That is truly awesome.

Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:42 PM
Subject: I heard God Today


> I have been asking the Lord some questions about what we sometimes call
> living by faith.  This generally meant to me, as I grew up in church, that
a
> missionary or a preacher who traveled, made his money by the offerings
taken
> for them.  I am not sure that it meant that at all but it was what I was
> taught.  So, money has always been, as they say in Britain, a bug up my
> nose.  So, as I said, in recent weeks, I have been asking God some pretty
> big theological questions.  Well, big for me, little for Him. So, one day,
> the Lord gives me what I believe to be part of the answer but I won't go
> into all that now.  I want to tell you how He simplified  what I learned
> several days ago by what He told me today.  I won't go into the details of
> my train of thought because it isn't really relevant, other than to me,
but
> I got to thinking about a father taking his little girl to the dentist.
> This is likely because of my recent painful, and expensive, dental
> experience.  Anyhow, like I said, there is no reason to tell you how I
came
> to this thought because it wouldn't make sense anyhow.  So, I'm standing
in
> the kitchen, getting ready to go to a family doctor's appointment I had
this
> morning for some blood tests, and as I was blowing my nose with a tissue I
> pulled from the box on top of the microwave, no fooling, I was thinking
> about a father taking his little daughter to the dentist.  The basic
picture
> I was sort of seeing in my mind was that the family were strong believers
in
> living by faith.  By that I mean, they rarely ever went to the doctor for
> anything; they just prayed and trusted God for a miracle.  The little
girl,
> however, had a problem that wasn't going away.  The father and his family
> had no insurance of any kind but he knew he had to take his little
daughter
> to the dentist.  He called and made an appointment.  As he was taking his
> daughter in the car, the little girl was crying from the pain and fear.
Her
> father tried comforting her by telling her it would be all right.  The
> little girl said, "But Daddy, I know we don't have any extra money for
> this."  Her father said, "Honey, that isn't your department.  That's my
> problem.  I don't want you worrying about something that isn't your
> problem."  then it hit me what God had been trying to tell me about
trusting
> Him for finances.  The Lord showed me in an instant of time that I was His
> little child.  I was worrying and working at things that weren't my
> responsibility but His.  All I just described took maybe four seconds but
> all I described I saw and heard in that short period of time.  I need to
> remember to remain as a little child because He is the big Father.
Besides,
> He's got no problems coming up with what His children need.  Now,
> theologically, and Biblically, I already knew this.  This morning,
however,
> the Lord spoke His truth into my spirit and I understood it for the first
> time in my life.
>
> Phil.