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Georgia preacher Brandon Bennings was only 23 years old in 2011 when he discovered he had a deadly form of brain cancer. And with support from his friends, family and church, he refused to give up hope that God could heal him. Last Monday, he died still clinging to it.

“My name is Brandon Bennings and I have a story to share,” he began in a chronicle of his fight atbrandnupossibilities.com.

“In late April of 2011 I was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. Technically speaking, I have a glioblastoma (pro. glee-oh-blas-toma) tumor, which is a very common but most aggressive malignant brain tumor. The survival rate for people with my type of cancer is about 1 percent over 5 years,” he wrote.

Bennings was still a student at the prestigious Morehouse College when he discovered he was ill.

“I had one semester left, majored in religion and minored in philosophy, and then all of a sudden. I got sick,” he revealed in a YouTube video posted this summer.

The cancer affected Brandon’s speech, his ability to walk and the functioning of the entire right side of his body.

“Going from a busy body, as I was, to pre-planning taking a shower…having to plan will I take a walker or will I use a wheelchair,” he explained.

Almost a year later, with his health deteriorating, Bennings took the stage at his church, The House of Hope Atlanta (Greater Travelers Rest) pastored by Dr. E. Dewey Smith in Decatur, Ga., and talked about what he wanted his legacy to be, and brought the congregation to their feet and left them in tears with his testimony.

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article courtesy of Joy105.com

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