How This Woman’s Unusual Prayer Became a Cancer Miracle

No one wants to receive the news, “You have cancer.” And no one wants to receive that news while lying on a gurney in a crowded hospital hallway. But both those things happened to Rebekah of worship duo Brad + Rebekah—the day before preorders opened for their new album, The Sound of Heaven.

What neither of them knew was that God had a miracle in store.

In a whirlwind diagnosis process, Rebekah had gone from what she thought was a “baby mama tummy” to realizing it was a hard mass to a doctor visit to an ultrasound to a CT scan and then to the Emergency Room. The doctor who spoke to her in that crowded hallway identified the mass as a malignant abdominal sarcoma. Rebekah needed major surgery—and major prayer.

“From the beginning,” she says, “I just began to pray for a miracle. I wanted God to heal me. …