A Nation that needs the Church

 A Nation that needs the Church

And

A Church that needs to be AWAKEN

 

It has been now two months since I have done a back porch, I’ve was tested positive for Covid on January 22, on the 24 I got Monoclonal Antibodies and on the 26^th my brother called the house and ask how I was doing and I told him not good and he said get to a hospital.  We went to Christus Santa Rosa in New Braunfels.  They took blood and my Sodium was below 100.  I did not know that a person should not be alive with those numbers, but the doctors put me in ICU and began very low amounts of sodium for six days.  Then the hospital four days sent me home taking sodium pills every day.

 

Home for 14 days and then having trouble breathing and back to the hospital with what they are calling Covid Pneumonia in both lungs.  At some point, I was put on a respirator for three days and the doctor told my wife and daughter they needed to give me to the Lord, for he was not sure I would make four days.  Not sure when they remove the tube from my throat, but I was breathing with oxygen and had no scaring in my throat.  My lungs were also the same, but it has been a long time in ICU watching these heroes called nurses to save lives and work 12-hour shifts, and they need your prayers, it has been 2 1/2 years and they are very tired.

 

] am now in Sundance skilled nursing and Rehabilitation and getting stronger still on oxygen but hope to be off by the time I go home.

 

So, you now understand why “The Back Porch” stops for a while.

 

But tonight, I not sleeping and as I was reading Psalm 5, I came across these verses I want you and me to ponder on, verses 8-10.

 

ICU gave me a better understanding of the grace and mercy that God desires for His Church, and this verse gives us an understanding that many in our government are God-haters, they do as their father the devil leads them, but God's word is clear; they will fall by their own counsel.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice