THIS TOO WILL PASS

Good morning Leaders and Prayer Warriors,

As I think of your responsibility and call to serve Gods people. Know that I am ever praying for you and your success. May God give you wisdom and tact to work with all men and meet the prejudice minds with the true spirit of unity, peace, and love. We are all keeping up and are ever thankful to God for His care and love to us. On Friday July 24, 2015 we spent eleven hours at the hospital. Kevina had come down with pain to the back of her eye, with a bad headache.

So the doctor asked to bring her into the hospital. After seeing her he ordered a M.R.I. to see what was causing this discomforted for four days. Kevina had also been suffering with bumps on her legs which were causing her some pain. When the doctor looked at them he said they are shingles. We did not worry ourselves as we set waiting in the observation ward with Kevina. The only thing that kept coming to our mind was, "trust Jesus with even this!"

When the M.R.I. test came back around 9:00 pm, it showed no change to Kevina's cancer growth which is now half its size. As they did some final reviews, they came back and said she is free to go home. We got back to the apartment around 10:00 pm that night. With so many things happening at once, all we could say is "This too will pass."

Truly God has put real fight in Kevina that even the people at the hospital are now saying the Lord is with your family. One of the greatest lessons to learn is total trust in God. To wait patiently is not in the behavior of most of us, but God longs for people, including leaders to be patient. It is said of those who are standing in the forefront of the conflict. “They are impelled by the Holy Spirit to do a special work, will frequently feel a reaction when the pressure is removed.

Despondency may shake the most heroic faith, and weaken the most steadfast will. But God understands, and He still pities and loves. He reads the motives and the purposes of the heart. To wait patiently, to trust when everything looks dark, is the lesson that the leaders in God’s work need to learn. Heaven will not fail them in their day of adversity. Nothing is apparently more helpless, yet really more invincible, than the soul that feels its nothingness, and relies wholly on God.” Prophets and Kings P. 174-175

What struggle are you having in your life today? It is time for you to know that THIS TOO WILL PASS to glory God. Take a moment right now and thank God for all He has done and continues to do in your life.

Today I am asking if you can take out a minute to pray for someone who is sick.

May God bless you and your family with good health always

Chaplain Kevin Santucci

Bermuda 

Song of the Day: "This Too, Will Pass" by Pastor James Cleveland and Charles Fold

Praise The Lord in Your Storm

Greetings Colleagues, Leaders, and Prayer Warriors, 

Today I want to thank God for all of you and your families. Through your payers we have seen the hand of God over us. Through your words of encouragement our hope is renewed day by day. Through our storm, God has made it an opportunity for the pine and the cypress of our life to show their strength and their stability. Through it all, our faith has been made strong and we are praying that your faith is getting stronger as you stand on the sideline watching the power of God in our trials. I encourage you to don’t stop the work of which the Lord has given you to do. Be faithful.

An update on Kevina and Chaplain Santucci’s health;

Kevina is improving but still needs your prayers. As for myself, my pain is easing off and the swelling is going down in my eye and face.  Tomorrow will be a full day for all of us as Kevina has two appointments and I have three. One of my appointments will be with a dentist to get my smile back. If I didn't tell you already, I had a tooth that was compromised in the accident. Thank God the hospital made a call to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and they are willing to work on me to correct this. They will start that work at 11:00 am tomorrow morning July 16, 2015.

Let us keep Jonathan in prayer that God will make Him and all our young adults a blessing to wherever He sends them. Karon sends her love to all and let’s keep her in prayer. We glorify God in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. ROMANS 5:3-5

Today you may be going through a storm or know of someone that is going through a storm. My words to you and them are, Hold on! “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Haruki Murakami

In the words of Willa Cather, “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” Though it all the greatest lesson we have learn is LOVE in this world of self and sin. Praise God He will allow our storms to come our way to work out His plan and purpose for true success and kingdom building in our lives and the lives of others. “If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.” Mahatma Gandhi

Truly God knows how to still put a smile on our face through it all. With nothing more but Jesus to hold on to, I can say like Job, “The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. JOB 1:21

We love all of you.

Chaplain Kevin Santucci and Family 

Bermuda

A prayer song: Praise Ye the Lord The Almighty

 

The Right Perspective!

Today I want to thank all of you for your continual prayers for my family. Many of you have been informed of the many trials of which God has allowed us to go through.

An update report on Kevina:

 Today Kevina has been given the opportunity to strengthen her different muscle structure at the Department of Physical Therapy - M.G.H Institute of Health. Daily she is making great progress, in getting up early and doing the things that have been assigned for her to do. “God be Praise!”

An update report on Chaplain Kevin recovery:

On Tuesday June 30, 2015 I had two follow up visits with the doctors who operated on me. Each doctor stated that they are please with my healing of my face and the bone in and around the eye but there is still swelling present. They said that I was broken up quite a bit and they had to put in a number of titanium plates to mend the left side of my face and eye bones together. They want me to rest for another week and not do anything strenuous, and should eat soft foods for another month. I have one more follow up with both doctors on the July 16 and they say I should be fit to fly back home on July 19th. But I may have to take a few days of rest. Through it all. All I can say is, "What a mighty God we serve!"

Lastly, I took some time to pray for you all this morning. May the Glory of God fill your life both now and forevermore.

You can pass this praise report on, and don’t stop praying for those in need. 

On Wednesday after my operation, at 6:00 pm in the evening, as I lay on the bed on my back, God gave me a message to share.

The Message:

When you pass through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when you walk through the fire, you shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: Isaiah 43:2-3

In our text today, we see the refining, and purifying process to be carried on by the Lord of hosts in our lives. The work of trials is most trying to the soul, but it is only through this process that the rubbish and defiling impurities can be removed from us all. Our trials are all necessary to bring us closer to our heavenly Father, in obedience to His will, that we may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. God has given each of us capabilities, and talents to improve. We need a new living experience in the divine life, in order to do the will of God. No amount of past experience will suffice for the present, or will strengthen us to overcome the difficulties in our path. We must have new grace and fresh strength daily in order to be victorious. . . .

The Lord brings His children over the same ground again and again, increasing the pressure until perfect humility fills the mind, and the character is transformed; then they are victorious over self, and in harmony with Christ and the Spirit of heaven. The purification of God's people cannot be accomplished without suffering; But why has God chosen this method of transformation to bring about victory in His people over self and sin?

Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Daniel, and many others, were all sorely tried, but not in the same way. Every one of us have our own individual tests and trials in the drama of life, but the very same trial seldom comes twice. Each has his own experience, peculiar in its character and circumstances, to accomplish a certain work. God has a work, a purpose, in the life of each of us. Every act, however small, has its place. . .

Yes, Isaiah was right; God permits the fire of affliction to assail us, so that we may be purified. Malachi reminds us that, “He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.” Mal. 3: 3. The trials of life are God's workmen to remove the impurities, infirmities, and roughness from our characters, and fit us for the society of the pure. Note, our fires will not consume us, but only remove the dross from us, and we shall come forth seven times purified, bearing the impression of the Divine.

If you are going through a trial or have a family member or friend going through a deep trial today, be encouraged and be a comfort to one another. The temptations of Satan are greater now than ever before, for he knows that his time is short and that very soon every case will be decided, either for life or for death. It is no time now to sink down beneath discouragement and trial; we must bear up under all our afflictions and trust wholly in the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Lord has shown me that His grace is sufficient for all our trials; and although they are greater than ever before, yet if we trust wholly in Him, we can overcome every temptation and through His grace come off victorious.

 Lastly, the path of the just is a progressive one, from strength to strength, from grace to grace, and from glory to glory. The divine illumination will increase more and more, corresponding with our onward movements, qualifying us to meet the responsibilities and emergencies before us until we are home with the saints and Jesus, in Heaven.

Continue to pray for our speedy healing and recovery, that we may get back to the work of helping mankind
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From my family to you and yours, we love you.

Chaplain Kevin Santucci

Bermuda

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