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