Hi Phil,
Thanks so much for sharing that.
I'm praying for you and Sandy, and for Adam and his family.
I'll be posting a prayer request shortly.
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.
At 02:47 PM 5/31/2017, you wrote:
>When we received the news about our 8 year old
>grandson having detached retinas in both eyes,
>we began making calls for prayer. Throughout
>the day, I felt odd and continually tried to
>isolate what I was sensing. The actual feeling
>felt as though I were clear of all emotional
>harm and discomfort. More than one person,
>during the day we called and emailed friends and
>family for prayer, saw the comparison between
>what my grandson was facing and what I went
>through at age 12 when both my retinas
>detached and shredded. Thirteen surgical
>procedures and 6 months later, I was blind. I
>later put 2-and-2 together and realized the
>nature of my unusual feelings. My spiritual
>awareness level was wide open throughout the day
>scanning for incoming. I’m talking about
>incoming pain and fear and sadness but oddly
>enough, it never came. It should have
>emotionally ripped and tore at me because it
>always had done so before. Feelings of gigantic
>sadness should have been there, too, as memory
>pictures flashed through my mind during that
>day. Yet, it never came. My awareness of
>incoming spiritual danger was so razor sharp, I
>could have sliced thin air into
>strips. Yet, there was no need for any action
>on my part. Why wasn’t that pain returning as
>it always did. Then I knew. The emotions, and
>the lies the Enemy had implanted relating to the
>experiencing of going blind, no longer had any
>effect on me. The cathartic aspect of inner
>healing had removed the anxiety and doubts that
>always surfaced with similar issues of life that
>came my way; personal experiences triggering
>the old memories of woundedness. This healing
>experience does not mean I have lost all
>sensitivity to past events. It does mean, on
>the other hand, that lies implanted by the Enemy
>have been healed so they, in turn, no longer
>cause emotional pain and woundedness. Likewise,
>it does not mean what I fast as a boy have been
>erased; they have just been healed so no more
>pain exists. Such lies are rarely seen, even by
>professionals, because the Enemy is able to
>disguise any lie with pain and fear and other
>emotional devices so that healing seems
>impossible. It takes the Holy Spirit, in the
>name of the true Lord Jesus Christ, to heal the
>brokenness experienced even by Christians.
>
>
>[log in to unmask]
|