Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnb@srchtec.uucp (John Baldwin) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Forwarded Prayer Request Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 90 05:46:39 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: search technology, inc. Lines: 55 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article you write: > > But please don't deny Jesus in this! Believe me, we aren't! Otherwise, why pray? > He said himself that if you ask for anything in his name he will > grant it! Please remember also that a text taken without context is a pretext. I think He meant if we ask in accordance with His Father's will. I certainly know that God is willing for Tiffany to be healed, but He may also (does also!) have plans I don't know about. To wit, during Tiffany's first hospital stay, her whole case was a testimony to the Glory of God. People came to salvation because of the incident... talking to Charles (her father), watching the Stone family, and friends, and the church all respond to this crisis, and so on. > Please believe that Jesus's healing power works directly and cure's > far faster than any surgeon, no matter how good they are. jesus > has the authority over everything, he can heal anything, he can > work without the medium of a surgeons skill. I firmly believe in this! I know of several cases where God has shown His might in healing, and just left the doctors shaking their heads. > Please give Him the chance!! Lay hands on Tiffany and ask for > her to be healed in Christ's name. We have already done so, during the first crisis. We will do so again. God *has* answered that prayer, though not in the specific way *we* (humans) intended... in the words of her family doctor, who is also my family's doctor and a man strong in Christ, "When you look at the medical records, and then look at Tiffany, they're not the same little girl! The little girl in the records should not be able to walk, or talk, or do much of anything at all. Tiffany runs, she jumps, she plays at the playground, she rolls around on the ground with the other kids. She shouldn't be able to DO that! Praise GOD! She can." > > Love and Prayers. > Drew. Thank you for *both*. Best regards, -- John Baldwin | srchtec!johnb@gatech.edu | johnb%srchtec.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu