Jeanie Traub had been feeling wrong for weeks. The kind of wrong you try to explain away — stress, bad food, not enough sleep. But the symptoms did not go away. They got worse. When she finally went to the doctor, the endoscopy found something that no amount of rationalising could dismiss.
A large tumour. In her stomach.
The Diagnosis
Stomach cancer is one of those diagnoses that hits differently. It is not just the cancer itself — it is the location. The stomach. The organ you need to eat, to nourish your body, to live. Suddenly the most basic human function — eating a meal — becomes loaded with fear.
Jeanie's doctors assessed the tumour. It was significant in size. The conversation turned quickly to treatment plans and surgical options. The medical team was preparing for a fight.
But so was someone else.
The Church That Would Not Be Quiet
When Jeanie's church found out about the diagnosis, they did not offer gentle platitudes. They did not send a card and move on. They prayed aggressively.
There is a difference between polite prayer and aggressive prayer. Polite prayer says, "Lord, if it be Your will." Aggressive prayer says, "Lord, we are asking You right now, in the name of Jesus, to destroy this tumour." Jeanie's church chose the second option.
They gathered around her. They laid hands on her. They prayed with the kind of urgency that comes from people who genuinely believe that God hears them and that He acts. Not someday. Now.
Multiple prayer sessions. Multiple people. An entire community mobilised around one woman and one tumour.
The Follow-Up
When the time came for Jeanie's follow-up endoscopy, the doctors went in expecting to find the tumour. They needed to assess whether it had grown, stayed the same, or responded to any preliminary treatment. They needed to plan the next steps.
What they found was nothing.
The tumour was gone.
Not smaller. Not reduced. Gone. The endoscopy — the same procedure that had clearly shown a large tumour in her stomach — now showed a clean, healthy stomach lining. No tumour. No trace. Nothing where something had been.
The medical team was stunned. This was not in their models. This was not in their textbooks. A large stomach tumour does not simply vanish between appointments.
What Was Left Behind
Jeanie Traub walked out of that doctor's office with a clean bill of health and a story that her medical team could not explain. The before-and-after endoscopy images told a story that defied medical logic.
What the images could not capture was the sound of a church praying. The hands laid on her shoulders. The voices raised in a room that smelled like carpet and coffee, asking the Creator of the universe to reach into one woman's stomach and remove what did not belong there.
What This Means for You
If you are facing a tumour — in your stomach or anywhere else — and the medical world is preparing for surgery, do not underestimate what prayer can do before the surgeon ever picks up a scalpel.
Jeanie's story is not about rejecting medicine. It is about inviting God into the space between diagnosis and treatment. Her church did not wait for the results to pray. They prayed first. And when the results came, the tumour was already gone.
You are not alone in this. And the God who made you knows exactly where the tumour is. He does not need an endoscope to find it. And He does not need a surgeon to remove it.
