This week...
I learned that the secret to really good home made chicken soup is LEMON
I learned that I have major blind spots! I went to a kitchen cabinet to look for my tea thermos. I moved cups around and literally spent over 5 minutes searching one small shelf for this thing. I gave up. a half hour later I came over to the same shelf to grab a cup, and there it was, in the very CENTER and FRONT of the shelf- as if God was playing a trick on me!
A special conversation with a patient:
She came to see me initially for a well woman exam, but had a lot of other issues to talk about. She told me about her ingrown toenail, her foot fungus, her high blood pressure and her lifelong palpitations,. She also told me about how she was raped in high school and how she struggled with depression and tried to commit suicide when she was in her 20s. She told me that she was no longer suicidal but admitted that she did not have many friends and that she had never fully gotten counseling or healed from the rape. She cried most of her visit.
When I asked her about what her support system was like, It was revealed that she did not have a great support system. I asked her if she had the faith background that helped her deal with difficult things. She looked at me and said "I just want to be really honest with you - I want to understand God. I've been to church several times since moving to Tulsa. There's a church on every corner it seems, but every time I go I don't really know what's going on and I don't understand what they're talking about. Sometimes I talk to God but I don't know what he's thinking. But I really want to ! I really want to understand." So I asked her if it would be helpful if I explain to her what the Bible said about how we can connect with God and know him as her friend and she said she would like that. I walked her through the knowing God personally booklet. After each page asked her if it was helpful and if she wanted to keep going and she said she definitely did. When we talked about the forgiveness of God she asked me -" so do you think that God would forgive me for trying to commit suicide? " We talked about God's forgiveness and I think it was a breakthrough for her. she said "This is something I've always wondered about and always troubled me". When we got to describing the two lives, one life without Jesus and one life with Jesus where he is the king and in the center, she said that she was the circle with a life without Jesus but was slowly moving towards the other circle. I asked her which circle she wanted to be and she said she wanted to be the life where Jesus was the center. I asked her if she wanted to make that step today and she said she did. She was shy and said she wanted to go home and do it in private. She was crying and really thankful for me taking the time to explain to her these basic things, these most important things. I will see her in a couple weeks to finish her well woman exam.
I was really encouraged by this encounter not only because of an opportunity to share the gospel, because there is nothing I did that deserved this opportunity or set up the situation or manipulated her in any way. She was simply hungry to know about how to know God. I was just thankful to be part of what God was already doing in her life, and be part of the special moment.
So hopefully in a month or so I will see her ingrown toenail removed, her palpitations evaluated, her blood pressure treated and improved, steps in her starting regular counseling for her past hurts. But most of all I hope to see a transformed woman who knows that she's the daughter and friend of God. I hope to see a sister - one who was dead and has now come alive.
An exciting email from our prayer team at the clinic:
Hi Dr. Jung!
I wanted to thank you for recommending that your patients come to our IHI Healing Rooms for prayer. On Tuesday this week we had three guests, all of whom were your patients.
The first -M- was suffering from Lupus and many ailments. Her mother had back pain. Both said they felt better afterward and were glad they came.
The third woman -M- came for prayer for a grandson who is going through drug treatment. On her form she left the line about having a home church blank. So, in addition to praying for her physical needs, we felt that we needed to ask if she had given her life to Jesus. By the time she left she had prayed a prayer of salvation and asked Jesus to come into her life.
PTL!
Thank you again for your support and for the way you regularly encourage you patients to come for prayer.
Blessings to you!
--David
I learned that the secret to really good home made chicken soup is LEMON
I learned that I have major blind spots! I went to a kitchen cabinet to look for my tea thermos. I moved cups around and literally spent over 5 minutes searching one small shelf for this thing. I gave up. a half hour later I came over to the same shelf to grab a cup, and there it was, in the very CENTER and FRONT of the shelf- as if God was playing a trick on me!
A special conversation with a patient:
She came to see me initially for a well woman exam, but had a lot of other issues to talk about. She told me about her ingrown toenail, her foot fungus, her high blood pressure and her lifelong palpitations,. She also told me about how she was raped in high school and how she struggled with depression and tried to commit suicide when she was in her 20s. She told me that she was no longer suicidal but admitted that she did not have many friends and that she had never fully gotten counseling or healed from the rape. She cried most of her visit.
When I asked her about what her support system was like, It was revealed that she did not have a great support system. I asked her if she had the faith background that helped her deal with difficult things. She looked at me and said "I just want to be really honest with you - I want to understand God. I've been to church several times since moving to Tulsa. There's a church on every corner it seems, but every time I go I don't really know what's going on and I don't understand what they're talking about. Sometimes I talk to God but I don't know what he's thinking. But I really want to ! I really want to understand." So I asked her if it would be helpful if I explain to her what the Bible said about how we can connect with God and know him as her friend and she said she would like that. I walked her through the knowing God personally booklet. After each page asked her if it was helpful and if she wanted to keep going and she said she definitely did. When we talked about the forgiveness of God she asked me -" so do you think that God would forgive me for trying to commit suicide? " We talked about God's forgiveness and I think it was a breakthrough for her. she said "This is something I've always wondered about and always troubled me". When we got to describing the two lives, one life without Jesus and one life with Jesus where he is the king and in the center, she said that she was the circle with a life without Jesus but was slowly moving towards the other circle. I asked her which circle she wanted to be and she said she wanted to be the life where Jesus was the center. I asked her if she wanted to make that step today and she said she did. She was shy and said she wanted to go home and do it in private. She was crying and really thankful for me taking the time to explain to her these basic things, these most important things. I will see her in a couple weeks to finish her well woman exam.
I was really encouraged by this encounter not only because of an opportunity to share the gospel, because there is nothing I did that deserved this opportunity or set up the situation or manipulated her in any way. She was simply hungry to know about how to know God. I was just thankful to be part of what God was already doing in her life, and be part of the special moment.
So hopefully in a month or so I will see her ingrown toenail removed, her palpitations evaluated, her blood pressure treated and improved, steps in her starting regular counseling for her past hurts. But most of all I hope to see a transformed woman who knows that she's the daughter and friend of God. I hope to see a sister - one who was dead and has now come alive.
An exciting email from our prayer team at the clinic:
Hi Dr. Jung!
I wanted to thank you for recommending that your patients come to our IHI Healing Rooms for prayer. On Tuesday this week we had three guests, all of whom were your patients.
The first -M- was suffering from Lupus and many ailments. Her mother had back pain. Both said they felt better afterward and were glad they came.
The third woman -M- came for prayer for a grandson who is going through drug treatment. On her form she left the line about having a home church blank. So, in addition to praying for her physical needs, we felt that we needed to ask if she had given her life to Jesus. By the time she left she had prayed a prayer of salvation and asked Jesus to come into her life.
PTL!
Thank you again for your support and for the way you regularly encourage you patients to come for prayer.
Blessings to you!
--David
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