Our God is Healer

Today we had the opportunity to visit a family in need. Melvin is 38 years old, a husband and a father of four precious children. Melvin also has stomach caner that he has been battling for the past two years. Before entering the room, I tried to prepare myself for what I was about to see so I wouldn't have such a shocked look on my face when I walked in... but nothing could really prepare me for what I was about to see. Melvin can't weigh more than 80 pounds. You could see every one of his ribs. He doesn't have enough strength to pull his bed sheets up.  How he has been able to live like this for the past two years.. I have no idea. I literally can't even imagine what that must be like.

We went with our Tio Ramon and he began to pray over him and his family and the Lord used him to speak life into thier situaiton and to put the attention on how great a God we serve. You could see it in their eyes.... that was the hope that was getting them through this situation. They have to put every ounce of faith they have in the Lord to believe that he can and will heal him. I was able to read my favorite Bible verse to the family......

⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

 

 

 

I ask that as this family faces this difficult time, that you would join together in prayer for this family. Prayer changes things. It does. Continue to pray for Melvin, his wife, kids and other family members. Christ is the ultimate healer.  

 

 

 

James 5:14-16 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another,that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.