Update on Elise 9-29-18

Well we are on day 9 after the surgery and there has been many ups and downs to this journey. The Good News is that Jesus is Lord over all whether stormy seas, mountains or valley's, alien army's, or afflictions. He is Lord of all.
I don't know all that I have posted in the past as lack of deep sleep and "learning" how the "system" works have stolen most of my time to participate in these updates.
Since the operation Elise has had 5 seizures, 1 about 2 mins and 4 at around 30 seconds. That may not sound bad but they shoot for 0 seizures because they can delay the brain from reconnecting with the limbs and in this case her right arm and leg. Usually 3-4 days after surgery the limbs effected start to "come alive" again, but because of meds and the anesthesia fro the operation hers have not. They cut her meds back a bit and this is the 3rd day she is able to start learning her right side again. With that said she is gaining progress as they expected before the seizures. Right now she can wriggle her right foot toes and roll her right leg side to side. She even lifted it to step as she was being moved from her bed to the chair. Her right arm is still not responding with the same success yet, but there is some brain/hand, arm connecting going on.
She is sad at times with the desire to "go home" but realizes that interceding prayer and hard work will bring that goal to past. So we invite all to "pray without ceasing" that this woman will make the cut for the in house rehab program which is equal in quality to the surgeons skills and a good match. Our surgeon and his team is pulling to get us into the program as he says, "why waist an excellent operation by following it up with less than excellent rehab. If the truth be known they have set the bar awful high to get in and it will only be the Hand of God that opens that door. In order to qualify Elise has to be able to do 3 hours of rehab a day. 3 sessions 1 hour each. That might not sound like much but with muscles weakened from surgery, age and lack of tone that is a tall order. If she gets in we can stay here and they will set her up on the rehab floor and I can stay across the street at the hotel seeing her as much as I can. If she doesn't make it then we have to head back to Sarah's and she will have to stay "off site" with me only doing day visits. This would crush her and I because we have become one and to be without the other is more than just painful. Some men might say "that's life get over it this stuff happens", but Love just won't let me respond with such cruelty to the woman who has allowed me to share her life for the last 46 yrs. Love never fails, it is not cruel! Unconditional Love is the glue that binds us together as one, and it cannot be broken.
Elise is a strong woman, a woman of faith, a woman of strength, and woman of (and in) prayer , but she also is a woman that needs to feel the saints "lifting her up" as this battle to gain back her life will take all the grace she has to see it through. Again we are trusting our Savior to heal and deliver her realizing that you are part of that "brotherhood of saints"which forms the army in agreement behind Him.
"I am weak but He is strong" is very true in my case. There has been times that I have wept with joy and thanksgiving, then there were times when I just wept in deep intersession with no direction for prayer. A ship in the storms of life waiting for Jesus to cross the stormy seas so we could "get to the other side". As of yet I have not been given the time to "pour out my soul" till I am completely emptied of emotion and revived by the Comforter, the Mind of Christ, who comforts all those in distress.
I have had many battles in my life against both the spirit realm and the carnal realm, they all seem as nothing to what I am facing in this present affliction. For a man it's easy to "do battle" when the attack comes against him personally, but when it's the "flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone" and he cannot "ascribe" aid to that "Beloved" it's a whole different fight arena. Man cannot "loan" out strength to another no matter how much he desires, but God, I say but God, can ascribe divine strength to the weak and weary so that He through the victory would gain praise and glory for Himself. That is His purpose, that is our offering.
This experience has both deepened our intimacy with Him, and our faith in Him, continuing to  perfect our revelation of Him, so that we can be used by Him, in all things. 
We may be broken in the flesh but we are mighty in spirit laying hold of the hope that is within us, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Deep Love to all who read this coming from deep pain from Elise and I who need this.
God bless and keep.
Love
Mom and Pop's
Jerry and Elise





 

Update on Elise 9-20-18

It's 5 am in Minnesota and in about 25 minutes we will be on our way to achieve healing for Elise. It's been a long 3 months to get to this point filled with praise, thanksgiving, weeping, and worship. Now it's the doctors turn to be used of God and have his skills "divinely" enhanced for the expected outcome of restoration. Elise is ready to work her way back to normality and start functioning at full capacity. That might take some time in rehab but at least it's a ladder going up to climb instead of suffering around the lower levels of life. 
All your prayers have brought us to this point and we are sure the Lord God Almighty will see it through the rest of the way.
Thank you all who have participated thus far and will continue until this chapter in our lives is closed.
God bless and keep.
Love
Jerry and Elise

Update on Elise 9-8-18

The journey by faith through affliction continues.
As the song says : "Each days a new day a new day in the Lord".
It really is. Especially in the area of faith. "You believe in God, believe also in Me (Jesus)". Believing is "putting faith in" the only "One" who can "make a Divine Intervention" in your situation. As I have said this method of "Intervention" is completely new to me and Elise, but none the less God initiated. During this time His hand has been "proved" by the incredible arrangements that has proceeded us throughout the process.
Even though I haven't "sweat blood in prayer" I have wept with a new type of brokenness, intervening with "in Jesus name" hundreds of times while humbly speaking "thy will be done". "My hope is built on nothing less then Jesus blood and righteousness", and "by His stripes we ARE healed" are now common statements in our prayers. In fact we have claimed almost every Scripture having to do with the unchangeable promises of God "for life" to date that we can find. It's by Scripture we "receive" the promises, and "thy will be done" do we know what His will is.
Unconditional Love calls is to Trust in His will, by faith, and then to receive the "end thereof."
Her condition:
Weakness is still a major problem. Her whole body is partaking in this malady. The long stint of a dormant winter, followed by the effects of the tumor, has left her loosing muscle mass and strength.
Rest is the best remedy for this even though it's "short lived". Sometimes it's profound lasting a couple of active hours (shopping), and sometimes it's 30 minutes. Not moving while standing is the hardest as it not only drains her strength but it also brings about pains in her lower joints. Hips and back are the big ones here. They become so sore that it makes her sit down, again defeating the "lets get up and move you'll feel better" axiom.
This affliction has caused us both to weep, me out of compassion and grieving for her, and her out of concerns about family and the future. Weeping with prayer seems to be the answer to "peace in the Holy Spirit". "Weeping endures for the night but joy comes in the morning", this has been a long night, (time of darkness), for us the horizon of which is still a ways off. Still "Light dispels darkness" and we have Light in our souls guiding our way as "the darkness comprehended it not".
We are looking for "Thy Kingdom come,Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven". In His heavenly Kingdom there will be no more tears, hunger, thirst, suffering or pain, no more afflictions whatsoever. "All things are made new". Jesus sent His disciples ahead to proclaim "the Kingdom of God is near", When Jesus arrived at those cities the Kingdom of God arrived through Him. "He whom the Son sets free is free indeed". We believe these promises and will wait on there "coming to pass".
As time draws closer we still anticipate a "Divine Intervention" but will rest in His will if it is to use the medical field.
Regardless faith is the base to receiving all His blessings. As we continue we will share what we are experiencing by faith.
God bless and keep.
Love
Jerry and Elise