Life With Jesus is Better
Revisiting the last few years of my life with you over the last few months has been rewarding and therapeutic for me on a number of levels. One such reward is that I now have a deeper understand Paul's message surrounding suffering. Now before you @ me on this, I understand completely that Paul's suffering …
One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw …
The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones …
Pulling into town we were greeted by dozens of people who stayed up late to welcome us home. The Core 4 Powells were all exhausted as we unloaded the powerchair, lift and myself back onto Union City soil for the first time in six months. An amazing crew had built a ramp for me in …
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 …
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 …
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you. The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. Psalm 139:16 MSG After three months of continued pain in my back and weakness in my legs, the doctors …
Jeremy Powell 