Thank You Jesus!

My mom will be 80 years old this year and she's in pretty decent health. She still drives and she still manages to piddle around her little apartment even though she uses a walker and has terrible arthritis. Ever since dad passed away in 2005, my mom has talked about the "spirits" around her. She sees them and hears them and smells them. This is such a foreign concept to me. I have told her for years that if her faith was strong enough Jesus would take the spirits away, but they persisted. I prayed about it, but not wholeheartedly I don't think.

Recently mom called me at work to tell me a disgusting story about one of her spirits and I had just heard enough. Why would someone torment an old lady like this. Lets suppose what she is describing is really real to  her, whether I experience any of that in her presence or not and it really moved me so I prayed really hard to Jesus that night and the next time. But it was a different kind of prayer. I prayed with the expectation that Jesus would save her. That He had to because no one else could and I just could not stand the thought of her suffering another day from this.

This was two days ago. Today mom called me and said guess what. I said what and she said she could not hear the spirits anymore. She thought, well I'll put on my hearing aid and then see and still she heard only silence. She said wow Jesus must have heard my prayer. I didn't tell her how hard I had been praying or the depth to which I begged my savior to save my mom from this torture, but He heard me and after I got off the phone with her I just broke down and cried. I wanted this to happen so badly and it did and Jesus did that for me and my mom and of course those thoughts of not being worthy started to creep in, but I am worthy and I don't pray a lot for big things because I know God has His hands full, but I wanted this one so bad and all I could think was that one moment of silence for her was worth a million dollars to me.

I could not be more dedicated to loving and serving Christ and I dote on Him every chance I get and I give Him the glory and I guess I should expect all my prayers to be answered, but I know they won't be. I am so happy this one was.

So I had to document this occasion although I know I will write about this many more times in my lifetime and just say Thank You Lord for loving me so much and for listening and for giving my mom peace. I do not deserve you, but I AM working on it!