Wayne Higgins was a man who understood numbers. When his doctor told him the PSA test results were elevated, he knew what that meant. When the follow-up tests confirmed aggressive prostate cancer, he understood the gravity. The numbers were not in his favour.
The Diagnosis
Prostate cancer. Not the slow-growing kind that doctors sometimes choose to monitor. The aggressive kind. The kind that demands action — surgery, radiation, hormone therapy, or some combination of all three. The kind where doctors use words like "aggressive" and "intervention" in the same sentence.
Wayne's medical team began laying out the treatment roadmap. There were options, but none of them were easy. Each came with side effects, recovery time, and the unspoken understanding that even with treatment, nothing was guaranteed.
The Decision
Wayne did not refuse medical advice. But he did something alongside it that most oncologists would not include in a treatment plan. He committed to prayer and fasting.
Not as a magic formula. Not as a last resort after giving up on medicine. As a deliberate act of faith — a way of saying to God: I am taking this seriously enough to sacrifice my comfort. I believe You are a healer, and I am positioning myself to receive what You want to give.
Fasting strips away the noise. It creates a kind of clarity that is hard to find when you are surrounded by test results, treatment schedules, and the constant hum of anxiety. Wayne fasted, and he prayed. Day after day. Meal after meal. He brought his body before God and asked for mercy.
The Numbers
When Wayne went back for his follow-up PSA test, the numbers told a story that his medical team did not expect. His PSA levels — the markers that indicate prostate cancer activity — had dropped dramatically. Not a modest improvement. Not a slight decline that could be attributed to natural fluctuation. A dramatic plunge that made the doctor look at the chart twice.
But PSA numbers alone are not definitive. They needed to see the tissue. They needed a biopsy.
The Biopsy
The biopsy results came back. Zero cancer cells.
Not reduced. Not diminished. Not "responding well." Zero. The aggressive prostate cancer that had been confirmed through multiple tests was no longer present. The tissue that had been cancerous was now clean.
Wayne's doctor did what any good doctor would do — ordered more tests. Ran the numbers again. Checked the pathology. Everything confirmed the same thing. The cancer was gone.
What the Medical Team Could Not Explain
Between the diagnosis and the follow-up biopsy, something changed inside Wayne Higgins's body that no treatment had yet been administered to explain. The PSA levels — a quantitative, measurable, objective marker — had dropped to a range inconsistent with the aggressive cancer that had been diagnosed. The biopsy — an even more definitive test — showed tissue that was clean.
Doctors deal in explanations. They look for causes. They trace the biological pathways that lead from disease to recovery. But in Wayne's case, the pathway did not include any medical intervention that could account for the results. The only variable that changed between the diagnosis and the biopsy was prayer and fasting.
What This Means for You
Wayne Higgins did not choose between faith and medicine. He chose both. He listened to his doctors. He also listened to God. And he added something to his treatment plan that cannot be prescribed: prayer and fasting.
If you are facing prostate cancer — or any diagnosis that makes you feel powerless — consider what Wayne did. He did not sit passively and wait for the worst. He got on his knees. He went without food. He brought his body before the God who made it and asked for help.
The PSA numbers dropped. The biopsy came back clean. The doctors had no explanation. But Wayne did.
God still heals. And sometimes He does it in a way that even the numbers cannot deny.
