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Dear family and friends,
As you may or may not know, I have a major surgery on my shoulder this morning at 7:00 am. They have to put 8 or so anchors into my arm and shoulder bone to reattach my rotator cuff muscle as well as my labrum (the cartilage inside the socket). You can read more about it here in our most recent newsletter. I will be out of commission for about 2 weeks, and then have a 6-10 month recovery before it hopefully gets back to normal and I can use my right arm fully again…
I’m not going to lie, I am scared. I have never been put under for that long (2+ hours) and it terrifies me to feel so out of control. I am not very excited about all the pain and recovery associated with this and I am struggling to trust God’s plan. My mind can tell you all the scripture, theology and promises of God, and I could preach a hundred sermons on them, but my heart is having a hard time believing them. Yes, pastors too have their valleys of doubt and brokenness, and I'm in one right now as I write this to you. Like the father in Mark 9, I find myself saying “I do believe, help my unbelief.â€
I am writing to ask you to pray for me today as you read this.
- Pray for faith and strength to all those involved and all those this might effect.
- Pray for our family during this time. This is going to be super hard for them. Katy-Grace was bawling yesterday as she prayed that "daddy would wake up after his surgery."
- Pray that Jesus will indeed show himself to be my wonderful counselor and that I will experience His power and presence during this time, and that this suffering God has seen fit for us to go through will indeed produce the perseverance, character and hope that He wants to form in me, my wife and my children.
- Pray that my heart will overflow with thanksgiving to God, and that this trial will be yet another testimony of God’s faithfulness and will put His Kingdom and glory on display and be used of Him for the sake of bringing people to Jesus.
- Please pray for Dr. Morris who is performing the surgery, and for healing to happen quickly.
I am so encouraged and thankful for all the amazing people in our church family here who have come around us during this time, and even in my doubts I see glimpses of hope through the love you all are showing us in our time of need.
There is indeed so much to be thankful for... and most of all the hope we have in the resurrection of Jesus... The hope that one day full restoration of these broken bodies will happen, and the presence of sin and death will be done away with once and for all. As I long for that day in my time of need, my prayer is that you too will hope and trust in Christ, rest in His promises of new life, and live out of that reality for the glory of God and the healing of our world.
For the King and the Kingdom,
Danny Iverson
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