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My family will continue to pray for your healing, your family, and God’s will in all of this. Thank you for encouraging us, as always.
Love,
Stokes
Love you more than you’ll ever know, man. Thank you for your strength and your amazing perspective.
You are a blessing, brother.
You’ve played such a huge part in my wife and I’s walk over the last 3-5 years. We take great joy, and consider it an honor to plead with our King for your continued health and sustenance. We love you and your family, and know that God will continue to be glorified through your family’s responses to this trial.
We love you all and are so encouraged by your trust in Him. Still praying!
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Wow. Thank you so much for enduring this trial so faithfully and publicly. I’m praying and rejoicing that while you are shaken and bruised, you are not broken.
Praying for you! I am a “cancer kid” – my mom has been fighting cancer for 6 years…in our family mom carries the disease, but we all fight it! Praying for you and your family through the fight.
My whole family and I are praying for you and your whole family. Love you! – more than you know!
love you guys & praying from nashville! thanks for sharing with us and shining glory…
I’m praying for you, brother.
Matt
We love you and are fervently and constantly praying for you and your family.
Thanks for the update, Matt! Praying for you still.
The Sanders Family
Fasted and prayed for you for ten days.
We are praying for you up here in St. Cloud, MN brother. For healing, your family, joy in the process. May you feel the pleasure and presence of Jesus in these days. Love all of the grace that GOD continues to pour through you to so many others. Be encouraged by that.
In Christ Alone,
Pastor Matthew Molesky
God bless you and your family. We’re praying for God to heal you.
Matt, What an encouragement you are to so many people!! Just know that our family will be fervently praying for you and your precious family!!
Thanks for keeping us posted on your daily progress.
Praying for strength and peace,moment by moment,because Jesus will never leave you nor forsake you.
Blessings and Love,
The Beckhams
East Texas
Matt,
You are in our prayers! The love that you have shown to our Molly and Peter has touched our hearts. We think of you often here in Abilene. Your battle is an inspriation to many. Your strength in this time is amazing, but we know where it comes from.
The Carrigan’s
Love you and continue to pray for you daily alone and as a family. Head looks good. Not everyone can pull that off so well.
much love and many prayers!
Praying for you in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Matt. Your strength is an amazing example for all of us.
Matt,
When I first heard about the tumor, I thought, “This is his defining moment.” After hearing and seeing you today, I realize that you had your defining moment years ago when you met Jesus at the Cross.
In Christ Together,
Malcolm
We randomly came across your website and watched your videos regarding your bout with the brain tumor and have been lifting you and your family up in prayers everyday. seeing your trust and faith and hope is encouraging in a world where it seems as though people are getting sick right and left. God is shining through you and God is being made much of through your suffering. Praise Him! We’ll continue to pray. May He bless you richly.
Travis and Kate Hasson, Central Coast of California
What a testimony of faith and belief. I’m praying for you from TN. Praying for complete healing and asking God to sweetly bless your family.
Loved the “bruising” that you read. AWESOME!
We (the Kilmers) are praying for you nightly. My 9 yr old daughter said this last night in prayer:
“Keep our Pastor safe and help him to be healthy”
from the mouths of babes….
God bless
Your life, example, and ministry is a blessing to us all. Eyes cannot be averted from His glory, grace, and power when it is so perfectly reflected. Bless you and your family.
The Metcalfs are thinking of you and your family daily. It is so so dear to see your video update.
This week as I pray for the Chandlers, I will be especially focused as well on those in your body that are hurting and struggling. What a priviledge to be able to do so! Love the Metcalfs:)
matt -
glad to hear you’re walking strong through this challenge. if nothing else you have one sweet scar to show off! proof for the future that you’ve gone into battle and God gave you the victory.
Peace and wellness,
Jarrod Hunt
(Lan Leavell’s BEST friend from Kentucky)
I think it’s amazing that God brought me to your podcasts only months before this diagnosis. It has been a privilege for me to watch you rightly handle the Truth of God “IN THIS”, as you say. I am praying specifically for the things you asked!
We love you Matt and Lauren! Get Well Soon! Praying for you guys, your children, and The Village…
still praying and believing…I will not stop
Praising God for you and God’s mercies to you. Praying for continued strength, maturity, deepening dependence, and healing. The Father and the Son and the Spirit love us more than we recognize our need to be loved by God. Oh, that you would continue to experience His love in very concrete ways!
Pastor Matt and Family,
We are Julie Stephens’ parents from Nashville, TN. Please know that our prayers are for all of you.
May our Lord hold you in his arms and bring healing, hope, love and peace to you. God bless you for all of the caring things that you do for everyone in your Congregation.
We will see you in Dallas when we visit again.
With Love in Christ,
Jim & Mary Kay Campbell
Matt,
My dear childhood friend Davida told me of your trials and we having been praying for you and your family daily and I hope that if I am ever put to a ‘test’ like this I can have half of your strength. We pray that God will give you continued comfort during trying times….we pray that one day we will be able to come see you teach so that we can learn from your experience.
You Inspire! God Bless.
Heather, Daniel, Ian, and Austin
Salida, Colorado
Matt,you have been the subject of our Bible study Life Group’s prayer and also Becky & my prayers every day for you and your family. God bless you. Dennis & Becky Mitchell, Harlingen, Texas
Matt, you are the subject of prayers from our Bible Life group here at FBC Harlingen. Becky & I pray for you and your family every evening during our prayer time. May our Lord bless you richly, Dennis & Becky Mitchell
Thanks for sharing this with us and for understanding how much those of us who are so far away care and want to be involved in our own small, far away way.
Praying in Canada, as always.
I am praying for you each day. You are such an inspiration to all us out here traveling. You are showing in everyway how God is in the middle of all the events in your life and pulling good out of what seems bad. Stay strong in all you do and know that you have hundreds of prayer warriors out here.
In God’s strong and powerful way we pray for you.
Dave Edwards
Jesus Bless you! Thank You for sharring with us Matt. We have been waiting to hear your voice. I like what you read to us that was really good! Be restfull and Be healed in Jesus name!! Will be happy to see the weekly blog ..cool!
We are still praying with you. Thank you for the update – it helps to know how to specifically pray for you guys. Love the head – you look great! Give Lauren and the kids a hug from us.
Much love, Jeannette McQueen
Your words & testimony means more to my life, spirit and thoughts more then you’ll ever know right now. Like you said before… It’d be a lot tougher going through something like this if it wasn’t for deep theological convictions on God’s sovereignty. He will use it all for His glory and to point others to the Gospel.
Hey Bro,
Myself and the Hope Baptist family in Las Vegas are praying for you and your family. You are such an encouragement to me and for so many others. I have been folowing your story after Pastor Vance prayed for you during the service. As I watch this video and listen to your recent sermons, I can’t help myself but to be amazed. Your unshackable faith and joy just produces a conviction that pierces my heart. I am praying for your healing and for Gods Glory to be shined upon many. Love You
Prayers for healing & strength going up from Tyler, TX. May you & yours be even more blessed during this trial…
Bro we love you and are praying for you out here in Haiku, Maui Hi. We feel like we are part of the Village church even 4000 miles away. I thank you for being a man who honors Jesus, even while experiencing trials. Seeing Jesus work through you is an encouragement for me to do as what Paul says “forgetting what lies behind straining forward to what lies ahead, pressing on towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Even amidst all the trials and struggles in life. Thank you and God bless. We will continue to pray for your family, you and your healing. Aloha from the Dukes family and Hope Chapel North Shore
I am blessed by your testimony. I know that God is doing a great work in your family’s life as well as your church family. Trusting God to meet your every need.Praying for you!
2 Cor.4:17-18
Joyce Freeman
Lorena,Tx
Matt:
. I pray your current trial will be used by God in his life to help him grow into manhood with the same gospel fierceness he sees in his dad.
Thanks for the updates. More than that thanks for showing what a gospel-centered life looks like. I am praying much for Lauren and the children as well as for you. And as I said to you, I especially for Reid as we share the same name
I often tell my students that if you cannot preach what you are preaching in Somalia or Communist China, you should not preach it here. Matt, your life does not preach a Westernized gospel, but a gospel of surrender. And I among many am grateful.
God be praised,
Alvin
SO appreciate a comprehensive medical & spiritual update – can indeed keep praying that God would me heavily glorified in how He uses you during this time.
BLessings
Romayne
Belfast, N. Ireland UK
You look cool bald. We will be praying here in Birmingham for you and your family!
On my knees in Tampa. Press on, Mattie. I speak for thousands when I say that my spiritual life has been launched to a whole new level as I have observed you in your struggle, and watched you dig in and prepare for whatever lies around the bend – ALL THE WHILE trusting in God’s goodness and mercy. Above all, I have been moved by your willingness to accept any challenge whose outcome will see the gospel message spread. You’re a rock.
Matt,Very encouraging to hear the hope and trust in your voice and see it on your face. We are praying everyday for you. Our entire church family at Lakeland Baptist is praying too! God’s speed for healing! We love you! Mitchell and Cissy
I am not a member of the Village Church however I have been following your updates.
Please know that you are not only in the prayers of your congregation but also to many across the metroplex and beyond.
I intimately know the affects of cancer on not only the patient, but those that are close to them and those that love them.
Please know I am praying for your strength, healing, and wisdom as well as the many that love you and support you.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Father God, I want to pray for your healing over Matt Chandler. Lord shower down your grace and peace over his wife, children, church.
Hey Matt,
Thanks for the video update.
Please know you have people in Canada praying for you and your family! May you truly sense the Lord in this whole thing. I’ve often postured the point “What if God were to sit down with us before times like this and say, ‘Look, this is what’s coming up for you, but this is what I’m going to do through it. Are you up for it? Are you with Me? I’ll be with you the whole time.’ … ” That always helps me. I know you’re trusting God and you’re helping your family, your church, & others do the same.
Bless you Matt.
Janine
Matt,
As a cancer survivor of four years, I extend my prayers and encouragement to you. This season will change your life forever. I’m confident your already experiencing that! But this season will also galvenize your faith in amazing ways. Odds are you don’t need too much spiritual insight from me. I’m sure you have a great team around you. I do want to say this: odds are you will, at some point, be confronted by the realities of chemo/radiation therapy. It will get hard – physically/mentally/spiritually. At one point, I begged my oncologist – please, no more! When that time comes, be strong and courageous! Your God is mightier than cancer and chemotherapy combined, and he will deliver you through this crucible. Take your naps, eat well, and listen to your body.
A fellow cancer survivor and brother in the Lord…
Dear Matt and Family,
I am a f/b user and am a friend of Bill Siemons. I heard about your situation
and wanted to let you know that I agree in prayer for a complete healing.
I pray the radiation targets just the tumour cells and that you have the
wisdom to rest and rebuild your strength. I pray for strength for your wife and
children. I pray God’s glory be manifested through all this in the end! God is good all the time and can use this for His glory in amazing ways. And I agree with you that God reviving His people and is going to perform His miracles and wonders as we are faithful to His service! Amen! and may the Lord bless you in abundance.
Matt, If you need any encouragement, or your wife does, you can read more about God’s story, using us, at my website http://www.thesouldier.com.
I underwent a double lung transplant at 32 years old, had 9 additional surgeries due to complications, almost died twice in the OR and was hospitalized for 60 days. God is good, even though I forgot that in the middle of the storm, and He brought me through it. I now am being the active father and husband I always wanted to be but never could. I praise God for my new life, pray for the donor family, and appreciate every moment I have. God has allowed me the privilege of publishing a book soon and I have every intention of sending you one. It’s a Biblical approach to thriving well, not just surviving, with disabilities or illnesses.
I look forward to hearing your success story (however God defines that success) but it’s always neat to know God is using us through our trials.
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We’re not from your church, or country as a matter of fact! but my wife and I have kept up to date with your progress and are praying for your family.
It’s obvious God’s given you a great faith & this video is a tremendous encouragement to us.
In Christ,
Phil
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Praying for you & your family from Denver, PA. You have been a tremendous encouragement. Have really appreciated your preaching/teaching online over the years – from the heart, included stories about your dear family, real-life humor, genuineness & boldness. God has used you mightily and am confident that He will continue to do so.
hey pastor Matt,
yesterday in our church service, a member who battled stage 3 cancer (of the colon i think) testified of how his latest blood test (after a year of treatment) revealed that he is cancer free and how God has been with him and his family througout his ordeal. My friends including those who met you at the Desiring God Conference last year and I in Manila who have been blessed by you and your ministry are praying that God will graciously and favorably bless you the same miracle He has granted to our dear church mate, for God’s glory and for your good- as well as the church’s.
Afterwards, he sang this wonderful song by Philipps Craig & Dean:
I read about a man of God
Who gloried in his weakness
And I wish that I could be
More like Him and less like me
Am I to blame for what I’m not
Or is pain the way God teaches me to grow
I need to know
When does the thorn become a blessing
When does the pain become a friend
When does the weakness make me stronger
When does my faith make me whole again
I want to feel His arms around me
In the middle of my raging storm
So that I can see the blessing in the thorn
I’ve heard it said the strength of Christ
Is perfect in my weakness
And the more that I go through
The more I prove the promise true
His love will go to any length
And reaches even now to where I am
But tell me once again
Lord, I have to ask You
On the cross You suffered through
Was there a time You ever doubted
What You already knew.
Pastor Matt,
It brings me great joy to know you are truly feeling the prayers of many. We continue to pray you will not feel many side effects from the radiation or chemo. We will also begin to specifically pray for that very first MRI after your 6 weeks of rest – that it would be clear! We continue to pray especially for your beautiful children – that they may have obedient hearts towards Lauren and loving hearts towards each other as their days are changing to a new normal.
Thank you for your living testimony.
On our knees,
Anna and Scotty
Dear Matt and the Village–all 3 of my sons and their wives are members of your congregation (2 locations). Bruce and I thank God first that they were drawn to Him and then that He led them to ya’ll. We couldn’t ask for a better earthly shepherd and church family. Your illness has broken our hearts, but we rejoice with you that “but God”!!! Thank you Matt for relying totally on Him and showing us how to pray for you. And we are–praying expectantly and praising God for what He’s done and what He will do. Blessings on you and your family. We are praying without ceasing! Love you, Nancy Hildebrand
Matt, thanks for sharing with us not only the difficult things in your suffering, but also the ways in which God is encouraging you. I am thankful to the Lord for the men who suffer well in him. His greatness is on full display in your weekness! thank you
Kevin
Hello Matt, My brother-in-law is a member of your congregation and told us about your illness. I am a Registered Nurse. For the last 16 years I have been working with people with all sorts of disease, including cancer, using alternative therapies. I call it God’s Pharmacy. I would love to talk with you and share some ideas on what I believe could be of great benefit to you in addition to your treatment. I can be reached at 972-318-1020. We are parying for you and your family. Sue Prue
Matt,
I have listened to your wise words since I 1998. I went to Grace in Abilene and Metro in Dallas. I visited your church on a few occasions and my husband and I listen to your sermons online. You have had a great impact on my faith-walk and I am eternally grateful for you.
We are going through the book of Philippians at my church. Of course, one of the resounding themes from that book is joyfulness. Our preacher challenged us this week to tell someone that has been influential in our lives, that we take joy in praying for them.
Matt, I take joy in coming before our Lord to ask for healing, comfort, discernment, patience, and perspective for you and your family. Thank you for what you have done in my life and for how you still encourage me today with your strength.
Praying for you from Joplin, MO.
Third shift factory work feeds my soul because of the pod cast sermons. Serious, 6 hours of u 5 days a week, it’s a tad much, but I cry from the Word that comes from those moments, I laugh n see things like I have not before. P.s. I love the book of Hebrews, yeah I’m thatguy. Lol inone of ur sermons u said nobody loves Hebrews, I know a joke, but still thedepths of that book found in the scriptures of old are such a well of life.
Ok, stay out of trouble, Lord knows I can’t to save my life!
Matt,
Cincinnati is praying for you!
God bless you and thank you for what you are sharing. The truth in Christ radiates from you!
Lord, be with him and heal him!
Steph
Matt,
Thank you for being a servant of Christ. God used your podcast to renew my faith in Him a little over a month ago. Wow, this is just an amazing time of life. I am praying for you and your family. Thank you for speaking truth in Him and letting God use you, you have done more than you realize and have impacted lives you don’t know about. You have treasure in Heaven and I look forward to meeting you there some day. Love you brother,
Jon
Matt & Lauren – every day a prayer for all of you from us. Your strength is our strength. We are blessed to hear your words thru the blog/video and podcasts. Faith and glory be yours. Believe in the healing that is going on inside of you. We believe in you. In His service and praying for you and the family.
Gary & Susan
Bar 5L Ranch
Black Forest, CO
Was watching this during my 2 year old’s quiet time and after she asked what was wrong, she said, “He need God’s band aid!”. Praying for you and your family and the “band aid” of care and healing God can provide.
Matt,
I’ve never met you face to face, but want to tell you that the online sermons are deeply blessing me and my walk. I thank you and your staff for having so many we can go back and replay. I very much enjoy hearing the TRUTH spoken so straight and to the point. I pray everything you ask and more.
In Him,
JT
Matt,
A lady at my church heard me talking about listening to Mark Driscoll podcasts, she said if you like Mark Driscoll, you need to listen to Matt Chandler. I have since listened to at least 30 of your podcasts. They have helped me heal and grow spiritually. Two years ago my family left a very unhealthy church. It was a part of the Word of Faith and Prosperity movement. Your teaching on God’s sovereignty and the truths in his Word have help mend my life. I know there are thousands of stories of lives like mine who have been influenced by you. Thanks!!!!!
Brothers We Are Not Professionals: chapter 19!
Prayin!
Matt,
I will start praying for you brother. I live in Farmington, MN so I discovered you through podcasts and have been a loyal listener ever since. I just found out this morning that you have cancer. What a test. I am 38yr old with 2 little girls of my own and your story really hits home. As you said, because of this it has created a time to go deeper into our relationship with Christ on behalf of you but really deepening our relationship with him. Call it a 2-fer. I will pray for you brother. Know that you have help me enhance my spiritual life with Christ. Thank you and God bless. Lauren- stay strong.
Praying for you and your family. I see God is being glorified in this and that is all you’ve ever been preaching since I met you. Praise God.
I am praying for you and your family. I appreciate your messages. Thank you for your faithfulness to God.
~Val~
I’m praying for your healing, strength,and wisdom. I’m also praying for your family. The thought that keeps coming to me through your updates is that you are suffering well. I continue to learn through the example you set, even through this.
Hey Matt and brothers and sisters at The Village,
Still praying for you guys from Sydney Australia!
Grace and peace
Matt
Matt – my name is Greg Robirds, I used to be the youth pastor at St. John’s UMC in Texas City. I met you briefly through Dennis Johns at FBTC. Just want you to know I have lifted you up, your family, and your church and ministry. Rest in God in this time, take advantage of what you ordinarily do not have…time when you are required to rest. Invite the Lord into the midst of your rest, and let His presence bring you peace and clarity.
In Christ,
Greg
Wow, just watched your latest vid on YouTube. Deep, real, trust & love for your Father shines thru you so clearly. I’m living here in the Middle East with my family trying to shine some light forth. Thanks so much for being such an encouragement to me. In HIM with you, kevin
Matt, Our pastor shared your blogs with my wife whois his ministry assistant and as I watched at home I thought how would I,and many I know, act and react to a similar or same challenge. Im afraid I wouldn’t react the same way, but I know I have been encouraged in my faith andwill take life,health,family nearly so much for granted. Our married daughter said she wanted to visit your church and I intend to listen to your messages and follow your battle and ultimate victory. May the Lord bless you thru it as I know he will because of who He is, we willpray daily until your healing is complete in Jesus name Amen