Peggy,

That's good preaching and thanks for your continual prayers, too.  If you
know anything new about Dodie, would you please write me off list about her?

Phil.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Kern" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: Gretchen update


> That's wonderful news, Phil.  I often think of you guys and Gretchen and
> the kids and pray for you, even if I don't post much.  Let's just pray
that
> Gretchen doesn't blow this wonderful God-given opportunity for healing.
>
> I really think letting Jesus be Lord of our lives is an ongoing,
> moment-by-moment thing.  As long as we have free will, which is as long as
> we live, we need to keep bringing our thoughts and choices into submission
> to His will, as best as we understand it.
>
> Peggy
>
> At 07:51 PM 3/18/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> >Our daughter was given permission to stay enrolled with the church
ministry
> >drug rehab program instead of being sent to prison for now.  The county
> >where she was arrested and sentenced, however, is requiring that she come
in
> >once or twice a week, as they dictate, and take a urine test.  They
wouldn't
> >have required this but the church ministry takes no government funding or
> >state funding plus they do no U A testing since they assign someone to
each
> >person that is new and they are never allowed to be alone.  So we praise
the
> >Lord for the decision to allow her to stay.  The stress that built up
over
> >this one thing the last week or so has been impossible to describe.  It
> >finally came to me yesterday as I thought, or someone impressed their
> >thoughts upon my thoughts, what are you going to do if she goes to
prison?
> >Finally I heard my own spirit replying softly and saying, Jesus will
still
> >be Lord if she goes to prison.  Then came the thought, And what about her
> >children if she goes to prison?  My spirit immediately said, Jesus will
> >still be Lord.  I know this sort of response sounds trite or even
> >superficial but this response is totally new to me as someone who has
walked
> >with the Lord for 47 years.  I was always taught to live by rule and
> >regulation and that performance superceded experience and circumstances.
It
> >has only been in the last two years, actually more like the passed 18
> >months, that my entire Christian life and relationship with the Lord has
> >begun to shift into an area of spirituality I never knew existed.  Thus,
> >Lordship is new to me.  I would bet, if I was a betting Baptist, that I
have
> >not only heard more sermons and Bible lessons on Lordship than anybody on
> >this list, but I bet I have preached on the topic of Lordship more than
> >anybody on this list, too.  I know very little about it now but I knew
> >nothing about it then.  I thought, I hear someone saying, that happened
when
> >you were born again, that is, we make Jesus the Lord of our life.  Yep,
> >that's right.  I am learning now, however, just how much of my life the
Lord
> >does not yet have.  Thanks for all your prayers.
> >
> >Phil.
>
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