{"id":299,"date":"2009-11-10T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=299"},"modified":"2009-11-10T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T13:13:15","slug":"prayer-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/11\/10\/prayer-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me, but it does.&nbsp; God really does answer prayer.<\/p>\n<p>For those who prayed for Stellan yesterday, and don&#8217;t really follow the story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycharmingkids.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">here&#8217;s<\/a> the full update.<\/p>\n<p>But the short version is that it looks like Stellan&#8217;s surgery was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">completely<\/span> successful.&nbsp; It looks as if, barring an unforeseen complication, that little boy now has a perfectly healthy heart.<\/p>\n<p>And I still have trouble believing it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Even though I prayed all day, in faith, in accordance with Scripture (as best I knew how), I was still a bit surprised at that amazing of an outcome.&nbsp; The doctors were saying there was a 20% chance of complete solution.&nbsp; And that is exactly what happened.&nbsp; And I was amazed.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to work on my prayer life, my faith life, and my belief in the power of God on our behalf.&nbsp; Because he really is an awesome God who does marvelous things in our lives (or Stellan&#8217;s in this particular case!) when we completely rely on him.&nbsp; To God be all the glory!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are a few recovery prayer requests, if you don&#8217;t mind me mentioning them.&nbsp; Stellan has a hematoma in his groin from where they went in to access his heart that is restricting blood flow to his leg.&nbsp; They need it to dissipate so that leg isn&#8217;t damaged.&nbsp; He also has some infection in his lung and a fever.&nbsp; So he is not out of the woods yet, by any means.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But he survived his surgery and, God willing, will never have his heart problem again.&nbsp; Yippee!&nbsp; Praise God!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Just thought I&#8217;d share&#8230;you guys are awesome prayer partners.&nbsp; I&#8217;m so glad to have you all around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me, but it does.&nbsp; God really does answer prayer. For those who prayed for Stellan yesterday, and don&#8217;t really follow the story, here&#8217;s the full update. But the short version is that it looks like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/11\/10\/prayer-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}