Thank you, God! I praise you, Lord Jesus! For the last 2 weeks, I have been symptom free.
I know it is only by God’s divine healing and protection that I can walk again without feeling like I might pass out. I haven’t done anything different in my life or habits. My family, for all their recommendation on how I should do this or not do that, hasn’t gotten me to do anything different either. And the doctors, for all their poking, prodding, scanning, and testing, haven’t done anything but frustrate me with their inaction… except, of course, their ability to extract a $20 co-pay for each visit.
I don’t know how long my restoration will last, but I am grateful for every minute of every day that I am not under attack. I don’t know how much longer my family, friends, and Christian brothers and sisters will continue to lift me up in prayer, but I will continue to praise their love and faithfulness before the Lord.
This attack has certainly strengthened my prayer life. I thought I was doing alright by praying several times every day. When you are under crippling attack, and the only way forward is to pray with each step, you discover a deeper, more intimate, extremely powerful aspect of prayer. When every step and every breath is a prayer, it feels like Jesus is right beside you. The world may still close in on you, may still overwhelm you, may still blot out the light, but… the presence of the Lord gives you a calmness; a peace beyond all understanding… and the strength and the power to go on!
Yes, I’m rejoicing in every step. My joy is not in my health or my circumstances… my joy is in the Lord.
God has blessed me to see the humor is almost every situation. I often pray for divine revelation for those that seem humor impaired. Do you think their scowls indicate that they were weaned on a lemon? While I was in the hospital for the TEE procedure (Trans-Esophageal Echocardiogram), I had the nurses, technicians, and doctors in stitches. In all that laughter, I had not one moment of anxiety or fear. And the problem the doctors were 90% certain was in my heart? Well, they could find nothing, and boy… did they try to find something! My heart got a clean bill of health. Praise the Lord!
Last week, a friend posted a video of Michael Jr., a Christian comic, on Facebook. I thought it was hilarious, checked out other videos of his on YouTube, and found a whole bunch that cracked me up. I was particularly taken by “The Prayer Circle” video. I pray it brightens your day, and reminds you that God hears ALL our prayers… no matter how we pray. Enjoy.
Your brother in Christ,
Dave
Hey Dave!!!!
ReplyDeleteBeen prayin' for you for thirty nine years now and I still trust that the Lord will answer!!!! I mean look what He did in your life with those Marbot thingies and Chaos theory!!!! Your excitement over your discovery was a joy to behold. Remember 2 Chronicles 7:14ff.-if my people who are called in my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways (repent), then I will hear their prayers from heaven and heal their lands. Waiting on the Lord is a hard way to go!!!!
Shalom,
Pat
Hey Dave! This is a week after you wrote this so now it's been three weeks I trust with no symptoms? So glad it's not your heart. Such a blessing to have people pray for you and to depend upon the Lord and learn more deeply that He loves us. And there you were with the medical staff, dispensing your special brand of humor and a witness in fearlessness to the care of the Lord.
ReplyDeleteHe certainly got your attention, or rather more of it. Today Pastor was talking about Naaman, and how if our focus is on our problem then we're not focussing on God. Sometimes God does get our attention with things like that. Some people just worry more, some learn to depend upon the Lord more. How fragile life is. How wonderful to know the end! As Diehl would say, loudly, "Glory!!"