Calling All Prayer Warriors!

From me: I am asking anyone & everyone out there who is a Believer to add this need to your prayer list. Please be praying that God would fulfill our requests for a great healing to take place. As I said in my response to them, "this is a difficult time of uncertainty, but it is so important to trust in Him.... Keep believing with all your heart that miracles DO happen! I am praying that Robin can be a testiment to that. That her circumstances will be of witness to others that God can do great things."
Below is the notice I recieved from a dear family member regarding this need, and below that, is the email she recieved from her friend.....

From Barb: "I have received an e-mail from a family friend and she is in need of your prayers and thoughts. Robin is the wife of G's previous 1SG in Hawaii. He is also the man that taught G and Zach to scuba dive. Their children and our children were the best of friends, especially Jordan and their son Sean. It was so hard to say goodbye when they left Hawaii or better things. Their daughter, Rachel, is a miracle in herself. She was told she would never walk, never do things normal children do because of cancer that took over her legs and she has since lost the feeling in her legs, but she walks, and runs, and dances like any normal little girl. I learned so much from that family. I learned to keep my mouth shut, to open my mouth, and most of all, to believe! Robin needs prayers right now. Here is the letter I have received."

From Robin: "Hi everyone,
While I am not one to ask for things for myself. Things have happened in the past week that I need prayers for. It started about a month a go. My head and throat started swelling. The doctors thought it was allergy. I thought it was something in the house. The Army Environment Health came out and tested. They found 5 times the level of formaldehyde in the house. They moved us into a new house. The problem was I wasn't getting better. I went to the emergency room. They did several scans and found a 5 cm mass on my chest. It is right in front of the bronchial tumbe and growing into the superior vena cava that is affecting my breathing. They have diagnosed it as lung cancer though it's not in my lung and they also found a spot on my liver that they think could be cancer also. We're not sure of the prognosis because I told them I don't want to know, I will fight for as long as possible. They say it's not connnected to the foramledyde, but an xray 5 months ago showed there was absolutely nothing abnormal. I have already started radiation and am starting to feel better.
All I am asking for is PRAYERS....LOTS of PRAYERS. You can send this to anyone you know, because prayers are what's going to save me.
Also, if anyone has stories of inspiration about cancer survivors or incredible defiance of the odds, please send them to me, I need them a lot.
Anyone who knows me though, knows I will not go down without a fight.
Thanks
Robin"

From me again: I would also like to share another part of my response to both Barbara and Robin because I think that it is important for us all to be reminded of these things. I know that it helps me a great deal to search through my Bible and be reminded of these things.
"There is an excerpt in my study Bible that I thought might be a good notation here, and then after I have a verse I want to remind you [& Robin] of because it is such a powerful one. I'll post it at the end.

The excerpt reads this: 'We can never know how God will answer the prayers of his people. We only know that he tells us to pray about anything and everything. We may feel powerless in ourselves, but when we lift our prayers to God, when we "pray through" our difficulties, the door is opened for God to step in and do the miraculous.'

That is SO very true! Find strength in your faith, and comfort in His Word. And yes, pray, pray, PRAY with your whole heart,.... He is listening! He is with you, and He will not leave you. Whatever the outcome, He will carry you through this......... Never stop believing.

"I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart. I will be found by you," declares the Lord, "and will bring you back from captivity." ~ Jeremiah 29:11-14"

Please join us in lifting up Robin, her family & all those close to her, in prayer.

Thanks & Love, Tahnee