Friday, December 4, 2015

Originally Posted: Healed

***When I came back to Chicago nearly 3 years ago for my surgery, I started a blog as one place all family and friends could go to read updates on my health. I then realized it was also a way of promoting awareness. Shortly after that, I started a second blog, for the purpose of sharing my faith. As time went on, I became convicted about something.

It was wrong of me to separate the two, as my faith, Jesus, is the absolute reason for my strength in getting through this. I could not exclude Him from my health blog even if others suggested to do so. Thus, I started talking more about my faith on my main blog. Now, many times, it's more about Him than me, which is where I came up with the current title 'About Me, Not About Me'. This story may be about me, but really it's not about me, it's about Him. That old blog still sits out there no longer being used. So I decided over time I will begin to move those posts from there to here to have everything in one place.

In just beginning to read some of my first posts, I've realized the amount of work God has truly done in me. A lot of times we hate the journey and want to get to our next destination, but it is in that very journey that God molds you into who He created you to be. Enjoy each mile of your own journey and know that God is working through you if you let Him.***

Originally Posted: August 11, 2013
Healed

So this post is half for my other blog, half for this blog, but I have a feeling I need to post it here so that is what I am doing. I've been told to write this I think since yesterday. I put it off and said I would do it today. Then today rolled around and I'm worn out so I was thinking it's ok to do tomorrow. But then, I read a passage someone wrote to me, the same one I just talked on in my other blog. I took that as my cue to get on writing. I am including a link to my most recent post from my other blog here in case you want to read.

http://fightmg.blogspot.com/2013/08/medication-inclination.html

Anyways, I'm starting this new heart medication tomorrow. Yes, I'm a bit nervous considering my history of reaction to meds and its potential specifically in regards to MG. But I'm trying my best to give it up to God and trust completely 100% in Him.

So what I've been told to write on, and when I say told I am almost always referring to the voice of God I hear in my head... what I've been told to write on is... that I am healed.

I am healed. This is a bold statement to make. But I believe it, or I'm trying my best to believe it. Your thoughts lead to your future. God wants you to be positive. How can you have faith in Him if you talk negatively and expect the worst? God is able, in every sense of the way. God wants me healed. God will heal me. God has healed me. He knows my past, present and future. I want to be healed by God, not by medication. I will always praise Him for all things good in life.

So what are all these symptoms? Hey, maybe they take time to go away? All I know is I need to believe I am healed in order to be on the road to recovery. Full recovery. If God can take someone who had cancer and make that cancer disappear as some have reported... If God can take someone who is paralyzed and make them walk as some have reported... If God can create this entire world we live in... God can certainly heal me. And He will.

God wants you to dream big. He doesn't want you to ask for just the little things or think it's never going to happen. What message does that put out to him? That says I can't trust or don't trust that you will do this. We can't send that message. We need to send the message that we DO trust Him 100% and we know, we KNOW he wants the best for us. But at the same time we must ALWAYS send that glory up to Him, praise and thank Him, give Him the credit, not take it for ourselves.

Some can't turn their life to God because they think they will be giving it up, can't do it "their way." Well if only we all had the knowledge that we would want it the same that God wants it if we are gifted with the Holy Spirit and living in the Spirit. We want the best for us. He wants the best for us. The difference is, He KNOWS what's best for us. So let's give it up to Him and trust that He WILL take care of us. Always.

Back to that passage... He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20

Lord, please Grant me faith the size of a mustard seed, and through that faith allow me to experience your healing in body and soul. Heal all areas of my life and the lives of my loved ones. Lord, please grant us all the trust to put You first, and glorify You in all good things we do. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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