To: Jane Hafker who wrote (308 ) 6/6/1998 7:02:00 PM From: gregor Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14396
Dear Jane: I just got off the golf course with a friend of mine that successfully underwent a bone marrow transplant 18 months ago. Prayer and faith made him whole. My brother in law also received a marrow transplant for the same reason. He is also whole, now. I received a word of knowledge at a revival one night for a teenager that had a successful marrow transplant; the word of knowledge was that the next transplant would be successful. The teenager was healthy at the time, but the transplant failed within 3 months, the teenager had to undergo a second transplant and is now whole. My brother in law was the 300 th transplant in the world at the time, he received it in Boston at the Dana Farber Research Hospital. Considering the billions of people on this planet this is a select group of people. I am enthralled about being so close to this small group that have had their faith tested and have been healed. You cannot tell me it doesn't take more faith to be healed of leukemia than the common cold. What I have learned about my close association with this select group is that they were selfish about their healings; meaning they were saying OK God I want mine, I know you can give it to me and I want you to. They had a never give up attitude. Steve would say. If the first transplant doesn't work I'll do it a second or third time; until it works ( he was having a lot of problems with rejection). Neither wanted to be babied. They almost went into seclusion with God if that makes sense. They would go by themselves for all the chemo, and drive home sick as a dog. Once my brother in law had to drink this awful tasting stuff in massive quantities and couldn't eat for 48 hours. The doctor almost died when Hudson told him ,doc, that was the worst tasting stuff I've ever drank, so I hope you don't mind ,I mixed it with vodka. My way of thinking' the vodka supercharged the effects of the chemo. They, Hudson and Steve, refused to be around negatively minded people. Actually I ministered more to Steve's wife than I did him during their 18 month ordeal. There has to be a lesson in here for the rest of us: so many people I feel are being robbed of victory because they are associating with negativity; ( being overly buddy buddy) my advice if there are people in our life like that, dump them. We don't need them. Pray for them from a distance. Let God handle them, if we try from your own strength they will drag us down. Have a great weekend. In Christ.gregor