The title of my post today is from verse in the Old Testament that promises us God's mercies are new every day.
I can know and trust in this because I know and trust the one that promises that made the promise jesus.
Romans 10 says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
That is why I am confident that God's mercies are new every day.
So I'd like to talk about transplant and screening because there's been a lot of questions.
Genetically the best direct screen was my brother. He was a half match which meant really he's not a match. My insurance paid for the genetic screening of his blood, which is not cheap.
So after those that are family related, the next best chance is the transplant donor base which is bethematch.org
It is a public charity though, so you can't directly screen for a donor from perspective donors. Potential donors have to decide to be a possible donor for people that might need it and cannot designate specific recipients. If you choose to be a potential donor, it's basically a blood donation that gets screened genetically and paid for by the charity's donations. This screening genetic data goes into a big database that my doctors can check and all other doctors can check for potential matches. Even though they may not be family, somebody could be close to matching me in this big wide world. If you do decide to do it you could be a big blessing for somebody else. And you can simply choose to be a blood only donor for stem cells and so if it came up as a match for someone, your next step would simply be to give blood again. It's a little more complicated than that but that's basically it so I would encourage you to go on bethematch.org and do a little research.
Grace and Mercy be upon you all today.
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