Featuring: Angel Engel

Featured Friday~   Angel Engel 👏

So I'm thinking that I really want to do something different on my blog this year. Friday's- will feature special people in my life. Family, friends, and sometimes my favorite things..
                      This week, I'm a day behind. The snow has seriously thrown me off on pretty much everything, please forgive me.

Let me start by introducing you to my Special Friend Angel.

                

Allow me to tell you a little bit about my special friend Angel. She is one of my closes friends. She is one of my amazing accountability partners. She's married to an awesome man of God named Eric, she's the mother of 3 beautiful children: Heather, Jacob and Emma. She is a homemaker, gym rat, prayer warrior, and the list could go on forever.   We've been attending the same church for several years, we knew of each other, but really didn't KNOW each other. My husband & I taught her beautiful daughter Heather in our Awana class(Bible Club). Heather was a bright young lady, that always kept us on our toes, she knew her stuff. We loved her, her heart was so pure, not to mention the overwhelming love she had for others! Heather was diagnosed in July 2014 with brain cancer.

I HATE CANCER!!!!

Our Church family begin praying and asking God to heal Heather. Of course, I was heartbroken that they were having to go through all of this, my heart was hurting for her mom Angel, Eric and their entire family. I had no idea why I was so emotionally attached. Not just me, my husband was just as attached. I woke up many nights crying out to the Lord on behalf of the Engel family. One Sunday morning in my Sunday School class, I shared with our class what was on my heart. I expressed that someone in our church was in a serious battle, and needed our support. As a mother, I couldn't wrap my mind around what her parents were going through. It's one thing to say "I'm praying for you", but to actually go and pray over an entire family is something else. To show up, take the time out for just them is what God placed on our hearts to do. Our class decided that we would put on the full armor of God, and go to the Engel's home. We stood in the gap, we prayed, we sung, we wept, we declared healing in the name of Jesus, WE BELIEVED!! In the mist off all of this my relationship with God grew & so did everyone who stepped on the battlefield (their yard) to pray for Heather. Let me just say that our Sunday School class became family, THANK YOU HEATHER. I don't think I've ever prayed for someone else like I prayed for them.  I. I had never witnessed my children cry out to God like they did for Heather. They asked for healing every single day, and never waivered in their faith, never went a day without asking to pray for her. Our love for the Engel's was & still is very special. We didn't know them but we knew that they were our Brothers & Sisters in Christ, that's all that really mattered. We just wanted to be there for them. We became very close to a family we barely even knew,  and we enjoyed being in their presence.......

Angel gave me strength every time I saw her beautiful face. The presence of the Holy Spirit was evident all over here. She bravely fought for her daughter while still being an awesome mom to her other children. Everything about Angel amazed me. She walked by faith & not by sight. She was caught of guard many times and wouldn't hesitate to ask for prayer. Her humble spirit, her thoughtfulness, her laugh, the way we cut up singing Karaoke & her BIG heart are some of the characteristics that I adore most about her.

When Heather passed I felt so helpless, all I knew how to do was be there. Watching Angel hold her baby girls hand until the funeral home came to pick her up, is something that I will treasure in my heart forever. Angel is the epitome of a Christian woman. She taught me so much over the past year, and every day I think God for her & her family.

I LOVE YOU ANGEL!!!!  

I miss you Heather BUG

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