Misty Burdette was thirty-two years old when she first heard the word cancer. It was 2007. Stage 1 breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy and IV chemotherapy. The treatment worked. The cancer went away. She moved on with her life.
The Return
Seven years later, in 2014, a cough that would not leave. By 2015, doctors ran a CT scan and found what she had feared — multiple malignant tumours in both lungs. Her oncologist confirmed the worst: the breast cancer had returned. Stage 4. It had spread to her lungs. Then her bones. Then her liver. Then her lymph nodes.
Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. The kind of diagnosis that comes with a timeline, not a treatment plan. The kind where doctors stop talking about cures and start talking about comfort.
Misty Burdette knew she was dying.
The Church in Woodward
In 2018, Misty came in contact with Brad Smith, the pastor of Woodward First Assembly in Woodward, Oklahoma. She learned that God had miraculously healed Brad of a mass on his kidney. If God could do it for him, she thought, maybe He could do it for her. She asked for prayer.
What happened next did not happen in a hospital. It happened in a church service.
During a Thanksgiving worship service at Woodward First Assembly, Misty was standing in the congregation, thanking God for the good things He had done in her life. The cancer was still in her body. The tumours were still in her lungs. But she opened her mouth and said words that did not come from logic:
"Thank You for my healing today."
The moment she spoke it, the Holy Spirit fell on her. She was jumping. She was speaking in tongues. She felt her body change from that moment on. Something was different. Something had shifted at a cellular level.
The PET Scan
A few days later, Misty went for her regularly scheduled PET scan. The same scan that had shown cancer throughout her body — lungs, bones, liver, lymph nodes — for years.
The results came back.
Every. Single. Trace. Of cancer. Was gone.
Her doctor could not believe it. He called in another physician to double-check the results. They ran through the images again. Lungs: clear. Bones: clear. Liver: clear. Lymph nodes: clear.
Then her doctor said something that most oncologists would never say. He looked at Misty and told her: "I believe Jesus healed you."
What This Means for You
Misty Burdette did not heal herself. She did not think positive thoughts until the cancer left. She did not try harder or believe harder or push through on her own strength. She thanked God in the middle of a battle she was losing — and God showed up.
If you are facing a diagnosis that feels final, if the scans keep coming back worse, if the doctors have stopped using words like "cure" — this story is not here to give you false hope. It is here to remind you that the God who made your body knows every cell in it. And He is not limited by what medicine can or cannot do.
Misty's doctor said it himself. Jesus healed her. That is not a metaphor. That is a medical professional looking at scan results he could not explain and reaching the only conclusion that fit the evidence.
If God did it for Misty Burdette, He can do it for you.
