Phil, great news about Gretchen.  As for what your spirit was saying,
sometimes, the most simple is the most profound.

earlier, Phil Scovell, 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regulation and that performance superceded experience and circumstances.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.

John

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