Journeying Well: Step by Step with Jesus

By Cindy Cox

Journeying Well: Step by Step with Jesus is Cindy's second testimonial/teaching book regarding her journey through stage four cancer, this time lymphoma, with malignant tumors in many bones and lymph nodes throughout her body. This chapter of Cindy's life story is very different … but very powerful and hope-inspiring and relatable. Because this time, Cindy's healing journey included traditional medical intervention; chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

In the midst of Cindy's journey, she came to the realization that attaining her healing wasn't even an issue. Her healing was a done deal. She KNEW that healing was her possession, paid for through Jesus at Calvary. God revealed to her that the significant part of her testimony wasn't about her healing; rather it was about "journeying well" on the way to attaining the healing that was already hers. God directed Cindy to be transparent with the people she taught every week at healing school; sharing her spiritual journey through the midst of the cancer, treatment, and her subsequent healing. He also led her to write this book while she was in the very midst of her healing journey.

As you read, may you hear the voice of God speaking to you, just as He spoke to Cindy throughout her journey of healing—with compassion, with encouragement, revealing His will to heal you and to set you free from the bondage of sickness and pain!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9780990680260

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PART ONE

A strong foundation

In Part One of Journeying Well: Step by Step with Jesus, I lay the foundation for the testimony of my healing journey through stage-four lymphoma.

I committed my life and completely surrendered to Jesus as my Savior, my Lord, and my Healer 20 years ago. I have been actively teaching healing school and ministering to those in need of healing with passion for 18 years. I have written two books and a Bible study about divine healing.

Yet, I recently found myself fighting severe, chronic pain in my own body, and then was diagnosed with stage-four cancer for the second time in my life.

But Jesus didn’t die in vain for me. No matter what my body was screaming, no matter what the medical report said; God’s word said: He endured the punishment that made us completely whole, and in his wounding we found our healing. (Isaiah 55:5b TPT)

Cancer would NOT stop me from proclaiming Jesus is my healer!

Thus, my story begins

Chapter one

Healed of melanoma

February 13, 2002.

I was diagnosed with stage-four incurable melanoma, and given a six-to-nine-month prognosis. Darkness enveloped me. Fear attacked with suffocating power, taking over my soul. I was a forty-four-year-old woman at the height of my career, with three beautiful teenage children, an adoring husband, and a beautiful home—when the lights went out on my storybook life.

February 19, 2002.

I was introduced to Jesus my healer. I knew Jesus as my forgiver, and Jesus, my way to eternal life, but I had no idea that Jesus had paid for my healing with the stripes on His holy back even before He was crucified to provide me with access to eternal life! February 19th, 2002 was the day I surrendered everything to God and invited Jesus into my heart. That was the day I gave Him lordship over my sickness, and eventually over my healing. That was the day that I received my salvation with all of its benefits. That was the day my blessed journey began.

During the next six months I fell head over heels in love with Abba, my Father. I became captivated by His attention, His tender care and His loving mercy. I had never read His love story written to me, the Bible … but I began devouring it. I read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and saw my Lord Jesus, healing the sick with such compassion and power everywhere He went. I saw the lost and forsaken cared for and loved. I saw Jesus the healer, healing all who were in need. He never turned anyone away. He never told anyone that sickness was given to them or allowed in order to teach them a lesson. He never chose to withhold healing. I basked in scriptural promises of healing and wholeness. I fed my soul on the medicine of the word of God.

And the fear abated. God’s peace that simply doesn’t make sense displaced fear in my soul. I could breathe again. I could live again. I could smile again. I could actually hope again. My journey took a new direction. Instead of my focus being solely on doctors and the medicine that could possibly extend my life, my focus turned to Jesus and this crazy, new, fullness of life that He was offering me. The almost too good to be true news of the gospel of Jesus the healer began to resonate in my soul as God’s perfect will for ME, paid for through the demonstrated love of my Redeemer.

The healing of my body followed the redemption of my soul. The original stage-four diagnosis had been documented through a positive biopsy of a melanoma mole, a positive needle biopsy of a lymph node, a CT scan that showed enlarged lymph nodes throughout my lymphatic system, and a PET scan that confirmed activity of cancer in each of those areas. The diagnosis read, extensive metastasis of melanoma throughout the lymphatic system. But within one month of my new-found revelation of Jesus as my healer, I had my first medical good news—an inconclusive series of fine needle biopsies. That led my excellent melanoma oncologist to suggest an exploratory surgery, versus moving directly to aggressive chemo/immunotherapy. That surgery was scheduled in June, six months after my original diagnosis.

By that time, my faith was soaring! There was literally a holy roar rising up within my heart that fervently and completely believed my God for the manifestation of healing that Jesus had ultimately paid for. And the result of that surgery confirmed God’s promise to me. There was not one cell of cancer in my body. My oncologist was totally confused—but I wasn’t. I knew that the stripes of Jesus had healed me—without medical intervention! No chemo! No radiation! No immunotherapy! No side effects! No sickness! No pain! Healed and made whole, free to live the fullness of life that Jesus had lived to die for.

God had captivated my heart; He had captured my full attention. I was all in! My life was forever radically changed. The God of this universe, the God of all creation, had demonstrated to me that He cared personally and affectionately for me. He had healed me and given me another chance at life. True life. Zoe life. God’s kind of life. Now and forever.

My husband, Kent, loves me with such a deep, beautiful love. When he saw God heal his bride, he was as overwhelmed with the glory of God as I was. Together, we continued to seek God and give Him the position of centerpiece in every facet of our lives. We were baptized in water, and with the Holy Spirit baptism. Together, we enrolled in a wonderful Bible Institute in our church, and completed the two-year program—hungry for knowledge and truth revealed through the written word of God. We were overwhelmingly in love with our amazing God. We simply couldn’t get enough of Him—His presence, His word, His church, His people.

Our hearts were full to the overflow with the goodness of God, His truth, and God Himself. The word says, … out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Matt. 12:34b) That was the story of our lives during that season. Throughout the years following my healing, we simply shared my testimony every time God opened a door to bring light to someone. The first three people with cancer whom I shared my testimony with were also miraculously healed! The first person had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the next one with high-grade sarcoma, and the third was being tested for probable cancer of the blood. God literally took my breath away as each of these people whom I had shared my story with also received miraculous reports!

That was when God began to impress upon my heart a strong need to write down my testimony—and that scared me like crazy. I had no idea where to begin. But I simply said yes to God. As soon as I began the process of writing, I realized that it wasn’t just me that was writing my book. It was the Holy Spirit with me—breathing His life into my every word. A Blessed Journey: Through Terminal Cancer … Into Divine Healing has sold thousands of copies and ministered hope and healing to people world-wide. This first chapter of Journeying Well: Step by Step with Jesus, is a reprise of my testimonial book. You may very well want to go back and read that book as well, to hear all the amazing details of my first divine healing.

But there’s more. God called my husband and I into the ministry of healing. Jesus said, … The person who follows me in faith, believing in me, will do the same mighty miracles that I do—even greater miracles than these … (John 14:12 TPT). That Scripture doesn’t even begin to make sense to our puny little minds. But Kent and I chose to completely trust God at His word! So we stepped totally out of our comfort zone, and began teaching a small group Bible study about healing. The Holy Spirit did the rest, anointing us as ambassadors of the gospel of Jesus the healer.

I remember when I was a very young girl—preschool age. I lived in mid-Michigan, and every time we drove by Central Michigan University, I’d say, When I grow up, I’m going to go to college here and be a teacher. And that’s exactly what I did. I never wavered from that desire, that calling on my life. I met my adoring husband in the dorm we both lived in. I became an elementary teacher, then a learning consultant, and then a teacher of the word of God. God called me. He prepared me. And He is using me.

Chapter two

The counterattack

Our ministry of healing was growing and thriving. We were leading weekly healing meetings at our home church, and constantly witnessing healings and miracles, and lives radically changed as people came to know Jesus in a personal, deep way. I occasionally received invitations to share and minister at other churches, and always responded with a heartfelt, Yes, I would love to share! I knew that I had been called into the ministry of healing.

However, I had one very heavy burden on my heart, which continued to grow in gravity as the years went on. We began to witness beautiful children of God, whom had received healing and health, get sick again, and some of those illnesses were unto death. I KNOW that healing is an integral part of salvation. I KNOW that Jesus paid the price in full, once and for all, for our healing when He took the stripes on His back. I KNOW that the curse was defeated. I KNOW that we have been given dominion over the works of darkness. I KNOW God’s perfect will is to heal all, every time! But God’s people were perishing from a lack of knowledge before my eyes! (Hosea 4:6)

I sensed a strong spiritual tug on my heart to write a second book, this one about keeping your healing. I knew I was hearing God’s voice, but it took me quite a while to answer Him. It was December of 2009 when I said yes to God’s calling to write a second book.

But the very next month, January 2010, I was sideswiped by a counterattack of the enemy. When I went to my PCP, she found a mass in my throat. It was as if the enemy was saying, So you think you’re going to write a book about keeping your healing, do you? Ha! You can’t even keep your own healing!

I spent the next six months on my own healing journey, and once again I received supernatural healing. Through tests and time and surgery and pathology reporting, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder that attacks the thyroid. But God covered me, protected me, directed me, and healed me through the surgery and a supplemental thyroid medicine. How can I say that my healing was supernatural? First of all, it was NOT a recurrence of melanoma, (which had originally been diagnosed in lymph nodes in my neck). Secondly, I never experienced any symptoms that relate to an imbalanced thyroid—before surgery when my thyroid was extremely overactive, directly after surgery when I had absolutely NO thyroid, or thereafter, as