“Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 4 Number 8 “Elohim is My Refuge and Strength!
A Step Into the Deepest and Most Profound Entry of All Her Journals!”

February 24th, 2021

Come back with me to the events of six years ago at this time that seem like yesterday to me. I can remember with vivid detail the events of February 24, 2015, when the specialists said to us, “Mrs. Peck, there is a large mass in your right lung. We are running tests on the fluid that it is producing and will know in a couple of days whether it is cancer or not. For now, we are assuming that it is cancer.”

The next night or two after everyone went home, I sat at her bedside and we prayed and talked quietly together. We were holding hands, and she softly said, “Honey, it’s going to come back as cancer. I believe the Lord is confirming this to me. I already know.” It was either the next day or the day after when Dr. Dasha quietly said to us, “It is cancer, and it is very serious.” I wish you could have been there to listen to her respond to the medical team as she spoke with wisdom, grace, and confidence in the Lord. You could have heard a pin drop on the floor that day. She gave her team the explanation why she was in a “win-win situation.” “Either I will get better and have more time with my family and that will be a win. Or, I will go Home to be with the Lord and that will be a big win. I know that you are busy, but please let me explain that I am not living in denial. Let me share with you how I know I will go Home to Heaven.”

I sat listening with overwhelming emotions.

Very recently I ran across this once again in her Bible. I cried. But they were not only tears of grief but also tears of joy and praise to the Lord. Here are the verses and what she wrote.

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear…” (Psalm 46:1-2).

Karen wrote: “February 27, 2015 Lung cancer confirmed. Elohim is my refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not I fear.”

Michael’s observation: Did Karen ever sense fear? Of course she did. So did I. But never, never, never was she fearful about going to be with the Lord. Never was she fearful about her relationship with Jesus. Of Elohim, the One Who puts forth power and majesty she wrote that He is “my refuge and strength.” I love how the psalmist expressed it. He is a “very present help in trouble.”

Yes, on February 27, 2015, from a human perspective, we were in trouble. But He was very present. You know, my friends, it doesn’t have to be cancer. Whatever you are facing, if you know Jesus as your Savior, He is the same powerfully present Lord for you.