Family, Friends, all those who pray believing!
First, thank you for your devotion to prayer. As far as I am concerned "our help come from the Lord" first and for most.
All our Children have thrown themselves into the fray in one way or another. Some help with supplies or skills but all help with prayer, love and encouragement.
We have learned about an application involving carrot juice, pure and organic being especially effective with tumors both cancerous and benign. So we started this treatment on Friday 8-3-18. After an overnight fast Elise drinks an 8 oz glass of carrot juice before she eats so that it goes to work in her system ahead and undisturbed of anything else. Then we follow it with food and more hydration. As she gets stronger she would like to extend the fast on just carrot juice until she can go 24 hrs or longer to get the full effect of the juice and the fast. Right now she is doing what she can at this level.
Sometimes rest is hard to come by for her. We just went through 3 nights of restlessness and the effects of that on the daytime hours can be punishing. Rest, food and hydration are the daily building blocks for her to be active and when anyone is missing it is difficult for her at best.
Right now she is up and about folding laundry, getting her hair done, doing the books, and moving around on her own quite well. Having suffered 3 bad nights of sleep in a row this is nothing short of miraculous judging by the same kind of events on a lesser scale. Again another "Divine Intervention".
For those who don't know:
We have an appointment with the Mayo Clinic in Mn to get a review of our tests, maybe more tests and then a consultation. The more info the better but still second hand to God or at least under His anointing. I think more will be revealed from this visit.
Being that we have never suffered this kind of incident in our lives either of us knew where it would take us spiritually or how we would respond. Anyone who suffers does so in there own way based on belief (faith), mental strength, and physical stamina. I cannot imagine what Elise is dealing with on all three of these levels but I can be certain that she is trusting the Lord for her deliverance and restoration. She has never been one to complain about anything throughout our lives together, and this remains unchanging except for the fact that she would like to be able to do, what she considers, her household chores. And yes when she feels good she still bumps me out of the way. The difference between a man doing a woman's chores and a woman doing them herself is like night and day. Case dismissed. I do my best looking for her to instruct me on how to do them better.
I have found that no matter what happens in our lives God is there to "open new doors" for us to experience new "intimacy's" with Him. Nothing happens to separate us from the Love of God but only to "draw us neigh so that He can draw neigh to us". His sole purpose is to constantly bring us into His presence deeper and deeper, every instance, every moment, every incident, good or bad, His purpose is to deepen our intimacy with Him. His Word say's "He will turn even the evil worked against us into good" and that's just what He is doing, and if we "fail not" we shall see the "salvation" of the Lord in every situation.
How has this effected me?
I have never "cried out unto the Lord" as much in my life as I have for my "Beloved" during these last several month's. Many times a day with weeping and great deep groans that cannot be uttered. On one occasion around Tues I came out of the bedroom having taken Elise in for a rest, I broke down in weeping with great uncontrollable groaning. But this time I didn't stop it or try to control it, I "entered in" letting it "consume" me for the moment. I was for the first time in this experience of supporting her through her suffering, overcome (though many, many times I wept bitterly in prayer afore hand), and let it carry me, broken and without knowing what else to do into the depth of "praying in groans". Soon they became unspeakable words then words in another tongue. This is very rare for me but now I see the pathway to that kind of praying. First I realized the depth of compassion I have for her. Second that compassion became passion. Third I experienced the depth of intersession in prayer that this type of grief/crying out brings. God comforted me in a way none other could by giving me the expression of a tongue for those few minutes. He is always there to comfort us every moment of the day especially when we "enter in" to His presence casting all our cares upon Him "for He cares for us". This is a life changing experience for me, and I realized that all the previous encounters with grief and weeping for Elise since this started was merely an experience to bring me to the "right kind" of seeking a deeper intimacy in God through that kind of prayer. Once again God leading His own to a taste of His glory here on earth. "Seek and you shall find". Life is good when God is in the lead.
I hope that this brief update will both give you direction and instruction in how to address these "afflictions of the flesh" with new hope of God's intervention and a new intimacy in Him through prayer.
God bless and keep you delivering you from all your afflictions in Jesus name!
Love to all through God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
J&E
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