Dear Phil,

I will be praying for you, that God will provide the money to get 
this chair and the keyboard, and what every things you need.

I'll be praying for your blood sugar to come down, as well. Lord, 
Please heal Phil completely from the top of his head to the bottom of 
his toes. Lord, Please take away all discouragement, and fill his 
heart and Spirit with peace and love. Lord, I ask that you would 
provide a huge financial blessing upon Phil and his family. Lord, I 
know you are the healer, and I know you perform miracles, and Please, 
Lord, just heal Phil. Lord, I also ask that you would increase his 
ministry. Lord, You know Phil is dedicated to serving you, and to 
spreading your Word. Lord, I thank you for what you are going to do 
in Phil's life. I ask these things, Lord, in your Matchless name, Amen.

Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson
At 04:08 PM 2/9/2008, you wrote:
>      I would like you guys to pray about something for me.  I
>recently happened to be writing back and forth with brad off list
>and mentioned what was going on with me physically.  I admitted I
>had become quite discouraged over the last year due to a big drop
>in our monthly support of the ministry so some of my
>discouragement, of course, is related to that but there is more.
>
>      Since about early September, my back, lower back that is, has
>gone out about three times.  It was once again sciatica On
>September the first which I had for the first time, a year and a
>half ago, but since then, just the lower 6 to 8 inches of my back
>has felt, when it was hurting and it isn't right now, thank the
>Lord, like a gorilla has reached in to my back and clamped his
>huge hand around my spine just below my belt line and started
>squeezing.  I finally went to the doctor a couple of months ago to
>get some pain relief.  I am now back on my low carb diabetic diet
>and exercising a little every day so that is going to eventually
>help with all the things I am about to describe.  This prayer
>request has to do with praying for a very expensive chair and
>adjustable keyboard tray for my computer keyboard but you will
>understand why as you read.
>
>      For several months, as I said, I have been having physical
>symptoms which are causing me some problems.  Some appears to be
>related to diabetic neuropathy pain because at times, my arms
>aches from my biceps, well, almost from my shoulders, to my finger
>tips.  My hands, as I type, tingle all the time now and by evening
>hours, they feel so weak, I can't hardly type without it driving
>me crazy.  I also feel finger tip pain, numbness and tingling.  My
>hands get to feeling like I have been installing an overhead
>ceiling fan or smoke alarm after several minutes of my hands and
>arms being up over my head.  Also, my wrist joints, and some of my
>knuckles on both hands, will ache one day, burn the next, and itch
>like crazy other days.  I also get a burning, or aching, sensation
>that feel like it is just below my skin.  It aches and burns from
>my elbow to my wrist and sometimes that same feeling is on the
>tops of my hands, too.  Besides all that, Since September first,
>my left leg has never fully recovered from the earlier sciatica in
>September and October and is not only stiff but weaker than my
>right leg but both legs ache from deep within my hips to my knees.
>My right leg has ached so much for over three years, I cannot
>sleep on my right side at night any longer.  I walk slower, and
>more carefully, as a result of some of this because I find, due
>to the stiffness in my legs, and the weakness in my left leg, that
>it is easier to lose my balance.  So, as I say, some of this is
>back related and some, I am sure, is high sugar level related.  My
>annual physical comes up March 10 and I have been going in every
>three months for an A1C blood sugar test.  It was almost to the
>level a month ago where they wanted to put me on medication to
>lower my blood sugar.  So, all these issues I will be relating to
>my doctor come March tenth.
>
>      As I said, I mentioned all this to Brad recently and his
>wife, over the years, has been having very similar symptoms in her
>hands and back.  She found a chair that starts at about 850
>dollars, an office chair, and a 200 dollar adjustable keyboard
>tray and all this has improved her similar symptoms a great deal.
>We can get the same chair here in Denver, Sandy found out this
>week, and I know for a fact that the keyboard positioning, and
>level, has something to do with the feelings in my hands because I
>used to have a very high metal office desk, a huge one, and my
>hands were up high when I typed.  When I got a new wooden desk for
>my office I use now, the pain went away for probably 4 years but
>now has returned and is worse due to other physical problems.  So,
>the bottom line is, by the time we pay for whatever fabric we want
>on the office chair, and the keyboard tray, we are looking at well
>over a thousand dollars.  I sure don't want to give up typing but
>if you have been getting very short messages from me of late, it
>is because my hands hurt too much to type for very long at a time.
>So, please pray because we have no credit cards any longer and
>frankly, we have no credit either.  Our income tax return has to
>go for other things and although we will be getting 1200 dollars,
>or more, back from the government in May or June, by then, we'll
>need that for other bills most likely.  So your prayers would be
>appreciated.  Frankly, I have been more than a little concerned
>all about this and that doesn't help either.
>
>Phil.
>
>
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