Even as thousands of people are praying for the speedy recovery of Jonathan Lotz, the grandson of the late evangelist Billy Graham, who is currently in critical condition battling COVID-19, he continues to share the gospel of Jesus Christ while in the hospital.
The update was shared by Anne Graham Lotz, Billy Graham’s daughter, who took to social media to ask for prayer for her son over the weekend. “Fifty years ago I could hold my son in my arms. Now I have placed him in the arms of Jesus,” her post read.
She said that he is in the intensive care unit and communicating with her via text message. The 73-year-old mother and evangelist shared that her son was “physically exhausted yet spiritually overflowing.”
“I am continually pouring over the Psalms of Ascent (120-134) in ICU. I have had the privilege of sharing Jesus with the ER & ICU staff! What a Savior! God is so good!” Jonathan testified to his mom. He is one of three Lotz siblings and has worked with his grandfather from 1994 through 2002, according to The Winston-Salem Journal in 2018.
Jonathan Lotz is honoring his grandfather’s legacy as he operates his own ministry, Jonathan Lotz Ministries, through which he preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide.
Anne Graham Lotz said that when she sees her son’s strong faith amid his condition, it reminds her of Genesis 41:52. “He is being fruitful in the land of his affliction,” she declared. “He is not on a ventilator at this time,” Graham Lotz added. She again asked her followers to pray for her son’s full recovery.
Jonathan is in ICU. Genesis 41:52 came to mind when I read the following text Jonathan sent me this morning. He is being…
Posted by Anne Graham Lotz on Sunday, 25 July 2021
“Please be encouraged that God is hearing and answering your prayers — just please don’t let up,” she concluded. “Pray he will not have to go on a ventilator, that his oxygen levels would increase, that his lungs will be strengthened, healed and that his health will be fully restored — with no long-term complications. My heart is filled with gratitude for your prayers.”
Jonathan is not the only Graham grandchild battling health issues. The original home of Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, was listed for sale by their daughter Ruth to help raise funds to pay for her daughter’s medical treatments as she suffers from Lymphangioleiomyomatosis. The multisystem disorder affects different areas of the body, such as lungs, kidneys and the lymphatic system.
“My youngest daughter was diagnosed with a very rare disease that attacks women of childbearing age and there will be some significant medical bills in her future,” Ruth Graham said, according to WCNC Charolette. “I am so grateful that I have this provision that I can make like any mother who would move Heaven and earth when your child needs you.”
Ruth is the third of the reverend’s five children and further said that her daughter had the “diagnosis for about three or four years.” Let us continue to uphold the family of the late Billy Graham and pray for complete healing for the grandchildren.
