Step of Faith: Prayed for A Patient Today!

I was dispensing to this patient to be discharged in the wards today.
He was having headaches and was on anti-depressive medications but he still couldn't sleep.
I went thru' that same thing some years back and hence, I could feel his agony.
And he shared with me about his possible impending retrenchment and we decided that it might be his fear of being fired that got him this anxious and depressed. Felt it there and then that I should pray for him. But just to make sure that I would not make him feel too uncomfortable, I asked for the permission to pray for him after finding out tt he is also a believer. Just that he isn't tt fervant a Christian.

I prayed for him till I cried and he got teary. His mum who was sitting at the side watching us was thankful. =) I encouraged him to draw nearer to God and even invited him to our church. But he said he stayed at Woodlands and is currently attending his sister's church, then I let him be. And left him with the words that it doesn't matter where he is at as long as tt church allows him to grow best in the Lord. He and his mum thanked me loads.

I felt embarrassed that I cried more than he did but somehow I could feel the agony and pain he was going thru as I prayed for him. Its like I can feel his burden. I pray that God will lift his burden and open doors of opportunities for him. And that he could finally have a good night of sleep tonight.

Though embarrassed, I'm glad I took that step of faith to offer to pray for him. Even if meds dun work, we can always trust God to work. I pray that Mr Tan will no longer need to rely on medications to knock him out and that he would learn to cling on to God + step out of depression with Him. If God can bring me out of depression so many years back, He could do the same for Mr Tan. That, I told Mr Tan too. Sometimes, though we may dread the circumstances and challenges God put us thru but it is these very things that become powerful testimonies for others that God had planned for us to help down the pipeline. I'm glad I had depression (haha...tt sounds weird) before and conquered it by God's grace because it became the very testimony I shared with Mr Tan today.

Little did I know the 1 month of depression, sleepless nights and even suicidal thoughts I had 4 years ago could be useful today. God's ways are higher than ours - always.