Need prayer for discouragement.

[DosiaSP]

Hi I'm new here. I could use some prayer. I have been chronically sick a long time from what they call an incurable disease called crohn's disease. I had to have surgery for it, and for a few years I was actually able to eat without pain. I was in remission, but, for unknown reason, since then, further attacks left me with a lot of damage in my intestinal tract. Over the last year I have suffered an obstruction and haven't been feeling good since. My intestine has a lot of scar tissue that needs to be removed surgically, but I really am in no shape for surgery. I need God's divine intervention, a miracle to get this narrowing out of my intestine without the surgery. I need to eat without discomfort. I have a lot of people praying for me, but I seem to be in the same place and on some days even feeling worse. I don't want to discourage those who have been praying for me., I wish I could tell them that I am healed and that I feel a whole lot better, but the truth is, I don't feel good, and need more prayer for God to help me and I need a double dose of faith to continue believing and holding on to my faith in God for my healing, inspite of this suffering. Besides being discouraged, I am depressed.

 

[TheWidowsOffering]

Dear Sis Dorosia,

First of all, welcome here at TJ. We're glad you joined the fellowship.

Reading from your profile you have already known the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 years? I presume you have already learned much from Him and have at least known or experienced His faithfulness that much with those long years. Though maybe I have no real idea how much you're going through today with your illness, discouragement and depression, but my prayer for you is, may you continually come to not only realize but also recognize God's love and faithfulness in your life even when prayers are seemed unanswered yet. One thing is for sure, as long as there is still breath on us, God has still a purpose to fulfill in our lives here on earth. You sure be on my prayers Big Sis.

God loves you and so we are here at TJ.


In God's love,


TheWidowsOffering

 

[Fragrant Grace]

I have a lot of people praying for me, but I seem to be in the same place and on some days even feeling worse. I don't want to discourage those who have been praying for me., I wish I could tell them that I am healed and that I feel a whole lot better, but the truth is, I don't feel good, and need more prayer for God to help me and I need a double dose of faith to continue believing and holding on to my faith in God for my healing, inspite of this suffering. Besides being discouraged, I am depressed.

And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9

Greetings @DosiaSP

Praise the Lord....you are a child of the King of kings.....precious to Him and His grace is sufficient for you
Lift up your eyes to Jesus and thank Him for everything He has done for you
For all of your blessings....the little things that we so often forget.
Thank the Lord for all those people who are praying for you...and take time to lift a prayer for them
Rejoice that despite this illness you are His
Crohns disease cannot take your salvation from you

Wait on the Lord, be still and let Him do His perfect work in you
The joy of the Lord is your strength

Commending you into the Lord's hands sister......knowing that He wants the very best for you to His glory.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31

 

[Brad Huber]

Praying for you sister!

 

[DosiaSP]

Thank you all, I appreciate your prayers said on my behalf. I have been out of sorts for some time. First a close friend passed away. I had a hard time with her loss, Still do. She was too young to die. Maybe that is when I myself starting to relapse more with my own health. Then my mom got very sick last year, even though I wasn't well, I was still making a lot of long road trips to see her. She passed away just before New Year's Day, They say trials can make you stronger, but I find myself weaker, not only in body, but in mind and spirit as well. Maybe my struggle with my health is now stress related, don't know. I know the LORD has been with me, through the years and has worked some awesome miracles in me, and I do think of these times, I also see the LORD answering my prayers for others, even now, Praise God, but lately I am having difficulty believing for my own healing.

LORD I believe, help my unbelief...

 

[TheWidowsOffering]

Thank you all, I appreciate your prayers said on my behalf. I have been out of sorts for some time. First a close friend passed away. I had a hard time with her loss, Still do. She was too young to die. Maybe that is when I myself starting to relapse more with my own health. Then my mom got very sick last year, even though I wasn't well, I was still making a lot of long road trips to see her. She passed away just before New Year's Day, They say trials can make you stronger, but I find myself weaker, not only in body, but in mind and spirit as well. Maybe my struggle with my health is now stress related, don't know. I know the LORD has been with me, through the years and has worked some awesome miracles in me, and I do think of these times, I also see the LORD answering my prayers for others, even now, Praise God, but lately I am having difficulty believing for my own healing.

LORD I believe, help my unbelief...

Hi again Sis. Thanks for adding some more information. Take not upon yourself what had happened to your friend and your mother dear sister. Give them unto the Lord so burden and the sorrow will not wear you out.

I just want to share my devotional reading this morning in hope this may encourage you. Medically speaking stress can really cause internal abnormalities in our stomach often times gastro - pain or hyper-acidity. Take time sis to have rest in the Lord and be confident in His love for you. May the following article really bless you.

September 16 — Hiding Place

“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. — 1 Kgs 17:3 NET
God’s servants must be taught the value of the hidden life. The man who is to take a high place before his fellows must take a low place before his God. We must not be surprised if sometimes our Father says: “There, child, thou hast had enough of this hurry, and publicity, and excitement; get thee hence, and hide thyself b the brook—hide thyself in the Cherith of the sick chamber, or in the Cherith of bereavement, or in some solitude from which the crowds have ebbed away.”


Happy is he who can reply, “This Thy will is also mine; I flee unto Thee to hide me. Hide me in the secret of Thy tabernacle, and beneath the covert of Thy wings!”
Every saintly soul that would wield great power with men must win it in some hidden Cherith. The acquisition of spiritual power is impossible, unless we can hide ourselves from men and from ourselves in some deep gorge where we may absorb the power of the eternal God; as vegetation through long ages absorbed these qualities of sunshine, which it now gives back through burning coal.


Bishop Andrews had his Cherith, in which he spent five hours every day in prayer and devotion. John Welsh had it—who thought the day ill spent which did not witness eight or ten hours of closet communion. David Brainerd had it in the woods of North America. Christmas Evans had it in his long and lonely journeys amid the hills of Wales.


Or, passing back to the blessed age from which we date the centuries: Patmos, the seclusion of the Roman prisons, the Arabian desert, the hills and vales of Palestine, are forever memorable as the Cheriths of those who have made our modern world.


Our Lord found His Cherith at Nazareth, and in the wilderness of Judea; amid the olives of Bethany, and the solitude of Gadara. None of us, therefore, can dispense with some Cherith where the sounds of human voices are exchanged for the waters of quietness which are fed from the throne; and where we may taste the sweets and imbibe the power of a life hidden with Christ.—Elijah, by Meyer.


Taken from "Streams in the Dessert"
by L. B. Cowman


Again thanks for sharing with us.

Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”



Psalm 62:5 Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

 

[DosiaSP]

Thank you for sharing that. I read it more than once and know in my heart that I need to rest in Him more.
Heavenly Father, thank You for putting Your helpers in my path, those who pray on my behalf, and those who advise. I am grateful for all, thank You LORD for considering me and sending help my way, In Jesus Name, Amen

 

[amadeus2]

Belatedly but nonetheless I am also praying for you situation. We serve a God who can heal, and we serve a God who is well able to take us through whatever is needed. Trust in Him alone.