Thank each of you for your prayers and to Peggy who also placed the request on other web sites, another thank you.  One thing I have figured out in this life is there is power in prayer and when you mobilize believers to pray, you get God's immediate attention.  We may not at times get the exact answer  we want, but when the heavenly phone lines get busy, God notices the commotion......and answers.
 
John is a young man, 29 years old, who had gotten a severe case of infection in his pancreas and stomach lining.  As well, he was bleeding internally and had pneumonia.  He was air evacuated from Wyoming to Salt Lake City, I believe Sunday a week ago.  The doctors there told his parents the chances of his survival were at best 50/50 and they should call in the family.  Surgery to stop the bleeding was scheduled for Tuesday. By Monday we had begun starting prayer groups and a request was posted on Five Doves on Tuesday.
 
Thanks as well to the doctors who provided excellent care, but I believe God immediately began the healing process.  The internal bleeding stopped without having to have surgery.  The pneumonia was gone by Thursday and he was out of ICU and in a room.  By Friday, John was able to get out of bed and walk to the bathroom.  He was still weak, but his spirits were up.  He is stable and the doctors are talking survival.
 
He still has infection and his pancreas at this point looks to be 80-90% permanently disabled.  He will be in the hospital probably a couple more weeks and then have to remain near until they get him regulated.  The prognosis is he will be a full diabetic needing injected insulin, but there is life and there is hope for even further healing.......... because with God nothing is impossible.  Continue to remember him in your prayers this week.  He has a ways to go.  John, his parents, his brothers and sisters, his grandparents and I thank each of you.  When he is able, his parents are planning on moving John back home to Nashville.
 
When people request prayer, be sure to meet their need.  It is our Christian duty and it does have power, real power.  Like the blind man, I do not know how, but whereas I know I was blind, I know now that I see.   Besides, all you prayer warriors receive a redeemable chip in your personal safe deposit box in heaven.  Though we often do not know the results of our labors, everything you do and everything you say is recorded in the books, even your very thoughts.
 
Steve