Calling out to all prayer warriors!!
I’m writing to you from Richard’s hospital room. We’ve been here for a week and a half, originally admitted for fluid in the abdomen and jaundice. We’ve since come to find out that he indeed has an obstruction in his bile duct. Last Thursday, he had and ERCP procedure (in-depth endoscopy) that placed two stents in the liver bile duct. Today we found out that the stents were not successfully helping the obstruction and, hence, he had to go in for CT scan this afternoon. This evening, we received a phone call from the doctor informing us that they want to go in again tomorrow (Sunday) to perform a second ERCP, in hopes of repositioning the previously-inserted stents.
This is where we’re at. We will be heading to UCLA Westwood early tomorrow morning for the procedure.
The battle rages and we believe the WAR has escalated on both Spiritual and physical fronts. We KNOW you are praying on our behalf and we soooo appreciate it! We are continually seeking the Presence of God, first and foremost, and we believe we’re called to stand in faith. We’ve sought the wisdom of the medical community and they are doing the best that they can, but the Lord is the ONLY One who can heal Richard of this disease; the only One who can remove the symptoms; the only One who can restore his body to its healthy state. Conventional medicine offers only temporary hope, which is why we seek and put our Hope in the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth!! Our God healed the sick, caused the blind to see… and was resurrected from the dead after three days… He CAN heal Richard of cancer! Why do we believe this? Because God’s character has never changed. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. If He healed then, He can heal now! Please stand with us, believing for the Lord to touch Richard, even tonight.
Thank you again! Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, love, acts of service and offers to bless us with your talents. I have been completely blown away at how the Lord has perfectly orchestrated people to be at our hospital door when we’ve needed it the most! Thusfar we’ve had 4-5 Christian nurses pray over Richard… the last one was today….in Spanish. i told Richard that I’m encouraged that he’s going to walk away from this situation healed AND fluent in spanish! Now that would be a miracle 😉 COME LORD!!!
Maria (and Richard)
P.S. If you are led to send correspondence or words of encouragement, please do so. However, I will most likely NOT be able to respond, for obvious reasons. Thanks for understanding.