Do you believe in Miracles??  God’s great power #2.  Ephesians 1.19-20

Good Day! 

Do you believe in a God who is powerful and involved enough in our lives to still work miracles?  I do!  I have seen and experienced it with my own eyes—in my own family, with my 2-year-old son that we very nearly lost due to kidney failure.  God had other plans for Danny, though.  You can read the first part of this in the previous posting. 

Danny was in ICU, awaiting a needle biopsy on his kidney, trying to determine cause, prognosis and treatment for the kidney failure, when doctors came to tell us he had a bleeding disorder as well.  If he had a needle biopsy, he could bleed to death before it could be stopped; so he would have to have an open renal biopsy.  I will never forget that long agonizing night in the hospital, holding him as he slept, with iv’s in arms and legs.  What was to happen to him>

Well, MANY people were praying, and God was listening.  The next morning, Danny was taken into surgery, and a piece of the kidney was extracted for analysis.  We had our first miracle--the blood was tested, and the doctor came to say, 'this is unusual, but the bleeding order does not present'--meaning it was not there; the Von Willebrand's Disease was removed from our plate of trials.  Then, the second miracle--he lost only a 1/2 teaspoon of blood; shocking, since the concern was that he would 'bleed out' on the operating table.  And then . . . well, we waited for a diagnosis and all that was to follow.  I remember holding Danny through the night--getting out my Bible--looking up verses to cling to--because you see, I never doubted that God was in control.  I never doubted that his heart toward us was good--but dog-gone-it, I was going to hold him at his word that he would not give us any more than we could handle . . . that the effective prayer of a righteous person avails much!!  "Oh, God, come and save my baby!" I prayed.

The day after surgery, we were once again sent home--no diagnosis, prognosis, etc., with the best we could hope for being a transplant.  The kidney tissue was sent out for extensive testing, and finally the answers came.  He did indeed have a kidney disorder--no, three disorders!  The nephrologist, an Israeli-trained nephrologist told me that, 'well, this case has been most unusual from the start.'  He had an allergic reaction to the Zithromax (disorder #1), he had A.T.N. (Acute Tubular Necrosis--4 in 10,000 people), and he had an infection that had gone to his kidneys (post-infectious nephritis).  But, listen to this--all three were REVERSIBLE, WITHOUT treatment, and would leave NO LASTING DAMAGE.  "What?!" I cried,  "Dr. Ben-Nezzer, I would like to think God has done a miracle!"  Silence, followed by, "I would say you are 100 percent correct."  

The next day, I took him back to CHOC to see Dr. B-E--the first thing she said was, "Did you tell your praying friends that God has done a miracle?"  Oh, of course, I had, and I did, over and over again. . .

Well, I learned something else in the school of miracles: they aren't necessarily immediate.  It would be another couple months before all of Danny's symptoms were gone, but at a six-month check, he got a clean bill of health.  Praise God!  And now, at 14 and in the 9th grade—a freshman in high school-- he is the picture of health and vigor; he is athletic, all BOY and funny as heck--Danny has been a joy.

James 5.14-16 - Is any one of you sick?  He should call the elders of the church to pray for him. . . and the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well, the Lord will raise him up. . . the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

After Danny's miracle, my faith was GREATLY increased; I became impassioned with what God wanted to do in, for, and through His people through his great power, which is available to all who believe … Amen and Amen.