SONSHINE: Kratos, a brother with a great need

Joian and I were crushed when we received an E-mail tonight from an old forum friend, John McManus, better known by his forum username "Kratos." Many of our readers have traded thoughts and messages with John over the years, so we post His mail message here, knowing the faithful will be in prayer for this good brother and his family in this most trying time.

If you care to comment with a prayer or give John a word of encouragement, please do so and we will forward them on to him. As I read through John's message for at least the sixth time, I felt something. John's words used in his personal prognosis ie. "miracle or death" stirred deep in my spirit, that this saint of God and dear brother is helpless. John is helpless knowing only that God is able. Our brother is ripe for a miracle and that is my great hope. God is as able as He is loving and we trust His peace and healing for John and his family.
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Joian and I have sent to John our encouragement and that which the Lord laid on our hearts. More importantly both of us shall be in prayer.
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Jack and Joian,

I have been MIA on the forums for about 6 months. I think and feel led to contact you both with a report on my life to see if either has anything from the Lord for me. I have seldom reached out this way, but am trying hard to be led in the midst of a very dark hour so forgive me if this turns out to be just me.

As late as this April, I had been serving the Lord for almost 25 years and have only experienced one "dark night o the soul" when I lost my ministry and was cut down per Daniel 4 as a Babylonian King and started on the road to Sonship leaving the ministry behind about 15 years ago.

During these years, I always held to the "truth" that only good things come from God and all sickness and tribulation in the flesh come from the devil. Yes, the Father chastises those sons whom He receives so they can be partakers of His holiness, but this chastisement is always in the soul as in Gethsemane as we suffer the loss of our soul in favor of His will over ours.

Anyway, I have asked God to do all to me necessary to transform me into one of His manifested Sons so I could help to set at liberty the creation as per Romans 8 in the age to come. In April, I started to have symptoms of my liver failing and my skin and eyes turning yellow with jaundice. Not being a believer in 'Babylonian doctors', I suffered for 6 weeks as I got more and more yellow and more and more toxic until my wife finally rushed me to the emergency room where the doctors barely saved my life through emergency surgery.

To close, it turns out that I have a cancerous tumor blocking my bile duct and causing a back up of very septic bile fluid. Drain tubes were put in the drain this fluid to remove infection so they could operate and remove the tumor. A few weeks later they went in and found the cancer was spread to my liver and abdomen and is inoperable. A week later it was diagnosed that I also have lung cancer. Bottom line is I have been sent home to die as the doctors have nothing left to do. If I do not receive a miracle in a few weeks, I guess I will be dead.

I do not fear death, but will be leaving behind a wife and children who depend upon me greatly for their provision as well as my part as a husband and father. Please pray and speak as an oracle of God if you have anything.

John

Joian Ruth Schroff

God is good. And Joian, more than any of us, knows this. Our sister, and my best friend, rests in the Father's bosom, today. Dear Joian's sojourn, on earth, ended early last winter, after a period of illness.

Together, Joian and myself began "SONSHINE" in "07". Last June, we took our rest from the blog.

Great battles, were waged this last year, by both Joian and myself. One was taken and one was left. Neither, the taking, nor the leaving, lacks in His perfect providence, afforded each. I can't explain, nor fully understand, how each can be perfect. Never the less, I do know, Joian understands it perfectly.

Today, Joian, more than any, knows God is good.

Jack

PS. Thoughts of your joyful rest relieve my tears, tonight. I miss you, my friend. I'll see you soon.

Great Quotes

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God, Himself. Madeleine L' Engle
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"If anything about my salvation or right standing with God depends on my faithfulness, I'm toast, damned to hell." Gavazzoni
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Any infinite Being who feels it is their duty to torture me for eternity, should switch to decaf. Joe
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Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. -- Lennie Bruce
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"He took responsibility for all the evils that have befallen man that day He gave His life. This has never been adequately appreciated by religion. It needs to be appreciated." (Roy)
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"Isn't that what man always wants- a divine force he can control? That's actually the definition of witchcraft." (Florian)
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"Christianity is not about polyester and pot roast. It's about Christ and what He's doing in you and me at the moment." (Holly)
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"It's his life for ours. We die, he lives, and then the mystery is that we live again." (Joian)
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"God's Spirit, is a pure motive" (Cardinal)
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"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach. A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." (H. MacGregor)
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Pretty soon, everybody will get what they deserve, which is Salvation, Reconciliation, Restitution, Restoration, Immortality and Incorruption - now ain't that the coolest thing! (Keith)
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The bible is not an owners manual and trying to apply it to our lives reeks of salvation by works. (Cam)
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I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy rapture
I die every night (Novalis)
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Where shall we find an abandonment that is as comprehensive as the will of God. (Fenelon)
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He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.(description of Bro. Lawrence)
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The humility of the cross became more desirable to him than all the glory the world had to offer. (description of Bro. Lawrence)
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Prayer is helplessness casting itself upon power; it is misery seeking peace; it is unholiness embracing purity; it is hatred desiring love. Prayer is corruption panting for immortality; it is the eagle soaring heavenward; it is the dove returning home; it is the prisoner pleading for release; it is the mariner steering for the haven amid the dangerous storm; it is the soul, oppressed by the world, escaping to the empyrean, and bathing its ruffled plumes in the ethereal and the divine.(unknown)