Kurt writing this time. The Lord has reminded me that all this is like farming. You till the soil and get it just right, you fertilize it, get the PH just right, buy the best seed, plant it at the right depth and the right population (about 30,000 seeds per acre), make sure you use the right pesticides, and you try to do everything right so that you can have a great crop. But, it must rain!
God must provide the rain. If you do everything you can to produce a solid harvest but it doesn’t rain, then there will be no crop, no harvest.
On the farm we would work hard, try to calculate everything just right and then we would pray and ask God for His blessing from above – water! That is where we are today with Kristen. She is resting, eating better than ever before, alkaline diet, drinking alkaline water (about a gallon a day!), taking curcumin supplements for lung cancer, and is beginning radiation of the brain tomorrow, but we need the rain – the touch of God on all of this. We need His hand of healing.
We need your miracle Lord, and we in faith and trust are asking You to send rain. Let it rain, Lord! Let it pour down on Kristen. We already sense that Your healing has begun and we ask that that would continue! We need You, Lord, and we need Your hand of blessing and healing on my beloved bride. Thank you that You are our great Rock and salvation. Thank You for so many people who have blessed and encouraged us in so many ways.
Please join us in asking God for healing rain. If you would like to join us in praying and fasting on certain days you can sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0C48A9A823A31-fasting.
Thank you, Kurt
Praying now for the rain to fall! We’re with you brother!
Dear Loving Father…In the name of your Son, Jesus, I ask you to pour down your healing rain on my sweet friend, Kristen. Cover her from the top of her head to the souls of her feet as you wash away the cancer from her body. When she travels through a valley, Father, I know you will send Jesus to carry her through. Give her peaceful rest as you restore her energy and bring her to good health once again. Give peace and strength to Kurt, Olivia, Drew, Ivy, and Ellie as they care for their precious wife and mother, and fill their hearts with hope as they watch Kristen’s health blossom and grow with new life. Hear our prayers, Father, in Jesus’ name…..Amen
Please GOD….send down the rain and heal the most amazing women I know!!!!!
Kurt I’m praying for Kristen and for God to pour down his rain on her and your family. God can and does and I know this from personal cancer experience. When I needed him to get me through my cancer he opened doors that I’d been warned would take weeks if not months to open. All in all it took a total of 9 days to get every test I needed, surgery scheduled and a sense of peace that I cannot explain. I am praying for this same peace for Kristen. We look tough on the outside, but on the inside we crumble and thats okay, because God is always there to put those pieces back together again. I will pray continually and throughout the day tomorrow for her. Blessings to you and Hugs to your wonderful wife.
HE “REIGNS”… We just finished our prayer time! More coming tomorrow…
Dear, dear brother and sister in Jesus,
You have been heavy on my heart ever since Charlie wrote to ask us to pray. I was awake for several hours in the night, and sensed the urging of the Spirit to pray for you…to stand with you against fear and to ask in faith for healing.
I am deeply humbled and challenged by your faith.
“Without faith it is impossible to please God… Because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He IS, and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.”
Oh precious faith-full friends, your faith must be so pleasing to your Father. You are not shrinking back in unbelief but you are counted among those who believe and are saved. I praise Him this morning because of you! I can see that you are looking to Him, eyes fixed on Jesus….because you are radiant.
Know that Mel and I are, and will continue to stand with you believing and interceding from across the ocean.
In Him,
Amy (Klopfenstein) Ellenwood
I didn’t know who to ask for an update and feared it was “none of my business.” I am so grateful that Paul S. at the OC campus pointed me in the right direction to your blog. I have been praying for you daily in my “tent” each day since Kurt made the announcement at church. Now I can be more intentional. Praying hard for rain!
I will pray on the first day of 2013 that it will continue to be a year of spiritual and physical healing. I look forward to the blessings that God will bring in this new year for you and your family.
Let it rain with cleansing raindrops.
Rest in God and God works in you. I have been praying for your family since I heard of Kristin’s illness. She taught me one of my first bible studies at Southeast. Faith as tiny as a mustard seed………
Lord, let it rain on this sweet Sister in Christ. Give her and this precious family the peace that only You can give. We ask and pray that you will hear our prayers.
Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
When we wake up, throughout the day, before we go to sleep….you and your beloved bride and children we lift up in every prayer knowing our Almighty and Faithful God will answer the multitude of prayers sent on Kristen’s behalf in ways that are immeasurably more than we have asked or can imagine.
We will continue to pray for Kristen diligently. As you know, we serve a God of miracles. “Bring on the rain, Mighty Lord. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
We are praying for your family! May the God of peace guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Praying for healing and joy in the midst of these circumstances.
Praying for healing! Praying for strength! Praying for protection from fear, worry and anxiety! Praying the God shows you in a multitude of ways that brothers and sisters in Christ are lifting your family up in continous prayer. Praying for your family to “feel” the covering!
We are praying for rain and wait expectantly for the sky to open!! This farm girl relates to the analogy!! Your family has been in our hearts and prayers! God gonna move in a mighty way and your testimony will tell of His wonderous works! We love you guys!
Tim and Jane Parker
Don’t know you personally, but feel God is calling me to stand in the gap for Kristin. Praying in agreement with your post-praying for the healing rain of Holy Spirit to rain and thoroughly soak Kristin! Praying for strength and endurance for you Kurt. Praying for those Joshuas and Aaron’s to hold up your arms as you stand for your wife.
Sister in Christ, Tina Kegley
Our hearts are heavy, but we know we are serving and praying to a God of miracles and we have been and will continue to pray and ask God for rain and for a miracle for Kristen!! We know he can part the seas and he can move mountains and he can send rain (lots of it) for Kristen! We are standing with you in prayer and believing in a miracle for Kristen! God bless the Sauder family and keep you in his tender hands!!
In Christ,
Michael and Ramona Finchum
Our hearts are heavy, but we know we are serving and praying to a God of miracles and we have been and will continue to pray and ask God for rain and for a miracle for Kristen!! We know he can part the seas and he can move mountains and he can send rain (lots of it) for Kristen! We are standing with you in prayer and believing in a miracle for Kristen! God bless the Sauder family and keep you in his tender hands!!
In Christ,
Michael and Ramona Finchum
He is faithful. He hears the the hearts of he’s people!!!
We are praying for the Lord to rain down His miraculous healing on Kristen’s body! We are praying for you to have rest in every way in the tender mercies of God, Kristen. We are thanking Him for what He is doing in and around and through this situation! We love you!
Brad and Marci
Kurt,
As I read your post, Isaiah 55:10,11 came to mind: “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
Just as Kristen is eating good things for her body in the natural, keep eating those doses of “healing scripture” that are good like medicine. Our family is praying. Jim & I will fast every Monday until breakthrough!
Jim & Donna Jury
Kristen and Kurt, dear ones, You are on our hearts and in our prayers. No weapon formed against you will prosper. You rest under His wings. He is safe and sure–the Rock of your salvation!
We will be fasting the month of January every day.
We love you, Tom and Sandy Baker
You have been in my prayers continually since I heard. I pray for this to be a time for God to show His mighty power to heal and lift you up.
Precious Kristen, I had just started listening to your incredible program on 94.7, when I heard the devastating news. I know now the Lord led me to listen at that particular time of the day to get to know you better,and hear the love you have for our Savior and for others.. You are truly a Job through my eyes, in that, God uses His most precious and special children that LOVE Him so, to show those who are watching, His miracles and His plan for your life. God will be honored and glorified through this more than we could ever imagine. HE IS GREAT!
Jehovah Rapha, I cry out to you for complete healing of Kristen’s body and the peace she so needs right now! AMEN
Kurt and Kristen…you are both in my heart of prayer…and your children. Hebrews 6:11-20 instructs us to fix our hope solely on the character and promises of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is but one safe refuge for hope in this world, and that is the unchanging character of the triune God and the certain promises of Scripture that flow out of His character. “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us” (Hebrews 6:19-20).
A Godly hope is achieved also through adversity. We are much more likely to come into contact with our hope during times of trial and affliction than times of success and prosperity.
I pray that my and everyones “hope” that you, your children and Kristen life and health be Blessed and Healed is answered!