[__ Prayer __] Need Prayers For My Neighbor

[Claudya]

In some Christian internet forum I used to be part of before I came here there was a guy who had big health problems, much like the ones your neighbour has. One day he posted a good-bye thread saying that the doctors were giving him only weeks to live.
He had a failing liver due to heavy drinking in the past. The only thing that would have saved him was a transplant, but he was too overweight for a transplantation surgery, let alone the months or years it may take to find a fitting transplant.
So things were bleak. For all he knew he had weeks left to live.
However, it's been years and as far as I know he's still walking the earth. Prayer from many many people from all over the world, and a radical lifestyle change saved him. He lost weight, quit drinking and smoking completely, he started feeling better and better, and almost a year after the hopeless prognosis of merely having weeks left the doctors told him that his liver readings looked almost like a healthy person. His liver was functioning again and although he was now thin enough for transplantation surgery he wouldn't even need a transplant after all. It was an amazing story. I remember when I read his posting about how his liver is functioning normal again I cried a few tears of happiness.

So what did I learn from that?
1. Doctors have no idea. They mean well (well many of them do) but they aren't God and they have no idea when a person is going to die.
2. In many cases even if we are sick we can reclaim our health if we treat our body the way God intended it to be treated. He gave us tons of resilience.
3. Prayers help. God will hear them.

I'll be prayign for your neighbour, Edward.

 

[Edward]

Remember, it is not YOU doing anything but allowing God to use you as His vehicle for what He already wants to do.

Oh, I know brother. But what an honor to be the vessel that He uses.

Kind of reminds me of...the first time dad let me drive the car when I was 3. I stood on the seat in front of him and sorta steered while he was really in total control and working the power pedal. :yes

 

[Edward]

In some Christian internet forum I used to be part of before I came here there was a guy who had big health problems, much like the ones your neighbor has. One day he posted a good-bye thread saying that the doctors were giving him only weeks to live.
He had a failing liver due to heavy drinking in the past. The only thing that would have saved him was a transplant, but he was too overweight for a transplantation surgery, let alone the months or years it may take to find a fitting transplant.
So things were bleak. For all he knew he had weeks left to live.
However, it's been years and as far as I know he's still walking the earth. Prayer from many many people from all over the world, and a radical lifestyle change saved him. He lost weight, quit drinking and smoking completely, he started feeling better and better, and almost a year after the hopeless prognosis of merely having weeks left the doctors told him that his liver readings looked almost like a healthy person. His liver was functioning again and although he was now thin enough for transplantation surgery he wouldn't even need a transplant after all. It was an amazing story. I remember when I read his posting about how his liver is functioning normal again I cried a few tears of happiness.

So what did I learn from that?
1. Doctors have no idea. They mean well (well many of them do) but they aren't God and they have no idea when a person is going to die.
2. In many cases even if we are sick we can reclaim our health if we treat our body the way God intended it to be treated. He gave us tons of resilience.
3. Prayers help. God will hear them.

I'll be praying for your neighbor, Edward.

Thank you sister. That's a great testimony. There's a lot of similar testimonies like that on youtube. It makes me wonder what all the doctors must think about all of these accounts. Even accounts of people who had metal medical implants in them, and they disappear! They have gone back to the same doc that did the surgery and implanted the device...and wow, not there any more, lol! Glory to God! And blessings be upon you sister...

 

[Christ_empowered]

I was supposed to be dead by now. Too many illegally obtained benzodiazepines over too long a period of time=extreme liver problems. That was 9 years ago...

...lots of stuff has happened since then, but the last time I got a liver function test, everything was A-OK. God worked directly on me, and I believe that Orthomolecular has helped considerably, too (not that its some magical panacea or whatever, just...it helps a lot of people).

Please keep us all posted on what becomes of your neighbors...they're in my prayers.

 

[Willie T]

I was supposed to be dead by now. Too many illegally obtained benzodiazepines over too long a period of time=extreme liver problems. That was 9 years ago...

...lots of stuff has happened since then, but the last time I got a liver function test, everything was A-OK. God worked directly on me, and I believe that Orthomolecular has helped considerably, too (not that its some magical panacea or whatever, just...it helps a lot of people).

Please keep us all posted on what becomes of your neighbors...they're in my prayers.

Well, that's basically what my nurse friend used to knock out the MS she had contracted.

 

[Edward]

I was supposed to be dead by now. Too many illegally obtained benzodiazepines over too long a period of time=extreme liver problems. That was 9 years ago...

...lots of stuff has happened since then, but the last time I got a liver function test, everything was A-OK. God worked directly on me, and I believe that Orthomolecular has helped considerably, too (not that its some magical panacea or whatever, just...it helps a lot of people).

Please keep us all posted on what becomes of your neighbors...they're in my prayers.

Really. So it's safe to say that the medical abbreviation for benzodiazepines is, Christ. :yes

Thanks brother, blessings.

 

[follower]

Really. So it's safe to say that the medical abbreviation for benzodiazepines is, Christ. :yes

(moved to private conversation )

p.s. I know you didn't mean it that way.... but were referring to some other aspect of something.... but see what results those things had on the life ? (towards more suffering and death and disorder) (according to his post)

 

[Willie T]

¡Otra vez.... Nunca! Actually, benzodiazepines slow down the CNS. Jesus puts it into overdrive.

 

[Edward]

(moved to private conversation )

p.s. I know you didn't mean it that way.... but were referring to some other aspect of something.... but see what results those things had on the life ? (towards more suffering and death and disorder) (according to his post)

I admit, I was being facetious and nothing more. Perhaps I joke around too much. Lord knows that I meant no disrespect or anything of the sort.

 

[follower]

I admit, I was being facetious and nothing more. Perhaps I joke around too much. Lord knows that I meant no disrespect or anything of the sort.

accidential overdose of sidewaize humor then.... the concern was the similarity of comparing Yeshua to beelzubub like the scribes and pharisees did who He very strongly reprimanded for it.

(for the uninformed, the manmade toxins that are used routinely to forcibly 'correct?' symptoms are directly and plainly contrary to the nutrients Yhvh provided to properly nourish the body. the simplest even is obvious - no one has a healthy heart if they are lacking in vitamins c or e for very long. and likewise no one on earth ever in history got sick from a deficiency in a man processed pain killer that causes the tiny bloodvessels in the brain and liver et al to leak)

 

[Willie T]

I admit, I was being facetious and nothing more. Perhaps I joke around too much. Lord knows that I meant no disrespect or anything of the sort.

It's tough sometimes to simply be human on most religious forums. We all often seem to have a tendency to take ourselves far too seriously.

 

[Edward]

It's tough sometimes to simply be human on most religious forums. We all often seem to have a tendency to take ourselves far too seriously.

True that. lol. I try to strike a nice balance and not be too serious but one does have to be careful on forums. Some get offended quite easily and I don't like to do that. I'ma' kinda goof in the morning though until the coffee soaks in a little, lol.

¡Ah! nunca digas nunca hermano lol

 

[Willie T]

True that. lol. I try to strike a nice balance and not be too serious but one does have to be careful on forums. Some get offended quite easily and I don't like to do that. I'ma' kinda goof in the morning though until the coffee soaks in a little, lol.

¡Ah! nunca digas nunca hermano lol

Don't worry, I won't hold my breath.

 

[Edward]

 

[GrannyJ]

My prayers are with this young couple; for the lady's healing, for the situation that led them into a lifestyle so destructive to her health, and for them to have the incredible joy of knowing Jesus. And for you, Edward, that God will show you how best to help them.

 

[Edward]

My prayers are with this young couple; for the lady's healing, for the situation that led them into a lifestyle so destructive to her health, and for them to have the incredible joy of knowing Jesus. And for you, Edward, that God will show you how best to help them.

Thank you Granny. I think it stands to reason that the heavy drinking was probably encouraged by her husband.

She'll need to replace the drinking with a relationship with the Lord Jesus. I gave a friend of theirs a ride to work and learned that the husband has been an adamantly professed non-believer... that is, until he got the news lately about his Wife's condition, and has now been asking people to pray for her! He's scared. Boy that sure sounds like an invitation to me. I'm going to try to go over there tomorrow so should know more afterwards. I hope our household schedules don't clash. they need to both be there.

 

[iLOVE]

If you can go and lay hands on her and pray.

 

[Edward]

If you can go and lay hands on her and pray.

yeah brother. Amen.
She is a skittish one though. I hope she's not uncomfortable with that. it probably really isn't necessary, but nevertheless, I'm going to unless she totally shuts me down at that point because that's what scripture does say to do.

 

[Willie T]

A la ocasion la pintan calva. And don't give yourself excuses to wait.

 

[Obadiah]

Isn't it sad how many people will adamantly deny Christ, but as soon as they have a problem they come running to Christians saying "pray for me/us"?

If God heals this woman, it probably won't be for her own enjoyment of her own continued life here on earth, but will be more for and example of His reality to her, her husband, and who knows how many others that will bring them to Himself. Only God knows if that will happen or not, and only He knows if anyone (not necessarily just the woman or her husband) will accept Him as a result, or just continue to mock Him after the healing's done. I pray that God heals her and that this will bring people to accept and glorify Him. But the reality is that only God knows if this will happen or not. The faith we as Christians need to have is not that God will do as we "command" but that He will do as He wills to bring glory to himself. I pray that he will heal this woman in a way that brings great glory to Him and causes those around to fall down on their knees and accept and worship Him. More important than even the saving of her earthly life is that God glorifies Himself and draws people to Him.