Posted on 03/30/2020 7:21:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
John Tesh vividly remembers the day he contemplated ending his own life.
It was 2015, and the Emmy Award-winning journalist and popular radio host had been diagnosed with a rare form of prostate cancer and given just 18 months to live.
“It was an incredibly painful experience,” Tesh, 63, recalled in an interview with The Christian Post. “I had complications from my first surgery where the opioids they gave me paralyzed my bowels and so my body was shutting down. One day, I looked at my wife with tears in my eyes and said, ‘You have to kill me.’”
“They couldn’t find a way to get rid of chemo-induced nausea, so I rigged up a system where I took an oxygen generator, plugged it in, and it had a regulator and weight belt, and I’d put it in my mouth and sit at the bottom of the pool for two hours,” he continued. “It was the only thing that would stop me from being nauseous. I remember thinking, ‘if I’d pull the regulator out of my mouth, it would look like an accident, and all of this would be over.’”
At the time, Tesh admitted, “I couldn’t see God’s faithfulness.”
“I was crying out to God, asking, ‘Why have you done this to me?’ I was starting to feel like Job. The devil comes to steal and destroy, and I began to act like a cancer patient. I wasn’t in a place where I was connected to the Word of God; I couldn’t see that I could have abundant life.”
Tesh’s cancer continued to return, ending up in his lymph nodes. With nowhere to turn, Tesh and his wife began to delve into the Scriptures.
“We read Mark 11:23 which says in part, ‘Whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you'll receive it and you will have it,’” he said. “We started studying Scriptures about the promise of healing that came from Jesus. I believe that during this time, we entered a period of divine healing.”
Around this time, doctors told Tesh they needed to radiate his pelvis with 62 different radiation treatments in a three-month period that could cause him to lose all bladder and sexual function.
“At that moment, my wife and I looked at each other, and faith was born," he said. "We realized we were done with treatment.”
Today, the Grammy-nominated composer and concert pianist is completely cancer-free — a miracle he attributes to both his Christian faith, his wife of 28 years, actress Connie Selleca, and the wisdom of doctors.
“If it had not been for my wife, Connie, I probably would’ve taken myself out,” he admitted. “When faith was born, I was healed of not just cancer, but arthritis as well. I realized, for the first time, the difference between faith and unbelief.
"Romans talks about the renewing of your mind, and Jesus talks about being ‘double-minded.’ You can have faith, but what happens at 2 a.m. when you think the cancer cells are multiplying? Or you think God is going to take care of your depression and sickness but doubt creeps in?”
“God,” he continued, “wants to lavish blessings on His people; He wants them well. Ending your own life is never in His plan for you. Churches will preach that Jesus took your sins, but there’s a second part to that, and that is that He took your grief and sorrows and sickness on the cross, as well.”
Timely story while everyone is dying.
I pray Rush has the same healing. Beautiful couple. God bless!
I was never a big fan but like the guy.
Hard to believe that Tesh said this, but I believe him. He found faith and is back to God.
Our lives are SO short compared to eternity but eternity is what awaits us at death. THAT is hard for me to fathom.
Glad he’s well but this almost reads like the “prosperity gospel” stuff. Christ doesn’t promise to heal everything, regardless how much you believe. There are times he allows illness and even death because it is part of His will. The correct prayer is the same Jesus made as he knew he was being delivered up to arrest and eventually crucifixion. “Not my will but Thy will be done.” Seek first His Kingdom, and all these things shall be added to you.
Amen; thanks for sharing the truth.
Nice story.
We are of the same mind. Praise God HE decided to heal Tesh, but there are no guarantees of this happening, ever.
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