That's a great testimony, Donna, and thanks for sharing it.  I stopped and 
prayed for your sons but I didn't even know you had children.  At least I 
don't think I knew.

Phil.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: When We Pray


> Hey Rhonda,   and Phil,
> I've had similar experiences.   When I was a young newly wed I felt
> strongly that I should call a friend and pray with her.  When Sherry
> came in to answer the phone, she found a fire inside and was able to
> save her 3 year old daughter.
> I'm  blessed to hear other intercessors' experiences.  Please    pray
> for my sons,  Daniel and Daren.
> They are feeling far from God, and they're quite wounded.   I know God
> has plans to prosper them, plans for  a hope, and a future. Jerr.
> 29:11.
> This list is a blessing.
> Thanks so much.
> Donna
>
> On 9/15/14, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Knowing you, Rhonda, I am not surprised of your experience.  What you
>> described is some definite indicators of your ministry as an intercessor.
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Rhonda Partain
>>   To: [log in to unmask]
>>   Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 5:57 AM
>>   Subject: Re: When We Pray
>>
>>
>>   I've had a similar experience, only I was at home. I thought of a 
>> friend I
>> hadn't seen in a few years, as I thought of her, I became so teribly sad, 
>> I
>> was crying, really heart broken about something, something to do with 
>> her. I
>> didn't know exactly what to pray, but still I prayed for her, for her
>> comfort, that the places in her heart that were broken would be healed, I
>> later talked to a mutual friend who confirmed that this friend was going
>> through marriage issues and was considering divorce.
>>
>>   Wow!! no wonder I felt so terribly sad. She and her husband are still
>> together and trying to work things out.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Rhonda
>>
>>
>>
>>   From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Phil Scovell
>>   Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 9:35 PM
>>   To: [log in to unmask]
>>   Subject: When We Pray
>>
>>
>>
>>   Church was very disappointing to me today because our church is 
>> starting a
>> Sunday morning sermon series, and a Wednesday study by booklet and video
>> series, on the topic of prayer.  It was discouraging because this was the
>> third week of the series and for the third time we were instructed not to
>> accept the idea that we should receive answers to all our prayer 
>> requests.
>> The pastor said at the beginning, that is, the week before the series 
>> began,
>> that he did not always get his prayers answered and he did not know why. 
>> He
>> admitted, basically, that he was in the dark about how to pray and get
>> definite answers to ones prayers.  Back in the 1980s, I was a deacon in a
>> large Baptist church of over 1000 people.  I was asked to preached 
>> several
>> different times during the 13 years we were members.  At a certain point 
>> of
>> my life, I wanted to find out how to pray and know my prayers would be
>> answered.  Just about this time, the pastor, he was nationally known,
>> admitted, as he announced a new series on prayer, that he personally 
>> could
>> not recall the last time he received an answer to his prayers.  I nearly
>> cried.  This man had been in the ministry 30 plus years and was obviously
>> going to be no help to me personally in my quest to discover the truth 
>> about
>> prayer.  Now, today, it happened yet again.  I awakened this morning, as 
>> I
>> do every Sunday, with a single prayer request on my lips, mentally 
>> speaking;
>> "Lord, let some miraculous thing happen in church today that will blow us
>> away with your awesome power.  Scare the be-jebers out of us with your
>> everlasting presence."  As I type this, I wonder what some would think 
>> about
>> the times the presence of God has fallen on me as I prayed for someone 
>> and
>> was so heavy with His holiness all around me, I got to my knees and fell
>> face down in the aisle of the pews and prayed with tears flowing down my
>> cheeks as a man's name came to mind the Lord instructed me to pray for. 
>> I
>> yelled so loudly at times during a titanic spiritual battle going on in 
>> this
>> man's life, I'm sure people could have heard me walking down the sidewalk
>> outside the church all though all the windows and doors were shut.  I
>> pounded the floor with my fists and scream from so deep within me, I 
>> thought
>> I might pass out.  At times, I felt as though all the breath was being
>> sucked out of my lungs and I gasped as though I were dying.  The man was
>> struggling for his life.  Was I out of control?  Some might think so but 
>> God
>> as my witness, since this had happened to me before, I knew it was an
>> intercessory prayer, and, yes, I could have stopped what was happening to 
>> me
>> at any second, jumped up, and said, "God, what do you think you are 
>> doing,"
>> but I didn't.  I didn't because the man was in danger and Jesus at tapped 
>> me
>> to be his voice in this man's behalf.  Near the end of my prayer, I 
>> yelled
>> several times, not understanding why, for "Someone to call him son," and 
>> I
>> repeated it three or four times.  Eventually, things subsided, and the
>> presence of the Holy Spirit lifted up and away from me.  I was exhausted 
>> and
>> just lay their, feeling like an idiot, and big time embarrassed, until I
>> felt I could get up and sit in a pew again.  Soon our prayer meeting was
>> over and a faithful Godly woman came over and said, "Phil, I want you to
>> know, what you prayed about someone calling that man son is right on 
>> target.
>>  He had problems during his youth with his father and he has suffered
>> emotionally as an adult as a result."  I told her I did not know why I 
>> was
>> saying it but I was hearing it in my head and I thanked her for 
>> confirming
>> something I didn't know.  By the way, when the Holy Spirit tapped me and
>> said, "I want you to pray and when you do, pray for Jim."  I didn't even
>> want to pray for the man.  He had caused problems for the church I was 
>> in,
>> he'd tried taking over the church once, he and his wife would come and 
>> visit
>> for awhile and then bail out and be gone for months, only to return again
>> for a few weeks.  Yet,, God loved Jim where he was and I got the 
>> privilege
>> of praying a very unique and powerful prayer for him because Jesus said 
>> to.
>> Now, I bring this example to your attention for a single reason.  If I
>> didn't believe God wanted to answer each and every prayer request I made 
>> of
>> Him, do you think I would have let the Holy Spirit lead me into something
>> that others would call stupid, unholy, and spiritually unethical for a
>> church service?  You see, I do believe, according to Scripture, and many 
>> of
>> you have heard me teach on this topic from the Bible, that God confirms 
>> in
>> His written Word, that He wants to answer every one of our prayers.  And
>> don't give me that garbage that God does answer all our prayers but
>> sometimes He says, "No!"  That straw man argument gives us a 50 50 chance 
>> of
>> getting an answer and not getting an answer and that ain't in the Bible.
>> Maybe I'll post more when I calm down a little, smile.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Phil.
>>   Living His Name
>>   WWW.SafePlaceFellowship.COM
>>
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