Preparing our hearts

 

Dear Prayer Warriors,

My God can seize the surgical knife like He did Abraham’s knife and say “Don’t lay a hand on her, I’m healing her today.” That is the glorious God I know. Also, God orchestrates His will through human suffering via our trusting. “So then those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.” (1 Peter 4:19) Another translation offers “if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God...”

I don't think God is pleased to see the physical suffering of an innocent little girl. What I think pleases Him is seeing His beloved children “commit themselves to their faithful Creator.”  This is what we Currats are doing, join us. May the ripples of prayers from surrendered hearts hopeful in Christ bring great joy to the Lord! 

 

What’s better than stopping the knife or seeing Anna “get up”? The actuating of deeper healing, eternal healing. Today I’m reminded that Jesus is more interested in saving sinners than healing Anna. Blessed be the Lord. His promise is to heal Anna and I cling to it, But God’s first agenda is the gift of redemption.  That is a truth and physical healing will always have a back seat to that. I remember how Jesus healed me from my diagnosis of bi-polar 1 and schizophrenia years after my conversion.   

 

Isn’t it good how God didn’t leave us with a still born child 7 years ago? Wasn’t it His power that kept Anna’s traumatic birth from ending in death? 7 weeks in the hospital, brain surgery at six weeks didn’t end in devastation but in life. 7 years of provision and counting, God is our reward in all things to come. 

 

God has been building up my daddy heart for this upcoming surgery now just a week away. In His gentleness has been dropping hints of leading us into surgery and suffering.  He has confirmed this by the peaceful unfolding of our needs being met and Anna’s medical needs being clarified. I reviewed some of the last prayer requests and said to myself: “God is working.” The Lord has answered our requests and furthered our direction. We have a chair lined up to accommodate her brace, our family logistics have been answered for the time during the hospital stay, my leave of absence has been approved at work for one month. Everything is aligned and it’s a matter of due process now should the Lord direct our steps down the hall to the OR. 

 

Praise the Lord God who is with us, nearer than we can imagine. Listening to our hearts, our fears and faith. Bidding us to come, take courage, be of good cheer, lay down burdens and rest. He is our victory! He is our Good Shepherd calling us.

 

Please pray for:

-Songs of praise and worship to flood our lives

-memory verses, passages, to cling to at each step

-prayer to shelter us in the shadow of His wing 

-the full healing of Anna today

-health and strength for all of us

-our dear friends Dennis and Nancy who will care for Simon and Renee during our 4 day inpatient stay

-We are still asking and hoping in the Lord to provide nursing care overnight.

-Christlikeness to be seen through us to the cloud of witnesses that God has placed in our path at the hospital.

-Anna’s suffering to be met with the fullness of God’s purpose therein.

-teachability for us to learn about lifting options for transferring, positioning, diapering once the brace is on both her legs

 

*For those of you that may remember an entry about two years ago where a doctor said to me “Anna’s saving grace is that she is not always spastic with her tone.” To which I objected saying: “Anna’s saving grace is far greater… we’ve seen miracles.” Well that is the same doctor who will be performing the surgery, with his fellow. May they experience the richer grace that I alluded to.

At His service, with love,

The Currats