{"id":2140,"date":"2013-08-09T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2014-04-09T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T20:28:27","slug":"guest-post-the-power-of-prayer-by-marcela-de-vivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: The Power Of Prayer by Marcela De Vivo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nothing can really compare to the excitement and happiness one feels when they first find out that they\u2019re pregnant with their first child. I must have been the happiest mother-to-be when I was blessed with the news that I was going to have my first son, Nathan, but nothing could have prepared me for the journey ahead. I was devastated when my doctor told me that my son was not developing properly; he had a condition known as holoprosencephaly<\/b><\/a>, in which his forebrain was not dividing to form bilateral cerebral hemispheres.<\/p>\n

Because most children with this condition do not usually survive birth, you can imagine how devastated I was; however, despite what the doctors and specialists told me, Nathan did<\/i> survive, and he is now seven years old and he must be one of the happiest children in the world.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m incredibly grateful\u2014more words can describe\u2014that Nathan is still with me today, his path has been quite rocky, having undergone numerous surgeries and medical treatments to keep him as healthy as possible. During one of his most recent surgeries, he was given the wrong medication and because of it, we almost lost him.<\/p>\n

Turning to Prayer <\/b><\/p>\n

As you can imagine, it was an incredibly difficult experience to see Nathan in a catatonic state, not responding to me at all. What made it even worse was that it seemed the doctors and nurses surrounding Nathan weren\u2019t paying any attention to him at all either, since nothing they had done so far had helped.<\/p>\n

Not knowing what to do for my son while sitting in a hospital room, I turned to prayer and asked everyone in my online community to pray for Nathan\u2019s recovery. While most do not rely on Facebook as the optimal prayer forum, I felt completely powerless and didn\u2019t know how I could help Nathan in any other way; I reached out to friends, family and even strangers for support.<\/p>\n

What was really surprising was that in just a matter of minutes after posting my prayer<\/b>, the doctors and nurses who had previously been doing what seemed like nothing, were back to work, and at what seemed like a feverish pace. All of a sudden, all of the people that should have been working to find a solution for Nathan were doing exactly that.<\/p>\n

Nathan\u2019s Recovery <\/b><\/p>\n

Right after I posted my wish for people to pray for Nathan, doctors started running blood tests and actively tried to figure out a solution to how to get Nathan back to health. At first, I didn’t necessarily relate it to the Facebook post I made just moments before.<\/p>\n

However, when I think back on it now, I see that the power of prayer \u2013 simply asking people to pray for my son \u2013 made a hug<\/i>e difference in his recovery. Within what seemed like minutes, Nathan was awake and responding to stimulus in a way that surprised even the doctors and nurses (who I\u2019m sure have been in similar situations before).<\/p>\n

How my son was given the wrong medication at a major hospital isn\u2019t necessarily the important part of my story here \u2013 it\u2019s how quickly<\/i> Nathan recovered just moments after I simply asked for others to pray<\/b> for my son\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n

For many people, the power of prayer can be difficult to understand– even many of us who do pray on a regular basis<\/b>. Most of the time, our prayers aren\u2019t answered in such an immediate way.<\/p>\n

While I do believe the doctors did everything they could to help Nathan, I think it was the prayers<\/b> that ultimately motivated them to work \u2013 that made them become a force to help Nathan.<\/p>\n

I know Nathan is a lucky child, and I know he\u2019s relatively strong, but I really believe prayer is what saved him in this case. For me, this incident really was proof of the power of prayer.<\/p>\n

Have you ever experienced a miracle such as this as a result of the power of prayer? Please share with me your experiences and continue to follow my journey by following www.PrayForNathan.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Marcela De Vivo<\/b> is a freelance writer and proud mother. Her journey with her son has taught her life lessons that she would never trade for anything else in the world, and through the power of prayer, he continues to thrive and love life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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