Dear All,
yesterday i went to St Jude's to visit a terminally-ill patient with
sister Vivien from our cell group. the patient is her colleague's
husband. they showed me some reports and stuff, and i realized that
it's end stage rectal cancer with metastasis to the left lung and the
adrenal glands. the wife asked for my opinion. i shook my head and
said, there is not much they can do. she expressed understanding and
being realistic, and she also wanted to do everything possible to
prolong his life. i let her know that the doctors cannot do anything
any more, but we can still ask the best doctor to help, and he is Jesus
Christ. later the primary care physician came to the room too. he is
actually a good friend of mine who went to college and med school with
me, a very good Christian. he filled me in with more details--there is
actually a peri-rectal abscess, but surgeons cannot operate on it
because of the overall condition. they can only treat with IV abx.
the
patient was a lot more awake yesterday than ever before for this
admission, and he agreed for us to pray for him. so we did. i prayed
for God to reduce the metastatic tumors in the left lung and in the
adrenals. i also prayed for God to rid the peri-rectal abscess, which
is not operable. before we left yesterday, i asked for permission to
bring some friends from church over today. and the wife readily
agreed. she was very thankful that still so many people, including
strangers, care about them.
today at church when i saw Pastor
Kevin Liu, i explained to him the situation that the patient may not
live for another week, and he happily agreed to go visit this gentleman
this afternoon. so we did, along with Michelle and Daniel. to my
happy surprise, upon our arrival, we found there were two guests there
already, a married couple, both Christians. and they were trying to
encourage them too. and surprisingly, the patient looked much better
today than yesterday! he was more awake today, able to converse. we
found out that their other friends led him to pray the conversion
prayer couple days ago, but at that time he was not with it, not that
awake at all. so Pastor Liu step by step explained to him about sin,
about confessing our sin, about accepting Christ. when asked if
willing to pray to confess his sin, he nodded his head. so Pastor Liu
prayed out loud, leading him to confess all his sin. and at the end,
the patient said "amen" too after Pastor Liu, so loud and so firm.
then
the patient complained about some abdominal pain. after we prayed for
God to take away the pain, he said he felt much better. then Pastor
Liu explained the meaning of baptism and asked if he wanted to be
baptized, he nodded his head again. he was then baptized into the name
of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. so touching.
we
were very cautious not to be pushy. but the patient was very firm in
accepting Christ. even i was encouraged to see his faith. praise God.
jason
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