Tuesday 22nd March - Zion

Good evening. We have had a bit of an eventful couple of days and why there was not a blog yesterday. I was vomiting for most of last night and due to my back pain could not keep tablets down and so ended up spending 4 hours in A and E. We have then spent today trying too sort the pain out in my back. The chemotherapy starts on Thursday and is in the form of an IV drip every 3 weeks and will last an hour each time. I will have 3 rounds and then be assessed to see if it is working and either carry on or stop. This needs real prayer for the success of the chemo for us to be able carry on. This may be intense and need a good strong body and so another prayer point.

I was reading a book in the bath this morning and it quoted these verses that really struck me. Isaiah 35 v 8 - 10 'and a highway will be there and it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it. No lion will be there nor any ravenous beast they will be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing, everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them and sorrow and sighing will flee away'.

Verse of the day: Revelation 21

Prayer for the day: Pray for God to be our rock, salvation and all we need in our difficult time. Pray for both of us to sleep well and for our bodies to be refreshed and well rested before chemotherapy starts. Pray for the success of the chemotherapy and in 9 weeks the tumours to have shrunk. Pray for our families who are worried about us and for God to be with them tonight.