I so get it. I felt the same kinds of things you describe when my disabled boy was born.
Our faith seems to be stronger at times than others.
I'm glad you shared your experiences with healing - because we Mormon's have become complacent in our belief of healing and instead have put our trust in man and the medical system.
Like you I don't think this misplaced faith in man is what God has in mind for us. I think He wants us to believe Him when He says we can be healed and heal others if we JUST BELIEVE in HIM. Especially if we are committed Christians who just want to serve Him in any way possible.
During the shutdowns I gave a blessing to my neighbors and got the strong impression that he would be healed in 2 days and he was. I didn't give his wife a blessing and she died. No idea why the person giving her a blessing didn't command her to be healed or say something similar to what I said.
Was heartbreaking to learn this weeks later when I was in the ICU. I feel that I have faith most of the time to heal others yet overnight I went from athlete to invalid.
All I could do was look around the room I was in and gasp for breath as my adrenaline keep my heart racing at 132-168 bpm for weeks on end with 40 liters/min of oxygen blowing in my mouth. Was absolute torture.
For reference my resting heart rate is 40 bpm and I usually don't get over 150 bpm when I sprint.
I could only breathe a cup of air into my lungs a month out of the hospital without choking. My wife prayed for 2-3 hours every day for my life and others fasted and prayed as well. I am certain my surviving was a miracle that not one in a thousand people could have survived and I have been into cycle racing so I have much better lungs and circulatory ability than a normal person by 4x or more.
I kept praying with a childlike faith knowing that God promised me 2 more children and I kept thinking about my wonderful wife and how sad it would be to leave her. Yet I didn't even see how I could survive what I was going through. Was straight too much for a human body.
Yet I was voted to remain on the Island by my wife, friends and Heavenly Parents. So I got a second chance at life. I'm glad to be here and I want to do so much. I's still recovering and it's been the ultimate life challenge - yet like Job I know I'm going to win in the end.
Anyway - I now understand what others go through - this is the only time in my life where working out at the gym has been hard for me. I know what it feels like to be a 90 year old man now. It's unreal what so many people are experiencing I had no idea as a competitive gymnast. I was strong, fit and almost immortal until the recent HIV and Furrin Complex (so it can be spread airborne) spliced virus they created.
I think God will always pull our very heartstrings in every way possible to draw us closer to Him and this approach works to develop our character and faith more and more until we are better and more like Him. :)
Yeah - it's one thing to have faith to heal others and another to be healed ourselves, isn't it? It's also interesting how sometimes the spirit of healing comes upon us and miracles happen while at other times, we feel more spiritual and open to that spirit but it doesn't happen at all.
Meanwhile, I presume you have a more urgent purpose in life? a more pressing desire to fulfill your calling on earth?
John Taylor (4x) recorded Joseph teaching that if God could have found a way to try Abraham more deeply, he would have done it.
Yes very much a more urgent feeling of doing more, serving more and developing more understanding as well as my character. :)
I've not heard that about John Taylor - it makes sense that those who can or will develop their character the most will also be tried the most so they can develop their character faster and more completely. I now know that we can be tried way beyond our ability to survive, cope whatever without God's miracles. I see everything differently now.
it’s hard for me to tell. my life’s worst moment was post-op when they told me she was asleep but a child was crying horribly and graphically and it tore at my heart … and then found out it was my daughter and they said it was only shock and she wasn’t feeling anything as she was crying in anguish from losing 1/2 of both feet. I held her and prayed she’d have one spike of pain to make her pass out and she did. She slept peacefully after that. Then I had to pray NOT to attack the moron attending her saying she was in. no pain.
I so get it. I felt the same kinds of things you describe when my disabled boy was born.
Our faith seems to be stronger at times than others.
I'm glad you shared your experiences with healing - because we Mormon's have become complacent in our belief of healing and instead have put our trust in man and the medical system.
Like you I don't think this misplaced faith in man is what God has in mind for us. I think He wants us to believe Him when He says we can be healed and heal others if we JUST BELIEVE in HIM. Especially if we are committed Christians who just want to serve Him in any way possible.
During the shutdowns I gave a blessing to my neighbors and got the strong impression that he would be healed in 2 days and he was. I didn't give his wife a blessing and she died. No idea why the person giving her a blessing didn't command her to be healed or say something similar to what I said.
Was heartbreaking to learn this weeks later when I was in the ICU. I feel that I have faith most of the time to heal others yet overnight I went from athlete to invalid.
All I could do was look around the room I was in and gasp for breath as my adrenaline keep my heart racing at 132-168 bpm for weeks on end with 40 liters/min of oxygen blowing in my mouth. Was absolute torture.
For reference my resting heart rate is 40 bpm and I usually don't get over 150 bpm when I sprint.
I could only breathe a cup of air into my lungs a month out of the hospital without choking. My wife prayed for 2-3 hours every day for my life and others fasted and prayed as well. I am certain my surviving was a miracle that not one in a thousand people could have survived and I have been into cycle racing so I have much better lungs and circulatory ability than a normal person by 4x or more.
I kept praying with a childlike faith knowing that God promised me 2 more children and I kept thinking about my wonderful wife and how sad it would be to leave her. Yet I didn't even see how I could survive what I was going through. Was straight too much for a human body.
Yet I was voted to remain on the Island by my wife, friends and Heavenly Parents. So I got a second chance at life. I'm glad to be here and I want to do so much. I's still recovering and it's been the ultimate life challenge - yet like Job I know I'm going to win in the end.
Anyway - I now understand what others go through - this is the only time in my life where working out at the gym has been hard for me. I know what it feels like to be a 90 year old man now. It's unreal what so many people are experiencing I had no idea as a competitive gymnast. I was strong, fit and almost immortal until the recent HIV and Furrin Complex (so it can be spread airborne) spliced virus they created.
I think God will always pull our very heartstrings in every way possible to draw us closer to Him and this approach works to develop our character and faith more and more until we are better and more like Him. :)
Yeah - it's one thing to have faith to heal others and another to be healed ourselves, isn't it? It's also interesting how sometimes the spirit of healing comes upon us and miracles happen while at other times, we feel more spiritual and open to that spirit but it doesn't happen at all.
Meanwhile, I presume you have a more urgent purpose in life? a more pressing desire to fulfill your calling on earth?
John Taylor (4x) recorded Joseph teaching that if God could have found a way to try Abraham more deeply, he would have done it.
Yes very much a more urgent feeling of doing more, serving more and developing more understanding as well as my character. :)
I've not heard that about John Taylor - it makes sense that those who can or will develop their character the most will also be tried the most so they can develop their character faster and more completely. I now know that we can be tried way beyond our ability to survive, cope whatever without God's miracles. I see everything differently now.
I hear you - I often wonder about the “tempted beyond your ability “ scripture
Wow, Drew. Thank you for sharing such an impactful miracle. Incredibly uplifting.
Thanks for sharing some tough memories. It is truly uplifting.
Sure thing - I love hearing other people's stories - sometimes I forget these things uplift both directions. God bless
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I've heard the daughter story before, but it still got me in the feels.
it’s hard for me to tell. my life’s worst moment was post-op when they told me she was asleep but a child was crying horribly and graphically and it tore at my heart … and then found out it was my daughter and they said it was only shock and she wasn’t feeling anything as she was crying in anguish from losing 1/2 of both feet. I held her and prayed she’d have one spike of pain to make her pass out and she did. She slept peacefully after that. Then I had to pray NOT to attack the moron attending her saying she was in. no pain.
The Lord is my Shepherd.
Thank you for doing this podcast.
I am glad to get to know you a little more. Blessings