WATER INTO WINE
Faith is a hard concept to grasp. It asks you to take a leap, often without you knowing why or what the outcome will be. It asks you to believe, without seeing. It asks for complete trust and confidence, without showing you proof.
I am just like most of you, I want to see a miracle. I want to know that God is real and that he knows I exist. My heart says yes, but sometimes I let the devil wander into my thoughts and ask, “Where is the proof?” Where is the person who was dead, and now is alive? Where is the person who could not walk, and just by a single touch has now been made whole? Modern day miracles happen all the time around us, but we have become really good at explaining how they came about. A person is shot 6 times at close range and survives, explanation is they are lucky. A person who is in a coma for years, just suddenly awakens, explanation is modern medicine. A person (I actually know) was held by her husband with a gun to her head. He pulled the trigger three times, with a fully loaded chamber, and yet the gun never fired. Explanation was that when you push the barrel into something really hard, it won’t fire. REALLY??? You want to be the one to demonstrate that?
When I started reading Draw The Circle – A 40 DayPrayer Challenge, I had one prayer that I prayed daily. I prayed for my “Water Into Wine” girl, a modern day miracle. I wrote about this sweetheart back in February, explaining about the terrible disease that she has lived with since the age of two months. Our entire community has been praying for her healing, but the disease is a terrible one and the prognosis was not promising. About a month ago, her mother announced that the hospital was going to be entering her into a clinical trial for a new drug that might show some promising results. With a new found optimism, pictures were taken with the hope that there would be visible improvement. After one month, the results were UNBELIEVABLE!!! The tumors had shrunk dramatically. Here’s the thing, the doctors are astounded. The medicine has never worked for someone with her type disease. They are now doing case studies on her and her results. She is nowhere near cured, but there is no doubt in my mind that the Lord has touched her, and she is now on her way to being cured. Did he use the medicine to heal her? Maybe, but that is alright with me.
Do you have faith? Will you take that leap with complete trust and confidence? Please add my little Water Into Wine girl in your prayers. Let’s show an entire community what the Lord can do.
Have a blessed weekend!
You look terrific in every single outfit; no one wonders about your age in those outfits. You carry every outfit with grace and style. I wish I could hire you as a personal shopper.
Praise God for that miracle & more He will bring!
Thank you so much for this post. I have been reading The Circle Maker and it’s really good too. There is some controversy over this author and his writing, but it all comes down to faith. God bless you and all your readers!
II’m so grateful to say that I have faith!
Sometimes Heaven is the healing God promises.
There’s only one way to be with the Savior I love is to someday die. “Absent from the body is present with the Lord”
No fear in death only anticipation in seeing and being in HIS presence for eternity.?
This earth is not my home! I’m only passing through it.
Praying for your Water into Wine girl. May she have complete healing. God is so good. Thank you for a very beautiful post.
God puts people in our lives for a reason. I know this to be true today. Yes, I am also 50 years old and love your blog when it comes to fashion, but coming across your blog might just be the miracle we have been looking for with my son. My 16 year old son has neuro ganglioneuroma. We found it when he was 8 years old and he has been going to MD Anderson Cancer Center half of his life. It is not cancer and for that we are thankful. It does however grow and is in his spinal cord and around his organs and even on his brain. People think that tumors can just be removed. I used to think this as well. Now I know that tumors attach themselves to organs and blood vessels and their removal could be deadly. My child is living a normal life with just a few restrictions. But there is always fear. It is very hard to find faith when there is so much fear. Ironic since that is when we need it the most!! We have been told that radiation and other cancer treatments will not shrink the tumors in people with his type of tumor. Reading your blog and learning about this clinical study might be something we could try. Is there any way I can find out some details about this clinical trial??
Yes, God puts people in our lives for a reason.
Thank you and God bless you!
Paula
Paula, it gives me chills to think that this might be an answer to your prayers, as well as mine. I pray that this blog will be used to glory God, and that someone will be reached. Maybe that someone is you! Here is the Facebook page of little Mattie. Her mother details about her disease and the treatment. Like the page, and feel free to ask Catherine questions. I pray this will be of some help to your son.
Thank you so much again for posting this information and taking the time to respond.
God bless you!!
Paula
Yes your Water into Wine girl is very special! She is truly an example of God’s great power! You have a great post today! We all need to “Keep the Faith!” Love you gurl!
Just love your sunday emails. Yes I have faith, with times of doubt…
Thank you so much for your inspirational words. I often forget the little miracles that seem to appear out of nowhere. Somewhere along lifes journey i lost faiith. I am praying to discover it again. I know it is there, i just have to dig deeper. Your sunday blog helps me
Thank you, Barb. My Sunday posts are special to me, and I hope they are to others also.