By Candace Pringle
It was the summer of 2014 when Greg Walde began to feel the effects of something deep and dark within himself. It presented as mere nausea, no big deal, really, except that there was no observable reason for it. His family doctor ran some tests, and sent him home with the promise of a phone call as soon as results were in.
It was mid-august when Greg received that life-changing call.
“Your body is consumed with cancer.”
Greg had cancer in his leg bone, hip, and back, as well as 4-5 inch tumors on his liver. Even the doctor was sick about it, and the bad news didn’t end there. Greg was given 8 months to live, and referred to a cancer specialist, with very little hope of treatments doing anything to help.
Greg’s shock turned to desperation, and he went to his knees in prayer. He couldn’t understand why God would let it get to this point, why he would have to suffer so much, and leave this world so early. He took to a small room in his house, steeling away moments of the day, and it was there that he began to build a relationship with Jesus. He had to find out what was between he and his Savior, what was real, and why God would allow him to go through this season of hardship.
God led him to a passage in Mark, that would encourage him, and shape his journey with Jesus so deeply.
“21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
It was at this point, that Greg realized he was carrying a lot of anger and unforgiveness in his heart. God was calling him to a deep repentance. As soon as he began to unravel the anger, an uncanny peace started to settle in. God was reassuring him, every day in that room of prayer, that everything was going to be okay.
The warm days began to fade, and summer turned to fall. At every appointment Greg attended, he assured the doctors that he would be healed, and that everything would be okay. Despite his confidence, they remained skeptical. The cancer in his body was just so overwhelming.
Two weeks before Christmas 2014, they ran a PET scan, designed to detect disease and reveal how tissues and organs are functioning. Greg went into that scan with a peace that passed all understanding, clinging to hope that God had healed him, because he asked for it in prayer, and repented of his unforgiveness and anger.
And when the call came, it was again, life-changing.
“There’s no active cancer in your body. I can’t explain it.”
This time, those words were no surprise. Greg confidently told that doctor, “I told you Jesus was gonna heal me.”
God had taken all the cancer from Greg’s body. From his liver, colon, thyroid glands, bones, everything! He gave Greg a miracle.
As of the writing of this article, January 21, 2020, Greg is alive and healthy. The cancer has not come back, and neither has the anger and bitterness. Greg and his wife, Elaine, faithfully serve the body of believers at FVChurch, by partnering with those in crisis, holding their hands through difficult seasons, and by praying with a healing passion that can only come from someone who doesn’t just THINK they know, but someone who has experienced it, firsthand.
Now, if you ask Greg, he will tell you, “He is a miracle God. He’s on the move, but we all need a forgiving spirit, and there can’t be anything that would keep Jesus at a distance."
But don’t just take my word for it…watch Greg’s story, here: