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Dan and Joyce Lee’s Son Undergoes 2nd Heart Surgery!

Little Jonah Lee, almost two years old, is going through his second heart surgery today, March 26, 2013.  Please pray for him, mom and dad, and his brothers and sisters.  Little Jonah has won all of our hearts just because of who he is and how God made him.

Post Surgery Update: 

Jonah’s surgeon Dr Peeler just stopped by and said everything went as well as it could have…repaired valve using his own tissue with just the very minor leak that we anticipated.  The anticipation of this moment brought tears of joy!  I had to catch by breath before calling Joyce or else I would have been bawling and she would have assumed the worst, I couldn’t even say bye to the doctor and his assistant who stopped by.    Thank you Jesus!

He is in recovery now and I should be able to go up and see him in the next hour!

Pray without ceasing in Jesus marvelous Name! ~ Flip

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Update on Dave Lackey

Brothers and Sisters,

Flip just called and said that Dave Lackey is still in the hospital. He had another seizure last night and he can’t move from the hospital bed. Pray for wisdom from the doctors.

(James 1:5) If you ask for wisdom, God will freely give it.

 

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Prayer for Dave Lackey

Dear OSA Brothers and Sisters,

Our dear brother Dave was just taken to the emergency room for seizures and possibly cardiac arrest. Please keep him in your prayers, he has been a friend of the fatherless little ones that are sentenced to die at abortion mills and he ministers the gospel wherever he goes all over the world.

We all love Dave very much!

“Again I say to you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven.” Matthew 18:19

 Dave,Cori,Gracie

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Restoration of Rachael’s Park Memorial

Great News!  With the help of Almighty God and a little help from “His” friends Rachael’s Park Memorial has been restored and is ministering the freedom and forgiveness that only Jesus can give even during the renovation.

Praise the Lord! ~ Flip

 

Restoration of Rachael’s Park Memorial

Rachel's Park 1

We are almost done with the complete restoration of Rachel’s Park Memorial. A special thanks to Pastor Dale Sochia, who traveled all the way from New Orleans to do the lion’s share of the work. He had the tools and the know how to help beautify and restore the park. I want to thank Carolyn Knowles, Jeff and Daniel Matthews and Brother Thomas from our church, Grace Church, who helped with the labor. I also want to thank John Pisciotta, Pro-life Waco, Donna Garner, King Jesus Ministries, and Bob Eoff for their financial support to help purchase the materials. 

There was another precious couple who came out to help and the Lord did a miraculous work. I did not know they were post-abortive till they came to one of the features of the park, The Wall of Remembrance. As they looked upon the plaques, the woman began to weep. The husband reached out to comfort his wife as they both broke. I literally felt the Spirit of God fall upon them and backed off till His work was done. As a result, they are contemplating on receiving further ministry from the park.

This special event took place while working on the park. It was another sign from God on how special Rachel’s Park Memorial is and how the Lord uses it for His glory and the benefit of those devastated by the sin and crime of abortion.

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Pastor Dale Sochia and I

 

Most of the crosses are repaired and back in the ground. All the poles surrounding the park are secure. Prayerfully, no more cars will be able to run roughshod over this sacred ground again. To those interested, we raised $675.00 of the $2000.00 needed to purchase the materials to restore the park. We still need $1,325.00 to pay it off.

You can donate online or send your checks to:

Elijah Ministries

P.O. Box 3126

Waco, Texas 76707

Thank you!

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Praise Report for Dave Lackey

Flip just called and said Dave Lackey is getting out of the hospital! PTL! His brain is alright and he has special food to eat. Dave was excited because he got to minister to at least five people in the hospital. He apologized to a doctor that he was upset with. Dave is excited about going home ( we don’t know how excited Denise is! LOL)

His daughter Tara and Denise will be making the prescribed food for him. The whole problem seems to have stemmed from his blood sugar level. Dave was greatly encouraged about how God was using him. He got permission from the doctors that he can drive (look out Birmingham!) We thank you all for praying and we give God all the glory!

“If you can?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.”  Mark 9:23

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Tentative Schedule for States of Refuge Campaign 2013

Tentative Schedule for OSA’s States of Refuge Campaign 2013

(Notice: time and events are subject to change)

1) Jackson, Mississippi: We are inching closer to the first abortion Free State. We may need to go back like the minute men of old to help secure this victory. Be ready to move when the call is proclaimed.

2) National Event, July 14-20, 2013,  Rochester, NY: has been chosen for this year’s national event. Mike Warren and Jerry Crawford need our help to break up some strong demonic strongholds. They are praying that our coming will revive the church and the ministry needed to defeat child sacrifice in their communities.

3) Washington DC national call: When the firstfruits of the States of Refuge campaign comes to pass and the Lord secures the first abortion free state, we will give the call to come to Washington DC at the Lincoln Memorial for the national unveiling of the Emancipation Proclamtion for the Preborn Child. There may also be a meeting at the Capitol to unveil the scroll of signatures reminiscent of William Wilbeforce unveiling the signatures in Parliament calling for the end of slavery.

4) North Dakota and South Dakota, October: We are planning a regional event sometime in the fall that will cover two of the States of Refuge, North Dakota and South Dakota. North Dakota stands on the verge of passing a personhood amendment. A call to rescue may be in order. The two cities that house the death camps, Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Fargo, Noth Dakota are three and a half hours from each other.

5) There may be other opportunites this year, (Wichita, KS) but this covers most of the year. If you have any questions feel free to contact us. God bless you all as we run the race of faith together and trust the Lord to watch over his Word as we proclaim it throughout our nation in Jesus’ name!

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Dave Lackey in Hospital – Please Pray

I just spoke with Dave this morning (8:00 AM. Our time, 7:00 AM. His time) Monday, February 11, 2013.  He is doing well.  The swelling is going down.  He says he feels great and already this morning he has been sharing the Gospel of Christ with everyone God gives him to speak to.  He has made known to all of the nurses that there will be, “No more shots given!”

I was greatly encouraged that the sunshine that is always so brightly manifest in his demented little personality has returned full strength.  Talking to him this morning was an absolute joy. It was like pulling the curtains back and experiencing the sunshine of God’s love flood over both of us as we chatted.

He is hoping to be out of the hospital today, but is not at all sure that this will happen.

Please keep him in your prayers.  We will keep you updated.

In Christian love,

Flip   

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Last Abortion Mill In Mississippi Fails Health Inspection

This just in from Rusty.  It appears that God is working things out at Jackson Women’s Health Organization that this abortion mill, the last free standing abortion mill in the state of Mississippi, may be closed for good.

Pray!

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David Lackey

 Chet, Johnny, Ron Brock, and I, stopped on our way back from Jackson, Mississippi, at a little place named Birmingham, Alabama.  We were there to see our great friend in Jesus – David Lackey.  Dave, for whatever reason (he has a lot of them if anyone cared to listen), believes Alabama is heaven on earth.  We arrived a day after he got out of the car (his) in front of his house and watched it roll down the hill and smash into his neighbor’s garage door.  Awesome.  He actually ran after it, but what would he have done if he caught up with it.

I wonder if his neighbors believe it is heaven on earth to live next to Dave Lackey?  As you all know by now, Dave has been really struggling with this tumor in his brain.  There are no more operations left for him.  He has had four successful operations over the past 12 or 13 years, but the doctors will not do another one.  Too dangerous.

Chet took some pictures of all of us with Dave and then put together his very first “vimeo.” (HERE’s the video)  As you will see, he has done remarkably well presenting our brother Dave for who he really is.  Dave Lackey is a friend of Jesus before he is anything else.  Perhaps this is what makes him such a great friend to each one of us.     ~ Flip

 

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More on Election 2012

Here is a little bit more information that may help you on your way to the polls…

Election 2012 – Some Answers to Difficult Questions

Rev. Flip Benham   October 30, 2012

This is not a new teaching – It is a truth found throughout Scripture.  God will use His enemies to discipline us and bring us to repentance.  He, Himself, will become our enemy to bring us to repentance (Isa 63:10).  LOVE!

To vote for the lesser of two evils is to vote for evil still.  This is absolutely true.  Nothing has changed.  The fact that we are presently under the judgment of God for the shedding of innocent blood, and that we have two people running for president who do not acknowledge the true God of Scripture is plain evidence of this.  We have been found guilty!  The salt has lost its saltiness!  We are being trampled under the feet of men.  So what do we do?  Who do we vote for?

First, we must recall that God is looking for the repentance of His church – not the repentance of the Republican Party.  After all, “…judgment begins in the house of God.” 1 Peter 4:17.

Those who are running in third parties that acknowledge the true God of Scripture; Tom Hoeffling, Virgil Goode, et al., have not done their “due diligence” to plead the case of the fatherless to win it.  They are simply pleading it to plead it.  Every four years the Constitution Party or America’s Party, do the easy thing to just run someone for president without doing the hard work of running and working for those down ballot candidates.  There is no way that they will ever have my vote again.

The Church of Jesus Christ is nowhere near repentance for the shedding of innocent blood in America.  We do not see it as our responsibility.  We have, by and large, left it up to the Republican Party to fight this battle for us.  We just give our vote and expect Republicans to fix it.  In the same way,Israel(the southernkingdomofJudah) was in no way ready to repent of sacrificing her children in the valley of Ben Hinnom, even though she was overcome by Nebuchadnezzar and taken into captivity in Babylon.  God made it very clear through His prophet Jeremiah that the people in captivity were to work for the peace of that pagan nation while they were in it for seventy years.  He was looking for their repentance.  It was going to take awhile.

We need to be working for the peace of our nation.  Our nation is worth saving.  We were once the most powerful, free, and prosperous nation on this planet.  We were, in John Winthrop’s words, “…A shining city set on a hill,” that the whole world might see the glory of Almighty God.  This was and is our mission.  But we have become the world’s sewer – pumping out drugs, porn, sexual slavery, violence, and every imaginable evil.  We are dragging God’s name through the mud, the blood, and the beer, of our own sin, and slaughtering His children along the way.

Spiritually, we find ourselves in a strange land (Babylon).  God’s judgment is upon us.  Our enemies are ruling over us.  But, just as Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were true to their God, they were also called to work for the peace of that pagan nation –Babylon.

Queen Esther and her uncle Mordecai worshipped the One True God, but they also worked for the peace of the pagan nation Babylon.  How could they reconcile working for the “lesser of two evils?”  Why didn’t they rebel and declare the God of the Torah the only true God?  Because God told them to work for the peace of that nation, for if that nation had peace they too would have peace and multiply.  God knew the plans He had for them (Jer 29:11-12), and He, Himself, would bring them back to Jerusalem.  Please read Jeremiah 29-31 again and then put it in context of the entire book (note that the book itself is not in chronological order).

Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, Mordecai, Esther, and Ezra were all true to Almighty God, yet they worked for the peace of a pagan nation and rose (God lifts up one and brings down another) to power in that nation.  How about Joseph in Egypt?  All were a true light into the lives of pagan kings and rulers.  They were not rebels.  They were in the truest sense submitted to Almighty God first, and to pagan kings second.  They were lights in dark nations.  As that nation was blessed, God’s people were blessed and became a nation once again, that the whole world might know that there is another King – One called Jesus!

America’s history can be traced to this.  We are one link in the chain of the westward movement of the Gospel of Christ.  We must have eyes to see (John 5:19-20) what God is doing in our nation.  Remember, we will serve the kingdom we see, and we will become like the god we worship, Jeremiah 2:5.

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