Sunday, July 15, 2007

He shares the dramatic story of his healing from cancer at the World Christian Doctors Network Conference in Miami

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

MIAMI, FL (ANS) -- A Texas judge has told a doctor's convention the dramatic story of how God miraculously healed him from cancer.

Judge Newsom with his wife Robbie

Judge Robert E. Newsom from Sulphur Springs in northeast Texas, gave his inspiring testimony at the 4th Annual World Christian Doctors Network conference held in Miami, Florida, from July 13-14. His was one of many cases studies presented to the medics which detailed scores of miraculous healings that could not be explained medically.

Afterward he had spoken to the doctors, Judge Newsom agreed to talk to ANS about what had occurred to him and I first of all ask him what kind of cases he tried as a judge.

"I try criminal cases all the way from death penalty cases all the way down to any kind of felonies. I also hear civil cases, domestic cases, in fact almost every kind of case in the district courts," he said.

I then asked him how he first discovered that he had cancer.

"It was in February 2002, over five years ago now, that I was diagnosed with cancer," he said as his wife Robbie stood at his side. "I had noticed a knot coming up on the left side of my neck side and the doctors said that the lymph nodes were cancerous.

"It was melanoma cancer which is quite unpredictable and sometimes quite deadly. So I ended up going to a local hospital and during that time many people were praying for me and, as they and I prayed, God increased my faith and encouraged me that He really could do a work in my life and he wanted me to stay around for a few more years.

"A miracle did occur and, by April 12th, 2002, the doctors declared me cancer free and I am so grateful."

The judge spoke about the support of his Southern Baptist church at that time.

"I had a Bible believing church behind me and they prayed for me tremendously," he said. "Also, there was believing prayer from my brothers and sisters throughout the city and throughout the county. When I went to the cancer hospital in Houston Texas, the news was actually put it on the front page of the local paper and that got the whole community involved. Who would expect that they would put someone who has cancer on the front page of the paper? But they did so in my case. We ended up with thousands of people praying for me and it made all the difference."

His wife Robbie then agreed to talk about the experience and so I asked her how she felt when she first heard that her husband had melanoma.

"I was pretty devastated at the time because, being an RN; I had first thought that the diagnosis was going to be Hodgkin's lymphoma, which has a much higher recovery rate with treatment. I knew melanoma was much more unpredictable."

She then spoke about the massive amount of prayer that was going up for her husband.

"The Lord was faithful to increase my faith pretty rapidly," she said. "God just started showing me truth in the Scriptures, and encouraging me through other believers. Of course, I had moments of darkness when the enemy would come in and kind of rattle my faith a little.

"But, the Lord just continued to encourage us so, by the time we got the wonderful news that he was cancer free, especially as we were expecting be told that he still had cancer, that was wonderful news."

I concluded by asking the Judge what he had learned from his experience with cancer.

The Manmin Performance Team

"One thing I have learned is that God's Word is true and secondly that God answers prayer," he said. "My perspective on life has definitely changed. I now realize that every breath that we're given is a gift from God and I look at life a lot differently with much more a heart of gratitude and wanting to be pleasing to the Lord.

"I've been given opportunity to give my testimony here at this conference and I'm grateful to be here and have a couple of days off to come to Florida to be able to share my story with these doctors."

The World Christian Doctors Network conference, with it's theme of "Spirituality and Medicine," attracted some 120 doctors from 50 countries to the event who, besides the various lectures and case studies, entered in to the worship as various bands and performers made their God-honoring music. They included Pastor Joseph Toress and the House of Worship Band and the Manmin Performance Team from Seoul with their famous fan dances and a marvelous contemporary electric violin set with the Koreans playing as Argentine singer, Gustavo Lima, now a Christian, sang.

For more information on the World Christian Doctors Network, go to www.wcdn.org.