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John Schwery <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:13:48 -0400
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Phil, gee, these people who call in so they can pray, they don't 
realize what they are finding.  But, you can't tell them, anyway.

earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>      Sandy gets off work about midnight.  Since her computer work
>station is in our bedroom, I normally don't go to bed before she
>does because all that keyboard clicking, and voice synthesizer
>chatter, wakes me up sometimes.  So, I sometimes watch TV for
>awhile but I almost always go listen to national news on the radio
>to see if the world has come to an end yet or to see if the
>rapture has occurred and somehow I missed it.  the station I catch
>the national network news on, also broadcasts Coast To coast A M
>which used to be run by Art Bell.  Anyhow, back in the very early
>nineties, I began listening to the show, from time to time, and
>discovered, they sometimes have Christians on.  They often don't
>realize it up front but later it turns out they are Christians who
>happen to be experts in different areas.  I do grow weary of all
>the UFO stuff, on the other hand, because I could care less if
>there is intelligent life on other planets or not.  Of course,
>they have quite a crop of psychics as guests on the show.  These
>are people who are never wrong and their predictions are 100
>percent on target every time.  Yeah, right.  No, I don't listen
>for very long because I go to bed normally as soon as Sandy
>finishes work between 11:30 and midnight.  Besides, you can only
>take so much of the UFO stuff and the psychic stuff before you
>start playing with your fingers and toes, if you know what I mean.
>So, last night, I checked the show out, as usual.  I like seeing
>what the rest of the world is doing and thinking.  Washington DC
>tops the list for luny tune entertainment but Coast To coast is in
>the top five at least.  So anyhow, I switch the program on.  I had
>been listening to the BBC broadcast on a local National Public
>Radio station, you know, NPR, that really conservative Christian
>news outfit?  they had been giving better coverage on the Middle
>East and I was way more interested in that than hearing about
>somebody picked up by a UFO or a psychic who once again got a
>prediction right.  I noticed they never mention when the psychic
>guest has missed a prediction.  speaking of which, remind me to
>tell you the time I caught Art Bell in an out and out lie on his
>show.  Of course, Art now lives in the Philippines because a few
>weeks after his wife passed away, he married a 22 year old
>Filipino lady so he left and move there.  Art is 60 years old.
>Lucky guy.  I might move to the P I if I could find a 22 year
>young woman to love me.  No, scratch that.  I'm in love with a 60
>year old woman so I got it backwards.  Well, she is almost sixty.
>Anyhow, I switched over to see what they were talking about.  A
>woman called the show  and told a story about how she was healed
>from seizures from one of these Brazilian psychic healers that
>waves his hands over your body and you are miraculously healed.
>I wonder if you have to take your clothes off first?  Anyhow, it
>is nothing new and I have read about them for more than 30 years
>from Brazil and the P I, the Philippine Islands, and many other
>places.  This healer told this lady, one reason why she wasn't
>being completely healed permanently was due to a couple of
>reasons.  First, her medication was keeping her sick.  There's
>good advice if I ever saw it.  secondly, he told her that she was
>not doing what she was called to do.  What was she called to do,
>you ask?  She is supposed to be a medium.  You know, a psychic,
>fortune teller, Tarot card reader, necromancer, that's somebody
>who can speak to the dead for you and some claim to be able to
>produce the dead so you can talk with them, and some modern
>mediums, the real hip ones, can even communicate with flying
>saucers and people millions of light years away.  Yeah, pretty
>cool.  Nope.  You are right.  Some of these people really do
>believe they have a gift from god.  Of course, it isn't the God we
>know and that's why I spelled it with a small g and not with a
>capital letter.  I almost laughed out loud when this lady told
>her story but then I felt sorry for her because she really
>believes what she experienced.  The great counterfeiter is still
>at work but it isn't anything new.  Just read the Bible and you'll
>read of people just like this.  Well, excluding the UFO bit.  Some
>people today, however, believe that's what Ezekiel was describing
>but all you have to do is read it once to know such is not the
>case.  Anyhow, somehow I thought that story was worth sharing.  I
>have heard of Christians who listen to this show at night just to
>be able to pray for everyone who calls in to find the truth.
>thank you Jesus for the faithful and give them strength.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>Has He Ever Crossed Your Mind?
>www.SafePlaceFellowship.com

John

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