Phil, will be praying for you.  Lelia and I know how
tough money is right now.  Keep keeping on.  Your
ministry has impacted so many lives.  Lelia and I can
testify to that.  
Todd   

--- Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have never done this before, not exactly like this
> anyhow, on echurch but
> I am going to do it now.  We have been behind on
> some of our bills but it
> has happened before and we have always gotten caught
> up.  This time,
> however, I chickened out and asked my youngest son
> for a thousand dollars.
> The Lord had really blessed his business lately and
> he gave it to me.  I had
> made some poor financial decisions this week,
> Sandy's computer broke down a
> second time, the power supply burned out, and our
> friend still has it at his
> house.  She has been using mine to send messages to
> Dr. Cahill's pager for
> whom she answers the phone.  Until the end of the
> week, I thought I had
> everything covered but some checks bounced.  They
> were paid but I pay 35
> dollars for each check that bounces even if they pay
> it.  So, at the moment,
> we are 225 dollars overdrawn and tomorrow it will
> jump to 400 dollars
> because of another bill coming in that is related to
> our life insurance.  We
> have food but the 250 dollars Gretchen paid us
> Friday for two weeks of rent,
> we had to put into the back to cover as much as we
> could.  Thus, Sandy
> couldn't go grocery shopping this weekend like she
> normally does with that
> rent money.  So, I have not been asking people for
> money but been asking
> people to pray that 500 dollars comes in today, or
> right away Monday.  This
> week, as I was praying and telling the Lord, "Hey,
> we are a little broke
> down here, don't you think you could help out some?"
>  The Lord said, "Do not
> use the word broke.  I am not broke so you are not
> broke."  There is more to
> tell behind that statement but it would take an hour
> to explain.  He said it
> was ok to say, bills are passed due, and the like,
> but you are not broke.
> Some may ask, why don't you get a job.  Good
> question.  Sandy asks me that
> every day.  I have been looking for months.  Nothing
> has come up.  The truth
> is, I already have a job and I am working.  If I
> told you some of the
> miracles I have recently seen, you would not believe
> it.  If the Lord opens
> a door for me to work a securlar jobs, I will do it
> without hesitation but
> one problem is, He hasn't told me to do that yet. 
> He has told me to do what
> I am doing in ministry.  If Sandy's computer would
> not have broken down, and
> if I would have let a couple of utility bills go for
> another two weeks, we
> would be fine right now but when I made these
> payments, we had money to
> cover everything.  Somehow, Jesus is orchestrating
> this whole thing.  Sandy
> is suffering big time and that is the hardest for me
> to watch.  Yet, I know
> who Jesus is and He knows who I am.  So, please pray
> for Sandy and pray for
> the 500 dollars we need by tomorrow.  Please,
> please, please, do not
> interpret this as though I am asking anyone to do
> anything other than pray
> because, God as my witness, that is not what this is
> all about.  It is about
> Jesus and Jesus alone.
> 
> Phil.
> 


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