Our granddaughter
Madalene Grace Hodges
was diagnosed on Sept 4th with T1DM: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (an incurable disease). This type of juvenile diabetes requires multiple insulin shots a day in addition to multiple finger pricks for blood sugar testing. She is 3.5 years old.
Our family has many people around the world praying for her--a blessing for which we are so grateful. We are seeking the throne of Our God Most High, Jehovah Rapha, for a total restoration of her health. Here is what we believe and are pursuing in the natural and spiritual worlds:
1. It is not God's will for us to live with disease. His will is clearly stated throughout His word--He wills us to have health and life.
~Jer. 33:6 "Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth."
~Jer. 30:11 "For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds."
~Is. 57:19 "Says the Lord, 'And I will heal him'."
~2 Kings 20:5 "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears, surely I will heal you."
~Matt 8:7 "Jesus said to him, 'I will come and heal him'."
2. Yeshua healed everyone who came to Him and asked.
~Luk3 6:19 "Whole multitudes sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all."
~Matt 4:23 "Jesus went about all Galilee, healing all kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of disease."
~Isaiah 53:5 "By His stripes we are healed."
3. The same power of healing is available for us today as it was when Yeshua walked the earth.
~Ex. 15:26 "For I am the Lord who heals you."
~Heb. 13:8 "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
~Psalm 119: "Your Word is truth."
~Titus 1:2 "God cannot tell a lie."
~Luke 1:37 "For with God nothing will be impossible."
4. We believe. It is vitally important to believe that God will heal--not just that He can.
~Mark 9:23 "Jesus said to him, 'If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes'."
~Prov. 23:7 "For as a man believes in his heart, so is he."
~James 1:6 "But let him ask in faith with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind."
~Rom. 14:5 "Let each be fully convinced in his own mind."
~Psalm 41:11 "Because my enemy [sickness & disease] does not triumph over me."
5. We speak. It is imperative to speak God's promises and to speak with positive language every day.
~Prov. 18:21 "Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and he who loves it shall eat of its fruit."
~Rom. 4:17 "God, who gives life to the dead, calls those things which do not exist as though they did."
~Joel 3:10 "Let the weak say, 'I am strong'."
~Psalm 103:3 "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases."
6. We act. Our outward actions must be the same as our inward belief. There cannot be any doubleminded nature. We walk in anticipatory hope for the day of total restoration.
~Psalm 31:24 "Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord."
~Rom. 15:13 "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing."
~James 5:15 "And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up."
~Rom. 8:37 "Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us."
In addition to proclaiming God's word over Madalene, we are careful to refrain from placing invisible shackles on her with our words and attitudes. We do not call her a diabetic, as that is not her identity nor her destiny. With every injection both she and her mom declare: "I am whole, I am healthy, I am healed!" We do believe that the healing work has already been accomplished, and that the Lord has a specific timing for the manifestation to be revealed. Our prayer is that many people would come to the saving knowledge of Yeshua through her testimony! We eagerly anticipate sharing that news with you!
