There are some absolutely amazing things that the Lord has done for us. I am so amazed by God's love for us and what He continues to do in our lives. Without Christ I would have no peace. He is our peace and we are to believe that in faith.....He loves us so much He gives us little pieces of evidence of His presence ....even though HE does not have to. He chooses to because He loves us so very much!
Let me tell you, we have experienced God this week. Early Monday morning last week, Eli started to go into a tonic-clonic (If you don't know what a tonic-clonic looks like please youtube it). As he started to convulse, Josh and I raced to the side of his bed and in desperation we cried out to the Lord and as I prayed, "Lord God you are the only one capable of sto....." Before I could even finish my sentence, Eli's seizure miraculously stopped in mid seizure. Usually these seizures last between 3 and 5 minutes and have a beginning middle and end. Not this one. God miraculously stopped it at 20 or 30 SECONDS!!! Praise be to God! Eli rolled over and continued to sleep peacefully.
God didn't choose to stop that seizure cause we are amazing, Godly people....He choose to stop it so that we could experience Him and comfort us and to give us hope! He didn't do it because of who we are, He did it because of who He is! That is a relief, cause we are so far away from being righteous on our own accord....Only through God's grace and mercy, salvation by way of the cross can we be righteous though Him for His Glory! We were AMAZED.
We had a Doctors appointment on Thursday this past week and we are very excited to let you all know that Eli will be starting the Ketogenic Diet on April 17th. We are very hopeful that the Lord will use this medical diet to give him seizure control. To know more about this diet please go to the link below in order to attain accurate information.
www.charliefoundation.org
We will be admitted into the hospital on Tuesday the 17th and we will start the process and stay in the hospital for the next three days. The hope is that he will have complete seizure control and be on the diet for 2 years and wean him off the diet and maintain a regular diet and still maintain complete seizure control.
In other words, God will use this diet to heal him! I am very excited about it!
My comfort comes from 2 Corinthians 1 this morning. The apostle Paul writes...
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort. For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.
Paul indicated that he had been through something that he thought he would not survive while in Asia. They knew that God could deliver them and He did. He speaks of choosing to trust in Christ and not himself....Good choice! Paul set his hope on Christ as we should too. He thanks all the faithful Corinthians for their prayers of intersession and that he needed them now and in the future.
Intercessory Prayer is not utilized to change God's sovereign plan. It is used to demonstrate God's power.
God's plan is accomplished through our participation of prayer, not to change the plan, but to bring Glory to God. His plan doesn't change by our prayers. He just gives us a chance to be part of it so it might minister to others and bring others to salvation by them seeing the glory which Christ Jesus is. Hallelujah
Thank you to the faithful, for all your prayers! He will deliver us and you will be part of it! Glory to God in the highest!!!!!
To quote the apostle Paul,
"The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
My love be with you all in Christ Jesus."
