2010-07-07

 A few weeks ago, we received an urgent phone call requesting that we "Please come to pray for my dad.  He is dying."

We entered the emergency room of the main hospital of Haifa and found the whole family waiting outside for this man to breathe his last breath.  They told us that he had been in a coma for two days, and that the doctors didn't give much hope for recovery.

 

When we entered the room, we found this man lying on his bed connected to a machine that was pushing oxygen into his lungs to keep him alive.  His daughter tried to wake him shouting, "Dad, Dad, wake up!"  But there was no reaction or movement.  I held his hand and prayed, "God, if this is the time that you want him to come to you, please take him now.  If not, please heal him now."  A long time after this prayer, there was silence.  No one said anything.  

 

We returned home, but after four hours, I received a phone call.  "Pastor, my dad is awake, and he is eating his dinner!"  and he will go home.

Glory to God!  This 90-year-old man received another chance to live, but this time it is different.  He understands that in the coming days, He should live only for the Lord and for His glory.