God Has the Power to Heal

Today has been one of those days where we needed prayers from morning until night.  I started feeling "off" this morning and just kind of felt that this could be one of those spiritual attack kind of days.  I knew that a big reason I felt that way was because of my plan to dig deeper into the gospel today with the kids.  Satan doesn't want the kids to hear or understand the gospel so that they can choose to become a part of God's family.  How our VBS works is that we teach in one station and then the children rotate through.  So by the end of the morning, we had presented the gospel four different times.  There were quite a few children who met with helpers to learn more.  Some were serious about wanting to learn more about becoming a child of God, some were asking if their animals would go to heaven and some asked deep questions such as wondering about the reality of heaven and God, why God created the devil, why doesn't God rescue people from hell, etc.  Only the Lord knows how many children were added to His family, but I am so excited to see how many seeds were planted.  I was also excited as Anne was able to be one of the counselors....this was her first time she had had to share the gospel with others.  We pray that the seeds that were planted will be watered by Jesus and that He will continue to work in the hearts and lives of the children.

This brings me to the other major prayer request of the day.  This afternoon, while I was at the bank getting our debit card situation straightened out, Anne was babysitting the children.  I'm not sure if we will ever know the full details, but what we do know is that this....

met Jonathan's eye.  The doctor at the ER said he had a scratched cornea and that it should heal on its own.  He is on an antibiotic to help prevent an infection setting in.  We praise the Lord that it wasn't any worse and that He protected Jonathan's eye.  Jonathan's eye is red and sore, and his vision in that eye is a bit blurry making it difficult for him to get around very well (he ends up closing both of his eyes) so we pray that in a few days he will be doing much better.  The drops the doctor put in his eyes to allow him to see what was going on caused Jonathan's eye to turn green....for which Jonathan was quite excited about. 

These pictures were taken right after we left the ER and before he got to see what his green eye looked like so he doesn't look too thrilled here.  I don't know if you can tell or not, but the part that is the brightest in his left eye is where the scratch actually is located.  The orange around his eyes is from the drops they used to deaden his eye. 

Thank you so much for continuing to cover us in prayer.  Can you guess what our lessons are about in VBS tomorrow?  God has the power to heal!!