Dean P. Demos

It’s day 5 and I’m doing well.

Patty and I are so very grateful for the liberal outpouring of love and prayer that each of you have expressed.  Actually, we are overwhelmed, and tears come to our eyes all day long to know how much you care.  I know I am being spared some of the normal pitfalls of this precedure because of the volume of SUPERNATURAL prayer support I am receiving because of faithful saints like yourself.  It means so much to us.

Each morning at the Bone Marrow Transplant Center (BMT) at Northside Hospital, I get a fresh blood test report that continues to reveal the elimination of my immune system.  We are all waiting for my own stem cells to “engraft” and begin replacing all cells that were “terminated.”  In a sense, I’m being reborn.

Death always precedes new life.  It’s God’s plan and process, yet we too often hold on to deathly elements in our lives, when ONLY GOD has the true power to preserve life.  I’m not preaching … I’m experiencing and testifying about the HOPE we all have in Christ when we allow the healthy “Death to Self” process to give NEW LIFE a chance. 

We can all abide in His comfort … for “I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES, and on the last day He shall rise to my defense.”  Job 19:25 (WYC)