Faithfully Fighting

I want to talk a little about this past Sunday.  I finally didn’t have a treatment and was able to go to church.  Sometimes you know you are missing something, but you don’t realize how much you are missing it until you go back to it.  That’s how I felt Sunday.  Oh, don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t always easy.  I sat in Sunday school, my ladies class, with such joy.  As Gail began the lesson I kind of got a vibe from her (a couple of big sighs, looking at her notes a little too long – she hardly every looks at them).  Then she started teaching a beautiful lesson on Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath (I Kings 17:7-24).  Elijah’s faith in God, didn’t waiver.  God told him what to do and he did it, even if it meant hiding out and eating what ravens brought him to eat.  Then, in faith, he cries out to God to heal the widow’s son.  What kind of faith that took!  He’d never done that before, he was a profit, on the run.  How did he know that God would heal that boy.  He could have just said “It must have been the Lord’s will” or “We don’t really know God’s plan”.  But he cried out to the Lord and the Lord heard Elijah’s cry.  I was humbled by his faith.  

Then I went to church to hear a guest missionary, Michael Graham.  He said he wasn’t preaching the same lesson that he had in the early service.  He read one scripture verse – Psalm 85:6 Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?   He proceeded to convict hearts about revival, and doing the Lord’s work.  We are missing the blessings, to ourselves and others, by not looking up from our selfish worlds and seeing the Lord’s work that needs to be done.  I cannot do his powerful message justice, but it convicted my heart.  I felt lifted away from my own little concentrated area of “what-ifs” and see that I have some work to do. 

I don’t usually preach on my blog.  I am a story teller, always have been.  So I’m done now.  But it is wonderful when you receive the Lord’s blessing and hold it in your heart. 

I’m back to work, and it is wonderful!!!  I don’t know if I’m contributing, yet, but I feel it is where I should be right now.  I’ve got treatments on Fridays.  Last week I just got Herceptin (to slow down the Her2 positive, cancer growth) and this week I’ll get Taxol (chemo) and Herceptin.  I didn’t have any problems last Friday and expect this one to be just as fine.  This will be my new regiment for at least 12 weeks.  Pete is taking me this week and we plan on hitting Rita’s Italian Ice stand after treatment!!  Maybe we could make it a standard practice! 

Thank you all for blessing me with prayer!  I am praying for you too, everyday!

God Bless,

Lynn

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