The Illusion Is Not the Conclusion - My Victorious Journey: Cancer-Free by My Faith in the Word of God!

By Paulette Ravenel Woodside

Choose ye this day whom ye will serve! We can choose to serve fear or to serve God by having faith in Him. When we begin to worry, we allow doubt to overtake us. Doubt leads to fear, and at this point, we leave the natural fear and embrace the spirit of fear that God has not given us. God has given us His Word, which promises life. He has given us direction in His Word that assures us that He desires for us to be in good health (3 John 1:2); He wants us to trust Him and not doubt; He told us, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Therefore, instead of embracing fear and putting our faith in the situation the crippler has presented us, we need to put our faith and reverence in the God who can heal any situation the crippler has been allowed to bring our way. God suggested that His beloved servant, Job, be tested. Satan needs Gods permission to confront Gods children. The reality is Gods children have the power to take authority over the hands of the enemy, and if he is allowed to touch Gods people, he definitely does not have permission to touch our souls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781512711950

Paulette Ravenel Woodside

Paulette Ravenel-Woodside is an elder and the youth pastor of S.C.H.O.O.L. Ministries, Inc., Hempstead, New York; the wife of Basilel Woodside; mother of five children, fifteen grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren; former leasing manager of a residential property in New York City; licensed NYS real-estate broker of Paulette R. Woodside Realty.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-1196-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5127-1197-4 (hc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015914649

WestBow Press rev. date: 09/18/2015

CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Chapter 1: The Illusion

Chapter 2: Seasons Change

Chapter 3: Recognizing My Purpose

Chapter 4: Choices

Chapter 5: I Decided to Make Jesus My Choice

Chapter 6: The Day of Reckoning

Chapter 7: The Day I’ll Go Became a Reality

Chapter 8: My Assignment Revealed

Chapter 9: Spiritual Warfare

Chapter 10: Victory in Speaking God’s Word

Chapter 11: Homebound Revelations

Chapter 12: Lord, Please Order My Steps

Chapter 13: Lord, I Need Your Continued Direction!

Chapter 14: The Reason Why I Write

Chapter 15: That Devil Is Crazy

Chapter 16: Never Letting Go of My Faith

Chapter 17: The Illusion Is Not the Conclusion

Chapter 18: Oh No! Not Again!

Chapter 19: Trusting My God

Chapter 20: The Conclusion

Healing Scriptures

Family Pictures

DEDICATION

I am dedicating this book to my daughter, Ditashiah Monique who has been battling kidney disease. I thank God for her faith in knowing that through what I have gone through, she can be assured that God is true to His Word:

To My Darling Daughter, Ditashiah,

As you have gone through countless treatments of dialysis for the past three years, I believe that the manifestation of your new kidneys are soon to come as memories of how the doctors were confounded when my Daddy, Paul Cailup Ravenel, Sr., your Granddad, miraculously received a new kidney while he was in the hospital over 30 years ago.

I know that if God did it before, He will do it again! Just hold on and don’t let go of your faith! Thank God ahead of time for your healing! See yourself as God sees you, completely healed, by the Blood of Jesus! Your wonderful new husband, Corey, and your beautiful children, Courtney, Michael & Madison need you. I love you so much baby girl! Don’t let go as you hold onto your faith in our God who cannot fail!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE special thanks to my husband, Pastor Basilel Woodside (my Woody), who, from the moment of his knowledge of My Victorious Journey, stood by me with loving compassion and total loyalty as an example to all men who vow to love and to cherish their wives in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, until death do us part! Woody, your determination to never leave my bedside as you bathed, nursed, and loved me through an ordeal that would take away one of the sweetest pleasures of our marriage was inspiring. As you protectively and patiently slept at the bottom of the bed, watching over me even as you slept, ensuring that you did not hurt me, I knew you loved me then. I think of how you wanted to identify with my baldness by shaving your head, and I thank you!

To the memories of my loving parents, the late Paul and Virginia Ravenel, (my hero and Shero) who had the patience to serve as examples to all of their children on how to trust God in all of our ways, knowing that He will direct our paths. To the memories of the three losses that helped prepare me for my victorious journey—my loving mother, Virginia Ravenel; my precious and loyal sister, Diane Ravenel, and daughter-in-law, Cassandra Norris; in memory of my dear, only brother, Paul Ravenel, II; my darling sisters, Emma, Julia (prayer partner), as well as Sheila and Thomasha (both at my bedside); to my loving friend, Francis Farmer (who waited in the hospital with my husband for thirteen and a half hours); my wonderful children in New York, Vernon and Ditashiah (who literally mothered me in the hospital); my loving children in the Bahamas, Deroy, Kira & Dwight, and Turks and Caicos Islands, Daryl & Shena; all