You Can Take The Fire – Pt 3 – The Saturday Morning Post by Pastor Ted Stahl

Today’s Reading: Proverbs 23, 25-27 and Luke 1-2

Today’s Passage: Luke 1:30 – 37: And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Good morning. I guess after reading the passage above, you already know what verse I’m going to focus on. Verse 37, …with God nothing shall be impossible! Aren’t you glad to have the One and True, Living, All Powerful God in your life?

Last weekend, me, Camille, and Melissa went camping in Lancaster, PA. Guess who was in the trailer across from ours… a Christian woman who had survived cancer several times. Like I said in a previous blog, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” And our faith and hope received a booster shot.

On Wednesday, we drove out towards Philadelphia (Melissa was going to be operated on Thursday). We had to be at the Philadelphia Hospital at 5:30 am. We did not know what was going to happen. The plan was to remove most of her lower insides and the tumor. We prayed that the Lord would give the surgeons wisdom, and guide them in what they should do.

For with God nothing shall be impossible, and it would have been awesome if when the doctors opened her up the tumor would have vanished. But it was still there, attached to the pelvic bone and the stomach cavity. It would be too dangerous to remove the tumor. The doctors decided that it would be better for Melissa to get chemo again. God in His mercy, which endureth forever, spared Melissa the trauma of this massive operation that may have killed her on the operating table, or caused the cancer to spread. Melissa ran a slight temperature Thursday’ night, so they were going to keep her in the hospital another 24 hours. She should be coming home today.

God wasn’t done yet. He showed me something on, of all places, 20/20. They ran the story of Paralympian Chris Waddell, who climbed Mt. Kilamanjaro with his handcycle. Nearing the top, he could not make it any further because of the steepness. He was down on himself because he could not make it to the top. Until his trainer said something, and Chris allowed the guides to carry him and his handcycle to the top. What did the trainer say? “No man climbs mountains by himself.” And with that I would like to thank everybody for their prayers, and lifting up me and my family to the Lord.

Peace. (Psalm 136)