Life With Jesus is Better
Praise the Lord, my soul,and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sinsand heals all your diseases,who redeems your life from the pitand crowns you with love and compassion Psalm 103:2-4 I have given much thought to how to proceed in the next part of the story, and I have decided I want to …
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4:10 My team of caregivers at the NIH (empowered by God) had saved my life more than once in the previous 6 months. They had operated on, suctioned out of, …
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” Deuteronomy 31:8 As May rolled into June, Jodi and I passed another milestone. Six months. It had been six months since Jodi arranged my arrival at the NIH. …
Psalm 34 I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry; The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and …
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 It has been amazing to see how God has used our story both while I was at the NIH and after. He …
This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Ezekiel 37:5 Breathing treatments are the worst. Every night I would have two different treatments in order to open my lungs to life-giving oxygen. One was just regular albuterol, the other was a …
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 Getting my new cells was just the beginning of a one-hundred day process that …
The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all of their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all. Psalm 34:17-19 If you haven’t paid for the …
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. John 5:2-3 When I was 11 years old my doctors at Vanderbilt introduced us to …
We were hopeful that the new medicine regimen would cause the infection in my spine to subside. We were hopeful that the new regimen for pain management would result in my increased functioning. It did not. Over the next 4 months my condition would continue to deteriorate. I would routinely be struck with waves of …
Jeremy Powell 