Baby Ethan Powell

I am writing this entry with tears in my eyes for a baby that I don't even know. My mom has been keeping up with a family for the past several months now through a blog for their son Ethan who was diagnosed with Leukemia at his 2 month check up. I was unaware of this blog and only started reading it 3 days ago. But I have been so touched by this family I had to share it with those of you who read my blog.

These people were given a 15% chance of survival and truly believed with all their hearts that God would bring healing to their son. Thousands and thousands of people have been praying for this baby throughout the course of his illness and his parents had a supernatural ability to have 100% faith in Jesus that he would heal their baby.

I have spent the last hour reading their posts and watching videos and have been overwhelmed and amazed at these people's faith. They didn't doubt God for a single second and never stopped praying for their baby boy to be healed of his sickness. I may not be very accurate with this information because I was not keeping up with this family until this week. However, I am pretty sure that Ethan was in remission from his cancer but was left with no immune system.

A couple of days ago his Dad posted that Ethan was going downhill fast but not to stop praying for Ethan to be healed. Again, without ever meeting this family I am amazed at their faith in Gods ability to heal. However, yesterday their precious baby died peacefully in their arms.

I cannot imagine how anyone could deal with something like this. I cannot imagine anything rocking a strong faith more than this probably has. These people believed that God would and could heal their baby and he did not. However, they posted the DAY that their baby died that they still believe and will still continue to pray for healing of themselves and will now devote their lives to finding a cure for cancer. His Dad posted the day Ethan died that he was mad at "cancer". He never once said that he was mad at God. What AMAZING faith!!

I say all this to say please stop what you are doing for a few moments and please pray for the healing of this family. I can only imagine the lies Satan is trying to feed them in this time of weakness! I have no doubt that this amazing, faithful family will overcome by the power of God. But they still need our prayers. They already have thousands of people praying for them but you can never have enough people fighting for you through prayer.

Here is a quote from Ethan's Dad yesterday: "Although the devils wants to convince me and you otherwise, I still BeLIeVe... PRAYER WORKS!!! And I hope that you do to."

I thought that was amazing and am so encouraged by this family. What a loving heart they have. They have just lost their precious baby boy that they have been fighting for for months. Yet, they still encourage others to believe in God and in prayer! They have definitely encouraged me. People like them help me realize that as Christians we are part of a community and family stronger than any blood family could ever be. God has the power to bring together people in so many mysterious ways and the tragic death of this sweet little baby is in some way part of his perfect plan.

As hard as it is for us to accept sometimes we have to trust that God is in control and God is perfect. This is something that I struggle with daily but find such great comfort in. I will be praying for this family and thanking God daily for his wonderful, perfect plan for our lives.

Here is their website if you would like to see it:
http://www.ethanpowell.com/