Mom's Miracles

My mom~Maureen Cassidy Munroe~6/11/43-4/15/24

"Come and see the incredible things God has done. It will take your breath away! He multiplies miracles for his people!" Psalm 66:5

All throughout the day I was sensing the spirit of death. This got me wondering if this spirit was going to manifest with someone in my life. Later that day, my mom called me from Florida and gave me the horrific news that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. When I sought the Lord about this, He told me that He was going to use Mom’s illness for good in my family, and boy did He ever! God also told me that the spirit of death was released through a curse, so He sent me to Florida to break it. He specifically pointed out to me that my trip to warm, sunny Florida was not a vacation, but a mission trip. Mom was not going to leave this Earth when the devil said so! She would leave at God’s appointed time and His peace will be with her and all around her.
             I went off on my mission to visit my mom, whom I thought was saved, but later learned she was not. While on my visit, Mom and I spent time each evening reading the Word of God and praying together. What a wonderful gift from my Lord!  For most of my life Mom did not speak of Jesus, nor did she like me to talk about Him. It had only been a few years that Mom was open to letting me pray with her on our regular phone calls. While on this “mission trip” my prayer partner and I prayed together periodically over the phone for Mom. We even prayed with Mom, including prayer that God would heal her.  On the last evening of my visit, God gave me a dream in which He revealed that the curse of death had been broken off Mom. Alleluia! I believe that if this hadn’t been done, Mom’s life would’ve ended sooner than it did. Another wonderful thing that happened while at Mom’s was to see my sister and brother who had been estranged from Mom for decades, return and be reconciled. I stood in awe when I saw my sister give Mom a hug goodbye before leaving to go to her home 15 minutes away. I viewed this as a miracle because my sister voiced much disdain toward Mom as long as I could remember. I also came to see that Mom had released forgiveness to my siblings for being absent from her life and for being bitter and resentful toward her for so many years. My trip came to an end and I said my goodbyes to Mom, not knowing if I would see her again. But I was to travel to see her on 2 more occasions where God showed Himself in mighty and glorious ways!
            My second trip to see Mom was unexpected. I was in Florida, on the opposite coast of Mom’s home, to see my son graduate from college, when I learned that Mom’s cancer had returned. The cancer had now spread throughout her whole body and her doctor gave her 3 months to live. As I drove across the state to see Mom, God highlighted to me a verse in the book of James. “Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will restore the one who is sick…and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.”¹ I felt that God was telling me to anoint Mom with oil and ask Him to heal her, and to also talk to Mom about repenting of her sins to the Lord.
The first night while sitting with Mom and one of my sisters, I asked Mom if I could pray over her and she agreed! I called my Christian niece, my sister’s daughter, on Facetime and to ask her to join us in prayer, and she did. I took my anointing oil and anointed Mom in various places on her body and then we laid our hands on her and prayed. Suddenly, my sister gasped because she discovered a large lump on the top of Mom’s head. This led me to place the oil on the lump, which caused Mom to flinch because it caused her pain. A half hour later, Mom declared excitedly, “My pain is gone! I’ve had a headache non-stop for a month and it’s gone!” The pain on the lump when touched was also gone. A few weeks later, Mom got results from a CT scan that revealed she had no brain cancer. Mom never did get another headache, and on my following trip, the lump on Mom’s head had disappeared and all that remained was a flat, round scab.
            That same evening after we prayed for Mom, I shared with her the importance of confessing our sins to God and she listened attentively. I later came to realize that Mom did do as I suggested, and this led to her salvation.  Shortly after I returned home, I was sitting and praying alone, when I heard God say to me, “She’s ready.” Glory to God! God did what He said He was going to do. He said that He would use Mom’s illness to bring good to my family, and I’m here to testify to this fact and to tell all who will listen.
After my second trip, I told God that if He wanted me to see Mom again, that He would have to provide the finances to do so. I had charged my last trip and would be paying my credit card off for months. I was grateful to God that I was able to see Mom twice and was not expecting to visit again any time soon. But within a matter of weeks, without solicitation, several different friends told me that they wanted to help by providing for me to visit Mom again. One couple paid for my flight and car rental and another friend paid for my hotel. My third and last trip to see Mom was paid in full, courtesy of my Daddy God, who moved on the hearts of my brother and sisters in Christ.
            During my third trip, I continued to disciple Mom as I had on my previous visits. This time felt different though, because I was not the only one sharing about God. Mom did too! She told me that she talked with Him every day, like friends would. She told me about a conversation that she had with Him. She told Him, “I am ready when You say it’s time.” This was a relief for me to hear because the one thing that was on my heart for this trip was to prepare her for her time to go, whenever that may be. I wanted her to be at peace about leaving us and to confirm to her that she was going to go straight to heaven. Not only did God tell me she was ready, but He also gave me a dream that revealed to me that she was saved. In the last part of the dream, I saw an angel take her by the hand and lead her from a hospital room to take her to heaven.
            While with Mom on this last visit, she told me that her neck and shoulder were sore, so I took my anointing oil, applied it to my hands and massaged these areas. Mom never told me that she had cancer in those areas; not until she received the CT scan results a few weeks later which revealed that the cancer in her shoulder and neck were gone! God once again manifested His love to Mom. Not long after, however, we learned that Mom now had bone cancer. This type of cancer is known to cause people excruciating pain, but the most tremendous sign of God’s love and mercy was that Mom felt little to no pain in the 3 years that she endured cancer, 3 rounds of chemotherapy treatment and 1 round of radiation. Mom was prescribed pain killers but never once used them. She occasionally took an aspirin if she was having a bad day. Every time Mom arrived for her treatments, the staff would ask her how much pain she was in and most times she would respond that she had none, and they would respond with disbelief. This could only have been possible by the grace of God!
            In addition to the miracles of healing, God did many other wonderful things during my final trip. I got the opportunity to share my testimony of meeting Jesus face to face with Mom and my 2 unsaved sisters. I also got to pray one-on-one with 1 sister for the very first time. As I prayed for God’s love to touch her, she began to weep, and afterwards confessed that she didn’t know why she was crying. I knew why, of course! God’s love was melting her heart. I also got to pray with my unsaved stepfather for the first time. When he voiced having severe pain in his knee, I offered to pray over it and ask Jesus to heal it and he replied with a yes. If I were counting, this just may have been miracle number 10 since Mom’s first diagnosis.
            Mom passed away 1 month after my last trip, 14 months past the doctor’s prediction. It was her time to go. I like to remember what God’s Word tells us regarding the number of our days. “In Your book were written all the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.”² I know that my family will be happily reunited with Mom in heaven, so I anxiously await that day. I have this confidence because God has shown me more than once that my entire family will be saved. One of my favorite visions from my Daddy God is of my family─all members of my family─dressed in white robes and holding hands in a circle, right before the Throne of God. This is the promise that God gave me to profess over my family members. “Now is the time of God's favor; now is the day of salvation.”³ I profess this promise over my unsaved father, who received a diagnosis of cancer 2 months before Mom’s passing. I have already begun “miracle mission” trips to visit Dad and my unsaved stepmother and have been grateful to witness God moving in their lives and using this awful disease of cancer for good in my family. I declare “My entire family will be saved!”

Notes
 
1. James 5:14
2. Psalm 139:16
3. 2 Corinthians 6:2 

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