Ordinary Man Extraordinary God

By Ray Scott

Ordinary Man Extraordinary God is an autobiography of God’s testimony in the life Ray Scott from youth to time in the Marine Corps to Stage 4 Colon Canner in 1992 through the Healing Miracle of God on November 16th 1994 until present day 25 years of the Second Half of God’s Miracle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ray Scott
• Release date: Jul 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463048061

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rdinary Man

Extraordinary

God

www.ordinarymanextraordinarygod.com

God’s Testimony of Love & Grace in the life of Ray Scott, U S Marine 1983 & Stage 4 Cancer Survivor since 1992

Ordinary Man

Extraordinary God

Husband-Father, Employee & Friend

26 years of living God’s Miracle

1992 to 2018

Ray Scott

Ordinary Man Extraordinary God by Ray Scott

www.OrdinaryManExtraordinaryGod.com

Copyright © 2018 Ray Scott

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Contents

Foreword

Early Influences

Youth, Taft College, US Marine Corps

The Hand of God

1992 to 1994 Beginning of God’s Miracle

Family

Scotts & Uhles, Marriage & Children

God’s Favor My Friends

God’s Love & Support

Career & Community

Passion to Serve

2017 & 2018

Adapt, Improvise &Overcome

My Personal Relationship with God

My Peace & My Reason for Life

Foreword

In June of 2018 while driving to work God inspired me to take a different way to share His Testimony of my life:

"Freely Given Freely Shared"

God already had the person with the ability and passion to do this with those I work with.

Ensuring only God receives All the Glory, Honor& Praise

AMEN!!!

Foreword

By Sue Langford: Producer, Confidant, Friend

Ray Scott was unknown to me until one November day, 1994, in Sacramento, California. He was seated in a large arena during a period of time designated for worship. He was dying and had been diagnosed with stage four cancer. Ray is telling his story through this book. (I have not yet read the book at the time this foreword is being written.) After that day in Sacramento, Ray became the subject of a feature story I produced for Benny Hinn Ministries. You see, I was in the arena that night and witnessed Ray’s account of this dramatic event. We have remained friends all these years. Ray and his wife, Deann, are precious.

On that day back in November 1994, early in the service, Ray’s body was touched suddenly by the living Jesus and it was the Fire of His Holy Spirit that consumed all disease in Ray Scott’s body. Well documented, the story is one of a miracle that brought life and full restoration.

The online Merriam-Webster dictionary describes a miracle as "an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs: the healing miracles described in the Gospels.Having said that, I will quote Eric Gilmour from his message as guest speaker to my home church this past Sunday: Without touching the Source, there’s no way to receive the results."

How easy it is to desire a miracle. Ray had sought the Source of that miracle long before that eventful day in 1994. He has an ongoing personal relationship with Jesus, the Christ. Jesus had touched his heart, mind and soul long before He transformed his body.

To be clear, one day as I looked eye to eye with a secular media producer those many years ago, I made the comment that Pastor Benny Hinn heals no one. He would be the very first to make that statement and has made that statement numerous times, both publicly and privately! I went on to tell the producer that Benny Hinn simply has a God-given gift of pointing people to the One who does heal and his desire, along with the desire of others on staff at the time, was and still is to lead others into an atmosphere of worship, so that Jesus through His Holy Spirit, may feel welcomed and manifest Himself. So it was that very day!

A few years ago, Ray gratefully saw the twentieth anniversary of the day that healing miracle took place. I was once again privileged, this time as a freelance producer, to sit down and interview Ray Scott for his website, www.extraordinaryGod.com. He continues to point upward to his Savior, his Lord and his Source for every good and perfect gift.

Today, as you read Ray’s story, be assured that Jesus, the living Word, One who became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1), is here through His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who reveals and presents Jesus to us. He still desires that we all seek to know Him and behold His Glory, just as Ray Scott, I and countless others are doing around the world. The Fire of His Spirit yearns and burns to consume what is ungodly within each of us, just as His Fire burned in Ray on that November day, 1994. Our God is a consuming Fire (Hebrews 12: 28 and 29), as confirmed by Elijah in I Kings 18.

To Him alone, be everlasting glory!

Foreword

by Jeanette Richardson Herring: Godmother, Community Mentor, Friend

Cancer, just the word itself drains the human spirit and makes us weak in the knees. Cancer, causes great grief in the heart of the hearers. Cancer, the scourge of modern times.

Deann Scott, Ray’s wife worked with me in ministry as my assistant and a very organized, caring and funny young wife, mother and student of the Bible- I called her BRAT. Beautiful. Radiant. Attractive. Trustworthy.But she knew there were times that she was a brat too. I enjoy the company of people with questions and humor who keep me on my toes. Her husband Ray was a serious young man, totally devoted to his wife, daughters and God. Everything he did was done with honor and a sense of duty. As a former Marine Ray embodied strength and courage. I grew to love this young family, becoming God mother to their delightful daughters

Ray has cancer.

I don’t remember when I first heard those words, but I thought that’s impossible, not Ray.There are times in life when one sentence or phone call changes your life. Ray has cancer is one of those times. While Deann and I gathered prayer warriors. Ray set about in his Marine style organization and made sure everything he did and would do with family, friends and co-workers would be handled. He always put others ahead of himself.

Ray has cancer but cancer doesn’t have Ray.

Ray endured multiple treatments and hospital stays, the cancer was insistent, it continued to find ways to attempt to take down this beautiful, loving, honorable spirit. Ray never railed at God, he continued to proclaim God’s love, his concern was not for himself but for his young family. We who loved him continued to pray for he and his family, there was a sense that he would live and not die but that’s not what the doctors were reporting. Ray has cancer and the cancer may take his life but not his love of God and family. Ray never claimed he deserved to live. Ray trusted God and whatever God’s plan was for his life. We kept praying, no one gave up.

Ray has cancer but cancer doesn’t have Ray. God has Ray.

In the last days of ravaging cancer and the fallout from devastating treatments Ray submitted to his family’s desire for one last request from God and took Ray to a Benny Hinn service. Surely, if Ray is to be saved this service might just be the place for God to receive the glory for healing Ray and bringing more people to glimpse the majesty and love God has for ordinary people. God met Ray there. Ray doesn’t have cancer. Those were the words of another phone call that that can change a life. The doctors say they can’t explain it but Ray who was to die in weeks is cancer free.

Ray doesn’t have cancer.

As you read this story of an ordinary man who believes in an extraordinary God, you will see that cancer doesn’t always have the last word. You will feel Ray’s heart for service and his gratefulness to Jesus for bringing him new life, more than once. You will see that when we put ourselves in God’s path of love we just may be a miracle ourselves. This is a story of love, of promises, and honor, God’s not man’s.

Early Influences

Being one of six children, raised Catholic in New Jersey, by parents who modeled a strong work ethic and responsibility, is the starting point of a life of service. I am part of the second pair of twin boys. Only 15 months apart, Bill and Bunny Scott followed by two my younger sisters within 36 months. I was very much the middle child. Feeling very ordinary to my siblings who are more gifted and popular then I could ever be in my youth.

My father was a business person, and my mom was a nurse. They were first and second in their high school graduating class. I admired them and was that child who was more interested in listening to their conversations with other adults, than I was being a normal kid.

I knew of my grandparent’s life of service. Grandpa Scott served in the army in WWII. Grandpa and Grandma Conti gave property to the church, and Grandpa Frank Conti worked in their community. We had a great extended Scott and Conti families that enjoyed being together during the holidays, with summer camping trips or 25 of us in one house for any reason. Being the oldest family, of both families, came with both admiration and responsibilities from our families.

Scott Family Children

Bobby - Janice - Billy

Roger - Kim - Ray

My uncle George Corrigan was the first person, who talked to me directly, about my understanding and relationship with God in my life. He spoke to me in a truly caring way during times the families were together camping, planning football, and playing cards. Always as casual conversation, this continued in my childhood in a positive manner, for me to seek the Lord for myself. My parents always allowed us to be our own individuals.

My earliest service I remember was as an altar boy in our parish of Saint Francis in Piscataway, New Jersey. Father Grabowski talked to me about sports and music as we prepared for Mass. Father Grabowski was one of the first men outside of my family that shared inspiration of life.

I enjoyed feeling the reverence of the Catholic Church for God and the reasons of rituals of the Catholic Life. While being confirmed in the church I was able to serve in, I remember the Bishop