The doctor matter-of-factly announced, “Look Tom, we’ve got a tumor.” They were looking at a screen shot of Tom’s prostate.

Kat, a nurse by profession, saw the tumor on the screen. “I could see a sort of purple octopus the size of a thumb. I could see lesions.”

Tom and Kat are husband and wife and have been friends for a lifetime. They decided together to surrender the situation to God. If it was Tom’s time to go, so be it. They agree that surrendering Tom’s future and health to God was a powerful moment. “In child-like faith, we were walking in the kingdom,” says Kat. “I kept saying to Tom, ‘I have such peace about this!’ We actually laughed and were joyful.”

Kat admits that normally in such a situation Tom would be sitting with his head in his hands worrying and she would very likely be freaking out.

Kat laid hands on Tom and prayed. Kat knows there is healing in her. “I practise where it is safe for me,” she admits. She once laid hands on her dog who was having a seizure and immediately the seizures stopped.

For Tom, things got progressively worse…medically speaking.  Tom developed a horrible infection. The tumor grew to protrude into the bladder. The doctors did not want to operate as Tom was judged too old and too weak to endure an operation. All through this time—which dragged out for some months—Tom and Kat were experiencing a supernatural, joyful playfulness. They had peace. As the tumor grew, Kat was thinking, ‘This should be something to worry about.’ But she didn’t worry. They left it in the Lord’s hand, everyday giving thanks for the finished work on the cross.

Simultaneously, Pastor Bob, began preaching a series of sermons on healing. He introduced the series by saying “I don’t know why I am doing this—I wasn’t planning to preach on healing.”

Kat truly believes it was specifically for them. “God has been so amazingly present with us through this. God is awesome.”

On a warm spring day, Tom and Kat drove to a follow-up appointment. Kat was sure the tumor was gone, but Tom was worried. “Tom it’s gone,” Kat assured him.

Tom answered, “I know God is in this and if you believe it’s gone, it’s gone!”

After another ultra-sound, the doctor sat them down and told them there was still a little bit of infection and he would give Tom antibiotics to deal with that.

Kat blurted, ‘What about the tumor?’

“The doctor looked at me totally bewildered,” says Kat. “He said, ‘What tumor? There is no tumor.’”

That is when Kat started to cry. Tom pointed and looked up. He knew where his healing had come from.

Kat proclaims, “Not only did the Lord take the tumor away, He made it like it never existed, even in the mind of the doctor.”