Through the Valley & Beyond Hartong's Testimony

Through the Valley & Beyond by Dana and Val Hartong Dedicated to our children Sue, Beth, Brad, and Jayne who were always there to hold up my arms when I couldnt. The present marriage crisis has been brought about by selfishness and what we call mid-life crisis which is: rebellion against any restraint that keeps you from being what you think you ought to be and think you have a right to be, and rebellion against any responsibility that would interfere with that aim. Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision the people cast off restraints. New Hope For Broken Marriages Dana and Val Hartong 24652 Featherstone Road Sturgis, Michigan 49091 (269) 651-2187 Through The Valley (Jesus Has Everything Under Control) Dec. 10, 1978 - Sep. 20, 1979 DECEMBER 10, 1979 I want a divorce, I dont love you. I didnt love you when I married you. I want out!! My pastor husband and I had been happily married for 30 years when he astonished me with this incredulous statement. The following is a diary of Scripture and Words from Jesus to me during the Valley experience. I called them "Drinks of water." Most of the scripture is taken from the Living or Amplified Bible. January 1, 1979 God gave me Psalms 67:2 "I will send you and Dana around the world with the news of my saving power. This was fulfilled in September of 1985 when we received a letter from the Philippines. They had seen our testimony on "700 Club" and were praising the Lord for our saved marriage. January 6, 1979 Exodus 14:14 "The Lord will fight for you, and you wont need to lift a finger. Isaiah 43:2 "When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown, When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned." February 1979 Danas anguished cry, "I couldnt survive without your love, Lord. Help me, I cant help myself. I am not myself." Psalm 91:14 The Lord answered, "Because he loves me, I will rescue him. I will make him great because he trusts in my name." Psalm 31:7 "I am radiant with joy because of your mercy, for you have listened to my troubles and have seen the crisis in my soul." Job 8:21 "He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy." Gods answer to me when I asked Him, "Will I ever laugh again?" March 1979 March 12 Psalm 94:17, 18 "I would have died unless the Lord had helped me. I screamed, Im slipping, Lord and he was kind and saved me." March 13 Matthew 18:18 "If two of you agree down here on earth concerning anything you ask for, my Father in heaven will do it for you." March 17 Revelation 3:8 "I have opened a door to you that no one can shut." Dana left home with a double-barreled shotgun intending to kill himself. Psalm 71:3b "You have issued the order to save me." April 1979 April 12 Psalm 138:8 "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me." Philippians 1:6 "He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it." April 27 Psalm 91:15 "I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him." May 1979 May 5 Psalm 30:5 "Weeping may go on all night, but in the morning there is joy." Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." (expected end) May 11 II Chronicles 20:15, 17 "For the battle is not yours, but Gods. Stand quietly and see the Incredible Rescue Operation God will perform for you." May 24 I know, that I know, that I know my marriage is healed. Thank you Father, for my husband who loves me so much. June 1979 June 12 Isaiah 43:19 "Behold, I am doing a brand new thing." June 14 Matthew 15:31 "The crowd was amazed when they saw the maimed whole." Danas right arm had been paralyzed for 25 years from a corn-picker accident. I CLAIMED his healing. Three weeks later on July 4, God instantaneously and completely restored perfect feeling in his arm. IT WAS A MIRACLE! Isaiah 57:18 I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway. I will lead them and comfort them, helping them to mourn and confess their sins. July 1979 July 4 At the International Full Gospel Business mens Fellowship meeting in New Orleans, Dana received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the instant healing of his right arm. July 17 Matthew 26:41 Keep alert and pray. II Cor. 4:18 "The troubles will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever." August 1979 Dana asked me to please go and pick up the divorce papers. He said he couldnt stand to hurt me by having them served to me at home. Isaiah 46:10,13 "All I say will come to pass. For I am offering you my deliverance, not in the distant future, but right now." August 22 Prophecy by Harold Harding to Dana. "The past is over and shall never be revealed. You shall be known as the man whom God touched." August 30 Psalm 91:14 "Because he loves me, I will rescue him." September 1979 Isaiah 61:1 (For Dana) "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the suffering and afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the broken-hearted, to announce liberty to captives and to open the eyes of the blind." September 8 "You are my beloved. Dana is my man. Ill never let him go. Just trust me. My ways are not your ways." September 19 Dana was planning to disappear in New England and had stopped in a motel in Ohio. There was a Gideon Bible on the table open to Malachi 2:14-16. "The Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, yet is she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant. For the Lord God says,I hate divorce." Dana was furious and threw the Bible at the table, jumped in bed and wished he were dead. September 20 Dana came home completely turned around. I had my loving husband who loved me so much back. I couldnt stand the suspense and I asked the Lord to please tell me what had happened to Dana. I can still tell you the place I was standing when the Lord answered me, "Look in Job 33:14." I argued, "but God, Why would I look in Job? Thats about boils." God answered, "Look there because I told you to." To my amazement these are the words I read: "For God speaks again and again in dreams, in visions of the night when deep sleep falls on men as they lie on their beds. He opens their ears in times like that and gives them wisdom and instruction causing them to change their minds and keeping them from pride and warning them of the penalties of sin, and keeping them from falling into some trap . . . Yes, God often does these things for man . . .brings back his soul from the pit, so that he may live in the light of the living." Job 33:14-30. VALS PRAYERS I PRAISE AND THANK YOU FATHER That: My husband loves me so much. That: My marriage is healed. That: You are not in the marriage-breaking-up-business. That: I have a supernatural love for Dana. That: You are perfecting that which concerneth me. That: You do not owe me an explanation for what happens in my life. That: I desire to desire your desires in my life. That: I can give thanks in everything for this is the will of Christ Jesus concerning me. That: All true joy is born of sorrow. That: Youll never make a mistake in my life. That: Everything that happens to me has to come through your hands first. That: I can pray a hedge of thorns around my mate. That: It is your will to heal my marriage, because according to Malachi 2:16, you hate divorce. That: I am adapting myself to my mate and doing it willingly. That: Divorce is no option for a believer because divorce is a form of unforgiveness. That: I dont have to be right. I cant afford the luxury of strife and self-pity. That: Those who have faith you will perform. (prophecy on our list of marriages.) That: We are not to be our own tormentors. That: Your promise given is kept. That: That which you have begun you will finish. That: Since you are directing our paths, why do we wonder what happens along the way. That: Our enemy is not flesh and blood. That: You gave me beauty for ashes. That: When your Holy Spirit convicts, He brings repentance. When we condemn, we bring rebellion. That: Your Spirit stands and abides in the midst of me. That: According to Ephesians 5:33 (amplified), I will respect and reverence my husband. I will notice him, regard him, honor him, prefer him, venerate and esteem him, defer to him, praise him, and love and admire him exceedingly. That: JESUS HAS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL! Standing (Is there anything too hard for the Lord?) Is there anything too hard for the Lord? Jeremiah 32:27 I _____ take thee _____ to be my wedded (wife) (husband) to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to Gods Holy Ordinance. Worse can be the pit of hell, poorer can be desperation, sickness can be devastating, but this is the vow you made to your mate, before God until death separates. What God hath joined together let no man (including a judge) put asunder. AS GODS WORD SAYS: Genesis 2:24 "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." Malachi 2:16 "I HATE DIVORCE" SAYS THE LORD GOD. MARRIAGE IS A COVENANT Malachi 2:14 "The Lord has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, yet is she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant." Proverbs 2:17 "The wayward wife has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God." You cant break a covenant, you violate a covenant. In the same way, you cant break the law, you can only violate it. Hosea 4:11 "Wine, women, and song make a man lose his brains." First comes dissatisfaction, then deception, finally total delusion. A loving family mans (or womans) values and morals sometimes become what he formerly abhorred. Romans 6:16 The one to whom you offer yourself - he will take you and be your master, and you will be his slave." When you yield to lust (I MUST have it NOW), you are a prisoner of war. You will be in Satans "P.O.W." Camp. You cannot of yourself break the bondage. You are set free through intercessory prayer. 2 Corinthians 4:4 "Satan who is the god of this evil world has made him blind." Ephesians 1:18 "I pray that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened." Isaiah 44:20 "He feeds on ashes. A deluded heart misleads him. He cannot save himself or say, Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?" Job 5:8 "But if I were you, I would appeal to God. I would lay my cause before Him. HE performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. AS GODS WORD SAYS: I John 5:14,15 "And this is the confidence, the assurance, the privilege of boldness, which we have in Him. WE ARE SURE that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. And if since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know (with settled and absolute knowledge) that we have granted us as our present possession, the requests made of Him." II Corinthians 2:14 "Thanks be unto God who ALWAYS causes us to triumph in Christ Jesus." Romans 8:28 "And we KNOW that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." So, since we know that God hates divorce, it is His will for marriages to be healed and we can stand in confidence for a healed marriage. Romans 4:17,18 "This promise is from God Himself . . . who speaks of future events with as much certainty as though they were already past. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed." Norman Williams tells the story of being in a burning airplane in the Canary Islands. Every person around him was dead and on fire. He walked up the aisle of the burning plane, held his arms up, praised the Lord and said, "I will NOT believe my circumstances. I WILL believe Gods Word in Isaiah 43:2 that says, "When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flames kindle upon thee." Norman looked up, saw a hole in the ceiling of the plane, climbed up and out (he hasnt the slightest idea how) and jumped off the wing just seconds before the plane exploded. Just like the men in the fiery furnace in the Bible, there was not even the smell of smoke on his clothes. Norman would have died if he had believed his circumstances instead of Gods Word. AS GODS WORD SAYS: I Peter 3:1 "Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands, so that, if any do not believe, they may be won over without talk by the behavior of their wives." Obedience is the secret key to enable God to work on our behalf. Psalm 34:17 "The righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them our of all their troubles." Revelation 12:11 "Satan is defeated by the blood of Jesus and the Word of my testimony." I testify that the blood of Jesus is being applied in my marriage to any root of bitterness, any spirit of deception, and delusion, and to any spirit of lust. I submit myself to God for Him to make me into the person He planned for me to be, and into the person my mate needs and desires. I ask that my mate be made into the person God planned for them to be and into the mate I need and desire. In Acts 7:60 Steven says, "Lay not this sin to his charge." In Luke 23:34 Jesus says, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. Matthew 6:15 tells us that if we do not forgive men (including your mate) their trespasses, neither will your Father in Heaven forgive you your trespasses.) AWESOME! I intercede for my mate: "Father lay not this sin to their charge. I forgive them. Loose your mercy toward them. I intercede and stand in the gap for them. Send your Holy Spirit and draw them to Jesus. Forgive them, loose them from Satans bonds. Cause their sins to be covered. Set them free. AND "I will extol the Lord at all times. His Praise shall continually be on my lips." Psalms 34:1 Jeremiah 23:29 says, "Is not My Word like fire? declares the Lord, "And like a hammer which shatters a rock?" Jimmie Ruth Matthews prayed the Word over Lorne during the years he was living with another woman. When they had reconciled, he asked the Lord, "Why didnt you kill me when I was in adultery?" The Lord answered him, "Because you were sanctified by your wife." I Corinthians 7:14 PRAYERS (God will keep His Word) II Chronicles 20:15 Thank you, Father, that the battle is not mine, but yours. "For we walk by faith, not by sight." II Corinthians 5:7 Thank you Lord for Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." Psalm 138:8 Thank you Jesus that "Youre perfecting that which concerns me." Forgive me Father, when I, me, my, mine is more important than preferring my mate. Thank you that according to Job 33:14, you can change a persons mind while they sleep and bring back his soul from the pit. Praise you Father, that by your stripes I was healed. I Peter 2:24. I believe that included a healed marriage. Thank you Father, that "I wrestle not against flesh and blood" Ephesians 6:12. Another person in my mates life is not the problem. Their rebellion against God is the problem, and I ask you, Holy Spirit, to woo them and draw them to Jesus. I thank you Lord, that this season of sin my mate is in is no longer pleasurable to him. Thank you Father, but I really have no other option than to stand for my marriage. Ephesians 6:13 "Having done all to stand, STAND." Father, show me if I have done all. If I have, I will stand, never giving up, and watch Gods Word work. Thank you Father, that there is NO marriage too hard for you to heal when I stand on Gods Word! WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW? What is happening in our land where over half our marriages are being aborted? In fact, we had a seminar in a small town in Indiana where the divorce rate was 83 percent. Satan is seeking whom he may devour and he has covered our land with spirits of dissatisfaction, deception, delusion, adultery, enticement, and bewitchment. All of these are contagious. Hosea 4:12 says, "A spirit of prostitution leads them astray." It is hard to comprehend, but truth is "THE DECEIVED ARE DECEIVED." Pornography, through TV, magazines, and movies has become an acceptable way of life. It is a major contributing factor in most of our broken marriages. What you feed grows, and our nation is feeding on lust - lust for things and lust for sexual immorality. We have been tricked by Satan into a fast-food mentality that says: "I want it now, I cant wait. Nothing lasts, its time for a change." And we consider husbands, wives, children, and unborn babies all disposable. Psalm 12:8 says, "The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. Malachi 2:17 says, "We have wearied the Lord by saying all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord and He is pleased with them." Isaiah 3:9 says, "They parade their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to them." With eyes full of adultery, they cannot stop sinning." (II Peter 2:14) "The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will they do when the end comes?" (Jeremiah 5:31) Mark 10:11,12 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery." Luke 16:18 says, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery." We are concerned for the body of Christ and especially for Pastors who are approving of divorce and remarriage. Our Valley experience started when Dana began marrying divorced couples. We are not against divorced people. God loves them and we love them. But God says in Proverbs 28:13 that "He who confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall have mercy." "BLESSED IS THE MAN (WOMAN) WHO DOES NOT CONDEMN HIMSELF (HERSELF) BY WHAT HE (SHE) APPROVES." Romans 14:22 II Peter says in 2:19 that a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. They cannot stop sinning. Addiction is the total inability to tell oneself the truth. Your mate is acting perfectly natural for someone controlled by the great deceiver and father of lies. You cant really believe anything he or she tells you. Isaiah 44:20 "A deluded heart misleads him." Their mind has gone tilt. SIN IS INSANE! Your mate cannot of himself come to the Lord, so you must intercede for his soul. The first prayer you pray is, "Lord, change me." Smith Wigglesworth said, "The only thing Im satisfied with is my dissatisfaction with me." Some of you have husbands who have completely left homes and family with no provisions. I Timothy 5:8 says that they are worse than an infidel, or unbeliever. An unbeliever can be wooed by the Holy Spirit, but a person worse off would be impossible to reach except for intercessory prayer. In Malachi 2:13-16, God comes down with a hammer on those who divorce their wives. God tells them that he no longer accepts their tithes and offerings in verse 13. He tells them that they have dealt treacherously and she is STILL their wife by covenant in verse 14. God says not one who has done so has a remnant of the Spirit in verse 15. And in verse 16, He really lays it on. He says, I HATE divorce and I HATE him who covers his garment with wrong. (NASB) We in the church would not encourage a car thief to keep the car he stole when he confesses his sin, why do we encourage a person to keep his stolen wife or husband? Jesus says in Luke 16:18, "Every man who divorces his wife and marries another woman is living with a woman who isnt his wife. And every man who marries a divorced woman is living with someone elses wife." (Anderson Bible). You can change the gender and it applies to the woman who divorces her husband. Jesus couldnt get much plainer than that. This is where intercession comes in. To intercede, we must die to self. When we are rejected, hurt, ignored, used, misunderstood, cast aside like day-old bread, we are being conformed to the image of Christ. Like Christ, we wont defend ourselves, but we submit ourselves to God. I said to the Lord once, "Im sick of being used." He instantly answered back, "Are you any better than I was?" To intercede, we must forgive because Matthew 6:15 says if we dont forgive, we have no forgiveness. Job 22:30 says, "Though he is not innocent, hell be saved through the cleanness of YOUR hands." Pray Psalm 51:10, "Create in me a clean heart, Oh Lord, and renew a right spirit within me." To intercede, we must believe God will do what He says Hell do. Romans 4:18 says, "Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed." He did not vacillate because a double-minded person receives nothing from the Lord. James 1:7-8. To intercede, we must release our mate to God and trust His Word. An intercessor had a vision of Dana completely encased in an inch-thick fishnet rope. But, an angel was hovering over him with a sword waiting on orders to cut him out. When Val cried out finally, "God, I give up! Do it your way," God cut him out in the middle of the night while he was asleep according to His Word in Job 33:14. God had told me to "Stand back, get out of my way, and watch the incredible rescue operation I will do." II Chronicles 20:17. We have been called into a ministry of standing for broken marriages. Our job is to hold arms up when they get weary and to give hope to those who have lost hope. We are not swayed by circumstances, but have complete confidence in Gods integrity to do what He promises to do. I am FULLY PERSUADED that what God has promised He is able (has the power) to perform. Romans 4:21. God hates divorce and is NOT in the marriage-breaking-up-business. He is in the marriage-healing business. We praise Him that He healed ours. PRAYERS I AM COMMITTED TO PRAISING GOD Thank you that I can give thanks in EVERYTHING for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning me. I Thess. 5:18 Praise you, Jesus, that I am a prisoner of hope, Zechariah 9:12, not a prisoner of my circumstances. Thank you that Gods Word says in Song of Solomon 8:6 that love is as strong as death. Nothing but death will break the marriage covenant I made with my mate. Praise you that since I know my marriage is healed, I will disregard the symptoms and walk beyond my sight. Because I do choose my own emotions, I praise you, Father, that I choose hope, not hopelessness, I choose Victory, not defeat. I choose life and not death. I choose love, not fear, joy, not despair. Holy Spirit, I thank you that from glory to glory youre changing me. II Corinthians 3:18 Father, I ask you to place a wall of fire around my mate and place the glory within. Zechariah 2:5 Thank you! Thank you, Jesus that you are building your resources in me to be able to receive your blessings. Thank you that whatever finances you send to me, it is enough!!! Thank you that with your help, I wont say it, Ill pray it. Praise you, Jesus, that my mate HEARS you, and according to Psalm 83:16 I pray you will "Cover their face with shame, so that they will seek your name." Thank you that I KNOW that someday I will praise your Name that you allowed me to go through this. Father, line me up with Your Word. I plead the blood of Jesus that cleanses from all sin, sorrow, and sickness, on my entire household. I know that deception is the fruit of leaning on my own understanding, so Praise and Thank you Lord, I can stand on Proverbs 3:5-6. Since the Lord is directing our paths, why do we wonder what happens along the way? Habakkuk 2:3 says "That the revelation awaits an appointed time." Thank you, Jesus, that you are never late. Genesis 50:20 tells us that the things that are meant for our harm, God always turns around for our good. I thank you, Father, that you shape every circumstance for my good according to Romans 8:28. BEYOND THE VALLEY It has been several years since our Valley experience. However, I will NEVER forget the feeling that the earth had just dropped out from under me, and I was falling through space the day Dana asked me for a divorce. I remember telling my legs to walk because I literally couldnt walk. My daughters continual declaration of "In EVERYTHING give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" (I Thess. 5:18) made me angry, but not as angry as her statement, "Mother, SOMEDAY you will praise God He allowed you to go through this. You will need this for the ministry God has ahead of you." And she was right, but you dont enjoy hearing it when you are hurting. Now the SOMEDAY has come and we are "Beyond." We do praise God with all our heart for allowing, giving us the privilege, and trusting us to go through the valley and come out on the other side. Now it is our privilege and joy to walk others through this valley, holding up their arms when they get tired and to bring them out victorious on the other side. Then to see those who now have healed marriages walking others through the valley makes our cup of joy run over. We are often asked, "Is your marriage better now than it was before this happened?" We can truly answer, YES! We are now "One Flesh" in body and in spirit. But it didnt happen overnight. After Dana was turned around in the middle of the night according to Job 33:14, even several years later, fear would stab my heart if he was late coming home. Forgiveness comes instantly, trust takes time. A good rule of thumb is that it usually takes at least 5 years for trust to be rebuilt. Now just because you reconcile, doesnt mean your points of conflict disappear. What bothered you before in your mate, bothers you now. What changes is your reaction to conflict. As Dana says, "We have the same problems we had before the Valley, we just handle them differently." We have both decided we dont HAVE to be right. If you are right, it will eventually come out and you will wish you had kept quiet. We raised our children on this saying, "He who defends his honor soon has no honor to defend." We have both matured. In fact, Dana made the statement, "I was fifty years old before I grew up. Being mature means being more concerned for others than you are for yourself. God led us to put out this booklet "Through the Valley and Beyond." God put an anointing on it and it has blessed thousands of people. As we worked with couples and their marriages were healed, we put out brochures and told their story. We have nine brochures out now. We estimate we have printed over 15,000 of them. We made several tapes and have given away thousands of them. In 1994, we wrote a book, New Hope for Broken Marriages. The most important thing about our book is that the Holy Spirit anointed it. It has been a blessing to many, many people. We have a telephone ministry to standers all over the United States and in several foreign countries. We just stand back amazed at what God has done with our lives. What thrills us the most is when someone calls and tells us the material in our book and brochures helped heal their or somebody elses marriage. Yes, we have seen many, many marriages healed. Some of them have seemed impossible, but the secret is knowing that God who promised to do it, WILL DO IT! I like the little saying a friend sent me: GOOD MORNING! THIS IS GOD! I WILL BE HANDLING ALL YOUR PROBLEMS TODAY, I WILL NOT NEED YOUR HELP. SO HAVE A GOOD DAY! I Thess. 5:24 says, "Faithful is He that calleth you, who also WILL DO IT." When that becomes Rhema Word to you, you just wait for God to perform His Word. Without wavering, doubting, fearing, complaining, murmuring, you believe what you know, not what you see. James 1 tells us that a double-minded man receives nothing from the Lord. Our brochures and book tell stories of men and women who divorced their mates and then remarried them. There are stories where the mate married someone else, even had children by someone else, and then divorced to remarry their covenant wife. Whatever happens, Never, Never, Never Give Up!!! Now you work out the salvation of your home and family with fear and trembling, long suffering, forbearing one another, caring, forgiving, loving unconditionally, preferring one another, with all the fruits of the spirit working through you to heal and make whole your reconciled marriage. BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD, AND WHOSE HOPE THE LORD IS. JEREMIAH 17:7 AND HOPE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT US. ROMANS 5:5 VALS PROMISES Prov. 11:21 The seed of the righteous SHALL be delivered. And I can be VERY sure that God will rescue the children of the Godly. Matt. 17:17 Jesus says "Bring ______ here to me." Psalm 45:19 HE fulfills the desires of those who reverence and trust HIM. He hears their cries for help and rescues ________. Jer. 33:3 Call on me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you dont know of. Matt. 7:7 Ask, and it SHALL be given you, seek and ye SHALL find, knock and it SHALL be opened unto you. Matt. 18:19 Again I say unto you, that if two of you (Dana and Val) _____&_____ shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven. Matt. 21:22 And ALL things whatever you ask in prayer (_____) believing, you WILL receive. Mark 9:23 EVERYTHING (_____) is possible to him who believes. Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you SHALL have them. John 15:7 IF you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it SHALL be done unto you. John 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name. Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. Rom. 4:17-18 Abraham calleth those things which be not as though they were, (verse 21) and being FULLY PERSUADED that, what HE had promised He was also able to perform. 1 Jn 5:14,15 If you ask Anything according to MY Will and I hear you, and you KNOW that I hear you, you have your petition as your present possession. REJOICE EVERMORE! PRAY WITHOUT CEASING! IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS CONCERNING YOU. 1 Thes. 5:16,17,18\