Looking Good!

Although John still needs to see the oncologist on the 15th for blood work, he had his PET scan today and the radiologist called him to report that everything looks very good! I can't begin to tell you how pleased we are! Praise the Lord! He is good!

We have even more good news at our house! JR has asked his lovely girlfriend, Mindy Lapish, for her hand in marriage and she accepted. So, in October, our family will be expanding and we are very pleased!

And we have even more good news! John has been feeling stronger and on Sunday, he decided he wanted to try cutting the front lawn (I had planned to do both our yard and my folk's) but he just kept on cutting and said he felt a little sore and tired but good! If you know John well, you know he is a pretty meticulous record keeper - which we used to tease him about but it does come in handy - and it had been 367 days since he last cut the grass. After that, we loaded our push mower up and he used it to trim my folks yard while I used their riding mower, as he felt the riding mower would jostle him around too much. That was a big day!

If you can believe it...we have even MORE good news! Our church held a prophetic and healing ministries conference last week. In an unprecedented act, we were able to attend the evening sessions of the conference for all three nights and also go to church on Saturday evening. John was a little pooped but felt that the conference was not to be missed - and he was right! As your can see, we have many, many things to be thankful for.

Back to the conference - I can hardly begin to describe all the wonderful things with many people receiving healing. John gets pretty tired of me dragging him up for healing prayer as he feels like he is healed but I keep telling him we can do better. The running line is that I want him to get thumped on the head, writhe on the floor and get up with a 25 year old body. Oh, and just FYI, all this extra energy and good report from the PET scan are following all the prayer at the conference.

We took so much away from the messages and there were wonderful times of praise and worship. Our daughter, Audrey, was a volunteer and spent time with the visiting pastors and church leadership who had good words for her. She had some pretty fantastic God experiences (I'm jealous), but we are so excited as to what the Lord has in store for her.

Although we are not supposed to predict Christ's coming, it does seem pretty obvious that we're in the end times. Rather than being separated from one another in our churches, God's people will be coming together as the remnant to minister to others. The pastors focused on developing our spiritual relationships, our spiritual gifts, pressing into the Holy Spirit and realizing and unleashing the power of God in our daily lives. Not for personal blessings, although no one would turn that away, but to be a blessing to others.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Matthew 10:7-9

Freely we have received the Holy Spirit, let us freely share it. It just makes you want to giggle with joy, doesn't it?

Amen!

Pam