Ask and you shall receive the desires of your heart

My scans came back good!! I hadn't known how to pray about them this week. Last night I just told the Lord, whatever His Will, but if the lesions are still there, I hope they are at least smaller and that there are no new ones. Well, when my doctor presented the results to me, he practicaly spoke them word for word they way I had prayed them the night before.

In my brain, some are still there, but have not grown, some have even shrunk. And around my spine there is still something there, but they are still not real sure it is even cancer, so they are just going to continue to watch and see what happens.

I know what's going to happen - we are all going to pray that these cancer cells are going to leave my body and never return - In Jesus Name! And it will be done. I'm truly a believer in that verse now about asking Him for whatever you want and He will give it to you.

To add: All day yesterday I had been listening to this new CD I had gotten and the words just really stuck with me, so I knew God was trying to tell me something when something sticks in my mind like that. Here's what stuck in my mind:

Why do I feel discouraged; Why do the shadows come and why does my heart feel lonely and long for heaven and home When Jesus is my portion A constant friend is He
His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.
So I sing because I'm happy and I sing because I'm free
His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me
And guess what I did the rest of the day today - I SANG!! because I know He watches me.
Nicol, the singer of the song on the CD, writes "But one of the things I miss about life in the Congo is the opportunity to see God answer prayer in a way that happens when we have no other option but to depend on Him for our survival."
Matthew 10 31 - "so don't be afraid; You are worth more than many sporrows."

That has been the way I have felt. I have always liked being in control. Now I know Who is in control and holding me in His hands -- so I can let loose and just watch Him work and listen for what He wants me to do. We survive because He wants us to, not because of anything we do.
I start my chemo back and I will continue to visit the doctor every 3 weeks and have scans every 3 months. So, we still have some work to do.

Thank you all SOO MUCH for your prayers, please keep them up.

Love and blessings,
Kim

Back to Believe & Faith

Belief had led us to the word "faith" and some of the other information was about the Psalmist and Prophets present faith as unwaverying trust in God to save His servants from thier foes and fulfill His purpose of blessing them. Isaiah, particularly, denounces reliance on human aid as inconsistent with such trust. The New Testament regards the self-despairing hope world renouncing obedience from their foes and fulfill his declared purpose of blessing them. The book of John is fullest on this, emphasizing (1) that faith ("believing on", "coming to", and "teacher and miracle worker, but as God in carnate, who atoning death is the sole means of salvation; that faith in Christ secures present enjoyment of "eternal life." in fellowship with God. Paul shows that faith in Christ is the only way to a right relationiiship with God, which human works cannot gain; Hebrews and 1 Peter faith as the dynamic of hope and endurance under persecution. Wow!, How cool is that. I go to look up my "Word" and it leads me to another word, which explains my word even more. It also helps to explain more of what I need to hear and understand about God. God might not always tell us exactly what He wants us to know just so we can read His Word and find out for ourselves what it is. He really wants us to learn from this: To learn more by depending on Him (God) to teach us. The defintion goes on to state that the Reformers restorted Biblical perspectives by insisting that faith is more than orthodoxy, not fides merely, but fiducia, personal trust and confidence in God's mercy through Christ; that it is not a meritoios work, one facet of human righteousness, but rather an appropriating instrument, an empty had outstretched to receive. The free gift of God's righteousness in Christ; faith is God given, and is itself the animating principle from which love and good works spontaneously spring; and that communion with God means not an exotic rapture of mystical ecstasy, but just faith's everyday commerce with the Savior. This particular information was taken from The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology and this information from, J.I. Packer. It kind of brings us all the way back around to my word "believe"; in turn meaning having the faith enough to "believe" in God. Under the word "Christian Believer" it can mean "believer" or "faithful" or "trustworthy." I'll still study this word and continue to relay to you all what I find out.

Prayer Requests:
1. For a miracle that I will be healed and nothing less.
2. For brain power to memorize my scripture - it goes fast :)
3. For speaking opportunities and the ability to remember what to say
4. For opportunities to serve here
5. For the ability to write what God wants me to write - the ability for Him to speak through me, if that's what He wants.
6. Don't forget to think of each day as your last and live it to the fullest.
7. MOST OF ALL - DON'T FORGET TO PRAY FOR MY SCANS ON TUESDAY, APRIL 10TH!!! Pray they will not see anything. I will not find out the results until APRIL 13TH. So, I will send out the results then. Thank you all again for your prayers and concern.

Love you all,
Kim