All - and particularly Rhonda and Phil:

Amen.  I am not wanting to pressure you in any way, Rhonda, but here's a 
little testimony for you.  For over a year my sleep has been so bad (and 
it's been down to none many nights) that I believed (for most of that time) 
that the words of others would come true, "That I'd just have to end up in a 
mental institution, etc., etc.", or something even worse,  because, after 
all, that was the result of sleep at the level I had known for months.  Has 
it come true?  No!  Will it come true!  God has not told me one way or the 
other so, if it does, then I go with God!  What God has told me is that I do 
not have to believe or put my trust in what others say.  If He has not said 
it then it may well never happen to me!

I do pray this will encourage you into a deeper walk with the One Who can 
and will take you both all the way through.

Incidentally, I'm off all medications and still doing pretty badly 
sleep-wise;  but I'm not going back on them only to add more problems.  I 
was so very scared this time last year, petrified of the "What if's", but, 
praise God, not now in the same way at all.  I get the odd moments, but tell 
Satan where to get off because I'm living my life down here with Jesus and 
it's getting better and better!

My love to you and feel free to write privately if you wish.

--
Carol - Reading, UK

To you, o Lord, I lift up my soul;
In You I trust, o my God.  . . .."  PS25:1-2 NIV.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:01 AM
Subject: doctor's Words


> Rhonda and others,
>
> Several years ago, when Sandy learned she had a malignant melanoma, and I
> have probably told this more than once on here, the Lord spoke to me very
> clearly one night.  Sandy had told me about this growth on her upper arm 
> and
> how it had changed shape.  We both immediately wondered if the news was 
> bad.
> That night, I sat in my office listening to the radio but doing more
> thinking about Sandy.  I clearly heard the Holy Spirit say, "They will get
> it all the first time."  I knew this meant it would be cancer but Jesus 
> was
> saying they would get the cancer all the first time.  they did, too.  Yet,
> after they dug down and found a couple of nearby lymph nodes, and tested
> them and found the cancer had not reached beyond the growth on her arm, 
> the
> doctor still recommended we go to the Oncologist, or cancer specialist. 
> We
> did.  His words, although spoken kindly, softly, but directly, pounded at 
> me
> so ferociously, that night I could not go to our Wednesday church service.
> Sandy went but I sat out on our back step with the dogs and just sat as if
> my very life was draining out of me.  We didn't have a deck then so I was
> sitting on this little wooden step as the dogs played around me in the dog
> run.  I didn't cry but I felt crushed flat.  I felt as if no life were in
> me.  Yet, in my heart, I knew what God had told me.  The doctor's words,
> regardless of how they were spoken, was used by the Enemy to try and 
> destroy
> my confidence in God.  It wasn't my faith at work that night because I 
> felt
> defeated but in my heart, I still believed what I heard was the Words of
> God.  Yet, the words of man tried to pound me into the ground.  That's 
> what
> is happening to you, Rhonda, now.  I can't make things better for you or
> even tell you anything to make you feel better.  I can pray, which I will
> do, but when it comes to the gift of healing or the gift of faith, I don't
> have those.  I wish I did.  I'm even teaching on them in our church 
> meeting
> right now.  I want you to remember, however, the man who came to Jesus and
> said his 12 year old daughter lay dying.  He asked for Jesus to come and
> heal her and Jesus said that he would.  The woman with an issue of blood 
> for
> 12 years came, as he walked with the crowd, and touched the hem of his
> garment and was instantly healed.  Remember?  Right about this time, a
> servant came and said, Trouble not the Master for your daughter is dead.
> Did you hear it, Rhonda.  A servant came and said, he said, not Jesus, he
> said the man's daughter was dead.  Jesus said, Do not be afraid only
> believe.  The Enemy is lying to you right now, Rhonda, but be not afraid,
> only believe.  It is your heart that believes.  You don't need faith but 
> you
> only need to believe.  The 12 year old girl was dead but she didn't stay
> that way.  don't believe what the doctor's say, Rhonda, no matter how true
> it sounds.  Just believe the Word of God.
>
> Phil.
>
>
> He's ready when you are.
> www.SafePlaceFellowship.com