Dear
Prayer Warriors,
Thank
you for reading and praying. Knowing you are praying encourages and invigorates
our walk of faith. it builds us up to trust God for His purposes in our family.
Anna has struggled with a sinus cold the last few days. This means breaking out
the suction machine, cleaning the humidifiers, increasing the repositioning at
night, and remembering the patience it takes for Anna to go through a virus.
For me those middle of the night coughs seem discouraging and when mixed with
sleeplessness can make for a long night. Thankfully I have the Holy Spirit
inside helping me to surrender my grumbling and wait it out. Please pray for
God’s grace, healing, and mercy to outlast the illness, care-taking demands,
and bring full health surprisingly soon.
I
have learned to thank God for the sleep I get rather than focus on the sleep I
didn’t get. Meeting with God in the mornings has a way of feeding my spirit for
the duration of each day. Literally asking the Holy Spirit to lead my day has
been formative in helping me desire and pray according to His will -not just
for things I “want”. This time cultivates blessed dependence and it is going to
be a fight to preserve it this coming month. Pray for this time to not be
compromised.
Today
I start my month of night classes to become a Certified Nurses Assistant. This
will be on top of working full time. We are counting on the grace and strength
that God gives to help combat this time of stretching and sacrifice. Lindsey
will be by herself to care for our three children all day until bedtime. My prayer
“want” is for Simon to be more compliant with the bedtime routines and out of
energy come bedtime. Another complicated side to this is that our night nursing
care has gone from 5 nights a week to 3. Pray for the right nurse to come help
us for another 2-3 nights.
I
once again ask you to fervently pray for full healing for Anna’s brain and
neurological system. Pray for God to be honored in the life of Anna through the
gifting of her abilities. This type of prayer request is based on what the God
biblically does and can do, this is not a prayer request based on my own
understandings. I realize that I could be asking you to do far more than
your own understanding allows. However, I do believe that it is a bold prayer
in accordance with God’s will and promise. May this prayer stretch us, I’m
leaving the results up to “God’s greater glory playbook.” I enjoy caring for
Anna’s needs because God equips us for this, so if the healing is delayed I
know how to carry on. I wanted to skip the bullet-point list of requests today and
ask for the Holy Spirit to burden you with the prayer requests interwoven. Mostly
pray for God to glorify Himself as it pleases Him regarding His sweet Anna
pie.
Occasionally
I have prayer warriors tell me that they have seen Anna walk, dance, run,
and/or talk in a dream or a vision while praying for Anna. These accounts are
not hurtful and don’t discourage me, they affirm what God can do. “Help
our unbelief Lord because we believe.” Who can envision Anna holding up her
head, sitting independently across from you at a table, looking at you in the
eyes, and sharing her testimony of how God continues to shine His power through
her as he does through our cracked jars of clay?
For
greater testimonies of God’s glory,
the
Currats
