The Prayer Link

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord.

“They are plans … to give you a future and a hope …

You will find me when you seek me,

if you look for me in earnest.”  

Jeremiah 29:11, 13 (LB)

 

Adrianna Cavanaugh

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:57 AM, CST  

It is Tuesday morning and Adrianna had a decent night. She ate a LOT last night and slept pretty well. Today she has a chiropracto r visiting her that will try to give her some relief in her neck. He is really nice and is showing her on a stuffed animal what he is going to do. She is watching and considering it like a good girl, so we will see if she lets him adjust her for more comfort. She and her parents slept pretty well and Betsy and I slept in the next room in case they needed us. Just thought you all would like to know that she slept well. We can feel your prayers and love. Thanks for checking on us!
Kristi

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:18 AM, CST

 

Thanks to my sister, Kristi, for updating earlier for me. 
Just wanted everyone to know that Adrianna has been doing a lot of sleeping, but a lot of eating, too.
I also updated some photos from the last few weeks so that everyone could see how well she looks. 
Thanks to all of the thousands of prayers, Adrianna has stopped having seizures and we’ve been able to have conversatio ns with her.  This was an answered prayer for me, after seeing my baby go through so much on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
We’ ve been watching lots of movies and letting her “boss” us around.  So glad she has an appetite.
Now we just pray that she can stay as pain-free as possible and that the hallucinations she has been having will stop.
And as always, we are continually praying for a miraculous healing that only God could bless us with.
We thank the 100 or more people who stood outside our house last night, with candles, singing and praying for our sweet Adrianna.  It was so touching to all of us.
And for all of you who were doing the same at your home, and from miles and miles away.
We are taking it day by day, hour by hour, and soaking in all that we can possibly get with Adrianna.
She is such a fighter……we continue to be, as always, the proudest parents of this girl.
Love to all!
Believing in God’s will and in miracles,
Stephanie

 

 

 

 

From Caleb Estay’s grandmother, Annette

Little Caleb weighs 9 lbs and 5 oz and is doing just great according to the doctor. He is a precious little man.

 

 

 

 

Chris Primes of Amite was recovering from surgery, but now has an infection and is hospitalied again.  Chris and his family would be very appreciative of your prayers.

 

TODAY’S PRAYER
IMB
JANUARY 20, 2010

“I waited patiently for the Lord;

and He inclined to me, and heard my cry.”

~Psalm 40:1~

HAITI. Southern Baptist bi-vocational pastor Tim Dortch from Camden, MS, probably never imagined that he was preparing for an earthquake when he built a compound in the Dominican Republic, about an hour from the Haitian border.  His plan was to use the facility to help start churches among Haitians and Dominicans.  After hearing the devastating news reports, Dortch broke down in tears—and prayer.  “That night I prayed to God that He would show me what to do,” Dortch said. “God’s given me a heart for Haiti.” Dortch made his compound available to an IMB media team and traveled in with them, carrying medical supplies and donations. Visit http://imb.org to read the full story “A Miracle” of how God connected Dortch with two orphanages that were desperate for supplies. “I just did what God told me to do,” said Dortch.

(I just heard on television there was another quake about 6 A..M. this morning in Haiti.  Please continue to pray for the people who live there and those who are there to provide help!) 

 

 

 

WORLD LEADERS. “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Please pray today for Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany (central Europe).

 

GUANGZHOU, CHINA (gwong-JOH). Rejoice that God has drawn J to Himself! When a friend shared the Gospel with this young woman who has been treated terribly by her family, she eagerly accepted the love and mercy of Jesus Christ. Thank the Lord for another answered prayer, and ask Him to grow J’s faith strong and steadfast in Him.

 

KANURI OF NORTHERN NIGERIA (kah-NUH-ree). God continues to answer your prayers concerning the work of the missionaries in the village of K. They have been allowed to resume their well drilling in spite of those in the village who still oppose their being there. As the missionaries prayed for God to show them “good deeds” that they could do for the villagers in order to soften their hearts toward the missionaries and their message, God began to answer immediately. Within only 24 hours, they were able to do numerous small welding repair jobs for some of the people and to give rides to and carry loads for several others. A missionary writes: “It has been amazing to see how many more people have warmed to us. Pray that these good deeds done in the love and name of Jesus will bear fruit and, indeed, bring glory to our Father and to His Son. Continue to pray for the drilling of a good well and the planting of a strong body of believers in this town.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rev. Jimmy Dukes and Rev. Jason Dukes, as well as the rest of the family, can be bery proud of Caleb Dukes.  Who knows, there may be a next generation preacher in the family!  Caleb certainly has a heart for people learning about God.  Jason posted a recent conversation with Caleb.  “thoughts” when his parents were hospitalized in New Orleans.

my resident 8 year old theologian
Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:18 PM PST

So I’m lying down last night with my son, my 8 year old theologian son, Caleb. We have been talking a lot about the Haiti earthquake the past few days. The topic came up again. The room was dark. It was late, because we were out together enjoying the comedian Tim Hawkins followed by a late-night, help-Mommy-out grocery run to the Millenia Target (cause they are open later than the one at the Winter Garden Village). He was quiet, because his wheels were turning. The silence was broken with the following question:

Why did God let that happen to the people of Haiti? I mean, they were already a poor people who didn’t have much? Why did He do that?

Of course, I pulled out my iPhone on which I had prepared a media presentation, accented with 3-D effects, highlighting the system I had created to contain the knowledge of an understandable God who opened up the earth with a vengeful wrath terrorizing an ignored people who sold their souls and country to the guy with a pitch fork. Of course, that last sentence is NOT TRUE.

What I did say, though, was very profound. Profoundly transparent.

I don’t know, bud. I don’t think He caused that. He certainly allowed it. Why? I have no idea.

“But why? He can do anything, Dad,” he rebutted. “He didn’t have to let that fault line move.”

He was right. And all I could say is that I trust God. While I don’t think He made that earthquake happen, I know He allowed it. Why, I don’t know. I won’t know. I told Caleb that we live on a planet that God made in a created order, and we see His created order play out in so much of creation. From the food chain to weather patterns to the formation of rock and islands and more. And in that order, the earth moved that day. And now, as a follower of Jesus, as a believer in the almighty God, I don’t need to ask “why” as much as I need to ask “now what?”

And then I was quiet.

And then he said:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if that had not happened, some of those people would not have known that God is with them.

But now they will. Now they will know God is with them in how we help them.

“That’s right buddy. They will know Him and see Him by our love,” I affirmed him.

“If I was boss,” he asserted, “I would bring as many people from Haiti as we could here to help them heal and let the ones who wanted to stay and help the rebuild stay.”

An administrator and a theologian. Wow. That’s my boy.

 

Have a wonderful day! 

Anna Lee