Almost everyday Melvine receives an inspiring, Scriptural, faith-building handwritten card in the mail from her first cousin, Mary Anne Shropshire Weeks. Melvine's mother, Frances Shropshire Stewart and Mary Anne's father, Wesley Shropshire, were sister and brother or brother and sister.
The roots of spiritual formation run deep in Mary Anne's family. Her husband, Everette Weeks, has a similar Pentecostal Holiness background. Mary Anne is a student of the Bible, of prayer, fasting, and a strong belief in what God has accomplished through Jesus Christ for our eternal benefit.
Here is what Mary Anne sent on Monday, October 28, 2019:
Say What God Says
I am saved/redeemed!
I am healed!
I am delivered!
All my needs are met!
I have a sound mind!
I am loved by Jesus
and Everette and Mary Anne 10/24/19
We know that the Bible teaches very clearly about the power of the tongue.
Here is the Scripture verse:
Proverbs 18:21
21 The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
NIV
Melvine and I have changed our thoughts and our speech and are beginning to eat its fruit. Instead of thinking in terms of only 5 months for Melvine to live according to her oncologist, Dr. Jane Huang, we are believing the report of the Lord in His Word; and that alone has made a significant difference in Melvine't turnaround in her wellbeing. That is the fruit we are now reaping by speaking life.
Although we appreciate what St. Mary's Hospice Home Care is doing to help Melvine we are keenly aware that God is doing something inside Melvine's body to remove the cancer in her body.
Melvine and I laughed together as we talked about funny things that have happened in our family over the years.
Melvine rapidly adjusted to my parents who were well up in years when we married. And my father and mother loved Melvine in turn. I had no problem of relating to Melvine's mother and father. In fact, they were like second parents, and the things I had hoped to do with my parents God made it up in our family vacations when we went to the coast of North Carolina. They called it the coast and not the beach. I guess that terminology came out of our holiness background and that is not bad. I believe in holiness, and I want my speech to be holy. Fishing, picnics, shopping, seeing outdoor dramas like the "Lost Colony," homecomings, family reunions, etc. I took Melvine's father to see Georgia play football at the University of Kentucky when I was student at Asbury Theological Seminary (Fran Tarkenton was the quarterback for Georgia that night and they won), and to see Alabama play the University of Houston when I was in graduate school in Clinical Education at the Texas Medical Center at the Institute of Religion and Human Development with my clinical ministry at Hermann Hospital, a teaching hospital for the University of Texas Medical School. Melvine's dad and I saw Rice University play Texas the same night in Houston and of course, Texas won that game. Greg and Stephanie were blessed to have known their grandparents and love them.
Mary Anne and Everette Weeks and their children joined us when we rented a large house for a week at Nags Head or Atlantic Beach for our large family. Loving God and family are so vital to having a healthy family. And that is what God did for us in Melvine's family.
My sister, Mary Evelyn Morgan McDuff and her husband, R. H. McDuff had timeshares at the former PTL. We went on occasion to spend a few days with them. How enjoyable and relaxing that was when PTL was going strong. We should have done more of it. I gave 100% to my church, Tarkenton Memorial Church in Athens. I was doing it for the Lord and I felt that my presence for ministry to God's people was important.
We are blessed by your cards and notes. Today, we got a lovely card from a couple we knew before they married and had children but traveled with us to Hong Kong and Beijing, China in 2015 for the 5th IPHC Global Assembly. We knew their parents when we lived in Oklahoma City for a couple of years and worshiped at Muse Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church, across the street from the old campus of Southwestern College (aka Southwestern Christian University).
Thank you for your many prayers for us. Those prayers are continually being heard in heaven as they are bottled up in golden vessels that provide an offering of incense before the throne of God. That alone is a great incentive to pray.
You may write us at:
Hugh & Melvine Morgan
17 Sweet Apple Lane
Winder, GA 30680
Or you may send me an email at: hugh@hughsnews.com
The roots of spiritual formation run deep in Mary Anne's family. Her husband, Everette Weeks, has a similar Pentecostal Holiness background. Mary Anne is a student of the Bible, of prayer, fasting, and a strong belief in what God has accomplished through Jesus Christ for our eternal benefit.
Here is what Mary Anne sent on Monday, October 28, 2019:
Say What God Says
I am saved/redeemed!
I am healed!
I am delivered!
All my needs are met!
I have a sound mind!
I am loved by Jesus
and Everette and Mary Anne 10/24/19
We know that the Bible teaches very clearly about the power of the tongue.
Here is the Scripture verse:
Proverbs 18:21
21 The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
NIV
Melvine and I have changed our thoughts and our speech and are beginning to eat its fruit. Instead of thinking in terms of only 5 months for Melvine to live according to her oncologist, Dr. Jane Huang, we are believing the report of the Lord in His Word; and that alone has made a significant difference in Melvine't turnaround in her wellbeing. That is the fruit we are now reaping by speaking life.
Although we appreciate what St. Mary's Hospice Home Care is doing to help Melvine we are keenly aware that God is doing something inside Melvine's body to remove the cancer in her body.
Melvine and I laughed together as we talked about funny things that have happened in our family over the years.
Melvine rapidly adjusted to my parents who were well up in years when we married. And my father and mother loved Melvine in turn. I had no problem of relating to Melvine's mother and father. In fact, they were like second parents, and the things I had hoped to do with my parents God made it up in our family vacations when we went to the coast of North Carolina. They called it the coast and not the beach. I guess that terminology came out of our holiness background and that is not bad. I believe in holiness, and I want my speech to be holy. Fishing, picnics, shopping, seeing outdoor dramas like the "Lost Colony," homecomings, family reunions, etc. I took Melvine's father to see Georgia play football at the University of Kentucky when I was student at Asbury Theological Seminary (Fran Tarkenton was the quarterback for Georgia that night and they won), and to see Alabama play the University of Houston when I was in graduate school in Clinical Education at the Texas Medical Center at the Institute of Religion and Human Development with my clinical ministry at Hermann Hospital, a teaching hospital for the University of Texas Medical School. Melvine's dad and I saw Rice University play Texas the same night in Houston and of course, Texas won that game. Greg and Stephanie were blessed to have known their grandparents and love them.
Mary Anne and Everette Weeks and their children joined us when we rented a large house for a week at Nags Head or Atlantic Beach for our large family. Loving God and family are so vital to having a healthy family. And that is what God did for us in Melvine's family.
My sister, Mary Evelyn Morgan McDuff and her husband, R. H. McDuff had timeshares at the former PTL. We went on occasion to spend a few days with them. How enjoyable and relaxing that was when PTL was going strong. We should have done more of it. I gave 100% to my church, Tarkenton Memorial Church in Athens. I was doing it for the Lord and I felt that my presence for ministry to God's people was important.
We are blessed by your cards and notes. Today, we got a lovely card from a couple we knew before they married and had children but traveled with us to Hong Kong and Beijing, China in 2015 for the 5th IPHC Global Assembly. We knew their parents when we lived in Oklahoma City for a couple of years and worshiped at Muse Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church, across the street from the old campus of Southwestern College (aka Southwestern Christian University).
Thank you for your many prayers for us. Those prayers are continually being heard in heaven as they are bottled up in golden vessels that provide an offering of incense before the throne of God. That alone is a great incentive to pray.
You may write us at:
Hugh & Melvine Morgan
17 Sweet Apple Lane
Winder, GA 30680
Or you may send me an email at: hugh@hughsnews.com