Jeremiah 29:11
Home from hospital with our newborn and struggling spiritually with how to cope with the cancer diagnosis, I opened my old bible and started meditating on this verse I received during prophetic prayer in 2008. Jeremiah 29.11, "For I know the plans I have for you, declared the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". I said to myself God wanted me to have this then and it still applies. The next few times I would tell Vern about the verse I would open my bible automatically to within a few pages of that scripture and I wrote it at the front of my diary so I would always meditate on it.
On May 30th, I had a really bad day after I googled 'palliative chemotherapy' and I called my uncle asking for prayer. That night he emailed me the following: "When I prayed for you for the baby, I believe this verse was quicken to me. Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIV) For I know the plans I have..."
Then on June 10th, my aunty sent me a chain mail message (which I usually ignore) but it began, "Jeremiah 29:11..."
When we returned home from hospital our mysky had become full with all the old episodes of Criminal Minds I had recorded. I went through and deleted a whole bunch (just randomly) to free up space. On the 13th June I decided to watch one and chose the next one in order (from when I had stopped deleting weeks prior). In the final 10 minutes of that episode one of the characters (Spencer Reid) quoted... Jeremiah 29.11…!!
And then, as if I just needed reminding, on July 29th a friend from my old church in Christchurch messaged me "Hi Sarona I just wanted to encourage you, Jeremiah 29:11…".
Not one person had any idea of the significance of that scripture to me, and whenever I doubted if I would get better I remembered this scripture as a promise from God.
Also during this time, Vernon had a vision of me completely healed and we were both sharing testimony. This vision gave us both hope and kept us sustained during some really difficult times.
