Posted on 08/12/2008 3:57:14 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
Prayer thread ping.
Thank you, Greyfoxx.
I would ask a special prayer at this time that the enemies of this country will be thwarted, whether they are within or outside the country. I would also ask for Blessings on those who lead us, at any level, that they will do so in righteousness.
Amen
Thank you for this thread. I will be looking forward to many more in the future.
no dems
It was greyfoxx39 that started this thread.
Reckon I need to read more like this.
Please Pray for my Family and myself.
Here is an update on her condition from ozaukeemom.
"I got this from Amanda’s step-mom, my friend. Just wanted to update you. Thank you for your prayers. Dr. T has consulted with over 10 specialists around the country.
He wants Amanda to fly to Washington DC next week to the national heart, lung , and blood center to see Dr. Young
He said they are the best in the country dealing with this type of problem. Dr. Young specializes in aplastic anemia.
Amanda’s problem is extremely rare and almost always seen in older patients. Very little data how how to treat.
Dr T has wanted to start Amanda on the ATG treatment several times but has not had luck getting opinions from other doctors as well because of how rare this is. Dr. Young is of the same opinion but wants to see her 1st to make sure.
Amanda counts are still very low and all meds Amanda is being given, are not helping. She is being released in a day or 2 and going home with in home nursing. They cant do any more for her in hospital."
Please continue to keep this precious young girl in your prayers.
From mhgintn's last prayer thread: "It has been suggested that we pray each Sunday evening for our nation. It is said that prayer changes things. Certainly our nation now deeply into the evils of abortion, pornography, drugs, crime, etc. needs changes, and if we pray for change perhaps we will see these things change without the further corrosion of America that Barack Hussein Obama will bring. A man who will not allow even the vote to outlaw post abortion infanticide is too far from God’s heart to be worthy as leader of America."
I would add a plea that the situation with Russia and Georgia be resolved quickly with no further loss of life.
Please keep in your prayers graybeard58 who is recovering from emergency surgery and complications from that surgery. May God speed his recovery and bless him and his family during this difficult time.
I have a personal family situation that I would like for you to pray for God's intervention in. My daughter is hearbroken over problems involving the placement of her very small grandchildren in temporary foster care. She and her husband cannot gain temporary custody for some time, due to intra state regulations. Please pray that this is resolved quickly so that the girls may come to Nana and Papa.
Adding the request for prayers for Honest Conservative: "HonestConservative joined the DC Chapter at our weekly Walter Reed FReep last friday. Shortly after she returned home to PA on saturday, her brother called her to let her know that their mother had suddenly died that afternoon. Please keep Honest and her family in your thoughts and prayers."
Praise goes up for the safe arrival of svcw's new grandson, Gabriel! We're looking forward to pictures!
If you wish to be added to our Prayer Thread ping list, please let us know by posting here or FReepmail to svcw, mhgintn or greyfoxx39.
There is an interesting story of a young Mother whose little twins were finally in elementary school. She prayed for them every day while doing her work around the house. One day at the start of a new year (third grade if memory serves), one of the twins was yelling to the other to hurry to the school bus. The other twin ran out into the traffic lane beside the school and was hit by a parent trying to hurry to a spot to wait for her child exiting the school. The twin was hurled more than fifty feet onto the grass in front of the school. Witnesses relate that the little one hit the grass and skidded several feet then lay still for what seemed to be an eternity. As the first person rushing to the child's aid arrived, the little one sat up looking around as if looking for someone. Later, when the excitement over an uninjured child settled down, the little one asked which grade the man in the long robe taught since he occasionally saw him around the school, he would like to thank him for yanking him from in front of the car.
Wonderful story, MHG.
Angels Thank You Lord.
My friend was in a motor cycle accident last year. Witness saw he was alright but kept looking for his passenger. He was riding alone or so he thought.
Thank you Lord for Your protection.
If I can find it on my new laptop, I’ll post the story of a little premature birth girl and her experience comforted in God’s arms, the story of Danae Blessing. BB in a M
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(Grin)...I have a new laptop too, but it's a back-up 'cause I'm so slow on it.
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I don’t have a ping list but just gathered some names I’m familar with, I know there are more who continue to pray for me and my recovery and to all of you I am thankful.
Because of the grace of God and the power of prayer, I am doing quite well under the circumstances. It was an operation that turned much more complex than it should have been but our God does’t pay a lot of attention to man’s complexities when performing His miracles and for that I praise Him.
He has always been there for me and my family and I’m firmly convinced that He always will be. All praise and glory to Him.
I’m grateful to hear that you are doing well. Praise God.
Smell Of Rain: The story of Danae comforted on God's chest
A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the Doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency cesarean to deliver the couple's new daughter, Danae Lu Blessing.
At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound and nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature. Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. 'I don't think she's going to make it', he said, as kindly as he could. "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one".
Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the devastating problems Danae would likely face if she survived. She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on.
"No! No!" was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away.
Through the dark hours of morning as Danae held onto life by the thinnest thread, Diana slipped in and out of sleep, growing more and more determined that their tiny daughter would live-and live to be a healthy, happy young girl. But David, fully awake and listening to additional dire details of their daughter's chances of ever leaving the hospital alive, much less healthy, knew he must confront his wife with the inevitable.
David walked in and said that we needed to talk about making funeral arrangements. Diana remembers 'I felt so bad for him because he was doing everything, trying to include me in what was going on, but I just wouldn't listen, I couldn't listen.' I said, "No, that is not going to happen, no way! I don't care what the doctors say; Danae is not going to die! One day she will be just fine, and she will be coming home with us!" As if willed to live by Diana's determination, Danae clung to life hour after hour, with the help of every medical machine and marvel her miniature body could endure.
But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana. Because Danae's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially 'raw,' the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the strength of their love. All they could do, as Danae struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their precious little girl. There was never a moment when Danae suddenly grew stronger. But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there.
At last, when Danae turned two months old, her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Danae went home from the hospital--just as her mother had predicted.
Today, five years later, Danae is a petite but feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She shows no signs, what so ever, of any mental or physical impairment. Simply, she is everything a little girl can be and more-but that happy ending is far from the end of her story.
One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Danae was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ballpark where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing.
As always, Danae was chattering nonstop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms across her chest, Danae asked, "Do you smell that?"
Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."
Danae closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"
Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet, it smells like rain.
Still caught in the moment, Danae shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest."
Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Danae then happily hopped down to play with the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding Danae on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.
here to pray.
My own father has congestive heart failure and is not well. Please pray for salvation before he goes to meet the Lord.
Thanks,
ampu
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