“Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.” Isa (65:24) Ask, Seek, Knock “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matt. 7:7-8) The world of grace and contentment is for everyone, not just for a selected few, or the rich, we are the children of God and the Lord wants to give us all the blessings that we desire. Prayer is the ultimate communication to the most powerful and loving being in the universe and He just happens to be our Father, what a gift, what a blessing to have an open door to the throne of grace to the Lord thy God. Do you believe how fortunate we are, how many people truly realize that we have access to the ultimate dreams and desires of our heart. It is so amazing that if we have faith belief and trust, anything we ask for can become a reality. Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” (Matt.21:21-22) Now we know that our Jesus can not lie, what He says is always the truth. If we have enough faith we can move mountains, the thing is we don’t ask to have the mountain move, we ask for His great faith, we as humans can not have that purity of perfect faith, the thing is Jesus and the Father do. So what we ask in prayer for, is the Fathers faith and the protection coming from Jesus to keep our faith strong, because in this world we know we will have tribulation, which comes from the world and the evil forces to cause doubt. So through prayer we are granted supernatural faith, guided by the Holy Spirit then pure belief will also follow. Now that we receive protection from any doubt that may linger in our flesh through prayer to our Lord Jesus, remember Jesus has overcome the world, then once we have God’s faith and complete protection from the doubt of the world, now with the guidance and the purity of belief through the power of the Holy Spirit, then being transformed into the likeness and mind of Christ, when we accept the Lord as our personal savior, and establish a relationship, we then can pray and move any mountain. Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.” (John 14:6-7) At this time my brothers and sisters we have explained the love of God and answer to prayer, there is nothing that we can not do as long as we stay in tune with perfect harmony, plus we have a few more stipulations to this truth. “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.” (Mark 11:24-25) Now forgiveness comes from our hearts, remember we have to remain pure, we can not carry any remorse or un-forgiveness about anyone, one more thing: “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (1John 1:8-9) “Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God” (1John 3:21) And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. (John 14:13-14) “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.” (Mark 9:23) So my prayers are with you, I thank the Holy Spirit for these words, if I have not been suffering so greatly, I would have never learned these truths. “So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.” (John 16:22-23) God Bless, Rev. Paul
“Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Heb. 4:16) It is quite amazing that we can approach such an awesome and powerful God and ask Him our hearts desires, we may all be going through some sort of hard time, but the thing is God enjoys having us ask Him things. It would be as if we had a child and we would just be studying at our desk and our child would walk around the house and would never speak to us or ever ask us anything, after a while we would think there was something wrong. With the Lord it is the same thing, He wants to hear from us, not just our murmuring like the Israelites, but asking for things and having a relationship with our Father God. He wants us to express our deepest needs to Him, just like your own child walking around the house and not asking for supper or a snack or can you play checkers with me, or asking for a glass of water. God is no different, He made us in His own image, and He expects us to communicate with Him. And if we don’t, He feels there is something wrong. 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' (Jer. 33:3) Some people think that God is so far off somewhere but he is always present, He is everywhere, that is what makes him God. “The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; He hears their cry and saves them.” (Psalm 145:18-19) “He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. (Psalm 91:15) There is a great deal of Love that the Lord has for us, just listen to this words of truth, these words are written by Him by inspiring other children (Men). It is hard to say this but God loves us more than we love our own children, and when we don’t talk to Him through prayer, He gets hurt, and God has feelings too. Just waking up in the morning and saying good morning God, God feels that, and He hears you, and He probably says good morning back, and I love you. It would be the same as a child waking up and saying good morning dad, how would you feel today? If your children woke up and didn’t say anything to you, and completely ignored you, and got ready by themselves and just went off to school, I know you would be hurt, as any father or mother. We have to open up to God, “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” (Deut.33:27a) The thing is God can and wants to help us and He has the power of the universe to do anything for us, and all we have to do is have faith and believe in Him and just put our trust in Him. Remember when you were young and took a ride with mom or dad in the car you never even thought about not trusting them to drive you where you needed to go, you had just natural faith and believed in them, and you always ended up to where you wanted to go. Here we have the Lord with the understanding and wisdom and knowledge of the universe and He has more experience than anyone we will ever know. So why don’t we talk to Him trust and believe and have the same faith, and the thing is He can do anything for us, He can change our lives in an instant, I think that is a bit more complex then taking a ride in a car. What makes us think that He will not listen to us, or do the things we ask of Him? I guess the world and all the influences and all the evil has just brainwashed us into thinking another way. “If our Message is obscure to anyone, it's not because we're holding back in any way. No, it's because these other people are looking or going the wrong way and refuse to give it serious attention. All they have eyes for is the fashionable god of darkness. They think he can give them what they want, and that they won't have to bother believing a Truth they can't see. They're stone-blind to the dayspring brightness of the Message that shines with Christ, who gives us the best picture of God we'll ever get. (2Cor. 4:3-4) “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” (2Cor.1:3-4) God is Great, He is our Father who loves us. And through our friend Jesus and what He did for us and how He suffered for us and how He taught us He has opened the veil so we can talk and have a life with togetherness with the Father and the Himself. Sometimes we need to talk to God and Jesus through prayer just for the peace and having to be in His presence, it does take a while, you don’t feel the presence of God until you worship and go into deep prayer and give words of thanks and mostly ask for forgiveness, the thing is with me, I have found it more important and joyful then leaving on the television all night, I mean I was in an intense amount of worry and for me as a preacher we know that worry does not change anything and I was in a bad situation, and I am already in a bad situation with a bad health affliction going on for so long, and it has been still not yet been diagnosed but the thing is my only means of transportation was taken away, and I needed food and medical supplies, blood work done, and get to the doctor, and it has been in the shop for so long and I had know idea how to pay for it, and once the repairs are done it can happen again if it rains and gets wet. I sat crying to the Lord last night because He did pull through for me as always and the money for the repairs came out of know where, and all the food I needed for my special diet was granted and sitting in the house, and I doubted God, and I must have begged for forgiveness over and over because I didn’t have the faith I needed, I do pray as we all should to ask for His faith, we are just simple humans and we are hit with so much doubt and insecurity everyday the way the world is. And we have listen to all the different tragic things that are happening, and we know we are in the end times, and we have to prepare ourselves for Christ’s return, and we have to look at ourselves and pray and ask God for that purity of His mind and Spirit and we can only obtain that strength by asking for His strength. That is how we must get by in this world, remember we can move mountains if we have the right faith. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4) (When we trust in him, we're free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go.) (Eph 3:12) My prayers are with you and what ever you need, God will hear us. God Bless, Rev. Paul
I am praying , It seems I will try to pray the best I can, I just get my truck back from the shop and now someone does a hit and run in my driveway, and now my lower bumper is hanging to close to the tire. It has been a hard time for me fighting an unknown disease for 17 months. Living out of a blender and in a life of pain and anxiety, for a preacher that is shocking, I should be praising God for all of this, and at times I do, but at other times I just write to people that are suffering along with myself, so I can share what the love of God has done for me and all the reasons behind it. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” (Phil 4:13) I am running on God’s strength now if it wasn’t for Him, I would not be here, He is the only thing that is close to me, to sustain my life and to give me the strength and faith to endue the trials of this world. Plus I love the church and the prayer ministry, and the people that I pray for. My love for Jesus is well off the scale, although I am a sinner and I do get upset and I do get hurt and I get so surprised that day after day these attacks happen to me. I know it is the enemy, and I know he wants to kill me. So he just sends people down the wrong street like this woman is one block off where she should be, and adds another impact to my life. “So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.” (Heb 13:6) I should not fear, but we are all human and there are times we all go through some sort of fear “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2Tim 1:7) I know that God doesn’t give us fear, but the evil one does, in fact that is all he can do, the battlefield is in the mind, he will do what ever he can to implant fear into your mind, so we are in a constant war trying to be normal. I am no super Christian, but I am an honest one. God always pulls through for me, and I see Him do it time and time again and still that adversary pounds my head with doubt; He knows what I do for the people of God and the people that are not of God. Like going across the street today and I called out my neighbor and she came to the door screaming at me “I didn’t know the person, I was just giving directions,” I had to actually tell her to calm down. This is how Satan works, now you are standing there feeling terrible, and getting yelled at by a person that doesn’t want to get involved, which I can understand that, but to yell at a preacher and a person that shows love and compassion, that hurts, and when you are already hurting, all you can do is run to God and say help me through this Lord. So the devil implants fear into your neighbor or anyone else that he needs to use, which in turn you feel uneasy now because you just lost your witness because of fear implanted by the devil. But the faith we have is stronger than anything the devil can throw. “Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.” (Heb 10:35-36) In this life we will have tribulation as Jesus said "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33) “Each one of you is part of the body of Christ, and you were chosen to live together in peace. So let the peace that comes from Christ control your thoughts. And be grateful.” (Col. 3:15) I am very grateful I can reach out to those in need. So as my story may be a bit depressing to some it and now I get a phone call from an insurance man and his whole attitude is too bad about your electrical box you just paid 509 dollars for and you don’t know if it will happen again. In other words too bad. When I can take a pitcher of water and pour it right through the seam of the hood on the top of the truck on to the computer box. But he tells me that is the way it is supposed to be. I mean this man is a supervisor and he was not going to give in and they are right and I am wrong. Today has been a wonderful day. Let us just pray. “So be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though it is necessary for you to endure many trials for a while. These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold--and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him, you trust him; and even now you are happy with a glorious, inexpressible joy. Your reward for trusting Him will be the salvation of your souls.” (1Pet.1:6-9) So my brothers and sisters I have gotten through all of this with prayer, prayer is our key to the heart of God, and when we have the heart of God in us nothing shall move us, hurt us, or even break our peace. God is always in control, God was in control with Job, and he went through great sufferings, so when we fall into sorrow we can always call upon the Lord for peace. As Jesus said “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matt. 11:28-30) “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.” (3 John 2) I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or His children begging for bread. (Psalm 37:25) My prayers are with you and I wanted to include a story about today, even though we are fighting against all odds, we are going to be all winners in the end, and we all know how much love the Lord has for us. God Bless, Rev. Paul
My Prayers are with you, “God will never walk away from his people, never desert his precious people. Rest assured that justice is on its way and every good heart put right.” (Psalm 94:14-15) We have to stand on the promises of God, so what ever we are going through God is not going to walk away from us. Soon every broken heart will be repaired and in hope whatever thing, whatever trouble or any suffering, or any burden will be healed or end. But we have to ask Him for His help, we just can’t expect to just have all our burdens just go away. “You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father” (John 14:13) Yes the work that the Son has done is probably the most important 3-1/2 years of the greatest expression of love recorded in the history of the world. Our God is so powerful but it is all up to “us” weather we trust in Him totally, I myself am faced with so much spiritual warfare; it has been going on for such along time, ever since I went back into school for the ministry 6 years ago I have been bombarded with every weapon known by the sting of evil, we must realize that Satan took a third of the angels with him, so we are up against incredible forces. “So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.” (Eph. 6:11-12) “When the poor and needy are dying of thirst and cannot find water, I, the LORD God of Israel, will come to their rescue. I won't forget them.” (Isa. 41:17) We know how much the Lord loves us, just to sacrifice His own Son is all the proof that we will ever need. And the thing is we were all sinners and the same people His son helped and healed were shouting His death. So you just have to imagine what type of God we have that we call Father. Just imagine the mercy God has for all of His children. “With all my heart I praise the LORD, and with all that I am I praise His holy name! With all my heart I praise the LORD! I will never forget how kind He has been. The Lord forgives our sins, heals us when we are sick, and protects us from death. His kindness and love is a crown on our heads. Each day that we live, He provides for our needs and gives us the strength of a young eagle. For all who are mistreated, the Lord brings justice.” (Psalm 103:1-6) “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Rom. 8:28) “Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid of them! The Lord your God will go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you." (Deut. 31:6) “So don't get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessings at the appropriate time. Whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone, especially to our Christian brothers and sisters.” (Gal. 6:9-10) It has been the most stressful 3 weeks of my life, right out of a horror movie, and Friday night when propane gas filled the church office and the other half the house, I then was in tears and in prayer on and off since. I pray for a lot of people and many pastors have told me the devil is out to kill me, and after these three weeks of the most compounded attacks, all I can do is sit down pray and cry and I am 51, already suffering from some unknown disease, and I will not even go into that nightmare that I still am in. Maybe we will call this life of mine “Job 2.” So I will continue to write prayers for the needy, and to tell you the truth, the responses are the most wonderful gifts I could ever read, to witness to working of God, our Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It keeps me going, and over powers everything I am going through. So many people have been helped and so many people’s lives have changed, so my prayers will continue, and I will right everyone’s name down and pray before I go to sleep and I will pray for them when I wake up, so my prayers are ever before you all. Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. (Phil. 4:6-8) God Bless, Rev. Paul
We try to live in such a way that no one will be hindered from finding the Lord by the way we act, and so no one can find fault with our ministry. In everything we do we try to show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind. We have been beaten, been put in jail, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food. We have proved ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, our sincere love, and the power of the Holy Spirit. We have faithfully preached the truth. God's power has been working in us. We have righteousness as our weapon, both to attack and to defend ourselves. We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us impostors. We are well known, but we are treated as unknown. We live close to death, but here we are, still alive. We have been beaten within an inch of our lives. Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything. (2Cor.6:3-10) We know we are in the end times, and even though I have been going through the hardest attack on my life we all have to understand that we are not the simple Christians, we are the chosen ones that are going to minister and help others as the times grow even harder and darker, so we are being molded and disciplined for this future honor. “All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.” (Heb. 12:11-13) I memorized this scripture when I was working in a mission almost two decades ago, and I know the Lord has to use large hammers and chisels and all kinds of different large tools to shape a rough piece of heavy marble to make a sculpture of beauty. We know God can not just use a manicure set. We must also realize that the discipline works hand in hand with the attacks from the devil, in other words God uses the devil to train educate and to purify and strengthen our faith. All this time the devil thinks he is getting his jollies through hurting us simple humans, but the Lord laughs at all his efforts and is complete control in the first place, and the devil does not have any idea that he is doing exactly what God wants him to do. I am suffering greatly with my health, but through suffering we gain a better understanding, a closer relationship, and to join hands with the sufferings of Christ. We all need the mind of Christ deep within our hearts. In other words the greater the future for increasing an individual's faith, the greater the weight and value of suffering that a person should expect. So we in turn are getting our faith strengthened, we become closer in an established relationship with the Father and the Son through constant prayer, and we are getting purified through suffering. “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith–of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire–may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” (1Pet. 1:6-9) It may seem like a never ending maze of darkness, and sometimes we do cry out to the Lord and ask for it to stop, just for a moment or a day, I have shed many tears not only for myself but all the people on my prayer list, which changes daily. I just went to the doctor again yesterday and she read the report from about the 10th specialist and we still are both in the dark. I still match up with the criteria of RSD but I can’t get anyone to confirm it. This gets frustrating after a while. “Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.” (Psalm 31:24) My life is a lot like the book of Job but I am a simple educated pastor that has become very poor in this past 17 months, but the Lord has supplied everything I have ever needed. (Phil. 4:19) We find in the book of Job the most incredible accounts of suffering in scripture. We know that Job was a wealthy man, and we also know that a real true Christian is happy and content just to have a bible, because all wealth comes from God anyway and can be placed in our hands at any time. The relationship we have with the Lord is the most important thing to us. That is my feelings, but in the beginning of the book, Job knew that the Lord really loved him because of all he had and was blessed with. “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil. Seven sons and three daughters were born to him. His possessions also were 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and very many servants; and that man was the greatest of all the men of the east.” (Job 1:1-3) Now here we have a man that is blameless, upright fearing God and always turned from evil. You see Job new everything came from God and he knew that God loved him. God doesn’t care about our own plans or ideas, don’t forget we are already dead in Christ. "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (Gal 2:20) We have to look at God’s plan not our own, so as we analyze this situation by God’s principles Job was the perfect person for testing and I mean severe testing. We also have to understand Job loved God out of pure motives not what he could get from God, he just loved Him. Now how many Christians can say that with truth, I know I can, Job was blameless and he turned away from evil. I am a simple preacher I don’t consider myself blameless but I do turn from evil, but we all sin, we all drift and make even the simplest things a foothold for sin. So God submitted Job to suffer. We know that God let Satan to test Job and God let him do what he pleased because God knew how strong Jobs faith was because God himself even clarified it, “The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil." (Job 1:8) Those simple words explain it. Have you considered my servant Job? So you see God does the same more or less depending on the person, to other Christians, and when God knows that their faith is strong we know Satan is going to snicker and say yea let us see how much they really love You after I get a hold of them, and God already said to Satan well look at this child of God, that person really loves Me. As each time the testing begins God does permit Satan to work on only certain boundaries. But we know God is in control and He will not allow Job, or you, or I, being tested more than we are able to withstand or endure. Don’t forget the greater He loves us the more discipline we may receive. Job doesn’t know why all of this is happening to him and that is the main purpose, we are to live one day at a time and just totally trust God and do not give up or give in. We can not know the answers to or the explanations for, this way our faith will fully develop. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight.”(Pro.3:5-6) In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through--all that bloodshed! So don't feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don't shrug off God's discipline, but don't be crushed by it either. It's the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects." (Heb 12:4-6) My prayers are with you, God Bless, Rev. Paul
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1) “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because He cares for you.” (1Pet 5:6-7) “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (John 14:27) How is it possible to share the greatness of God’s glory and at the same time the world and the forces of darkness, is trying to crush my heart. Well we must talk positive things, we can never talk negative. We must rely on the Holy Spirit to bring us peace; we can’t get it any other way. We cannot get peace from the world; most of the explained peace of the world is an absence of any conflict. And in this world as the light of the world grows dim, we as Christians have to be that light, we have to let the Spirit of God flow through us, and getting out from underneath that bowl or basket, we have to reveal the blessings, not all the conflict. I have gone off in so many different directions in some of my prayers for others, because I am so hurt inside, from the world and the darkness of this world. Yesterday I worked on a prayer about my conflict and the comparison with the book of Job, but there has been so many blessings that came up during the course of the day, you tend to not see them. It is very simple, and I have cried to the Lord many times because of doubt. I understand the doubt comes from the world, mostly from the evil one and his agents, and we have been fighting countless days and hours. For instance, I live in Hawaii, and I don’t live where you see clips on T.V., of the beaches and hotels, it is a quiet place on a beautiful coast line with mountains that jut out to the shore, which is so magnificent. The scenic drive, which is so beautiful, I can walk to and see from my window, and people come from all over the world to see this 6-7 mile stretch, but when you are fighting a life of pain, you just don’t see the beauty. I mean God would not send me to a place to build a mission /church where it wasn’t beautiful, God knows I have been and lived everywhere. So he planted me here in a quiet rainforest, where there is not a lot of tourism, but there is enough of new people coming into town so I can strive to save more souls, which to me, this is a perfect place. So when the small gifts arrive, and everything falls into place just like He planed it in the first place, you look back and say to yourself why did I even dwell on all that negativity? God took care of it just like He takes care of everything else. He is our provider, our healer and our Father. It just amazes me that here I am a preacher and I am wasting my energy about bills. That to me is sin, we have to rely on Him, in the book of Philippians 4:19 “And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” Very simple scripture and a lot of people use it, and if I wasn’t being attacked from so many angles, constantly and persistently from by the evil one, I would have time to think and look at all the beauty that surrounds me. We know the battle field is in the mind, so we can not listen to his lies, we know God does not lie and He has provided me with blessing after blessing, and today and from now on as always if I get any negative thought that even passes or even starts to linger in my mind, I will fall into the arms of Jesus and let Him rebuke all of the deception. I am in the arms of truth, and I feel safe, a lot of times when I pray I picture my head on His feet, that is where I find peace, security, contentment, and love, at times it can even take away the pain. It doesn’t matter what else the world is doing or what is happening, I am at peace. "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. (Matt. 5:14-26) So we are a light that can not be hidden, and we should not hide ourselves we should get out on the rooftops and declare what the Lord has done for all of us, remember we are not the source only the reflectors or let us a say a mirror, the true light is Christ and when the light goes in us from Him and the Spirit, we reveal the light to others. As I look back before all of this heath problem happened, my teacher came up to me one day and said that I just glowed. I need to get that back despite my health, and re-formulate myself and realize again that the Lord is truth, and not to let the darkness slip in and dim my light. So no matter what happeneds any more, we are always living for Christ, and we need to speak up for the truth, help others where it is needed, and pray for others as needed, we should never even listen to the lies of Satan not even for a second, because if any of us lets it go, we in turn are falling into sin, by not trusting or having that doubt in God. Remember what Jesus has told us, "Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. (Mark 11:24) "Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.”(Matt. 18:19) So I am asking in prayer to release any burden or any type of stronghold for whoever is suffering and reads this prayer, and I ask deeply for you to come to a complete agreement with me, and it shall be done, we have to walk in the fruit of the Spirit, and believe in our hearts things change, and people do get healed, and anything we truly need is given to us. We all believe that Jesus was raised from the dead, then with just two scriptures of truth we should believe also through prayer, for anything we ask. “But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law.”(Gal.5:22-23) So we are right back to the beginning of our prayer for you, we need to be the light of the world but not believe in the darkness or evilness of this world, “The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.” (Gal. 5:17) Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. (2Cor.5:17) I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge, even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you, so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1Cor. 1: 4-8) God Bless you, Rev. Paul
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 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. 53:1-5) Yes my brothers and sisters, our Jesus Christ, who went through the most deepest suffering, physical, soul and spirit. Why, to give us life and to do what His Father requested, so he not only gave his life for all of us so we could have life and peace and health and prosperity, and if he didn’t ascend to the Father afterward we would not have the Holy Spirit to guide us and teach us, and to mark the way for our lives, we who are the suffering ones who are in a class all our own, basically it is a new reform of Christianity, it is not Pentecostal it is not charismatics, etc. we are standing in a class or for the “religious leaders” a denomination, or must I say no denomination all our own. Denominations are just a nice word for division, so if we are apart of the body of Christ the church the bride, we will not have any divisions amongst us, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it. (1Cor. 12:25-27) We are not going to make any change, God is, and we are just going to follow the gifts, the fruits and the leading on pure faith with hearts of Christ and the direction of the Holy Spirit. I like the way a man just came out with a book called the crucified ones, we are the ones that have to go through great amounts of suffering to become more like Christ, to have the understanding like Christ, and to feel pain not as bad as Christ but we all are suffering on this planet differently, at all different times and places. We are being molded refined and purified, to tell you the truth a lot of us right now are very sick, and only the Lord can heal us and bring us back to life to help this planet before we get hit with a suffering that know one will comprehend, only bible book worms, and there are many of us that know and can feel the end times approaching. Remember the words in the bible are alive, and you can read over a chapter many times and go back to it and say I never even new that was there. So that is just a simple proof that the word is alive. I learned the word patience today who went through years of suffering, and patience is suffering without murmuring or complaining. But we know these things because God has revealed them to us by his Spirit, and his Spirit searches out everything and shows us even God's deep secrets. No one can know what anyone else is really thinking except that person alone, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit. And God has actually given us his Spirit (not the world's spirit) so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. When we tell you this, we do not use words of human wisdom. We speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit's words to explain spiritual truths. But people who aren't Christians can't understand these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means. We who have the Spirit understand these things, but others can't understand us at all. How could they? For, "Who can know what the Lord is thinking? Who can give him counsel?" But we can understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ. (1Cor. 2:10-16) Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God. He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form. And in human form he obediently humbled himself even further by dying a criminal's death on a cross. Because of this, God raised him up to the heights of heaven and gave him a name that is above every other name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil 2:5-11) My heart is with you and my mind and spirit is in prayer for you, and we being the part of the body, can conquer anything with the help of our Lord, God bless you, Rev Paul
Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it's your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.” (1Pet.1:7) “If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us. As it is, there's not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we're not much to look at. We've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we're not demoralized; we're not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we've been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn't left our side; we've been thrown down, but we haven't broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, He does in us- He lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus' sake, which makes Jesus' life all the more evident in us. While we're going through the worst, you're getting in on the best!” (2Cor.4:7-12) “I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn't like the peace that this world can give. So don't be worried or afraid.” (John 14:27) “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:35-38) “Jesus understands every weakness of ours, because He was tempted in every way that we are. But He did not sin! So whenever we are in need, we should come bravely before the throne of our merciful God. There we will be treated with undeserved kindness, and we will find help.” (Heb. 4:15-16) I am a man that sees many colors, many hopes and many dreams we all will be called when the time is right, for now we must suffer and it is not a lonely suffering even though it appears to be, because He is there, we might not see Him but He is near, this is where our faith comes in, the more faith we have the closer He is to us, and the more we feel His presence. He is not going to just walk away from something that took so long to refine and process. He is making things better and He is giving us everything, sometimes we tend to look at the wrong things, we can’t stare at darkness we must concentrate on the light, and only he can give us the radiance, the world is full of darkness, that is why we are remolded and made new and steadfast to have that understanding and guidance which as we are going through each valley we learn to still grow and bear fruit we have the Holy Spirit right here with us to give us the comfort and peace that we need so deeply. All pain and suffering has to have an end, it had a beginning it has to have an ending. It is not up to us to ask when, only to stay strong as we go through it, I know it is hard at times and the tears that roll down my face proves that I know, we love Him and He knows that we love Him and His love for us we cannot even measure. We will see a new day a day of joy, for all of us, all the suffering ones, we will again smile and laugh and cheer and all that doubt and fear that we did hold will be cast away and unremembered. God Bless, Rev. Paul
And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. (Acts 4:33) My prayers are for you and with you, that is the joy I find through this great battle, is to send words of healing and give others hope and edification, even though I myself am going through the most incredible battle of spiritual warfare ever, and through the days it is getting even more and more unbelievable, but all I can do is wait upon the Lord in prayer and send my love to others and help them get through with maybe with some similarities what I am enduring. I to am going through great physical suffering, with a unknown affliction that does not let me eat normally and it has been 17-18 months. I am a bag of bones but my faith hasn’t changed. I have been getting many prophetic words from all parts of the world telling me that God is testing all the chosen workers of the new harvest so I guess my mind can be at ease. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.” (Prov.3:5-8) A well known scripture but very useful and full of great faith, and that is just what we all need now is great faith, to get us through any hardship, tragedy, being hurt and then tossed aside, especially by people you thought were your friends, it hurts so much when someone gives you a promise to help you greatly and they never come through, that hurts. And we as Christians the feeling leaves us and we forgive and pray for them. Our only true friend is Jesus Christ, He will never leave us or lie to us, and I know He will never stop loving us. That is why a good relationship with Jesus is a major key in our joy in this world and the one to come. It makes me wonder everyone is worrying about this simple life we have on this planet earth, and most of our lives will be eternal with Christ. “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does He with hold from those who walk uprightly.” (Psalm 84:11) “So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without His unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.” (2Cor. 4:16-18) “That is why we have a great High Priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God. Let us cling to Him and never stop trusting Him. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the same temptations we do, yet He did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it.” (Heb. 4:14-16) "Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.” (Matt. 7:7-8) This is the written word of God we have to have the faith. All the words in this book are fact and truth, and all we have to do is trust in the Lord and all things will come about. We can’t go through any doubt or our prayers are just blowing out there in the wind, we have to believe and have strong faith and we can fight and win any battle. The Apostles had great faith because they lived and walked with Jesus, and still some did have doubt, but through time and life they realized that everything Jesus said to them was truth and light. They were taught great lessons and brought them to a place of comfort and joy that could not be replaced with anything, they had no fear in death, they wanted to be with their friend again. “So I pray that God, who gives you hope, will keep you happy and full of peace as you believe in Him. May you overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Rom. 15:13)
God Bless you, Rev. Paul
“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.(2Cor.4:8-9) I am bewildered, 16 months and I still am in the dark but everything points of the diagnosis to RSD/CRPS it has an effect on millions today and there isn’t any cure. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Well the only thing I can do is keep praying, and live with pain and live out of a blender, because the disease is in my mouth, so I cannot chew, or where my upper plate. All I can do is continue my work for the Lord as the pastor of The Church Ministries, and try with all my heart to continue with the prayer ministry, and I know the Lord will heal me. “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes, with your right hand you save me.” (Psalm 138:7) So I find it more fitting for me to pray for others then for my own self. I have sent out prayers for myself to so many prayer groups, and I get a response of about 2%. So I feel bad, not just for myself but if I am only getting a 2% coming back, so is everyone else. I also realize that some prayer groups just pray and they don’t respond, which is a beautiful thing. So I feel it is my job through the Spirit I must strive to pray for others, and that I must send out words of comfort and in a positive mode for all people that are suffering greater things. I understand we (God, Jesus and the Spirit) have helped many people already, and I still want to continue, and I just don’t have the strength to sit for the many hours like I used to and answer prayer requests, plus we have to realize that I am under complete attack on top of this affliction because I am trying to do the Lords work, but through prayer people are coming out of there depression, getting healed, saved, finding and returning to Christ, marriages have been brought back together and the list goes on. I have been under such great attack because of everything I do, it is truly unbelievable, I am truly blessed to be alive and still be able to sit and type and pray. If it wasn’t for the 23 years of training in the gym I probably would be gone and with the Lord. But the Lord wants to keep me alive for other purposes and just for this purpose of helping others and leading them back to Him and His Comfort and give then hope and faith with strength in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. (Isa. 43:2) We are in a silent war with good verses evil, and each one of us are targets, and if we are not being fired upon, we are not doing anything in this war. “His Spirit lets us know that together with Christ we will be given what God has promised. We will also share in the glory of Christ, because we have suffered with him.” (Rom 8:17) My prayers for you will be in truth my prayers will be from the heart, we are to continue to be pressing on and fighting the good fight of faith, and none of us are ever going to give up or give in to any forms of evil, we are all going to live in glory with our Jesus and that is written, we may be suffering now but this will all soon pass, the Lord has given us so many promises and great promises of love and prosperity and to be well and healed if we only believe in Him, all gifts come down from the Father of lights where there is no shifting shadow, the Lord prayed for all believers in the 17th Chapter of John, that we all will be one with Him and the Father and we will also be protected from the evil one. We have to build our faith and our complete trust in Him, and we have to walk by the fruits of the Spirit and each of us has been given gifts, we are to find then understand them and exercise them so we in turn can help and heal others, would it be a wonderful sight if after you have gone through this whole burden, and then God gives you the gift of healing others, this way you have your testimony and your gifts to express to others, what an impact. My prayers are with you in the purity and sincerity. We have to live with complete thankfulness and praise so the Lord will hear us, we can’t just be mumbling God help us, we need to express our love to Him all the times whether we are in the valleys or on the highest mountain at our point of our life, and then again you can also be stuck in the caves below the valleys like me, I still look up in faith at the great light of God and I just look back and remember Paul and Silus they were in stocks and in chains and there were situated in a horrible position in a dark jail, what did they do, they were praising the Lord and singing hymns I mean that is faith, (Acts 16:25-30) I wish we all could have that much faith. “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!” Amen.(Eph.3:14-21) I bid you a great peace from our Lord, and my prayers are with you, so God Bless you, I ask that the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, will be with you always, Rev. Paul
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 Yes the one called Christ has gone through great suffering for us, so we can look to the heavens and believe. We honor these words and in our hearts we have that trust in Him. The more we trust the greater our healing through His Glory at His timing. “Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” (Col. 3:13) We are to forgive and to love one another, no mater who hurts us, we are to have the mind of Christ, suffering on that cross, how would anyone react would they be yelling and screaming, saying all kinds of words but our Jesus says “forgive them Father for they no not what they do”. How much does a man have to grow to be and have that attitude? Can any of us ever be that forgiving, with nails pierced through our hands, hanging on a tree. We are to love one another and pray for one another, and forgive no mater what the extremes. “Since my youth, O God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds. Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come.” (Psalm 71:17-18) We have a God that is truly merciful and with so much love and power within Him, there is nothing He can not do, he has to discipline us train us and test us, how will he know we are worthy, people with great deeds to perform in the future, are under immense amount of suffering and testing all over the world, and some of the testing comes from the adversary, and permitted by God. God doesn’t want to hurt us, people do it for him and at times they are lead by evil or just greed or jealousy, or that lust for power, they want that upper hand, they want to have that last word of judgment, plus those that are just being unclean. Remember all the people shouting to let Barabbas go free, a murderer, and what did our Jesus do. He went around and taught and healed and performed all kinds of miracles and helped, feed and educated so many men and women, and shared His love and direction that was given by the Father. How do you think the Father felt when the mob (the same people Jesus loved) was shouting for a murderer to go free, and His son is being condemned for doing good? Well my brothers and sisters nothing has changed, it has only gotten worse, and hidden and disguised. “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2Cor. 4:4) Our next question is how many of us truly believe? How many say they are Christians are Christians. “Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. (1John 3:7-10) If we love our Christian brothers and sisters, it proves that we have passed from death to eternal life. But a person who has no love is still dead. Anyone who hates another Christian is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don't have eternal life within them. We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us. And so we also ought to give up our lives for our Christian brothers and sisters. (1John 3:14-16) So my prayers are with you, and even though I myself am going though the attacks the suffering the living in the unknown, living in a world of pain everyday, the Lord guided me about my condition, an I had to relay it back to the Rheumatologist, and has not been confirmed. It seems the Lord has shown me what I have, but I do not know if I will ever eat again, not knowing if the disease can be cured, the 16 months of being picked and prodded and the doctors having shared all their opinions personalities, and guesses and I suffered through all of it. I am being hammered each and everyway, by the devil, and I am not going to give up and crawl into a corner and cry. Not to say I have many times, for this past year I have watched myself come down to skin and bones. I am still going to be an over comer, I am still going to pray for others and love one another, how can a man live in front of a television, what good does it do for others, are we just seeking pleasure for ourselves? I find pleasure in praying for others and caring for people and trying to give them the calming words, the words from my heart which I hope are the words of the Spirit of God. I am nothing, I can not do anything without Him, He has given everything to me, plus my life what I know and the ability to think, that alone I praise and thank the Lord. I who am nothing, how can I even criticize or make a judgment of another. “Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions. It is by our actions that we know we are living in the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before the Lord, even if our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.” (1John 3:18-20) I bid you a great peace and healing for what ever you are facing, and what ever burden that you are dealing with, my prayers for you are sincere, and God will hear us, and He will listen and I know with faith that He will come through for each of us. God Bless, Rev. Paul
Dear friends as I have been walking through this life, I have came across many obstacles, God came along in my life and pulled me out of many situations, there were so many and there were a lot of heartbreaks, it started when I was young and playing football, I also ran track in the other seasons, but my football coach hated me and took full power into physical and mental abuse, which he also made the team hate me and lose respect for me and almost destroyed my whole character, it was very simple to do, as you would see on many sports shows, at the end of practice you would make the team run sprints across the field back and forth until we all were about to drop, and then my coach who hated me, because my Dad was the prior football coach and they shared more then words, not about me, but being macho men of seeing who was the toughest, and my Dad usually won. So the coaches anxiety and payback came out on me, and after you run about 20 sprints then he would say well bananas if you are not out in front, the whole team would have to do another, well I was the fastest, but then when my energy ran down or someone came a head, the team would get another, so after about 50 or so the team would hate me more than playing in freezing weather in the mud. They blamed me no matter how hard I tried; I always did my best because even then I was running for God. The whole team would never talk to me even when it was over taking showers in the looker room and it even got worse, I was a running back one of the guys that carried the football, he would put me in the game and have me run the whole team down the field, running my plays 20 traps, 24 powers, 28 sweeps, anything that began with 2 that meant I carried the ball, we would get to the closest distance to the goal line and then he would take me out and send in a freshman and let them score the touch down, so I never got any part of the glory of the game itself I was an unknown name in the newspapers because he made it a point not to let me score. You would here over the school intercom everyone who scored points, no one actually new what was going on, my own Dad didn’t not know what was going on he was always to busy doing something else, and I was the one getting tackled crushed and beaten up by the other team, plus moving that football down the field getting first down, after first down, and there were many a time I would get loose and I would be gone and score, then he would take me out of the rest of the game entirely. There is much more to this story but now I am suffering more then ever, but I got through it back in school over thirty years ago I can get through it now, it is a word called faith, I had it then and I have it now. I am so much stronger spiritually because of my knowledge of scripture and the relationship I have with God and Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Physically I am broken, but I will stand tall and healed, I know I will, God got me through many hard times and I know he will get me through this. For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.(Phil. 1:6) The LORD will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you. (Deut. 7:15) We have to remember this is not what I want to happen to people that hate me, I have to pray daily for the ones who have hurt me still and lied to me, it is all up to God, but as Jesus was dieing up on that cross He said forgive them Father for they know not what they do. Some of the people really don’t in know or understand what they were doing; they were blinded and influenced by Satan and his agents. “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,
in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2Cor.4:3-4) You see that Satan is not only to blind the light of the gospel he is drawing men away from it, he is very tricky and he will attack the human heart so he can perform his act of wickedness and to keep people in ignorance. He doesn’t want anyone to shine the light of the gospel and the powers it contains, so he will destroy anything or anyone who is doing what Christianity wants us to do, share the gospel and the love of Jesus Christ. We are to express our love to others and pray, the power of prayer as you all know changes things, and the God of the universe will listen and by chance will alter His decisions and He can do just that, we all know God does have a plan and a design, but through prayer we can alter God’s plan and map let us say or the book of our past present and future. God wants us to pray and He does listen to his children. May the Lord bless you always, God Bless, Rev. Paul
“no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me," declares the LORD. (Isa. 54:17) Do you want to know something I love Jesus, he has done so much for me, and even I myself have been suffering and under heavy attack for the last 16 months, but I shall praise the Lord. “So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.” (Heb. 10:35-36) God has so many promises for us though His word, I enjoy helping people and praying with them and for them “Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when His glory is revealed. If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.” (1Pet.4:12-14). So if we are going through some hardship we are still blessed, maybe we are hurting for the moment, learning and feeling the sufferings of Christ, but we shall also share in His glory. So we have to keep looking ahead, God has so much to give us if we are faithful and trusting. So we have to continue to fight the good fight of faith, and we will be over comers, and make it through all the darkness we may be in now. We all know our God loves us and will never forsake us. In addition to writing the Sunday sermon my prayers are the most important, there was many a time that I sent out prayers for myself and the ratio of anyone giving me a response totally broke my heart. But I must say the ones that did respond gave me the strength to go on with this spiritual and physical battle. So that is what I am doing sharing my heart and praying for all your needs. Those so few responses opened the door to a great light from the Lord. It seemed what ever I was facing I was comforted and completely forgot about the burden. “Finally all of you should be of one mind, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds.” (1Pet 3:8) To tell you the truth just knowing that someone is there caring and praying, is like an answered prayer to me. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”(2 Cor. 1:3-4) “Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength." (Neh. 8:10) I can not send any choice food or sweet drinks but I can send a prayer with hope, joy, strength, and the Love of God, and He can help us through anything, and Jesus opened the veil so we can go directly to the throne of grace. God’s Love can not even be measured; you can not weigh it, see it, smell it or taste or hear it. But we can see what He created, surrounding all of us, He made us in His likeness and we can tell He is always there for us, just as we listen to the wind blowing through the trees, we can here Him from the trickling sounds of a stream or brook, we can smell the flowers blooming that He created for us, we can see the beauty of the morning mist or fog energizing all the green grass and other shrubbery. We can feel the light he sends down from the heavens the sun during the day and we can see the stars at night twinkling. He is the universe in action, so we can ask for anything. “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” (John 15:7) “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (John 14:27) So my prayers are with you, "The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace." (Num. 6:24-26) God Bless, Rev. Paul
My computer went down and then the back-up computer went down both on the same day, May 6th, and I am still putting it back together even after it was in the shop for 4-1/2 days and got tormented by HP for 3 days but my spirit and the one computer is coming back to life after a system restore (destructive.)
In this unjust world a life of integrity depends on trusting God even when we don’t understand what His plan is. The fact remains we won’t make a single promise or hold a single assurance that will not be tested and we all know that Satan will see to that. As we live through our lives day by day, will our courage match our commitment? The whole aspect of life of maintaining our integrity is to totally keep our eyes focused beyond the sufferings, beyond the pain, the burdens the misfortunes and all the things that go wrong with this life here on the planet earth, we are only here for a short time, (a blink of an eye) and we are going to have the ups and downs and we are going to fail at many things and no matter how hard we don’t want to sin, we still are going to end up sinning, we are still living in the flesh, but we are being renewed day by day, you see we have to look beyond all the negative aspects and praise the Lord, give thanks to Him, and give Him the glory for getting us this far. We have a God that loves us and He remains that way constantly and we can always trust in the Lord, but then the question comes up why we doubt. Why can’t we totally trust in our Lord completely, some of us say we do but when the battle begins and you are either getting pulverized, hurt, with devastation or God is permitting Satan to torment us, do we loose our faith? No! we can’t, this is the test this is why we go through the things of hardship we do. We have to grow and we have to be changed from the inside out, once our hearts say we trust in our Lord the rest of our body will follow. We are Christians and we are called and chosen by God himself. “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, "And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.” (John 6:44-45) When it gets right down to it and we can say with all our heart, God if I suffer or die, I will suffer or die giving You the glory that You most ought to have and receive. Either way I will put my trust in You. So my brothers and sisters no matter what we are going through we are that one step closer to the great I Am.
So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too. For if you are willing to suffer for Christ, you have decided to stop sinning. And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God. 1Pet.4:1-2 God Bless, Rev. Paul
In This life have gone through and have just even now cannot even take the pain, I am struggling and I have just gone over the blessings for obedience from the Lord in Deut. 28:1-14 if we are continually following the path of God how can we possibly suffer like this. The more enjoyment we take in the word, and works, and ways of God, the more likely we shall be to persevere through this severe attack. We are to love one another fear the ways of God give up our lives to God in which I do nothing else, why won’t the Lord help my pain? Why has this been such a rollercoaster, I wake up to an intense attack and what can I do rebuke all evil If we are guarded against the evil one in (2Thes 3:3), But the Lord is faithful; he will make you strong and guard you from the evil one.(1John 5:18) We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. (Rev. 3:10) Then we have to consider the book of John in the prayer Jesus made to the Father in Chapter (17:14-15) "I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. This started out as many prayers for all of you, in which every night I stay up and write prayers for so many people for a long time since about Aug 03 since the church opened. I have many prayer lines come right into the church computer, and last week the evil one or maybe it was an act of God for me to take a rest, the two computers both went out, with know reason behind it, and they are not even connected, talk about stress and tears, 10 days of prayer fasting in the word and nothing else, but my only joy is to help others and to bless them with scripture and the love of God to give them all hope and faith in this dark world, we know this world is getting colder just as Jesus was telling His disciples in Matt. Chaper 24, verses 11-12 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. KJV The thing is what is going on, what is happening. Have we reached the end of the world, Has God just left me for constant attack then we can read the same scriptures to get a different form of an opinion "In the confusion, lying preachers will come forward and deceive a lot of people. For many others, the overwhelming spread of evil will do them in--nothing left of their love but a mound of ashes. These came from the Message our understanding is and always has been if we are surrounded by evil and the preachers themselves are defiantly changing which I have been blessed with the discernment to feel the essence of the Spirit when I first sit down in any church, the thing is the church as we know it is not a building and the traditions of men have been compounding us to, you must go to church, the people of God are the church so how can you go to church? "He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn't live in man-made temples, and human hands can't serve his needs--for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need there is. Acts 17:24-25 You need the fellowship but if the spirit of God is not there, and the message the preacher is usually forgotten, we are to judge with righteous judgment and we have to expose what is happening to others or they too themselves will fall into the trap of the evil one, the cause and effect of preachers even preaching about tithing there has been so much altering on the word tithing , it has been misrepresented and misread and used to take money from people who don’t even have it in the first place, after I have been in study of the origin of the whole tithing design, what am I not going to voice my knowledge? That to would be a sin, a terrible sin if I didn’t express myself. “Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him. Don't even hang around people like that. You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true--these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it. Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ. (Eph.5:6-13) And now I make one more appeal, my dear brothers and sisters. Watch out for people who cause divisions and upset people's faith by teaching things that are contrary to what you have been taught. Stay away from them. Such people are not serving Christ our Lord; they are serving their own personal interests. By smooth talk and glowing words they deceive innocent people. But everyone knows that you are obedient to the Lord. This makes me very happy. I want you to see clearly what is right and to stay innocent of any wrong. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (Rom 16:17-20) So here I am just getting run away with myself I wanted this prayer tonight to edify and help so many others and now the evil one is making me think this whole prayer is worthless, but how can that be, or am I at sin for giving my opinions on the basis of scripture, I think not, My love is there, my compassion is there and I have not been able to write anything to the people of God for a long time, last night was the first night I have been coming back, I cannot do anything else, I am physically transformed to this chair what is a man to do, who can save me from this pain and torment? For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. (Rom 7:22-25) My prayers are with you and always will be, I even write every ones name down and pray for them days later, May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you constantly, God Bless, Rev. Paul
You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. (1Thes.5:11) But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. (Heb 3:13) Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. (Rom 14:19) Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. (Phil.2:3-4) The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. (1Pet.4:7-10) For you have been called to live in freedom not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself. Gal. (5:13-14) My Prayers are with you always, and I don’t know how to thank you for so many other lives that will be saved and fed and given clothes and a shower, a place to sleep and to learn the bread of life. All I ever wanted is to have one of those neon signs with the cross and says’ Jesus Saves which you will see on the bayside across the whole bay of the town of Hilo, the building is sitting there and has been, it would be a great dream to actually come alive. My hope and prayers are that you will see the finished product. The town is so poor we will be able to fill the void of the middle class and bring many to Christ. God Bless Rev. Paul
I am praying, Even though I myself am getting hit so hard with medical problems, pain, attacks from all sorts of evil, weakness and distress. I guess I myself should be thankful for the things I have, and not think about the things that have been taken away. No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil 3:13-14) So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. (Heb.10:35-36) being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.(Phil 1:6) And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God.(Phil 1:9-11) This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him.(1John 5:14-15) 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. (1John 4:11-13) So don't get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time. (Gal.6:9) I will give you back your health and heal your wounds, says the LORD. (Jer.30:17a) Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. (3 John1:2) I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken, or their children begging bread.(Psalm 37:25) God Bless, Rev. Paul
I am praying, I got hit so hard by the enemy Monday, that I almost gave up all of my prayer obligations, and I almost went and watched TV, the reason; I wasn’t praying enough myself, so the evil one just waited till I was off balance, and slammed me with everything he had, I actually was upset and I never do that. We all have to spend time with our Lord, this gives us the power to defend ourselves from every form of attack, and may it be financial, physical, spirit, heart, relationships, family, soul, or the mind. I was crushed Monday, and a ministry prayed for me, telling that tomorrow will be a new day and Tuesday I realized almost everything the devil threw at me Monday was all an illusion. Then today I got smacked with another trauma, and I thank God I came out of it. That is how evil works when your trying to help and pray for people, if we don’t put our armor on and stand firm (Eph.6) and realize that we have the spirit of the awesome God in us, and that the devil has been already been defeated at the cross, we get tricked, deceived, and blinded of the truth. (1John 5:19, 2Cor.4:4, Eph. 2:2, John 8:44, John 10:10a) So I just fought it off, the bible tells us to stand firm and resist the devil.
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Eph. 6:10-12)
“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.” (James 4:7-8a) So by the late evening I was still getting hit, but through prayer, I ended up sitting till 2am, writing back to prayer requests. So if you don’t pray, and cry out to God for direction and guidance, the devil can manipulate you or others. The devil will use all different people to get to you, and it is usually people that you love the most. And it will also work in reverse, someone that you care for is hurt or suffering, then of coarse you feel terrible for them, and then we are open to attack or maybe a whole group of people, or family, or church, and the list goes on. So my prayers are with you, and we are to share each others burdens and try to edify and share our love and concerns for each other through prayer. Where there is unity there is power, "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.” (Matt. 18:19) Also once we are a part of the family of God, we all are eternally secure, and Satan cannot have your eternal life, or your spirit, or your soul.
“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one." (John 10:28-30) So you see in these scriptures we have two hands on us both Jesus’ and God’s so how can anything happen to us? We are held by the most two powerful forces of the universe. So how can any of us even begin to doubt or worry about anything? But we are human and still living in the flesh, and we have to overcome the evil one, by prayer and faith. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (1John 5:4-5) My prayers are sincere, and May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Rev. Paul
I am praying, Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. (Psalm 55:22) But certainly God has heard; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, Who has not turned away my prayer Nor His loving-kindness from me. (Psalm 66:19-20) He will shield you with his wings. He will shelter you with his feathers. His faithful promises are your armor and protection. (Psalm 91:4) For He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways. (Psalm 91:11) Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak.
Heal me, LORD, for my body is in agony. I am sick at heart. How long, O LORD, until you restore me? (Psalm 6:2-3) Make me know Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day. (Psalm 25:4-5) These are a few scriptures that I say for myself and others, I am a preacher, that has gone through a great test, one in a close comparison to a man named Job in the bible, I have had an affliction, and each doctor out of 11 that I went to, minus a few that did help psychologically, but they could not fix the problem at hand. I have just found out this week, that I have been mis-diagnosed again, and lied to. We have doctors not having, or sending reports, to cover them selves, then they right, or treat me like I was trash. Jesus said they would because they are part of the world, and they will hate you, like they hated Me (John 15:18-20) I have talked to my nurse that took care of me for six weeks, during a treatment, surgery and a mental physical fear of a guess, a guess that I found out that was a complete lie. She is worried about my life; I have been in a critical situation for 7-1/2 months. So now I have all these doctors covering up for each other, but now I have all the films and reports which they can’t toss under the carpet. But they can’t take away my faith, so my tears are for you, because I know I will be OK, and I feel right that you will be OK too, and I have the want to pray for others, like I have every night for the past 7-1/2 months, and of course longer, even when I was healthy. This is the only way that we can fight the devil, he hates prayer, and he hates the love for others, so we all must continue to love, and edify one another, to give each other peace, through prayer, concern and compassion. We can aid Jesus who has all ready defeated the evil one. So if your lives are not going the way they should, Shout to the Lord! He is there, and He always will be. God listens and hears every prayer, I know He hears me, and we follow that same scripture “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Rom 8:28) He will take care of me, and I know he will take care of you, and your family, or your children, or your friends and neighbors, and anyone else that you truly care for, He is God! So I wish to share with you, the strength I have, that we are to trust in Him, and He will make the light shine, for all of us, it is written everywhere in the bible. One more thing, I am sorry if I am a little late, in sending this response, the Sunday sermon took 14 straight hours, but I have members and friends throughout the world that look forward to reading it, and helping them, in all various countries. So my prayers are forever with you, hoping to give you comfort, peace, grace, and healing. God Bless, Rev. Paul
