Below is a post from another family we came to know through mutual friends and the clinic. Please read it all the way to the end and add the Waters family to your prayers.
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This
has been a hard week for us. Last Friday we visited our sweet
oncologist here in Virginia for the first time since returning from
Texas, and she was pretty blunt. She said that it will be very hard to
cure Samuel and that most people in his situation die. These words were
hard to receive. I had hoped she would affirm how positive it was that
the cancer was not in his organs, etc, that it was still "just" in his
soft tissue. Instead, she said that since we know it has travelled in
his bloodstream the prognosis is bad. So, science does not offer much
hope to us.
What
this has done though, is to pull back the veil and reveal the reality
that we all live under, whether we know it or not. Our only hope is in
Christ. For these last two years I have known this. I told our doctor
that the God who made Samuel and loves him will cure Samuel, and he will
use her and the medicine to do so, or he may cure him some other way.
This week we have grown ever more hopeful and certain of this.
On
Sunday, Jim organized a time of healing prayer for Samuel after our
church service in the balcony. 25 - 30 people read scripture and laid
hands on Samuel to pray for his healing. Our priest Nicholas anointed
Samuel's head and hands. It was one of those moments when heaven opens
and the angels ascend and descend. We read passages starting in
Genesis and going through to Acts, affirming many truths. Among them:
- We are made in God's image
- Sin/evil came into the world and broke our relationship with God; we now live in a "fallen" world
- Christ was sent to us to redeem us and all creation
- For those who belong to Him (those who receive Him/believe in HIm), He gives an abundant life
- Christ taught us to love God and each other; He showed us how to be his hands and feet here on earth
- When Christ left, he gave us the Spirit so we could carry on His work in His name; teaching, preaching, loving, healing, redeeming. Glorifying God.
We believe that Christ is healing Samuel.
Please join us in praying for Samuel -- we ask that you pray in the name of Christ.
Here is a verse from Zephaniah that I keep saying --
Zephaniah
3:17(NIV) The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will
take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will
rejoice over you with singing.
Last Sunday I was
walking on the bike path and kept saying out loud, "He is mighty to
save, mighty to save." I was walking along saying this, and this cute
little boy, probably not long off his training wheels, rose up beside me
on the parallel gravel path, elevated above the bike path. He said
"look mom, look at me." What a cutie. Then his dad and mom passed me,
and I recognized them from the clinic. This is the boy we met who has
been healed of leukemia. Yes, our God is mighty to save.
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It was no coincidence that we rode by our friend that day on the bike trail. What would God have us do with this gift of healing and health? Provide hope at a crucial moment to a family in crisis? Simply by living life with joy? That's what He would have us do on that day. May He continue to use us for His good in any way He sees fit!
-Jennifer
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