Paul, wonderful testimony that tells it like it is. god is great! Keep
preaching his word, brother and don't forget we all think the world of you.
Now don't let this go to your head "loving brother" Kerri who isn't sure she
likes that old lion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ariel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: ROARING WITH PRAISE


> Hey, Family
>
> Just a note to close my birthday out with praise.  As I end another trip
> around the sun and begin (LORD willing) a new one, I can attest to the
fact
> that everything the Bible promises about the LORD and JESUS in particular
is
> true.
>
> Isaiah 46:4 says:  quote "Even to your old age I will be the same, And
even
> to your graying  years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry
> you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you." unquote
>
> I'm not quite at that point yet, but I can tell you that the LORD has
> brought me through some serious stuff and though some lessons have been
> painful, all have been growing pains.  He has brought every desire of my
> heart to pass when there was no hope for any of them.  When the doctors
told
> my parents at my birth that I'd be blind, profoundly retarded, unable to
> eat, unable to speak, unable to walk unable to control my bowels or my
> bladder and that I would thankfully be dead within a few days and that
they
> should leave me in the hospital to die, the LORD had another plan.
Although
> there are still traces of disability (or whatever politically correct term
> you want to use), He has brought me out of the pit of a hellish childhood,
> physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally, brought me through
> college, through rough relationships and times of every kind of anguish.
> Through JESUS He has provided me with a ministry for which I'm also paid
> well with a job and surprisingly good health that still stumps the doctors
> and the honor of serving Him to bless others.  All this and eternal life
as
> well .
>
> He has granted me every desire of my heart and though I haven't seen a
> repeat of one that started but faded away, knowing Him as I do after all
> these years I still believe He will grant that one as well.  But even if
He
> never did I can say as the Hebrew song says (phonetically) "Die yay
> nu"...it's enough.  Even if nothing else good ever happened and everything
> good passes away, He has done enough good for me that I will spend all of
> eternity praising His Name.  And a large part of that is the blessing He
has
> given me in you.
>
> I pray that you will come to know this GOD, this Father who comes to you
and
> bleeds for you and rescues you in the Person of JESUS, and indwells you in
> the Person of the Holy Spirit to comfort your heart as no one else can do
> when there is no other comfort anywhere.  And I pray that if you already
> know Him, you with be there along with me some day at Home with Him in
> Heaven, praising Him for all of these things in the Name of JESUS.
>
> Great is Thy Faithfulness ain't my favorite hymn for nuthin'!  Grin.
>
> Paul, Ariel, Lion of GOD, still roaring with His Praise