Precious Joy

Baby Joy has gone home to be with Jesus.

Psalm 34:18 ESV 

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

There hasn't been a lot of news about Joy. Her parents wanted to keep things a bit private and that is totally understandable. Every now and then I would see on Facebook a request for prayer for Joy or sharing of a blessing and last night a request came up that Joy needs prayer and then this morning this is what I saw...

At 730am CST our Joy was called home. We have told her from the beginning that if Jesus called her name she should run to Him and she did. We are Blessed to serve a God who let us call her ours for even a little while.

From what I understand, she had an infection and when you are a heart patient things can go from good to really ugly, super fast.

Please pray for the family as this is a very difficult time. Thank you.

Psalm 147:3 ESV

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Praying and praying,
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Praise to God

A prayer request and some praise reports

Psalm 68:19 NIV

Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,

    who daily bears our burdens.

Information from: Chelle's email concerning Wayne, Joy's Facebook page, Joey's CaringBridge page.

PRAY

Wayne:  

He has been having radiation and will actually be done with it on the 8th. But for right now it is making him sick and unable to eat much. They are hitting the cancer hard and some of the lymph nodes are right beside the esophagus. Sometime in mid December they will do a pet scan to see how things are going. Wayne could really use some prayer today as he is having a hard time right now. 

Thank you Chelle for keeping us up to date.

PRAISE

Joy:

Thank you all so much for your love, support, prayers, and encouragement. We are humbled by the way our God is using our little girl. Your stories and words speak to our hearts everyday. We are blessed!

Joy is doing well enough for them to try to wean her off of the bypass (ECMO) machine. They have just started doing this now. Please continue to pray for our Joy, we can SEE GOD in this room!

Joey:

•he has had no more seizures!

• (consequently) sodium holding strong at high 130's with last reading at 140. Really good!

•we just moved back over out of PICU to HemOnc floor. Always the last stop before heading home

We still have concerns and he has benchmarks we need to hit before anybody feels comfortable taking him home, but we are certainly moving in the right direction. 

...Thank you TEAM JOEY for praying for us. 

Psalm 103:1-5 NIV

Praise the Lord, my soul;

    all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

Praise the Lord, my soul,

    and forget not all his benefits—

who forgives all your sins

    and heals all your diseases,

who redeems your life from the pit

    and crowns you with love and compassion,

who satisfies your desires with good things

    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Thank you for reading and joining in to pray for these sweet, precious people. 

If My People 2012

Click on the link above and join in with Joel Rosenberg for a 5 minute prayer for Israel. God tells us to pray for the peace of Israel and I found this a neat, quick way to join in with millions to pray for God's chosen people. 

Psalm 122:6-9 NIV

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

    “May those who love you be secure.

May there be peace within your walls

    and security within your citadels.”

For the sake of my family and friends,

    I will say, “Peace be within you.”

For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,

    I will seek your prosperity.

Blessings,

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Praise Report on Joy

Quick update on Joy that is taken directly from her Facebook page Joy's Journal.

PRAISE REPORT: 48 hours ago we were told there was nothing left for doctors to do to save our daughter and they would be removing her ECMO (the bypass machine working as her heart and lungs) the next morning. We cried, we believed, we prayed, we reached out to others asking for prayer. 24 hours ago we learned there was something the doctors could do, but they were not sure if it would help. Today our little girl (just 29 days old) had her 2nd heart surgery which repaired a hole in her heart valve! She already looks better!!! She still has a long road to travel, but God is Great and God is Here! Our whole world changed in the past 48 hours because you prayed with us and God worked miracles. Thank you is not enough, but it is all we have to give. Thank you!! We are blessed!

Thank you all for praying! Please continue to cover Joy in prayer as she has a long road to recovery.

Psalm 95:1-7 NIV

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;

    let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before him with thanksgiving

    and extol him with music and song.

For the Lord is the great God,

    the great King above all gods.

In his hand are the depths of the earth,

    and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The sea is his, for he made it,

    and his hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us bow down in worship,

    let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;

for he is our God

    and we are the people of his pasture,

    the flock under his care.

Praising and praying,

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Healings!

I wasn't going to make a post as I am very busy getting ready to leave on a camping/hiking/wedding trip with the family, but I just have to let you all know the updates on Chelle and Emily.

Chelle:
Here is an amazing testimony from Chelle taken directly from her blog...
...The speaker said there is someone here that is having...and he started naming off all the symptoms of what ever it is that "was" wrong with my heart...I almost fell out of my chair! We prayed and I know that the LORD touched and healed me. There is no way that he would have known any of the things that were wrong with me and no way he could have just put those symptoms together himself...because the things that happen are totally opposite of each other. My heart will go from beating so fast that I literally can't hardly keep breathing...and I can actually watch my chest go up and down with each beat...to slowing down so much at times I feel like I'm going to stop breathing. I claimed the healing when we all prayed and I claim the healing again right now. I will continue to do that . Friday I see the doc so he can tell me...Why are you here. There isn't anything wrong with you. And I will say...PRAISE theLORD!!! then tell him how GOD healed me!

Praising God for this and praying into it. Please continue to pray for Chelle as her doctor's appointment is this Friday August 10 2012. Pray the doctor will tell her there is nothing wrong with her heart. Thanks!!

Emily:

Emily had a MIBG scan this week and the results came me CLEAR! No sign of cancer!! Praise GOD!! Below is directly from her blog...

...Ms.Hubbel,
Great news!! The MIBG is reported as completely negative (not even a single tumor spot was noted). I need to talk to the radiologist to reconfirm and I will call you back later.
Madhu
Doug received the call,
Mr Hubbel, the MIBG scan is negative, compared to last scans done at CHOP. Doug did ask when we have Emily's scan after Round 6, would they possibily see something that he didn't.  He stated because they have state of the art they may be able to pick up slight/faint disease, but it is clear on ours.

Praising God!!! This is amazing! Please continue to pray for Emily as the doctors need to find out why she has these painful spots and why her leg is very sore.

Psalm 100:1-5 NIV

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

Worship the Lord with gladness;

    come before him with joyful songs.

Know that the Lord is God. 

    It is he who made us, and we are his[a];

    we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving 

    and his courts with praise;

    give thanks to him and praise his name. 

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; 

    his faithfulness continues through all generations.

I'm linking up with Summer for the Sunshine Project

Blessings,

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Prayer For a Fellow Blogger

Our dear Chelle, Reformed Rebel, from Chelle's blog, has requested prayer for a heart condition that she has and has given me permission to post her request here.

...A week ago I went to the doc for my yearly check up and she told me my heart isn't beating correctly and she is sending me to a cardiologist. I think I have been living in denial since then. LOL For years I have had high blood pressure and at times my heart beats excessively fast...tachycardia. Now they are telling me that when it is beating normally it's not normal. Only beating every other time. Could have something to do with why I'm tired all the time. Anyway she doesn't like the way it sounds so August 3rd at 8:45 in the morning I am scheduled to see a cardiologist. 

My dad has had 2 different bypass surgeries...my sister died of a massive heart attack and they finally revived her...my brother has had a couple of small heart attacks and strokes. So...I know that the Lord will take care of me but am still kind of nervous about all of this. Would you mind praying that everything will be good?...

Please join your heart with me in intercession for our dear blogger friend Chelle, asking God to heal her heart and set it to beating and preforming in the way it was made to work. Thanks!!

Jeremiah 17:14-18 NIV

Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; 

    save me and I will be saved,

    for you are the one I praise. 

They keep saying to me,

    “Where is the word of the Lord?

    Let it now be fulfilled!” 

I have not run away from being your shepherd;

    you know I have not desired the day of despair.

    What passes my lips is open before you.

Do not be a terror to me;

    you are my refuge in the day of disaster. 

Let my persecutors be put to shame,

    but keep me from shame;

let them be terrified,

    but keep me from terror.

Bring on them the day of disaster;

    destroy them with double destruction.

Psalm 107: 19-20 NIV

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,

    and he saved them from their distress.

He sent forth his word and healed them; 

    he rescued them from the grave. 

Lifting you up friend!

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The Father's Heart

John 8:36 NIV
                                   So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

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Crystal Mary

                                                                                                            
Our sweet sister Crystal Mary is in need of prayer. She has a condition of the heart that is known as left Bundle Branch Blockage. Will you join me in praying against this condition?

Crystal Mary is a joy to be around. Just take a look around her blog and see how powerful the Holy Spirit is in her.

God Bless and thank you all!
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Pray away the floods!

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I was sitting here today going through blog posts and came to thinking about Crystal Mary and the situation in Australia with all the flooding. I spent some time in prayer and God led me to a conversation between Pharaoh and Moses Exodus 9:28-30 NIV  "Pray to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer." Moses replied, "When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the Lord. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the Lord's. But I know that you and your officials still do not fear the Lord God."

I don't really know the political situation in Australia or even if this beautiful country is a God fearing country, but I do know that I have 3 sisters in Christ living there, Lisa, Kaz and Crystal Mary. I do know that God loves these children of His very much and He asks us to act together as one body in Christ Jesus. So I am stepping forth for my sisters and asking God to control the rain so the flood waters may recede. Will you join your heart with mine and pray for this country?

The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You. Psalm  9:9-10 NIV

I am seeking God and asking if a fast is required. I will let you all know when He lets me know. In the mean time let's pray the flood waters back.
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