God is good all the time…..
Sorry it has been so long since we have provided an update. Let me start by praising God for His goodness, faithfulness, and love. He continues to be with us throughout this entire process and shows us His love and presence continually through you all and so many others.
We have been making some great progress and had found an AMAZING clinic that has been able to provide most of the US approved treatments we received in Mexico. The staff and ownership are so invested in us (and I would imagine in all their other clients as well.) They have such amazing hearts to help and are all about focusing on cure. We had started a 13 week intense daily IV therapy treatment and we had gotten about 2 weeks into the plan by early March.
My healed wife had some inflammatory healing reactions the week of the 6th of March and was not able to sit up without pain and became bedridden other than to use the restroom and that involved extreme pain. Late Sunday night to 13th we ended up calling 911 because she was passing out and her blood pressure bottomed out to a dangerously low number.
She was anemic and dehydrated. Overall the stay in the hospital was extremely long and full of bad news in the flesh and no support for the protocols we have chosen to follow. Our goal was to get stable enough to get home and get back on the IV protocols. Because we were not follow traditional oncology, the attending physician was not supportive of anything we were doing. To get my healed wife stable, they had to give her 4 blood transfusions. It is amazing to me the way we were treated. When you have the “stage 4 cancer” tag put on you, (and maybe because we were not following traditional treatment) they did not really care to dig into what caused the sudden blood loss or any other abnormalities. They standard answer was “that is cancer.”
All I can say is we felt like we were in the belly of the beast but had God around us and every step of the way. We had one God moment after another.
We asked for them to put in a pick line so we could continue our IV therapies when we got home. The hospital said they would struggle to find a surgeon willing to do that since it was not for traditional use. Well with all the testing my healed wife needed and blood draws and transfusions, they ended up blowing out most of her veins and had to put in a pick line so they could do their job…. and we came home with a pick line! Absolutely a divine intervention.
We finally got released under the care of Hospice. They are going to help us manage her level of comfort while we continue to let God manifest the healing in her body with the protocols.
So in full transparency, mental strength has been the biggest battle and the Lord has sent us messenger after messenger to help us when we have been weak.
God sent us a nurse technician to continually love on us and bless us, he sent the wife of another patient to love on us and bless us. He sent friends to the hospital with such thoughtful gift, prayers, and words of kindness. (I have to say, the most incredible gift was a stick of chapstick – haha – it was soooo needed.) I developed an instant relationship and found a spiritual mentor in the exact right hour. God gave me this man to prepare me for some news they delivered and support me through the processing of the news. He was just an acquaintance that I am now so thrilled to get to know better once we get out of this season and to be able to call him my close friend.
We had an awesome family from church come to the house after our release and gave us a sermon that was a direct message from God to us and spoke exactly to what we needed to hear. It has inspired us and motivated us to stay focused on Jesus and His word but to also rest in Him and His word. The key word being rest! Something we were not allowing ourselves to do. That message brought us peace once again.
God used that stay to continue to develop our relationship with Him. The word says as you draw near to Him, He will draw near to you. At one point I was getting frustrated and wondering why I needed to pray for her healing over and over and over. He clearly put it on my heart that I only need to pray once for His sake. The rest was for my sake, to draw me closer to Him and to strengthen my faith and relationship with Him. The more I pray, the more time I spend with Him, the stronger my faith grows, the deeper my relationship becomes. It was about 3AM and my prayers had become desperate or almost begging for His promises to be released on my healed wife. That revelation he put in my heart brought such tremendous peace and changed my prayers of desperation back to prayers of faith, confidence, expectation, and just reminders of His promises.
We are so excited about what He has in store for us when we get to the other side of this. We have a more intimate relationship with Him than we ever could have imagined and we are so ready to be available for him to use us completely to His glory. No matter where it takes us, who it puts us with, or who it takes us from. He has AMAZING plans for us, and the enemy is working his tail off to try to stop us from getting there! He will not succeed. We are MORE than conquerors through Him who loved us!
We were getting ready for dinner Sunday night and the kids came tell us that there are a few families out in our driveway. Our basketball goal had gotten blown over and had broken. A dear friend of ours noticed and would not rest until it got replaced. These two families found one, delivered it, set it up, and tore down the old one. My healed wife was in her bed just humbled again and in tears of joy for His goodness and He put something powerful on her heart. He told her that she was able to trust the people in the driveway to take care of what was going on outside, she needed to completely trust Him for what He was doing inside her.
I know the Lord has been talking to us since we invited Jesus into our hearts, but we have never slowed down enough to hear Him to the level that we are now. He is ALWAYS present and always directing our footsteps. We are just now finally starting to listen with intention more than ever and following His direction more than ever. It is a beautiful relationship and brings such amazing peace.
So much more to add, but I have gone on long enough. As I mentioned, we have come home under the care of Hospice and it has been a huge blessing. Hospice is helping us to manage my healed wife’s comfort and the pick line is allowing us to continue some of our therapies at home. The circumstances have tried to tell us otherwise, but the TRUTH is in the word of God and He says she is HEALED. She will be out of this bed soon and walking in the park before we know it!
We love you all and thank you for your continued love, support, and prayers.
….All the time God is good.
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