I won’t take the time to be eloquent, it’s time for war! For those of you who don’t know, my wife, Amy, has been viciously attacked in her body over that last couple of weeks. In the last week we found out that the problem is a low-grade cancer known as Hodgkins Lymphoma. This is a highly curable disease and we know that our God is the healer anyway! We are summoning prayer warriors from all over the nation to stand with us. The most important prayer is coming from our home base here in BR. It just is amazing to see, once again, how many people love and support us in prayer. It has truly been touching! I sit and read your comments and they just amaze me how God has put such a deep love in the hearts of so many of you for Amy and I. (and boy do we appreciate it right now!)

Never in my life have I seen such warfare, and you all that know me know that I have seen some serious battle days in my time, but this is something else! To be honest it is truly shocking in one sense but exciting in another to know that the enemy is so afraid of us that he has to go to all these lengths to try and stop us and still he fails! haha devil, take that!

I ask all of you to be praying tom. morning at 8 (Fri.) as Amy goes in for her first treatment. Pray that all goes well and her body takes to the therapy well. Secondly, I ask you to pray that God would strengthen my body as my blood levels are whack and I am having a blood transfusion tom. How crazy as both of us will be doing treatments at the same time, but God will carry us.

The final thing i ask you to pray for is for both of us to have the strength we need to host the Upside Down national youth conf. this next week. Thousands are coming from around the nation and God will meet them here even in this time of battle and brokenness. God has been laying some really powerful messages on my heart as I have been preparing. Pray for unction, power, discernment, joy, life, clarity, strength, stamina, and for HIs precious anointing to drip over everything said and done.

Paul said that he “counted it all joy” and if he could do it then so can we! The Scripture I leave you with is out of 2 Cor. 12:9- And He said to me (Joel), My grace is suffecient for you, My power is perfected in your weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknessess, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. NASB