5 1/2 weeks post knee replacement surgery
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been 5 1/2 weeks since surgery because I feel like it’s been forever! This is definitely the hardest of all the knee surgeries I have had. The one thing I really prayed for was for God to really use my recuperation time to draw me closer to Himself and that my heart would be set on fire for Him again. Well, He came through for me. I have been listening to sermons online and I can’t begin to tell you how it convicts my heart of sin and challenges me and also encourages me. I feel like I’ve been lukewarm for the last few years and I don’t want to waste any more time doing that!
I’ve been listening to Craig Groeshel at LifeChurch TV and he is amazing. I like his preaching style because he just says it like it is and I always feel challenged and motivated to do something for Christ. Lately I’ve been listening to his series on Boldness. Click here if you want to be fired up. Anyways, today I listened to his message on bold prayers and I was so convicted. I don’t know when I stopped praying bold prayers. I went through a season a few years back on praying radical prayers and God answered them in ways that still blow my mind. I prayed I would go to Africa on a mission trip, didn’t know how it would happen but prayed for it and I went to Africa!
After listening to the message, I decided to pray a very bold prayer. I prayed that God would bend my knee past 90 degrees. Sounds like a small prayer but I am at the 5 week mark since knee replacement and I should have been at 90 degrees after 2 weeks. I have so much scar tissue built up already that it won’t bend past 85. I have been doing physical therapy 3 times a week, 4 hours a day on teh cpm machine and several times a day, exercises. It has been so frustrating for me and it looks like the only way to get it to bend, is to have the doctor do a manipulation on it. They put you under anesthesia for 10 minutes and force it to bend. The doctor is supposed to call me Monday to schedule it but I am praying that God would bend it this weekend!
Please join me in this bold prayer if you are reading this. I am going to pray and have faith that God will do this. After all, Joshua asked Him to make the sun stand still and He did! I would love to be able to tell my surgeon and both my physical terrorists, I mean therapists, that God came through and bent it for me.
