I am attempting to put pen to paper and recount my wonderful journey of healing. My Doctors are thrilled
and I am rejoicing daily at the goodness of God!

I became a Christian 39 years ago. Like many, I believed I had been inoculated against pain and
suffering and was eager to begin my rose strewn path to Heaven’s gate. I fully expected to escape
marriage problems, addictions, illness and pain. That was the plan I had mapped out for ME. God had a
very different journey in mind. He was after perfecting a relationship with me that would grow in
magnitude as the years progressed. My way of continually dwelling in the house of gladness would have
allowed me to remain headstrong, willful, and independent, while missing the knowledge of HIM and of
His plan for creating a living testimony, a memorial to His goodness, as I walk this earth the balance of
my days.

It is impossible to fully transfer the joy on paper that God has allowed in my life. Over the years, my very
superficial knowledge of the word and my ideas of who the Father God is have been transformed as I
have found Him to be a faithful Father in the Pits of life.

I met Scott Lathrop in early Jan. of 2006. I was 65 years old, finishing 60 radiation treatments,
undergoing severe chemotherapy, bald, extremely nauseated, and desperately longing to find GOD’S
comfort and stabilization in the sea of discouragement. My husband of 43 years succumbed to his final
bout with addiction during this process that would rob him of much of his ability to function, leaving me
single and alone emotionally, financially, spiritually! This was my fourth bout with cancer in 22 years. I
wondered if I had used up all of the goodness of God for one lifetime. Could He, would HE touch me
again?

Then came the phone call that changed my life. My daughter and son in law asked if I would like to join
them in going to a home an hour away to meet with a man named Scott Lathrop to pray and, possibly,
prophesy over me. Nausea rose to un-ignorable heights. The tiredness chained me to the livingroom
sofa. Yet, some strength of will urged me to say “yes”. I took a high dose of nausea medication, put a
scarf on my bald head, and made the journey to the nearby town of Orange Park, FL.
We were welcomed to a comfortable room where Scott was ministering to some people, and I was seated
at a near by dining room table with my daughter and her husband to wait my turn for prayer.
In just a few minutes I was asked to come forward. Scott asked for my name. I said I am Diana.
He began to pray and prophesy, and in a very few moments, my entire life did a 360!

The following words are taken as a direct transcript from the prophecy, which was taped and given to me
to take home. I have quoted a small portion here of Scott’s prophetic utterance:
“Diana, I just hear the Lord saying I am going to bless you… it is good, and that I am going to bless you,
and that you have lots of time. The Enemy has been saying you have pretty much been used up, so you
might as well give up. The Lord is saying that is a lie. That is a flat out lie, for the Lord is saying I have a
lot for you to do. The Lord says I have a lot for you to do and the Lord says you have plenty of time! And
to just show you that the Lord says that, as you lay down at night you are going to feel My presence and
the Lord says I am going to heal your body. And as you lay down, I will give my beloved sweet sleep, and
in translation, that means healing while you sleep. And I am going to touch you and give you purpose
and ideas. And you are going to get ideas all of a sudden, but you will say I am too old for that. And the
Lord says, WHO SAID? For Moses was eighty when he went to lead the children of Israel out, and the
Lord says you are not too old…you have plenty of time!”

There was more personal revelation concerning our family….all right on!
I heard my daughter behind me as she listened…a mixture of laughter and tears!
Interestingly, next Scott called my daughter and son-in-law up as a couple for prophecy. Scott did not
know we were together or related. After some length of declaring the word of the Lord to them, Scott
added in an almost off-handed way: By the way, I see that someone in your family has a blood or bone
issue and I just want to let you know, the Lord has heard your prayers, and they are going to be healed!
THAT WAS ME!! SO I GOT TO HEAR A CONFIRMATION OF THE WORD TO ME!!!!

As I recount this today, I feel as if GOD could add a star in the Heavens as a forever shining light to
reflect what I felt in my heart at that moment in time. There is no greater light than one that shines in
utter darkness. There is no greater hope than the hope that appears when every statistic and
circumstance predicts doom.

So you ask about the REST OF THE STORY? Well, I felt strongly that I was to transcribe the word
spoken over me and declare spiritual war over the word. I believed it was my word and lifeline from GOD.
He saw me in the pit and threw a lifeline to me. Now, it was up to me to trust and believe His word. God’s
written word is just as true today as the day it was spoken from heaven. I do not mean to replace God’s
wonderful word with prophecy. Yet, a prophecy is meant to reach from the heart of God to our heart, and
encourage us that His eye is upon us. He has my name written in the palm of His hand. His heart beats
for ME when I lean my head against His breast. Scott allowed himself to be the instrument played from
the heart of God to my ears that dark December day.

It is fourteen months later. My Doctors declare me in the small, few percent of people that should be
alive. I feel wonderful, and my life reads like a headline from Heaven of the ability of God to reach down
and overcome all the statistics and amaze the medical profession. One of my greatest joys is sharing
hope with others who might believe they, too, have used up all the punches on their “health ticket”!      
As long as I have breath, God is the strength of my life, my portion forever. In Him I live and move and
have my being.

God has brought a wonderful person into my life to stand alongside me and believe God with me for a
hope and a future. We are to be married on August 16th. That is my 67th Birthday. Eight is the number
of new beginnings - the cutting away of the old, the restoration of all the devil has stolen from me and us,
as His Church! AUGUST IS THE EIGHTH MONTH AND 16 IS DOUBLE EIGHTS!

God has restored double what the canker worms have eaten. Jesus has come that we might have life
more abundantly. Scott’s word was an encouragement to validate my trust and hope. I will forever thank
God that the ministry of Prophecy lives in the Body of Christ today.
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Diana Groover's Testimony