In 1981 Dodie Olsteen was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She had been in hospital 20 days and on 10th December, 1981 the test revealed the terrible news. In that time she’d dropped to 89 pounds and was terribly jaundiced.

Dodie knew she had no hope except for the promises in the Word of God! God says 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 

The doctors said they could treat her with chemo, but they were not sure it was going to work. She was told that she only had a few weeks to live. She and her husband decided to go home, seek God and rest her body. The doctors said she needed to be back in hospital within 10 days, but she never went back.

That day she made a decision to try and live normally, even though she was horribly unwell. She got up the next morning and cooked breakfast. When her daughter told her she should be in bed Dodie declared “if I’m going to be healed I need to act like I’m healed.” When people would ask her how she was doing she would say “By the stripes of Jesus I’m healed.” 

Her husband John, as the head of the household, commanded that spirit of cancer to leave Dodie. Like Jesus commanded the fig tree to die John commanded the cancer to wither in die in Dodie. When they’d finished praying she felt immediately improved. She felt on the inside she’d been healed. She didn’t feel any physical change, but she accepted on 11th December, 1981 that she would be well. Every time the devil told her that she would die, she would declare, on 11th December when John, her husband, prayed she’d received healing in the name of Jesus.

Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits – who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases. (Psalm 103:2-30

1. God takes all sickness away from you. “And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. (Deu 7:15 NKJV)
2. 10. Obey all God’s commandments and receive all His blessings. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. (Mal 3:10 NKJV)
3. 11. One of God’s benefits is healing. Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (Psa 103:1-5 NKJV)
4. 12. God’s Word is healing. He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions. (Psa 107:20 NKJV)
5. 13. God wants you to live. I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD. (Psa 118:17 NKJV)
6. 14. Choose to live. Be a fighter! “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; (Deu 30:19 NKJV)
7. 15. You will live a long life. With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.” (Psa 91:16 NKJV)
8. 16. Jesus bore your sins AND your sicknesses. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. (Isa 53:5 NKJV)
9. 17. God will restore your health. For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD, ‘Because they called you an outcast saying: “This is Zion; No one seeks her.”‘ (Jer 30:17 NKJV)