Saturday, May 24, 2008

Enemy Attack?

I've had asthma ever since I was 16 or 17 years old. I'm pretty sure it's a bi product of smoking pot. In 1987 I had to be taken to the emergency room 3 times with severe attacks. The third time resulted in three days on a respirator. Since then I've been able to keep it under control with a regiment of prevention prescriptions. Until Thursday night. I've had a nagging cough for the past couple of weeks and caught a cold over the weekend and that's what triggered this attack. I ended up going to an urgent care office Friday after work. They gave me a couple breathing treatments and a chest x-ray. The treatments broke up the attack pretty quickly and there wasn't anything on the x-ray for concern. The Doctor gave me prescriptions for Prednisone and an antibiotic and sent me on my way.

Here's the thing, after so many years of keeping it under control why did it pop up now? Now that I'm on this mission to make a deference in the world and carry out God's will for my life, could this have been an enemy attack?

We think of the enemy always poking and prodding our minds and thoughts but what about the physical? Does the enemy have that kind of power? I'm not a Biblical scholar and don't have the answer.

I did a lot of praying and rebuking the enemy on Thursday, it got me though the night. I want to thank God for modern medicine without it I would have been gone twenty years ago.

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