That is such good news about Ralph.  I know you and Sandy and Everett have
had a burden for him for a long time.  Will pray about his pain.  How happy
his brother must be.  And the angels in heaven are shouting for joy!

Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:59 PM
Subject: [ECHURCH-USA] Pray For Ralph


> 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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