start to doubt it. 

Out of the hardest times of my life, the Lord has taught me some powerful things about finding faith, great faith, and about finding solid ground when everything else around us is shifting and shaking and quaking. I’m not saying my faith is 100% rock-solid 100% of the time - oh no, far from it - but I am saying that what the Lord has shown helps me rebuild my faith and find solid ground, Every. Single. Time. 

If you want that too, this episode is for you and it all starts with discovering that great faith isn't what we think it is. 

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We're finally saying goodbye to 2020 and I'm sure I'm not the only one delighted to see the back of this year. The trouble is, just because the ball drops and we raise a glass to a new year, it doesn’t mean all our problems are going to disappear in a puff of smoke. Oh if that were true. 

Our cancer and and all that goes with it will roll in right on with the new year. So what's the one thing we can do to love ourselves well and not end up merely surviving another year ticking by? 

It's time to STOP CATASTROPHIZING!

Listen in as we unpack the three things we can do to stop our fears spiraling out of control and veering off into worst case scenarios.  

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If you or someone you love has cancer I don't need to persuade you that pain and suffering is real, that it can strike at anytime, or that no one is immune to it. Our pain and heartache often leave us asking the big question, "Why does God allow suffering?"  This Christmas Eve we look at the question behind this question; "What kind of God allows suffering?" 

Here, as we go beyond unpacking the purely theological answer, we discover a God whose love is so deep and wide that it meets us in our pain and deals with the beliefs that trap us in it.

Listen in and discover a new side of the familiar Christmas message. 

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Dealing with cancer is tough enough but load a global pandemic on top of that and many of us are left weary, worried, and waiting for things to change. Each Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus and hear Isaiah's call to sing a new song and overflow with praise, but this year we'd be forgiven for wondering if this message is still relevant. 

Isn't it a message for when life is easier and more rainbows and butterflies than masks and lockdowns? 

 Listen as we dive into how this call to sing a new song is actually more relevant now than ever and how we can turn our weariness, worry, and waiting into worship and wonder, bringing light to our darkness and hope when it's hopeless. 

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Have you poured out your heart to God, pleading for things to change until you've got nothing left? Maybe you've given up and simply stopped praying - your energy to pray has been eroded by the constant silence and seeming permanence of the situation. God seems at best silent, at worst, disinterested, as if your cancer doesn't matter to him. 

In today's episode,  we discover an often-overlooked footnote in the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth's prayer journey that encourages us that not only does  God hear and answer the prayers we no longer pray, but we are seen and not forgotten. Despite our cancer telling us otherwise 

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