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Erica Galindo
Celebrating Food, Faith and Family
Last edited on: April 28, 2015.

It’s been a rough couple of months.

Frustrated and helpless, I cried out to God over and over.

Trials like this have a way of distilling and clarifying what’s important in life. That’s why they tend to offer the best opportunities to grow in our faith. Through this time, God has been teaching me to take our requests to Him confidently and fervently:

This is the confidence we have in approaching God:
that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—
we know that we have what we asked of him.

-1 John 5:14-15

God uses our trials in amazing ways. I believe that. I have learned to pray HARD and OFTEN. And He has been faithful.

At a particularly frustrating point in Annie’s hospital stay, all of her organs were showing improvement, but she was still unable to eat without excruciating pain, and no one had an explanation as to why. One night Annie, a friend, and I prayed fervently together, crying out to God for a medical answer. The very next morning, my friend Rob Pace who had heard about Annie’s struggle, emailed to suggest a diagnosis and to tell me the story of his son’s battle with strikingly similar symptoms. Days later her doctors confirmed that Annie had the same thing, and started treatment. At this point she’s been discharged from the hospital and though she’s certainly not recovered, she’s showing considerable improvement.

Honestly, if I were in charge of the universe, Annie would have been healed two months ago, but that’s not the case. Instead, recovery has come slowly, in a series of small victories and improvements. Each one a cause for much rejoicing and praise. Each one affirming God’s power and affirming above all that He hears us.

Have you been through a trial recently (medical or otherwise)? What have your trials taught you about prayer?

 

One Response

  1. Sonya Schutt

    I AM going through a trial, not to your extent, but a trial nonetheless. I have my good and bad days (as we all will). But I’ve read the end of the book, I know who WINS and I know He who wins loves me and will bring me along side Him….that’s what really matters. If I go tomorrow, I know where I’m going and I know it is going to be more than I could prossibly began to said. So, thank you Jesus for trials, getting strong, being there when we’re not so strong and having a place prepared for us when it’s all over.
    God bless you, Diane, and your lovely Annie. I will pray for you.

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