Anne Graham Lotz has revealed that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Lotz disclosed the news on her website Tuesday afternoon. She got the news less than three weeks ago.
She wrote, “The Refiner has just added fuel to the fire in my life. On the afternoon of Aug. 17, 2015, between 3:00 and 3:30, as you may know, I discovered my husband, Danny, unresponsive in our pool. Two days later, he was home! Three years to the day, on the afternoon of August 17, 2018, at the very same time of day, 3:00 to 3:30, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.”
Graham said she first considered the timing “an assignment from the enemy” but later realized that it was divine.
“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. Jesus died on the very same day of the week, at the very same time of the day, crushing the head of the serpent, forever defeating the devil and death (Matt. 27:45-46; Gen. 3:15; 1 Cor. 15:55-57). Praise God! The cross, the blood of God’s Lamb, trumps anything the devil can throw at us or assign to us!”
Since the diagnosis, Billy Graham’s daughter says God has given her “promises and encouragement from His Word.”
She is asking for prayers for her and her family during this time of refinement by fire, writing “Pray for God to heal me in whichever way He deems would bring Him the most glory.”