A good day - Dan is feeling better today.Thank You LORD! He is still having back spasms and had some weird pains in his achilles tendon at 4 am this morning but they are gone and the back spasms seem to be decreasing. Mornings are the hardest. He had a PET scan today which showed some good changes - more good liver tissue, but still has many tumors which apparently are confined to the liver and pancreas. He and Ashley went to the movies today and had a good time. Tonight a group of pastors and elders from our church came over and anointed Dan with oil and prayed for him. A friend emailed me that the Lord called her to an "all night of prayer" for Dan. I am so amazed and very blessed that so many of you have been called to pray for Dan. I do know the LORD our God is accomplishing His purpose in Dan's life, and in the lives of many others. May we all, in the midst of our hectic lives, take the time and introspection to consider God's purposes for us. My prayer is that I would walk and talk and think God's way as exemplified by His Son, Jesus our Messiah.
Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Whatever sufferings we have to endure in this life, God's glory awaits us and will even be revealed now as we die to self and are alive to Him. Pastor shared Psalm 16 with us tonight and it seems fitting I should share it with you all:
Keep me safe, O God,
for in you I take refuge.
I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing.”
As for the saints who are in the land,
they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.
The sorrows of those will increase
who run after other gods.
I will not pour out their libations of blood
or take up their names on my lips.
Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
you have made my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.
I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
I have set the Lord always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,
because you will not abandon me to the grave,
nor will you let your Holy One see decay.
You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
1 comment:
Hi Dan and Ashley,
Wow, I have been really touched by what you are going through. You do not know me nor I either of you but I feel compeled to pray for you and write. I have been following your journey since I got the prayer request e-mailed to me. I work at CRM in Anaheim. You are very amazing people and I will continue to pray for you both. Continue to keep God first and he will get you through this. God bless you both.
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