SteveO back in the hospital

Okay, I know, I know...., it has been 22 days since the last update. I could do the excuse thing but it doesn't really matter, what does matter is that SteveO is back in the hospital.

For those who are just tuning in - SteveO is a very strong Christian man and one of my dearest friends! He was diagnosed with a brain tumor approx. 15 years ago. Surgery took most of it out but left him paralyzed on the right side of his body and the remants of the tumor continued to spur seizures that are debilitating and painful. SteveO has lived a productive and Christ-centered life in all of this then the seizures became more painful and plentiful and the doctors found the cancer had returned to his brain. There were some treatments and during the time SteveO was back at home he fell and fractured his hip. A steel rod and some nuts and bolts went into his right hip and then an infection happened but finally home again. Just a few days after that he began experiencing major pain...., and it must have been major cause SteveO can handle pain, so his wife had to call for the paramedics and at the hospital they discovered blood clots in his right shoulder area. There are many reasons these clots could have developed but the point is they are painful and with SteveO's brain tumor the procedures to eliminate them could be life threatening.

So you have been brought up to speed. SteveO has had lots of visitors and his family is close but I would ask that whoever the Lord sends to read this that you would stop RIGHT NOW and pray for SteveO and ask the Lord to remove his pain and heal him. I would also ask that you would pray for SteveO's ministry which God has placed him in which is shining His light in the hospital.

I see and/or speak to him everyday and also speak to the nurses, doctors, and other hospital workers that interact with SteveO and ALL of them - even those that don't profess any faith in any thing - love SteveO. Nurses that aren't assigned to him stop by to visit with him, those that check blood pressure peek in to say "Hi," workers who help keep things tidy chat with SteveO and even doctors stick around to visit. They all tell me, "there is something special about that guy."

It is Jesus!

SteveO never is quiet about Jesus - "He's my Rock," he'll say. He will ask anyone what they believe in, what they have faith in and "if you were in my position would you pray?" He gives me a report on who knows Jesus and who I need to speak with and/or pray for and when I ask him how he knows, SteveO smiles and says, "I ask them...., what do I have to lose? And, I want them to know all they can gain!"

As of about 5pm yesterday, SteveO is still in lots of pain. He has gone through another "roto-rooter" type procedure for the blood clots and we have to sit tight and see if it was successful - which could be withing the next couple of weeks. In the meantime they are trying to keep him comfortable.

God's timing is always perfect, He loves SteveO more than anyone on this earth can love him, He is The Way, The Truth and The Life and we do have Total Victory in Him!

Come on and stand on the Rock with SteveO and get that total victory Today!

To the ends of the earth -----

We all have a chance to receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior..., as our Redeemer, as our Friend. He died so our sins too would die, He rose so that He would be the filter that God sees us through. His blood for our sins, His grace for our salvation, His love did, does and will do this for us, His creation. Do we deserve it? Does it cost us anything? Can we figure out why He would do this for us? Just like the questions we have when things don't go the way we want or think they should, we can't figure it out. He is God. We are not. If we understood all His ways and knew exactly what He was going to do and knew He would do exactly as we wanted then we would be God and that IS NOT OR EVER WILL BE THE CASE! He is God and we are either for Him or against Him. Try being for Him because you don't have anything to lose and everthing, including eternity, to gain!

Acts 13:36-48 (New International Version)


"For when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed. But the one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

"Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses. Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:
" 'Look, you scoffers,
wonder and perish,
for I am going to do something in your days
that you would never believe,
even if someone told you.'"

As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: "We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
" 'I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

SteveO is home!!!!!

SteveO was in the hospital a long time BUT today he is home. Please continue to pray as his body is battling an infection where he had the hip surgery. He is still experiencing seizures but they seem to be a little less intense and shorter in duration...Thank You Lord!

SteveO called me and said that this section of Scripture is what the Lord put on his heart. We need to be ready to bring people to Jesus at anytime because sometimes the Lord has used somebody else to plant and grow the seed of faith and then He may allow us to harvest! We also need to glean the fact that faith is not about seeing a miracle done right in front of us like a magic trick...., just look around and I promise you will see miracles!

John 4:36-48 (New International Version)



Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."


Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers.
They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."


After the two days he left for Galilee. (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.
Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

"Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe."