A Warrior for God's Truth and Justice From Follower, to Believer, to Disciple written by Sandy Yozipovic Everyone’s journey through life may be different, but God’s mission for us all is the same. Like many, I have lived a life of trials and tribulations which has included battling sickness and disease. For most of my life it seemed like I had been dealt a rough hand, so-to-speak. At the age of eight, I had been bitten by a tick and got Lyme Disease. At the age of 21, I had been paralyzed as a quadriplegic for a year with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Then, at age 39, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and given a 20% chance of survival. That was the day I was advised to get my affairs in order. My husband Mark and I prayed for answers, and miraculously, a friend led us to Dr. Dino Prato, a 26-year-old, naturopathic doctor who was on fire for Jesus! In our first consultation, Dr. Prato told me, “When forgiveness happens the healing begins.” He sent me home with a forgiveness prayer and a healing prayer that I was assigned to pray out loud every morning and every night for however long it would take! Our friends, family and business associates thought we were crazy to go to an unknown clinic to heal my body naturally. Who could blame them? This doctor had no track record, no patients, and no survivors…yet God knew exactly what He was doing! He was using what the enemy meant as a setback to set me up to accomplish His greatest mission ever! It is only by the grace of God’s miracle and the faith that He provided me with that I am still here today and have been able to overcome the strongholds of Satan’s attempts to keep me down to deter me from my
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particular calling - to expose Satan’s lies to reveal God’s truth in every area of my life. This calling is not for the meek or faint of heart, but it is exactly what I’ve been assigned. It has now been 19 years that I have been cancer free! Today, The Envita Medical Center, where my healing happened, has become one of the leading cancer and Lyme Disease centers in North America and is able to boast of thousands of survivors - including my father, my sistersister, and my sister-in-law. I am their first cancer survivor and their longest survivor, and have been a member of their Medical Review Board ever since. Recently, I was asked to become a BOD member of The United States Medical Freedom Alliance Team of Doctors who have joined forces this past year in fighting for the rights for doctors to be able to pray with their patients and to have the freedom to choose Integrative Medicine. (Stay tuned – God hasn’t finished that story yet!) Remember I said we all have the same mission? As disciples of God, that mission is to lead others to Christ and to allow them to experience God’s love. Through my illness, God brought me to Envita, and now has allowed me to reach out to others and share my story of His healing love, bringing me from being a mere follower, to being a believer, to working to accomplish His will as a disciple. God’s plan for us is so much greater than what we can imagine – and when we allow Him to work through the trials and sufferings in our lives, there is simply no way to foresee the blessings that He will accomplish in and through us!
