Hospitalized. Thank you

Jacob Hantla
Jacob Hantla Member, MVP Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I was recently hospitalized (still am actually) and all that I had with me in the waiting room, ER, and the first little bit of my hospitalization was my iPod. So I had my Bible, my commentaries, and many of my books with me the whole time helping to direct my thoughts rightly toward God. I only had intermittent internet connections, just enough to download the books for offline reading I knew that I'd want. So thank you so much for developing the iPod app. 

Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org

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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jacob, sorry to hear you're in the hospital. Praying for a smooth and full recovery.

  • Mark Smith
    Mark Smith Member, MVP Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭

    Praying for a smooth and full recovery.

    Ditto.

    Pastor, North Park Baptist Church

    Bridgeport, CT USA

  • Scott S
    Scott S Member Posts: 423 ✭✭

    Jacob,

    I'm sorry to hear you are in the hospital -- I will pray for you. 

    I enjoy your contributions to these forums.  I started reading Simeon's Horae Homileticae based on your endorsement a month or so back.  It is wonderful and thought provoking.  In case you are not aware, it is available on the iPod.

    Regards,

    Scott

  • Kevin Becker
    Kevin Becker Member Posts: 5,604 ✭✭✭

    I will be praying for you. May God give you a speedy recovery.

  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭
  • Rev. D.
    Rev. D. Member Posts: 187

    Jacob, get well soon. I'll keep you in my prayers.

    Christina

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  • Jacob Hantla
    Jacob Hantla Member, MVP Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭

    Thank you, all. Just had a bone marrow biopsy. They're suspecting lymphoma. 

    It's good to know that there is not a single cancer cell in my body (or any cell anywhere) that doesn't obey my Father. So I know that this will work out for good, and I know that it is best. Thanks for your praying; and thank you Logos for a portable library. I'm here on my netbook able to read, and I was even able to take my iPod with my to my biopsy and have my Bible immediately available right there. 

    Jacob Hantla
    Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
    gbcaz.org

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh, Jacob. I'm glad to hear you are in such good spirits about the news. I pray that they're wrong, but if you do have to go through treatment for cancer, I pray for strength and endurance for you, peace and hope for your family, wisdom and skill and success for the doctors, and God to be glorified throughout by your testimony and your positive attitude, and that he would soon make it clear how he means this for good in the long run...  Blessings, and keep us posted.

  • Ward Walker
    Ward Walker Member Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭

    God, Please guide Jacob's doctors; grant him peace of mind as you fulfill your purpose--thank you for providing him access to your Word during this challenging trial, and ask that through it you reveal your will.  I plea for you to restore his health. 

  • Jacob Hantla
    Jacob Hantla Member, MVP Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭

    I enjoy your contributions to these forums.  I started reading Simeon's Horae Homileticae based on your endorsement a month or so back.  It is wonderful and thought provoking.  In case you are not aware, it is available on the iPod.

    Praise God! I'm glad you got it and have found it beneficial. The more I read of Simeon, the more I generally appreciate his pastoral insight to the text.

    Jacob Hantla
    Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
    gbcaz.org

  • Prayers ascend.  May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you, and give you His peace.

  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    It's good to know that there is not a single cancer cell in my body (or any cell anywhere) that doesn't obey my Father. So I know that this will work out for good, and I know that it is best. Thanks for your praying; and thank you Logos for a portable library. I'm here on my netbook able to read, and I was even able to take my iPod with my to my biopsy and have my Bible immediately available right there. 

    Jacob,

    What a testimony to God!

    Many say things like this when it's not real, and things are good but God has given you the strength to worship during difficult times.

    Brother, you have blessed me with your attitude.

     

    bob

    Robert Pavich

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  • Michael Birney
    Michael Birney Member Posts: 225 ✭✭

    Jacob, I will pray for you, and you are on the prayer list in the bulletin, so others praying also.

    I read this thread this morning before church, and was preaching from Psalm 46, and I used your quote about cancer cells obeying God, it just showed how well you understand and live by  Psalm 46:10 (ESV) 10 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”  I admire your faith.

     

    Thank you, all. Just had a bone marrow biopsy. They're suspecting lymphoma. 

    It's good to know that there is not a single cancer cell in my body (or any cell anywhere) that doesn't obey my Father. So I know that this will work out for good, and I know that it is best. Thanks for your praying; and thank you Logos for a portable library. I'm here on my netbook able to read, and I was even able to take my iPod with my to my biopsy and have my Bible immediately available right there. 

     

  • Jacob Hantla
    Jacob Hantla Member, MVP Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭

    Jacob, I will pray for you, and you are on the prayer list in the bulletin, so others praying also.

    I read this thread this morning before church, and was preaching from Psalm 46, and I used your quote about cancer cells obeying God, it just showed how well you understand and live by  Psalm 46:10 (ESV) 10 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”  I admire your faith.

    Praise God. Thank you

    Jacob Hantla
    Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
    gbcaz.org

  • Jacob Hantla
    Jacob Hantla Member, MVP Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭

    Biopsy results back today. No cancer! So we don't know what's causing the nodules on the lungs or the super-low platelets and bleeding; but very good to know it's not cancer. THank you all for your prayers and encouragement. I am grateful to God for this trial and for what looks like is the preliminary outcome.

    Jacob Hantla
    Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
    gbcaz.org

  • Mark Smith
    Mark Smith Member, MVP Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭

    Praise God for one good report. However we still are praying until every question is favorably resolved.

    Pastor, North Park Baptist Church

    Bridgeport, CT USA

  • Scott S
    Scott S Member Posts: 423 ✭✭

    Praise God for one good report. However we still are praying until every question is favorably resolved.

    Ditto

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is wonderful news, Jacob. Continuing to pray for answers in what is causing the symptoms, that you might be relieved of them soon.

  • Rev. D.
    Rev. D. Member Posts: 187

    Biopsy results back today. No cancer! So we don't know what's causing the nodules on the lungs or the super-low platelets and bleeding; but very good to know it's not cancer. THank you all for your prayers and encouragement. I am grateful to God for this trial and for what looks like is the preliminary outcome.

     

    Praise the Lord! Thank you so much for sharing. I'll continue to keep you in my prayers.

    Blessings,

    Christina

     

    iMac 27 inch, 3.1 GHz Core i5, 1T HD, 4 GB RAM

     

  • Tom Blanchard
    Tom Blanchard Member Posts: 129 ✭✭

    Hey, Jacob

    I've been following some of your comments and help on other posts, and wondering how your health is doing and what the follow up studies showed. Many of us have been praying for you.

    (And then, duh, I saw that GraceBible had a Tempe address and I looked it up. I, too, became a Christian at Arizona State, outside the MU, in March of 1972! And Scott & Kim Maxwell are dear friends who have had a huge impact on our family. Please greet them from Lucy and me, here in France.)

    Blessings, brother.

  • Jacob Hantla
    Jacob Hantla Member, MVP Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭

    Tom, Wow! small world. I'm actually back in the hospital with continued problems. Going to be having a video assisted lung biopsy done tomorrow to try to figure out what the cause of all this is. 

    I'll send Scott an email and tell him you said "hi"

    Jacob Hantla
    Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
    gbcaz.org

  • Ken Shawver
    Ken Shawver Member Posts: 515 ✭✭

    Jacob, sorry to hear you are back in the hospital. I will be praying for you and for wisdom for the doctors so you can find out what's wrong and get you back on your feet.

    In Christ,

    Ken

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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm actually back in the hospital with continued problems. Going to be having a video assisted lung biopsy done tomorrow to try to figure out what the cause of all this is. 

    Sorry to hear you're back in the hospital, Jacob. But wow, cool, video assisted lung biopsy. What amazing technology we have now! I pray that it will be helpful in finding the cause and will not feel impersonal/intrusive/painful, all those things medical technology can sometimes be. (My dad got to watch his angioplasty on a video monitor while it was taking place and said it was cool.)

  • Alan Macgregor
    Alan Macgregor Member Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭

    Jacob

    Glad you're still grasping grace. [:)]

    Every blessing in our Lord Jesus.

    Alan

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