Paul,

I never saw that verse until my last birthday.  Boy did I need it.  LOL!

Loved your testimony.  You go bro, during this next year!  Keep writing and
keep saying what the Lord has done for you.

Vicki



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ariel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:24 PM
Subject: ROARING WITH PRAISE


> Hey, Family
>
> Just a note to close my birthday out with praise.  As I end another trip
> around the sun and begin (LORD willing) a new one, I can attest to the
fact
> that everything the Bible promises about the LORD and JESUS in particular
is
> true.
>
> Isaiah 46:4 says:  quote "Even to your old age I will be the same, And
even
> to your graying  years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry
> you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you." unquote
>
> I'm not quite at that point yet, but I can tell you that the LORD has
> brought me through some serious stuff and though some lessons have been
> painful, all have been growing pains.  He has brought every desire of my
> heart to pass when there was no hope for any of them.  When the doctors
told
> my parents at my birth that I'd be blind, profoundly retarded, unable to
> eat, unable to speak, unable to walk unable to control my bowels or my
> bladder and that I would thankfully be dead within a few days and that
they
> should leave me in the hospital to die, the LORD had another plan.
Although
> there are still traces of disability (or whatever politically correct term
> you want to use), He has brought me out of the pit of a hellish childhood,
> physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally, brought me through
> college, through rough relationships and times of every kind of anguish.
> Through JESUS He has provided me with a ministry for which I'm also paid
> well with a job and surprisingly good health that still stumps the doctors
> and the honor of serving Him to bless others.  All this and eternal life
as
> well .
>
> He has granted me every desire of my heart and though I haven't seen a
> repeat of one that started but faded away, knowing Him as I do after all
> these years I still believe He will grant that one as well.  But even if
He
> never did I can say as the Hebrew song says (phonetically) "Die yay
> nu"...it's enough.  Even if nothing else good ever happened and everything
> good passes away, He has done enough good for me that I will spend all of
> eternity praising His Name.  And a large part of that is the blessing He
has
> given me in you.
>
> I pray that you will come to know this GOD, this Father who comes to you
and
> bleeds for you and rescues you in the Person of JESUS, and indwells you in
> the Person of the Holy Spirit to comfort your heart as no one else can do
> when there is no other comfort anywhere.  And I pray that if you already
> know Him, you with be there along with me some day at Home with Him in
> Heaven, praising Him for all of these things in the Name of JESUS.
>
> Great is Thy Faithfulness ain't my favorite hymn for nuthin'!  Grin.
>
> Paul, Ariel, Lion of GOD, still roaring with His Praise
>