Brandi

I want my prayers to be reality. So bad.

Our dear friend Brandi was diagnosed with brain cancer spring of 2011. Brain cancer. wow.
needless to say it is very serious. She has been on chemo for so long and the treatments aren't showing that there has been improvement. I can hardly wrap my head around all the medical jargon. What I do know is the cancer is killing her.
but...but...but God. Brandi knows the love of Christ. She knows he has plans for her. He formed her in her mother's womb, he knows the hairs on her head, before the foundations of the universe He knew her, He knew how her life would unfold.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

She has hope and she has a future. She is secure in her salvation through Christ, because Christ died a death none of us will ever have to face. We sinned against God in the Garden, we didn't obey his law, we couldn't. Christ could and he did. God incarnate on earth came to dwell with us. He was sinless and we sent him to the cross be murdered, we rejected him. He took on the wrath of God, he suffered, he died a painful death. 

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.1 John 4:10

 but... Christ was raised from the dead, he conquered death. Brandi worships a God that conquers sin and death.

 Brandi has been transformed by Christ and will live because Christ died. I am confident in her eventual entrance to Heaven.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:5-7

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17

I can't claim to know when or even if Brandi will be healed. She may not be. But that doesn't make Christ any less powerful. He is sovereign and the Creator of everything. His will be done, not mine.

I still cry out to Jesus for healing. He knows the desires of our hearts. We long to see Brandi live many, many more years on earth with her husband and two young children. We desire to see a miracle in her life that would glorify God to the extreme.

I still give praise to God for seeking Brandi out, for calling her into his kingdom. His love for his children is unfathomably huge. I pray we can glorify him though this situation, that people will see his power and majesty. 

Please pray for healing in the life of my friend. Pray that God would be glorified.

>>>Brandi's CaringBridge Site