Good morning everyone across the globe, we are all welcoming you to the grace of God the Love of Jesus and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It is another Sunday and we ask through the name above all names that Jesus would enter into every person’s heart and that who ever can hear the sermon of today be anointed by the Holy Spirit. We all Love all men, women and animals, we give our whole lives for our fellow man or woman, Father help us to reveal the understanding and hope to all our people of the earth, to join everyone together and to understand the power that is already within 1/3 of our being, and that we have all the faith we will ever need, all the love and all the spiritual power of any human being that walks this earth, even people that are lying in hospitals, I ask in the name of Jesus for all who are sick and can’t stand or walk to be healed of all afflictions and health problems in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. If we are born again let the spirit we have inside of us cross over to our bodies through our soul and minds so we can feel and see and hear the manifestation of the power of the Christian spirit. Father cast out all pain, all suffering and bring pure love to us all. We have learned to forgive all people because we understand that it might be the devil playing tricks again without our knowledge or the others knowledge, because sometimes people just don’t understand how they are hurting others. Please bring our hope our dreams Your will Your direction to each of our minds. Please Father we are made in the likeness of You and You gave us a very large gift, and along with a gift of the spirit it breaks down to so many other gifts and fruits, and minds of purity of the saints of God. Please Father let us all be equal and all loving and all one hope one Lord one faith, one baptism and join hands with all countries across the earth and let us heal each other in a vision of each and every Christian holding each others hands across the circle of the earth. We could do it along the earth but we would need a large number so we could heal the entire race of Christianity, we can do it, even if we don’t physically hold on to everyone we can do it with all with our spirits and a constant vision of all of us holding each other, and everyone with each and every gift and with the power of the spirit and this vision, if we could concentrate on it , picture it all into our minds and all of us with any affliction, the unity of the vision and the constant concentration of each of our hands holding each other across the globe, and all the different powers and gifts we all possess as we join together we could heal every born again believer on the planet. It can be done if we all see the same vision and think it constantly, imagine seeing millions of Christians holding hands across country, after country and around the globe, and we all pray as we hold each other, just imagine the impact alone. We could change the whole world. So let us pray and have the same vision of all of us holding hands, it would have to have intense concentration to have a vision of people holding hands across the whole Pacific ocean, but all we have to do is think it, and say it into existence, use our words and in tune we all have the same vision, the same thought using the power we all have put together in our spirits, and the strength and unity of each persons mind thinking of the same vision, it all could be possible.
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Dear Father in Heaven, please O’ Lord we just want to express our love to You, and we worship You dearly, with all our hearts. We are all Your children, and we want to thank You for this church, and all the members, and all the people who have helped us along this narrow road, to find the true path to righteousness, and how we are all fitted and placed together to make a perfect union of the body of Christ. Please be with us in spirit and in truth, so we can worship “You” in spirit and in truth. Please send Your Holy Spirit to us all, that hear and read and experience the love in this message today, we need Your Holy influence of grace and righteousness, understanding, and compassion and the purity of Your love. In Jesus’ mighty Name, Amen.
Please turn your bibles to Num.11.16-29
The LORD said to Moses: "Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone. "Tell the people: 'Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, "If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!" Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it. You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?" ' " But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!' Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?" The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you." So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the Tent. Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirit that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again. However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the Tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp. A young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp." Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' aide since youth, spoke up and said, "Moses, my lord, stop them!" But Moses replied, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!" (Num 11: 16-29)
We all want to be full of the Holy Spirit, guided by him and empowered by him.
-and this is possible now, because Jesus has died for us and made us Holy
- holy enough to be a habitation for the Holy Spirit
- but what was it like for believers before Jesus died and dealt with our sins?
- how did the Holy Spirit interact with believers then?
There are two main differences between us and them
A) the Holy Spirit only came on a few special individuals, for a short time
- on prophets, on leaders, and sometimes on ordinary people
- but he only stayed long enough to get the job done, and while there was no sin
B) the Holy Spirit was ON them rather than IN them
- Jesus put it succinctly: "he lives with you and will be in you" (John.14.17)
- in the OT the Holy Spirit came upon people, and then left again
- but he lives in us, and is an intimate part of us, working with us as one
Those two differences are perhaps what you expected, and you already know them
- but I was surprised when I looked at the Holy Spirit in the OT
- because I found a situation which most of us are yearning after
- we want the Spirit to take control, empower us and tell us exactly what to do
- and that is exactly what the Holy Spirit did in the OT
- in other words we are trying to be OT believers, with regard to the Holy Spirit
- but the OT speaks about a way in which the Holy Spirit will work differently
- that in the future (that is now) God's Spirit would live permanently inside believers
- and he would be intimately part of us, not directing or commanding us from outside
- we are reflective for the Old Testament setup, and are always trying to replicate it
- what we are searching for is often closer to how the Holy Spirit worked in the OT than the NT
- perhaps you'll see what I mean when we see what the Holy Spirit was like in the OT
First of all, what is the Holy Spirit ? WHO is the Holy Spirit ?
- in Gen.1.2 we find the Spirit hovering over the newly created chaos on earth.
[Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.](Gen.1:2)
- straight away we find the hint we need, that the Holy Spirit is the way God communicates and interacts with his creation
- the highest part of his creation, humans, have a spirit just like God has a spirit
- they also have a soul, while animals only have a soul, and no spirit
- this distinction between humans and animals is consistent throughout Scripture
(except for one flaming verse in Eccl.3.21-[For who can prove that the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward into the earth?] (Ecc.3:21)
{from the Footnotes of Bible gateway 3:19} Does the Bible really teach that "a man has no preeminence over a beast"? No! The Bible only records that the book of Ecclesiastes says it. Then why is this book in the Bible? Can it possibly be called inspired by God when it makes such "under the sun" pronouncements, some only partially true, others entirely false? Here is the tested answer: "Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching ... reproof... correction, for instruction... in righteousness." (II Tim. 3:16 ASV.) The divine purpose in including Ecclesiastes in the Bible is obvious. It gives a startling picture of how fatal it is for even the wisest of men to substitute man's "wisdom" for God's wisdom, and to attempt to live by it. Solomon's reign began with God, gold, and glory. It ended with bafflement, brass, and bewildered acceptance of man's having "no preeminence over a beast"!--man, who was made "in the image and likeness of God" (Gen. 1:27) and "but little lower than God [or heavenly beings]"! (Ps. 8:5.)
- we don't know exactly what Scripture means by soul & spirit, but we can guess
- humans have choice, responsibility, morality, the ability to know good from evil
- perhaps these are what our spirit gives us, though personally I think not
- I see our soul as something similar to our character – which is part of our minds
- our spirit is the only truly non-physical part of us, - the godlike part of us
- our minds can think, feel emotion, contain a conscience, and plan to do good
- but only our spirit can communicate with God and through it God can speak to us
- and likewise God's spirit interacts with his creation by his Spirit
- the Holy Spirit speaks to human spirits and directs them
Of course, later in the Bible, we learn that God has another way to interact with us
- he will become one of us when Jesus is born, and we see that happen in the NT
- it is almost unbelievable that God would do such a thing, and most religions still refuse to believe it
- that God could become a man so that there is now a man who is God
Back to the Holy Spirit, and how we see him working in the OT
- we see him at work when God wants humans to do something
- when they need some special knowledge, the Holy Spirit speaks to a prophet
- and this can be an ordinary person who isn't regarded as a prophet
for example- When Asa was embattled with the Ethiopians and called to God for help:
(2Chron.15:1-2) The Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded. 2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
- God's spirit came on Asa especially for this task, and presumably left again after
- and he warned Asa similarly that God would be with him to help him, only as long as he stayed close to God.
- perhaps Azariah had been used as a prophet before – we don't know
- but God certainly likes using someone quite unexpectedly, out of the blue
- like in 2Chron.20, where the whole nation has met to pray with the king about the dire situation of the country
Jehoshaphat Defeats Moab and Ammon
After this, the Moabites and Ammonites with some of the Meunites came to make war on Jehoshaphat. Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of the Sea. It is already in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi). Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the LORD, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah. The people of Judah came together to seek help from the LORD; indeed, they came from every town in Judah to seek him. Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple of the LORD in the front of the new courtyard and said: "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you. O our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying, 'If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.' "But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them. See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance. O our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you." All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the LORD. (+[Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph, as he stood in the assembly.]+) He said: "Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's. 16 Tomorrow march down against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the gorge in the Desert of Jeruel. You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you.' " Jehoshaphat bowed with his face to the ground, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down in worship before the LORD. Then some Levites from the Kohathites and Korahites stood up and praised the LORD, the God of Israel, with very loud voice. Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful." After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying:"Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever." As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped. So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it. On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, where they praised the LORD. This is why it is called the Valley of Beracah to this day. Then, led by Jehoshaphat, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies. They entered Jerusalem and went to the temple of the LORD with harps and lutes and trumpets. The fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard how the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel. And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace, for his God had given him rest on every side. The End of Jehoshaphat's Reign So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi. He walked in the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people still had not set their hearts on the God of their fathers. The other events of Jehoshaphat's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the annals of Jehu son of Hanani, which are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah made an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel, who was guilty of wickedness. He agreed with him to construct a fleet of trading ships. After these were built at Ezion Geber, Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have made an alliance with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made." The ships were wrecked and were not able to set sail to trade. (2Chron.20)
- and God suddenly speaks through an unexpected person in the crowd:
14 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph, as he stood in the assembly.
{{- imagine if you had been in the crowd and suddenly God chose to speak through you!}}
The Holy Spirit also gives knowledge or strength when it is needed
- like when Solomon had to design the Temple and plan out the priesthood (2Chron.28.12) [“Then some of the leaders in Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—confronted those who were arriving from the war.”] (2Chron.28:12)
- or when the craftsmen had to build the Tabernacle, working with gold and jewelery and not just wood and wool which they were used to (Ex.28.3; 31.3; 35.31) [Tell all the skilled men to whom I have given wisdom in such matters that they are to make garments for Aaron, for his consecration, so he may serve me as priest.] (Ex.28:3) [and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts- (Ex.31:3) [and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts-] (Ex.35:31)
Though the Holy Spirit even gave prophecy and knowledge to those who didn't follow God,
- like Balaam, who prophesied accurately by the Holy Spirit (Num.24.2) [When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him] (Num.24:2)
- even though he was trying to curse Israel, as the paid servant of the Midianites
- and the Holy Spirit guided Amasai, the bandit leader to side with David (2Chr.18.20) [Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, 'I will entice him.' “‘By what means?' the LORD asked.] (2Chron. 18:20)
- so we see the Holy Spirit providing prophecy, knowledge and guidance, to anyone for a time
The Holy Spirit came especially upon leaders of the people, guiding their lives
- the Spirit came on David from the time he was anointed (1Sam.16.13) [So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.] (1Sam.16:13)
- Israel is seen as guided and instructed in the Wilderness (Neh.9.20) [You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.] (Neh.9:20)
- the Spirit was on Joshua to help him lead (Num.27.18) [So the LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand on him.] (Num.27:18)
- but the Spirit was only there while it was necessary, and only if there was no sin
- when David sinned, the Holy Spirit was taken away
- or it would have been, if he hadn't repented,
- as we see in Ps.51, his repentance after killing Bathsheba's husband:
9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
The Holy Spirit also gave people power and enthusiasm to do things they couldn't do
- he gave Samson the power to be strong (Judg.13.25; 14.6, 19; 15.14) [and the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him while he was in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.] (Judg.13:25) [The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.] (Judg.14:6) [As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands.] (Judg.15:14)
- he gave Micah the courage to stand up and speak God's word (Mic.3.8) [But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.] (Mic.3:8)
- stirred up and enthused the people to rebuild the Temple (Ezra 1.5) [Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.] (Ezra 1:5)
- helped Jephthah win his battles (Judg.11.29) [Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.] (Judg.11.29)
- Elisha, who did better miracles than Elijah, had a double portion (2King.2.9) [When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?" "Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit," Elisha replied.] (2Kings 2:9)
But when the Holy Spirit came on someone, their actions were often involuntary
- it happened twice to Saul, once as a sign that he was chosen by God:
(1 Sam.10: 5) "After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, tambourines, flutes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying. 6 The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. 7 Once these signs are fulfilled, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you. 10 When they arrived at Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him; the Spirit of God came upon him in power, and he joined in their prophesying.
- it wasn't just that Saul decided to join in with their singing and dancing and prophesying – he couldn't help it. He was "a different person" (v.6).
- we see this more clearly when later Saul sends soldiers to arrest David, and when they fail he goes to do the job himself
- David is staying with Samuel, among the prophets, and the soldiers are incapacitated by the Holy Spirit who makes them prophesy:
(1 Sam.19:20) So Saul sent men to capture David. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came upon Saul's men and they also prophesied. 21 Saul was told about it, and he sent more men, and they prophesied too. Saul sent men a third time, and they also prophesied. 22 Finally, he himself left for Ramah …23 …But the Spirit of God came even upon him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth.
- and other prophets were also like this, for example Moses' Elders
- when the Holy Spirit was poured on them to help them lead, they started prophesying
- not all the Elders were at the meeting, but the others started prophesying as well
Num.11:24 So …brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the Tent. 25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirit that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again.
26 However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the Tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.
The Holy Spirit gave messages, knowledge, power, and controlled people in the OT
- but the OT looked forward to a time when things would be very different
- David prayed after his sin that God would not take away the Holy Spirit and that he would create in him a pure heart
- Ezekiel prophesied about a time when this would happen to all believers:
Ezek.36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
- the Spirit is not there to MAKE us follow God's will, but it transforms us from within so that we WANT to
- it is clearer in Jeremiah who says that God's law will be written into our hearts
Jer.31:33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel…
"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts… 34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest."
God's Holy Spirit would no longer make people do things or push them
- there would be a melding between the spirit of believers and the Holy Spirit
- so there is no need to bend our will to God's will, but simply to do Gods' will
- and the Holy Spirit would not need to give messages to reveal God to them
- they will be close to God and know God's will, by the Spirit which is part of them
- that doesn't mean that things like prophesy, and visions will be unnecessary
- sometimes God will still speak by them, but in the future, this would not be just for special people
- in the OT God spoke like that to his prophets and to leaders
- in the future the Holy Spirit would speak like this even to anyone, even children and servants:
Joel 2:28 "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
This made me wonder about what we are aiming for as Christians
- we think it is impressive when there is a prophecy, and of course it is important
- God often speaks to people by this means, or by visions or dreams
- but this is the fall-back method, the OT method for God to speak to us
- when I look back to the definite times God has spoken to me by such means, it is generally when I'm going the wrong way or doing the wrong thing
- when I'm doing the right thing, there is no need to tell me
- unless the going is really tough, and I'm thinking of going another way
- then God may need to use such means to tell me to persevere, to encourage me
The OT prophets looked forward to a time when God would not have to do this
- when God's law, God's general will, would be written in our hearts
- we wouldn't have to ask him what was the right thing to do, because we would know it
- and they saw a time when God's Holy Spirit would be united with our spirit
- so we not only know God's law, but we know God as a person, in our hearts
- now and then God would need to guide when the way was obscure, but not often
- usually we would know God's will, because we know God so well
As Christians we sometimes say things like: Let God be your master
- there is a saying: "Let go and let God" – that is let God take control
- we should, of course, try to live for God, and he should be our Lord
- but that does not mean we are servants waiting for instructions, for control
- that is the OT way of doing things, where God pushed and pointed
- in the NT we are no longer servants but part of the family
- as Jesus put it: John 15: 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
We are partners in the family business, not employees watching the clock
- when we see something which needs doing, we get on with it and do it
- we don't sit there waiting for the boss to give us instructions
- that’s the OT way of doing things, waiting for the Spirit to tell us to do something
- God's Spirit is now in us and working with our spirit, helping us to see what needs doing
- and we even work creatively in partnership, seeing how to do things in a new way
- of course sometimes we just won't see it, and God will have to point it out to us
- that is part of a partnership – both sides looking and planning and working together
We need to take the Holy Spirit within us more seriously
- God is working in our minds, and we don't listen to him
- sometimes a crazy thought will cross our minds, and it can be God speaking
- we shouldn't just dismiss it, but learn to work in partnership with God
- don't just wait for the OT style of guidance – the prophesy, or vision
- when we are praying or reading the Bible, God can quietly remind us or guide us
- he shouldn't need to do the equivalent of shouting at us with a dream or vision
- when you find yourself thinking about someone, pray for them
- it is very likely that God is reminding you about them for a reason
- when you are talking to someone and feel you should say something, say it
- and when you are walking somewhere and feel you should change direction, change, and see where it takes you.
A lot of times you will end up down dead-end streets or dead-end conversations
- don't worry – we'll often mistake random thoughts for God's prompting
- but sometimes you'll unexpectedly find that God has been gently prompting
A final plea – do use your common sense. God has given you that too.
- if you feel a prompt to do something dangerous or costly or embarrassing to others, get some confirmation from a fellow believer before you step out
- it is too easy to do stupid things in the name of God
- the more surprising the idea, the more confirmation you need
- if you feel that God is telling you to ask someone about their children, do it
- if you feel God wants you to challenge someone about a sin, look long and hard at your motives and pray with someone else about it first
- if you feel God is asking you to paddle round the world on a cross-shaped canoe, spend a long time getting confirmation.
- we are no longer servants. We are now family, but you don't want to aim to the be the mad relative living in the attic – be a healthy member of the family
So let’s be NT temples of the Holy Spirit, not OT servants waiting for guidance
- expecting the extraordinary, but working as partners with God in the ordinary
- and all the time, listening for that still small voice of God’s Holy Spirit
This is that beach I was telling you about for baptisms, and it would be perfect, and plenty of parking and it is not to crowded and the water is crystal clear and all different depths. Now all I need is some long white robes. It is right near Harringtons and on the way to the big hotels, and the park is close by too. Why do we need white robes, we can do it without but I might be able to find some. I will just pray for some.
Our famous candle light prayer this is where I put my heart, and tell everyone else to pray for on another and love one another. This week has been a hard one and it was last week that I had to use some of the major prayer of weeks ago, that's because I was just to weak. My physical is all the same and I have had an infection for over two years and it just does not explain anything. It has to be all from the devil, and if you tell a regular doctor they would think you were crazy, but why do we pray to change things, so this is why I put up this prayer for most of all my friends and people I know and the staff of The Church Ministries, I need help or this Church will go under and I will lose any way people can donate and if some miracle does not happen this church is going to suffer even more, and we can’t let this church suffer any more. We need our people and we need our team together and we are all our volunteer workers and I have been just sitting in a office writing to others and Satan takes my time and destroys it. God still has a plan and I was just outside and asked God what I should say and do. First I need to send Bishop Joaquim a few letters of prayer requests because they are mounting up on me and I have to communicate to all the people I have not gotten a hold of. There is so many people I need to contact and so many people I need to let them know that I am praying for them, I wish I had the time to send out a newsletter to everyone of the members, but I don’t even know how to do that mass mailing, everything for 3 years has been personal and to each person, I wanted to be that way. This Church is free and we don’t sell anything , but it is funny I have told many people they are welcome to come over and get prayed on and be healed, and I only had one or two people I have prayed on so far. We had a big mishap this week with communication with Bishop Director Jacob and he wrote to me about giving out numbers and Satan lead me to believe that he gave out the EIN number to so new guy and all it was, was my email, but the way he put it, I could not understand what he wrote, and then I had to email the guy and have him call me in Washington D.C. because he was from Florida and would be cheaper, so I finally got his call on Thursday morning and found out it was only my email, and you can get the email off of the website on any page or sermon. I am growing distant from some fellow people, and friends, and members, I have missed many words from the Mission in South Africa, Johan has finally handed off to me a different section of the mission , it isn’t from him any more, I don’t blame him because I have not been able to write back and he this last week sent me about 10 emails in one day and it all is on basic scripture and teachings of strength in faith, the thing is I have all the faith I need, 1/3 of my being is my spirit and my spirit has so much faith in it that (I can’t take anymore faith in it. I have enough faith, the thing is with Americans think that there is a measure of faith and the thing is that people don’t understand that people in other countries get healed so much easier because they have enough faith to except the healing but Americans think you have to have more faith and many people in America ask God for more faith, that right there is basically wrong because God has given all He has into our spirits, but it is up to us to open up our spirits to let the body or the soul see it or feel it. I don’t know what country Johan is from but he runs that Deo Valente Mission in South Africa and they have 350 mouths to feed plus the staff, and they got there car stolen about three weeks ago and they did find it and it had about 500 dollars worth of damage but at least they can get supplies and feed all those people, all our prayers were floating back and forth across the world that they would get their car back and they did, so praise the Lord. Johan and Esther Louran have been running that mission for a long time and they have 2 girls and a baby boy named Simeon and their oldest girl is Anneke, next is Jolene, I don’t think that he fully understands what is going on here and I told him the story about what went on this week were people presently messed up my mind, but he just does not understand them, I also sent him a long prayer to have protection for all of them and that was along prayer. The Holy Spirit is upon us all and all things will come to true light. People do not realize how weak I really am I had to go into town hitch-hike there and back with groceries and mail and when I got home I slept till Saturday morning and my left shin was killing me from all that walking and people just don’t know I already can’t walk and when you put a back pack on my back and I had to walk across town from bank to bank, I could not even make it to pay my rent it was already 4:30-5:00 and they would have been closed already and I called today and they were closed so I have to hitch hike into town on Tuesday and hope they don’t charge a late fee. So Friday I had to drop off a prescription and I had to wait so I went to the bank and to the Post office and some one that I knew that was a friend handed me ten dollars and I thanked them and almost cried right in front of them, you see people that really know me understand what I am going through and they have seen what I looked like over 2 years ago and when they look at me know they just want to cry. People just do not realize how close to death from stress alone I have come, my heart can’t take it, yesterday I could have keeled over on the street and died, I was walking in circles Wednesday night because of confusion, over a email that just was not explained properly. It really does not matter who understands or who does not understand God understands and God is in control, and I am the righteousness of God we can’t ask for forgiveness of every little sin, we can’t loose our salvation, our spirit is perfect and complete and our faith in Jesus Christ is the most important thing. And Jesus has died for all of our sins past, present, and future, and our spirit has 1/3 pure Holy Ghost our spirit is not effected by our sins, we are sealed and that is it. It really does not matter what Johan thinks about me any more the thing is I have been raked over the coals again last week by a few people here in town, My good friends Liz and Willy, had to go into Queens in Honolulu, and got released last night, they took an MRI to check out the stroke that he thought he got. I guess he still was not sure, It seemed the blood vessel exploded or something at least all our prayers worked, and have been answered and he is doing all right, and he is home doing OK. I am not going to let people hurt me anymore, I have God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit I don’t need anyone else. The devil is out to kill me and so many pastors have told me, I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. (Gal. 2:20) I wanted to mention Susan Jones for prayer and to let you all know she has given me nothing but hope, help, love, compassion, understanding, patience, joy, and she has out right saved my life, and in doing so she has saved over hundreds of other lives. People don’t understand that I am a link in a chain, and I write prayers to others and on good days I can send out many and help many people including healings and life saving events. So if a person like Susan helps me, this way I am able in true mind and in a relaxed situation help so many other people, and it is the complete opposite when people purposely or not understandingly hurt me they don’t just hurt me they hurt hundreds of other people, because I can’t sit up and pray for someone else fighting a broken heart, with tears running down my face, I still write prayers but then at times I just don’t send them, because people and Satan and his agents are drilling me to make me not to pray for people have made me feel so bad, I start to not believe in myself. and they don’t even know they are being controlled by Satan and or his agents, just like the book of Job where Job’s three friends thought Job was suffering because of a sin he didn’t confess or he did some other sin and God was punishing him for it. God will discipline us But the thing is punishment from God is so different, I am not saying God does not punish, at times in the Old Testament God had to do certain things, but now as we live in the new covenant God will do things to us to help us not to hurt us or give us a so called punishment, God loves us and He is not going to give us a hurtful punishment at all. God does not punish in a way that you or me understand God has His own way of dealing with us as far as discipline, so just get that out of your mind God does not punish! What He might do is permit evil or Satan to do a certain testing like what happened to Job. This is a long subject and I don’t want to get into this right now, I just want to continue to pray. And I want to send the blessings of God to everyone. Susan Jones has no ill feeling for me, she actually understands me, she has met me through the prayer lines and she has been sending me all kind of cards and movies and all different get well moving and musical cards, she has picked out different scenes with scripture then writes her own words, talk about a saint, this girl will go down in some way in some historical record even if it is my own book. I can’t thank her enough for what she has done and anyone that has gotten prayers from me in the last few months it was because of Susan Jones, so praise God for the tenderness of a person that takes time out to help me and did not have any idea that she was helping, healing, and saving, so many other people. Bless you Susan, thanks be to God for the victory from our Lord Jesus Christ and the pure guidance the Holy Spirit gave to Susan. Praise God! And afterwards once the book hits the shelves, and so many people would be known for who they really are and if anything happens to me the book is already written and it is placed in about 5 different places with 5 different copies, I only have the introduction on the site that too is hidden and you have to know how to find it just to open it, and there are so many copies spread out all over the world if something does happen to me it still will surface, I am not going to make the same mistake twice and have just one manuscript, not this time this has been well planed and thought out, so even if I die tomorrow someone and somehow these copies will surface and no one is going to be able to get all of them. Not like the last one. Let us finish up about sin, we have [If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.] (1John 1:8) [If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.] (1John 1:10) [My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: (2John 2:1) [Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.] (1John 3:9) This next scripture may through us off a bit but we will explain that, our spirits go untouched the piece of our spirit that God has given us when we were born again. Our spirits are 1/3 of our being and they have been given to us all new when we got born again. We have all the faith ,the love the power we need from God it is the same power that raised Christ from the dead, so that is why the scriptures read like that, because of that 1/3 of us that is we are 1/3 pure Holy Sprit. Next we have to deeply pray for Joanna who is our Secretary and prayer warrior she is from Buffalo, N Y. and works with Randy in the same hospital I still have been praying for them both and all there patients in all the areas, I don’t want to list them all, I don’t think that would be right. Plus we pray that they don’t get caught by the brass that they are praying for their patients and I have been praying for the staff which I know sometimes they have given Joanna a not so easy time and it seems like the beautiful ones the ones that care are getting picked on, there is one thing, Randy never gets attacked, nothing goes wrong with his life and everything is just as normal as they can be now, Joanna has her neck falling apart and I didn’t here about the MRI tests and she is pretty upset she has been getting hit with all the artillery from the devil, every which way she turns she is suffering for some reason or another, but to me that is good, she is doing the right things that is why she is getting attacked and the devil and his agents and principle parts of darkness are messing with Joanna don’t forget we have 1/3 of the angels that Satan took with him so it could be a matter of just spiritual warfare so please say a prayer for Joanna and Randy, Randy was the one who made the phone call to Kim and Kevin at the healing rooms here for me to get the information and that is how we met Liz and Willy, and when I first meet them here and they prayed on me I felt the difference right away, so I know they both are anointed, so they have been taking me to the prayer rooms and helping even with bring some food. They are one of the biggest blessings I ever met so far this year anyway. Wonderful people, we should also pray for Kim and Kevin who run the healing rooms and a special prayer for there little boy. I don’t know all the names of the staff of the people but please make an all out prayer for the staff of the healing rooms at Hilo, Hawaii. Plus next wanted to Bishop Director Paul and his wife Mercy and there three children, Lesly, Hepzy, and Belsly, they have been passing me emails on what is happening in India over Christianity and he has been treated with a house bombing and I have sent then a fleet of angels prayer that they can sit at each point of their home, and I have a picture off their home and I just have the vision of there house and then pray for total protection, these are wonderful people too, and their children are doing well in school so that is why I am not putting any last names in this prayer because who knows what is going on over there between the Muslims and the Hindus, and Bishop Paul is getting over the injury when bad people tried to run him off the road, he got into a bad accident and messed up his leg and he was the type that would bring food, medicine and clothing to help his home country, what a shame and then you get threatening letters on top of what your doing, that is why I have them under my breath in prayer and I have a vision of there house in my mind to keep that whole place safe. The Next person I am worried about is Bishop Vijay I have not heard from him in a long time no emails letters nothing and I know the guy in the back had the phone and the computer, so I have had nothing sent back I am wondering what is going on, if the email was wrong I would have had it sent back or the guy just looks at messages for Vijay and then deletes them I even sent an emergency one just for that particular case so at least someone would right back. I am going to send some type of letter again and to see what happens, the thing is we still have Bishop Joaquim, and he has been doing a lot of the prayer ministry, each week I have been sending him prayer requests that I just can’t take them all. And I have to also do that tonight, now that it is Saturday there is now way I will be sending anyone anything, this sermon is the most important thing to me. He has done such an incredible job with the people and he sends me each prayer and when we get a good response he sends that too. I told a few people that if I go into the hospital or have to go away that he would be moving up to the Assistant Senior Pastor and I would hope everyone would treat him with the same respect as I. I have to get this main prayer done first if I get this done I am way ahead of the game, and I will add at the end any new developments that has happened. Remember two weeks ago it might have been three I would normally go to the website and pick out the graphics I would need for the new Page of the sermon, it was impossible for not just one computer not to take the graphics but my back up computer did the same thing and then the next week everything worked fine and I even had the head lady check and she said there was nothing wrong, another satanic attack, which made me waste 4 hours writing to all different new people for their permission for graphics, and I didn’t even start to write until 4:30, so I was tired and stressed and very upset that I did not even write a word yet. That was all the devil wasting my time so I would just give up and not even write the sermon, and I don’t know how many people use it now, it is all from the Holy Spirit and all sound doctrine from the bible. Plus it is all written from the inspiration of God and when I get upset, I have to stop and pray because I start using myself as the writings and that is not what it is supposed to be, when I feel that coming I stop go sit in the waiting room or the prayer room and pray and just sit differently because of my back. There is so many people we can pray for Columbus Murphy out of Chicago she is having problems with Omar her family and getting a new job, plus she does solos in the choir and she asks for prayer just so her voice is pleasing to God and the rest of the congregation. Columbus and I have been sending prayers, Leslie used to send some too. Please pray for Columbus with her family situation and her new job and that she sings just like a beautiful singing bird, next our other staff member Lynne our treasurer she has been suffering terribly she lost both her mom and Dad and could not afford to go to any of the funerals she has a brother that loves her and care very deeply for her and he lives in Detroit, and a sister, the sister use to talk all the time but now they don’t and you can tell that both their hearts are broken. Lynne is a cripple and an older lady and she is in bad pain everyday but she can walk at times but most of the time she has to lay down, she can’t sit in a regular chair for long. Her lower back has some tear in it and it is very painful. I might bring on Keith Ratcliff on board if I can as some elder or something he is a wizard with computers and it would help getting over his wife’s death a few months ago when she lied in the hospice and he sat with her everyday until she died in his arms, for a whole month, she had terminal cancer that spread all over her body and there was nothing the doctors could do. You see that is where we could have used the money for the plane fair and back, I could have gone there if I was healthy enough to go and I would have laid hands on her and she would have been healed, and neither of us had any money, and just because of money we loose a life, that is not right at all, this Church should have something in it for petty cash, for situations like this, plus this week I got hit with an electric bill for about 300.00 and that is a new record you have to remember I have no air, or heat or a drier, gas stove, no dishwasher, and it is me on the computer one light bulb and the monitor, and I had a guy check it out for me he told me to get and electrician to check the wiring and each fuse box or breaker box with a tester. I called and left a message Monday on the 21st, and have not even a call back. I am getting the feeling that just people don’t care about Churches or Ministries anymore, we can do so much good in the world and we have for the last 3 years, the first 2-1/2 years we got letters all over and now I told you I got my first hate mail last week. And because of my health I can’t get out there like I did with the prayer letters and everyone would read their prayer letter and pass it on to someone else or another village or town, and I just don’t have the strength anymore to write and after that last doctor I had on the other island I have never been the same, I came home and fought off a spider as big as an animal. It is warfare after warfare and no mater what anyone does the letters get smaller and smaller but the search engines have been blessing us for the last two weeks it changes every week, now, but we had the church ministries at 92 and 93 out of the Christian 1000, and that is the best we ever have done, and we had the whole first page of Google not just one or two but 1-10 the whole page was the church ministries and the next page we would have the next 5 and then the 18th and 19th I mean we are doing very well to get a listing like that it would cost thousands of dollars and God did it for us, plus on the third page there would be a box more of thechurch ministries and we would have 15 pages of 10, that means we would have almost the whole website covered every sermon and every major page, so that is all God, We have special pages extra of The Church Ministries, not mine, but someone is putting them up for us, which is another blessing. Some of them I don’t understand and I still don’t understand them, but they are up, and Jacob said we have a mini church with a church for The Church Ministries and that right there is a big blessing, and we are forever in Jacob’s debt where the other wing is, it is all spread out, so we do have an actual church now and it is being shared with the “Gospel for Asia” is in one wing and “Missions Asia” is in another wing, Maybe God will supply me the money to look it over, on top of this and another ministry wants to be partners in Nigeria, and they want to run the Church Ministries from America, I told them they can use anything on the web site that I have copyrighted, and they want an answer so that would be two churches in one week, plus they want me out there to preach at both of them. Plus I know both founders of (Gospel for Asia), and (Missions Asia), so this might turn out for good. So let us all praise God!!! We need prayer for Hugh Keith and family from California, we need prayer for Donna Izzo who lost her husband a few months ago, and the family they too are from California, and we need to pray for Angel he has helped this church more then anyone, I so much want to hear from him, he is from Arizona, We need prayer for Keith Ratcliff from Amarillo, Texas, Then we have all those emails I need to delete and to file or save and we have about 8,000 more that I read but I need to go over again. The worst is the junk mail that is what takes up time everyday I have to get rid of some of the advertisements. Next we need to pray for Fred and Shirl Nero, he has been fighting cancer for a long time I ask for special prayers for healing for Fred with this fight of cancer, we have so many people by now praying for then both that I think they are running into the thousands of people, because when I write I feel there is about a thousand by now, form all the requests each week and all the readings and translations there has to be so many prayers for so many people praying all over each continent. I got the blood tests back and I still have a fever and an infection in my mouth and my white blood cell count is still way up there. Some people do not understand how sick I really am, and I still don’t know what is wrong with me, please pray for me, please help me stay strong through this, the evil one is having a field day with this, and it is hard, he has got me stressing about nothing again. And I should not have any stress at all I have the power of God within me the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Each morning for the first half hour I am in the shakes and that is when the attacks get the worst, all things go through my mind and I feel terrible, now my leg is hurting and limping around and it is even harder now, especially trying to take care of a world based church, which has so much contact with all of the world, we have so many links now we can find out things about all the action in Iraq, special speeches, and articles, and different pictures of the men, and the letters, and all kinds of things about the war, plus about special merits, and metals for the neighborhood boys, and special films that go with each Army, Navy, and so on. Plus we get many of the ministries that are helping the poor and all types of films how each section of the war is dealing with people that have no shelter or food. Two weeks ago I talked about Mike and his prayer friends, and I keep seeing all kinds of special prayers for me all over the internet and he has been sending all of them, please say and extra prayer for Mike and all the people that write into Mikes Prayer friends ministry and prayer room for all kinds of extra prayer requests, from all over the world. We just want to add again to thank Mike from (Mike’s prayer friends) a prayer ministry which I have been with for years, and he has again shared a mighty blessing with The Church Ministries. With Mikes help it made us so popular just imagine being on the whole first page of Google, that is a true act of God plus the love of all our friends. We need to pray for Philip and Marie Hardgraves they have been loyal friends that email me from, Florida and if their computer is not working they mail letters from the library, if they have to, but they still stay in touch, they are beautiful people that we went to ministry school together and shared many mystical feelings about certain things about our lives as we went through school together. Here is a beautiful man Herbert Namohala, from Kirby vacuums, he was a very kind man one of the kindest in Hilo, and he gave me a vacuum for a good price and helped me with everything and all the pieces, the works. Plus he came out to the house and fixed my vacuum himself, for nothing, last week we had a picture of Kirby Vacuums of Hilo. I just have to say that the whole family and Herbert and all his sons were a wonderful blessing to The Church Ministries. Another beautiful person is Shannon from Shiigi Drug, she has helped me like a real person, and she has a tender heart and an understanding gift within herself. She has helped me so much through all the attacks and all the confusion and hard spots from the devil. One time I had to go to another store because they were closed for repairs and I was driving all over the world to get my prescription refilled. That was a day to remember. So Let us all say a big prayer for Shannon, Sherry Alice, Michael and Mel and everyone else that works at Shiigi Drug, they are all a blessing, thank God. When you only see a few people in a whole month they have an effect on you. So that is why I put up their pictures. I need to take a new picture of my doctor’s office, she is featured on the friend’s pages, and she moved to a different office a little more open and peaceful type atmosphere. The money is so tight that I can’t even afford the C.D. which is about 8 bucks and the pictures, this is getting hard because I can’t even take more pictures and I wanted to take a new picture of my doctors office but I just don’t have the money, I live on soy milk, because all the food I mix in the blender is mixed with the soy milk, plus the milk has all extra vitamins and when I had money I lived on those liquid vitamins and minerals and I felt so much better. Yesterday had to be done I had no gas and I had to hitch-hike to the bank and see if my social security check was there and then walk to the rental place, and pay the rent but I just could not make it. Plus my cat is sick, he can’t talk and he is throwing up all over, that is going to be a charge when I take him to the vet , but I have prayed on him many a time and I can hear a little peep out of his voice box, so maybe he is getting better, so everyone knows what it is like carrying soy milk and cans of cat food, I was exhausted. I didn’t get a ride right away and the line in the bank was long, the stress alone was getting to me. So I need to take a new picture and place it where I have the old one of my doctor’s office and place it right on the friend’s pages. Plus we need prayer for my Dr. Dr Conner, and also her mother Ethel, she has not been feeling well for about 3 months now so please prayer team pray for my doctors mother and please keep praying for my doctor and Mary, Allen and Paula, which are the staff, we need a hedge of protection around the office of peace and comfort for all of the staff, and a special prayer of healing for Ethel, and a special prayer for the safety and health for my doctor. My next project is to find some infectious disease doctor in Honolulu. This way Medicare might pay for it I don’t think anyone will pay for my trip to California it is too far and I have had two well known doctors tell me to get off this island and go to the mainland. So should I pray for the money to go to the university of California that is what was set up in the beginning but the thing is they don’t want to pay any dental work and the dental work I need will save my life. The thing is could I handle the pain, with them in my mouth, it took a year to get used to them, the first time around, and my mouth was not infected, now I feel terrible and I don’t want to socialize, just like the looks I got from people Thursday that did not know me, they thought I was some kind of dressed up bum. So last Monday I found out that Willy was in the Queens hospital getting an MRI to see about the stroke he had and how bad it was so we need extra prayers for Liz his wife and for Willy that everything heals up and everything all comes together and our friendship remains a beautiful one. Craig and Linda are and will always be my best friends and I miss them so much I just want to cry. But for now the people I can touch are Willy and Liz they have much love in them just good fruit growing from them. Let us also pray for my friend pastor Rob from the first Christian Church, and his wife and family, I saw him at the conference, Thursday anyway he disappeared I saw him there and then he was gone. Anyway let us pray for the best friend I had a person I could talk to, a man that would come over and we would speak about the bible and God and I just never wanted him to leave he made me feel so good afterwards, I wish he understood that and he just got piled up with extra work and just forgot about me, and I don’t know what happened , he said right before he left and he said this so many times I will never leave you up here again alone, and see you sometime next week and it has been close to a year now and I have to admit I am broken hearted and I wish he would just come over and talk with me again like he used too, maybe Satan attacked him because the evil one new that he brought me so much power and a good positive attitude. I did call him about three times left messages with his wife and on his cell phone and at the church but I never got any calls back. Our Service time is 10 am but with all the different time zones we are 18 hours behind India, so that is why some use the service for Wednesday night or Sunday Night or they are a week behind so in the morning they use last weeks, and that does not change until I am finished and the service stays up all week. So people use the service or can read the service anytime during the whole week and when you go to the early services page you have a choice now of 141 different services, all different and all different designs. Plus all different subjects and one day if I am well I can put each one down as the specific subject. So you can see God has me doing this for a reason. This way they can go to a 170 page web ministry or church, and learn just about anything, I just added a bible question sight and it is the best I have ever seen it has like thousands of questions, it is great to learn even for me I was working that site for hours. Plus all the free bible studies there must be about 6- 8 places you can go and take an actual school with classes get a special degree and all types of learning tools. You can spend days on the site and learn any form of Christianity. Plus we have letters from missions and answers to prayers and prayer letters; I am so surprised how God has helped me, help Him. Pastor Kennedy and his wife Mary they have a wonderful church and they are doing very well and they are doing all kinds of healings and people are getting saved and each time they do an adventure to a different area he tells me what happens. So let us pray for Pastor Kennedy and his wife Mary. They still need music equipment and so do I, I have know idea how I will ship it to them but God will help. I have been wanting a praise and worship team for years and I even put an add in the paper and posted all kinds of post cards and flyers all over downtown, but not one phone call. I don’t understand any of this I have tried and tried to get just a few people together and the Lord wants me to be alone for some reason. If I could only get a piano donated and that would be the best. Then I could practice and then get some people in the neighborhood together, from them hearing the piano , but I didn’t know I would put an add in the paper and come up with nothing I just don’t have an extra 20 dollars to through away, and that is what happened so I didn’t eat for two days because I put an add in the paper, I mean it wasn’t that bad but I could have used that 20 dollars for something else, I have a lot of stuff for myself but we would need a piano, I wish someone would donate to us a piano. I know I could not afford to ship Pastor Kennedy a piano, but other things I could if they were not so heavy. We can practice downstairs and form a good praise and worship team and we could do specials for other churches that don’t have a praise and worship team. We need a special prayer for Alexander, he had to move into central India for some type of job which makes it impossible to have a bible and to take notes or even pray, if someone even heard him he would be beaten, or put in prison. He and his congregation years ago would take a picture of me and the whole congregation would pray and fast for my healing, the same with Bishop Paul and Mercy, and Debbie from Pennsylvania with her son in prison unjustly because he has autism and know one can explain his actions. Alexander now is all alone and he really needs prayer for safety and for comfort please warriors help him, just say a short prayer for him, and think about him suffering with no Christians to talk to, and he too is a member, but he is stuck in the middle of India, please help him like he helped me, so many people have helped me along this 2 years it is hard to even remember without looking through my old notes, I don’t know the whole story but he has been a prayer partner for about 2 years too maybe three, also there are so many good people attached to this church. We need prayer for Scott and Eileen they are out of Virginia Beech, they have been more than great friends too, they took a group of people also and did a prayer and fast just for me and a few others these people I have known also for three years and I don’t know how to explain it but I love them both deeply and we have not talked with each other in a long time but I guess it really does not matter once you love someone it stays, you may become distant but the love is still there. We have so many people to pray for we have my good friend Pastor George who is from here also like Pastor Rob who I saw Thursday night, Pastor George was a man that sat with me every weekday and we prayed each time I had to put those antibiotics in me, I would hang up the bag and he would make sure I was all right and we would talk about the bible and pray and have discussions about scripture, he was the closest man to me, then one day he asked me for prayer and come to his church and I never did get the prayer I needed, but I know in his heart he probably loves me it is just the way things came down, and I cried in the rain all the way home. George was doing well then he took that part time job with the pharmacy and then it went to full time, so it is a long story but it seams he needed the extra money for the family, plus his wife had a small business in one of the smaller malls, I have know idea why he took a full time job a pharmacy. So that meant I would never see him, because he just didn’t have the time, and me and George were the closest of friends and money stood in the way. I don’t know what really happened; you see I ended up alone again with another broken heart. When I get to heaven God is going to give me so many replacement hearts I will be full of Joy, I should be full of joy now and to tell you the truth I am. Anyway please pray for Pastor George and his wife and family they are some beautiful people. Next from Florida my good friends Robert and Judith who I played in the church symphony with, we had some wonderful shows concerts, special holiday performances, we had a full range of instruments it was wonderful there I really enjoyed playing. I miss people at FBC, like Carl, Joe, Larry and his wife who paid us a visit out here. And my good friend that had a landscaping business I think it was Mike and Lenny and Kathy and Jimmy and their mom, and I miss Fred, pastor Bill and my music minister Dan, Beth, and so many more I just can’t remember, I prayed for all of them for a good 6 months after I got here, I had all there names written out on one of my small bibles, and every night my prayers went out to all of them. Then I started getting sick, it is something how you move and people just forget about you, I can’t forget Rebecca who took care of the cat, and this guy Jay stole all kinds of stuff from me and Rebecca all the things I wanted her to have. I walked in on one of the last days and it was empty, He took everything and sold it so he could use it for something for himself and that something was not a good thing, Rebecca was broken hearted and I didn’t know what to say, I had all these desks that were all put together and could be separated, and the whole office was empty. And everything I wanted to give to Rebecca he took and sold. She got over it and the guy will be taken care of by God. She ended up being happy with the things she got and I gave everything else to Rob and Judith all kinds of kitchen equipment and books of stuff so anyway please pray for them all even Jay the bad man. Also we have to pray for Angel Juarez out of Arizona, he was a great help to me and the church and I have not heard from him in a long time, probably because he has not heard from me, I will send him out a letter in a few days. Angel wrote me everyday he had a ministry that would send out a scripture per day and it would be signed by a moving pen. Angel helped this church more then a lot of people in his heart he felt he had to help us out and each time it was a blessing. Bishop Shawn of NY, started his own ministry and he preaches somewhere in N.Y. also so we need prayer Shawn, I have not heard from him since he started his own ministry. What a world, they easily forget the people that you talked hours on the phone with. I should just make a list of broken hearts. Next our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Warriors, I can’t forget they all helped me and they still write and send great letters Jeff Gale, Janel Kobylansky, and Jan they are wonderful people, please pray for them all. Jeff has sent me commentaries and visions of great logic, plus he sent prayers in his own words and picked out certain subjects and sent them ,he was a great man the same with Janel and family and Jan and Family so prayer team please pray for all the people that work for SWPW. Remember the congregation that is praying for my healing, that is Debbie’s church in Pennsylvania, she has been a blessing to me with many letters and all with the right words, and just think she asks me, and yet to invite a stranger across the US and stay at her home and go to the 3 day prayer meeting, she came out of the blue and we started writing, and her son Aaron is still in prison for being autistic and they did not understand his actions, and how he got in there in the first place, she takes a picture of me off the website and hangs it up in their church, and the whole congregation still prays for me, so people please pray for Debbie and Aaron and that Aaron gets freed from that place. She has been a blessing to me, and this church, It seems the some people just keep helping no matter what happened and they don’t forget, and others just forget about you and don’t even think about how you feel, this world never stops amazing me, please help Debbie and her son Aaron, and please pray for his freedom , and I ask for a special prayer for the whole congregation for the one in Pennsylvania, Thanks Debbie for all you have done, and may the Lord bless you and Aaron forever, Father please bless Debbie for taking a chance bring me across the country to her own home and to the very church to pray on me for healing. What an attitude and so much grace. People sometimes come out of nowhere and God sends them. And they just make you feel like they care and they have good feelings which I can’t explain about all the others. We still have Sis Shanna, she has been another blessing and she has been writing such beautiful work and she has all those ministries, she has about 5 other ministries and I don’t know how she keeps up with them all, I have trouble with one, but when I was healthy it was a breeze and he thing is I had the sermon done in a few hours, I don’t know why I started this candle light prayer, it takes me at least 6 hours of constant typing . So please pray for all Sis Shanna’s ministries and all the love she spreads out and all the knowledge she spreads out. You all know Mary and Jay, I have known them also for about three years too, and Mary is so kind and heartfelt she has such compassion she pours out so much love people are healed. And Jay is such a good man with his special writings that hit home to each persons heart. Yes we need prayer for “His Will Ministry” out of Wyoming from two beautiful people Mary and Jay. They are wonderful people Mary has been keeping up with all different statistics and different ideas and all different things showing us that Jesus is coming back during our life time. We need prayer for Deborah Bates, Peter Samuel, San Dee, and people like Marcella how I can only write just a bit to her once in a while to her ministry, The Living waters Ministry and she places the prayer right where it will do the most good. I need to write to here I have been praying with most of her writings with nothing on and just sit and speak the prayer and what happened or what will happen in any given situation. And I know that person will or would feel better. Father we have someone special, and she has been working very hard on her music and art and her painting Father please help her! Yes we are talking about you Elena Ramirez, you send such beautiful stuff, and you seem to know what to send and to who. We have not written to Elena Ramirez in a long time and she wrote to me twice a week sending her poems and paintings and art work, I am just blowing it, Elena I will send you something when my back pain goes and this pain in my leg now, I am so sorry I need to write everyone, please everyone please pray for Elena!!! Desiree from the Netherlands, who helped me with many letters. I need to write her too, she tried to help and somehow get a helping hand going but it just never came about. “Prayer team, please pray” for Desiree and give her a special blessing and let her know I have not forgotten about her and what she did for me. People have helped me. I just have to get well and make it all up to them. They just don’t understand each day I am on this computer and each day I try and send out a few letters but they just are not like what I used to write, the Holy Spirit would like now would just come in and write for me, maybe I am trying to hard and I am not letting the flow of living water come through. And I need to thank everyone for what they have done not think about what they have not done, we should think of the good things not the questions why this or why that. We also are members of the Presidential Prayer Team, and that is a honor to me, just to be able to pray for all our troops the Army, Navy, and Marines, and our special obligation of prayer to Elizabeth Bradford from the U.S. Navy. Also we pray for all our leaders and Senators, Governors all representatives, all members of the White House, plus the President and all his aids and special commands. We all need to gather and to pray for the DoD, NSA, and so many other groups of government, we should be in prayer constantly, the bible tells us to pray without ceasing, We should pray for all the families of the guys and girls that are fighting right now in the war. We need to pray for Kurt Showers and his daughter Courtney. I pray that they are back together by now, it has been a while since I wrote to Kurt, you see it hurts inside of me that I just am not full of strength to be able to write back to each and every person, the thing is if they read this prayer and see that I have not forgotten about each of them. We also got a call the other day from Teresa and she writs children’s books and I pray with her and then I don’t hear from her for a while, I worry about her and here children Nick, Ashley, and Christian, and I hope that the kids are doing ok, they have a father named Jamie and Teresa calls when she is upset or just needs prayer, we all should pray that Jamie comes back home to stay, this is what has been happening and he could have came back already, she tells me he comes and goes but I have not talked to her again in a while it seems they both love each other and Teresa is just trying to get her books published and hoping for Jamie to come back to stay so “prayer warriors” please pray for this family, I have not met either of them but they all need prayer. We also have to pray for Barbara, she needs our help, she has diabetes and she is not getting the proper medication and she has lost her smile, I only see her for a few minutes sometimes, and I can talk to her, Thursday I saw her for only a minute, The (Sally Shop) Salvation Army, she is a good friend, also for about 3 years, but I only see her once in a blue moon, I hardly go anywhere, but you heard that her son Chet, and he had an accident overseas a head injury in which they had to glue his head back together, so we need prayer for both Barbara and her son Chet, he is in Iraq right now, he will be coming home soon then Barbara should be happy again. That is what I feel, she is in pain, but she would be happier if Chet was home safe and sound. Please pray for them both. I care, and to see if I can help. Plus at the same store we need prayer for Deek and I have known him just as long as Barbara, plus we need prayer for everyone that works there, they have all helped this church, this office, my home part, they did a lot. Plus everyone else that works at the store, and it breaks my heart that the Pink Elephant is not there anymore, that means no more Cindy and no more Tina and Larry, and I will probably never see them again, I will never get out to the zoo, it is far away and Cindy was like my mother and Tina my sister and it just breaks my heart that I will never see them again. a I liked that place, (another second hand store) and it breaks my heart that it is gone. Cindy was like my mother and I have not emailed her in a long time, We need prayer for everyone that works on the main drag downtown, so please pray for everyone, the heath food store and all of those people, that all need prayer, and all the employees. We also have been in prayer for EFCA which is the Evangelical Free Church of America. We have been praying with them for a long time, many years. We also have another ministry in India my friend Dr. K.P. Yohannan of “Gospel of Asia” and they have a part of the wing in India with the mini The Church Ministries, I don’t know much about the whole thing but I will find out, and I know Dr. Yohannan, please pray for all of them and all of the staff world wide. This ministry is one of the best ministries and if the Church Ministries gets together with them, we will save many people and heal many people and the thing is maybe that is why God has me waiting all this time. God is in control if I can get together with Dr. Yohannan, we could move mountains, plus one of my Bishop Directors is working in that same wing working for the Gospel of Asia and the Church Ministries, plus he has his own ministry in the same wing called Missions Asia. This could be the biggest opening of the Spirit ever. Please pray that all of the ministries tie together in pure love. I want to say thank-you and bless-you to someone that helped me so much Friday and what a blessing, that came out of knowwhere, thank-you from the bottom of my heart.
Anneke and Simeon
Johan and Esther
Jolene
Me 33 months ago, I don't look like this now.
I had a picture of Bishop Jacob up but I took it down because of saftey factors.
If you want to get saved, Please all of you repeat after me, and make sure there are other people around to hear you. Dear Father, in the Name of Jesus, Father we are calling out to you, please forgive us of all of our sin’s, we know we are all sinners, and you sent your Son down to earth to suffer and die for our sins, and we also say with our mouth that you Father raised Jesus from the dead, and we all want to welcome Jesus Christ into our hearts, and to confess the fact that Jesus is Lord, We now believe that we are saved, and we all ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We now believe that we are all born again Christians, and a part of the body of Christ, We praise your name Jesus, and thank you for the salvation you have given us by shedding your blood at Calvary. We praise you Father over the heavens and earth, thank you for this gift of a perfect union with your Son Jesus, who will remain Lord of our lives forever. Amen.
Dear Lord, As we come to a close of our service today, we want to thank each and everyone of you for attending and sharing our service, we don’t need a building, we need the fellowship of our people, and we need to express our love to all mankind and to show the way to salvation to all that do not know Christ, and to have a personnel relationship with Jesus. We are the farmers that do the planting, and the watering, and our mighty Father does the rest, all we can do is love and forgive all people, and give a hope of joy to them until Jesus returns, it may be tomorrow or the next day but if we keep our hearts pure without envy, jealousy, and wanting money and power, God will take care of His children, I am a proven fact. Just to be here this day and be able to say this prayer is a gift from God. I am living proof that God has helped and blessed me, every time I needed him. See you all next week, grace and peace will be with you always, In Jesus Name, Amen and Amen.
