This week has been a difficult week for Stephanie. She is not making the progress we had hoped she would make. Her energy and stamina level is not what it should be. She is experiencing weakness.
Yesterday, Thursday, December 8, 2011, she was to have had chemotherapy. Her hemoglobin was low and the oncologist was not pleased with some of the side effects that Stephanie is experiencing. So, he postponed the chemo treatment, and sent her to Athens Regional Medical Center to have her blood matched and cross-matched in preparation for a four or five hour blood transfusion with 2 units of blood on Friday, December 9. The doctors will run tests on her heart as well.
Stephanie is making an impact on doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators. They all love her for her gentle and loving spirit. She brings a smile and a positive attitude wherever she goes. She is a witness for Jesus Christ wherever she is. Children love her, and many children pray that they can be in Stephanie's kindergarten class at Statham Elementary School.
Early one morning this week, I woke up thanking the Lord in advance for healing Stephanie. I sensed the presence of the Lord and the Holy Spirit speaking to my spirit to thank God for healing Stephanie. The manifestation is not there yet to demonstrate that statement of faith, but the manifestation will show up on God's own timing.
Whatever God is doing in our hearts to strengthen us is equally as great as the need for physical healing. Positive confessions have great power to move mountains, and enable us to receive the blessings of God.
Melvine and I, along with our son Greg, as well as Stephanie, ask that you continue your prayers for Stephanie's healing, and like us go ahead and thank the Lord in advance for His healing of Stephanie's body.
Spiritual healing is God’s work of offering persons balance, harmony, and wholeness of body, mind, spirit, and relationships through confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Through such healing, God is at work to bring about reconciliation between God and humanity and the rest of creation. The New Testament records that Jesus Himself healed the estranged and sick and sent out His disciples on ministries of healing. James, a brother of Jesus and the leader of the Jerusalem Church, calls us also to pray for and anoint the sick, that they may be healed.
It must be understood that all healing is of God. The Church’s healing ministry in no way detracts from the gifts God gives through medicine and psychotherapy. It is no substitute for either medicine or the proper care of one’s health. Rather, it adds to our total resources for wholeness.
My interest in praying for the sick is a dominant part of my life and ministry to others. I believe in the supernatural power of God, that He searches the entire universe seeking to show Himself strong on behalf of those who truly seek Him, and whose hearts are humble and upright toward Him.
Here are a couple of Scripture verses I often quote out loud so my ears can hear the promise and thus generate the faith I need for healing.
1 Thessalonians 5:23, 24,
“May God Himself, the God Who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One Who called you is completely dependable. If He said it. He will do it! (The Message, Eugene H. Peterson).
Jeremiah 30:17a,
“For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the Lord.”
And now here is a Special Word God gave our First Cousin, Mary Anne Shropshire Weeks from Richmond, VA, for Stephanie 10 years ago when she was diagnosed with Stage IV Cancer:
Special Word:
God’s Word is at work in Stephanie's body,
Driving out all manner of sickness and disease,
And creating in her body a perfect cure,
For the Glory of God,
The good of Stephanie,
And for a testimony of God’s compassion, love and mercy, His healing power,
and His Saving grace!
God saved her life and healed her in December 2001 and He can surely do it again.
It was the Archangel Gabriel who told Mary who was to become the mother of Jesus this power promise, "For nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37, NIV).
We serve a supernatural God Who does all things well. Therefore, I will praise Him at all times.
Posted on
Fri, December 9, 2011
by Hugh Morgan