Please pray for me …
May 5, 2008
I don’t often make personal requests here, but I’d sure appreciate some prayer. As you may know, I became a Type I diabetic about nine years ago, after my immune system, in response to a case of the flu, also killed the little islets that produce insulin. I got very sick very fast and was immediately insulin-dependent. I’ve been on an insulin pump for six or seven years now, and that’s helped a lot, but every day is still a battle. My diabetes is very “brittle,” as they say. I have some pretty wild and extreme swings between insulin lows (hypoglycemia) and glucose highs (hyperglycemia) for no readily apparent reasons. For example, last night I dropped to a 50 and this afternoon hit a 503, with no change in what I eat or what I do during the day. It’s not only very frustrating, it’s debilitating — makes it very hard to read and study and think. And that can get depressing after a while. I’d love to be healed, of course, but my faith is always pretty weak, it seems (I’m an ολιγοπιστος, as Jesus would say, a “little-faith”). I’d be glad just to be able to regulate this thing better. Please just pray with me about this as the Lord brings me to mind. Thank you so much!
you have my prayers
Prof. Haygood,
I want to let you know that I will be praying for you. Thank you so much for giving up of your time to teach the word of God to me while I was a student with BPC. You always challenged me and set before me a high standard which caused me to be a better minister, preacher and most of all a better Christian. My prayers will be lifted up for you.
on the potter’s wheel
clay cox
I pray for you every day and will continue to do so Pastor. I know you have suffered with this affliction for some time. We have seen some good healing miracles in your family of late. I believe God will heal you…..but if not, we will still praise the Lord.
I will pray for you Pastor Haygood.
I do pray for you regularly (I’m ashamed to admit that it’s not every day -aren’t we all a little self-centered, even in our prayers!) - but will definitely add this specific issue to my prayers for you. God has graciously given OHBC a treasure in you - Thank you for your faithfulness, even during these hard times!
Hey, Spencer!
I read your most recent blog and I hope you know how much I and I know many others are truly appreciative for the blessing that is you. My favorite part of worship each Sunday is the message you deliver. Probably just in equal measures, sorta like the night before Christmas when I was kid or like with Ben awaiting the kick-off of a Clemson game, the anticipation of what you will say due to the powerful teachings you’ve displayed in past sermons always makes me hunch over with my elbows resting on my legs b/c I don’t want to miss one single word that is spoken.
I don’t pray everyday, but please know you and yours are in my continued prayers.
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your heart through faith - that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” - Ephesians 3:14-21