This trip was a wild ride. The apathy leading up to it was pretty hard core – it seems that everytime I go to KC I totally lose interest right before. Without fail this apathetic feeling is a precursor to something huge happening. Sure enough.
I went for my second Joseph Company “Cities of Refuge” conference this year. This was regarding marketplace ministry. So this JoCo was held 3 miles away from the prayer room which made me rather dependent on the shuttle and common charity. It was also 25 hours of content stuffed into 2 long days. On Thursday I treated Isaac and my hosts to some Jack Stack because they won the CBB contest. Turned out we are all from Philly which was an added bonus.
On Saturday I met Emily for the coffee that she also legitimately won as the CBB contest winner last week. I then shuttled down for the final day of the conference.
Well just a little bit into the teaching I began getting an enormous headache as well as some serious fever symptoms. It just kept getting worse as the session progressed to the point of my thinking “I haven’t felt this bad in 2 years!” And I really had not. Was convinced I would have to skip the next session to nap if I could.
So I forgave myself for drinking the soda they gave me on the flight out here and asked Jesus to heal me up anyway and did some silent spiritual warfare techniques. It was miserable.
Then the session was closing and they opened the session for prayer and words for people – I figured why not just pray for a few people. I felt slightly better after doing so. In short after lunch I started feeling much better and was feeling great by the end of the day. Also ended up getting a rather public prophetic word at the last session. I’ve never been called out to that degree and it is a bit awkward since I had to stuff my false humility and just receive this rather glowing affirmation with everybody there watching.
My flight leaves in 5 hours. I’ve got a few hours left to enjoy the prayer room.
Pray for Elizabeth Edwards
A few posts ago, I mentioned how Jack Frost, one of my few personal heroes, died of cancer. It has been about a week now that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of candidate John Edwards, has announced that her own breast cancer is very serious, perhaps even inoperable.
Many viewers of this blog do not truly believe in “divine healing”, due to theological issues, experiential issues, or perhaps a loved one was accused of “not having enough faith” before succumbing to cancer. Any of these things will greatly influence your mindset beyond the power of any blog to persuade you. But I’m sure you are probably more moved than I am by any situation involving a terminal disease.
I’m not interested in stirring up any wounds or debating anything right now, but I think it would be entirely appropriate, if not expected, to focus prayer for any candidate on either side of the political spectrum. Please pray according to your “faith level” – if you are confident that God heals, pray accordingly. If you really don’t know, admit this and ask God to touch her regardless. Let’s all just pray for this situation.
Elizabeth is not the only one suffering with this disease. If you have someone else with cancer on your heart, comment on the situation and I will do my small part to cover it and agree with you.
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