Hope

1 Thessalonians 5:17

New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁷ pray without ceasing,

I have really learned the meaning of this verse this past week as a friend of mine who has Cystic Fibrosis was fighting for his life. He had a double lung transplant which had some complications. Every free moment I had I was praying to the God who heals, that he would heal my friend Adam. Seeing what he has gone through and the response of his family and friends has truly been amazing and eye opening. There was one specific night when Adam could have gone home to his Father in heaven that really caused me to examine my own life. Adam is the same age as me, when I think about people dying, I usually think about the old people in the nursing home that I take care of but never some one my age. So as I examined my life I decided to wake up and make every moment count for the Lord. I know I am no where near perfect and that I will mess up, but I really want to do everything I can for the Lord because you never know how much time you have left. 

Facebook became alive with friends status about praying for Adam and it was truly amazing to see. For my Facebook friends who are not Christians they sure have had the chance to see many of my status updates about prayer requests for Adam and Bible verses that his parents chose to share on that day. Who knows, maybe somebodies life was greatly impacted by reading about what the Lord is doing for Adam. That is my prayer, the Lord would use this story to impact many lives, I know He is!

This was painted by Adam.