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Lisa Frith's Testimony
March 1, 2007
I met Doug through
ministry around 4 years ago, and was actually really praying for his
family through the time of their adoption and for the finances
involved with the process.
Anyway, my family
experienced a true miracle at the end of last year and I wanted to
share it with you. I have been married for 21 years, and we
have five children. We are professionals and run two
businesses, home school our kids, and love Jesus......NOT in that
order. :-)
However, through
our whole marriage, my husband has really struggled. He just
could not seem to get over the hurdles of flesh and worldly
desire....namely drugs, alcohol, and even pornography. I can't
begin to describe the toll this had on our family and each one of the
members in it. My children have been devastated over the years,
and I have struggled to maintain order and to keep them focused on
faith, regardless of what Dad did.
Around 4 years
ago, my husband, Darryl, simply lost his mind.....and I am saying
that gently. That he went "freakin' crazy" would be
an understatement. Apparently he had gotten into drugs with a
band he had been working with through his job at a theater. All
of a sudden he left. I had no money, no support, and the drug
people were threatening our family if I said a word about their
activity. It was just so weird I can't even tell you. I began
to ask God to send me people from around the world to pray for
us....and He did. Doug was one of those people.....except, Doug
really ministered to us on a personal level. He checked in on
me and prayed fervently for me and my husband. Almost as
suddenly as Darryl had left, he came home. He was repentant and
remorseful, and this time, he really wanted to be free.
Both of us grew up
in conservative religious homes...I'm a Baptist, he a Methodist.
We were "filled with the Spirit" years ago, but there was
just some of it that Darryl wanted to embrace........but if it really
threatened his flesh, he didn't press in......that left him in a
place of looking a lot cleaner than he was. There was a secret
place in him that still wasn't set free. He lived in bondage,
and that last episode really shoved his face in the garbage of what
his secret life has become, so to speak.
So, over the years
since then, Doug and I have written and prayed and shared, and he has
encouraged Darryl and my kids, but we had never met. Darryl,
although, wanting to live right and make good Godly decisions, there
were still areas that he just couldn't understand about spiritual
things. He just seemed to have a block, and it affected his
walk, our marriage, the kids....because he still couldn't really be
the leader he needed to be...the Priest of our home.
Subsequently, we suffered......financially, in our health, and many
other ways. The frustration on my part was just at the
end.......I was so so so so tired of the same battles with him, and I
couldn't understand how he seemed to be so blind to things that were
so clear in the Word. I just wanted to be done with him and move
on. That sure wasn't God's plan. Truth can be pesky or
irritating, if it doesn't go along with what we want, and
everytime I got close to filing papers, some pesky person would
rise up and speak Truth...not MY Truth, but God's absolute
standard of Truth to my circumstances. Truth I couldn't ignore. So, I
hung on....but sometimes, just barely.
Since September
first of last year, Darryl has been out of work, literally, so we
have been dealing with all kinds of issues regarding that. We are
self-employed, but he is an audio producer ( makes radio and tv
commercials, etc.) and almost suddenly he lost all his clients. Our
other business is a performing arts acedemy......here again, our
students dwindled and dwindled. Again, it was weird. When
God wants your attention, He knows just what to do to get it!
We have a huge family and hearing God was becoming more and more
important...no, vital, to our situation. Just before that I had been
diagnosed with Lupus....With the financial strain and my health, I
was so tempted to just give up. I was hanging on by a thread,
and a thin one, at that.
One morning I was
spending time with God. It was Dec. 11, 2006. I'll
include the whole Word the Lord gave me at the end of this, but it
was awesome. I had no idea that Doug was on his way to
Knoxville, even as the Lord gave me this Word. Just the week
before my oldest son, Christopher, and I seemed at odds. He wasn't
speaking to me at all, and he and I are very close. It was
weird and unexplainable, and all God would say was that He was taking
care of things. Then, Doug arrived. He stayed for 4 days
with us, ministering to my whole family of 7, one at a time, and just
loving us, restoring us, and healing us by the love of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I really can't
describe the difference Doug made in Darryl, except that it was
massive and quick. What I had been begging God for, for years,
was happening right before my eyes. The kids were amazed. I
have never had trouble hearing God...even as a denominational person
who wasn't supposed to even believe it was possible.....His voice has
always been fairly clear. Darryl, just didn't know how to hear,
how to listen, and as a family, when faced with huge issues, he
didn't know how to get close to God and listen and hear. Now,
suddenly, it was like some sort of dam opened up and waters of life
starting flowing from my husband. He was hearing God's voice,
receiving direction, and falling in love with his Savior like never before.
The day Doug
arrived, God told me my oldest son, Christopher, was supposed to
leave with Doug and travel with him. Here is a kid who had
barely been speaking to me, but again, God reminded me Who was in
charge. Sometimes God really does choose the foolish things of
this world to confound the wise. He doesn't have to hold to any
humanly prescribed form of operation. He is God, and He is
capable of handling a situation, even if we don't understand....or
even agree... He doesn't need our permission to be God...He IS
God. We don't have to understand. The Bible clearly talks
about deep mysteries in the Spirit that we know not of, but that He
longs to teach us and train us in those things, revealing the mysteries.
The first night
Doug was here, we went to eat at Applebees and he asks us if we would
consider letting Christopher travel with him. God had already
told me he was to go, so I gave my permission...so did Darryl.
Over the next 4 days there was such a tremendous change in my son
that by the time Doug was ready to leave, Christopher was prepared to
go with him. I couldn't believe the growth that this young man
experienced in such a very short time, but it was like he aged
spiritually by leaps and bounds. Here was my stoic 19 year old
son, on his face crying before the Lord, receiving healing from years
of junk with his Dad......and other Christians......the ones who say
they love you with one side of their mouth and then bludgeon you to
death with the other.
This was the first
Christmas I haven't had all of my children at home.......I can't tell
you the hole in our hearts Christmas Day as we got up and did the
Christmas thing, with my oldest out there...somewhere...and most of
the time we didn't know exactly where they were and what they were
doing. I talked to him everyday, but he could only say what God
allowed him to say.....but it was OK, because I really trusted God
with him by now. God had quickly kept His word to me about Christopher.
I have a ten year
old, an 8 year old, a 13 year old and a 17 year old, as well, and the
same things started happening with them, as well......they began to
really hear God. They began to have a sensitivity to the power
and presence of God they hadn't had before. My younger two
started having visions.....just awesome things. My 13 year old
just became a different person in a lot of ways. He and my 17
year old had been molested when they were younger, and no one seemed
to really be able to minister to them total healing and deliverance,
and they were so full of hurt.......not just because of the
molestation, but because so many people at our church treated them
like lepers when the truth came out. The molestation happened
by a minister, which was bad enough, but NO one at our church helped
us, supported us, ministered to us....we went through this whole
thing alone. I can't tell you the pain we have gone through,
and Daniel, especially, still struggled so hard. Doug
came here and ministered to them like no one else would do. He
didn't mind getting down to business with their issues and hitting
them head on. He really showed them God's great love in that,
when no one from our church would take the chance to actually
minister to a child that has been abused by a minister.....that God
loved them enough to send someone who would!
Christopher
traveled with Doug for three weeks before God released him to come
back home, and Christopher will never be the same. He is a
different person. He has become a spiritual powerhouse for the
glory of God. He has ministered to his friends and
co-workers and even the rest of us. God has tuned him in
to a higher frequency than most young people hear....not about girls
and dating and sports and the mall....no, it's about the Kingdom of
Heaven on this Earth and bringing nothing but glory to the name of
our Lord and Savior and the Lover of our souls. I'm not talking
about a zombie who is converging on some island to have a kool aid
party either, but a young man who knows there is a call on his life
to serve a real true God Who put him on this earth for a reason. God
sent Doug here as the mentor to teach and train and share his mantle.
Christopher is now
sharing his faith and the "Apology to the World" with
a huge ministry group in Memphis, and God has given them awesome
ideas to share this area of healing. You have no idea how many
teenagers there are in our churches in this country who have been
heartbreakingly mistreated by their Christian
"elders". We have countless numbers who are
self-mutilating, cutting themselves, in the bathrooms during youth
services, because they are in so much pain....yet, leadership looks
the other way. People NEED, desperately need healing in this
area and to realize this isn't the heart of Jesus, to ignore the
hurting until they go away....they won't go away.
My health has
steadily improved since Doug was here and prayed for my health.
Just last week, I climbed a mountain....all the way to the top.
My kids were absolutely amazed! It was ALL God, and He deserves
all the glory!!
Words cannot
describe how grateful I am that God has warriors out there who obey
the Word of the Lord without question. Most men would have
scoffed at God telling them to come here to a home he had never been
to to minister to a family he had never met in person........and not
across the street either, but across three states and two
days.......just to touch my family with the touch of God. It
takes a special man to make those sacrifices and to have that kind of
commitment. There are 7 of us who are growing the seeds of this
man's ministry.....and everyone we touch will also be a part of the
harvest that God is going to give to Doug Perry. There is
amazing fruit, miraculous fruit growing from his walk and dedication
to the Lord. I trust Doug. I trust what he hears.
Because, he pays the price to hear the way he does. At this
point, I have not been willing to sacrifice days without food and
water. I fast, don't get me wrong, but even then, I have found
a more comfortable way to do it. Doug isn't about comfort, he's
about doing what God says. Everything he says and does has a
Biblical foundation, and so long as I can support something through
God's Word, He says it is safe to accept it. We can't deny
God's Word when it is hard or uncomfortable or challenges what we may
have been taught. Because of his sacrifice, he was able to hear
clearly that we needed help, and he was obedient to answer that
call. This is the kind of man I so desperately want my husband
to be....and the one that he is becoming!
With love in Christ,
Lisa Frith
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Word from
December 11, 2006
"Prepare ye
the way, prepare ye the way of the Lord, for He is passing close to
you as a sign of His unmerited favor and grace to you. His love
for you knows no bounds. His blessings never cease. His mercies
are new every morning. Prepare ye the way, for Redemption
draweth nigh and even now can be seen riding toward you. At
that moment everything will change and the faith you have held onto
and stood upon will be honored by your Master and Creator.
Prepare ye the way for a tidal wave, yea, a tsunami of blessings and
the presence and anointing of God headed your way, and they are
unstoppable, just as a tsunami is unstoppable, but it will strike
suddenly and almost without warning and will overtake you and soak
you in the presence of your God and your needs will all be met.
Continue to seek me first and ALL things will be added to you.
That is a promise.
I am sending Doug
to release blessing over your life and to bind the curses. Everything
you have stood for, believed for and prayed for is standing at
thedoor, he will just release the blessings into you.
I am raising
Darryl up. It may seem barely perceivable, but I am
raising him up in My house to be a might general in My army. He
will ride a horse, called Reconciliation, and he will ride sure and
firm. Watch the next few days and see what I do-watch Me. watch
Me raise up a mighty warrior from the ashes for it is My will
and My good pleasure to do these things in My son. Rejoice-and
prepare ye the way of the Lord-Selah.
(I did NOT know
Doug was on his way to Knoxville and arrived before dinner the same
day. Doug brought answers to prayers I have prayed for years.....God
is the mighty One, and I do not mean to imply that Doug does anything
in his own power or by His own might.....Doug's power and might come
in the form of his sacrifice and ability to yield to the Holy Spirit
and His power......he doesn't get in the way.)
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