Prayers for Ma

Dear Saints

Am coveting your prayers for my mom. About two years ago had brought similar requests for the cancer she has been dealing with, primarily a brain tumor.

Yesterday she took a fall and today we brought her in to find that she has broken her hip, surgery is scheduled for the morning, early (Sunday). They also found that she has another brain tumor, something we had supposed was a possibilty and contributed to the fall.

My mom's name is Lynn or Lyndel, to me she is Ma and is a real trooper. Any and all prayers for the Lords will here welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks Bro.

Am heading out to the hospital right now to pray and bring the church to her ...

brother Mike, I will pray to the Lord for your mother.

Praying for your mother and family.

Thanks everyone.

The hip surgery went very well and she is doing really good all things considered. Still able to crack a smile and a laugh ... The Lord is good!

Thought I would mention she is at the aptly named Good Samaritan Hospital, a great staff there, just outstanding.

Praise God

Glad to hear that. :) God is good.

Saints ...

It is difficult at this moment, my thoughts and heart still reeling from our brother who needs our prayers [url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11662&forum=35]PLEASE PRAY[/url] ...

My mother ... My soul! She is just incredible, hearty and tenacious ... Much I could say, but the last 4 days have been tremendous in just a sort of sublime simplicity. There has been a peace the Lord has granted, a sort of 'knowing' that transcends words spoken. The tumor has made for a confusion and a difficulty to express thought, though she is even aware of this and has stated so ... "[i]It is hard for me[/i]" ... [i]"I still can't talk right"[/i]. We communicate by smiles and laughs. She had wonderful visitor from church while I was there yesterday, her best friend she called her, this dear lady had a certain something that met a recognition inwardly as soon as she entered the room ... A praying soul, even before making any mention of these things. For the theologically argumentative, her friend and my folks are Catholic. I pray I need not further stress the point here, but there is much to be learned in practical matters of the faith and I will leave it at that...

The doctors feel that she is hearty enough and that her vitals are strong enough to go ahead with the surgery to remove the tumor, it is in the same area as the last one removed two years back. It carries the risks as well as the benefit that this will help her mobility in healing the other surgery done Sunday on her hip.

I again covet your prayers.

[i]Faith is not a lack of concern nor a presumption on trust[/i]

Hi Mike...

I am praying.

:-)

Praying for your mother.

Thank you brothers

My mom is scheduled for the operation to remove the tumor from her brain @ 11:00am, which is about 2 and half hours from the time now (8:30am)

Asking her last night how she was feeling and how she felt towards the operation, she looked at me askance as if it it was a silly question, "Fine", towards today; "I put my trust in the Lord"

Maybe it's me who needs the prayer ... ;-)

Saints, there is something hard to articulate... "Confidence" is such a ... difficult and spurious, almost dangerous construct. Having seen so much of a later sort that is really a disguised presumption ... Unbelief the opposite extremity... Thrown into the mix is the notorious and devilish anxiety, the sister of unbelief...

Tension, seems to be the word upon my lips while;

[i]Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.[/i] 1Pe 5:7

It is interesting to stop and re-read this. To see what it looks like spelled out. To wonder aloud what it appears as or might be read [i]into[/i] it. It smacks of worry. Just wanting to bear all and be open and honest, my foolishness for your benefit! Am thinking across many lines here being of that peculiar mind that tends to process so many things all at once...

Maybe it is just to cast it all out at once, upon God alone while not alone amongst the brethren. This faith that is ours is a most precious thing, that we might value it above everything. If I could somehow express just what profound possibilities there are by way of prayer ...

Everything to this point with my dear mom is, by way of prayer been effectual and has continued to be so. How this cut's across all aspects of matters great and 'small'! It is the Lord who has done all these things, in His way and with the intercession of His children.

What am I trying to say? Have nothing profound, just stark, even surprising to myself ... transparency eking out.

Trusting the Lord? Oh, absolutely.
How about you? In your concerns and matters?
For your family and loved ones?
For those souls the Lord has laid upon you.

For 'revival'

For the backslidden
For the misguided
For the street preacher and the man in the pulpit

For each other

Here

For the prayer requests that come through

For all things

For Gods sake
And His glory
For the pre-eminence of Jesus

And that He might be known in all power and in all truth.

Of all the spiritual gifts available...
This one...

Prayer

The possibilities!

Be everlastingly at it saints.
I need your's and I dare say...
You need mine.

May God touch you and your Mother.
God Bless
Nellie

Mike,

I am praying even now. Please keep us updated.

:-)

Prayer

The possibilities!

Be everlastingly at it saints.
I need your's and I dare say...
You need mine.

Amen and Amen. So very true. Praying for you and your mother and family brother.

Thank you everyone...

Praise God. The surgery went well, her brain was really swolen from the tumor but 'deflated' after it was removed. Some small concerns about her right side being weak but the coming days will tell. We only got to see her momentarily but ...

My mom is just incredible and the Lord ... I am so thankful. My heart thanks you all.

{quote} Mike
Maybe it's me who needs the prayer ...

Mike, I read the other day that it is often harder to be next to the bed than in it.

Again, thank you saints.

How well you have all read between the lines here.

Mike, I read the other day that it is often harder to be next to the bed than in it.

More so than I would have even imagined. Was kidding all of the family yesterday that it was [i]us[/i] that needed the prayer... Having been a former 'worry wart' think there is still some residue left buried somewhere, quite different than in days past ... The Lord dropped this verse into my thought's out of nowhere yesterday;

...[i] perfect love casteth out fear[/i] 1Jo 4:18

My gratitude knows no end.

Hope I can incorporate (or is it recruit?)and reflect off of this some intercession for our brother here [url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11662&forum=35#91004]PLEASE PRAY[/url] It seems it has become a particular burden and seeing how effective all your prayers have been ... If the Lord leads.

Great saints you are, thank you all.

I'm glad to hear how well your mother is doing. :-)

Hope I can incorporate (or is it recruit?)and reflect off of this some intercession for our brother here PLEASE PRAY It seems it has become a particular burden and seeing how effective all your prayers have been ... If the Lord leads.

Amen. Praying for that brother and his family too.

Mike,

I will continue to pray for HIS mercy and grace upon her. Your mom would be proud to see the work you try to do here on SI.

Warmest regards to this godly lady! May God place much peace on your heart.
mamaluk

Just returned from a visit and ...
My dad (Pa) had been there earlier, checking my email he had sent out to everyone part of it stated;

"WHAT A DIFFERNECE!!" sums it up all to well, my dad is not given to these sorts of exclamations.

Friends, I had\\have tears of joy! She is doing just incredibly well, speaking, movement... whatever concern about some weakness on her right side was quickly elimanted when she thrust out her arm and practically knocked out the IV...

We may have to have her strapped to the bed elsewise she will be up walking around the ICU! :-)

Amazing mom.

Amazing Lord!

Thank you Jesus!

Thank you saints!

PRAISE GOD, Mike! That is wonderful news! We will continue to pray, so please continue to keep us updated.

:-)

Please saints, keep our brother Aaron in your prayers ...

Am humbling myself here and asking if the Lord leads to pray for this situation, I honestly do not know how or even 'what' to pray ...

My mother is dying. Saw her this past weekend and she is not doing very well ... I knew it before the news came and the results of a couple of tests ... Will let my father express it;

"They have decided to discontinue chemotherapy since it doesn't work on her. She has tumors on her lungs, liver and on some of the bones. Radiology is out of the question since the cancers are so widespread. Other techniques that have been used are not suitable for people who have had tumors on the brain. The doctor thinks she may have less than a year to live."

The first thing that came up in my hearing upon hearing what I had already ... figured to be true was;

Jos 23:14 And, behold, this day [i][b]I am going the way of all the earth[/b][/i]: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

A lot of details missing, but we are not coming apart at the seams or overwrought if I could put it that way ... I just again, do not know how to pray ... maybe I do, maybe it's the finality of it all ... Strength, peace, understanding for my Ma and my Pa, words or even better the Lords reflection without them from this one...

Bro Mike. i don't know how i missed this when you first posted it? ... :-o

You initially wrote;
"My mom's name is Lynn or Lyndel, to me she is Ma ..."

Man that just sums it all up right there ... Praying for Ma, your family and for you bro ...

You wrote;
"A lot of details missing, but we are not coming apart at the seams or overwrought if I could put it that way ..."

i'm thinking from how you write that Ma and your family are all saved ... If not (she's of most concern due to the situation) then that'd be my first priority ... i got a thing about my family that even in life if they profess Christ, if i find out that their deathly ill, i go on a mission to really find out because i love them and want to see them again, and i sure don't want any of my fam to end up in hell ... i hope i'm not being to spiritually clinical here in this tough time, but like i've had to tell members of my family this is about "eternity"! ... It don't get no more important! ...

Now on the other hand if we're talking already saved, yeah this hurts now, and will later (my Dad's gone on), BUT!!! ... i don't have to tell you bro, you already know what keys Christ Jesus came up with when He busted the bottom out of Hades ... He's got ALL POWER in His hands! ... So if Ma is about to go home to Him this is but a temporary interuption to a future re-unification of eternal bliss, where you and Ma, me and you, and all our other brothers and sisters will reign and rule with Him, with no possibility of ever getting sick, or having to face death again ... Oh bless His Holy name! ...

Bless God that you and you family are not coming apart at the seems, we who have the hope of glory ain't supposed to, but even so some times we do, and if we do God will work a Rom. 8:28 out of that too ... When my Dad went on i was stoic at his funeral, but about 4 months later i broke down like a child actually bawling out loud, "i want my Dad back, i don't have a father anymore" ... In the midst of doing that i heard God say to me, "Yes you do, the same One you had before him" ... It interupted my crying, and made me sit up and take notice how much reverence for my earthly father i had before my heavenly ... i've come to the conclusion that there are some spiritual lessons we'll never learn about the love of our heavenly parent for us until we experience the passing on of our earthly ... But i can tell you this true, if you let Him, if you rest in Him, He'll fill the void, and your relationship with Him will take on a higher dimension you never even thought about ...

You continued;
"I just again, do not know how to pray ... maybe I do, maybe it's the finality of it all ... Strength, peace, understanding for my Ma and my Pa, words or even better the Lords reflection without them from this one..."

Bro when i can't pray, or don't know what/how to pray, i do one of or two things ... i either start praising God like all get out for all His riches and mercies, or i just begin to moan and let Holy Ghost say before Him what i can't find audible words to say ... Often a do a combo of both, determined by which one i start out with first ...

He that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is a REWARDER ... He does, whenever like on Family Fued we make Him our final answer ... We can do, and get thru all things, thru Christ Jesus who strengthens us ... It's like an old saint told me once during a shaky period in my walk, "What's the use of being a believer, if you're not gonna believe"? ... i may not know you personally bro Mike, but i know you are a BELIEVER ...

May the soothing love of Jesus and His perfect peace which surpasses all understanding be wrapped around you and yours in the comforting embrace of God the Holy Spirit ... In Jesus name ... Amen

Thank God for Jesus at times like this! ... Rom. 8: 35-39 ... ;-)

Bro R ---

Mike, I will add your parents to my prayers.

Dear saints,

My Ma is dead. Had come by today at lunch to see her, gave her a kiss... and she was already gone. My dad was eating his lunch in the kitchen and she must have died within minutes before or even as I arrived.

I just knew it earlier this morning, I just knew.
Thank you all for your prayers. She is truly home now.

May God be with all of you, Mike.
It's hard losing your Mother.
Mine died in 98.
I can say without reservation, that God will help you.
Nellie

May the Lord comfort your heart dear brother! Also to your father.

Brother,

Faint falls the voice of prayer...

Thine ear, Thou tender One, is caught,
If we but bend the knee in thought;
No choral song that shakes the sky...
Floats farther than the Christian's sigh.

MC

I'm so glad for this body online, I'm aboard this prayer train.
Quinn

My prayers are with you. It is such a blessing to know she is "home". Praying for your Father as well.

"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." 2 Corinthians 1:3-5

Precious saints,

My sense is this will be different at different times ... Already it has been alternately understandable, peaceful as well as somewhat confusing and difficult. Other ongoing issues not making things of a certain, perhaps misconstrued ... assumption, sigh, caught by my own words....

But your prayers, the comfort you bring to this poor soul... My beloved brethren, I do not know what I would do without you all. I cannot say enough, thank you saints ... The Lord bless you all. :cry:

I lost my father just 3 months ago, I know how hard it can be with my dad. I was living with him, and at 4 am I got to take him his med's and he was gone. I went and told my brother, Although I didn't cry. It hurt to lose him.
My brother didn't know the Lord before my father died. but after it shock him up and just a week ago he ask God come into his life. I have seen that death is hard, but good can come from it. God Bless