If you are waiting on God during cancer right now, this is for you.

Waiting for results. Waiting for healing. Waiting for the treatment to work. Waiting for strength to return. Waiting for an answer to a prayer you have been praying for weeks, maybe months. Waiting on God during cancer is one of the hardest things about this journey — and it is also one of the most sacred.

WHAT WAITING ON GOD DURING CANCER ACTUALLY FEELS LIKE

There is a particular kind of silence that comes when you are in the middle of a cancer journey and heaven feels quiet.

You have prayed. Others have prayed for you. You have trusted, surrendered, and held on. Yet the answer has not come — or at least not in the form you were hoping for. And in that silence, a question starts to rise: "God, where are you?"

That is not a faithless question. It is an honest one. In fact, it is the same question the disciples were living on the day after Good Friday — what the Bible does not name but what I call Silent Saturday.

Saturday was the day between. The day when the disciples did not know what God was doing. The day when everything they had hoped for appeared to be gone. The day when prayers felt unanswered and heaven felt closed.

Consequently, if you are waiting on God during cancer right now, you are in good company. You are living your own Silent Saturday. And Silent Saturday, as hard as it is, is not the end of the story.

WHY THE SILENCE DOES NOT MEAN GOD HAS STOPPED

Here is what we know about that Saturday — what the disciples did not know yet: God was working the entire time.

Behind the silence, resurrection was being prepared. In the waiting, renewal was taking shape. Moreover, none of it was visible. None of it felt like progress. But every moment of that Saturday was moving toward Sunday.

The same is true for you. Waiting on God during cancer does not mean God has gone quiet. It means He is working in ways you cannot yet see. The silence is not absence — it is preparation.

Proverbs 3:5-6 has become one of my anchors for exactly these seasons:

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

Lean not on your own understanding. That phrase is everything when you are waiting. Because your understanding — my understanding — has limits. We can only see what is in front of us. God sees what is coming. Furthermore, He is not confused, not delayed, and not uninvested in your outcome. He is simply working on a timeline that belongs to Him, not us.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE WAITING

When you are waiting on God during cancer, the temptation is to fill the silence with fear. To spiral into worst-case thinking. To interpret the quiet as abandonment.

Instead, I want to encourage you to do what the prayer team at Lorrie's father's church did for me — pray specifically. Not in vague terms, but with specific asks. Specific doors. Specific needs. Then watch, because God answers specific prayers with specific miracles. In my own journey, He answered a specific prayer with a phone call from a world-renowned surgeon on a Friday night while I was standing in the produce aisle at Costco. I never could have predicted that. However, God had been preparing it the whole time.

Additionally, find people who will wait with you. You were not meant to do this alone. Let others carry the prayer when you feel too worn down to carry it yourself. That is not weakness — it is wisdom.

SATURDAY ALWAYS LEADS TO SUNDAY

The most important thing I want you to hear if you are waiting on God during cancer right now is this: Saturday always leads to Sunday.

The silence is not permanent. The waiting has a purpose. And God, who was faithful to raise Jesus from the dead, is faithful to work in your story too — in His time, in His way, for His glory and your good.

You are not forgotten. You are not failing. You are not stuck. You are simply in the middle of the story — not the end.

No matter what you are facing on your journey with cancer or in life, remember: you are NEVER ALONE. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are always with you and ready to help. All you have to do is ask, give it all to Jesus, and let him go to work.

To hear the full Easter message and how Good Friday, Silent Saturday, and Resurrection Sunday speak into your cancer journey, listen to the episode below.

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