I gave these verses:

He gives me Psalm 91 all the time, especially I lean on the parts

"There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any bird-flu come night thy dwelling."

And Psalm 23,

"Yeah though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Bin Laden, I shall fear no evil." and since He's our light and salvation and strength, we haven't got a thing to worry about.

> I had written them regarding a dream I had.
> As you all know, I listen frequently to Ray
> Stedman's Bible studies online. Anyway, in
> the dream, Ray made it clear that I
> shouldn't esteem him as anyone special, but
> that he was merely a tool. As we all should
> be.

> The husband wrote back and said in one part
> of his email, "...but I guess one thing
> that the Lord is showing us now is that the
> most important thing is for us to understand
> the Bible for ourselves. Depending on people
> to teach us the Bible (and this even
> includes Stedman) is like (at least for us)
> transferring our allegience from one man to
> another. From Berg to Stedman. From Stedman
> to Spurgeon. From Spurgeon to someone else.
> ...We've gotta get ourselves personally
> connected to the Bible. We feel it was
> stolen from us for so long and we're a bit
> wary of letting anyone else
> become our new end time prophet, no matter
> how good & godly he is. Been there done
> that. We read the Bible, try to understand
> it, then compare what
> we get with a variety of commentaries,
> including Stedman, but there's no way we
> want anyone to be the one to whom we look
> for truth any more, apart from the Holy
> Spirit Himself (feels good to say HIMself
> instead of HERself) and the Bible."

> Here is part my reply:

> "Believe me, I understand exactly what
> you're talking about and I especially could
> relate to the "transferring our
> allegiance to a different man" thingy.
> So let me 'splain myself a little.

> I sent you that dream I had because it was
> something that I had just experienced. ...
> In the dream, you'll notice that I saw that
> Ray repelled any special recognition of his
> person. This was strongly emphasized in my
> dream. It's something I already knew, but it
> was underscored that the Lord is the one
> that guides us. Not a person.

> In the years since I left, I've done a lot
> more personal listening to the Lord and I'm
> at ease with the fact that the Lord's words
> are all I need. I just thought the dream was
> interesting because, in my personal
> experience, Ray Stedman's classes were the
> catalyst the Lord has used to get me back
> into being excited about the Word again. But
> I don't depend on Ray Stedman and I've not
> replaced Berg with him. Just to make that
> clear.

> You all are doing great and I know the
> feeling. Once you leave the crap and you
> realize you were duped all those years, you
> don't want to shilly-shally with anything
> else. You want your Bourbon straight up!
> I've been out longer and I'm at the mellow
> time of my life (maybe a lil too mush
> Bourgon). So I'm further upstream in my
> personal journey and not having to paddle as
> hard against the previous
> "current" that tries to suck any
> freshly exiting "fumbly" member.

> I started calling it "the fumbly"
> as it helps me to not relate the clean, good
> word, family, with our former brain-wash.

> Berg, the Zerb and the Ping (Peter) were
> tossed the "ball" and fumbled it,
> so that's why I say "the fumbly".
> I don't even dignify it with capital
> letters.

> All that to say that I agree with you. You
> should certainly follow your own leadings of
> the Lord. And you're absolutely correct in
> doing so.

> The Lord showed a few of us exers that He
> allowed us to go through that whole thing in
> order to innoculate us against any future
> deceptions.

> "There shall arise false christs and
> false prophets and shall show great signs
> and wonders insomuch that, if it were
> possible, they shall deceive the very
> elect."(Matthew 24:24)

> Thank God He rescued us!

> I love and pray for you.