God certainly has been answering prayers within a couple of our churches within the Maritime Conference in response to fervent prayer by some of the members of these two churches.
In the Pugwash, NS SDA Church (in which Laurie Mosher is a member) in their fervent prayer response to an urgent prayer request a definite answer to prayer was received. One of their members was being operated on in the Halifax hospital to remove some tumours. Something drastically went wrong and the hospital called in the family as they felt she wasn't going to survive. It was so bad that the hospital gave her husband a pager so he could be called instantly, if her passing became imminent. The church prayed fervently for four hours. As a result of their prayers a miraculous recovery took place that even amazed the hospital staff. She was soon back home as active as ever. Praise the Lord!!!!
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This brought the Pugwash SDA Church closer together and with the use of a Prayer Journal kept a record of answered prayers. I was at their Prayer Meeting when they were still praising the Lord over the above answered prayer. They have had other wonderfully answered prayers since then, and they are still busy prayer in response to prayer requests/needs within their church community.
I shared the above with the pastor of our church in Fredericton, NB. I don't know if it was as a reult of my sharing, or what, however, he began focusing our weekly prayer meetings practically entirely on praying for the need of others. Here is what happened:
In the Fredericton, NB SDA Church (where I am a member) we soon received an urgent prayer request of our own that took us into deep fervent prayer. The husband of one of our members suffered a brain stroke that sent him to the Fredericton hospital and from there to the SAint John hospital where they began draining the fluid from his brain. He was only given a 50/50 chance of surviving, let alone recovering from this stroke. This happened on a Sabbath afternoon. We prayed individually and came together on the first Tuesday and prayed for her husband's survival and recovery. From Sunday to Thursday they continued draining the fluid from his brain. On our Thursday visit we were told that he couldn't swallow so they had to stomach feed him. They expected him to be there for thr next several months. Things still looked grim as his survival was a day to day thing. We continued in prayer. The following Friday when we visited him again, he was in the washroom shaving himself. His brain was no longer filling with fluid as it had made its own new passage way for the fluid to travel to the spine, if I am remebering this correctly. He also could swallow again. He was also later transferred back to the hospital in Fredericton, NB. Both hospitals were amazed over what they considered a miraculous recovery. We are now praying for the mental recovery of this stroke as it has made him more agressive, both physically and verbally. We also solicit your prayers over this latest development.
Another prayer request was received and prayed for at our last Tuesday's prayer meeting. The very next day we were told by him that it was first painless night he had for a long time. He also said it was the soundest sleep he also had. Praise the Lord!
He had also made another prayer request regarding the selling on his home, and that prayer was partially answered, therefore, we will continue to pray for that request of his.
Do any of you have answers to prayers to share? If you do, then please share them here so we can all praise the Lord together!
