Well hello ChoHaCho.  Good to hear from you. 

Yes, I was going through a battery of test, shots, treatments and all sorts of "fun" things Doctors like to try when your spine is fried the last time you probably heard from me.

Starting next Monday I am going to start what is called "decrompression therapy". So that is MY prayer request. 1) that God will provide the means to pay for it because it is out of network for my insurance and is going to cost.....well....lots and 2) that the therapy will actually work.  I always used to joke that if I just had a medieval style rack, that I would be much better off.  Well, in a way that is what this is....just with space age technology you know.

I have to go 4 times week for at least 6-8 weeks.  So my request is that God will provide both the finances and the healing because I think this is the therapy I have needed all along.

I will definately add your request to our list. Thank you for letting me know. It is so good to hear from you old man ;)
I trust you are doing well.  Know that your request is going before the thousands of our prayer warriors and keep in touch because I want to give praise to God on this site when He answers our prayers for your youth group.

In Christ,
HisServant4life

i appreciate this interaction in the comments.

praying for the builder and those who have a "say-so" in the church, that they would have wisdom and the cunning o fthe serpent, yet be ambassadors for the Christ as they wage war for the souls of young people. we do not have to sit and take whatever they enemy throws at us. Esther taught that we can fight back. legally.

and i am praying for next monday for the servant. paralysed? or just injured and temporary?

i was headed for a wheelchair a few years ago. then i took matters into my own hands, like Esther, and forced some dietary changes, which have given me back my mobility and strength. God doesn't give us the bad stuff, we gave it to ourselves in the fall. God takes the bad and works it together for good. all good comes from God and we praise Him for it. sometimes the good isn't delivered the way we want it, but it is still good. and from God. He allows the bad to happen in order to get our attention. if it takes a lifetime of pain, then i am willing to go through it in order to know God better.

thanks for praying.

love to all of you.

Thank you and please pray 4 my friend. Her mother is in the hospital. And is very sick. Thank you 4 every thing and i will pray 4 u 2.

~ God Bless ~

mieyasha thank you for asking but no, I am not paralyzed. What I do have is a spine that is arthritic and full of bone spurs. I have several bulging disks, especially in my cervical spine (neck) along with degenerative disk disease in my lower spine.

But you know what? I praise God that He, because of the prayers of the thousands that I am talking about here on this site, that the migraines I was having just 6 months ago are GONE. God does indeed answer prayer.

Now with my back, that is something that I have been dealing since my mid teens which is well over 20 years ago. What breaks my heart is that I can understand how those who do not know the Lord can convince themselves that a "mercy killing" is the only way out. I know pain. I can't live one second without it and haven't for over 20 years. But praise God even though He has thus far chosen not to heal by spine fully, I know that I WILL be healed. If not in this lifetime, then in the next when we receive our glorified bodies. Paul prayed 3 times that God would remove the "thorn from his flesh" yet what did God say in return? "My grace is sufficient for you." I have lived that grace. It keeps me humble. It helps me to exhort others to press on even when they think there is no hope. Yet I am able to share with them the Hope I have residing in me that gives me the Peace that passes all understanding. Even though I am in constant pain in varying degrees, I call out to God and I receive PEACE. Why? Because as I said, I have HOPE. I KNOW that some day, it WILL be over and I WILL be healed.

These years we live on this earth are but as a millionth of a second when compared to eternity. I know the Lord could call me home at any second. And I am prepared to go. I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. Those who take their lives to end their pain don't understand what we mean when we talk about this Peace. As Paul emphatically states in 1 Corinthians 2:14, "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." These poor souls cannot even begin to fathom how we can even talk about having Peace in the midst of such pain because they don't have the Prince of Peace residing in them as we who are true born again Christians do. But I have it. I LIVE it...every day. Now, does that mean life is any fun with the pain? Not at all. This is why I am going to try this decompression therapy and pray God will use this to bring me healing or at least relief so I may be able to just play with my beautiful children or just hold hands and go walking with my precious wife without having my body totally incapacitated by the pain afterwards.

Pain is actually a good thing. Like I said, it keeps me humble. God created me. He knows everything about me. He knows how, with my personality, I might not be as humble a servant to Him if I did not have this pain. It causes me to keep my eyes focused on Him and not looking for riches or personal gain and self-glory. Our God is such a GOOD God...and 100% fully loving. As Paul says in Romans 8:28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Again, those without His Spirit cannot understand this. They think it is bunk, trash psycho-babble or just plain fairy tales.

But we have our own testimonies. NO ONE can dispute that. Not even Satan.

So you are exactly right when you say, "God takes the bad and works it together for good. all good comes from God and we praise Him for it."

Thanks for the encouragement. Please let others know that they are free to come here for prayer. Again, if God is or already has answered any person's request from the last entry, PLEASE let us know so we may give glory to God together.

In Christ,
HisServant4Life

Baseballgiirl  Thank you for your request and know that it too is going before our prayer warriors.  Let your friend know that there will be literally THOUSANDS praying for her mom OK?

May God be with each of you during this difficult time.

In Christ,
HisServant4Life

i believe fully in the healing power of God, and that He chooses to work through the prayers of the saints. if it weren't for Him, i'd have been dead years ago. the pain i go through is not as much as yours. i seem to be getting better in some ways, much like your migranes. there are still problems, and i MUST watch my diet to gain maximum capabilities.  but the pain in my lifetime, both emotional and physical, are part of what defines me, what forms me, what God uses to get through to me.

i should go to texas to see the best specialist in my field, but i don't know if insurance will cover. need to make a phone call. and if not, then i will continue as i have, in the arms of Jesus.

may God be with you in an extraordinary way this weekend.

answered prayer for ten years;

i had lost my souvenier certificate from my uas naturalization. we were told we would never have to prove we were citizens, and there was no card to carry any more. there would be a souvenier available for us if we wanted it.

turns out this "souvenier" was the real thing, and that it was mandatory to have it.

i had picked up mine and was only the second one who did. it got lost 10 years ago. no.....5 years ago. i thought it had been thrown out. looked everywhere for it.

BY ACCIDENT it showed up on friday!

and it is no souveniere....it is the real thing! it should have been handed to us on that day.

now i have it!

YAY!

and for my prayer request i mentioned, there is a breakthrough in the making.

thanks!

updated some prayer requests on my site.

is everything okay with Servant?

praying for you these last few days. the silence seems serious.

take care and God bless.

Hey guys, I apologize I haven't updated in the last few days.

There has been much spiritual warfare but even greater spiritual healing going on in my family. As so many of you know, when we try to get together to go before the Lord, Satan is going to interfere in any way he can. I praise God that HE ALONE is the victor through these trials however as my wife and I have drawn closer together than we have in years.

We started "Experiencing God" by Henry Blackaby this Monday, the same day I started the decompression therapy treatments and I must say both are going extremely well. We went through that Bible study when we were first married and believe me it is time after 14 years to go through it again together.

an_inquisition a great and I mean GREAT site I would like to send you to regarding your questions (because you will get them from a front line perspective) is www.xanga.com/gideonrecon I don't mean to dodge any of your questions because your issues are valid, but I think it would serve you better if you speak with a Christian who is actually helping in this war on terror as an active member of our military. And yes, I will be glad to pray for you.

Geri_D You are still on our prayer list and the warriors are still lifting you and your concerns to the Lord. Thank you for the update and the encouragement.

mieyasha PLEASE feel free to jump in and communicate and post responses to any and all who leave comments here. I want this to become a place of fellowship where we can bear one another's burdens as we lift each other to the Lord. So yes, feel free to speak to all of us if you have anything on your mind and especially if you feel the Lord calling you to encourage us.

Thanks guys,
Keep'em coming.

Sola Gratia,
HisServant4Life

Hello HS4L, I am sorry to take your time but I have an urgent prayer request. I ask that you pray for Gary, the owner of www.xanga.com/strong_in_his_name

His site has come under attack by one whose every fiber of his being is filled with Satanic hatred of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The attacker has a poser site called www.xanga.com/JesusHatesLiberals where he is going around causing fights with patriots and Christians while posing as a patriot and a Christian himself.

But his home site where he spews most of his hatred is www.xanga.com/misanthrope91776

hey i just wanted to check in and see how you were feeling. One thing that i love more than anything in the world is that when your being attacked and you feel like you cant go on and its so difficult to even carry on, the farther God is going to take you. Im sure you do know this but i have to speak from my own experiences, that God never gives you more than you can handle, even when it feels like it sometimes. so the harder your pushed to fight back right now, the greater the reward is going to be. Ill continue praying for you and your family. gods got it all under control :)

God Bless

thanks. glad to know all is well. i thought i remembered you saying something about a different kind of treatment this week, and when there was silence i remembered all tho people i've known whose treatment failed or backfired.

glad to know you and your wife are doing well.

praying for you this weekend.

read blackaby a few years ago.  that's when i realized i was not a calvinist. excellent questions, i loved the thionking process i went through becuse of it.

cul8r

re-read some of the comments.

praying....

          I feel sorry for those who do not understand GOd.

          You have a beautiful CXgana intside and out! Thank you for everything you have done.

          And thank you mievasha for the mentioning of that devilish man... I will block him from my site. I do not need his pathetic attempts to put me down. That is what the world is for. However it matters what you make of it. And right now I make it into a large lesson. However I do not need his disruptions.

God bless you,
GlamorousMartyr