Regaining Lost Ground

Shane Idleman: The only planet that supports life and He hears you cry at 2:00 AM, "Lord, help me." That God, that God who created the heavens and the earth, who owns everything in the palm of His hands, that God hears I hear the cry of My children. Oh, if you can't strengthen yourself in the Lord on that, I don't know what to tell you. He heard me, He delivered me. Listen, guys, the well of living water's open tonight. Come and drink deeply of that well. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Taste and see that the Lord is good.

Guest (Male): Thank you for joining us here at Westside Christian Fellowship, located in Leona Valley, California, one hour north of Los Angeles. Today on Regaining Lost Ground, we hear the third and final part of this urgent message from Pastor Shane titled, "A Calculated Assault Against Cancer." Listen now as Pastor Shane delivers one of the most transparent messages of his life. Walk with Shane as he opens up about his recent fight with cancer, and how by faith in Jesus, with knowledge from the truth of His living word, you too can overcome today here on Regaining Lost Ground.

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Shane Idleman: Guys, this is actually I think why I feel the best, honestly, is the biggest changes I've made. And I eat pretty good, but when you eat really good, you can feel a big difference. I talk about sometimes epigenetics, and when you look at cancer, you can watch a cell and it's taking millions of signals from the DNA and genetics. Your food, let's say your blueberries, your antioxidants, your pectin from the apple, all these things, the fiber, these are positive responses to help build immunity.

You throw in a Taco Bell Grande, toxic, toxic, toxic, and the cells don't know what to do. You're not helping them. This is a big deal. Food either fights disease or it fuels it. There's no other way around it. Look at the things. Did you know many of the things I just mentioned in the natural are things we consume? I mean, there are so many things I could have gotten into—DMSO, methylene blue, of course apple cider vinegar. There are so many different things.

I do want to throw this out there. A lot of people have been sending alkaline water. Your body will automatically balance out things, so I don't invest in alkaline water, alkaline this, alkaline that, pH balance. Your body, your gut bacteria, automatically balances it out. So a lot of that might have been a myth that they are finding. Traditional treatments may work at the surface of cancer, but nutrition works at the source of cancer. You can get the surface, but you've got to get to the source of it.

Low carb, real food. This is key. Eating real food, God-given food in moderation with fasting is the biggest change you can make. Food either fights disease or it feeds it. Point to ponder: if diet doesn't matter, why do they use sugar, glucose, to find cancer in the body during a PET scan? Fludeoxyglucose, to be exact. It lights up because of that reactive agent. It loves glucose. Remember, like I mentioned, the reason cancer loves glucose is it'll take that glucose and it's weird how it works.

A normal cell will take the glucose and then something called pyruvate is manufactured, and then ATP is produced, quite a bit of ATP. But the cancer cell uses lactate and has a lot less ATP, adenosine triphosphate, and it just uses a little bit of that energy, but it chooses glucose. It chooses sugar. It also feeds off glutamine and things like that. You can go down many rabbit trails thinking what diet is best. I don't think God's concerned if you eat too many blueberries. Use wisdom, moderation.

Glucose, especially the sugar, what you're doing then is you're also avoiding the things that will feed that cancer. It's sugar, carbohydrates, a proven fact called the Warburg effect. You can look it up and how they have found that. Oncologists I know will say diet doesn't matter. Really? How many years of nutrition training do you have? They'll tell you four hours. Four hours. They don't know how the body works. They don't know what they don't know. Whether it's pride, whether it's money, whether it's lack of knowledge, I don't know.

But you've got to be your best doctor. Talk to your doctor, talk to nurses, learn, get advice, get godly counsel, but ultimately look into things yourself before you jump right into things. Because most cancer cells primarily use glucose for energy, a phenomenon known as Warburg effect, ketogenic diets have a potential positive effect on cancer. A low-carbohydrate, high-fat keto diet forces the body into a state of ketosis, burning fat for fuel and producing molecules called ketones.

Researchers are exploring how this metabolic shift may starve tumors, as many cancer cells lack the flexibility to use ketones for fuel and growth when glucose is restricted. They basically run out of fuel. Dr. Valter Longo writes in the Longevity Diet that by reducing calories from proteins and sugars, you can decrease the activities of the growth of the hormone receptors that accelerate aging. There's so much proof on this. I know it's not what we want to hear, but it's what we need to hear.

What diet is best? This question caused me a lot of stress the first week. Do what you can, then leave the results up to God. My advice is based on the biblical account, based on all this research, is to focus primarily on living low-glycemic plant foods with high nutrient density, as well as raw nuts, seeds, and a moderate amount of berries, along with a little bit of fresh-caught fish, some eggs, and of course, if you're going to go with meat, just make sure it's very clean and in moderation. Again, based on my research.

Now, you also get what about juicing? What about Chris Beat Cancer? Everyone heard of that? About 50,000 people have sent me that stuff. He juiced. And juice is like, "Whoa, that's a lot of fructose. That's a lot of sugar." So obviously there are ways around this. God leads people differently. You don't want to get dogmatic, you just want to trust Him in all of these things. Also, sprouts are probably one of the most nutritious foods on the planet. I wasn't aware of that. Broccoli sprouts are 20 times more powerful and nutrient-dense than broccoli itself.

Incredible. And you can grow them at home very easily. Again, about juicing, and this is the exact theme throughout the booklet, is to seek God for direction and wisdom. When you don't know what to do, step out in faith, trust Him. His sovereignty is the key to your sanity. I'm just going to add a few more things before we close out. Again, I've got so much more in that booklet that will help you, but I wanted to get this out there. This is so important for disease and cancer in general. You've got to incorporate intermittent fasting.

Think about it. If cancer is something feeding it, the longer you can give it a break, of course within moderation. You don't want to turn into an eating disorder. You've got to eat, but you don't have to eat every three hours. Give the body some time, a window there. It's like we were created. I believe that we are experiencing a national health crisis because we are eating the wrong types of food and too much of it. Begin here as soon as possible.

Here's one of the biggest keys. Reaching your ideal body weight is very important. The weight that we carry, the more difficult it is to really focus on health and vitality. That's just study after study after study. Finally, health cannot be a fad, it must become a lifestyle. So use the stumbling block of cancer or disease to become a stepping stone towards really making some serious changes in your life. I have to throw this in there too because it's very important. Sleep, sleep, sleep.

So many things happen with sleep. You've got to get the sleep in there. There are things like L-theanine, melatonin, magnesium, things that can really help with sleep. Turn the electronics off. Not a lot of caffeine in the afternoon. Last meal three or four hours before you go to bed. Deep REM restful sleep, that's where the body can really heal and do its deepest work. But I want you to be encouraged. I had some very difficult nights of sleep, but those early morning worship times were some of the best, most precious seasons I've ever had with the Lord.

You can't win a war if you're constantly feeding the enemy. Diet and lifestyle changes are among the biggest factors in overcoming disease. We shouldn't choose some good habits while allowing a lot of bad habits. We need to really rein in all of this. So here's my biggest lesson learned that I want to share with you: nothing works perfectly. Nothing works perfectly. We must trust in God and Him alone. He may take away all hope so that we finally look to the One who is hope. That's the biggest lesson.

You can do all this stuff and God says, "It's not going to work." Or you can do conventional through your doctor, through your oncologist, and God might use that. I don't know. That's between you and the Lord. But I would really encourage you to research and look at what the treatment is actually doing, because you need your immunity. You need your immunity. Most people that go through a lot of conventional treatment, their immunity is shot. I want to be careful. I would say seven out of 10 people I've talked to in the last month that went conventional said they would have done things differently looking back.

Just shooting you straight, at least seven out of 10. Because they were pushed, they were rushed, they were forced. And God's voice is still, the still small voice of God. "Yes, I might do what you say, but I won't be rushed or pushed into things." "You've got to hurry, got to get on this." Really? Maybe so. I'm a big fan of early diagnosis. Identify it, smack it, remove it. Prostate cancer, you can remove something. Other types of cancer, skin cancer, absolutely. But make sure you're seeking the Lord. Even on a quick decision, you want to seek Him. You don't want to be forced and pushed into anything.

And now I want to talk, in close, we talked about the natural, now let's talk about the supernatural. This is what excites me. What I just talked about doesn't excite me. I'm excited to get you this information and excited to help people. We've had 3,000 downloads of that booklet in three days. So many people are being encouraged and helped and have never thought about this. But remember, you don't just go and I recommend some supplement places, Amazon you've got to really watch. I try to go to compounding pharmacies that actually put it together and I recommended those in the booklet.

Everything is in there. "Okay, I got all these, I got Laetrile, I got black seed oil, I got this, now I'm ready." No, no, no. How's your diet? How's your sleep? How's your walk with the Lord? What's He telling you? How's He leading you? Do you know what this is for? Do you know how much? Are you going to take a break? Are you going to involve cycling? "I've got to find a doctor that's going to prescribe ivermectin and fenbendazole. How much? 12 milligrams of ivermectin four times a day, once a day? 500 milligrams of fenbendazole once a day, twice a day?"

How do you know if your body's responding? What do you look for? You can't just go rush out. Let God lead you in direction. Ask Him for wisdom. Everything I just shared with you was bathed in a lot of prayer, a lot of study. I could have gone into a lot of other things. Sometime Google DMSO, Google methylene blue and you can see there are different things. Be careful though with DMSO, you take a tablespoon you're going to smell for about two days. It's a metallic smell and it gets in your skin. Very good for anti-inflammatory properties.

At the cellular level, cancer is at the cellular level, so you have to fight it at that level. You have to go, you have to hit it. A lot of times chemo, I don't know if you're aware of this, but cancer stem cells are not affected by chemotherapy. They're not. Ask an oncologist, is the stem cells that caused it? So you've got to get to the cause. How do I do that? Build up natural immunity, strengthen yourself. Oxygen. I can't get to hyperbaric chamber. Go on a good walk and breathe deeply. All that exercise, the hormonal shifts, the response. What are we getting out in the light?

Vitamin D. I'll take that over a pill any day because that's the way God designed it. But instead we go put all the sunscreen on with 80 different chemicals that actually has been known to cause cancer. Let's focus on these and we'll have worship. Psalm 103: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things."

But this thing and I realize, "He who heals all your diseases," I believe God heals when the reason behind the disease is addressed. Is He humbling you? Is He breaking you? Is He calling you home? Is it to trust Him, to seek Him, is it to lead somebody to the Lord? And that's the thing about nutrition: is my lifestyle, what I'm doing to the temple, creating the disease? If so, I might want to make some temple-cleansing changes like Josiah and clean the temple, and then I might see the results. God might lead you to do that, and I'm fairly certain it's biblical.

Psalm 46: "God is our refuge and our strength, and a very present help in trouble, therefore I will not fear." So what you do, you go into prayer, you go into worship, nothing else matters but seeking Him. You get that time in the morning or you get that time in the evening, and you pursue Him like never before. He does not forget the cry of the humble. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me." Oh, I love 34:4. "I sought the Lord and He heard me." I sought the Lord.

Did you know God hears you? Isn't that comforting? "I don't feel it, I don't see it, but I know He hears me. I know heaven hears me." Last night on YouTube, are you aware that we have like—is this true—a trillion galaxies? And then inside each galaxy is billions of stars? What? Can you just pick that God hears your cry? That God hears your cry. A little tiny planet. A little tiny planet in the Milky Way galaxy, this little tiny planet with blue water on it. The only planet that supports life and He hears you cry at 2:00 AM, "Lord, help me."

That God, that God who created the heavens and the earth, who owns everything in the palm of His hands, that God hears, "I hear the cry of My children." Oh, if you can't strengthen yourself in the Lord on that, I don't know what to tell you. He heard me, He delivered me. Listen, guys, the well of living water's open tonight. Come and drink deeply of that well. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Taste and see that the Lord is good. I sought the Lord and He heard me. What a promise. Can you imagine if it said, "He might. Try harder, He might hear you."

You seek the Lord, you find Him. And let me tell you, when you find Him, you love Him. And when you love Him, you want to seek Him. And it's everything. It's precious. That's why I prayed, "Lord, take this from me, but don't take this from me if it's going to take the intimacy away from You." The more you seek Him, the more you find Him. Me and the floor spent a lot of time together. The floor. "Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled." When you're downcast, it says to look up. "I will lift up my eyes to the hills."

It's actually probably saying your strength is not coming from armies coming down, but it comes from heaven. "My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber." Nothing excites me more than this topic. You know what? Many people say, "I want to go deeper," but do you really? Do you really want to go deeper? Because Lord, if pain causes me to go deeper, burn me down. Break me, humble me, God. Heaven heard my cry. Heaven hears your cry. And let me tell you, often—I'll just have the worship team come up—He waits. He waits. Why does He wait? Because He wants to see if you'll keep seeking. He wants to see if you'll keep pursuing. He wants to see if you'll keep trusting. He wants to see if you'll keep loving Him even when it hurts. He wants to see if you'll keep loving Him even when you don't understand. He's a good Father. He's a good Father. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. Let's worship Him tonight.