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[Update: Sunday, June 22. There is now a full "Connor Watch" website, with prayer needs, FAQ, and such.]

A friend of the family, Connor Williamson, broke his neck in a diving accident yesterday. He was life-flighted out of the Hume Lake, California area and is now in intensive care in Fresno.

Pray for Connor, that God would glorify himself by healing Connor miraculously. Surely, God can be glorified in Connor’s suffering, but he can also glorify himself in Connor’s healing. So let’s pray for that.

Keep updated at the Connor watch blog. (The blue text is a link to it).

Already this is an awesome testimony:

Connor is singing hynms… he can’t move a muscle yet he finds it within himself to sing hymns!

Eric [Connor's dad] told me this story… there is a terminal patient in the bay next to Connor who appears to braindead. Connor, laying in his bed with a halo on his head, saw this person’s mother and asked her, “Would it be alright if I prayed for your son?”

Connor was in the youth group I worked with for years, and, in the midst of this tragedy, it is awesome to see such faith in a remarkable young man.

We often forget that the Bible tells us to ask for things. James 4:2: “You do not have because you do not ask.” Jesus said ask, seek, knock (Matt 7:7). The widow’s request was heard because of her annoying persistance (Luke 18). Let your requests be made known to God (Phil 4).

Surely, we know that God will do what is best and that we should desire his will to be done. But we are not limited to just saying “God you do what is best.” Even Jesus asked that the cup be taken from him, only after that saying “Nevertheless, thy will be done.”

We should saturate ourselves in the Word, and then pray with bold requests.

We should ask for and expect healing in miraculous ways (I have been doing that a lot the last few hours for a friend). We should ask God, and then, as Philippians 4 says, trust that he will answer according to his perfect good pleasure.

Don’t be afraid to ask. Spurgeon said:

I cannot imagine any one of you tantalizing your child by exciting in him a desire you do not intend to gratify. It were a very ungenerous thing to offer alms to the poor, and then when they hold out their hand for it, to mock their poverty with a denial [....] Where God leads you to pray, he means you to receive. (Quoted in Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 79).

God is a Father, and he, like a good Father, loves to give good gifts in answer to his children’s requests.

So ask him.