It's hard to know when to tell them though, in that case, I guess even
though I felt peace, I didn't want to offer false hope. I was just praying
for the Mom who was my friend, I could so identify with a mother's heart
with concern over her child. Sometimes you just know things, for three years
I tried to convince Ben that I would match him and to agree to let me be
tested to be a kidney donor; finally he did, and I matched him. In this
case, I told him I thought I'd match, he said he didn't think so because
most of the time it's a biological relative, parent, or sibling, even Emory
said it was rare for a wife to match her husband. That was a really awesome
thing indeed.
Blessings!

Rhonda

-----Original Message-----
From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 3:04 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: What Does God Say

Rhonda,

Thanks for sharing that.  I'm glad to hear others reporting similar
experiences of God's inner voice.

Phil.




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From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: What Does God Say


> Yes, some things we just need to keep to ourselves. A friend of mine had a
> daughter who had cancer several years ago. She had a bone marrow 
> transplant
> and wasn't doing well at all, I felt that she would recover, and had peace
> about her condition. I did not share my feelings with anyone. She is now
> living a happy cancer free life.
> Rhonda
>
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> From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Vicki
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 12:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: What Does God Say
>
> Good teaching. Also confirmed to me that something I believe I heard from
> God about a friend of mine (not on this list) should be prayed about and 
> not
> shared with that person.  They may never know what the Lord shoed me, but
> I'll see God's work when it actually happens in that person's life. It
> doesn't matter if they know.  And it's a good thing to. Can hardly keep it
> inside.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 6:14 PM
> Subject: What Does God Say
>
>
>>I have never actually heard God's voice but when I do, I figure it will
>>sound like mine.  I laugh when I say things like that but in one of my
>>ebooks called Symbol of Evil, a man dies and goes to Heaven.  As he meets
>>the Lord, he tells Jesus he thought he'd look more like himself.  Don't be
>>surprised when we get there if the Lord does indeed look like you. 
>>Anyhow,
>
>>tonight, this is Thursday, we found out a newly married Christian couple
>>were heading out to the hospital.  She had not felt movement for about a
>>day, she thought, so they wanted to make sure.  The baby is almost due so
>>it won't be long now.  Anyhow, I knew, since this is their first, both
>>husband and wife would be more than a little concerned so we did the only
>>thing we could do; we prayed.  By we, I mean, my son, Sandy, me, and
>>everybody else they contacted.  I was at my desk so I stopped to pray.  I
>>did not open my mouth but I prayed in my thoughts as I mostly do these
>>days.  I was praying for a number of things concerning the couple of their
>>baby and when I mentioned the little girl, still in her mother's womb, I
>>heard what easily could have been taken as my own voice but it wasn't. 
>>The
>
>>thoughts that touched me were these.  "She is asleep."  The feeling of 
>>well
>
>>being touched me emotionally and I believe the words I heard.  After all,
>>the Bible says we have the mind of Christ.  An hour or so later, the 
>>couple
>
>>contacted our son, the husband works for our son, Everett, in his drapery
>>shop, and reported all was well.  I then told my wife and my son what the
>>Lord told me.  Why didn't I call the couple myself and tell them what I 
>>had
>
>>heard?  I could have done just that but I didn't because the Lord never
>>told me to tell them.  If the Lord had said to tell them, I would have 
>>done
>
>>just that but with fear and trembling.  When you receive a Word from the
>>Lord such as that, you best be buddies with Jesus and your relationship
>>best be tight, if you know what I mean.  If you say, "This is what the 
>>Lord
>
>>says," you better be right but I also learned from the Lord a long time
>>ago, intercessors are to keep such things to themselves unless the Lord
>>says otherwise.  I'll tell you something more.  As I received the all 
>>clear
>
>>report about the little unborn girl, I sat and thank God for everything 
>>and
>
>>I did something else. If you know nothing of the position of an
>>intercessor, this won't make much sense to you but I'll tell you anyway.
>>In my attitude of thanksgiving for all God had done, I was praying along,
>>silently, and my thoughts changed on the fly, as it were, and I said,
>>"Little girl?  You are ok now.  Jesus wants to sing to you.  Will you
>>listen?  He is going to sing to you and He likes singing to little ones."
>>As I said, this likely sounds weird to you but it has happened to me
>>personally so many times over the years, I accept it for what it is; God.
>>So it all boils down to one thing and that is, what are we willing to
>>accept from God.  Are we willing to accept His Word?  How about His mind
>>and His thoughts?  No, you say?  It's too new age for you.  Ok, what did I
>>hear in my thoughts?  Some would say you heard a lying spirit. This means
>>you know little about lying spirits, if that is what you think, because
>>they don't speak of life nor do they ever tell the truth or speak the
>>truth.  Additionally, some of us believe God never speaks outside His
>>written Word.  If you believe all there is to know about God is only 
>>talked
>
>>about in the Bible, then I understand why you don't believe God has a 
>>voice
>
>>and He uses it.  If you know the Bible at all, you know it says we, as 
>>born
>
>>again children of God, carry within us the person of the Holy Spirit; the
>>third personage of the Trinity.  The Bible clearly teaches the Holy Spirit
>>is in communication with God the Father, and His Son Jesus Christ, and 
>>this
>
>>communication is perpetual and eternal.  God doesn't have to use words but
>>He functions entirely within the framework of His written Word.  That is,
>>within the context of the Bible.  Do I hear God's voice because I'm such a
>>wonderful guy, a wiz of a Christian, and the best Bible interpreter and
>>teacher to come down the pike since the first century?  We both know the
>>answer.  So why does God talk to me?  The answer is simple.  It is because
>>I am learning to listen.  Most of the time, we want God to listen to us 
>>and
>
>>to be aware of our feelings.  There is nothing wrong with that but Jesus
>>wants to share all of whom He is with us.  It is known as fellowship.  I
>>don't know, you say, it is still weird and there is something wrong with
>>it.  Let me tell you of another way I prayed once upon a time.
>>
>> We were holding Friday night prayer meetings in our home and Sunday
>> morning church type meetings.  We sang and worshipped both times.  One
>> Friday night, someone made a request.  We did not go around the circle 
>> and
>
>> ask for individual prayer requests alone.  That is to say, we did do 
>> that,
>
>> but it was understood, and practiced by all, to speak up during the time
>> of prayer so we could focus on that request at any given moment.
>> Sometimes we prayed together, that is more than one person praying at a
>> time, and other times we prayed quietly to ourselves.  The Lord nudged me
>> in the spirit and said, "Pray for," and He told me to focus on whatever
>> someone had mentioned as a request.  I did pray for that request and near
>> the end of the petition I laid before the Lord, I spoke something I had
>> not previously had in my mind. This means, I spoke without thinking and
>> the words came out of my mouth before my brain registered them.  I said,
>> "Lord, I am asking you for this because we are friends and friends do
>> things for each other.  I'm asking you, as your friend, to do this for
>> me."  The strange thing isn't what I spoke without afore thought; the
>> strange thing is I felt the power and authority of the words themselves.
>> You see, they weren't my words but those of the Holy Spirit speaking
>> through me and they bypassed my brain and thinking processes.  In other
>> words, they bypassed my mind.  Did I make it up?  No, because I said them
>> before my mind registered the words I spoke. What if they were not of 
>> God?
>
>> By this, I suppose, you are saying they might be demonic in nature or 
>> just
>
>> something I thought sounded cute and spoke them to impress everyone in 
>> the
>
>> room.  First, using a little common sense, not to mention some Biblical
>> discernment, is what I said wrong or even unscriptural?  If you've read
>> the Bible at all, you know we have fellowship with God through the
>> finished work of Jesus Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit who
>> dwells within us.  Don't make me quote all the Scriptures that confirm
>> what I just said.  If you doubt what I said, look it up for yourself. 
>> So,
>
>> it can't be demonic but it could be something I made up on my own.  No 
>> one
>
>> in the room, unless they have spiritual discernment, would know if I were
>> faking it or not.  I know the truth, of course, because those words
>> literally left my lips before my mind had a chance to identify them. Yes,
>> it is my word against yours.  Again, it gets back to what we are willing
>> to accept from God.  The lack of acceptance of who God truly is, relates
>> to pride.  That may be a hard pill to swallow but if you stop and think
>> about it, unbelief is nothing more than pride hiding behind human
>> reasoning.  Also, if you know next to nothing of New Testament covenants,
>> you will be unable to accept much from God at all, including a salvitic
>> experience of being born again; the greatest covenant of all.  Let's talk
>> about covenants for a minute.  The basic definition of a covenant of any
>> kind is this:  Everything I have belongs to you and everything you have
>> belongs to me.  Most Christians can accept the first half of that
>> definition but not the second.  How can everything God has belong to me?
>> I mean, I get it that I owe everything to God but it sounds, and feels
>> unscriptural, to think it works both ways.  What about a marriage?  Does
>> my definition of covenant manifest itself in a marital relationship?  If
>> it doesn't, it is a mighty poor marriage.  Many marriage relationships,
>> even Christian ones, fall apart, or at best are miserable, simply because
>> they do not understand the nature of a covenant.  It is true, on the 
>> other
>
>> hand, that a marriage is a covenant, meaning, everything the wife has
>> belongs to her husband and everything the husband has belongs to his 
>> wife.
>
>> I can talk about covenants later but for now, what does God say.  The
>> answer?  Whatever we believe.
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>
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