How to pray for Debbie

In the space of a week, Debbie has lost at least a year’s worth of steady improvement. A week ago, on June 1, a vertebra between her shoulder blades began to hurt and has gotten progressively worse. June third she suffered a cracked rib. June fifth she realized that she was digressing daily and we noticed a drop in her stamina when we went to walk our two miles - she made it one and three quarters miles. Tuesday evening, on the fifth, the vertebras in her lower back began to hurt and worsened yesterday. If you sense a note of concern in my words, you are discerning correctly. Thankfully the staff prayed over us Tuesday, and the elders did so last night. So what do you do when pain, problems, and concern come knocking at your door? You pray! Here are some suggestions from God’s word about how to pray for Debbie.

Lord God, Jesus told us that if we have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can say to this mountain of a disease, move out from her body, and it will be cast out. NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU. (Mt. 17:20,21)

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet your love, O God, your unfailing love for Debbie Jenks will not be shaken nor your covenant of peace be removed because you have compassion on her. (Isa. 54:10)

Lord, you have said, “…whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24) Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” (Mt. 7:7)

So, Father God, we come in faith, trusting in your words and your power, doing what you have commanded: We are asking you for healing, we are seeking the prayers of believers and all the healing powers of medicines that you have given us, and we knock on heaven’s door asking that you throw open a door of your healing power upon Debbie Jenks. We ask for it in prayer believing that we have received it. We believe, help thou our unbelief (Mk 9:24), for all things are possible for you, O God!

“Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR YOU” (Jer. 32:17) – not even healing Multiple Myeloma is impossible for you! – your will be done in all things. “For nothing is impossible with God.” (Lk. 1:37)

“Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.” (Psa. 103:2-3) Lord, your Word says ALL diseases can be healed by your power, so we ask for Debbie’s healing from MM.

“Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isa. 53:4-5) Because of the cross, God, we ask Jesus to take Debbie’s Multiple Myeloma upon himself and allow his painand his wounds to afford healing for her because…“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” (I Peter 2:24)

Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (James 5:14-6)

Psa. 103:1-5 –“Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfied your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” Lord, redeem her life from the pit of disease and despair, and crown her with your love and compassion, and renew her youth again, as You have for the past 22 months, for she shall not die but live, so she may proclaim what wonders You, Lord, have done in her life. Psa. 118:17 – “I will not die, but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done.”

Mt. 18:19 – “Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name there am I with them.” Father, almost two years ago, believers united in prayer for Debbie and you miraculously gave her a strong remission at the end of July ‘05. Lord, we boldly ask for complete healing this time, because we are children of the King of Heaven, who loves to give His children what they ask for so that you are glorified, and so that her life will be a testimony to your power and goodness.

Isa. 41:10- So, because of this promise, and our previous experiences with it, we do not fear, for You are with us; we will not be dismayed, for You are our God, You will strengthen us and help us; You will uphold us with your righteous right hand.

I Peter 5:10- “And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.” Lord, you have done this before for Debbie, and we ask You to do it again, to your glory, in the powerful name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Duane and Debbie Jenks