Its all about perspective

For the background of our story here is a copy of the email I sent August 5th, 2010:

Hi,wanted to ask you all to pray for Chris. He began having trouble a couple months ago. He noticed he had lost alot of strength in his right arm. He went to a clinic in hot springs and the dr said he had carpal tunnel. We did not feel like that was what he had. He got in to see Dr. Hulsey in Glenwood and he got him into a neurologist in hot springs. We saw the dr last week & Chris had an MRI done last Thursday. We went back to the specialist today. The MRI showed that the problem was not from his neck or body, it is neurological in the brain. Chris will have a brain MRI done Monday and when the results come in from that we should know what exacly it is.


I am asking you all to please pray for him as often as you can, as he deals with this and for me to stay strong. I think I am taking this all way worse than him, I am spending way to much crying. I know GOD is in control and he is taking care of us, we just have to remian faithful. We are just asking our friends and family to pray with us until we know the results, Chris is a private person & I dont think he wants to many people to know about this 4 now.

GOD Bless each and everyone of you.

Love, Autumn

August 15th 2010
After the testing the Dr. believes that Chris has Motor Neuron Disease (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's  Disease.)
 Friday was the worst day of our lives when we found out. It was such an emotional day. We felt like our world was ending. We were not prepared to hear that Chris has a fatal disease. It was such a heart wrenching time. We called our pastor and our family. We had alot of company that day and support. then after they left we laid and held one another for a long time. We both took sleep aids to help sleep that night.
Saturday we were feeling better. That night I began looking up scripture about healing. It became so apparent that our GOD can heal Chris and use this as an opportunity to glorify our GOD!

I printed out some of the scriptures, that I gave to family and friends, to declare to GOD his promises and to pray for Chris' healing! Well here they are:

"He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and

do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”"
Exodus 15:26 (NLT)

"Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or
be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span."
Exodus 23:25-26 (NIV)

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health,
even as thy soul prospereth."
3 John 2 (KJV)

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church;
and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up;
and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."
James 5:14-15 (KJV)

"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
Mark 16:17-18 (KJV)

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
John 10:10 (KJV)

Luke 17:5-6 "The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith!' The Lord replied. 'If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.'"

Our GOD can do anything and we are praying and have faith that he can heal Chris and stop the progression of this disease. We ask you to pray with us and believe!
And I taped a mustard seed to the paper... it was about this size o.

Bro. John, our pastor, called us up at the end of Church and prayed for us and so many church members came up and loved on us. The more people praying the better!!! It was such an outpouring of love and OUR GOD is in the Miracle Bussiness!! We were feeling so uplifted!

Then when it was time for Church tonight, Chris was sleeping because he has to go into work tonight, I went alone.  Bro. John started the service by us singing Victory in Jesus and dedicating it to Chris. The sermon was on Prayer. Which all related right back to Chris.  During the invitation lots of us went down and prayed for Chris (and me)! It was such an outpouring of LOVE! We could feel GOD's Holy Spirit in the Air!! There is no doubt that GOD can heal Chris and use this to glorify him!
I could not imagine facing a diagonis like the one we got and not knowing GOD. It would be just like waiting to die. But this is gonna be so much more to that!  Our Lord is in control and we are giving this all over to him!  Jesus Loves YOU!!!

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