My Encounter with Effective and Fervent Prayer - Pastor Nancy Sleger - Christian International Ministries Network
“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” — James 5:16 I am writing about this scripture because I lived it! A little over four years ago, I fell and broke my right arm. I had it X-rayed at the ER and they gave me sling and told me to follow up with an orthopedic specialist, which I did the next day. After his X-rays, he gave me the same diagnosis — a fractured right arm — and I returned back home again. Three days later, I was admitted to the hospital with acute respiratory failure. Long story short, there was more happening in my body that wasn’t caught, and unfortunately, it sent me into a serious downward respiratory spiral. I was placed into a medical coma and put on a ventilator immediately. As time passed, I was eventually weaned off the ventilator and given a feeding tube, but the tube shifted upward one day and filled my lungs with the liquid food mixture. From there, I deteriorated very quickly. I was put back on a ventilator and contracted