The Healing Journey of Mike Hoesch, who was supernaturally healed from a malignant neoplasm cancer (skin cancer).
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in the year 2000 I noticed that I had a
pimple here and I didn’t think anything
of it you know it was just it was just
constantly a little itch here of course
it at night I’d come home take my shirt
off and I’d have to investigate cuz
you’re just constantly aware of it I
think Mike had the sore for a while
before I even really noticed it it just
was a little red bump and it’s just kind
of like a skin blemish through that year
it started getting red and then it got
larger and larger like a small area
about the size of my finger and I
noticed that it wouldn’t heal over I
began to photograph it because I
believed that God was going to heal me
and I wanted to document the dates I
prayed for it
I believed in healing and it still
didn’t go away
the desert oasis of Tucson Arizona sits
in a sheltered Valley here Mike and
Caroline Hesh joined a nondenominational
church submitting themselves to a
strong-willed pastor in time they became
victims of religious ideas as malignant
as the tuber that threatened to consume
both of their lives I was part of this
ministry for like 20 years they had
taught healing but it was all
performance-based doctrine we were
taught like in John 9 that God does not
hear sinners so if we were asking for
prayer or asking the Lord to heal or do
something in our life if we were in sin
of any kind he wouldn’t be able to
answer our prayer oh you must be sinning
oh you’re not doing God’s will
Oh you’re in rebellion to the pastor oh
this so that everything was a reason why
I wasn’t getting better and he had
talked to our pastor about it
and the pastor said well that’s nothing
that herbs can’t heal it’s a nutritional
problem I seem to just be getting worse
and worse and worse when it wouldn’t go
away to my pastor said why don’t you go
to the doctor then we can pray
specifically for God to show us exactly
what it is so that’s when Mike made an
appointment with the dermatologist to
have it checked out and he comes in and
he looks at it and he didn’t look at it
for maybe 5 or 10 seconds he said excuse
me I’d like to go get my colleague them
and then they did the doctor thing you
know where they huh and they’re you know
with their little thing probing around
the edge and they didn’t say anything in
front of me but I could tell that it was
kind of serious he left the room and he
said the nurse will direct you you know
what to do when I got to the counter she
handed me a piece of paper and she told
me you have an appointment and it was
like two weeks out and I can’t remember
if he was behind me the doctor that saw
me or in the hallway passing through he
just stopped and he said no that’s not
soon enough you know and I could sense
the fear and so he
said I’ll take care of this and well the
appointment was two days out from the
day I was there and I thought whoa to
get a doctor to a surgeon to see you in
two days I mean you know something’s
happening here I looked at the sheet
that the doctor fills out and he checked
the diagnosis he called me on the phone
and after the appointment and he said
that the doctor said you need to have
surgery right away to have that removed
and wrote up a little note and this is
what it was a malignant neoplasm and she
said well I’ll look it up and I’ll call
you back so here I’m driving to work and
she calls me back very seriously she
says Mike it means that you have
malignant neoplasm cancer she said well
it’s not benign in other words it’s
something that’s actively growing
now I’m thinking wow I’ve got something
pretty serious here a little bit of fear
came in but because it wasn’t huge I
really felt like you know what I know
Mike believes in healing and that the
Lord can take care of this once I talked
to her I told the pastor I said what do
you think I should do he said you know
Mike you can do whatever you want but he
said I said well they want me to cut it
off he said well and he didn’t tell me
you know he didn’t say you can’t do it
he said well that’s not God’s Way we
believed that if you went to the doctors
for anything like that but removed your
sinning and if your sinning then you
can’t trust the Lord for healing it and
he said but the choice is yours whatever
you want to do but he said you know he
said I would just counsel you not to do
anything while you have that fear I
called the the doctor that they had made
the appointment with and I cancelled it
that day and so she’s like okay you know
I was still believing but still a little
bit hesitant like it’s not that big it
wouldn’t be any big deal to get it you
know burned off for power they were
gonna chop it out and be done with it
the next day I’m coming
it’s like 8:30 in the morning and my
cell phone rings I answer the phone this
I’m doctor so-and-so i diagnosed you
with this yesterday they just told me
you canceled your appointment I said
that’s correct I did and he said you
can’t do that that I said well I can do
that and he said I want you to know I’m
writing here down in my records that
you’re warned of this is a very deadly
thing that you’re dealing with and that
you’ve been warned by me and then I was
like really scared
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well that following February I guess it
would be 2002 got very sick with the flu
and when that happened it was just like
the tumor it just started growing out as
a tumor I remembered what the guy said
that if you let it go it couldn’t attach
to size which I think in layman’s terms
means it can just turn into something
else or like mutate into some other form
or go throughout the rest of my body or
something I’m watching and bandaging and
as he’s starting to get weaker and
weaker and this tumor is getting bigger
I’m thinking why doesn’t he just get
this thing cut off but at the same time
as I’m thinking that and I would
vocalize that to him at times just like
you know this is it you know this is
just getting worse you’re getting you
know sicker just let’s get this cut off
and I would always go back to you know I
I have to do what I feels right in my
heart and I just don’t have a peace from
God about getting that cut off you know
because the Bible says let the peace of
God rule in your hearts I know that’s
not the solution I don’t have that peace
in my heart but as he would refuse
stubbornly refused and continued to
stand on the word and God’s promise of
healing I would try and agree with him
and stand with him and so for the next
like five years I went through this
rollercoaster at the church I would get
over one hurdle and then the bar would
go up a little higher and then he
would be another thing that was
uncovered that I wasn’t doing right and
that how could God hear me being a
sinner the whole time as it starts
getting worse and worse the tumor just
it would stink you wrap it with paper
towels and we have them soaked spray
some herb tinctures to try and help cut
down on the smell of it and it would use
and it would bleed and we’re wrapping it
and saran wrap and then that would fill
up with the ooze and then we’d have to
drain that off and change it out and the
tumor was just feeding off the blood in
his body his whole complexion was like
grey his heart rate for like months was
in the 90s
it was just it was horrendous
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I just noticed I just start started
slowly losing energy like somebody just
letting the air out of me
so this tumor started getting so big and
very heavy we’ve got to find some kind
of sling or whatever so I end up going
to the store and buying a couple bras
cut out one side and I would just wear
that it’s like a harness to support to
support it over here it just it just
wasn’t a good thing you know this was
something that we just had to live with
and eventually God would heal but I’m
watching Mike’s life being sucked out of
him I didn’t know what was going on I
just knew that things in my body weren’t
working right on the inside and and then
this thing I had that it was growing it
grew off but I call it a tentacle or
like this arm I could see like growing
out underneath my skin in there and
spreading out and it’s nasty it was just
like a manifestation of the devil in
which it really was you know the Bible
says that the devil comes to kill steal
and destroy and that’s what he was doing
he was just sucking my life out he’s
destroying you know any productivity in
my life he was stealing away my
happiness and my joy I do have to say
though that it was all by my consent
because I didn’t take a stand against
him you know and at that point Mike was
so sick it was just it was very hard for
me to leave him all day when I would be
working and I would call Mike and I
could just tell when he’d answered the
phone like he was just like I don’t know
if I’m gonna come home and find him
alive
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one scripture that really encouraged me
was proverbs 4:23 22 where it says my
son attend unto my words incline thine
ear unto my sayings let them not depart
from thine eyes but keep them in the
midst of thine heart for their life to
those that find them and health to all
their flesh I just decided since I
didn’t have anything else to do during
the day that I was just gonna every
moment that I had I was gonna get into
God’s Word
and I knew that I was I was short on the
life and I needed help to all my flesh
I was flipping through the channels
trying to find someone to listen to
while I was getting ready for work and I
came in went through the channels and
there was the guy yelling and the guy
doing this and I didn’t want to listen
to that and then I landed on this
channel where this guy was sitting in a
chair talking calmly and he said hey I’m
beginning a brand new series and I’m
gonna start talking about a teaching
that I’ve entitled you’ve already got it
by that time I walked back into the
bathroom and I was getting ready and I
said man that’s a stupid name for a
study and but I didn’t turn the channel
and I just kept listening to it that God
has already done for you everything can
be done and by the end of that half-hour
I was hooked and so here she offered us
some CDs and it was like okay yeah and
my wife listened to them first a whole
new Bible was opened up to me for seeing
what the Bible really was teaching and
what I had believed and the things I was
believing we’re not according to
scripture and begin to start looking at
everything from a standpoint where it’s
already accomplished and you are trying
to get God to do something but rather
you’re just appropriating what he is
already provided that mindset will
totally revolutionize the way you
receive from God and then you know
passing it on to like saying you gotta
listen to this this is kind of a miracle
for me as well it shows you how far the
how quickly the Lord can deliver you
when you’re willing just to follow what
His Word says and what he says and his
spirit over some legalistic thinking the
average prophecy that you’re going to
get in most churches is all about God is
going to do something great there is
coming a great move of God we are going
to see something happen but you never
hear people very much talk about what
has already happened and I believe that
instead of getting this mindset of
trying to obtain victory it really makes
a difference if you understand that
through Jesus
we’ve already obtained victory it’s a
done deal yeah I do I’ve already got it
I was blessed and
two ways one I was all these things I
have been studying in the last you know
especially in the last few weeks but six
months prior I was getting you know I
believe that was God who had her bring
that to me because it was just like he
was saying all these things in a little
different way than the word says him but
he was saying the same thing that the
word says I remember getting this
revelation about James chapter 1 where
it says about being tossed to and fro
like the waves of the sea and I thought
you know that is so much me a double
minded man is unstable in all of his
ways it says let not that man think that
he shall receive anything of the Lord
and so I just said you know what I don’t
have to focus on two things I can just
focus on that and when I did that that’s
when I learned that I was able to
receive from the Lord that it wasn’t him
withholding I already had it
he wasn’t withholding in other words God
through Jesus Christ was not the
variable in the situation it was me it
was my unstable thinking the Bible says
that by Jesus stripes I was healed I am
NOT gonna receive another thing that the
devil is gonna throw at me to keep me in
bondage to not receive my healing just
drawing this line in the sand saying
nope it’s going no further than this
that night was a turning point of his
healing because even though we still had
to mess with the tumor it was still just
as bad as before it was just kind of
like it he didn’t he didn’t look at it
anymore as that he was seeing himself as
healed
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it was about two weeks later and
suddenly we’re changing and I have cut
out the same length of the paper towels
that we needed to before to wrap this
and suddenly it’s just like we’re
folding it up and that is just like we
can cut this much off and the people
tell we don’t need as much to wrap it
and I said Mike this is getting smaller
and I said well of course I said God’s
healed me it’s got to get smaller can’t
nothing else can happen this might be
hard to get ahold of but I just forgot
about it you know even though I would
deal with it twice a day or more dealing
with it you know having that
uncomfortable bra you got to adjust and
move around just didn’t fit right and
it’s like it was like it was gone you
know I’m on him I don’t care what it
looks like on the outside my Jesus
stripes I was healed that’s it all of
Andrews teachings we’re already
confirming the things that Mike had seen
in the word but it was like a second
witness for him that yes this is the way
it is that since what God said and he it
helped him to stand even more on the
healing I actually I don’t know
somewhere around May I didn’t have to
wear the bra anymore each time as we’re
changing it
it’s like Mike this thing is getting
smaller and smaller it was just like it
was shrinking so it was less and less so
we had to deal with until it’s a little
thing like this and then he can change
it himself of course and no longer was
wearing the support and it’s just like
this thing is gone by August it was
nothing it was just this little bump a
scar on my chest here I was made whole
by Jesus Christ and this is the only
direction my body can go devil you can’t
have me I’ve already been bought for
eight years
mike has believed and prayed for his
healing with no results in desperation
he finally drew a line in the sand
between the Word of God and his own
unstable thinking
he chose to believe the word that
healing had already been provided by
God’s grace
Andrews teaching confirmed and
encouraged him and a malignant tumor
disappeared in seven months
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after his healing Mike felt strongly
that there was more he needed to learn
about standing firm on the Word of God
he and Caroline sold their home in
Tucson and moved to Colorado Springs to
attend Cara’s Bible College their
journey of grace and freedom has just
begun