An Update on my journey of Faith

This past Sunday, after I had prayed, read my Bible and studied my lesson for the day [I have been reading through the devotional With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray], I begin thinking about my work with people with dementia.  Then I thought about my mother and how Alzheimer's robbed her of her memory precious memories.  We were very blessed, however, as my mother was never robbed of her sweet spirit or her love for God. I have seen many church-going women who through Alzheimer's disease curse like sailors; sweet men turn into hateful, aggressive men.


I asked the Lord, "If I'm going to have dementia, would you just take me before that? Otherwise, I'm asking You to protect my brain from the disease."  Almost instantaneously, my head began to throb in the left temporal area above my ear in two locations.  I am not a scientist or doctor, but to my knowledge that is the area affected first by Alzheimer's type dementia.  I know that God has placed a safeguard in my brain that I don't have to worry.


Later on, that evening, I was again sitting in my study, reading.  My throat had been hurting and I was just not feeling well. I have already been claiming the promise: No plague shall come nigh your dwelling. However, I was thinking how I did not want to miss work on Monday for being sick.  I laid my head down on the desk and simply asked God to heal my throat. When I raised up my head, the pain was gone.  That night, before bed I gargled and the next morning, woke up ready for work.


This morning, my lesson was on "The Power of United Prayer" with the text being from Matt18:19-20:"If two of you shall agree on earth..."  I was thinking about how I don't have a fellowship of people locally that I feel comfortable fellowshipping with for one reason or another. I told the Lord how I would just love to have the opportunity to share my faith with someone.  Tonight, as I was laying on the carpet, dozing, someone knocked on the door.  It was two Jehovah's Witness ladies who had visited one weekend.  We talked for almost 30 minutes about the Kingdom of God. I had the opportunity to share with them about the beginning and how God's Word was the seed from the beginning.  When they left, I felt like I had been to church. We may have differed on theology and doctrines, but I could feel the sweet Spirit of God in our midst.

God is the answer to all your prayers.

~JoNathan Hollis~