Monday November 17th 2008 Andews Heart . Gods Grace

I woke early this morrning thinking back to the origional Hospital Mark was in (St. Lukes on Eagle rd).  Mark was still in the Crital Care Unit.  Mark was not out of the coma yet.  Andew Slender came by to see Mark.  I had the opertunity to set alone and talk with Andew.  We talked about alot of things.  I told Andrew how God had told Uncle John that God was going to use Mark earlier this summer  (Uncle John had called Mark and told Mark this and Mark said"I sure hpoe so").   I also told Andew about another incident Mark had.  Dad, Mark and I were flying back from Biggy Bunfield's funarel and we could not all set together Dad was more to the front.   Mark was in the middle of the plane and I was in the back.   I then told Andew about the women on the plane that had missed her flight and how she had to cacth the flight we were on.  This women had started talking to Mark about the Lord, she told Mark that she belived God was going to use him, and she believed she missed her flight just because of Mark.   Mark called me up from the back of the plane and interduced me to her.  This lady was wearing a cross on her neck.   She had a beautiful smile I told her right away that you must be a chirstian, she said" yes".  Then mark told me what she had told him.  I did not talk long to her becaues I thought I would give Mark more of a chance to talk with her.  We landed back in Boise and we got off the plane Mark and I had a chance to talk briefly about what had just happened.  Mark told me that he wanted to be closer to the Lord again.  I told Mark that he could be closer to the Lord again.  I was very happy to see Mark was wanting to get back to where he once was Mark had not been very happy the last few years.   

Andew had told me that he was alot like Mark and that he had not been close to the Lord in the Summers.  Andew had said that he was like a fear weather chirstian.  That he went to church more around ceritan people and that at times he would dirft away.   Andew had said" that what I was saying about Mark sounded like him".  I could see the senceitrity in Andews face when he told me these things.  I could see that Anderw longed to be closer to the Lord and he was disapointed that he had let himself drift away.  Anderw and Mark are not the only people that do this we all tend to do this.  I am thankful to God that he draws us back to him.  God does this out of love for us.  God loves us so much even when we forget him he does not forget us!   God loves us too much to forget us!  Could any one of us forget our own child?  No, not even if they forgot us.  We would be just like the father that wecomed back the protical son.  How much more is God waiting for us to come back to him?  What will God do to bring us back to him.  What would we do to find our lost child?  Would we give up?  No we would keep searching for our childern until we found them.  This is what God does for us, he dose not give up on us.   Gods love for us is so great!   How could he forget us just becaues we forget him,  God knows our human nature he knew what we would do before he created us that is why he made a way for us from the very begining.  Once Adam sinned he seperated himself from God he hid himself because he knew what he had done.  God still loved Adam.   God cloathed Adam himself.   God then had to seperated himself from Adam becasue God Is holy and he can not be in the presance of sin.  God provided a way back to him within the frist generation of Adam so that none would be lost threw Able.  God had put in Ables heart the need to provied a sacrifice for sin that was the pure spotless lamb.  A sign  of purety.  The blood that was shed was a price to be piad for sin.  When we sin we can not stand before God, God is holy our sins seperate us from a Holy God.   Able knew that payment had to be made before he could stand before a Holy God.  God had put this in Ables heart.  Ables frist sacifice was done so we would see the need for the aultimate sacrifice done for us out of love (Jesus Chirst).  The Blood of Jesus Chirst are Lord was shed out of love for us so that we might know him.  So we might love him, the way he loves us. 

O Lord open our eyes so we can see your love for us.  Alow us to feel your preceance all the time.  Please help us not to stray from you.  Keep our hearts after yours!   Not of things of this world!  Keep our minds focesed on you!  Not on the things of this world! 

 I was thinking about the name of Able the seconed son of Adam I tought of his name. I thought Able was able to be be obediant to God.  Able also saw what God had intended in the sacrefice of the Lamb.  God had revealed this in Able's heart, what needed to be done.  I would want to be like Able obediant to your will and to know your will so that your perpous can be done in me!

Once you have had a relationship with the Lord and you drift away a lonelyness sets in.  You can not be truley happy because God brings about true Joy ,Peace ,and  sound mind, you no longer trust in worldly things because you see that they are all temperarey.  With God in control you know that he will work all things to the good that love him.  Romans 8: 28 And we know that all things God works for the good of those who love him, how have been called according to his purpose.  N.I.V. Without knowing God is in control we lose sight of the things that God is capable of doing.  Things we once gave him to take care of we now think we have to do ourself.  We worry becaues we think we are in control.  We all know what happens when we are, things are a mess.  When God truly takes over our lives thier is a true peace, a peace that serpaces all under standing.  Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all under standing, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. N.I.V.  We have to allow God to be God in our lives to have what I have been takling about, true peace. 

 I also told Andew about how God had just done a miracle in my own boy Mark's life just about six months before all this had happened to my brother.  My boy Mark was being tested at school because his grades were really bad.  My boy Mark has also had two head engeries.  When I went in for a teachers conference a special meeting to meet with the staff and a specialest Doctor( A Pediatrition Neurololigist Psychiatis Doc. Woody).  I was informed that my boy Mark tested  mentaly retarted on the right hemisphere of his brain.  I was informed by the doctor that Mark had a non verble learning disorder, Mark has a hard time putting things down on paper or doing puzzle or crossword puzzle anything that he had to do with wrighting he was failing at it.  I was devesated when the Doctor looked at me and told me this.  I was handed my rights as a prarent of a handiecap child and I was told that they would retest Mark and I would have another meeting with them in about six to eight weeks.  I was told this because this is the law.  I also was told not to exept any changes when I came again for the next meeting.  You see Mark has a huge Cume they have been testing Mark for along time they had everthing they need to acess Mark properley.   I read this in those papers that they gave me that was the right of every parent that has a child with a handiecap.  The Doctor did not suspect a change that is why he told me this.  I left that meeting crying I called Hank and told him what had happen I ask him If we could meet he said he would be right over I told him everything the Doctor had said   We prayed, for God to take care of our boy we also prayed God would heal our boy.  I called on other people of faith to pray for Mark our son.  I went to church that Sunday and there was a special guest speacker that Sunday he preach on Celibrations and Miracles.  This speacker said we should celibrate what God has done for us.  We have celibrated every year since our boy Mark had gotten ran over April 19 th. 2002  God alowed Mark to live we have been so thankful every since this happened.  You see we celibrate what God has done for Mark every sincie.  Then the speacker said we should exept God for miracles.  When the sevrice was over I went the alter and I ask for healing for our boy.  Mark was below me in the childern church sericevis.  The elder of the church anointed my head with oil and he prayed for God to have his way with Mark.  We prayed God would heal him and we thank God for his goodness. Hank and I went to the secouncd  meeting at school togther and we were told  by the doctor that he did not understand But mark tested perfectly normal in all ares that he did not before.  We understud God had healed our son.  We have seen God miracles before and we know that God is capeble of doing any thing!  God your are a God of Miracles all we have to do is belive in you!///   I told Anderw about what had happen with our boy Mark and I had told him that God can do anything all we have to do is beleive.  I also told him that we believed that God was going to heal my brother Mark, and God has brought Mark back to life.  God has saved my  brother evrything he has been doing is a miracle in its self.  Thank you God for all the miracles you have done in all our lives!  thank you for showing your love for us thought these miracles!  How great are You O god? 

I just found out today that Andew's older sister Samtha  is haveing idencal twins.  Samtha first altasound did not show up as twins the doctor told her she was going to have only one baby.  Today she went in for another aultrasound  and they saw to little girls.  I spoke to her Mom Andy slender and Andy had told me that Samtha was wanting twins from when she was alittle girl.  How good you are O God to bless Samtha with what her hearts desires!