Prayer Requests

The following is a prayer from Chris.  His request is for his brother Stephen who is very ill, and suffers daily, with a chronic colon condition.  Please lift this whole family to the Lord, for healing, renewing, strength, and most of all for the glory of our LORD.

Hello,

            My brother is 27 years old. When he was 15, he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitus. He became very ill, and finally the decision was made that he would have to have his colon removed. He underwent a new type of surgery where his colon would be removed and a pouch would be constructed inside of abdomen. This would forgo the need for an exterior pouch or colonoscopy bag. Many prayed for my brother, and he came through the surgery, and seemed to be doing well. But after the surgery, he developed a condition called pouchitis. This condition is similar to what he dealt with when he had colitis. He had to be placed on antibiotics. This condition became chronic, and he is dependant upon these antibiotics to maintain his health. He has now been on antibiotics since 2001. As with all antibiotics, patients face the risk of whatever bacteria the medicine is prescribed to kill, becoming immune to the antibiotics. This has happened once before to him with one medicine. His body is not well. Due to the medicines that he has been on over long periods of time, Stephen suffers from joint pain. Some of the medicines that he has been on have caused his teeth to weaken and break. He faces the possibility that his body will become immune to the medicine that he is taking now.  His quality of life does not appear to be the best. He seems to convey that death would be an alternative. I am in no way implying that he wishes to end his life, but that he may possibly feel that he would be better off dead. My brother is a born again Christian. He knows where he is going when he dies. Our family has been praying for him for years that he would get well. Modern medicine has no solutions to his problem. I feel and believe that only a touch from God will heal him. I know that God loves Stephen. We don’t understand why Stephen has gone through this. Please pray that God would have compassion on my brother and would heal him of his infirmities.

 

Thank you for your prayers for my brother.

 

Chris Hubert