Testimony! Ps Rod Parsley’s recovery from throat cancer

How God Worked Miracles Against Rod Parsley’s Cancer

God healed Rod Parsley of throat cancer. (YouTube)
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Rod Parsley was diagnosed with throat cancer. It’s not a big secret, though he has not been speaking much about it publicly—until now.

Rod Parsley is beating throat cancer.

Now, the TV host, evangelist, educator, humanitarian and statesman has shared his story with Charisma News. In part one of this interview, he shares how he discovered he had cancer, the battle that raged against his mind and how he used the Bible to battle against radiation side effects. Now in part two, he discusses his healing and God’s miracles.  

Charisma News: How did it make you feel when you were faced with your own mortality?

Rod Parsley: Out of nowhere, and immediately you come face to face with your own mortality. But the Word promises us that God will bless us with long life and good life, sufficient in quantity, superior in quality. At some point, we are all going to realize and enter into our own mortality. This accelerated the process. What would happen to my family? I’m not finished yet, I have so much more to do. And immediately, the Word of the Lord from Psalm 62 raises up in my spirit and says, “Let all that I am wait quietly before my God.” 

Charisma News: What did that look like? 

Rod Parsley: The ‘quietly’ was very, very large to me because I was quiet during this process. There was a period of time where I could not utter a sound. I could not whisper. Nothing would come out of my voice, but God’s Word said wait quietly, “Let all that I am wait quietly before my God for He is my hope, and He is my rock, and He is my salvation.” Philippians 4:6, “Be anxious for nothing, because fear tries to come, panic tries to come, rage tries to come, anger tries to come hopelessness tries to come. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and the very God, my God and His very peace will keep will guard, will garrison my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus and keep me. Oh how I leaned on this. He will keep me in perfect peace. For my mind is stayed upon Him. For the weapons of my warfare are not carnal, they are mighty through God. I couldn’t fight this thing. I told Jonie (his wife) several times, “I feel like I just wanna reach in there and tear it out of my body because it doesn’t belong there because my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.” 

Charisma News: How would you respond to people who would suggest this was God trying to teach you something?

Rod Parsley: Listen, I am more convinced than ever that sickness, disease, pain, malady, malfunction, the cure for that curse, and it is a curse, is provided by the same cross that provided our salvation. Jesus said it Himself to the woman bent over for 18 years, he said to those religious spirits of his day, “Ought not this woman.” Now, what the Scripture actually says is “This woman has a right, ought not this woman, she has a right to be loosed from this bondage where in Satan has bound her, these many years seeing that she is a child of Abraham?” 

Oh, how my spirit ran to Galatians 3:19, “If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and you are an heir according to that promise.” Don’t you ever … let the devil tell you sickness and disease is something god sends your way.

Sickness and disease were never present on the earth until Adam committed high treason against God. Now, the author of that instigation was Satan, because he wanted to mar the image of God. We are created in the image of God. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost. The Bible says our bodies are not for fornication, but for the Spirit of God. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit; He is the vine, we are the branches. What comes to us should come from him. This earth and the fullness there of are the Lord’s. 

The problem is, we act like it belongs to the devil and we are the trespassers here. In actuality, we’re in the kingdom of God, we’re in that cosmos of the kingdom of God, which is in the earth. And the earth and the fullness there of belong to God. Therefore in this kingdom, sickness, disease, pain, malady, malfunction, infirmity cannot exist. The word of God, Psalm 107 verse 20, “He sent His word and He healed them and delivered them from all their transgressions.” Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24, “For this purpose, that God sent Jesus to be wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was laid upon Him, by his stripes we were (healed).” And 1 Peter 2:24, and are healed.  

… Jesus was asked point-blank if it was His will to heal. His answer was in different translations, His answer was, “Of course I will, be whole. I will it. I will it from all my heart that you be made whole.”

3 John 2, “Beloved I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.” God is the healer, look at me. He’s the healer. This journey ends up with a “Hallelujah, I’m here talking today.”

Charisma News: How has the Body of Christ come together in support of you?

Rod Parsley: Most humbling experience of nearly 40 years of ministry are the amount of people who have prayed with me, and we didn’t even make it public nationally. And I hesitate to name any of them, Pastor Benny Hinn, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. Brother Copeland prayed with me on the phone for 45 minutes one day. I never heard a man pray like that.

… For those that would know, Dodie Osteen, John Osteen’s wife, healed of cancer herself miraculously in an instant without the doctors aid. Reinhard Bonnke. It just goes on and on and on. … I could never (name them all). Joyce Meyer, James and Betty Robison. I love them all so much. My family, my church family, there’s nothing more powerful than that power of agreement. “If any two of you on earth agree as touching anything they shall ask, it shall be done for them by my Father which is in heaven. A three-stranded chord is not easily broken. When you pray one for another, then you are healed.”

I received prayer cloths from so many. Precious Jan Crouch—I had been preaching on TBN, and I have to perspire lest I blow up. And she came to me afterwards, this has been a decade ago. I always preach with a black handkerchief, and she said, “Can I have that?” And I said, “Well certainly, honey. What’s wrong?” and she said “I’ve been having a sore throat for so long and it’s so painful” and she took that prayer cloth and wrapped it around her throat when she would sleep. Well, that’s over a decade ago, and in the mail, Fed-exed (it to me) with her precious handwriting on it, “Rod you gave me this prayer cloth and God gave me a miracle. I want you to receive a miracle.” 

My church family gave me a prayer cloth. Valor Christian college students gave me prayer cloths. And I would take them to those 28 radiation treatments. Third-degree burns on the outside of my body, the inside of my throat, but that agreement to know that those people are praying with you. For every person that prays for me in this whole process and continuing, I pray, “Yes, God, please answer their prayers for me. But more than that, answer every prayer, every desire of their heart, every entry, every request spoken and unspoken according to Ephesians 3:20, exceedingly, abundantly above anything they could ever ask or think. Shock them with miracles as they pray for me as I pray for them, my partners, my friends, my family.” 

And God is doing miracles, and this anointing, what the devil meant to silence my voice, I full-well believe my voice restored. Jeremiah 30:17, “I will restore your health and I will heal your wounds.” And I am coming back, microphone and Bible and television camera with a seven-times better anointing than I ever possessed in my life, seven times more souls won to God’s kingdom, seven times more deliverance, healing , salvation miracles in the name of Lord’s Christ because God will see to it. He will perfect, complete that which concerns you.

Charisma News: Tell everyone what it felt like when you got the report that you were cancer free.

Rod Parsley: Well, I had prayed and prayed, “God make me a sign, make me a wonder.” 

Now I’d already had a lot because I had been talked to about, you know, when you’re having treatment in that area, the throat, that’s where you swallow, that’s where you breathe. So there was the talk of a tracheotomy, talk of swelling where I couldn’t feed myself, have a feeding tube inserted, how much weight I was going to lose.  

At the end of the treatment, I had gained one pound. That’s a sign, that’s a wonder, that’s a miracle. No feeding tube, no tracheotomy, no pic line, off all medications in record time. Speaking in record time. I had been told it could take up to a year before I could be speaking like I am speaking to you now. It’s been less than a month. God is a miracle worker. 

Charisma News: How are you going to move forward? 

Charisma News: We’re going to continue to celebrate because the path of the righteous, whenever sickness attacks your body, whatever situation you find yourself in, the path of the righteous grows brighter and brighter. 

I would lay on my bed with tears staining my pillow, unable to speak, I would mouth the words, “I’ll be better tomorrow than I am today, I’ll be stronger tomorrow than I am today.” Because hope deferred, the Scripture says, makes the heart sick. A joyful heart does good like a medicine. A cheerful heart makes a quick recovery. The joy of the Lord is our strength. It’s going to better, I’m going to be better tomorrow than I am today because all power on heaven and earth is given to the Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah Joshua Messiah.  At His name every knee must bow, every tongue must confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father. It is not by might, it is not by power. It is by His spirit. And the path of the righteous grows brighter and brighter—and tomorrow is going to be greater than today.