While talking with a friend who is recovering from a stroke, he was telling me how he is being cared for by his wife. I could tell he was frustrated at having to rely on someone else for what he once was able to do for himself. He must ask for what he needs and wait to get it when she has time. What he sees as losing his authority as head of the household is the reality of him needing much more care without adding more help to do the extra work.
I know his wife loves him and “She will do him good” (Prov 3:12 KJV) but adding full-time caregiver to this already busy wife, mother, and grandmother’s responsibilities means she is carrying a heavy load. In addition, she is trying to follow the Doctor’s orders and pushing her husband farther and faster than he wants to go. It is for his own good, but it can be painful, embarrassing and even scary at times. Fortunately, Joe has more help than most people can see.
You see, he and his wife are Christians and have a family that has seen miraculous answers to prayer. They are part of a Church that believes “by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24 KJV) and that JESUS “ever liveth to make intercession for them” (7:25 KJV). JESUS is our ultimate Caregiver! He kept Joe alive, got him out of his sickbed and brought him to Church. He raised him out of his wheelchair so that he walks into the Church with just a little help from a cane! He is a bit shaky and hesitant, but GOD is healing Joe Ramos!
Do you still have doubts? Brother Ramos has been faithfully attending Friday Fellowship and Heritage Christian Ministries Church where we recently discovered he isn’t the only miracle in his family. His lovely wife, who sings with our Praise and Worship team shared how she and Joe came to the LORD. Joe was blessed with a Godly wife who brought him to JESUS, and they trained up their children in the way they should go…and they have not departed (Prov 22:6)!
If that wasn’t enough, their daughter-in-law shared her testimony of GOD preserving her life when she was a baby and then miraculously healing her of a chronic condition that prevented her from having children. GOD blessed and she gave Joe four precious grandchildren, who are also being “trained up.” In addition, she blesses us with her delicious cooking!
Topping it off, Joe’s son has shared the WORD with us, Joe’s son-in-law is our amazing Praise and Worship leader, and his teenage granddaughter plays the drum for us. Joe’s daughter and another granddaughter are wonderful additions to our fellowship and yet another of Joe’s talented daughters and her husband helped get the Praise and Worship Team going.
The Ramos family is blessed and such a blessing to us because, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 KJV). And “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8 KJV). Why don’t you come join them and watch our miracle working GOD change hearts and lives? He wants to be your Caregiver too, both now and forever more!
Wayne Lance (2022) – That’s Good News to Share!