Fr. Nigel Mumford update 8 pm, October 22, 2009
***** Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009
From: Robert F Haskell
Subject: Nigel
As of 7 pm on Thursday, Nigel’s condition is about the same as yesterday, “critical, but stable”. He continues to breathe a 90% oxygen mixture. The family asks that we continue to pray for his healing.
-Bob
***** Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009
From: Rev Susan Baker Borjeson
Good morning, Torre….blessings to you and to Jean.
A prophetic friend of mine, a pastor from MA, who has met with Nigel and has joined in this prayer effort had the following for me.
It supports your sense to press on with the prayer schedule. I pass this on to you, especially if you have been having a sense about continuing the 24/7 support.
I should mention that when he first began praying for Nigel urgently, he saw the death angel. He did not see that Tuesday night. This morning:
‘Happy to hear the positive progress being made. However it is not a time to let up- I think I see the enemy pulling back only to regroup, to lull the prayer teams into a victory mindset but thus must remain vigilant. ‘
I pass this on to you only because I sense I should.
God bless you greatly, and keep you both close, close, close to Him,
love Susan and Ralph
***** Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009
From: Elizabeth Allen
Subject: Prayers for Nigel that you might want to post
Torre,
I have been so thankful for your blog posting updates on Nigel’s condition. Attached and below please find three prayers that I have written or adapted for Nigel. I just sent one to your blog, but it is more beautiful in its original form, below. The text below is an e-mail that I sent out to all of the members of our OSL chapter in Winston-Salem, NC.
I’m just telling you this so that you can tell your friends in New York that the people of North Carolina love Nigel. We have sent him a very special symbol of our love in this small Bible. I believe that the Lord is going to work powerfully through the prayers of His people to bless Nigel and many others in years to come.
Thanks again for your very helpful blog!
With hope and expectancy for what the Lord is going to do, Elizabeth Allen
P.S. Below is the text of the e-mail that I sent to our OSL members on 10/20/09. Feel free to post any of my prayers for Nigel.
Dear friends,
Rev. Nigel Mumford is fighting for his life. Nigel is the former Royal Naval commando and drill instructor who has devoted his life to healing prayer. He is one of the leaders in Christian healing ministry in the US today. Several of us heard him (and experienced healing) in Greenville a few weeks ago. He was to speak at Healing Winds this past weekend, but developed a very serious pneumonia. He is in the ICU, on ventilator requiring 90% oxygen (improved from 100% earlier today). His oxygen saturation has stabilized in the 90’s. He is on antibiotics, though his pneumonia may be viral.
Spiritually, it seems to be a pitched battle. I am writing these words to give voice to the prayers that so many people are lifting up for Nigel. Let us pray, and keep praying, all through the night and day. Let us ask our friends to pray and ask their friends to pray, so that there is a circle of prayer surrounding Nigel that extends all over the world. For an update and to join the 24-hour prayer vigil for him, go to http://anglicanprayer.wordpress.com/. You might also like to read more about Nigel and print out one of the pictures in the attached file, so that you can look at his picture as you pray for him.
May the Spirit of the Living God
breathe life into Nigel’s lungs.
May He encourage Nigel in every fiber of his being
to keep fighting the good fight.
May the Lord Jesus gently pick Nigel up,
hold him close, and carry him through.
For He who is in Nigel
is greater than he who is in the world.
May the healing love that Nigel has given to so many people
return to him in good measure, pressed down and running over.
May we all, along with Nigel,
know the fearless peace of the Lord.
And may we rejoice with him in years to come,
celebrating the awesome way
that the Lord answered the prayers of His people
with His great compassion and unfailing love.
When I was thinking about how to pray for him tonight, I kept thinking of Nigel enthusiastically shouting, “God is BRILLIANT!” I looked up “brilliant” in the concordance and found it in the passage from 1 Timothy 6 that is attached and below.
I’ve also attached a brief passage from Acts, calling us to great boldness and asking God to stretch out His hand with healing power. Feel free to forward whatever you would like.
With the FEARLESS PEACE that Nigel talks about, Elizabeth Allen
THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR YOUR BELOVED SON NIGEL,
a man of God whom we love very much.
His life is a godly life, filled with
faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
Help him to
KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
for the true faith.
We earnestly pray, Father, that You will help Nigel to
HOLD TIGHTLY TO THE ETERNAL LIFE
to which You have called him,
which he has confessed so well
before so many witnesses.
LORD GOD, YOU GIVE LIFE TO ALL.
Nigel has obeyed Your command without wavering.
You are the blessed and only almighty God,
The KING of all kings
and LORD of all lords.
You alone can never die.
All honor and power are Yours forever.
SHINE YOUR BRILLIANT LIGHT
into Nigel’s lungs, body, mind, and spirit,
for You are light
and in You is no darkness at all.
Guard Nigel, just as he has guarded
all that You have entrusted to him.
RICHLY GIVE HIM EVERYTHING THAT HE NEEDS
for his trust is in You, Lord Jesus.
Adapted from 1 Timothy 6: 11-20 and 1 John 1: 5 (NLT)
O Lord, give us, your servants,
GREAT BOLDNESS
as we pray for Your beloved son Nigel Mumford.
Stretch out Your hand to him with HEALING POWER;
May MIRACULOUS SIGNS AND WONDERS
be done in Nigel’s life, restoring him to vibrant health
through the name of
YOUR HOLY SERVANT JESUS.
Adapted from Acts 4: 29-31
Albany Intercessor
October 23, 2009 at 9:20 pm |
We, who are part of his family, and who love him very much are praying for him. He has prayed for us and the Lord has listened to his prayers and we who have been healed as a result now ask You, Lord, to hear our prayers and, in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, heal Your good servant and restore him to robust good health so he can bring glory to Your name.
Amen.
October 24, 2009 at 12:41 pm |
Thinking and Praying for you- The Lord,s Servant. Your cousin loves you. Bless you Nigel Adrienne
October 24, 2009 at 6:05 pm |
Sending our love and encouragement to you, Nigel and your family. Healing God, breathe on Nigel, fill him with your peace and strength. Allow him to soak in Your grace & rest, assured in Your brillant, loving, powerful, healing light. Amen
October 26, 2009 at 3:50 am |
Let us pray the way Nigel would have us pray to the Lord. Thank you Father, thank you Jesus, thank you Holy Spirit, Thank you Holy Trinity, AMEN. Thank you for your healing grace. This battle for Nigel is not over yet–we have to keep pressing on with STRENGTH!
October 27, 2009 at 11:22 pm |
To Nigel, Lynn and family,(as Nigel says)
“Breathe in the love of the LORD,
breathe out any negativity,
Breathe in the compassion of the LORD,
breathe out anything that is not of God.”
To Abba Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit,
“Thank you for this servant,
thank you for his love, which is Your love;
thank you that you are not finished with him yet.
Fill him with your strength, your strength and power that rose Jesus from the dead!
Fill him with your healing touch, as he’s been an obedient vessel healing others through you.
Fill him with our prayers for SUPER HEALTH, and divine healing from coast to coast.
We thank you ahead of time, Lord,
for all the ways you are meeting his needs now and will forever.
We pray for his total healing Father, emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
I am not a prophet, but I had a dream last Thursday night that I was at a healing retreat and someone was filling in for Nigel….then all of a sudden we all saw him walk in and apologize for being late…..Everyone cheered and I awoke!
Even though this dream gave me peace and hope, help us not to give up praying around the clock for your son Nigel.
Sincerely,
Jill, George, Joy and Maggie Greene
PS Nigel and his family are also on the Pine Knolls Alliance prayer list.
October 28, 2009 at 3:19 am |
This morning, before I went to the Tuesday morning healing service, as I have for the past 5 years, I asked the Lord to tell me what was going on with Nigel. The answer was that it is not ONLY about Nigel, he is a focus for our powerful, corporate prayers. We are learning how to pray mightily. I believe God wants us to also focus our prayers on the restoration of our country to Him, to remember: “In GOD we trust”. To pray with the same passion and persistance that we pray for Nigel, to keep praying for him and for the United States of America, the country that God founded, against all odds.