Day 606 - February 11 - Bachelors

A brief update - Cherié and Granny P. both made it to Chicago, and are currently tearing up the town in company with Joélle. Connor and I somehow survived the first day and night by ourselves, so I suppose we'll make it through the rest of the weekend as well! Just for the record, I'm really, really impressed by my wife. Everything she juggles to keep the house running and Connor healthy while I'm at work makes air traffic control seem easy!

Please be praying that this weekend will be a refreshing, renewing one for Cherié, that she will be able to renew her strength with these few days off.

I was reading A. W. Tozer this morning, and he wrote of a couple who came to his church because the church they were at didn't preach what they were looking for. What they were looking for was a church which taught a Scriptural view of healing, because they were ill. Tozer got his men together and anointed them for healing. He then wrote about churches, and the people in them, who believe something but don't preach it, and questioned - if you lay claim to believe something, but don't preach it, do you really believe?

I found it interesting that the context of these writings was healing. It seems that the body of Christ gets so hung up over whether God still heals people - and that question demonstrates quite clearly a misunderstanding of God's nature. He is the same - yesterday, and today, and forever. If He healed 2000 years ago, He heals today. It's an immutable quality of His divinity, not something He puts on and takes off as He sees fit. So hear my preaching, people - I believe in the unqualified power, will, and capability of my God to perform healing miracles in this day, in this society, in this people. I believe He directs me to pray, without ceasing, for my heart's requests, until He answers them. I believe that He desires and expects me to actively believe that I've received the things I bring to Him.

Because I believe these things, and despite the small requests I occasionally make for prayer about comfort, or health, or travel, I want to ask something of those of you who pray with me about Connor - if it comes down to what you're going to pray for - healing, or whatever I'm asking for today, like I mentioned for Cherié above - if you have to choose what you're going to spend time praying for, pick healing. God will see us through the daily struggles and frustrations; but only He can set my son upright again. Apart from Him, there is no hope of restoration. But oh, what hope He brings! So don't stop - don't drift off - don't give up praying for Connor's healing. Despite the time, God's not finished with this. Gird yourself and continue to bang on the door for his healing. God will answer, this I know. And think of the joy and amazement you will experience when this course is run, when you see the answers to your prayers standing in front of you. And think of the lavish praise that will be His when God stretches out His hand...

Eric

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