DeadmanINC.
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My name is Derek I am 29 years young. I am married to my beloved wife and stronghold Jessica. We have three children, a 7 year old daughter Mackenzie and two sons Samuel who is 6 and Jacob, 10 months. I was diagnosed with ALS in October of 2003. The use of equipment from the ALS Society of Alberta is supposed to make life "easier". They talk about Hope as if it lies within these material things but Hope does not lie in physical accessories and machinery to make quality of life easier. Hope is a gift of God's grace, and is implanted in revival, but abounds, increases, and becomes stronger and more lively by experienceing the love, grace, mercy, power, and faithfulness of God. “ALS” is just three letters given to someone in a feeble attempt by an enemy whose pursuit is human failure and spirit self combustion and to give people that spirit of giving up on living an abundant life in which the quality lies within. In our house we all, in a sense, have "ALS" but in the real world we all have to deal with an "ALS". What’s your ALS?
With any sickness we battle depression, despair and condemnation. Every morning it is getting harder to have the will to "get up". Patience and perseverance help to overcome these great difficulties. Perseverance keeps honour bright, perseverance is a continuance in a state of grace to a state of glory. We have to persist in Jesus and thus (James 1:2) Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. In the mind of a Christian, we must see the Father’s hand in it; we need a revelation that we deserve no mercy. For the perseverance and suffering brought upon us in this new age of persecution will reveal God’s will on our lives and take hope to a new level. It will open the floodgates of Heaven; it will captivate our hearts and release the accurate power of God. For it was He who on earth was most afflicted was the most patient of all sufferers; and not a bit less patient when he was “led as a lamb to the slaughter,” when we were still sinners. Therefore we need not only rejoice in times of prosperity, and of health.
With any sickness we battle depression, despair and condemnation. Every morning it is getting harder to have the will to "get up". Patience and perseverance help to overcome these great difficulties. Perseverance keeps honour bright, perseverance is a continuance in a state of grace to a state of glory. We have to persist in Jesus and thus (James 1:2) Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. In the mind of a Christian, we must see the Father’s hand in it; we need a revelation that we deserve no mercy. For the perseverance and suffering brought upon us in this new age of persecution will reveal God’s will on our lives and take hope to a new level. It will open the floodgates of Heaven; it will captivate our hearts and release the accurate power of God. For it was He who on earth was most afflicted was the most patient of all sufferers; and not a bit less patient when he was “led as a lamb to the slaughter,” when we were still sinners. Therefore we need not only rejoice in times of prosperity, and of health.