Phil and Sandy,
You guys are so awsome!  I love how obedient and responsive you are
to Christ's leading.  God bless your fellowship and your work with
Gretchen and her friends.    Sometimes it can just be so hard!
Kathy



At 02:34 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
>My youngest son, Everett, felt led to have all of us, last Friday night
>during our prayer meeting, go down to the apartment in our basement and pray
>for Gretchen.  She allowed us to do so.  The next morning, Gretchen asked me
>to pray with her.  In spite of all her emotional pain and fear, she did hear
>from the Lord and in church Sunday morning here at the house, she testified
>before everybody that the Lord did speak to her.  Sunday afternoon, while
>George and I were visiting, Gretchen asked me to talk with her privately.
>She admitted that she has been using drugs for the passed four weeks but
>she, and a bunch of her Christian friends who are involved in the same way,
>want help.  I am suppose to begin prayer sessions with the first person this
>evening.  Many of these young people have been off and on drugs so many
>times, they now believe there is no hope for them.  Dumb devil don't know
>much, does he?  Anyhow, be praying for Gretchen.  We have already begun to
>set rules of accountability with our daughter to assist her in walking free.
>If these other people she knows become involved, as they say they want to,
>similar situations will be going on with them as well.  All of these things,
>in my opinion, have seemed to come about since we bought that electronic
>piano and have spent 30 minutes, and sometimes an hour, singing and
>worshipping the Lord on Friday and Sundays here in our home.  Other things
>seem to be shifting at Safe Place Fellowship, too, but we are just taking
>things slow since we don't want to miss the Lord on anything he wants to do.
>Your continued prayers for Gretchen, and these other drug addicts, would be
>greatly appreciated.  Working with druggies isn't exactly what I thought I
>would be doing.  Gretchen told me that many of her friends are from good
>Christian homes but the drugs have just captured their lives.  She said
>probably 20 people she knows all have said, "You pray with your dad and if
>it is something that will work for you, then we want him to work with us,
>too."  Gretchen cried like a baby Sunday afternoon and told me about some of
>these people and how they have used drugs, given up drugs, and used drugs,
>and given up drugs, for many years, one lady for 23 years, she said, and
>yet, after even Christian drug treatment programs, they can't get free.
>Yes, I know why this is the case but I'll leave that for another message.
>For now, your prayers, even for Sandy and I, would be appreciated.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>Where there is pain, there is belief.  Truth is painless.
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