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    By His Grace
    By His Grace
    By His Grace
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    By His Grace

    By Amy Lowery-Lopez

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    Amy's story is about beating the odds against cancer, even when the Doctors are saying you don't have a chance. How trusting God, even in the most challenging times, even when it's facing life and death. How faith is rewarded when the deck is stacked against you, God still has the last word - period.

    How ones world can come crashing down - yet it isn't over, till God says it's over. The Cancer has metastasized, and invaded your body and the Doctor's news is grim. How when it looks like it's over -- God show up and show out. When it should have been Amy's worse time, ends up being her best time. How beating the odds doesn't mean just getting by, but overcoming in such a way, you know it can only be the hand of God moving. This story chronicles Amy's story about a miracle and how nineteen years later, she is still sharing her story. Helping others beat death and cancer, and sharing the beauty of God's grace.....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmy Lowery-Lopez
    Release dateFeb 14, 2018
    ISBN9781370689941
    By His Grace
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    Amy Lowery-Lopez

    I was born in Texas and had a desire to write as a young girl. I remember writing and passing small essays around in my 6th grade class. My fellow students loved to read my short stories. Later in life, the desire came back to me as I was sharing my personal story about facing and overcoming breast cancer. I felt there was a reason to encourage others facing the battle of life, cancer, and the daily challenges we all face with dignity and faith. I've learned through life, I don't always understand Gods plan for our lives, but I know he will provide a way out. He will give me strength to endure and strength to keep fighting the good fight.

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      By His Grace - Amy Lowery-Lopez

      Amy Lowery-Lopez

      By His Grace

      Copyright 2018 Amy Lowery-Lopez Published by

      Amy Lowery-Lopez at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smmashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of

      this author.

      Introduction

      What do you do after being diagnosed with breast cancer. You’re at the top of you game. Life couldn’t be any better. Now, you’re given six months to live, if you do not get treatment. A diagnosis, if revealed could cost you everything you worked so hard for the past twenty years. Your fight to the top, has come after countless days, months and years of long hard work. What do you do?

      Amy’s diagnosis is about to catapult her into her worse nightmare. Every imaginable fear is unleashed. She’s at the brink of losing her life, family, career, success, home -- everything. In her desperate search for truth, Amy gets on her knees and cries out for help.

      This is a modern day biblical story of Job, and how God walks with you during those times. When the enemy is trying to steal, kill and destroy, God shows up. This story is about how God meets us in our circumstances. How he provides, guides and comforts us. This is about the people he puts in your path when you need them, and gives you strength when you feel like giving in. This is a story about how God still works miracles, guides and teaches us, even in today’s times.

      I have chronicled the journey the past years, to see what would unfold. These are real experiences of how God honors faith. Can I explain, or understand them all?

      No. It’s a journey filled with surprises, challenges, twists and turns and a new understanding of love. I also have a different perspective now, on how I measure my success. The challenge is aligning my faith, to what I knew in my heart to be true, with reality!

      The hardest part. Relinquishing my strength and becoming small, so God could become big in my life.

      At time’s I cried out to God, Help me Pappa. Because if you don’t, I can’t finish. I later learned, this was the way it was supposed to be. It wasn’t about me -- it was all about him. The sooner I learned this, I could stop going around the same mountain, over and over, dealing with the same problems. What it revealed to me, was God was in complete control. The sooner I understood this, and surrendered every area of my life, the journey would get easier. That was the hardest part. Letting go. Trusting, and knowing God knew best. This is a story of such a journey, and how it’s not over, till God says it’s over.

      What I’ve learned through all this, is to NOT compromise. To lean on God for everything. Even when it doesn’t make sense. I knew for God to reveal his true purpose for my life, I had to trust him. To much is given, much is required. I knew I would have to stand on God’s principals, and not waiver. In this journey, I could not listen to what people were saying. I had to guard my heart, so as not to taint what God had birthed in me. The enemy knew it was there, that’s why he came to snatch the seed.

      When God gives you a dream, he wants you to stand alone sometimes. To grow strong, so you can draw from the giver, the creator. When God puts a dream in your heart, there are times, you must bring it to the alter and let it die.

      Do you love the dream, or the Dream Giver? God needs to be stronger than the dream. Otherwise, you put another an idol before him. This is the hardest part of pursuing the promise. This is where true character is forged. You must trust and give into something greater than yourself. But once you die to yourself, you truly find yourself.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my heavenly father - Abba - Pappa. He has been my life spring. The one constant in my life. I wrote this book to honor him and his faithfulness.

      Second to my parents. They planted seeds of faith in me at a very young age. This was the greatest gift they could have given me. This is the gift, that keeps on giving. A gift only a parent who wants the best for their children, could give. When life becomes challenging, these are the life tools and resources a child will use over, and over again, to overcome life’s challenges, obstacles and become the person God created. To my Father who showed me how to dream and to believe nothing was impossible, and we could accomplish anything.

      To my friends who have stood by me – Michael, Marilyn, Evelyn, Roland and Ruth who loved me through this journey. Also, the Valley Golfers who accepted me into their group and accepted me with such loving arms and support. To Joy, Linda, Jeannie, Kathy, Sandy, Patsy and the rest of the girls who didn’t realize how their love and joy helped me, as I transitioned into a new town, and life changing situation. Thank you for making it so much easier.

      My twin sister Gloria, my best half. My unrelenting support who gave me unconditional support, and love. You went home to be with the Lord.

      I miss you terribly and miss our daily talks. I know you’ll be one of the first ones to greet me with Mom and Dad. Life without you seems different and not as bright. No matter what life gave us, we always made lemonade.

      And to my loving, sweet, husband Robert who has truly showed me the heart of Jesus. A kind, loving, giving man with a heart full of love and uncompromising support. My heart’s desire. When I see him, I see the heart of Jesus.

      I remember as a young girl looking out my window and thinking of my future as a young girl. Hoping someday to marry, have a family, home and a loving husband who would share life’s journey with me. A man who would protect and love me. It took us most of our life to find, but the journey was so worth it. He is a giant among men, in so many ways. He has given me the ability to continue to be an instrument for God, and stands by me in faith, fighting the good fight of faith. My Champion! Robert tells me I love him the way he has always wanted to be loved. No greater gift then to love and be loved he says.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      1. The Prayer

      2. The Bible - It May As Well Been Written In Chinese

      3. The Dream & A Paper Napkin

      4. In Pursuit of My Destiny

      5. 50 Cents Challenge

      6. Hello, God Are You There?

      7. The Par Course

      8. Providence - Rhode Island

      9. God, Are You Kidding Me?

      10. A Humble Start

      11. Would Of - Should Of - Could Of

      12. Checking My Notes

      13. Good Bye to New England

      14. Risking It All

      15. If You Can’t Afford to Risk It All, Don’t Gamble

      16. What Is Missing?

      17. God, How Can I Do This, Without Any Resources?

      18. Is Despair Required for All Those God Calls?

      19. Barely Holding On

      20. Ten Years Later- My Fig Tree Moment

      The Prayer

      As I sit here, several years later, traveling from coast to coast, house to house, packing and unpacking across 17 states, I reflect on how much my life has changed. Little did I know how a simple prayer, would change my life. That prayer would catapult me into a life I would normally not have chosen for me. I am a person who likes structure, and stability. I thrive more in that environment, I am not a nomadic person, by nature. That all changed in the summer of 2001.

      I once had someone tell me, "be careful what you pray for, you just might get it. Or you may not get it the way you imagined". I didn’t know what that meant. I do now!

      I often wondered, did God call me, or did I seek him? The Bible says he chooses us. What did he want from me? I was determined to find out.

      Like most people, I had an active and very busy life. I was working for a high-tech company in Silicon Valley in California. I ‘d been blessed with family, friends, a great job, a six -figure income, promising career, finances and a beautiful home. I was in a good place. What most call a sweet spot. I had a successful life. I was at the top of my game! I was lucky. I was doing what I was passionate about and getting paid for it. The perks of traveling, mentoring, and a promising future just made it better.

      One day I came across a book by David Ring, a young man who was born with Cerebral Palsy. He lost his Mother as a young man and had a disability. This story is how God used him beyond what he could ever dream for himself. I had no idea how much it would change me. It ignited a spark, which would later turn into an intense inferno. After reading the book, my mind could not stop thinking about it. It started an intense search for God. I could not quench it, just feed it. I had a quest to find the God I had been reading about. I wanted to meet this God. I was determined to find him, at any cost. Little did I know, it would almost cost me my life, family, home, job, career. Everything I’d worked so hard for! I opened the door and walked through. There was no turning back! What was the key that opened the door? I prayed. I asked God for more of him. I cried out to him, on my knees, telling him I wanted to experience the same encounters people had in the bible. Boy, I wish now I had read the Bible more!! I wanted to know him as Father, friend, and confidant. My source for everything in life I would ever need.

      Not the God I grew up learning about in religious schools and rituals. That God seemed so distant, and ready to pounce on me, if I screwed up. What I learned about God at a young impressionable age? I remember, the rituals; standing, sitting, reciting – the patterns of my early faith walk. That was religion. I just watched the leaders in the church, sometimes speaking in other languages. I just went thru the motions. What I wanted, I didn’t know I needed. I wanted a relationship. And a stronger faith. I wanted the God that changed people, moved mountains and parted seas. I wanted to have an experience of knowing

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