This week I have been convicted on the fact I don’t pray for God to move in miraculous ways often enough. Sure I think to pray for God to heal cancer patients or people that have been injured. But do I pray for people’s allergies (including my own) to be healed? Do I pray for people’s diabetes? Do I pray for the healing of learning disabilities? Or if someone has a headache, do I pray first or pass the Tylenol? Honestly, often I don’t even think of pray for these things.
This week one person has been on my heart. Someone I love. Someone that means the world to me. One of my nephews has developmental delays, caused by his birth mom’s drug use prenatally. When he came home from the hospital I remember holding him, he was so precious with a head full of black hair. As all newborns are, he was so tiny, so seemingly fragile. I realize I’m a crazy aunt and 100% bias, but he was adorable. He was born healthy (minus needing to go through withdrawal), yet early on you could see how the drugs had impacted his body. As he grew, he began to miss developmental milestones. He was officially adopted into our family last year and is now almost three years old. He is still one of the cutest kids I have ever met. He is silly, active, daring, loves stories, makes a super cute pirate and sometimes a little crazy. He calls me “Me Me” and I love this kid more then words.
But why have I not been actively praying for his healing?
Do I not believe that God can heal him?
Do I not believe that God wants to heal him?
Do I not believe that God will heal him?
I feel like over the last 3 years I have missed out on a huge opportunity to intercede for his healing. Like I have failed, as his aunt, to bring him before the Father and ask for healing. But is this right, when we hear his developmental outcomes, how he is behind in many areas, how should we respond?
Do we accept this at face value? Do we thank God for his delays and for the joys that overcoming his challenges will bring?
Or do we bring it to God and say “God we need you here. We need you to heal his brain. Rebuild the pathways that the drugs damaged. Form them to be how you created them to be.”
I for one am praying for healing. That his projected outcomes will be surpassed! That he will begin to catch up to developmental milestones he has missed. That his language, his social & emotional development, and his cognitive development will develop healthily and normally. I know that God’s power is active today. I know that He has the power and willingness to heal. I have seen it, experienced it, prayed for it, and expect it.
So please join me in praying for my nephew, Ty. One of the cutest, most adorable toddlers I know and love. Although he is only just turning 3, I know that God’s plan for Ty is great and that God wants to use him in a mighty way. Perhaps He wants to use him to bring life to others, to bring Christ to the lost, to give hope to the broken.
