Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of the late legendary Evangelist Billy Graham, has announced that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Evangelist Lotz, 70, discovered that she had cancer during the afternoon of Aug. 17, three years to the day, and during the same time of day, when she discovered that her now late husband was unresponsive in their pool. He died two days later.
“The Refiner has just added fuel to the fire in my life,” she wrote on her website explaining her perspective Monday on receiving this news in a post titled “My Cancer: My Fuel for the Fire.”
She writes:
“When I realized the strange ‘coincidence’ of the timing, I came to the chilling conclusion that it was an assignment from the enemy. But just as that thought was forming, I heard the soft, gentle whisper of the Spirit, reminding me that it was on a Friday, during that very same time … between 3:00 and 3:30 in the afternoon … that God’s Passover Lamb was sacrificed.”
She added: “So I am left to worship and totally trust our God who is ultimately in control. Of everything.”
Lotz asked for prayers for God to heal her in “whichever way He deems would bring Him the most glory,” whether with or without surgery, “or through the greater miracle of the resurrection.”
“Please pray for me … and my family … as we follow the Good Shepherd through this Valley of the Shadow. The bottom-line of our prayer is that our faith would be purified, God would be glorified, and Jesus would be magnified through every step we take on this new journey, until the Refiner sees His own reflection mirrored in my life.”
She posted on her Facebook page Wednesday that she was receiving care at the University of North Carolina Cancer Hospital. Surgery is scheduled for Sept. 18.
Lotz is Billy Graham‘s second-oldest child and has been called “the best preacher in the family.”
She is the founder and president of AnGeL Ministries, which is based in Raleigh. Lotz also serves as a board member for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Recall that Lotz’s father, Evangelist Billy Graham died on February 21, 2018 at the age 99.
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