By His Wounds We Are Healed

Isaiah 53:5 says, "But He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on Him, and by his wounds we are healed."

Believing this verse to be true, my friend Jeff and I have made a decision that everyday at 7am, noon, and 7pm that we are going to pray for some sick people we know. I have a reminder set up on my phone to remind me everyday in case I forget. Pretty crazy, I know. But hey, I'd rather be crazy for Christ than sane for nothing.

Meet Jeff's aunt Lynn, one of the people we have been praying for. She was recently diagnosed with cancer. I received this email today forwarded from Lynn's family:

Today at UCLA we were NOT expecting the results of the P.E.T./CT scan of last Friday to be what we heard:

"Your scan was clean!"

"You are a Miracle!" - 3 times she said (the nurse practitioner) before we met with the doctor who confirmed...

We are still going for a Cure, she said!

Of course she still needs the stem-cell transplant, and has 75%+ collected as of now, so it looks like the docs will put their collective heads together Monday and decide the best way to collect the remaining...probably the 'old fashioned way' of going into the bone marrow to get them...

(the collection process up til now has been to separate them from the blood, in the new, relatively easy and painless way)

All this to say, she is not out of the woods by any means, and will undoubtedly need the good Lord's continued hand, and your prayers...

Thank you & may God bless YOU in your struggles, whatever they might be!

By His wounds, we are healed. This is just the beginning. To the man with faith, no explanation is necessary. to the man without faith, no explanation is possible.

Gloria Dios!,

~Justin