- [Narrator] At 16, JessicaDatsko noticed a painful bump

on her head.

It grew quickly and an MRIconfirmed she had a tumor.

Yet, in the face of arare cancer diagnosis,

Jessica never doubted God's goodness.

Her surgery and healinginspired her to share stories

of God's providence in all the nations.

- God has an incredible wayof redeeming our stories.

- [Narrator] Today, sheis host and producer

of CBN International's "Life-Changers."

- Well Jessica is here,

and thanks for joining us on the show.

- Thank you for having me.

- I didn't know that you are a miracle

until I got into this story.

So you're turning 16, what happens?

- I just started feelingpain in the back of,

right here in my head, anda week later, a bump formed

and it just kept growingand growing and it was just,

we didn't really know what was happening.

- Okay.

You actually took a trip during this time.

You went to the Bahamas.

Yeah, we had a familyvacation, and on the ship--

- You couldn't cancelthe vacation for this?

- Well, we just thought,

at first, we thought it waslike a zit or something.

- Oh.

- And I even tried to pop it,

which was weird, and ofcourse nothing came out

and so we just prayed and felt peace

to still go on to the cruise we went.

And yeah, and it justkept growing and the Lord

just sustained my life.

- You started getting really,really bad headaches, right?

- Yeah, it was really painful,

and even Advil wouldn't take care of it.

- Okay.

- Yeah, it never fully went away.

- How long from you first notice a bump

to you get a diagnosis, you have something

that could end your life?

- Yeah, so after the trip,it was the end of the year,

we came back home for Christmasand I went to the doctor.

They sent me to get x-rays

and in the x-ray, therewas a hole in my bone,

so where white bone should'vebeen, there was a hole

about the size of a sanddollar, of a big sand dollar.

And so, at that point,they're like, you're missing,

you know, bone is missing.

So then I had an MRI andthat's when they diagnosed it

as Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Which--

- Easy for you to say.

- LCH.

It's a rare type of cancer,or autoimmune disease.

It's debated, so yeah.

- [Gordon] How does it start?

- So it's basicallythese Langerhans cells,

which are part of our immune system,

and they're all throughout our body.

Sometimes they reproduce too quickly

and so they reproducedtoo quickly in my bone

and basically started eroding my bone

and then it was headed towards my brain.

- That's scary.

- Yeah.

- At 16, that's really scary.

- Yeah, yeah.

- What went through your mind?

- So I remember thinking,"Lord, if I'm gonna die,

well, okay, I'll be in your presence,"

but then I remember, I was like,

"But I feel like I haven't

done anything for you yet,Jesus, and I feel like,

you know, there's beenprophetic words over my life

since I was a little girl.

They haven't come to pass."

So, I remember going into my prayer closet

and just singing and worshiping the Lord.

And there was a song Iwas singing that said,

"Give me a song to sing,and I'll sing it for you.

Who can praise you from the grave?"

A quoting from Psalms, so I was like,

"Well, I mean, if you wanna take me, sure,

but I don't think you should."

(Laughs)

"Please don't."

- There are some goodreasons for me to be around.

You're a worshiper.

That is one of thesignatures that you have.

- Yeah.

- And it seems like youhave always been that way.

Is that true?

- Yes, yeah.

Since I was a littlegirl I would just sing,

make up songs, and just start singing

since I could, almost, talk.

Later I learned to sing from scripture

and I just loved doing thatin my time with the Lord

and that is really what sustained me,

even during this season.

Singing the scripture over myself.

- [Gordon] Okay, so you geta devastating diagnosis,

and what you do with that isyou go into your prayer closet

and you start singingworship songs to the Lord.

- Yeah, so, right before that, actually,

I did have a "Why" moment.

"Why is this happening?"

and I asked my brother, Roberto,who is Bruce on the show,

he is seven and a halfyears older than me,

and I just admire him so much

and he has walked throughhis own journey with the Lord

and I have seen so manymiracles in his life

that I could not doubtthe goodness of God,

because I just had seenthat goodness in his life,

through my parents' lives,their testimony as a family.

So, I just asked him why,

and I do not even remember what he said,

but if was enough tojust give me hope again

and remind me that I trust God,

that I trust God in his life,

that he is live, he is a miracle.

So, it is gonna be the same for me,

so, his story empowered me

and that is what really led me

to go back in to the prayer closet.

And, it was just a moment of surrender,

and giving everything to the Lord

and just, after that,I think I just trusted

that he would use itfor his glory somehow.

- Sometimes you have to walk

through the valley of the shadow of death.

He does not say we aregonna be spared from that.

He says, "when you walk throughit, I will be with you."

- Yeah, and we are setapart, in the midst of it.

- Yeah, you started prayingspecifically for the surgeons

who were going to operate.

You started prayingspecifically for the operation,

what would be the outcome.

You started prayingspecifically for everything.

- Yeah.

- What was a four hour scheduled surgery

turned into a two hour surgery.

- Yeah, actually, one and a half hours.

- And so the doctors areamazed at what happened.

What happened during surgery?

- So, right before the surgery,I heard two testimonies

and, faith comes by hearing,

and I think the Lord reallyjust gave me the gift of faith

and that we are meant to believe

that what God had donefor two other people,

that I did not evenknow, he could do for me.

So, the first testimony was of a woman

who had a type of pre-surgery.

It was a very complicatedsurgery she was scheduled for,

and the doctor went in andsaid, "Who went in before me?

This is super easy."

So he quickly extracted the tumor she had.

So I heard that and Isaid, " I want that!"

And then I just started asking the Lord,

"Lord, the doctors say thetumor is going towards my brain.

I want you to push it out."

And right before thesurgery, the days before,

I felt a unique pain, asif it was coming out more.

And so the doctor went in,the surgeon opened me up,

and he said it popped right out.

He came and told my parentsthat is just was so easy

and then he put in the coral

and bone graft to cover thehole where I was missing bone

and he said it just startedmeshing really quickly

and that was the second testimony I heard.

- So you started healing during surgery?

- Yeah, yeah!

So the second testimony Ihad heard was of a family

that prayed Psalm 91 over their daughter,

who had been in a terrible car accident,

and she recovered extremelyquickly, against all odds.

And so I said, "Lord, I want that.

I wanna recover extremely quickly."

And I just started recovering so speedily.

I was off of morphinein twenty-four hours,

I switched to Tylenol,

even though they hadprescribed me narcotics,

and I was off of Tylenol in eight days

and back in school in a week.

- [Gordon] Wow.

- Yeah.

- And that was seven yearsago, since that time,

no cancer, no problem, perfect health.

- Well, there was a bit of a challenge.

- [Gordon] You had a scare.

- Yeah, the doctor wassure I needed chemotherapy

after the surgery and thenthe whole rest of 2013

was just going to medical checkups

and there were moments where I did doubt

and, if it were not for my parents,

who said, "No, the Lord healed you.

The Lord said 'Peace, be stillto those Langerhans cells

and froze them."

And they just really werewarriors, my parents.

In the midst of evenmoments of doubt, for me.

So yeah, I am cleared.

I do not have any morecells of Langerhans cell

but, yeah, the Lord is amazing.

- Okay, well if you wantto see more of Jessica

and her wonderful miracles,

all you have to do ischeck out "Life-changers."

It is a new show, launching in January,

with CBN International.

You can find it on the CBN News Channel.

You can also find iton the CBN Family App,

it is available either place

and check out Jessica's new show

and realize, she is a miracle.

(Jessica laughs)

- [Gordon] Terry, over to you.