No. 1656:
My wife Berit Nyland Christensen and I sought both medical help and God's help in her illness, it wasn't either or. But both!
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Picture of Berit when she was young and healthy.
That Berit should die so young, only 66 years old is completely incomprehensible and meaningless to me.
But now she is in Paradise and at home with Jesus together with all those who have gone before.
Berit about 10 years ago when she was healthy.
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2025/09/no-1651-memorial-to-my-beloved-and.html
Berit, my wife got symptoms around June 2023 that there was something not normal in her body.
When she, among other things, turned yellow in the eyes and the skin had a pigment change.
She was examined, and it was determined that she had pancreatic cancer.
There she had a relatively large operation on August 30, 2023.
Which they saw as successful.
There were 15 lymph nodes that they found were full of cancer.
They had 8 of them removed, but 7 remained.
We went before God in prayer, and proclaimed God's word
The promises of healing. As well as feeling the doctors' instructions, advice, treatment and what they could provide.
Unfortunately, in Berit's case they had no real healing effect.
There pancreatic cancer was a form of cancer that they were powerless against in many ways.
The only hope for healing in Berit's case was Divine and supernatural healing!
In this simply impossible situation we found ourselves in for over 2 years.
Then we were aware that the race was over.
Where it was purely human there was no chance of survival over time.
Where Berit not only had cancer in her pancreas.
But with spread to other vital organs such as the lungs and various functions related to survival!
The epicrisis from April 2025 states that everything had developed for the worse, not better.
We went to meetings for intercession, including Stockholm with Mark Hemans.
Berit and I at a meeting for intercession, but we experienced healing with Mark Hemans
We had a married couple who called us regularly where we prayed and confessed God's word and promises.
As far as I can see.
We earnestly sought God, and the doctors' help.
We attended several meetings for intercession, both here in Oslo and elsewhere.
Among other things, at the beginning of May we were in Stockholm for intercession.
Where Mark Hemans was, and we were prayed for. Without Berit getting better. Neither there nor elsewhere did what we hoped and prayed for happen, healing!
Why? I don't have the answer.
But both Berit and I had faith in Divine healing!
Unfortunately, nothing worked for Berit!
When I look back on her last 2 years, in many ways nothing was untried.
Why then wasn't Berit healed?
At least she was allowed to live a few more years?
I don't know why Berit wasn't healed!
Jesus healed everyone.
Acts 10:38 It was him whom God anointed with the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus of Nazareth. He went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil, for God was with him.
Jesus is the same today as when he walked the earth 2,000 years later.
Heb. 13. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
He who did not spare his own Son will also give us all things through him.
Rom. 8. 31 What shall we say then? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?
We are not only heirs of God, but joint heirs with Christ.
Rom. 8. 17 And if children of God, then heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.
By the stripes of Jesus we are healed.
1 Pet. 2. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that you might die to sins and live to righteousness. For, ‘By his wounds you shall be healed.’ Isaiah 53:5
The Lord is our healer, even Berith’s.
Exodus 15: 26 And he said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his sight, and give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your healer. Exodus 23:25
God promises to fulfill the number of our days, which Berith was included in.
Exodus 23: 25 You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from you; 26 There shall be no woman in your land that miscarries or is barren; the number of your days I will fulfill.
Everything that God spoke in his word applied to Berith and to all others.
Numbers 23. 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent: shall he say, and not do it? shall he speak, and not perform it?
God will not heal any diseases upon us, this also includes pancreatic cancer.
Deuteronomy 7. 14 You will be blessed above all other peoples. There will not be a male or female barren among you, nor any of your livestock. 15 The Lord will keep all sickness away from you. He will not put any of the evil and contagious diseases that you know in Egypt on you, but he will put them on all who hate you.
God says in his word that the blessing will come upon us, not the curse.
A curse is, among other things, pancreatic cancer.
Deuteronomy 30. 19 Today I call heaven and earth to witness against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live. 20 You shall love the Lord your God, obey his voice and hold fast to him! Then you will live and live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Can it be said more clearly? The Lord not only forgives our sin, but also heals.
Psalm 103. 3 He who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases.
Here the scripture speaks very clearly and clearly about Healing.
Also about healing for pancreatic cancer.
This was something Berit and I carried and confessed daily.
Why Berit was not healed of the evil and Devilish pancreatic cancer I do not have an answer to.
I simply do not know!
God's word says that one day we will get answers to everything.
That day I look forward to.
1 Cor. 13. 9 For now we understand in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when the complete comes, the partial will end.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I understood as a child. But when I became a man, childish things ended.
12 Now you see as in a mirror, as in a dark image, but then face to face. Now you understand in part, but then you will understand fully, just as I also have understood.
The answer to why Berit was not healed is for me not to understand because God himself in his own word.
Speaks so clearly and clearly, about the opposite.
At the same time, the scripture opens up that God has other plans and purposes.
Which we humans do not fully know and understand now.
Here we have many scriptures to include, I will only include a few.
Deuteronomy 29. 29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may keep all the words of this law. Psalm 147:19-20
From my Bible Commentaries Hebrews 11. 35 Women received their dead back when they rose. Some were crucified and refused to be released, wanting to obtain a better resurrection.
Here we notice that for some, some won glorious victories with Jesus. While for others, the outcome was exactly the opposite. Who had the greatest faith? Both must be the most correct answer.
36 Others had to endure mockery and whippings, yes, even chains and imprisonment.
Persecution, opposition, lies and false rumors against believers are one of Satan's main weapons against believers whether they lived before or after Jesus.
37 Some were stoned and tortured, sawn asunder or killed with the sword. Others had to go about in sheepskins and goatskins, suffering hardship, pain and hardship.
Luke 6:22-23 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and cast out your name as evil for the Son of Man's sake. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven.
38 You were too good for this world. You wandered in deserts and mountains, and lived in dens and caves of the earth.
Being persecuted and opposed comes because this world lies in darkness and we, children of light, must expect to be treated harshly and unjustly many times.
39 All of these received a good testimony for their faith, but they did not achieve what was promised.
Math was my strongest subject at school. The most important thing in math is to always do math correctly. Then you will get the right or partially right answer from the teacher even if you make a mistake. How have you set up the math for your life?
40 For God had something better in mind for our sake; they would not reach perfection without us.
If we count on God, heaven and eternity will always be the most important thing.
If we do not count on God, it will in most cases be what one can achieve and get on this earth. Who are you building your life for? God or yourself?
By believing God and his word, lasting results are created and the reward is heaven and receiving a full reward!
2. John b. 8 Be on guard so that you do not lose what you have worked for, but receive a full reward.
Final comment:
Berit and I sought all the help we could, both from God and from people.
Of course, mistakes were made.
Not least at the end, I did not know how sick Berit was.
Whether this had changed anything, whether she could have lived longer is impossible to know.
When it was nearing the end, it happened quickly.
She fell into a coma on Wednesday, August 27.
And died the next day, Thursday, August 28. It was for me the most demanding and difficult day. n in my life.
At the same time, Berit died with me and her children around her.
The scripture says:
Psalm 116. 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Phil. 1. 20 And so I expect and hope that no one will be put to shame, but that, as always, now also I will exalt Christ in my body - whether by life or by death.
21 For to me, to live for Christ, even if it means death, is gain.
22 But if to live in the flesh brings greater fruit from my labor, I do not know which to choose.
23 I am torn between the two, but I want to depart and go to Christ. That is far better for me.
24 But to remain in the flesh is for your benefit.
25 And even though I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain here with you all for your progress and joy in the faith.
26 Then your joy in Christ will be richer through my presence with you.
When Berit died, she went home to Jesus.
That is my sure and firm conviction.
We sought all the help and healing that we could get.
That it did not work out for us, where Berit finally died of pancreatic cancer with spread.
It was from the human side the sad fate.
From God's side, she moved home!
We will meet soon Berit, as I loved it and loved to hear your precious voice.
Everything you were to me, and your family and friends!
