The Miracle Family

So many things have been happening to our family in the last year that can be classified as miracles, that we have been dubbed "THE MIRACLE FAMILY" by an evangelist friend of ours. Our children have been coming into the "kingdom" one by one. We have been united with a son after 25 years.

Many diseases have been healed. And, all of this has been done by the Most High God, the One True Living God, Almighty God, Heavenly Father, Lord of our lives. There are truly too many miracles to list them all here.

Just in the middle of March, 1999 my husband who had been battling with
shortness of breath for a couple of weeks was hospitalized. We were looking at chest x-rays which seemed to point out pneumonia. Soon after his
hospitalization, the diagnosis was changed to heart failure. During all of
this we stood on the "Word" of God. Anytime that I started to feel physically
fatigued, I would call one of the prayer partners from our church for backup
on the "Word". God has not given me only the "Word", but also friends who are grounded in that "Word" to help hold me up in times like that.

Last December we had sent 6 shoeboxes to children in other countries to spread God’s Love. We all enjoyed wrapping the boxes, and shopping for the articles to put inside. We enclosed Christmas cards with our name and address so that the teens that received the boxes could be aware of what part of the world the boxes came from. It was such a blessing to be able to bless teens from another country with a Christmas gift box full of fun and necessary items as well as Bibles, manger scene sculptures, and Bible story books. Our family was aware at the time that we would never know who received the boxes and maybe never know if the were in fact received in another country or here in the USA. My husband delivered all the shoeboxes from our city to a pickup point in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This was the second year that he had taken the boxes.

During our time in the hospital last week, we received three letters from
Ghana, West Africa. One of the letters was from a 14 year old girl who had
received a box with a card in it from us. The letter was very sincere and
quite encouraging. She said that she had become a Christian. She told us
that the thing that she enjoyed the most in the parcel was the "Bedtime Bible
Stories" book. She had no other books to tell her of the Biblical events.
She was very appreciative and touched our hearts with her letter.

The very best part of the letter was when she said that she wanted us to have faith in God. Wow, she doesn’t even know anything about us, and she is encouraging us to have faith in God. That was enough for me to realize that God not only had given me His Word and friends that would help me to stay grounded in that Word, but He had actually used a 14 year old girl in Africa to remind me to rely on His faithfulness. What a mighty God we serve! He is ever faithful to perform that which He has promised in His Word.

Thank You, Father God that you can use any of us at any time without our even having to know what is going on in another’s life. Praise You, Almighty God!

Your Servant,
Ann Kennon