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Father in Heaven please keep reaching out to Ralph and heal him so that he know of your loving power. In your precious name I pray Amen
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Christ is either Lord of all or he is not Lord at all.
Karen Carter '74
> Hi Phil,
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> I will certainly be praying for Al. I'm Praising God that He accepted Christ!
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> Please keep us posted. I pray the pain goes away completely and it is
> replaced with a spirit of love and joy.
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> Love and Blessings,
> Pat Ferguson
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> At 09:59 PM 7/3/05, you wrote:
> >Ralph is my son, Everett's, Karate instructor and has been for about the
> >last 7 years. Everett helps teach at the Karate school. In the passed few
> >weeks Ralph has been in the hospital, he has had both legs removed below the
> >knee. He has had bypass heart surgery. He has been on dialysis for many
> >months. One leg got infected and he has had surgery three times on that leg
> >alone. His mother is very spunky and is 86 and Ralph is about 63 years old
> >or so. He is one of the toughest men you would ever meat. The pain, on the
> >other hand, is astronomical. Last night, he called his older brother in
> >Arizona and his brother led him to Christ over the phone. Ralph asked his
> >mother today to call us and to ask Everett and Sandy and I to come down to
> >see him so he could tell us the good news. He had two bouts of severe pain
> >while we were there so it wasn't easy to watch. Sandy sang several
> >Christian songs to him and some were old hymns Ralph remembered from his
> >childhood. Will he live? Well, if not here, he will live there and we will
> >now all get to see him in person some day. He admitted tonight that he had
> >always thought he could lick the world on his own. Those were his words.
> >Now, he said, he knows he can't do it alone and he needed Jesus in his life.
> >He also said a great heavy burden was lifted off of him last night about
> >midnight when he called and prayed with his older brother. Pray about the
> >pain and pray for peace because the Enemy will try and use the pain against
> >him. I talked to him a little of how to listen for the Lord and how to talk
> >to the Lord and Sandy told him some things about just calling on the name of
> >Jesus when the pain comes on like it does. In spite of all the pain he was
> >having, I could tell something was different in this man's soul. Praise God
> >for that. Sandy went down to the Karate school before Ralph went into the
> >hospital and witnessed to him but he just said he became a Christian when he
> >was a child. Tonight he was talking about his sin and the burden lifted
> >from him and things only someone truly born again would feel. Thank God.
> >
> >Phil.
> >
> >Phil C Sharp
> >The Coil Of The snake
> >A Free Online E-Novel
> >www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
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