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God is Good

As Katie kindly pointed out:

Twitter: “God IS good. Check my blog on Monday to find out why.”
Trinity, today is Tuesday, and I still don’t know why.

And, yes, it’s now Wednesday. Sorry. (And thanks for calling me by the name only my mother uses, Katerz. Sheesh.)

Anyway. I made that tweet from my cell phone during church. Yes, yes, I know. You children are not allowed to text during church, so do as I say not as I do.

Here’s the story.  Think back to Sunday, August 31st. Hurricane Gustav was bearing down on New Orleans, where our church has gone twice over the last two years to help rebuild. Our church supports a missionary and church planter in India and the previous week militant Hindus had killed one of their pastors, destroyed a church and burned down dozens of homes belonging to Christian church members. Also a high schooler who’s family had formerly attended our church was hit by a drunk driver the preceding Friday and was in a coma with a brain injury. (That one hit much closer to home.)

Our pastor asked all the men of the church to come down to the alter and join in prayer. We prayed for God’s protection over New Orleans, restoration in India, and healing for the boy. It was pretty moving.

At the end of that same church service, someone burst into the church and ran down to the alter to tell Pastor Dennis that the boy had come out of the coma and was asking to go home.

Last Sunday, (September 7th) we got further updates:

Obviously, Gustav landed with a whimper and all our friends in New Orleans were spared.

Not only had the boy come out of the coma, but he was able to go home a few days later. He still has some work to do to recover his short term memory, but he’s way ahead of the game. (Tammy and I can testify to that!) On that same day, within a few hours of our prayer, three other patients on the same floor awoke from their comas, one of which had been in a coma for months and was expected to be a vegetable.

In India, the local and national governments had officially condemned the persecution of the Christians and sent in aid to rebuild the destroyed homes. The Indian Supreme Court went on record saying that all measures would be taken to track down the murderers and hold them to justice. This is completely unprecedented in Hindu majority India.

Wow! You just try and convince me that God doesn’t hear our prayers! I dare ya!

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