August 11th, 2009

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

We thank you so much for your prayers, concern, and support for us and those to whom we are ministering daily.         Beautiful manifestations of God’s love in people’s lives testify that together we serve a mighty and wonderful God.

 

We would like to share with you how the truth of God’s Word in John 14:6 – “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life…” was demonstrated dynamically in the life of little Mason last January.

 

While ministering in Children’s Hospital, the Lord brought across Dan’s path a family

whose 20 month old toddler had been diagnosed with liver cancer.  Being asked by the

mother to pray for them, Dan went to see Mason and introduce himself.  He noticed the

toddler’s distended belly.  As Dan comforted mother and grandmother with Scripture,

Mason, lethargic after the liver biopsy, became active and reaching out, grasped

Dan’s finger with his own.  Prompted by God, Dan prayed for comfort, strength and

healing.  Together, with mother and grandmother, they thanked God for His answer.

 

The following day the entire team of doctors came four hours later than expected to say that they were “baffled and perplexed”.  The tests and cell samples were normal and

negative, showing no cancer.  To the great joy of the mother, Mason’s distended belly

was returning to normal and he went home the next day a healthy little boy.

What joy such a miraculous healing brings to us all!!

 

Today, Mason’s mother tells us that he is doing “fabulously well”. The doctors have requested to see him twice since and are still perplexed! In addition to the cancer being gone, all the intestinal trouble Mason has suffered since birth is completely healed. What a Great Physician we have!

 

 

Recently Dan asked a troubled heart in need of a different kind of healing, “Have you ever wondered at the way some chapters in the Bible seem to begin in the middle of a conversation?”                                                                                                       

 

Sometimes this is the case because the chapter divisions were inserted by editors and not divinely inspired.  A great example of this is found between chapters 13 and 14 of the book of  John.  If we do not read the last three verses of John 13, where Christ tells Peter he will deny Him, with the first four verses of John 14, Christ’s promise to prepare a place for us, then we fail to receive the message of comfort Christ gave to Peter and therefore to us. When we put these two portions together, we see a complete picture and the depths of God’s love. While He knows we will fail Him, He would not have our hearts be troubled.  Christ gave Peter a vertical perspective to bring him through his hours of discouragement after failing his precious Lord.  Let us not become consumed with our failures, rather let us be overwhelmed and healed by the love of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

The heart of this dear one had fixated on the horizontal plane of failure rather than on God’s prompt forgiveness and restoration (1John 1:9).  Now released by Truth, he walked away healed and free!

 

We pray that you are encouraged in your hearts by the powerful Word of God.

May God bless you richly as you walk in His Presence.

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Dan and Marie Thomson