Tom Mazella

Blessings everyone! my apologies for not having written this yesterday. I had a change of mind. Tom was going to get some news yesterday and I was going to wait for them before writing to you but here it goes and then Monday I will write some more.

About some 25 days ago, I got a call from one of Tom and Teresa closest friend asking me to go to the hospital and see Tom. Doctors didn’t think he was going to make through the night so all of Tom’s friends were going that day to say good bye pretty much. I couldn’t go that day, I was already booked, but I prayed that God would let me see him next morning. After my early Wednesday men Bible study, I went to the Hospital to see Tom. As I was driving to the Hospital I began to ask the Lord for wisdom since it had been 4 months since we had been praying for Tom’s healing and just two weeks before I had led him to Christ. I just wanted to make sure that I was careful with my words.

What the Spirit of God put in my heart at that moment was to pray for Tom’s healing again but this time have Tom himself pray for it. After I got to the Hospital and a few words with Teresa and Tom, we begun to pray. right before we began though, I asked Tom that if Jesus Christ was present in that Hospital room, what would he ask him? Tom replied; to let me walk the streets again with my wife and children. I said, the Bible says that where two or three are gathered together there Jesus had promised to be and since Tom, Teresa and Wilmer had Christ in their heart, therefore Jesus was there too. I asked Tom to pray that prayer and he did. The Doctors had told Tom that there was nothing they could do. I don’t remember if I said it to Tom or Teresa but when I walked away from that Hospital, I walked away with the greatest faith ever, not because of what I saw but because Tom’s chances were greater than ever, he was not trusting the doctors anymore but in God!!! Tom was in God’s hands now.

A day went by, two days… three days and then a week and Tom was still there. 8 days later I went to drop some friends at San Diego Airport. I decided to go and see Tom. When I walked to the room, there was Tom but this time, he was sitting down and holding a football with the biggest smile I had seen on him since I met him. I had not seen him that conscious since back in May. Nothing had changed except that he was not in much pain anymore but only happy to see me. His best friend from childhood, Frank was there too. Boy was I excited!!! I felt as though God had done the miracle already. Tom told me his situation and said that his blood count needed to come up and that if that happened, they were going to let him go home. I told him that I was going to do that and that I was going to send an e-mail to all the people in my mailing list to pray for him.

Well, about 12 days ago, Tom got to come home. his blood count had come up. He was in a wheel chair but he was home. I went to see him some 7 days ago and he was walking with a walker but very conscious of himself and able to hold a conversation. Last Wednesday I went to see him again, this time he was walking without a walker. He wanted to go around the neighborhood, he got in his wheelchair and I tried to keep up with him (those things can get speedy!). He told me that they had gone to the Doctor that morning and that the Doctor was really impressed with his mobility. They did some exams on him and there are possibilities that he will get a treatment for him since some of the tumors appeared smaller than when he was in the Hospital. I don’t know about you but I really believe we are watching a miracle take place!!!

They were going to get some more news yesterday but I have not heard from them yet. I will let you know later but this is what I believe God is doing:

first, I believe God is healing Tom.  I don’t have the facts, just the faith. something inside my heart is saying God is doing it. second, I am thanking God for it. I have been feeling that God is asking me to give him thanks for the miracle in Tom’s body. Third, I praying for God to prosper Tom’s soul. III John 2 says, “beloved, I pray that you prosper in all things and be in go health as your soul prospers.”

Why do I believe this? simply put, I believe in the God of the Bible. It is just easier for me to believe that God would heal Tom than to believe that He won’t. I don’t have all the answers, just the faith in Jehovah Ra’pha (Ex. 15:26)

blessings to all of you. see you next time. In the meanwhile, keep on praising HIM!