Daniel Fazzina was not a pastor or an evangelist when his story began. He was a man living in New York who got the kind of news that rewrites your entire future in a single sentence. Gastric cancer. A tumour in his stomach.
The treatment plan was straightforward in the terrible way cancer treatment plans often are: surgery. They would go in and remove the tumour. That was the plan.
The Diagnosis
Gastric cancer — cancer of the stomach — is not a common cancer, but it is a serious one. When a tumour is growing in your stomach, the implications ripple through everything: eating, digestion, energy, weight. The body starts fighting itself, and the patient is caught in the crossfire.
Daniel's doctors identified the tumour and scheduled surgery. There was no ambiguity in the imaging. The tumour was there. It needed to come out.
The Prayer
Between the diagnosis and the surgery, Daniel prayed. He was a man of faith — not the kind of faith that makes headlines, but the quiet kind that trusts God in the ordinary moments of life. Now he needed that faith for something extraordinary.
He asked God to heal him. He did not pray with flowery language or theological sophistication. He prayed with the simplicity of someone who believed that the God who made his stomach could fix what was growing inside it.
The Operating Room
When the day of surgery came, Daniel was prepped and ready. The surgical team assembled. The anaesthesia was administered. The surgeon began the procedure, navigating toward the tumour that the imaging had clearly documented.
But the tumour was not there.
It had disappeared. Between the diagnostic imaging and the operating table, the tumour that had been confirmed, measured, and targeted for removal had vanished from Daniel Fazzina's stomach. The surgeon completed the procedure but had nothing to remove. The cancer was gone.
The Aftermath
That experience changed Daniel Fazzina's life. Not just because he was healed — though that would be enough — but because it opened his eyes to a reality that most people only read about in the Bible. God still heals. Today. In operating rooms and living rooms and wherever people have the courage to ask.
Fazzina went on to write a book called Divine Healing Made Simple. But he did not write it as a theorist. He wrote it as a witness. He had been on the table. He had felt the anaesthesia. And he had woken up to discover that the tumour scheduled for removal no longer existed.
The book documents healing testimonies from across the country — people with conditions that medicine could not explain the resolution of. Fazzina collected these stories because he had lived one. His authority on the subject was not academic. It was surgical.
A Life Redirected
Before his diagnosis, Daniel Fazzina had one trajectory. After his healing, he had another. The cancer that was supposed to damage him ended up directing him. He became a voice for people who had experienced unexplainable healings — giving them a platform when the medical establishment had no category for what had happened to them.
His ministry became about making healing accessible. Not as a spectacle. Not as something that only happens to special people in special places. But as something that God does for ordinary people who simply ask.
What This Means for You
If you are scheduled for surgery — if a date is circled on your calendar and you are counting down the days with dread — Daniel Fazzina's story is a reminder that the surgeon is not the only one with the power to intervene.
Pray before the operation. Pray during the wait. Pray with the expectation that the God who sees the tumour on the scan can remove it before the surgeon gets there.
Not every story ends the way Daniel's did. But his story proves that some of them do. And the person who prays might discover, as Daniel did, that by the time the surgeon goes in, God has already been there.
