Hi Phil,

I will certainly be praying for Al. I'm Praising God that He accepted Christ!

Please keep us posted. I pray the pain goes away completely and it is
replaced with a spirit of love and joy.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson


At 09:59 PM 7/3/05, you wrote:
>Ralph is my son, Everett's, Karate instructor and has been for about the
>last 7 years.  Everett helps teach at the Karate school.  In the passed few
>weeks Ralph has been in the hospital, he has had both legs removed below the
>knee.  He has had bypass heart surgery.  He has been on dialysis for many
>months.  One leg got infected and he has had surgery three times on that leg
>alone.  His mother is very spunky and is 86 and Ralph is about 63 years old
>or so.  He is one of the toughest men you would ever meat.  The pain, on the
>other hand, is astronomical.  Last night, he called his older brother in
>Arizona and his brother led him to Christ over the phone.  Ralph asked his
>mother today to call us and to ask Everett and Sandy and I to come down to
>see him so he could tell us the good news.  He had two bouts of severe pain
>while we were there so it wasn't easy to watch.  Sandy sang several
>Christian songs to him and some were old hymns Ralph remembered from his
>childhood.  Will he live?  Well, if not here, he will live there and we will
>now all get to see him in person some day.  He admitted tonight that he had
>always thought he could lick the world on his own.  Those were his words.
>Now, he said, he knows he can't do it alone and he needed Jesus in his life.
>He also said a great heavy burden was lifted off of him last night about
>midnight when he called and prayed with his older brother.  Pray about the
>pain and pray for peace because the Enemy will try and use the pain against
>him.  I talked to him a little of how to listen for the Lord and how to talk
>to the Lord and Sandy told him some things about just calling on the name of
>Jesus when the pain comes on like it does.  In spite of all the pain he was
>having, I could tell something was different in this man's soul.  Praise God
>for that.  Sandy went down to the Karate school before Ralph went into the
>hospital and witnessed to him but he just said he became a Christian when he
>was a child.  Tonight he was talking about his sin and the burden lifted
>from him and things only someone truly born again would feel.  Thank God.
>
>Phil.
>
>Phil C Sharp
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