Well, I'm sure you like me, silly, and that's all that counts.  Heh-heh.

Sure of himself Lion
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerri" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: ROARING WITH PRAISE


> 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