Dear Dave and Irene:

Just a note to tell you how much I love you and to assure you that I continue to pray for BOTH of you.  Marsha told me that she read several case studies that were very positive. I have heard several testimonies lately on TV about healing.  I feel that the Lord touched me due to so many people praying and my recovery is faster than the doctors expected.  The first night that I was home from the hospital, the chorus kept going through my mind, “I am the Lord that healeth thee” and such a peace came over me.  That is the only line of the chorus that I know, but it is enough.  I am going to sing and believe, “I am the Lord that healeth Irene.”

I know Dave, from experience, this is not easy for you either.  I think sometimes it is easier to be sick than to be the caretaker and advocate for your wife.  It is so hard to see your loved one sick and having to go through so many tests and painful times.  I pray that He will give you the added strength and wisdom that you need and that His peace and love will surround both you and Irene.

Much love,

Martha

Dave:

I was at church Sunday and they were wrapping up a series on Spiritual Pathways.  We were talking about those that draw closer to God through nature.  They were showing a lot of video of God’s creation and reading scripture during the video.  Then a member was brought up to share his testimony.  He like, me, became a Christian during his college days.  He was in a biology class and was looking at slides under microscopes for the purpose of seeing evidence of evolution.  Like me (taking Cell and Developmental Biology at Irvine) he became more convinced, the closer he looked, that life had to have a creator and was not the result of evolution.  They could have just as well played a video and flashed the faces of people on the screen, a display of the brilliant work of God.

I am thankful for a brilliant Creator that created brilliant people to be brought into your life at this time. God can heal Irene in an instant, as I hope and pray he will, or he can allow us all to experience His creation through the people he brings into your life. 

I can’t walk in your sandals Dave, but I am willing to walk beside you.

Let me know if you need anything.

Dear Dave,

Thanks for the update and we pray for you and Irene each morning.

Please know that we have a series of prayer teams lifting you, Irene and the UCSF Medical Team up in prayer each day, and that will continue as we truly ask God for a healing miracle, a clear diagnosis and treatment plan, and an opportunity for Irene to be a living example of God’s love to all of those who care for her these days.

In prayer and service,
Don

I will intercede for Irene.  Remember how sick I was in 05?  Blood was leaking into my skin .... you all prayed for me including Chip. Isa 53 delivered me.  It is God’s guarantee.  God makes the scriptures to move from the spirit to the mind then to the heart by divine revelation.  Then it manifests in the flesh.  Our part is to believe the scriptures and to speak / meditate on them.  Jesus said if you love me keep (hold on / value / cling) my word. 

Matt 8:17 >>  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bore [our] sicknesses.

What does it mean that Jesus took / bore our sicknesses ?  If Jesus bore them on the cross at the same time he bore our sins then just as we have the guarantee of forgiveness we also have His assurance of healing.  Mat 8:17 quotes from Isa 53.  I have copied this from the Hebrew English Interlinear version called JPS1917 - it is the version the Jews use today.  The Jews do no believe in Messiah Jesus and do not believe in healing through the finished work on the cross.  But they translate Isa 53 accurately as our KJV and NIV water down the literal Hebrew here.  God asks who believes our (Father / Son / Holy Spirit) report?  When we believe we are accounted righteous just as believing Abraham - by faith.  That’s why Jesus called just the bent over woman daughter of Abraham (there were many other women there that he did not call daughter) and he said ought not this woman be healed - ought in Greek is dei, meaning by divine decree. 

Isa 53

1 ‘Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him. 3 He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed. 6 All we like sheep did go astray, we turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath made to light on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, though he humbled himself and opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; yea, he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and with his generation who did reason? for he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due. 9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich his tomb; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.’ 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to crush him by disease; to see if his soul would offer itself in restitution, that he might see his seed, prolong his days, and that the purpose of the LORD might prosper by his hand: 11 Of the travail of his soul he shall see to the full, even My servant, who by his knowledge did justify the Righteous One to the many, and their iniquities he did bear. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because he bared his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

As believers we believe our Lord Jesus took our sins on the cross.  We are forgiven!  But do you see here the 3 times it says how Jesus bore also our sicknesses?  Why did He do that?  He is our wonderful savior, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  He says my shalom I give you - shalom is completeness, wholeness, wellness ...

Father I pray for Irene in Jesus name.  I pray the finished work on the cross by the eternal lamb of God, Jesus, as written in the scriptures bring Shalom to Irene and by His stripes Irene is healed.  I pray the Word of God come alive in Irene’s spirit, soul and flesh in Jesus name.  Amen.

Guy

Dear Dave: We have been praying for you and Irene daily and wondering how she is.  We are trusting Irene is improving and sensing God’s healing power day by day.  Both Melody and Wendy are joining us in prayer for you both. Be assured of our love, continuing prayers and confidence in God’s promises that his healing power and perfect will will prevail.   

Because He lives!  Ruth and Elmer   Psalm 91:3,5-6,10

Just a quick note, my brother, to tell you that we are joining many others in fervent prayer for rapid diagnostic and medical success for Irene. God has far too much for you guys to do!! May God bless and strengthen Irene today and each day going forward as only the Sovereign God of the Universe is capable!!

Larry Acosta said hello and he and his wife will join in the Army of Prayer Warriors. Let us know if you need Anything!!!!!

Nickolas Vande Steeg

Dave, I have been praying for you but at today’s meeting I learned how serious things are.  Be assured you are being supported by many during these days.  You are at Stanford I understand.  They are a great place.  I work with them including Martha their CEO.  You are in good hands.  We miss you at the meeting but know you are where you should be. 

Dear heavenly father, be with Dave and Irene at this challenging time.  Give them the peace that only you can give.  Give the doctors wisdom as they work with your divine healing.  Thank you for the Dias family and we fervently pray for them at this time.  Thank you for your answer you are already crafting.  In Jesus Name, Amen.

Dear Dave and Irene,

I was saddened to hear about Irene’s continued physical problems.  You can count on my prayers for her soon recovery and the doctors to have the wisdom to pinpoint her problem and to know exactly the correct way to treat it. 

This was a blessing to me and I share it with you. “A well-known preacher was once in his study writing an Easter sermon when the thought gripped him: ‘My Lord is living.’  With excitement he jumped up, paced the floor, and began repeating to himself, ‘Christ is alive: His body is warm. He is not the great “I was” but the great “I Am”’. Christ is not only a fact but a living fact.”  Abbott Benjamin Vaughan. As I think of Irene sick in the hospital I think and pray for that living Christ to come in and touch her body and make her body well. I pray for you, Dave, that God will give you wisdom in knowing which ways to go and also give you His peace in the middle of the storm.

With much love to both of you.

Martha