"I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey me, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father and remain in his love. I have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! I command you to love each other in the same way that I love you. And here is how to measure it--the greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends. You are my friends if you obey me. I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn't confide in his servants. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. You didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. I command you to love each other.” John 15:9-17 NLT.
This is the Beach Dog Cafe and Computer Center, the owners were so kind to me helping me communicate to all my affiliate churches to obtain my licence to perform marriages in the State of Hawaii. I had my laptop, but did not have a Internet connection and they all helped with access to the computers, the fax machine, the scanner,and making copies at a fraction of the cost. Plus holding and taking messages for me, and they barely new me. God Bless You!
If you all new about the story, about the building of this church and the help that was needed, I will have to explain all of it to you someday. But things may seem a lot more clearer to the ones that know about the battle. There was a reason to be in this store and wait in line 10 to 20 days a month to help one particular person that is very close to me. Then an unknown affliction hit me and I have been fighting a 16 month unexplained health problem. The staff all know be by name, and even the new people know who I am, and they are all right there to help me, Praise the Lord, for a blessing of a staff. There is not another place in town where I feel more comfortable. I just want to thank all the employees, especially the ones in the pharmacy, all the pharmacists, and all the people that have continued to help me and this church, and to keep someone alive. May the Lord be with you all, always.
This is my blessed landlord and the owner of the house and church office the kindness has always been pure, and he comes every other Tuesday to do all of the yard with his wonderful son. He is such a dedicated man, so you can see he even works in the rain. He loves this place, just as I do, and we have a close bond of friendship, and we help each other, with all different things. He always brings some kind of fruit or some thing his wife baked, to have something to give, when he comes every other Tuesday. The father and the son fill the whole yard with love and peace. When they complete everything it seems like the grass and the bushes shine.
These are my neighbors across the street, We have shared a lot together, and they are a chosen people, neighbors with love, understanding, and compassion. They were always there to help me move furniture and almost everything in this office, and home. Tools I needed ,you name it, they let me borrow it, they are always there to lend a helping hand, may it be with moving a desk, or just sit down and talk, good friends, are hard to come by. When I have to leave for a few days they are right there, to watch the house, and take care of anything that needs to be done, they are beautiful people, the whole family.
For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O Lord
You surround him with favor as with a shield. Psalms 5:12
For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, "Peace be with you." Psalm 122:8
But you, dear friends, must continue to build your lives on the foundation of your Holy faith. And continue to pray as you are directed by the Holy Spirit. Live in such a way that God's love can bless you as you wait for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you. Jude 2:20-21
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 1John 4:11
May God's peace be with you. Your friends here send you their greetings. Please give my personal greetings to each of our friends there.
Yes, dear friends, we are already God's children, and we can't even imagine what we will be like when Christ returns. But we do know that when he comes we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. 1John 3:2
Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment, for it is an old one you have always had, right from the beginning. This commandment--to love one another--is the same message you heard before. 1John 2:7
Dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad--because these trials will make you partners with Christ in his suffering, and afterward you will have the wonderful joy of sharing his glory when it is displayed to all the world.
Be happy if you are insulted for being a Christian, for then the glorious Spirit of God will come upon you. 1Pet.4:12-14
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.
Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover these sins. There will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. Hebrews 10:25-27
Dear friends, even though we are talking like this, we really don't believe that it applies to you. We are confident that you are meant for better things, things that come with salvation. For God is not unfair. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other Christians, as you still do. Hebrews 6:9-10
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matt. 7:12 NIV
`You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.'This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is equally important: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' Matt 22:37-39
Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God--for God is love.God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.
And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who proclaim that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in him.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.
Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment, and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us. We love each other as a result of his loving us first.
If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister,that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen? And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.1 John 4:7-21 NIV
I wish to thank Dr. Leo Maher; a neurologist who came to the Queens Health Medical Center here in Hilo, to make a point, this was an answered prayer directly from God. If I was rich, I would have flown to Honolulu, to see this exact man. But instead by an act of our Lord, he was sent to me, to give me the proper care and compassion, and to tell me the brass tax of everything that has been happening to me, this man has more or less gave me the hope to press on for my survival and integrity, in this 4 month battle for proper medical care. I wish to also thank all the staff, that is helping things along, and hopefully I will find out what is wrong with me, and be cured, and to be able to eat again.
This is a memorial for my friend Peter Allen, he was a blessing to me, and close friend. He went to be with the Lord on April 17th, 2004, at Mount Isa. Old Australia. God rest his soul, He was the type of man that truly believed in the power of God and His promisses, even though he was going through a great deal of suffering, he never gave up praying. We always shared each others problems and joys. Peter would send me so many prayer emails back and forth, sometimes 4 or 5 in one day. But he never lost hope. And he gave me strength to go on with my affiction. His faith was strong and His spirit was true, and full of life, so now he will be in the hands of Jesus from now till eternity. Amen.
This picture of beauty is supposed to represent a good friend’s sister who I never meet but is the sister of Theresa Doran and the picture of beauty is supposed to represent the beauty of Mona who went to be with the Lord on Tuesday June 2nd 2005. This is Mona’s memorial. As I have found out in the beginning when we were praying for her life while she was in the hospital in Honolulu, between myself and her sister Theresa in full hope she was going to come out of the coma, during that time it was very hard on Theresa at the time and she needed a prayer from a pastor that she knew, and we did share a few words about her so The Church Ministries decided to place a memorial up for her sister. Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. We were created in the image of God, capable of thinking, feeling and willing, with the capacity for knowing Him and having fellowship with Him. Jesus Said, And this is eternal life: that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou has sent. It matters not how long you live on this planet but how well you live you life for others during that time. We rejoice today even in our sorrow, for we know that the promises of the Lord have been fulfilled in the life of Mona and that she has received the crown of life. The Apostle Paul’s words about his own death are certainly fitting today: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. We are all sad by the passing of Mona, and we all wish to comfort Theresa and the rest of the family. Amen
We know that fear and shadows can bring us to all concerns, weather they are implanted by the devil or just people cause a major element of spiritual abuse, and there is a lot going on around now, that satan has also invaded the church, it makes you wonder a full filled pastor with the total fullness of the Holy spirit should have never let any entity slip in from the back door to take over people, there minds and thoughts, each Pastor should have been equipped with all the power and righteousness they needed and full discernment to see the cloud of evil approaching, but today the pastors are out doing a second job and trying to do two things at once so that is one example how evil creeps in. The fact remains that a certain fear can surround us and ultimately can imprison us deep with in our selves, now no matter how much we are close to God there is a good chance that each of us has been a prisoner of fear from one time or another, we are still living in the flesh and our fleshy nature begins to act out it’s normal part, plus we will come across fear of rejection, misunderstanding, uncertainty and sickness. But with Christ in us we can conquer that fear by using the ever bright energizing light of the Lord who brings us salvation. If we want to chase away the darkness of fear, remember the psalmist tells us the Lord and is my light of my salvation. David had the temple in mind and the word temple means “the presence of the Lord”, and maybe Gibeon had plans for the sanctuary, so he could have somewhere to put the Ark of the Covenant or David was planning ahead for his son Solomon. David was a type of man that his greatest desire was to live in the presence of God each and every day of his life. The thing is and I knew it is such a sad situation that more Christians or believers just don’t desire what God truly wants, He wants to spend time with Him and it hurts Him when we don’t. What people don’t understand they will be able to enjoy that relationship forever? In 13 the land of the living means the life he was living then, and he was probably going through some trial or tribulation and but David was always confident that the Lord would help him during his present life, He had such a wonderful relationship. I wish we all could and God would be so happy, and in turn we would be happy and less depressed over little things.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. Isa.53:5 It is an amazing factor that a man so long ago could know that Christ would die for our sins and all our disobedience and wrong doings and all of our iniquities and Jesus taking the punishment for us, and there are still so many people who don’t even know what Jesus has done for all of us, to watch the flesh get ripped off His back and the pain He suffered for us, and we were still sinners. It was just an amazing match with a lamb, and God’s chosen servant was a lamb. So God was showing the suffering that the future Messiah would have to go through, to have forgiveness shown and exploited to all of mankind to understand.
Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. (Prov.10:6)
The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. (Prov.10:22)
What the wicked dreads will overtake him; what the righteous desire will be granted. (Prov.10:24)
The evil or wicked person dreads death, plus all of those who do not believe in God usually fear death; I mean it is only logical. By comparison, believers desire eternal life, but most Christians fear the life that leads to death or what they have to go through when they die, it could be martyrdom, or just people treating Christians so bad and of course the enemy, you don’t realize how many Christians will be thrilled not to get tormented anymore by the enemy, and die and live in peace that surpasses our understanding with our God. Plus many Christians will receive crowns and rewards when they get to heaven. And I am sorry to say many Christians that think there Christians will have the door shut on them when they try to enter. (Matt. 7:21-23) I also feel bad but there are many innocent people that are just going to the wrong church and they to will be left out of heaven, now that is sad. That is why I try in my sermons to explain about false churches and accepting unsound doctrine and many people are hypnotized into worshiping the leaders instead of God. There is such a list especially today when the bible facts and prophecies are coming true. It is such a shame, some should just read and compare what they learn in church and be like the noble-minded people of Berea in (Acts. 17:11) So the last proverb gives you a choice you can either have your desires come alive or constantly live in fear. So either you follow God and be His servant, or you just live your life the way you want to now.
When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
"He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases." (Matt.8:16-17)
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Pet.2:24) Jesus went through so much suffering so we can be healed and the strips that He went through the pain was probably worse than the nails in His hands and being hung on a cross, Peter understood about suffering from Jesus, and He knew that the suffering was part of God’s plan and through all of this we all gain healings and salvation, we all know if we stick close to Jesus and have a close relationship we too are going to suffer, so Christ died for our sins, and He did it in a way to suffer and die in our place so we would not have to suffer punishment that we all deserve, and we call this by another name a substitutionary atonement. We know if we are going to help others and pray for others and share the love of Christ with others we too will suffer. Father, please let us all be able to handle what we have to go through with patience, serenity, fortitude, endurance calmness tranquility and with confidence to know that You are in control of our lives and future. Please understand us all Lord even if we are not going through any suffering please help us with whatever we might need, in the Name of Jesus, Amen and Amen
On Thursday Night November 29, 07- in the morning our beloved friend and prayer partner, Randy Peterson friend and brother went to be with Jesus, he was 53 my same age, and he was walking home and just had a massive heart attack. This was a shock to everyone, he was on the TGM prayer site for years that is how I met him, he prayed for everyone almost everyday. We have had group prayers with our Secretary for The Church- Joanna, everyone that has been on any of the prayer sites, knows Randy, we ask for prayer and help for his family and friends, he was the type that would help me, no matter what he was doing at the time, he has helped me and this Church many times, I am hurt and heart broken, Joanna is in shock because they worked together in the same hospital. Many of his prayers were for the patients and the staff of the hospital, plus many other prayer requests. We all love him, and now He is with Jesus and the Father. Please may us all bless his eternity in heaven.
