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The Prayer Cloth
This Cloth has been prayed over for the holder to receive God’s Grace of Healing for sickness, disease all forms of oppression.
God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out. Acts 19:11-12
Instruction for use: Place it on your body where it it will contact you. Say as often as you will the following:
Acts 10:38 “you know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Philippians 2:13 That energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure. mark 5:30 immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power proceeding from him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “who touched my garments?”
1 Peter 2:24 and he himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by his wounds you were healed. Mat. 8:17 this was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: “HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED AWAY OUR DISEASES.”
Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as lord, and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead, you will be saved;
If you would like a prayer cloth please send your request to chambliss.richard@gmail.com
Be Anxious for Nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god. * See Note
Paul the apostle instructs the Philippians not to allow anxiety over any circumstance to rule their lives. Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything. Fretting is defined as :To feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like:to cause corrosion; gnaw into something:
Jesus’s knowledge of this is expressed in the Gospels as: Mat . 6:25 “for this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 “look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. are you not worth much more than they?
27 “and who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
28 “and why are you worried about clothing? observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,
29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
30 “but if god so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? you of little faith!
31 “do not worry then, saying, ‘what will we eat?’ or ‘what will we drink?’ or ‘what will we wear for clothing?’
32 “for the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly father knows that you need all these things.
33 “but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 “so do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. each day has enough trouble of its own.
Jesus is saying that worry fretting anxiety about the basics of life do not change anything positively. They will cause change but it will be a destructive eating away at our lives both mentally and physically. There must be another way to change our circumstances moving towards a more secure and peaceful life . This is the secret Paul is talking about. There are several points both Jesus and Paul make about an alternative to worry.
Jesus advises us to “look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. are you not worth much more than they? he asks us to consider the observable fact from nature that birds are not required to labor and toil for their food but the creator made a way for them to live. Now we are not birds and don’t live like them but the point is our creator our Father provides for them and you are much more valuable to Him than a bird.
So we see two things. As we consider that our existence is due to being Fathered by the creator god that in His love and ability not only brought us into existence but devised a way for us to live Secondly that we have value. We have worth to Him. anything of worth especially a human is treasured and cared for. He is talking about you, consider it.
Paul explains what the alternative to worry is. He says we are to pray . The word prayer here means to address or speak to someone . The word supplication means definite specific requests. Paul is saying don’t waste time worrying. Talk to your Father god about it and make specific detailed requests about your needs. When my children were young and wanted something they would go into great detail about what they wanted They listed the color size and quantity plus much more. They had in their mind definitely what they wanted. and they expected me to get it. Price, difficulty etc. had no bearing on it. They ask and had faith I would give it them. Once in my travels they requested I bring home to them each a small computerized pet called a Furbe. It was unavailable in the States at that time but readily available for a price in the U.K. I had to get the right ones and bring them back to satisfy their need for electronic pets. Now if I as a earthly Dad would do this out of love for my children how much more would and will our Heavenly Dad do it for us.
Be specific . Vague prayers get vague answers . If anything will do that what you will get. How can He get glory and thanks out of something you can’t be sure He supplied. When you ask for a red car and a red car shows up you know He heard you and answered specifically. This causes your confidence in His existence and His love for you to grow. You have an experience with God that build your hope for the future. Hope is the opposite of worry. Worry is anti-hope. Hope is defined as a confident expectation in something good to happen. Worry is a expectation in the worst to happen. I can tell you what you expect you get.
Remember it is impossible to please God without faith. Faith is believing that He is and that He rewards those who seek Him . How do we seek Him by prayer and definite requests.
*Note: god is not the proper name of the creator. God in this writing and in the Bible refers to Yahweh the English translation of the Hebrew name of the creator.
Exodus 3:13 then Moses said to god, “behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘the god of your fathers has sent me to you.’ now they may say to me, ‘what is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”14 god said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM” (; and he said, “thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”15 god, furthermore, said to Moses, “thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘the LORD, (Yahweh) the god of your fathers, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and the god of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ this is my name forever, and this is my memorial-name to all generations.
Peace
by John Paul Jackson
Contrary to modern Western thought, peace is a fairly violent word.
In Greek, peace means to obtain quietness by removing what seeks to distract and destroy you. It is not a compliant serenity but an aggressive taking out, a forceful extraction.
Peace has a very similar meaning in Hebrew. When we study the Hebrew pictographs that comprise the word peace, we find that it, too, is not merely a state of mind; it means to destroy or remove the chaos and anarchy around you.
So based on this understanding, when Jesus said, “Peace be with you,” He was not simply greeting His disciples. No, He was issuing a command to the chaos and anarchy in their lives. Essentially, He was saying, “May the chaos and anarchy that are trying to keep you from doing what God wants you to do be removed…
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Peace
by John Paul Jackson
Contrary to modern Western thought, peace is a fairly violent word.
In Greek, peace means to obtain quietness by removing what seeks to distract and destroy you. It is not a compliant serenity but an aggressive taking out, a forceful extraction.
Peace has a very similar meaning in Hebrew. When we study the Hebrew pictographs that comprise the word peace, we find that it, too, is not merely a state of mind; it means to destroy or remove the chaos and anarchy around you.
So based on this understanding, when Jesus said, “Peace be with you,” He was not simply greeting His disciples. No, He was issuing a command to the chaos and anarchy in their lives. Essentially, He was saying, “May the chaos and anarchy that are trying to keep you from doing what God wants you to do be removed from your life.”
Peace is not a passive word. The peace of God has the strength to root up and demolish every single work of darkness that is meant to keep God’s Kingdom from advancing. When peace comes, it literally destroys the work of the evil one (1 John 3:8). It tears apart the anarchy around us. It dissolves the tumult.
We could say that God’s peace is a weapon, not just our refuge.
Peace and Relationship
How do we go about building peace in our lives? Peace, like authority, is not a spiritual gift that we were born with; it is something we experience and carry more and more the further we venture into God’s heart. The more we get to know Him, the more peace we will have because we trust Him and know His name (Isaiah 26:3).
Peace is directly proportionate to authority, because both are the fruit of relationship with God. The more authority we have, the more peace we have and the more we will be able to speak, “Peace,” to our circumstances.
When Jesus said to the storm, “Peace, be still,” He was rebuking the waves that were responding to the anarchy driving the storm. The peace He carried erased the devil’s plan around Him. It forcibly removed the chaos and anarchy, and therefore, the waves became still.
Jesus is the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6), and He came to bring us the gospel of peace (Romans 10:15). No one does peace the way Jesus does peace. One of the things that marked His life on earth was that nothing hindered His relationship with the Father; there was no sin in His heart. This is important to understand when talking about peace because as long as we have sin in our lives, we have an open door for chaos and anarchy. Sin separates us from God. But the moment we repent, the enemy no longer has a legal right to attack us.
As we begin to understand the depths of the perfect forgiveness God provided through Jesus, the gospel of peace takes our hopelessness and turns it into hope. We go from thinking, Why are all these things happening to me? I can’t control anything in my life! to understanding, The chaos around me can be controlled by what God has done in me.Hidden in the heart of our Father, we can speak, “Peace, be still,” and the “waves” in our lives will grow calm.
With this in mind, we can begin to understand how the peace of God makes us very dangerous in dark places, where the enemy is working. God’s peace does not affect our lives alone; we can carry it with us wherever we go and impact the lives around us as well (Luke 10:5).
The next time you ask God to bring peace into a situation, remember what peace actually means. It means to obtain quietness by removing the chaos and anarchy that seek to distract and destroy you. So when you ask for peace, you are not asking God just to help you trust Him in the midst of a difficult situation — He is His peace. He destroys the works of the devil and completely removes everything that threatens you.
The Biology of Christmas
The virgin birth contradicts the laws of science. But our faith rests on the miracle of the Incarnation.
My wife and I have four girls, and I was in the hospital room for each birth. There was a normal amount of blood, but no serious complications. Our oldest took forever to be born. Our second was in such a hurry that we thought she might end up on the floor of a hospital hallway. Our third tied her umbilical cord in knots in the womb. And our youngest calmly slipped out as if to say: “OK, I’m born. What’s next?”
I had very little to do in the delivery room. My wife was the hero. She sweated, strained, pushed and gasped for hours. I stroked her arm a few times—and ate some doughnuts.
“The concept of a woman giving birth to a baby without a man’s involvement is ludicrous to unbelievers. It contradicts all the laws of biology.”
Normal births are amazing, whether they occur in hospitals or homes or the back seats of taxis. But when I consider the birth of Jesus, I’m in total awe—not just because of Mary and Joseph’s bumpy ride from Nazareth, Mary’s lack of a doctor (and no anesthesia!) and the crudeness of the manger, but also because of how Jesus was conceived. Mary was a virgin. Joseph, the “father,” had nothing to do but stand in the background.
Secularists and liberal theologians have mocked the virgin birth for centuries. Thomas Jefferson called it a fable, while Episcopal heretic John Shelby Spong called it an “entrance myth.” The concept of a woman giving birth to a baby without a man’s involvement is ludicrous to unbelievers. It contradicts all the laws of biology.
Yet Mary was not a scoffer. She asked the angel how she would bear this child, and he said: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you” (Luke 1:35, NASB).
I would have asked for more scientific information. (“Um, thanks Gabe, but how does this process of miraculous impregnation work?”) But Mary didn’t quibble over details. She believed Gabriel’s announcement and submitted to God in childlike faith.
The Greek word for “overshadow,” episkiazo, is a reference to the cloud of God’s presence that materialized in Moses’ tabernacle. The Amplified Bible translates Luke 1:35 as: He “will overshadow you like a shining cloud.” This same cloud hovered over the ark of the covenant, led God’s people through the wilderness and filled Solomon’s temple with shimmering shekinah glory.
Think about it. The same cloud of glory that caused Moses’ face to shine hovered over a virgin and deposited a divine seed in her womb. The God who hid behind a veil in the Old Testament clothed Himself in human flesh in the New Testament.
The Incarnation cannot be explained in purely biological terms. There was nothing sexual about it, yet Mary’s ovum was fertilized without Joseph’s sperm. Divinity merged with humanity. Jesus, fully God and fully man, began a nine-month gestation.
When the Savior was born, there was a normal amount of blood, sweat and tears—because Mary was human. But this birth was surrounded with wonder because Joseph was not the father. He came from a line of kings, but his pedigree was not enough to save the human race. He could not contribute to this miracle.
Doubters think Joseph got Mary pregnant out of wedlock. If that were true, Christianity itself would be a lie because (1) if Jesus were not born of a woman, He could not have identified with our sins fully; and (2) if God were not His biological father, He could not have redeemed us.
This is the most glorious revelation of the nativity. Bible teacher R.T. Kendall put it this way: “The virgin birth of Christ shows that salvation can never come through human effort.” God performed this science-defying miracle without our help. All we can do is receive His amazing love and forgiveness.
We just stand there in awe. As you prepare for this holiday season, I pray you and your family will be overshadowed in a fresh way by the presence of the Savior.
J. Lee Grady is the former editor of Charisma. You can follow him on Twitter at leegrady. His most recent book is 10 Lies Men Believe (Charisma House).
My heart is heavy and yet light as I write this ……………………
I write to you with tears falling upon the keyboard. I do not exaggerate as I may be prone to do. But today I ministered in a place that has brought me to my knees……..for many reasons.
Firstly, we visited a heretofore UNKNOWN “ministry.” A place where the most needy persons arrive only by direction from our Anointed One, Our Christ.
I appeared, prepared for a religious meeting in downtown Ensenada at 1 :30 today. We met with a set of Pastors and my beloved Dr. Prado at an opulent salon social.
We began to hear of a ministry started by God Himself thru a prominent local pastor whom we had no prior knowledge of other than that he hosts a TV program in Baja Norte every Saturday night.
I immediately felt humbled. I saw my worn out shoes and my husbands shirt, frayed at the collar and thought “Why , God, did you bring US here? Surely there are others of another level in Your Eyes that could have been called? My Pride buckled and I sat restlessly listening to this one pastoral couple speak. Within moments the Head pastors phone rang, and he was summoned away. Leaving us with this couple and a Dr. Norma who had put us in contact. The couple began to speak plainly of their confusion as to what they should do and how to fulfill God’s Will and the religious leader’s of the areas will…………..
Dr.. Norma had an appointment later and insisted we head directly to the sight of the “ministry”/ I deference, we headed to the Eastern furthermost part of Ensenada.
We traversed beyond the city reservoir, onto the very dirt roads of “Lomitas” where Frank and I adopted our first minors (children orphans of the prison system some 13 years ago.) Finally after some 45 minutes of dusty drug infested byways we reached the ministry.
It seemed a grand place of two stories until we realized that the area inhabited by the “,ministry” was a shack type building adjacent…….
Slowly we entered. To find four men in “beds” (mats actually set upon daybed frames) the first man “Ruben” was naked except for swaddling linens, see they cannot afford diapers for him and he is totally incontinent. To our right on a mat 2 inches thick was a stroke victim named Margurito. His body was drawn up in the tradition form of an untreated embolism. Next to him was another elderly fellow, also drawn up with all signs of a stroke plus a hip replacement gone awry……………..
Surrounding them was a team of six men……..all from DRUG rehabilitation centers who have donated their lives to care for those who arrive at this place. This place is dedicated to care for the homeless person or the person with no family to care for him after he leaves the States most poor resource , the General Hospital. I n a back room we also found Osifio, a 59 yr old man dying of pancreatic cancer, with no pain relief except Parecteomol. (Tylenol, aspirin, motrin, are pretty much our equivalents. He was in the back rrom of a 2 rrom shack at his own request, for when I interviewed him, he said he KNEW his cries scared the other men and preferred to be as far away as possible as he knew he was dying and the pain was more then he as a man could bear without screaming at times.
Mu husband, Pastor Frank, knelt to pray for him first, before any discussion. He asked me to lay hands upon this shriveled being, who I knew at once was MY BROTHER IN CHRIST BY THE LOVE IN HIS EYES>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>still the smell was revolting and I felt myself shaking as I knelt by his mat and fighting the urge not to vomit,,,,,,,,,,,but as Frank prayed I lost conscience of smells and spaces and we were actually able to ask this man if he wanted to be Spirit filled, we out no requirements of conditions, just asked him.He tearfully said yes. We ushered everyone out of the room and watched as he began to speak in tongues………………….Personally, I don’t know if he will survive this night in his body or live another 20 years but I heard him speak in another language;
From there we moved outward and prayed all together for each “patient.” One of which was one of the Oaxcan men who was riding in the back of a truck with 40 others and was hit by a Coca Cola truck about one year ago.. Many were instantly killed, and Frank did that funeral. But this man survived with some 270 stitches all over his body…………he recuperated in this humble home.
We prayed for all of the patients the pastors starting the work, their daughter and finally the men coming out of drug rehabs who care so lovingly for these poor men…………..with no compensation………………
As I had asked my questions and taken some pictures and spoken with each patient……………a young man of about 28 stepped forward,
“Pastor Frank and Sister Dede”, he said at this i was shocked out if my emotions for we had never introduced ourselves. How could he know us by name? I turned and at once recognized him as the young man who once slept by out gate waiting to get into the Rehab home, some ten years ago……………Francisco is his name. It was not culturally appropriate for me to run and embrace him, but dear God, hoe I wanted to…………I saw a change in him from when he had spent 8 or so weeks with us………………he radiated love and mercy…….
“Please give me a second chance,” he said. “Please just pray for me , because I have hepatitis C, I should have listened to you then, but I didn’t. I kept using heroin and now they say I am dying. BUT I BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU TAUGHT ME. AND THAT JESUS IS THE SAME TODAY PLEASE PRAY FOR ME>>>>>”
Obviously, we laid hands upon him and prayed and even then felt the swelling of his liver and saw the yellow of his eyes…………………but at the same time we felt his faith rise up and kept praying, some of us in tongues including the cancerous old man in the other room………………..
He has yet to receive any treatment. Frank is determined to get him started on treatment tomorrow (NOT DISCOUNTING PRAYER) . It could only be our Lord who reunited us with this young man who turns out to the backbone of this interesting ministry……………please pray for Francisco…………………as we attempt to circumvent bureaucratic delays and get him treatment..
I will be sending videos of our visit to this place today, A place which has brought us both to our knees in prayer and much more…………………………….
We were able to leave them with powdered milk, flour and oatmeal (about all they can keep down)……….vut they need so very much more.Please pray we can help them and thank God for these servants who attend the helpless. I have not been able to stop weeping since 5pm. And that is okay. It means my heart has not yet been hardened, nor will God allow it to be evidently.
Much Love, please intercede,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
S. detra
He is Risen.
He is Lord.
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Essay on Forgiveness
by C.S. Lewis
Macmillian Publishing Company, Inc., N.Y, 1960
We say a great many things in church (and out of church too) without thinking of what we are saying. For instance, we say in the Creed ” I believe in the forgiveness of sins.” I had been saying it for several years before I asked myself why it was in the Creed. At first sight it seems hardly worth putting in. “If one is a Christian,” I thought ” of course one believes in the forgiveness of sins. It goes without saying.” But the people who compiled the Creed apparently thought that this was a part of our belief which we needed to be reminded of every time we went to church. And I have begun to see that, as far as I am concerned, they were right. To believe in the forgiveness of sins is not so easy as I thought. Real belief in it is the sort of thing that easily slips away if we don’t keep on polishing it up.
We believe that God forgives us our sins; but also that He will not do so unless we forgive other people their sins against us. There is no doubt about the second part of this statement. It is in the Lord’s Prayer, it was emphatically stated by our Lord. If you don’t forgive you will not be forgiven. No exceptions to it. He doesn’t say that we are to forgive other people’s sins, provided they are not too frightful, or provided there are extenuating circumstances, or anything of that sort. We are to forgive them all, however spiteful, however mean, however often they are repeated. If we don’t we shall be forgiven none of our own.
Now it seems to me that we often make a mistake both about God’s forgiveness of our sins and about the forgiveness we are told to offer to other people’s sins. Take it first about God’s forgiveness, I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different. I am asking him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving and excusing. Forgiveness says, “Yes, you have done this thing, but I accept your apology; I will never hold it against you and everything between us two will be exactly as it was before.” If one was not really to blame then there is nothing to forgive. In that sense forgiveness and excusing are almost opposites. Of course, in dozens of cases, either between God and man, or between one man and another, there may be a mixture of the two. Part of what at first seemed to be the sins turns out to be really nobody’s fault and is excused; the bit that is left over is forgiven. If you had a perfect excuse, you would not need forgiveness; if the whole of your actions needs forgiveness, then there was no excuse for it. But the trouble is that what we call “asking God’s forgiveness” very often really consists in asking God to accept our excuses. What leads us into this mistake is the fact that there usually is some amount of excuse, some “extenuating circumstances.” We are so very anxious to point these things out to God (and to ourselves) that we are apt to forget the very important thing; that is, the bit left over, the bit which excuses don’t cover, the bit which is inexcusable but not, thank God, unforgivable. And if we forget this, we shall go away imagining that we have repented and been forgiven when all that has really happened is that we have satisfied ourselves without own excuses. They may be very bad excuses; we are all too easily satisfied about ourselves.
There are two remedies for this danger. One is to remember that God knows all the real excuses very much better than we do. If there are real “extenuating circumstances” there is no fear that He will overlook them. Often He must know many excuses that we have never even thought of, and therefore humble souls will, after death, have the delightful surprise of discovering that on certain occasions they sinned much less than they thought. All the real excusing He will do. What we have got to take to Him is the inexcusable bit, the sin. We are only wasting our time talking about all the parts which can (we think) be excused. When you go to a Dr. you show him the bit of you that is wrong – say, a broken arm. It would be a mere waste of time to keep on explaining that your legs and throat and eyes are all right. You may be mistaken in thinking so, and anyway, if they are really right, the doctor will know that.
The second remedy is really and truly to believe in the forgiveness of sins. A great deal of our anxiety to make excuses comes from not really believing in it, from thinking that God will not take us to Himself again unless He is satisfied that some sort of case can be made out in our favor. But that is not forgiveness at all. Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness, and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it.
When it comes to a question of our forgiving other people, it is partly the same and partly different. It is the same because, here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn’t mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart – every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.) The difference between this situation and the one in which you are asking God’s forgiveness is this. In our own case we accept excuses too easily, in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough. As regards my own sins it is a safe bet (though not a certainty) that the excuses are not really so good as I think; as regards other men’s sins against me it is a safe bet (though not a certainty) that the excuses are better than I think. One must therefore begin by attending to everything which may show that the other man was not so much to blame as we thought. But even if he is absolutely fully to blame we still have to forgive him; and even if ninety-nine per cent of his apparent guilt can be explained away by really good excuses, the problem of forgiveness begins with the one per cent of guilt that is left over. To excuse, what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a single great injury. But to forgive the incessant provocations of daily life – to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son – How can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night “Forgive our trespasses* as we forgive those that trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what He says.
*Trespasses=offences, being offended or offending.
(Notes are not authored to Mr. Lewis)
Hey,
I have been anxious to write you all , but arrived home to find a troop carrier full of Armada behind my home. The army has set up a camp right behind tye mission home and at times it seems my satellite is jammed for i cannot access internet. We have some 30 to 40 soldiers apparently living on our corner of the road indefintitely. It is awkward and frightening. the indians have stopped altogether coming for water for they fear the soldiers……………
Anyway, PRAISE JESUS!!!
We had an awesome trip south with unbelievable favor totally. ! First, the accommodations were first class this time! We were placed in the Bible College dorms, 3 couples with =children all to oursleves! Lovely rooms. Uriel from Visitor Relations helped us and put us up like kings and queens! Bless him, we were the ONLY PEOPLE HOUSED at the Bible college at FFHM……………………..
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We arrived on Sunday, and were immediately greeted by Dr Lance and Jo Eanes (Mark’s wife and chief nurse) . They remembered us and we were greeted as family. They saw Mario on Sunday night.and Surgeon Eanes WAS EVER so excited to see him!!! So were all the others doctors and nurses. Everyone stopped what they were doing and took time to talk to Mario and hear about his visions and dreams……………they were moved to tears!
He was immediately fitted for glasses. They were made on site. While we waited , everyone came to see Mario. They have followed his case and the emails i have sent. They really love him and apparently do not get much chance to see a patient the second time. Dr Eanes said his cornea looked absolutely PERFECT. We told him about the rejection incident and he advised us to back off of the steroids the local dr has him on because they could cause cataracts. He said just do not tell her, but wean him off of the prednisone and limit visits to her unless we see a problem.
Mario recieved lovely glasses(Pastor Frank says he looks like our “Lawyer” now) and he is so handsome with his gold wire framed spectacles. He can see EVERYTHING with them,,,(he told us about every darn sign on the way home 3 hours of hey look at this hey look at that! If he had not of been totally blind before I might have strangled him!),,,,,,,,,for that reason they decided not to risk another cornea transplant at this time……..they can not explain the improvement in his other eye but agree it must be PRAYER!) They all took pictures with Mario and loved on him so much. Although Triques do not HUG , Mario hugged Jo Eanes, Mark’s wife and it made me cry.
They saw Mayte 2nd out of some 180 patients the first day. They said her sight could not be improved upon, but that Dr Eanes was willing to perform cosmetic surgery to make that deformed eye appear as close to normal as possible. He would reshape the eye.
We were shocked and grateful, not thinking they were there to perform cosmetic surgeries!
The mother quickly gave consent and Mayte was scheduled as the very first surgical patient for the week.
The surgery lasted about an hour,,,,,,,,,they prayed with us for her before they put her under Gen Anesthesia, Dr Randy walker led her to the Lord in pre-op. I led her Mother to the Lord as we waited for Mayte to come out of surgery!!!
MAYTE CAME OUT WONDERFULLY AND EVEN WITH THE POST OP SWELLING WE COULD THAT HER EYE LOOKED GREAT………………..
God is SO GOOD! this child could never have afforded this blessing!!!
So we stayed until Mayte had been seen post op 2 days afterward, until she was released……………………..
We broke down (radiator) coming home and that was a bummer but could not override the joy and family we felt with these awesome yet oh so ,humble doctors who have become like family……………………………..)
The stribismus (cross eyed) patient we had, backed out on the surgery. Sad but the parents do not understand and we can only do so much.
I have attempted and will continue to try to send videos and stills of our great blessing. However, I may need to head to town to do this , am blessed if ya’ll recieve this one due to the military situation………….
Pray for “Heaven in sight” ministries ” as they prepare to head to Bethlehem next a very dangerous area on the West bank………….please do not forget these wonderful servants of God………………
I am proud , in a good way ,to nbe an American and even more proud to be from the South. Although I work with many medical teams throughout each year , translating mostly, I have never felt the rush of love that I feel with these doctors from Georgia. Obviously the accent comforts me, reminds me of “home” although I left when I was just a child……………..but the grace and love is unsurpassed and it stems from Jesus Christ and from their upbringing in the South………………..Maybe it is wrong. maybe it is okay. but I am PROUD to say that the Church that supports us is in MIssissippi……………….because you all are the same. When I was there a few years ago with my spider bite, I recall the ones who came and loved on me and blessed me………..and I won’t forget.
I love you all and am happy to say you all are my HOME on this earth until we really get HOME.
Much love to you all MUCH LOVE, and many blessings, Love you- sorry cannot saythat e
Detra..
In Christ,
Frank and Detra
Harvest of Faith 