Multiplication Miracle
For those of you who doubt that mini-miracles take place today, please consider the feedback below regarding a request I made a few weeks ago. A subscriber to this list, Robin Franzen, just “happened” to be in the Cedarburg, Wisconsin area (a nine-hour drive from her home) for a job interview, and just “happened” to pop in on an old friend, Dorothy Raebner, who was receiving cancer therapy. Robin noticed that Dorothy had lost the zest she’d always had. She could hardly move around, and seemed depressed. “I wonder if this is the last time I’ll ever see her,” Robin thought. But what could she do to help?
When Robin returned home, she acted on an impulse, wrote me (a person she’s never met) and asked that I request some “cheer-up” cards for Dorothy.
I just “happened” to have enough extra space and time that week, and published the plea for you (people that I’ve never met) to read. What do you think “happened” next? Let Robin tell you:
“I called my friend Dorothy yesterday to see how she was doing and it was as though I was talking to the Dorothy I knew 15 years before! She has had such a wonderful outpouring of prayers, cards, love, and responses, from strangers from all over the world, which has completely overwhelmed her. She
cannot believe that people would show a stranger such generosity, give of themselves, write prayers of comfort, and send small gifts to someone they don’t even know. She was overwhelmed with awe and renewed thanks and praise for our great God.
“She’s received beautiful cards from Spain, Germany, England, India, the Philippines (to name only a few), people have sent her letters sharing their own personal experiences fighting the same cancer, and telling her not to give up hope. A lady in Texas sent her some books on healing, and the list goes on.
All in all, Dorothy received almost 600 cards! And the prayers from people…the miracles don’t stop here! She saw her doctor two weeks ago and her cancer tumor has started to shrink and she’s been able to do more things around her house again and she has more energy! Yes, it could be the chemotherapy, but I give most of the credit to the greater power of God. I really appreciate you putting my request out there. Never could I imagine such an awesome response!”
Now here’s an interesting question that Robin raises about happenstance and timing. “Why did you write my request to your readers?” she asks me.
“You didn’t have to. But you did! Tons of others in the world right now are fighting life-threatening illnesses. Why this case? Why Dorothy? Why now?
Why did some of your readers feel compelled to answer and reach out? They could have put the request away. They could have ignored it. Forgotten it.
What made a few little words so special? Special enough to receive the attention of so many people?”
I’m not sure, but I think this is a wonderful example of God multiplying our offerings, just as with the loaves and fishes, reassuring us that we are not expected to move life’s mountains, but just to add something small to the pile. Life is a series of choices, and as we have discovered so often, many
smalls make a Great. Thank you, generous readers.
(C) 2003 Joan Wester Anderson www.joanwanderson.com
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My son was involved in a car accident in 2007. He was Lifewatched to a hospital where my first two sons were born asnhe was found not breathing. He had a collapsed lung,destroyed spleen,damaged gall bladder, broken ribs and nerve damage because a a nerve going down through his broken pelvic bone was damaged.Doctors didnt know if he would recover, and if he did, whether he would have control of his basic body functions, such as bowel control or sexual function.He was on a ventilator, and two tubes red with the blood draining from his chest cavity and lower extremity.
I prayed with my son and asked for God’s mercy and healing. I began to give thanks to God for his healing, and asked that all things be for his Glory. God’s grace filled me and as I walked around my son with outstrectched hands over his injured body, that grace and healing entered into my son. His vital signs strengthened.The attendant on duty said whatever I was doing, to keep doing it, because it was working.
I asked everyone I knew to be of faith and who prayed to God to ask for my sons full recovery, especially to heal his lung and the nerve damage. I called churches with prayer services and asked them to pray for him.
My son made a full recovery.
The power of prayer is great indeed.
I one day hope to write of my experience and others.
I ask that God bless Billy Hurley with strength and angelic presence, to remove the diseased cells within his body and replace them with new healthy vibrant cells. I ask God to ease Billy’s suffering and bring him peace,to extend his mercy and loving kindness to every cell in his body and fill it with love and light. For Gods Glory alone,that he may be known for his love and power, I ask our heavenly father to send healing to Billy Hurley.
I ENCOURAGE EVERY CHRISTIAN, WHEN YOU FEEL THE HOLY SPIRIT, TUGGIN AT YOUR HEART, TO DO WHAT HE HAS ASK YOU TO DO, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, OR BIG, IF JUST TO SEND A CARD, OR TELL SOMEONE THEY LOOK NICE OR WHATEVER, JUST DO IT, SOMETIMES PEOPLE FORGET THAT CHRISTIANS NEED ENCOURAGING TOO. MAY YOU ALL HAVE A BLESS 4TH OF JULY.
Beautiful I too could use your prayers about my healing of cancer