Double Mastectomy, the Right Choice?

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2013, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

It's been in the news lately about a famous actress who has recently had a double mastectomy.

She was reportedly concerned that she might come down with cancer because she was told her genes put her at high risk for cancer.

She is married to a famous actor.

She's been on TV after the operation, and in her dress, it's hard to tell that she's had the operation.

So, the matter has ended well, right?  Actually, the matter hasn't necessarily ended yet.  There is the possibility of further developments in this matter.

In this particular case, if that husband and wife talked it over and made their decision, it would be inappropriate for me to pass judgment on whether those two made the right choice.

But I'm speaking about the general case, as the Priest that God has called me to be. because others will face similar decisions,

Not just double mastectomies, but single mastectomies, and various other operations that people can choose to have that cut parts off of the body.

Sometimes people make such decisions without full knowledge of all that pertains.

If a woman has a husband, he has a right to be in on the decision as to whether his wife will have a mastectomy.

If the woman is single, is she really sure that she'll never marry in her future?

And why would that matter?

Because looking good on TV is one thing, but what about in the bedroom?

I remember seeing a movie where an actress portrayed a character that had had a mastectomy and said, “And my husband hasn't touched me since.”

Not sure whether that movie was based on a true story, but such a thing could easily happen.

I am sure that if it had been my wife, I would have been opposed to mastectomy, and in favor of divine healing by faith, if a problem developed (which it may not have).

This could affect people's marriages and futures in ways that they didn't expect that it would.

The double mastectomy may very well have accomplished its purpose.  A woman without breasts seems unlikely to come down with breast cancer.

But there are other kinds of cancer.

The fact is, you simply can't cut out of the body everything that could possibly come down with cancer.

My aunt died of a brain tumor.  Can you cut out your brains so that you don't get cancer in the brain?  No.

Perhaps someone would say, “So, Fred, why didn't you tell your aunt these things?”

I had a good reason for not telling her.  I didn't tell her because I couldn't tell her.  I was ten years old, and I just didn't have the knowledge back then that I have now.

Chapter 2

I was, however, a witness five years prior to that of a miraculous healing that had happened with my Grandmother.

At Grandmother's house, I saw the bandage being removed from her ankle.  I saw a horrible sore on her ankle.  It looked as though someone had taken a sharpened spoon and gouged out one cubic centimeter or more of her ankle.

A few days later, I saw the same ankle perfectly healthy after my Grandmother had been healed by the Lord.

Someone might ask, “So then what is your solution to the mastectomy problem?”

I would like to suggest that just because there has been cancer in the family doesn't necessarily mean that the individual will come down with cancer.  How about having some faith that God won't let cancer happen?

And there is another way to stave off cancer.

When we die, it's only the body that dies.  Then you, the  person who had been living in that body either go up to heaven, or down to a fiery hell.

To go to heaven, you must be born again, Jesus said in John chapter 3.

You get born again according to Romans 10:9,10, “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you're saved.  For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made for salvation."

So then, everyone needs Jesus, if for no other reason, to stay out of hell.

Once a person is a Christian, there are right confessions that Christians should be making, such as, “I will never have cancer, for it is written, I am the Lord who heals you.” (Ex 15:26)

And there are many more promises on healing.  For a list of them, please see my book, "Your Abundant Success Lasting Forever."

Unfortunately, not many Christians have been taught about right confessions, but I'll keep teaching that way.  Dr. Norvel Hayes teaches that way.  Charles Capps teaches that way.

An authority on the subject of faith, healing, and health was Kenneth E. Hagin.  His books are available at www.Rhema.org

God wants people to live by faith.  If you're living by faith, you don't say, “What if I come down with cancer?”

No, you say, “God's not going to let me have cancer, or any other disease.”  That's how faith talks.

A confession that I make is, "I will never die from cancer, or any disease, but like Smith Wigglesworth, or be raptured."

Smith Wigglesworth was a man of God who had no disease that killed him.  It was just God's time to take him, and he died in good health.

The Rapture refers to the catching away of the church, the true believers, as in the book of 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16.

But what if someone already has cancer?

Mark 11:23 says, “For truly I say to you, that whoever shall say to this mountain, be removed, and be thrown into the sea, and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that the things that he says shall happen, he shall have whatever he says.”

If you have cancer, that's your mountain.  Command it to go, in Jesus' name.  As you do, believe that what you say will happen, and don't doubt in your heart.

There's more on this in my book, “The Cure for Every Disease,” available as a Kindle ebook from Amazon.com.

Norvel Hayes is at www.nhm.cc.  Charles Capps has www.CharlesCapps.com  The book that I recommend by Charles Capps is, “God's Creative Power will Work for You.”

I've also seen Hayes on the GTV channel (God TV) on the Direct TV system.

Hebrews 11:6 tells us, “But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.”

To be rightly related to God, we must use faith in our daily lives.  If something's wrong with your body, use your faith to get your healing from God.  But first, become a Christian if you're not already.

God wants Christians to be baptized in water, and also he wants us to have the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the Speaking in Unknown Tongues.

It's an unknown tongue (language) because the person speaking doesn't understand what he is saying.  The Holy Ghost gives him the words to speak in the unknown tongue.

You get it from Jesus, the baptizer with the Holy Ghost.  Ask him for it if you're a Christian, and when you pray, believe that you receive the things you ask for. (Mark 11:24)

Scriptures quoted are from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version and the New Testament, Hoehn Version, both available as ebooks for the Kindle readers from Amazon.com.

The Lord bless you.  Frederick Hoehn

www.FredHoehnMinistries.com

___Ruth chapter 1

1 Now in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.  And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to temporarily live in the country of Moab, he and his wife, and his two sons.

2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah.  And they went into the country of Moab, and continued there.

3 And Elimelech, Naomi's husband died, and she and her two sons remained.

4 And they took wives from the women of Moab, the name of one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth, and they lived there about ten years.

5 And Mahlon and Chilion both died also, and the woman was deprived of her two sons and her husband.

6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, so that she could return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab how the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.

7 So she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

8 And Naomi said to her two daughters in law, "Go, return each to her mother's house, the Lord deal kindly with you, as you've dealt with the dead, and with me.

9 The Lord grant that you'll find rest, each of you in the house of her husband."  Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

10 And they said to her, "Surely we will return with you to your people."

11 And Naomi said, "Turn again, my daughters, why would you go with me?  Are there yet any more sons in my womb, so they can be your husbands?

12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband.  If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should have a husband also tonight, and also bear sons,

13 Would you wait for them 'til they're grown?  Would you wait for them instead of having other husbands?  No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me."

14 And they lifted up their voice, and cried again, and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth stuck to her.

15 And she said, "See, your sister in law has gone back to her people, and to her gods, go after your sister in law."

16 And Ruth said, "Don't ask me to leave you or to return from following you, for I’ll go where you go, I’ll lodge where you lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God shall be my God,

17 Where you die, I'll die, and I'll be buried there, the Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death separates you and me."

18 When she saw that she was steadily minded to go with her, then she stopped trying to persuade her.

19 So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem.  And when they’d come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved regarding them, and they said, "Is this Naomi?"

20 And she said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty, why then do you call me Naomi, seeing the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab, and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

___Ruth chapter 2

1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace."  And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."

3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to go to a part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

4 And see, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, "The Lord be with you."  And they answered him, "The Lord bless you."

5 Then Boaz said to his servant that was set over the reapers, "Whose damsel is this?"

6 And the servant that was supervisor over the reapers answered, "It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab,

7 And she said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves,' so she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, so that she tarried a little in the house."

8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Don't you hear, my daughter?  Don't go to glean in some other field, and don't go from here, but stay here close by my maidens,

9 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them, haven't  I commanded the young men that they shall not touch you?  And when you are thirsty, go to the containers, and drink of that which the young men have drawn."

10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found grace in your eyes, so that you would take knowledge of me, since I'm a stranger?"

11 And Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown to me, all that you've done to your mother in law since the death of your husband, and how you've left your father and your mother, and the land of your nativity, and have come to a people that you didn't know until now.

12 The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given to you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you've come to trust."

13 Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you've comforted me, and because you've spoken friendly to your handmaid, though I'm not like one of your handmaidens."

14 And Boaz said to her, "At mealtime come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar."  And she sat beside the reapers, and he reached her parched corn, and she ate and was filled, and left.

15 And when she had gotten up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, "Let her glean among the sheaves, and don't reproach her,

16 And also let some of the handfuls fall on purpose for her, and leave them, so she can glean them, and don't rebuke her."

17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

18 And she took it up, and went into the city, and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned, and she brought out, and gave to her what she had left after she was full.

19 And her mother in law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today?  And where did you work?  Blessed be he that took knowledge of you."  And she showed her mother in law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."

20 And Naomi said to her daughter in law, "The Lord bless him, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead."  And Naomi said to her, "The man is near of kin to us, one of our next kinsmen."

21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, "He said to me also, you shall keep close to my young men, until they've ended all my harvest."

22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter in law, "It's good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, so they don't meet you in any other field."

23 So she kept close by the maidens of Boaz to glean until the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest, and lived with her mother in law.

___Ruth chapter 3

1 Then Naomi her mother in law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, so that it will be well with you?

2 And now, isn't Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens you were?  See, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

3 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint yourself, and put your clothes on, and get down to the floor, but don't make yourself known to the man, until he's finished eating and drinking.

4 And it shall be, when he lies down, that you shall see the place where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay down, and he will tell you what you shall do."

5 And she said to her, "I'll do all that you've said to me."

6 And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law had said.

7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn, and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid down.

8 And it at midnight, the man was afraid, and turned himself, and see, a woman lay at his feet.

9 And he said, "Who are you?"  And she answered, "I am Ruth your handmaid, spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid, for you are a near kinsman."

10 And he said, "The Lord bless you, my daughter, for you've shown more kindness at the end than at the beginning, since you don't follow young men, whether poor or rich.

11 And now, my daughter, don't be afraid, I will do to you all that you require, for all the city of my people know that you're a virtuous woman.

12 And now it is true that I am your near kinsman, but there is a kinsman nearer than I am.

13 Wait tonight, and then in the morning, if he'll perform to you the part of a kinsman, well, let him do the kinsman's part, but if he won't do the part of a kinsman to you, then I'll do the part of a kinsman to you, as the Lord lives, lie down 'til the morning."

14 And she lay at his feet until the morning, and she rose up before one person could identify another.  And he said, "Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor."

15 Also he said, "Bring the veil that you have on you, and hold it."  And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her, and she went into the city.

16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, "Who are you, my daughter?"  And she told her all that the man had done to her.

17 And she said, "He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said to me, don't go empty to your mother in law."

18 Then she said, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall, for the man won't rest, 'til he has finished the thing this day."

___Ruth chapter 4

1 Then Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there, and see, the kinsman about whom Boaz spoke came along, to whom he said, "Hey, such a one!  Turn aside and sit down here."  And he turned aside and sat down.

2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, "Sit down here."  And they sat down.

3 And he said to the kinsman, "Naomi, that has come back from the country of Moab, is selling a parcel of land, that was our brother Elimelech's,

4 And I thought to tell you, "Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people.  If you'll redeem it, redeem it, but if you won't redeem it, then tell me so that I'll know, for there is no one to redeem it beside you, and I am next after you."  And he said, "I'll redeem it."

5 Then Boaz said, "When you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance."

6 And the kinsman said, "I can't redeem it for myself, so I don't mar my own inheritance, you redeem my right for yourself, because I can't redeem it."

7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, to confirm all things, a man pulled off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor, and this was a testimony in Israel.

8 Therefore the kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself."  So he pulled off his shoe.

9 And Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I've bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

10 Also, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I've purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place, you are witnesses this day."

11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders said, "We are witnesses.  The Lord make the woman that has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem,

12 And let your house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the children that the Lord shall give you from this young woman."

13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and when he went in to her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.

14 And the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a kinsman, so that his name will be famous in Israel.

15 And he shall be to you a restorer of your life, and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter in law, that loves, who is better to you than seven sons, has born the son."

16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

17 And the women who were her neighbors gave him a name, saying, "There's a son born to Naomi," and they called him Obed, he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18 Now these are the generations of Pharez, Pharez fathered Hezron,

19 And Hezron fathered Ram, and Ram fathered Amminadab,

20 And Amminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon,

21 And Salmon fathered Boaz, and Boaz fathered Obed,

22 And Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.

___Psalm 37

1 Don't fret because of evildoers, and don't be envious against the doers of sin.

2 For they'll soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

3 Trust in the Lord and do good, so you'll live in the land, and truly you'll be fed.

4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he'll give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in him, and he'll make it happen.

6 And he shall bring out your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.

7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him, don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked devices happen.

8 Don't be angry.  Quit being angry.  Don't fret in any way to do evil.

9 For evildoers shall be destroyed, but those who wait on the Lord shall inherit the earth.

10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be, yes, you'll diligently consider his place, and it won't be.

11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

13 The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to throw down the poor and needy, and to kill such as are of upright conversation.

15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.

17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.

18 The Lord knows the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever.

19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they'll be satisfied.

20 But the wicked shall be destroyed, and the enemies of the Lord shall be like the fat of lambs, they'll be consumed, into smoke shall they consume away.

21 The wicked borrows, and doesn't pay back, but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

22 For those who are blessed by him shall inherit the earth, and those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in his way.

24 Though he falls, he won't be completely thrown down, for the Lord holds him up with his hand.

25 I've been young and now am old, yet I haven't seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

26 He's always merciful, and lends, and his descendants are blessed.

27 Depart from evil, and do good, and live forever.

28 For the Lord loves judgment, and doesn't forsake his saints, they're preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be destroyed.

29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks about justice.

31 The law of his God is in his heart, none of his steps shall slide.

32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

33 The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he'll exalt you to inherit the land, when the wicked are cut off, you'll see it.

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

36 Yet he passed away, and see, he was not, yes, I sought him, but he couldn't be found.

37 Identify the perfect man, and observe the upright, for the end of that man is peace.

38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord, he is their strength in the time of trouble.

40 And the Lord shall help them, and give them deliverance, he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.