Sunday Scroll

"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."
James 1:5-8

I must share this miraculous story that I heard about this week. A friend of mine was going in to the doctor's office for a follow up sonogram. The sonogram was supposed to just be a routine check the day before she was going to have a D And C. Two weeks prior Jennifer had an extremely disappointing visit with the doctor. At the previous appointment, the sonogram revealed a cyst and an empty sac- no heart-beating baby. Like most ladies, Jennifer was deeply disappointed and hurt. Many tears were shed. The doctor wanted to go ahead and schedule the D And C, but Jennifer said she just couldn't do it yet, and she would prefer to have one more sonogram before the procedure. At her request, the doctor agreed to wait for two weeks. So, the day before the scheduled procedure, she went in for the "routine" sonogram to confirm she needed to have the D and C. Guess what God did??? There was a growing BABY with a very fast (160 beats per minute) HEARTBEAT on the sonogram machine. Needless to say, Jennifer and her family are ecstatic to be expecting a baby in the beginning of 2011.

What does this story have to do with those verses? I have never seen such faith in God in such circumstances. Jennifer never once believed what she was told or what she saw on the screen. She needed much wisdom, which in this circumstance was to wait, and God preformed a miracle. To make things even better, the night before the procedure, she had a dream. In the dream, she saw that the cyst was still there, but there was a healthy baby there too. Isn't this amazing??? And appropriately, if the baby is a girl, she already has a name- FAITH!

On the day that Jennifer called me to tell me of this wonderful news, I had just read these verses. God spoke to me and showed me that Jennifer had the kind of unwavering faith these verses described. I wrote her name beside these verses to always remind me of the miracle God preformed for her because of her faith.