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Overwhelmed! Yes. I am overwhelmed for: training camp, moving, fundraising, Cayman Islands, saying bye to all my friends, and a yard sale. Okay. Breathe. Just Breathe. I keep telling myself “practice what you preach.” Paul tells us in Philippians not to be anxious about anything, but to humbly be in prayer about everything. Give thanks to God and tell Him our request. He says if we do this, God’s peace, which we surpasses all of our understanding and will guard our hearts and our minds in Jesus Christ. Pray. Just Pray. Wouldn’t say I am completely at peace with everything, but I am okay. I am okay because I know God is here with me. Yes, I KNOW. A few weeks ago crazy thing after crazy thing happened to me. In this blog I am about to share a HUGE one. It was so apparent that God was working in my life. The last week of June, I went to the doctor before I headed up to St. Louis, where I was going to see some family and prepare for a CEF mission trip to the Cayman Islands. The news I received at the doctor was not what I wanted to hear. I had some “abnormal cells” she was concerned about. This was the 2nd visit in a row this happened. The first time (in March) she said the biopsy showed they were “moderate” squamous (pre-cancerous) cells… which means they were in the growing stage. She said I could come back in 3 months and see if they had gone away or spread. So like I said, in June I went back. She could still see the cells and there were more this time so she did another biopsy to see the severity of the abnormal cells. I asked her what are the chances this was normal and she just said “I can see the abnormal cells.” So I immediately start crying and praying to God that I was sorry for not praying more about it. That I wanted to believe He could heal me but I still had doubt. I asked Him to take that doubt away. PLEASE take the doubt from me. That afternoon I headed to St. Louis. The next day in our mission trip discussion a lady talked to us about intercessory prayer. She used the tabernacle in Exodus as a tool to walk us through prayer. I had never heard of that before, but I had an unexplainable peace about the whole discussion. I knew she wasn’t just pulling our legs about some of the things she was saying. Most people of this world would have thought she was off her rocker, but we did not. The Spirit gave us a certain peace and understanding about what she was telling us. After sitting through the discussion we went into prayer together. It’s an unexplainable feeling, but the Spirit took over my body. I knew that it was not me praying. I knew it was Him. He was answering my prayer. By Him making Himself known in me, He took away my doubt. He took away doubts that I didn’t realize I had. He showed me how much He loved me. He showed me that because of JESUS, I really am forgiven. He showed me He really can work through me! He really can HEAL me. It was the best feeling I have ever experienced. Okay, so I could keep this story dragging for forever but I won’t. Listen to how AWESOME GOD is! 2 weeks later as I was heading back to Nashville from MO, I saw a missed calle from the doctor’s office. As you can imagine, my stomach immediately dropped. I started praying hard, praying for healing and praying for peace about what they were about to tell me. God wowed me. When I called back the lady told me the biopsy came back NORMAL! Yes, I will repeat that NORMAL. There were NO abnormal cells despite the doctor seeing them! God healed me. I may sound crazy to some of you, but trust me the God I serve is THAT great. So thank you to the people who prayed for me. Thank you for not doubting His powers. Thanks to everyone who is reading this. My hope is that through this post the Spirit will move in someone like never before. Psalms 34:2: My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. 1 Corinthians 1:31: so that it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” Love you all!! Thanks for all of your support. If you want to find other ways, like T-shirts, bracelets, and yard sell to support check out this blog. I am still in need of $9,000 to be fully funded! God has seriously been working miracles with the fundraising! 🙂 Also, if you want to support through prayer thank you so much! I need prayer and lots of it. Also I would love to pray for you, so please don’t hesitate to message me with any requests. I would love to have you all following along for the journey. If you want emailed when this page gets updated subscribe to this blog. This is the way I will keep everyone up to date. Liz |
