The midweek ladies Bible class at our church is studying Isaiah this year and they kindly invited me to take three session.... The occasion provided special incentive to read chapter 40 again.
I am writing this on Sunday afternoon, September 25, 2005 from our son Jeremy's home in Dallas where the four generations of our family in Houston came last Thursday to escape Hurricane Rita's expected arrival there on Friday/Saturday. We did not anticipate that three million other pilgrims would be travelling ... that same day.
I felt the warmth of their presence last Sunday morning [Feb. 1998] as they gathered round me and placed their hands on my body. I love and trust these elders of my local church, with whom I served for 13 years before rotating out this last term. "Edward, we anoint you with oil and claim God's promise of healing," the presider said, dipping his finger in oil and making a sign of the cross on my forehead.
praise God for his protection!
Last week [June 1997], son Jeremy left our driveway in suburban Houston to drive to Colorado for the summer, where he hoped to find work near a young lady who lately has become special in his life.... The call came about noon on Tuesday. Jeremy had been in a wreck, maybe 100 miles south of Amarillo.
A gracEmail subscriber knows a Christian lady who remains seriously ill although she prays continually for healing and has sought anointing with oil and prayer by a believing elder in the church. Does this lady's ongoing sickness mean that she lacks faith to be healed?
healing prayer and trusting God
A gracEmail subscriber in the U.S. Southwest writes that he prays fervently for God to restore a loved one who is ill, believing that God will mercifully heal but humbly entrusting the matter to his sovereign will.
See also gracEmails on divine healing.