Posted on 03/10/2010 8:24:31 AM PST by Judith Anne
My son in law, Sam, went into the ER with severe abdominal pain the night before last; a CT scan showed a bowel obstruction, tumor, on the right side. He had surgery last night, and 5-6 inches of bowel were removed due to cancer. The doctors said there was no way to foresee this, as he is fairly young. He and my daughter have insurance to take care of the medical expenses, but they have three children under 15. After the surgery, the doctor said he was "cautiously optimistic" but the pathology reports are not due until Thursday, and at that time they'll start to work up a treatment plan.
This is a tremendous unforeseen blow to this nice young family, I'm babysitting for the grandkids while my daughter spends time at the hospital. She's strong, and so is he, their faith is in the Lord. He's Baptist, she's Catholic, they've been happily married 16 years.
Prayers
Thank you for the ping, knittnmom.
Praying for the complete recovery and well-being of your dear s-i-l, Judith Anne. Giving thanks that his cancer was discovered so that it could be treated and praying that it all was removed. Prayers for all your family during this difficult and anxious time.
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Prayers for Sam and your family.
Father, we ask for healing and comfort for Sam and his family. We pray, too, that all those caring for Sam will be blessed with wisdom and patience.
Our hearts are at peace trusting in You.
I join in urgent prayer for your son-in-law and all the family!
Prayers up for strength and healing.
Done, in The Name of Jesus.
Yes Yes Yes will pray...Thank God that they are in the faith as I do not know how anyone can get threw these types of issues with out God......
Heavenly Father, You are awesome. You are worthy of all praise. Lord I lift this family up to you, ask for you to give them your peace that passes all understanding. Meet their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. We ask for health and healing from the top of his head to the tips of his toes. May your presence be felt and if any of the visitors or staff do not know you as their Savior, may your Holy Spirit give them a hunger & thirst to know you. For your Glory we pray. Amen
Prayers going up!
Prayers for your son-in-law and family.
There is so much doctors can do for cancer patients today. So many new treatments are available. The main concern should be the surgery. Don’t let them give him solid foods too soon. And, if he feels any pain at all after the surgery, or if he’s having trouble breathing, the family must demand the surgeon be alerted right away.
What a beautiful, comforting thought.
Praying for Sam and your family.
cautiously optimistic??
My prayers for him.
Judith Anne ~ May you and your family find encouragement, assurance, and healing as you pray these words for, and over, your beloved son-in-law. Penned by a husband for his wife, Patsy, the husband prayed until he saw Patsy return from the brink to robust health. And may it be so for Sam. In the Name of the Great Physician, Amen ...
HEALING CONFESSION
Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your Living Word. You said that Your Word is Life to those who find it and medicine to all our flesh. Today, by my confession, I apply Your Word to our body by giving voice to it. You said in Psalm 139:14 that we are fearfully and wonderfully made and that Your works are marvelous. I declare that You made us and we are a marvelous creation.
I speak to sickness and disease today and proclaim that according to Philippians 2:10 that they must bow down to the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every name in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth bows its knee to Jesus’ name.
I speak to our body today and declare that we have authority over it. I command it to receive the Word of God. Matthew 8:17 proclaims that Jesus bore our sickness and took our infirmities. Heavenly Father, I thank You that the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us and makes alive our mortal body.
I speak to our immune system and command it to line up with the Word of God. Our immune system will destroy sickness and disease in our body and perform its job, for this is what You created it to do. I thank You, Father, that every cell in our body responds to Your Word. Your Word permeates our body from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet. I confess that the Word of God is being made flesh in us. Psalm 103:3 declares that You, Father, forgave all our iniquities and healed all our diseases. Father, that is Your confession and I make it our confession also. We don’t judge by the sight of our eyes; we judge by Your Living Word. It is Your Word that lives in us and brings health and healing to every part of our body.
Heavenly Father, we rejoice at Your promise of divine health. You said it and we believe it. Today I declare that we will see Your Promise of healing manifest in our body. Healing is ours because Jesus paid the price two thousand years ago. God so loved us that He sent His Son to die on the cross so that we could experience life on God’s terms. His abundant life is manifesting in us. Make us whole ~ body, soul, and spirit. Amen …
My heart felt prayers are up for Sam.
Yes, depending on the pathology reports.
Thank you so much Pegita, and thank you everyone. I sure wish you could know him, his great sense of humor, his passionate love for my daughter and their children, his care and concern for his parents and family, his intelligence, just a great guy.
He was so enormously kind to me when my husband was dying; he is just an all around fine man.
Prayers for your son-in-law, Judith.
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