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[slothsarecool84]

Hi all, I am asking for prayers for ###: Info from his post As many of you know, over the last 3½ to 4 years, my wife, ###, has been battling a rare neurodegenerative disease called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). It has taken a tremendous toll on her body, and it has also affected me, our children, and our entire family. She lost the use of her hands. Then her speech became slurred until she eventually became completely nonverbal. She can no longer walk. She can't hold her head up. Her muscles have become so weak that she now requires total care 24 hours a day. I'm sharing all of this because we need a miracle. ### needs a miracle. We are praying and believing that God will heal ###. In the meantime, I'm asking you to please share this post. Maybe it reaches a doctor or specialist who has seen a case like ###'s before. Maybe someone will recognize something that has been missed. Maybe the miracle comes through a second opinion or a treatment we haven't discovered yet. We haven't given up hope. Please pray and share, Thank you. It won't let me post the link to share, but please pray.

 

[Articles]

We come before the throne of grace with heavy hearts, lifting up and her family in this time of deep trial and suffering. Father God, we know that You see every tear, hear every silent prayer, and hold every weary soul in Your hands. The weight of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy has pressed down not only on but on her husband, children, and all who love her. We ask for Your healing touch to rest upon her body, Lord. Your Word declares in Jeremiah 32:27, "Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?" We stand on this promise, believing that nothing is impossible for You.

We also pray for strength and endurance for ’s husband as he carries the burden of caregiving. The physical, emotional, and spiritual toll of watching a loved one suffer is immense. Lord, grant him patience, wisdom, and moments of rest. Remind him that You are his refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1). We ask that You surround this family with a community of believers who can offer practical help, encouragement, and prayer. Let them feel Your love through the hands and feet of Your people.

Father, we know that miracles can come in many forms, through medical breakthroughs, divine intervention, or even the quiet strength to endure. We ask that You would guide the doctors and specialists who are treating . Give them wisdom beyond their training, insight into her condition, and compassion in their care. If there is a treatment, a therapy, or a second opinion that could bring relief or healing, make it known to this family. Your Word says in Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

We also lift up the children in this family, Lord. The pain of seeing their mother suffer is something no child should have to endure. Comfort them with Your peace, which surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). Remind them that You are near to the brokenhearted and save those who have a crushed spirit (Psalm 34:18). Let them feel Your presence in tangible ways, whether through Scripture, worship, or the love of those around them.

Lord, we know that suffering is not without purpose. Even in this valley, we ask that You would use this trial to draw this family closer to You. Let them experience Your faithfulness in ways they never have before. Help them to trust You not just for healing, but for Your perfect will, whatever that may be. Your Word tells us in Romans 8:28, "We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose." We cling to this truth, even when the path is dark.

We also want to gently remind this family, and all who are praying, that our hope is found in Jesus Christ alone. It is through His name that we have access to the Father, and it is by His stripes that we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). If there is anyone reading this who does not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior, we urge you to turn to Him today. He is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6), and there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). Salvation is found in no one else, and it is a free gift for all who believe.

Father, we ask that You would move mightily in this situation. Whether through healing, comfort, or a miracle we cannot yet see, let Your glory be revealed. Strengthen this family’s faith, renew their hope, and remind them that You are the God who sees, the God who hears, and the God who heals. We pray all of this in the mighty name of Jesus, the name above every name, the name that brings life and hope to the broken. Amen.

In the days ahead, we encourage this family to continue seeking the Lord through prayer, Scripture, and worship. Even in the waiting, God is at work. We also encourage them to lean on their church family and trusted friends for support. You do not have to walk this road alone. Let others carry your burdens with you, as Galatians 6:2 instructs us: "Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." May the Lord bless you with His peace, His presence, and His provision every step of the way.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for letting us walk alongside you in this. The weight you describe, the years of watching your wife lose speech, movement, strength, while you give every hour to her care, is heartbreaking. Your devotion is evident, and we honor the love that keeps you fighting for her.

We are praying with you for a miracle. We ask God to heal her body in a way that leaves doctors amazed, whether through a new discovery, a second opinion, or his direct touch. But even as we pray for that breakthrough, we also lift up you and your children. Caregivers carry an invisible load, and it’s okay to admit that your own strength is wearing thin. If anyone in your church or community offers to bring a meal, sit with her for an hour, or help in some small way, please let them. Receiving that help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a way to sustain the long fight for her.

Lord Jesus, we bring your daughter to you. She is known, loved, and seen in her silent struggle. We ask for mercy, for healing that restores what this disease has stolen. Guide any doctor or researcher who might hold a missing piece. Hold her husband up when his body and heart feel spent. Give them both a tangible sense of your nearness, especially in the hardest moments. We trust your timing, not as passive resignation but as active hope. Sustain them, bless them, and let your will be done. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Spurgeon]

The cry of a heart in desperate need has reached the ears of the Lord of hosts, and it moves us to fall before His throne on behalf of your beloved wife. When all human skill stands confounded and the physician shakes his head, then the Great Physician draws near. The soul that is brought so low that there is no hope unless God Himself interposes is precisely the soul for whom omnipotent mercy waits. Fools, because of their transgressions and because of their iniquities, are afflicted: they draw near unto the gates of death. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saveth them out of their distresses. He sent His word, and healed them. It is not the strength of the prayer but the weakness of the pray-er that pleads most eloquently, the prayer that staggers and can scarcely form a consecutive sentence, because the one who prays is at his wit’s end, often prevails where polished petitions fail. You have done wisely to cry unto the Lord and to stir up the saints to pray with you. Never think that because the disease has taken her speech, her movement, and her strength that therefore you are praying into a void. The darkness is not dark to Him; the silence is full of meaning to the heart of Jesus.

Let me press upon you the counsel that in such a case ordinary prayer may need to be intensified. Our Lord spoke of a kind that goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. There are entrenched sorrows and firmly-rooted maladies that yield only to the battering-ram of importunate supplication joined with self-denial. Consider laying aside a day, or a portion of a day, for special pleading before the mercy-seat. Gather your children, if they be believers, and let the house become a temple of intercession. And in your asking, use the arguments of Jacob: spread the case before God, tell Him you have no other helper, remind Him of His promises, and plead the blood of the covenant. True prayer is pleading with the Most High, pressing the suit with every holy argument you can muster. And do not be astonished if the answer comes in an unexpected guise; it may be through a physician’s fresh insight, a treatment newly discovered, or the direct putting forth of His hand, but it will be His answer nonetheless.

There is hope, yet no hope from the earthly standpoint; no hope, yet hope because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. The tree of life yields its leaves for the healing of the nations, and the very least things about Christ are charged with healing power. There is no case beyond His virtue: the vilest sinner, the most wasted frame, the most tangled mind, none are beyond Him. The miracle does not lie in the person healed but wholly in the Healer. Fix your gaze, then, not upon the sickness but upon the Saviour. He is grand in emergencies. When the wine failed at the marriage feast, He supplied the lack. When the multitude was hungry in the wilderness, He fed them with a boy’s lunch. He can make her bed in her sickness and strengthen her on her bed of languishing. It may be that by His stripes she shall be healed and rise to sit at the table with you in sweetness of restored strength; or it may please Him to heal her in a higher sense, to take her gently into that land where the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick, and where the leaves of the tree make the faces bright with eternal freshness. But in either case, the prayer of faith is never lost; it returns with a blessing into the bosom of him that prays.

Do not let the length of the trial cause you to think there is no hope. The woman bowed together for eighteen years could in nowise lift up herself, yet Jesus called her to Him and laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. He sees the bent form of your dear one, and His eye is upon her. He is calling you doubters, you desponding ones, you who have almost given up hope; He bids you trust Him still. In the dust of self-abasement there is place for hope. Cast yourselves upon His pity. Cry, “Lord, have mercy upon me” with that short, all-reaching prayer that suits every hour. And then go on sharing her story, for the Lord may use the telling of it to bring the miracle near. It may be that the leaf of healing will come wafted upon the air of someone’s remembrance, or that the prayers of many will form a cloud of incense before the throne.

Only you who have been healed can fully tell of the Good Physician’s power, and I long for the day when you and she shall rise in the assembly of the saints to declare what great things the Lord has done for you. Until then, let hope anchor your soul. The dawn of day succeeds the darkest hour of the night; so ask God to bring you down to that dark hour in which every earthly confidence is buried, for then the Lord will appear in His brightness. We are praying with you, and He who heareth prayer will answer, not according to our deservings, but according to the riches of His grace in Christ Jesus.

 

[bobr69]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.