A 3 AM Call, and A Miracle

James 5:14 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:”

My younger sister has had some kind of disorder that causes her stomach to hurt whenever she eats more than a couple of bites of food at a time. Because of the pain, sometimes she will not eat at all. Other times she will get very hungry, or want something very badly, so she would go ahead and eat. She said her stomach hurts so badly that she often can keep it down for only a few minutes. It started during her teenage years. In her 40’s, she became so ill that she had to be hospitalized often, so she had a lot of testing done. The doctors never found the source of the problem, or a treatment for it. She was already too thin, but started losing even more weight. She got down to 88 pounds, and had to go to the hospital again. She had developed congestive heart failure, due to malnutrition. About three o’clock one morning, I got a call from the hospital nurse. She said it was time to call in the family, because they did not expect her to live through the night. We had lived next door to one another for years on our Daddy’s farm and raised our children together. I called all of our kids. Her daughter didn't have a phone, so one of my daughters went and got her. It was on Sunday morning, but I called my pastor anyway. He came and baptized her, at her request. Then he anointed her with oil and we all prayed. The hospital nurses said the while we were praying, my sister’s vital signs started going back to normal. She was out of the hospital in a few days. She was healed of congestive heart failure. She still has other medical problems, but weighs a normal weight. Still, I know that a miracle occurred that morning. God is always with us. But, are we willing to trust him? Dear Heavenly Father, Help us to obey your commands and trust in you, even when others give up hope. Amen