Jacob is fabulous...Glory to God! The Rhodes family ventured out to church on Sunday, and I bet they received more hugs than they could hold! What a glorious time at Tanglewood. We stand amazed at what God has done...and is doing...in this young man's recovery.
(picture was taken just minutes prior to his surgery.)
I spend some time with him and Donna on Monday. Even when you think he's not listen, he is all ears. (Isn't that the case for most kids, though?) Donna and I were sharing some heart-to-heart conversation, and he overheard Donna comment on being worried when all this began. (He was fainting and other symptoms were popping up.) Without missing a stroke playing his DS game, he quickly encouraged her not to worry. He reminded her that all of that was in the past and there was no need to worry. Well, halleujah! What wisdom flows from this fellow! The past is over. The future is before us...and the present? Well, we know for certain that God is doing amazing things through Jacob Rhodes.
He had an appointment at Duke yesterday: Stitches were removed. There was no need to tighten the pins of the halo, praise God! They have another follow up appointment in four weeks. Be sure to pray with fervency a prayer of thanksgiving for God's hand being upon this family. For He had done great things! Pray that things will to continue to progress with his recovery journey as well as it has so far.
James 5:15-17 (King James Version)
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. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Philippians 4:6-7 (King James Version)
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
