Answered Prayer, Again!

We've been seeing God answer prayer lately.  Here's one story:

One of our members, Steve, has an Aunt Peggy, who was scheduled to have an angiogram on Friday.  We had prayed at a prayer meeting the Tuesday before that Steve would be used in a special spiritual way in the situation to minister to her and/or her family and to be sensitive to their needs. During the angiogram, she got worse and they decided she needed a quadruple bypass operation immediately.   That night, before surgery, 7 people came to her bedside and said, "You know, we don't know where you stand with God and we would feel a whole lot better with you going into this surgery knowing you had accepted Christ."  About the 4th person got to see her accept Christ.  She was overwhelmed God sent so many people to make sure she was right with Him before the surgery.

After the surgery Friday night, she didn't wake up.  She didn't wake up Saturday.  The doctors were saying that they didn't expect her to recover.  Steve's late wife Ana had often been awakened by the Lord to pray for people during the night.  On Sunday morning at 4:00 a.m., Steve was awakened to pray for Aunt Peggy.  The burden on his heart was that she was lonely.  He didn't understand since she hadn't woken up after surgery, but he prayed for her not to feel lonely for the next 2 hours, until the sun came up.  During these 2 hours, Aunt Peggy woke up just long enough to write Steve a note telling him she felt very alone.  Then she went back to sleep.  The note was delivered to Steve from Aunt Peggy by her son Sunday morning.  Steve called us Sunday morning to say he wouldn't be at church, that he was going to see Aunt Peggy instead, and asked for us to pray for her during the service. 

At 9:30, when we finished worship, Greg prayed for 3 people in our church, one of which was Aunt Peggy.  We found out later that day that Aunt Peggy woke up at 9:40, stayed awake, and by 10:00 they took her off oxygen and said she would be fine.  She went home a few days later.

We also had a little girl's back healed after praying for her as well.  God responds when we seek Him through prayer.  I'm so glad we are a praying church. 

If you have a prayer request, you can send it to me at sandy@equipchurch.org and I will make sure it is prayed for at our Tuesday night prayer meeting.

Blessings on this cool, breezy, Sunday night.