Yay Carol! See what prayer can do? I only had three messages to read 
before I came to this one. As I keep reading, I know you'll share 
your trials and tribulations with the dentist and all your other health needs.


LOVE AND GOD'S ETERNAL BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS,

Reeva Parry.

Legend has it that on Thursday 8/16/2007 08:48 AM, Carol Pearson said:

>Hi all,
>
>Earlier today I asked for prayer about my trip to the hospital, 
>where I was to have further dental surgery (of the least desirable 
>type).  I told you all I was very fearful having gone through such 
>surgery twice already in the past few months . . ..
>
>After writing to you all, I was reading my Bible and saw one of the 
>many verses about trusting God.  I had been speaking such verses to 
>myself all day and singing them too but was finding it difficult to 
>think that one of these verses was really for me, but here was 
>something else.  In Psalm 57 and verse 1, I read:
>
>Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy!
>I look to you for protection.
>I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings
>
>I saw clearly (as I have before) that I had a choice here and I 
>needed to look to Him and hide myself!  "Thank You, Lord, for making 
>Your Word real and living to me today and for meeting me in my 
>need!"  There was my help!
>
>Then I went off for the appointment, still outwardly showing fear 
>(getting the time wrong so being ready an hour too soon for my 
>friendto collect me) but inside I knew I was ready . . ..
>
>When I arrived, the waiting-room was empty as the morning session 
>had ended and I was to have special medication which I needed to 
>take before my procedure.  I was therefore not called into the 
>surgeon's room immediately (as I had been before) but the nurse came 
>to me.  First she told me I had been written up for a different 
>medication . . ..  I found myself weighing this up.  It could be 
>good, but it may not agree with me.  Then I explained that on both 
>my prior visits I had asked them specifically to look at this tooth 
>so that we could discuss the forthcoming surgery.  Although we had 
>discussed the pros and cons when I was last there, I wasn't aware 
>that the dental surgeon had actually taken a proper look.  He had 
>not said so, or referred to the particular problem with the tooth in 
>question in a way that showed me he had seen it.  I therefore asked 
>if this had been done and was told "Well, he's written up the 
>procedure to be done," to which of course I courteously replied that 
>this didn't mean he had actually seen it for himself and had an 
>opinion.  . . ..
>
>I won't go into all the detail now except to say that, by the time 
>we had continued our discourse and he had looked properly (as he did 
>not look before), he offered me a "get out" position.  He said, "You 
>can remain on open support for a year and call us at any time, 
>should the tooth give you more trouble, and you want to have it 
>taken out."  At that moment I remembered the tooth at the front of 
>my mouth which gave me so much trouble in my early twenties and 
>which had almost been taken out three of four times now.  I still 
>have that tooth!  I knew at that moment that I was to take that 
>option.  Of course, that doesn't mean I'm "off the hook for good" 
>but it does mean that I may never end up having to have this done 
>and, if I do, it will be because it really needs to come out.  In 
>addition, everything about the way I'm feeling today and the various 
>other health problems I'm suffering right now need not be added to 
>with this one.
>
>I thought on the story of Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20, when he was sick, 
>and how Isaiah was sent to him to tell him he was going to die, then 
>God heard his prayers and saw his tears and he lived and I thought 
>on the loving-kindness and mercy of our God!
>
>Praise Him and thank you so much, all of you, for prayers 
>today.  They actually changed the situation!
>
>--
>Carol
>
>-- Lies imprison; truth frees. The Son frees indeed as the light of 
>His truth shines in the darkness of our lies. Jesus knows the 
>geography of our souls,
>the origin of our lies, the whole path to deliverance and freedom. --
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