Phil,
This is an awesome story and I do hope it will give someone the faith and 
the courage to keep the faith and trust in our Lord.  Thank you for sharing 
it.
Virgie and Hoshi
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:36 PM
Subject: Something That May Help Someone


>I have not told you about this because I strongly felt it was not 
>necessary.
> I still feel exactly that way.  However, because I truly feel this will 
> help
> someone who needs the same information, I am going to share with you a
> message, it is actually two messages in one, which I emailed to my nephew
> who lives with his wife and children in the Far East.  He is a missionary,
> I've mentioned him before, but I prefer not to say exactly where he is 
> now.
> He lived 4 years secretly in China as a missionary.  Fortunately, where 
> they
> live now is an American ally but we don't have many of those left,
> unfortunately.  His mom, one of my older sisters, called last week and 
> told
> me to pray because her quote son's MS unquote has flared up again.  I 
> wrote
> to him the truth.  Not because I'm a great spiritual giant, I learned the
> hard way that isn't true and have repeated the same mistake thinking
> otherwise many times, but the truth is only what is important.  Not how 
> you
> feel, not what you think, not where you are, not how screwed up your
> emotions are, but only what you think of Jesus.  If you are His friend,
> nothing else matters.  Yes, crying is ok.  Jesus created all of our 
> emotions
> and everyone serves a purpose and none are negative.  If you think they 
> are,
> there is some lie based thinking going on in your mind, this is where the
> Enemy attacks, and such thinking can be healed through intercessory 
> prayer,
> or, if you know how, by yourself.  The Apostle Paul, more than once, 
> called
> this the "renewing of the mind."  Look at my website because I have 
> written
> on it extensively so there is no reason to reinvent the wheel unless you 
> ask
> me.  I'll be happy to discuss it on the phone, if you can.  Here are the 
> two
> messages I wrote my nephew.  He is in his early thirties by the way.
>
> David and Wendy,
>
>     It has been many years since this occurred.  Do you recall
> David when we had  a meeting over at Saundra's and Jere's when you
> guys were home?  As you sat  and talked to me, I felt very
> strongly in my spirit the Lord say, as I  listened to you just
> talking about whatever, "He doesn't have MS."  I told  you this,
> as I recall, over at your mom's.  I forget what we were doing
> there but it was Bob's old house.  You told me a story about when
> you were  praying in a cabin.  The Lord told you to go outside and
> walk up a hill.  I  think you said there was a cross there or
> something like that and that the  Lord told you to sit down.  Then
> He told you what you were facing at that  time was the same thing
> His disciples experienced, PTSD.  I then told you  what the Lord
> had told me about the MS issue.  You said you felt the same  way.
> According to what your mom says, you are having some physical
> effects on one side of your body  and you apparently are setting
> up an MRI over there?  That's a good idea and  we should always do
> everything we can medically when we are facing what  appears to be
> physical in nature.  David, I still believe what Jesus told me
> all those many years ago; you don't have MS.  Of course, maybe you
> have  something else.  Frankly, I don't care what it is.  The
> Enemy listens to our  conversations and is good at using such
> things against us.  Through  intercessory prayer and some of the faith
> teaching, I learned over the years, not  everything which I have
> adopted as my personal beliefs, I have absolutely no  doubt that
> the Lord orchestrates such events to bring us to His way of
> thinking.  I am not minimizing the symptoms or even what doctors
> call a  diagnosis.  Just keep this in mind, God does not care what
> man, even a  doctor, calls a disease, sickness, or illness.  He does not
> care if  we call something PTSD, OCD, DID,
> Bipolarism, schizophrenia, Anxiety  Disorder, Panic Disorder, or
> an ingrown toenail.  He doesn't give a "damn"  about names and
> titles and diagnosis.  I used that word on purpose because  it is
> His nature, did you hear that, David, it is His nature to condemn
> the  works of the Enemy.  If what your mother said is true, that
> is, you are  scared right now, Jesus knows that is normal.  He
> still wants you to look to  Him for the answer to the fear.  I was
> afraid big time a few weeks ago when  I found out I was a type 2
> diabetic.  I have to jab my finger three times a  day now just to
> take readings.  I have to lose weight, and I am, and  exercise
> every day.  Imagine such a thing.  A man of my age, too.  55
> freaking years old and I have to exercise.  What a trip.  Your mom
> also  said, you said that you thought God had healed you of MS but.
> Excuse me but God  isn't interested in what you think.  He is
> interested in your heart.  Do you  think He has MS?  then you have
> what He has and that's all I know.  Your  mother, God bless her,
> said it was "Your MS flaring up again."  Sorry,  buddy.  It ain't
> your MS.  I know it isn't mine or Wendies or even God's so  if
> that's what you are thinking, you've been reading the wrong Bible.
> It  isn't your MS, David, and never was so if you are saying, or
> thinking, any  thing remotely like that, start searching your
> feelings and thoughts and  follow them right back to the source.
> You know how to do that so start  doing it.  That is what God
> wants.  You think He didn't know about this  whole thing?  David,
> we are soldiers.  The battle has been won.  You know  that.  We
> don't have to fight any longer because Jesus did the fighting for
> us on the cross.  Ephesians 6 says only to stand.  It says
> nothing about  attacking, chopping the Enemy down to size, He did
> that already, too, or  even launching arrows.  We done won already
> because we be on the side of  Jesus.  He said, "It is finished."
> He said, "All power in Heaven and on  earth has been given unto
> me."  We are sons and joint heirs with Christ and  of God.
> Colossians 2:10 says it all.  "And we are complete in Christ, who
> is the head of all principalities and powers."  The word
> "complete," is the  same Greek word translated "Be ye filled" with
> the Spirit.  Look it up for  yourself if you doubt what I just
> said.  That literally means that you are  "complete," "filled,"
> with all the power and authority of Christ.  Why?  Because he
> shares it with us in His name.  No, not in your name or my name
> or the doctor's name.  His name works.  We don't have to fight any
> more,  David, because it is done and finished.  Oh, sure, we have
> to push back a  little.  Otherwise the Enemy is going to try and
> eat our lunch.  He cannot  kill us because only Jesus has the
> power of life and death in His hand.  Tell the devil to screw off
> because you are busy right now and have things  to be doing.  I'll
> be doing the same for you and I'll put a prayer request  on my
> Christian mailing list, too.  Many of them know how to pray.
> Note.  I decided not to ask you to pray for him as previously mentioned.
> Why?  Because he does not need to be healed from MS.  If you pray, pray he
> hears the voice of the Lord because that is absolutely all he needs right
> now.  Message continued.  Also,  you ask Jesus for all of His intercessors
> on the earth to
> take up your  cause.  Jesus asked me the other day to pray for
> three hours in tongues.  I  don't pray on a daily bases, by the
> way, because I have learned to pray  without ceasing.  That's for
> another sermon later.  It was 1:30 in the  afternoon.  I said,
> "Lord, three hours?  I don't even know for whom I'm  praying."  He
> said, "Pray."  I did.  I still have no idea for whom I prayed  but
> He does.  So, ask the Holy Spirit to alert His intercessors and
> people  you will never meet until Heaven will begin praying for
> you.  What if you  die?  Well, then, when you get to Heaven, Jesus
> will say, "Well, that poor  old Phil.  He means well but he don't
> know his head from a hole in the  ground."  Sure and a chicken has
> lips, too.  You know He won't say that.  He  wants you, Dave, not
> what the doctor says he thinks you have.  I have a  prayer session
> with a lady in a couple of minutes but I'll be in touch.  I  only
> have a couple of bucks on my international calling card but I can
> put  more on and we can talk and pray over the phone, too, when I
> recharge my  account.  I have a lot more to tell you, to.  Go
> deep, David, go deep.  That's where the answer is and His name is
> Jesus.
>
> Phil.
>
> Dave,
>
> I was reminded upon writing to you in my last message, something Jesus 
> said
> to me almost five years ago.  I was in the biggest, and most dramatic,
> intercessory prayer session of my life.  God had been healing dozens of
> areas
> but this one was the granddaddy of them all.  I wrote about it and it is 
> on
> my website.  It is called, "I Flew Kites With Jesus."  During that prayer
> session, Jesus took me back to the hospital where I lost my sight.  Some
> amazing things happened in that part of the prayer session but once it was
> done, Jesus said, "We are leaving this place and never coming back."
> Another thing he said was, "You are not blind."  The truth is, I am blind
> but that statement will not go away, David.  I know I am not blind.  This 
> is
> not my faith speaking but Jesus speaking when I repeat those words.  As I 
> so
> often say, some may choose, the key word here is "choose," to believe what
> Jesus said was just spiritual in nature.  These same people say the same
> thing about 80 percent of the entire Bible, too.  I know what Jesus was
> talking about and He knows what He was talking about so I don't care what
> others believe; I am not blind.  A false confession?  Hardly.  If Jesus 
> said
> it first, who am I to question His authority.  So, I'm saying, Dave, you
> don't have MS.  I'm saying it because Jesus said it first.  "Well, then,
> what is it because I sure have something."  Right!  You got Jesus.
>
> Phil.
>
> It Sounds Like God To Me.
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