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Giving and receiving

Theo and Maria needed wood for this winter. Theo, at present 74 years young, healthy and strong, had already looked around here and there. One day in beginning of April that year he prayed for it. He remembered God His promise in Malachi 3 where stands “that you can test God when giving tenths and sacrifices”. He prayed frankly: “Lord, I give You faithfully my tenths and sacrifices; You promise that in that case You would open the windows of heaven and pour blessings in abundance over me. I ask this only once: I need wood badly”.

Adventures with God during the holidays

Last June Harry and Suzanne went to Hungary with Eugène and Josée. They have had a nice holiday and would drive back home two days later, when Suzanne said that she had not been experiencing something special with God this years. Josée answered that they had been driving everywhere without any problem, and always had parking space and asked if this was not enough? Still Suzanne wanted to experience God once again really close...

On the way back home they stayed one day in Passau, at the Austrian-German border. That evening they were enjoying a delicious ice cream on a terrace. Suddenly they saw very dark clouds coming their way; they rushed to the car to drive to the hotel. Meanwhile the sky became pitch black.

Spectacular recovery after unanimous prayer

12th March we received an urgent prayer request from Hans and Gerda Eijsackers, co-workers with Gods Ambassade Netherlands). They asked prayer for Leeuwke, the 1,5 year old grandson of Gerda’s brother. He was on a respirator in the Intensive Care unit. The doctors did not know just what exactly went wrong.

On Sunday 9th March, his parents were in church when the nursery leader called his mother out of the service because Leeuwke wasn’t well. She was shocked when she saw him, she had never seen him this drowsy, he lay sprawled in the stroller, his complexion was fiery red and he was barely moving. He was prayed for right away in the service en then his parents took him home.

At home Leeuwke started vomiting, and that continued through the night. On Monday morning his mother took him to the family doctor, but he reassured her there was no fear for dehydration. By six o’clock her husband called the GP as Leeuwke was getting worse. They could come right away and were immediately sent to the pediatrician. Leeuwke was admitted to the hospital and they launched rehydration (the diagnosis was dehydration). In the Netherlands the protocol prescribes to first try to administer fluids via a probe in the intestines twice (usually this works very well with children) before starting intravenous rehydration.

The probe in the intestines did not work and by the morning they started with IV. Leeuwke got worse and worse, he was nearly unconscious. The pediatrician was all shaky, it seemed to go completely wrong. She needed to insert the IV, but it worked nowhere, so finally she inserted it in his little forehead.

His blood pressure dropped dramatically, his heart rate was consistently above 200, subcutaneous bruises showed up, an ambulance –the sirens screaming- brought Leeuwke to the University Hospital in Amsterdam. It took the doctors two hours to stabilize Leeuwke’s condition. He had a septic shock.

When the parents asked the doctor if Leeuwke could die, he answered that their son was very ill and that he couldn’t guarantee he would survive.

We joined in prayer right away and put him in our prayer box at church. After 5 days of intensively administering fluids and vasopressors, Leeuwke’s blood pressure was still very low.

Then in the night of Saturday to Sunday 16-17 march both Gerda’s brother and Hans prayed powerfully – they didn’t know this from each other. The next morning the parents were told that Leeuwke’s body suddenly spontaneously recovered. The doctors were utterly amazed! Two days later Leeuwke left the intensive care unit. It still took a while to get off the heavy medication he had received, but he recovered completely! In June the parents had a chat with doctor of the intensive care unit. He was still perplexed at the sudden recovery of Leeuwke and also that it was utterly complete, not a trace of the terrible condition remained!

Thank You Father for Your life in Leeuwke!