Hey Phil,
I am delighted to hear about your back story miracle!  He is truly wonderful 
and magnificent.
Virgie and Hoshi
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 11:50 PM
Subject: My Back Story


> It Sounded Like God But It Wasn't
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> By Phil Scovell
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>     I had, over the years, experience lower back pain before but
> this was different.  Normally, the pain would dissipate each day
> until, two weeks later, it would be totally gone.  this time, when
> I bent over to pick up something too heavy, nearly my entire back
> spider webbed, like a smashed windshield, and the pain was
> everywhere.  The next morning, all the pain had settled in my
> lower back so I figured it would heal as quickly as before.  It
> didn't.
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>     Three weeks later, after injury my back three more times by
> simply bending over slightly, I had to go to our family doctor.
> His diagnosis was sciatica because the pain that originated in my
> lower back now radiated through my hip, and down my leg, and
> sometimes reaching even to my ankle.  Two weeks later, I was in
> the doctor's office again due to the pain.  It wasn't going away
> and it wasn't diminishing.  I was in agony.  More pain pills and
> muscle relaxers were prescribe but I was also sent to a physical
> therapist.  By this stage, I had little hope that even a physical
> therapist could help and had resigned myself to the idea that I
> would probably end up on an operating table.  by this point, I
> would have done anything I was asked to do if only the pain would
> go away.
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>     The physical therapy seemed to help but the overall pain
> wasn't going away.  Finally, I asked my wife to make a third
> doctor's appointment because I had to find out why I wasn't
> getting better.  Later, I had her cancel the appointment because
> the pain was gone.
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>     Standing in the kitchen one Wednesday afternoon, I heard a
> voice in my thoughts.  It said, "You won't be healed until your
> wife is."  We had been going through some horrendous financial
> difficulties and some physical problems, such as a broken foot my
> son experienced, and other related situations relating to my
> ministry, our church, and just a lot of things in general.  My
> wife had been experiencing a great deal of discouragement and I
> wasn't doing much better.  My back pain only compounded the
> problems.  So, the voice I heard in my thoughts sounded legitimate
> but something about it made me question the validity of the
> statement.
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>     A few minutes later, I was sitting at my office desk and as I
> contemplated what I thought was the voice of the Holy Spirit, I
> suddenly realized I had been deceived into believing a lie.  Jesus
> would never conditionalize my healing based upon another's.  I
> knew instantly the voice I had heard, as much as it truly sounded
> like the Holy Spirit, in fact, was the father of all lies; the
> Enemy himself.  I sat at my desk, bowed my head, and began to
> pray.  I exercised my authority I share with the True Lord Jesus
> Christ over the lying spirit that had attempted to fool me into
> believing a lie.  When I was finished praying, I went back to
> work.
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>     Perhaps a half an hour later, or more, I stopped working at
> my computer because I became aware of what I was feeling.
> Actually, I took stock of what I wasn't feeling and what I wasn't
> feeling was the deep throbbing pain of my hip with which I had
> become so familiar over the past few weeks.  The pain was gone.  I
> stood up and walked around my office to test my leg.  The
> stiffness in my lower leg was still there but that didn't hurt nor
> did my hip.  I went and walked up the stairs and around the house.
> Still no pain.  I figured it was a fluke, my hyper Christian
> imagination playing tricks on me, and any second now, the pain
> would come roaring back.  It didn't.
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>     When I awakened the next morning, I thought the pain would
> surely return because it always did within thirty seconds of being
> out of bed.  It didn't.  Hesitantly, I went to my physical
> therapy appointment that day.  I worked out on the stationary
> bicycle for awhile, learned a few new stretching exercises, and
> the physical therapist worked on my lower back for a few minutes.
> I left thinking the pain would probably start up any minute.  It
> never did.  Each day went by and the pain refused to return.  The
> stiffness in my leg also began to reseed and there was no pain of
> any kind in my lower back.
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>     there are the extremes when it comes to God's healing power.
> I was raised that God didn't do miracles any more.  why?  they
> weren't needed.  Now that I look back on it, I frankly have no
> idea why I was taught they were no longer needed.  Especially
> when you consider the fact that I lost all my sight at eleven
> years of age.  That certainly seems like a good time for a miracle
> to have occurred as far as I was concerned.
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>     Closely related to this theological fallacy, was the idea
> that God could do miracles today but only when He wanted to do so.
> In my doctrinal realm of theological thought, we had a problem:
> He never seemed to ever want to do any miracles and when it
> appeared that He did, it was very difficult to distinguish the
> miracle from medical intervention, if you get my drift.
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>     Then, of course, we had the hard core Bible Believers who
> insisted that no miracles were ever done by God today because that
> died out with the last apostle, whoever that was.  This was a very
> convenient belief because this way, you could simply say that
> Jesus never did anything other than saved a lost sinner.  From
> then on, you were on your own.  Oh, sure, you could pray until the
> cows came home but it wasn't His will for you to experience a
> miraculous event.
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>     So what was it I heard standing in pain in the middle of our
> kitchen?  Quite simply, it was a lying spirit attempting to gain a
> foothold in my thinking.  The Bible is pretty clear about taking
> every thought captive.  What I did a few moments later was one way
> of doing exactly that.
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>     The question then becomes, who gave me the back pain in the
> first place?  I can prove from Scripture, and from the mouth of
> Jesus Himself, that some sickness and disease and infirmities are
> from Satan.  In my case, I was over weight and out of shape and I
> simply tried picking something up that was way too heavy and I
> paid for it.  That wasn't the Lord's fault.  Who healed me is the
> real question.  You may believe what you like.  I, on the other
> hand, know exactly what happened and I thank God for what He
> taught me as I acknowledge Him in my life.
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