Who the Son Sets Free, is Free Indeed!

After reading the news of Anastacia passing away I was left completely distraught. I did not know how to react. While I was in the PI, I found myself left without words when praying for people who were going to die with an miracle from God. When it came to Anastacia's death, I again found myself without words. There was hope for her. She was in the hands of Ate and her staff at Gentle Hands. They know what they are doing, and they do a great job at it. I guess what I didn't see at the time was the Anastacia was just like those men I prayed for. She was going to die without a miracle from God. I guess I assumed her miracle was Ate and her staff. I assumed the Gentle Hands was the miracle I prayed for when I prayed for this little princess.

When I was holding her, I would pray that God would take her pain, her disease, her hurt. I prayed that she would not have to grow up in a family where she was neglected and put out. After realizing that I would not get to hold her at Christmas time, I was hurt. It took me a little while, but the Lord answered my hurt with a call to stop being selfish. He told me:

"She is not with you because she is with Me.

You cannot hold her anymore, because I am holding her now.

When she was sick, you tried to sooth her...I took away her sickness.

When she was with you, she didn't know how to eat, with Me she'll never hunger again.

With you, she was bound to disease and pain, with Me she is free from all bondage.

You loved her the best way you knew how, so did I."


With these words from the Lord, I found comfort. She hurts no more. The pain I tried to sooth away from her, is no longer there. She never again has to have a seizure, instead she has peace. God answered my prayers...it hurt me, but how great is His plan?

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.

Isiah 55:8

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11


Anastacia now has a future! May God alone be praised!