The Prayer of Faith...
Sometimes it seems as though this blog is just something else I have to tend to, something else that could just as well be left off, then there is a message like I received tonight from a brother in California. The brother found this weblog after doing a search for "Alaska guide schools," and he e-mailed me tonight, not for discussion on the apprenticeship deal we do with young guys in Alaska, but for prayer.
I can hardly describe the compassion in my heart as I read this young man's story, but I want to convey it briefly to those who read here, for this is why we do this in the first place, to effect lives!
I will post his name later if he grants permission but for now we will call him coach, since he was coaching the high school varsity basketball team and was in his 3rd year of teaching middle school when he was hit with a fairly rare form of Muscular Dystrophy called Limb Girdle 2B. Coach in his own words wrote:
"By November/December 2003 standing was tough. I could not get up off the floor without help-either someone or something to grab onto and pull. But my arms were weak too. By April 2004 I could no longer stand from a regular chair or lift my arms above my head and had to quit teaching. I moved back in with my parents so they could help take care of me. By September 2004 I could no longer stand at all and have been bed-ridden since. In July 2005 I was rushed to the ICU because my muscles had deteriorated to the point where they could no longer expand my lungs or help me swallow. Both lungs were partially collapsed.
I had a tracheostomy and feeding tube installed. I am hooked to a respirator at home, in bed, 24/7 and receive all calories through my feeding tube. I can move very little-but can still feel everything (it is a muscular condition, not a nervous system one-nervous system functions quite well, there simply isn’t enough muscle left for it to move)."
Coach is a sincere believer, and he was moved to write me simply because we have declared that we believe in the Gifts of the Spirit and he desires our prayers. He understands that the doctors have few if any real answers, and the real problem is a spiritual stronghold. Coach is believing for a complete restoration of everything the devil has stolen from him and his family and his desire is to move to Alaska and resume teaching and coaching.
I am asking that those of you who believe in the prayer of faith, come now and join with me in spirit as Saint Paul declares :
"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ," 1 Cor. 5:4
Paul was speaking to the Corinthian believers about an offending member of the Church, but I ask you to join together now in agreement with me for the total miraculous restoration of health in Coach's life!
"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. " Matthew 18:19-20
While some may claim that we are arrogant, I believe we can say unequivocally that it is the Father's will to heal and restore Coach completely. I simply believe that this is the obvious teaching of the scripture without reservation. So I stand in faith with those who are like minded and we declare that this thing formed against this dear brother will not prosper, rather you are healed by the power of the very stripes that Jesus bore in his body.
Dismiss the prognosticators of death and unbelief, and choose now, as we also will do to believe the report of the Lord, so shall His arm be revealed.
I can hardly describe the compassion in my heart as I read this young man's story, but I want to convey it briefly to those who read here, for this is why we do this in the first place, to effect lives!
I will post his name later if he grants permission but for now we will call him coach, since he was coaching the high school varsity basketball team and was in his 3rd year of teaching middle school when he was hit with a fairly rare form of Muscular Dystrophy called Limb Girdle 2B. Coach in his own words wrote:
"By November/December 2003 standing was tough. I could not get up off the floor without help-either someone or something to grab onto and pull. But my arms were weak too. By April 2004 I could no longer stand from a regular chair or lift my arms above my head and had to quit teaching. I moved back in with my parents so they could help take care of me. By September 2004 I could no longer stand at all and have been bed-ridden since. In July 2005 I was rushed to the ICU because my muscles had deteriorated to the point where they could no longer expand my lungs or help me swallow. Both lungs were partially collapsed.
I had a tracheostomy and feeding tube installed. I am hooked to a respirator at home, in bed, 24/7 and receive all calories through my feeding tube. I can move very little-but can still feel everything (it is a muscular condition, not a nervous system one-nervous system functions quite well, there simply isn’t enough muscle left for it to move)."
Coach is a sincere believer, and he was moved to write me simply because we have declared that we believe in the Gifts of the Spirit and he desires our prayers. He understands that the doctors have few if any real answers, and the real problem is a spiritual stronghold. Coach is believing for a complete restoration of everything the devil has stolen from him and his family and his desire is to move to Alaska and resume teaching and coaching.
I am asking that those of you who believe in the prayer of faith, come now and join with me in spirit as Saint Paul declares :
"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ," 1 Cor. 5:4
Paul was speaking to the Corinthian believers about an offending member of the Church, but I ask you to join together now in agreement with me for the total miraculous restoration of health in Coach's life!
"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. " Matthew 18:19-20
While some may claim that we are arrogant, I believe we can say unequivocally that it is the Father's will to heal and restore Coach completely. I simply believe that this is the obvious teaching of the scripture without reservation. So I stand in faith with those who are like minded and we declare that this thing formed against this dear brother will not prosper, rather you are healed by the power of the very stripes that Jesus bore in his body.
Dismiss the prognosticators of death and unbelief, and choose now, as we also will do to believe the report of the Lord, so shall His arm be revealed.
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