Prayer Request
June 26, 2012
Prayer request for Mark Kenyon, son of Barbara Roush. He is a very brittle diabetic and has cirrhosis of liver. He has been in and out of hospitals for the last 4 years. His doctor has put him for a liver transplant. If he lives long enough to recieve it. He currently is in hospital, in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He also has an infection in his heart, liver and intestines. He has a weakened mitral valve to top it all off.. He has been a diabetic since a teenager. He was diagnosed cirrhosis of liver about 10 years ago. Both of his diagnosis are deteriorating , he is in very serious health condition. He is not a church member. But he is asking prayers of church members. He also is praying for a healing or at least some improvements. He has 1 daughter, a son-in-law and 3 grandsons.
Mark needs God’s devine intervention, he is asking for it. Please pray for my son Mark. All your prayers are much appreciated and Mark and I want to thank you in advance.
From
Barbara Roush
(who attends in Oklahoma)
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Prayer Update
June 23, 2012
Sad news concerning Mr. Watson:
We received a call from Mrs. Watson a short while ago. Mr. Watson died this evening. Mrs. Watson’s children are with her at this time. Mr. Watson was a faithful member of God’s church for many years. Though Mr. Watson will be greatly missed we are thankful for God’s mercy as Isaiah 57:1 states—The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil. Leonard will awaken to the voice of his savior and King.
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Prayer Request and Update
June 14, 2012
Axie Eury called today requesting prayers for a niece in her family. The little girl is six years old and her name is Gracie Cable. She has inflammation around her heart. Please pray for God’s intervention on her behalf.
After requesting prayers on Gracie Cable’s behalf her progress and improvement has been far beyond what the most optimist doctor could have expected. The infection in her heart (myocarditis) is much improved and she is expected to be moved out of intensive care shortly. Please continue to pray for her while thanking God for His ongoing mercy.
Thank you,
Axie Eury
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Prayer Update
June 13, 2012
Update concerning Harold York:
I visited with Penny & Harold York yesterday in Santa Maria, California. Harold is declining and very weak. We were able to talk about his love of the truth, the church and his love of the brethren. He thanks you for your prayers and sends his love. Please pray for Harold and Penny. Penny is by her husband’s side everyday. The last year has been very exhausting for Penny, please ask that God would continue to give her strength and good health.
Thank you,
Steven LeBlanc
I read a true story about life in Beirut, Lebanon during the civil war that tore that country apart from 1975 until 1990. The story went like this: a lady of some means had invited guests to her apartment for dinner one evening. Her apartment was near what was called the green line. The green line was the dividing line between the different factions fighting in Beirut. The location of her apartment meant that her apartment could be hit by rockets launched during the fighting, and the shock waves from surrounding explosions could be felt. As the guests gathered in the dining room, she posed the ironic question to her guests, “Do you want to dine before or after the shelling?”
To me, this is a startling example of how societies and individuals carry on with life under the most trying conditions.
Another example of this was related to me by a friend who was a teenager living in Beirut during that war. He is an American. He told me that when his brother and he would be coming home at night after being out with friends, they would hear the rockets coming. They would have to rush to a doorway or stand under a stairway along the street to take shelter. I asked him why they would be out in the streets under such conditions. He replied, “We wanted to go out with girls.”
Such accounts make you consider Christ’s admonition to watch and not be ignorant of the times we live in. They reveal how people will be striving to maintain normalcy in their lives even as the sure signs of Christ’s return multiply. He warns us that society will be attempting to hold on to their usual pattern of life while ignoring the extreme seriousness of what is taking place around them.
Matthew 24:36-39 tells us: “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
It is not wrong for God’s people to attend to their normal activities while we watch and wait. Our young people need to educate themselves, marry, etc. At this fall Feast of Tabernacles we will have the largest number of infants for the Blessing of Children ceremony I have ever seen. That’s a wonderful blessing to all of us in the Church. But God does warn us not to take our eye off the goal of being in His Kingdom by succumbing to the temptation to wrap ourselves up in our day-to-day affairs. We must continue to watch world events and stay abreast of what is happening all around us. Like any society or nation that is about to meet with great catastrophe, we must remain vigilant. We do know what is coming.
Luke 21:34-36 warns: “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the son of Man.”
David O’Malley
