Urgent Prayer Request

If you've been reading the papers lately, you may've heard about a tragic accident involving three Citadel cadets. Two of them, Clarke Russell and Brett Warren, were killed instantly (please keep their families and friends in your prayers), and a third, Blake Campbell, was critically injured. Blake goes to my church and I know him from Sunday School. He's been hospitalized at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. His condition hasn't been good. There's been swelling in his brain that required the medical staff to perform surgery on him earlier, and although it was successful, his vital organs have shown signs of shutting down. From what I'm hearing, he may not live much longer.

If you're reading this, please pray. Stop what you're doing right now and pray for Blake. Nothing is impossible with God. If He wills it, He could heal Blake right at this moment. It is not too late for a miracle to happen if He wishes it. Please pray for God's will to be done in this, and no matter what happens, may He be glorified. Pray also for Blake's family as they sit by his bedside, watching their son in what could be his last hours on this earth. I can't fathom their grief right now, but they've clung to God through it all and are doing as well as can be expected. Prayer is a mighty thing; please use it.

Holy Spirit, please come down and raise up Blake's body. If it's in Your will, Lord, let him survive this, let him live to see the faces of his grieving parents at his bedside and the friends who are also praying for him right now. May Your will be done, Lord.

*UPDATE* Blake died early this morning around 12:30 am. Please, please continue to lift us his parents and his friends in your prayers. Thank you.