Anne Graham Lotz Releases New Book, Shares Cancer Struggle Helped Her Listen to God

In an op-ed piece with Fox News, Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of Franklin Graham, shared from her new book “Jesus in Me: Experiencing the Holy Spirit as a Constant Companion” how the Holy Spirit encouraged her during her cancer journey.

As Christian Headlines previously reported, last year, Lotz was diagnosed with breast cancer and started treatment in October 2018. Though her prognosis was “excellent,” she still endured the physical toil of chemotherapy’s side effects: “hair loss, mouth sores, flu-like body aches, bone pain, metallic taste, appetite loss, fingernail loss.”

But she found hope in the Spirit’s whispers throughout her journey, she shared.

“The next morning [after surgery and the first chemo treatment], my devo­tional reading was from Job 42:12: ‘The Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.’ The thought was that through Job’s suffering and grief, he had come to his heritage. Peace flooded over me as the Spirit seemed to indicate that my cancer experience was not a whirlpool. It was a journey with a purpose. God would use it to lead me to my heritage — where He wanted me to be,” she shared.

Anne’s road to recovery led her to countless hospital and doctor’s visits, meetings with pharmacists and lab technicians. Though they made her weary, Anne saw the work God was doing through…