Good morning to everyone from Hawaii, and to the far reaches of the world, we hope that we all can hear and see the beauty and love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord, through the loyalty and honor we are able to give to all mankind with additional compassion, mixed with all our prayers and comfort we are able to give to all of the world toward all the countries, and our States, and to the remotest parts of the planet.
Email Breakdown, can’t communicate, can’t send or read my mail. One computer is in the shop, waiting to be fixed. This computer I can’t send or receive. So I must say I am sorry, there are other ways. Listed below. full story and medical update.
Well my brothers and sisters I am still sick and I have one computer in the shop, and it was put in there over a week ago, and normally they are done within a few days, maybe a week, one time it took about 2 weeks, the computer I am on now between all the prayer requests coming into my inbox plus all the junk mail, and if I turn on the email now there will be about 500 more emails come in that I haven’t even read yet and the computer will crash, and I was contented to get the computer to function even after the crash, but that took hours, running tests with three different virus protection software. Someone suggested deleting my sent section of the email section, but I have so many prayers that I wrote that can’t be duplicated. I don’t know what to do, maybe I will delete the whole inbox, I saved most of everything important but there is still a lot that is precious to me. I have to start working on the Sunday sermon, and I have to delete all the graphics off the main board and that will take some time because each sermon is completely different. This week will be 169, but I spend so many hours on just prayer for everyone, and as you know I have to keep getting up and sit in another chair or lay down because of my back, the cartilage at L5-S1 is slowly disappearing. I still have no energy, because of the infection, nothing will be the same until I get the other computer back from the repair shop, and can send back some replies, I feel terrible that I can’t communicate and let everyone know that I still love them and care for them and that my prayers are with them. Plus people have been praying for me and I can’t write back, because of the crashes, and I can’t afford to mess with anything now on Friday to take that chance because of the sermon I start early in the morning, and last week was so bad my local sermon was not even completed at 10am So most of it was up at that time but then I had to add the credits and the address’s for the graphics. I worked all through the night like I do every weekend getting up and down from about 8:30 am Saturday morning, I still wait for the Holy Spirit to guide me each time, and where to go, where to study, or if I can order a free sermon outline, two weeks ago was good because it describes a man who went to visit hell for 23 minutes and he matched his experiences with scripture. So the sermon came out well, last week I spent so much time telling everyone and I have a long list of prayer requests from all the prayer warriors and different teams, plus all the other people that care for me, so being I can’t write them individually I put them all in one prayer on Sunday. The thing is when the sermon is completed it takes so much out of me I sleep till Monday. There is a simple prayer button on the index page and that prayer is older about 14 pages long, and that covers most everyone I know. But last weeks prayer just ended up being so long and took up so much time. I don’t know what I will do in the morning, but I don’t want to spend 10 hours on just the opening announcement and prayer. You can get a hold of me by just writing back on the board or you can send a message through the website and go to the prayer page www.thechurch-ministries.org and write in the box and submit your feelings, or you can write into the prayer ministry by using the address prayer@thechurch-ministries.org , I also have the yahoo email and the IM but I had a lot of trouble having to use the “email send part” I can get answers but I don’t know if I can send, I believe I have to go into the security section of internet options and take out my regular email and put in the yahoo as my default, the same with the church, they had some problems with sending emails, it might be fixed and ready to go. So the yahoo email is pastorrevpaul@yahoo.com I have had people send me mail that way. I just hope everything works till I get my other computer out of the repair shop. This last doctor thinks possibly that I have a chronic monilial infection of the mouth and body that is causing all the fatigue and lack of energy. That is what he thinks it appears to be. So at least I have some step forward to a diagnosis of this infection in my mouth after 3 years living in the dark. On top of everything else the spiritual warfare that is going on now is just as intense as it always is, maybe worse. I talk to God and Jesus all day with thankfulness and tears, I know they hear me and I feel it. I just want to be healed of all of this, and get started again with fixed computers and push toward the opening of the mission, we all know God has His own plan for me, and what narrow road to take. I am following divine direction and prayer, and I want to thank all the people that have written back to the boards, and I want to thank all the leadership for their prayers and blessings, plus anyone else that has been praying for me. I just pray to be normal again and not wake up in so much pain; it is hard the mornings are very tough emotionally and physically, and I just lay on the couch and read healing prayer books out loud, plus all my bibles, I am also working now on the Amplified bible as far as marking the important scriptures with different colors, like I have done with most of all the other major translations. I just want to let everyone know that I care and have inner feelings of compassion and love towards everyone in the world. And let you all know that I probably can’t send my regular email until I get the other computer out of the shop. Thanks again for your prayers and all your understanding and kindness. God bless you all, Brother Paul
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.1Cor.15:57-58 NIV
This letter is from Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I have been sent to bring faith to those God has chosen and to teach them to know the truth that shows them how to live godly lives. This truth gives them the confidence of eternal life, which God promised them before the world began--and he cannot lie. Titus 1:1-2 NLT
Dear Heavenly Father, We are and want to lay all things aside, the pride of life, anger, fear, and any type of un-forgiveness. We do not want to be lukewarm. We are on fire for You O Lord. We want to please You, we want to love You, and above all worship You in Spirit and Truth. Lord You know our hearts, You know how we truly feel, and how we show our love to others, our lives are focused on You. We stand for Your word and we thank You for all the blessings you have showered upon us all. We pray that You rule our hearts and our directions; and to promote unity among us by love. We thank You that you saved all of mankind through Your son Jesus. We praise You Jesus. We praise You Father for sending Your Son to earth and through his suffering, death, and resurrection You have given us life and the ability to talk, pray and worship You. Please send Your Holy Spirit to us all, please baptize us all in the Spirit of truth, all who here and listen and read this message today or any day Lord. We need all of You Lord, we cannot be complete without You. Please forgive us all of these past week’s sins, and hold on to us Lord. Please guide us today with what You want hear, and is pleasing and loving to You. We open ourselves to You Father, In Jesus Name. Amen
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 1Cor.3:1 NASB
Paul called the Corinthians infants in the Christian life because they were not yet spiritually strong and established. The proof was that they disagreed like little children, allowing separation to distract them. You have to admit they were immature Christians and were “worldly,” plus controlled by their personal desires; mature believers are in tune with God’s desires, not their own. Look at it carefully how much influence do your own desires have on your own life? Your goal should be to let God’s desires be yours. Being controlled by your own desires will inhibit your growth.
Look at this point, that the soul is the settling place of the self-consciousness the personality, the will, the intellect, and stands between the spirit and the seat of the God’s consciousness; and the body is the seat of the sense of the world and its consciousness. Some great preacher says that the soul derives its life, or life giving power, from either the spirit the higher part, or the animal or the lower part. In Latin the word for soul is (anima)-to make alive with the principle of the body.
In the converted man he is one who has had his spirit regenerated, or quickened into life by the Spirit of God communicating life to the fallen spirit Now the soul is dominated either from beneath, by the animal-life; or from above by the spirit life. It could be said, therefore, that there are basically three classes of Christians, and these three classes of believers are clearly referred and broken down in the Scriptures as Step (I) The spiritual man which is dominated by the Spirit of God, daily indwelling and energizing his renewed human spirit. Step (2) the soul part of a man is dominated by the soul, so he is guided or driven by the intellect or emotions of himself. Step (3) the carnal man that is dominated by the flesh and goes on living in fleshly habits or desires, he is guided by the power of the flesh.
The word used in I Corinthians 3:1 is not [psuche] soul; but [sarkikos]fleshly, the adjective of the word in Romans 8: 7, where it is written, that the carnal [sarx] mind is enmity against God . It is not said that the [psuche], or soul part of life, is enmity to God, but the fleshly mind. [Let us look at it in context-For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.] (Rom.8:6-8 NLT) We have to live our lives in the spirit not in the soul or carnal.
It is true that the natural, or the soulful man, cannot obtain, or comprehend, the things of the Spirit.
[But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.] (I Cor.2:14),
but he is not said to be in enmity, simply because he is soulful. And I as the natural manor the man of soul, Gk.-cannot receive the spiritual understanding that comes from our Lord, also could not speak or make known unto you, the deep things of God, as I would to the spiritual; but I was compelled to speak to you as I would to men of flesh, wrote Paul, in effect, to the Corinthians, they were so much into themselves and not " in Christ " and they were so dominated by the flesh that he could only describe them as still carnal or fleshly. This was proved by the manifestation of the works of the flesh in jealousy and strife, for he writes to the Galatians,
" the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies, envying, drunkenness, separations, and such like (Gal. 5:19-21).
Any of these manifestations seen in a believer mark the workings, in some degree, of the [sarkikos] or fleshly life, passing out through the avenues of the soul, or personality, in jealousy or strife, etc. Such a one is not even a soulful man but a man merely [natural] but a man walking "after the flesh ", even though his spirit may be able to give a new life and quickened into life; and those who are still walking in the flesh, cannot please God. We all have to understand being carnal is what you hear, see, taste, smell, and feel. And basically letting your life focus only on your senses and life itself for a Christian is living in the spirit we are dead to being carnal, that is why when we got baptized we died of all that carnal thinking when we got immersed as our heads went back. Paul will be talking about two major aspects one of being carnal or not, but we also have to think of the third party the man who is soulful so that gives us the third classification.
[The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.] (Gal. 5:19-21 NIV),
basically like the words above but a different translation, we end up with different words. If your going to heaven you don’t expect to see people with the wrong attitude, because they will go around hurting people, that is why there is limitations on how people are, if we don’t grow in the spirit we will never know how to act. You have to realize and look in the mirror do you think you can go to some place where everyone is peaceful and happy, are you going to be able to fit in, are you going to make it through eternity without saying your sorry. None of us really know how heaven will be, we have to get close to Jesus and learn how to be like Jesus, otherwise we will not be going to the kingdom, there is so many truths that if you believe in Jesus and He is your Lord and Savior and still act cruel or lie or mess with someone’s heart, there might be different sections in heaven, we have to teach all people to live by the spirit, not by the soul or our original senses. We really need to read the word. Remember to Love God with all we have inside and our neighbor also, meaning all people. That is why forgiveness is so important, people are going to hurt you in this world and we need much practice if we think we are going to heaven carrying hate and jealousy.
The Apostle's description of these Corinthian believers as being carnal or fleshly, and yet babes in Christ, shows clearly that babes in Christ are generally under the domination of the flesh or in the flesh at the initial stage of the spiritual life. In their regeneration they are truly in Christ, vitally quickened with His life, and planted into Him by His Spirit, as it is written in John 3:16, " that whosoever believeth into Him may have everlasting life " [Greek]; but these babes in Christ, vitally in Him by a living faith, have not yet apprehended all that the Cross severs them from by their being baptized into His death on the Cross, and quickened by His life.
Paul divides people into three categories those who let themselves be controlled by their sinful natures, those that live by their emotions, and those who follow after the Holy Spirit. All of us would be in the first category if Jesus hadn’t offered us a way out. Once we have said yes to Jesus, we will want to continue following him, because his way brings life and peace. But so many people today are not trusting in the Lord and they rely on there soulful feelings, in a way people have to have that perfect trust and truly believe in the word of God. Not believe in one part of the bible and believe in other parts. You see we can be Christians for 20 years if we don’t study the word we will not grow, and if we don’t grow we will not be available for the Kingdom. Daily we must consciously choose to center our lives on God. We must use the Bible to discover God’s guidelines, and then follow each and every one of them. In every perplexing situation ask yourself, “What would Jesus want me to do?” When the Holy Spirit points out what is right, do it eagerly. There are people that are still judging others and complaining about others when they don’t even know the whole circumstances of their lives and what they are doing to grow.
[We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.] (Heb. 5:11-14 NIV)
It appears from the Apostle's language that he blames these Corinthians for being still “babes ", for the babe-stage ought not to be of very long duration. (Compare Hebrews 5:11-14)
The regeneration of the spirit, which comes through the in-breathing of the Spirit of life from God, on the man's simple faith in the atoning sacrifice of the Son of God upon the Cross in his behalf, should be quickly followed by the apprehension of the death of the sinner with the Savior (Romans 6: 1-13),
which brings about the deliverance from the life after the " flesh " which the Corinthian Christians had manifestly not yet known.
[Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.
Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.
Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.] (Rom. 6:1-13 NIV)
The requirement of the law is holiness but the law is powerless to make us holy because of our inborn sinfulness. Only through Christ’s death and the resulting freedom from sin can we no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit and thus fulfill the righteous requirements of the law. The Holy Spirit is the one who helps us become holy. The Holy Spirit provides the power internally to help us do what the law required of us externally.
It is the Spirit who produces “fruit” in us; only in this way can we fulfill the requirements of the law. But Paul has already made it clear that the law is powerless to save. So why do its requirements still need to be met? The law is God’s law and was never meant to be cast aside. Paul makes a distinction between two kinds of obedience to the law. He speaks against the obedience to the law that stays merely at the level of the flesh (such as being circumcised because the law required it) and the obedience that depends on God’s Holy Spirit. Only the latter fulfills the law. When we live according to the Spirit, we actually do meet the requirements of the law.
We will struggle constantly with sin and its temptations until the resurrection. People who decide to follow their sinful nature will be dominated by it and think about sinful things. But believers do not need to live in sin because they can now live controlled by the Holy Spirit, so they can think about things that please the Spirit. We must follow Christ daily in every area of our life, in our choices and moral decisions. Will you follow your former sinful nature or the Spirit’s leading?
The marks of the carnal Christian, babes in Christ, the Apostle sketches very clearly, and by these marks every believer of the present time can judge for himself whether he, too, is yet carnal. This leads us to consider at this point: The Deliverance of the Cross, all who believe in Jesus still there are many babes in Christ, they don’t walk spiritual, some don’t even know how, they go to church on Sunday and race out of the parking lot and go to lunch, stand in line and complain that they have to wait so long, and by the time they have finished lunch they have already forgotten what was preached just a few hours ago. People don’t realize that one third of our body after we became born again is perfection spiritually. We are one third full blown Holy Ghost. And the spiritual part of our body is perfect, it will not change once we get to heaven, we have the mind of Christ the power of Christ, the wisdom of Christ, plus the healing power of Christ all in this one third of our body. It is a wonderful gift but some of us just don’t know how to tap into this third. We should be constantly in communication with the spiritual part of us, we should have no fear at all, we should be totally healthy, and we should have the wisdom to make all the right decisions, even Jesus said we will do greater works then He Himself.
["Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.] (John 14:12 NASB)
“They that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh” (Galatians). These are the words with which the Apostle ends his description of the " works of the flesh " in his letter to the Galatians, as he contrasts the " fruit of the Spirit " which the " spiritual " man, the man in whom the spirit, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, rules should bring forth in his life.
The " babes in Christ " who are " yet carnal " need a fuller apprehension of the meaning of the Cross; for in the purpose of God the death of Christ meant that the " old man " was crucified with Him, so that " they that are of Christ have crucified the flesh " with all its affections and desires. The same Cross that was revealed to the unregenerate man as the place where sin was atoned for, and his burden of sin removed by the blood of the Lamb, is the place where the " carnal " Christian, who may be a " babe " in Christ, even though regenerate for many years, must obtain deliverance from the domination of the flesh, so that he may walk after the spirit, and not "after the flesh", and thus in due season become " spiritual ", and a full-grown man in Christ.
[So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses.
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited, or provoke one another, or be jealous of one another.] (Gal.5:16-26 NLT)
If God loves to forgive, we would think why worry about sin if God forgives all sin. Then people would think do we have the freedom to sin as much as we want? Paul’s forceful answer is By no means! That would be a terrible attitude to take advantage of God’s forgiveness. How wrong would that be to deciding ahead of time to take advantage of God. People just don’t understand the seriousness of sin. I hope some people in the world understand what Jesus had to go through and his death for sin shows us the dreadful seriousness of sin. Jesus paid with his life so we could be forgiven. The accessibility of God’s mercy must not become an apology for careless living and moral laxness. Sin is so bad and can cause separation from our God and Son, why would anyone want to sin or even to lie or steal or hurt a person or a country, we are in the end times and the devil is doing all the damage he can to the elect, because if he can destroy the elect who will guide the unsaved, and who would help the lost or the hungry and the Aids that is greatly growing into a plague that might eventually change the whole course of the world.
In the church of Paul’s day, immersion was the normal form of baptism so new Christians were completely “buried” in water. They understood this form of baptism to symbolize the death and burial of the old way of life. Coming up out of the water symbolized the resurrection to new life with Christ. We have to take all this very seriously and think of our old, sinful life as dead and buried, this way we have the full understanding how evil sin really is, and if we are taught the proper word and doctrine we will know the importance to resist any sort of sin. We have to take the old man what we were before knowing Jesus and cast away any old habits or wrong feelings and bury them along with our old nature as if all sin was completely dead. Then we can continue to enjoy our wonderful new life with Jesus. I guess it is hard to make people understand that they should repent and change their hearts into a new man of complete love and forgiveness, so that they will enter into heaven and have an eternal life with pure love. And people just go on sinning and they just don’t care, some just don’t want to care, but when the end grows near their attitude changes, why can’t they just be taught at a young age and learn to help one another and love one another.
It is to bad we had to live through a falling world, and during this time period all the good are suffering all over the world, but when the time comes these chosen ones that are suffering now will be the ones helping the ones that didn’t want to listen or even learn or understand about sin, and what Jesus Christ has done for each human being across the globe, and still yet people are getting hurt and suffering to explain the life of the future for each person and which road they will travel on and how hurt they might be if they don’t repent now. God is still in control, many times I ask the Lord if He would let me help so many people, so many things have happened to me to make me stop helping others, and it is all the work of the devil, I guess God wants me to relax and not deal with the world, I thought that is what I am here for to help others, and another broken heart comes and an additional barrier goes up to stop me in my tracks to help one another, lately all I can do is pray from a distance and send hope from spirit to spirit.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Gal.3:26-29 KJV)
And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. (Col. 2:6-7 NLT)
Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. (Col. 2:8-10 NLT)
When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. (Col. 2:11-12 NLT)
You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. (Col. 2:13-15 NLT)
So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths. For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality. Don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious self-denial or the worship of angels, saying they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds have made them proud, and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it. (Col. 2:16-19 NLT)
You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as, “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”? Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, pious self-denial, and severe bodily discipline. But they provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires. (Col. 2:20-23 NLT)
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Col. 3:1-4 KJV)
When a person becomes a born again Christian, he or she is given new life through the power of the Holy Spirit. + +
The main covenant with God was for the Jewish males to be circumcised. (Genesis 17:9-14). Now with the death of Christ the circumcision was no longer required, the whole point is our loyalty to God is actually written on our hearts, not necessary on our bodies. So instead of this bodily operation Christ frees us from all evil desires by a spiritual operation. Our whole nature changes from and old life of sin to a new life of steering away from sin. Now we understand that circumcision is a relation to baptism, so some see that baptism is the signature that you are one with Christ and the Father. Plus we look at baptism as the death, being buried and the resurrection power of Jesus, also it ties together with the death and burial of sin, and your old way of life, continued with the resurrection meaning the new life given to the believer in Jesus Christ. We have to remember that our old life of sin is dead and buried along with Christ, and that gives us even more power to not even think about sin. We don’t want to ever go back to a life of sin it is dead and gone, even any desires are gone, and the rest falls into place with our lives being shared with our Jesus as savior. Remember when we were younger and did not understand sin, we carried on and lived in all kinds of sin, when we became a Christian we changed we didn’t want to sin, not just because of the death punishment, because we now loved Jesus and the Father and realized that we couldn’t do anything worthwhile on our own. After accepting Jesus Christ we become a new man and then declared not guilty by the Father and we don’t fall under the power of sin itself. We didn’t understand we were not even free, because we still had the power of sin directing our paths and lives, so now we are not more or less a slave to sin. We are finally living in freedom not in slavery to the sinful world. Our whole nature of our hearts changed, and our love for others became more important, sharing became more active, just living for God is amazing enough; it is exciting to work for the Lord.
[If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.] (Rom. 6:5-14 NIV)
In the very begining my second test and you can tell I was pumping iron, even after a few weeks off.
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. (Col.3:5-11 NIV)
"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 NASB)
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Eph. 4:23-24 KJV)
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Col.3:12-17 NIV)
I hope everyone understands the new life in Christ you see we have together joined Him in His death and His resurrection. All evil that dwelled within us, any evil desires, our burden to sin and any type of sin within us died right along with Him. Now we have an open fellowship with God, we also share in the same resurrection power, and freedom from all sin, remember we were bought with a price that is fully paid, all our sins are swept away, and God no longer remembers any of our mistakes or times of evil or darkness, we are now new creatures in Christ, clean and newness of life, in the light of God.
Remember this quotation {for you have died} in other words we should care about this world as a dead person would. Are you beginning to understand we have to focus now on things above not on earthly things or matters, we should always focus on our home above, this is only a blink of an eye, so many people mistake this place as this is all there is. That is why everyone is in a hurry and people focus on material things, possessions and accomplishments, these same people become so attached to their things, and these things are only temporary. My Christian friends focus on things above, we have to look at life the same way God does, our home is where Christ lives and is right now, we have to understand that heaven is our home, and we should concentrate on things above not on things here or below where things rust and waste away and get stolen are whole future is resting and living a life of joy, peace and in the light of God Himself, no more pain and no more stress, confusion, tears, and any type of fear or worry, a life of perfect peace, love and fellowship, friends that love you and don’t hurt you. If we could only think like God and look through His window with His perspective, maybe the days we are living on earth would not be so bad if we looked at the heavens above and knew there is a special place already picked out for us. Chosen by God and His Son who knows what we have gone through and have a jar with all our tears, they too have felt our pain and all our burdens, setbacks, and all the warfare that we had to fight all our earthly lives, they know our hearts and what makes us happy, and what brings us joy,
like my room would be in the mountains and my room would be under a waterfall that falls into a pool of perfect water, and all types of animals come to drink from the still waters, on the very top of these majestic mountains will be snow, but my room will be a perfect warmth. Past the pool will lead to the ocean so we will have a mixture of fresh water fish and salt water fish, fresh water out my front door and about a hundred yards away starts the ocean with giant rocks and cliffs all along the beach. That is what I look forward to. Remember a believer’s life is hidden with Christ in total security concealed and safe. As we live each day with Jesus and for Jesus our salvation is a sure thing, we still have to keep up our service, love, behavior and purity and God will do what He promised for each one of us eternally. See you up there and stop by and sit on the porch and watch the falls. God bless you and if you’re not saved, get saved, so you can spend some time in heaven with me and Jesus.
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (John 14:2-3 NIV)
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. (Phil. 4:9 KJV)
There are many ways to get saved all along this website, look around and find the getting saved page. Or read about being saved all through the general buttons.
Today Saturday has been anther day of pain and sorrow I can’t go into it totally but I had another death take place and I can’t take this over and over, another broken heart and another burial. This is getting to a point of how much can one man receive? When does this warfare end? When do the tears stop? What is going on, the place is holy ground? And still I suffer on top of suffering, stress on top of stress, and every day it has to be something. I am blessed I am still alive, plus I am surprised I could even write today. Any other man would have just given up, and closed the church. One thing after another, with no peace, and no days to relax, what is going on with my life? Can I smile one day this year? My heart is beating to rapid 137 at the doctor’s office? I am in shock right now. No matter how hard I prayed he still died. Just pounding in the cross in the ground, this day has hit me hard. When do I heal from the last time? Today I could have filled a jar of tears. Well I have been on and off this computor since about 9:30am Saturday morning inbetween one of the most shocking days of my life.
“My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to a man's whole body.”(Prov. 4:20-22).
Our heart our feelings of love and desire dictates to a great extent how we live because some of us find time to do what we enjoy. Solomon tells us to guard our heart above all else, making sure we concentrate on those desires that will keep us on the right path. Make sure your affections push you in the right direction. Put boundaries on your desires: don’t go after everything you see. Look straight ahead, keep your eyes fixed on your goal, and don’t get sidetracked on detours that lead to sin.
“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. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.” (Prov. 3:5-8)
Dear Heavenly Father, thank-you for another day of life, in which I can see the water and the stars, and the beauty around me, I know that complete trust in You is the main piece of writing, to have that purity of faith in You no matter what we go through, to have that bond of righteousness, of togetherness, love, peace, and that connection of communication. We all thank-You and we all Praise Your name for Your glory, and dominion. We Praise the name of Jesus Christ, who is all, and in all. We praise the Holy Spirit for just helping and guiding us with these words. Father I pray for all the people who are suffering right now, I pray that some light will shine upon them in true peace harmony and tranquility. I pray that we all continue to grow more like Jesus, and to loose the elements of sin. I pray for wholesomeness, safety and joy for us all. In Jesus Name, Amen and Amen.
Good Morning: My brothers and sisters, welcome to our 169th Sunday Service Assembly coming from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I have lived a terrible day and I am not going to spend another 10 hours re-writing basically the same prayer for everyone. The only change since last week is I have been trying to get in touch with Joanna Cody, she is very important to me and my heart, I am worried about her condition with the pulmonary embolism she has, Randy was supossed to keep in touch ,he works with her in the same hospital, I left about 5 messages with a small prayer and told her my concern, maybe she does not know I can't read my emails or send any emails because now I am just so over loaded with mail that the computor will crash, and I have to wait till my other computor comes back from the repair shop, so I have no idea what is going on. I have been in prayer for her and then the death Saturday and the burial ,what a day, what a week. So the chickens are still messing up the yard and making a racket, now I have a dog sneaking around also, no matter how hard I try to clean all their mess they keep coming and waking me up every morning, and I usally shake at that time. And they just keep making noise for hours and you can never go back to sleep. I hope I feel better today the thing is of course I don’t have the money to get the 2nd computer fixed, so all I will do is praise the Lord, and have hope things will work out, as you know I am under so much spiritual warfare that the days become nightmares. Nobody knows what I have to go through everyday. Last week I was tormented in a serious of wicked facts that almost gave me a heart attack. THIS WEEK THE CABLE WENT OUT FOR THREE DAYS AND COULD NOT USE THE PHONE AND THE COMPUTOR. This week I went through more stress then ever. The warefare just does not end. The attacks keep coming and the birds keep chirping. That is what the devil wants to see me dead, when I am hitch –hiking down the road in the rain because Satan just set all this panic and confusion up and I was so tired from the day before. It is like I don’t go through enough problems, like just now my email was going to yahoo why I have no idea, and wasted an hour fixing that without turning on outlook express, that is what the devil wanted me to do, and you would not have a sermon this week I could not even erase the emails at all, everything went haywire, so I can’t take that chance again. Unless I just delete the whole inbox. So Susan Jones has been helping me, all this time and I have not gotten a message, and that is not like her when she sends about 3 messages a day plus and I have to communicate with my directors and the other computer is in the shop getting fixed. There are so many people I have to thank just like every week and along with me I ask you to pray for the same people that I list, many of the people I ask for prayer have more or less saved my life and during all these years I have to pray for all my friends and people of The Church, and my Bishop Directors, plus my Secretary and Treasurer, this is getting totally ridiculous. When can I have one day of peace, where every thing works right and not wrong, when and how is the next problem, like how am I going to communicate with the people I have to communicate with, when it just will crash. I need to talk to someone in the computer world, to find out some answers, I can’t afford 125 dollars for technical help, HP only charges 85 dollars and some little store that I got this computer from wants to charge me 125 dollars. I need help is anyone going to help me? I have not gotten one donation in a year and all the work I have been doing and what I have to do just to finish a sermon. It takes 24 hours and don’t get a dime for it really does not matter as long as people are getting saved and seeds are getting planted and God is watering the seeds. I have tried to make this website the most interesting with the bread of life being preached and purity of sound doctrine. All over the web site you can learn from free bible studies and all kinds’ movies and films and all kinds of ways to be saved. All kinds of historic doctrine to make us all understand that we have to stay close to Jesus and that is all we need, the thing is we don’t need anything else except Jesus Christ. And to stay as close to Him as possible once we put anything before Jesus we are blowing it , that one thing becomes an idol, if we care about our car or house more then Jesus it is an idol. If we are greedy with anything we become idolizing certain things that rust away or break or someone steals what ever it is we want so badly, like a material thing I saw a box for 35 cents of course I bought it, but I have to fix it up a bit. The thing is if I bought something else like adding to a collection, like hat pins, that is wrong especially if you don’t need it, and don’t have the money for it. That hat pin becomes an idol, even though it is a cheap piece of metal, it is an idol, and God is jealous, He wants us to think of Him first not at anything else. One time I had a car and I kept it shiny and clean and so woman got away with a hit and run and destroyed the whole right door and side of the car. That was my lesson right there not to care about anything else more then God. I don’t know who is writing and I can’t write out and the lines that are in the email will not take me there so I can’t even look at a message not an attachment just a line on a page to take me to what they are explaining. I need to get in touch with all my Bishop Directors and the Secretary and the Treasurer. And send my prayers to them all and I do this every week to everyone I know. I ask for prayer for each person because I am too weak to send them a prayer letter, Bishop Director Joaquim was helping me with the prayer letters and I was sending him the requests and he was doing a wonderful job. Now I have to wait till the other computer gets out of the shop. So I hope everyone is reading this opening statement, the same with Joanna in Buffalo I can’t talk to her and I am getting messages on yahoo now, but there is something wrong. She has not called back in a week or so and she has an pulmonary embolism in her lung and I am worried about her condition. Also in Buffalo is Randy he said he would call and keep me updated on her condition. They both work together. I don’t know here are two dear friends and I can’t even communicate with them, I have called and left messages, nice ones but no answers. Jacob and Daisy I did get a hold of and Bishop Director Jacob I have known for years, plus I have not heard from Bishop Director Vijay, Bishop Director Paul has been sending me all kinds of emails what is happening to people of his country, and He is an amazing man like 10 missionaries in one, he is out there delivering food blankets, clothes and so many things people need, and his website keeps getting better and better, so I don’t know if anyone is even reading this sermon or not. No one writes and tells me they read the site, and no one says anything about it, I am just going to continue to pray for each person no matter what, of course we are praying for all the officers and Directors, and everyone I know that has helped me, I am in pray for people that have long forgotten about me. When you’re too weak to write an email and write to others they think you just don’t care, that is not the case with me. I do care and it breaks my heart when no one even gives me an answer. Johan and Esther are still writing because he knows how sick I am and he has three children the oldest is Anneke, then Jolene, then baby Simeon, they all run a mission in South Africa and they have about 350 mouths to feed, at the Deo Valente Mission. Johan still is sending get well cards and scripture to keep my mind on the Lord, which I am doing. Bishop Paul did a big prayer for me with the Salem Voice and they did a whole weekend thing with fasting and prayer, and they told me I was on there, well I too am asking for prayer for Pastor Paul and his wife Mercy, and the children Lesly, Hepzy, and Belsly. This family is fighting all kinds of different ups and downs and all I can do is keep praying for each one and also everyone that works the ministry and any family, when I did the tribute there were many that looked like family and close friends from the pictures. So I pray for the whole village and friends and relatives. I know there prayers have touched my heart and I know when people stop or when I just feel empty or sad, I can feel at times I am alone. That is what happened when I didn’t here from Susan Jones or Vijay, and they both wrote wonderful pieces of mail and letters. Paul is always sending me all kinds of stuff, and I have not heard from Joaquin in a while in fact I wanted to write back and that is when the computer crashed, it seems any time I try to move fast the right click button does not work. Plus Lynne the Treasurer is still sick also so I have myself and the Secretary and Treasurer all three of us are sick at the moment and I still ask for prayer for everyone on this list. The thing is Liz and Willie have been helping and Willie has done things for me that no man has ever done he is the one that helped me bring in the computer. So I am asking for prayer for them both. Then I have Craig and Linda and family and ever since we had everything set up for me to go to California things got all confused and I was going to stay with them if the doctors needed more time to check me out at the university, now forget it years ago I had a chance but know I don’t know if I will ever go to a large hospital and get checked out and diagnosed. I still have the pain fever and infection, and I don’t know what to do, sometimes I feel hurt that it is hard for me to even cook a meal for my self. I am always broke and there is some stuff in the freezer but I don’t know what is in the wraps. Maybe I will just take some out and see if anything is still good, I have to eat every two hours and it is becoming hard unless a banana or an avocado is good enough. I just am being to feel uneasy because you don’t talk to anyone and the emails were the only way of communication and that is gone for a few days, so it hurts. I also have not heard from Angel and he helped this church more then most, and he is disappeared. Alexander I know is caught in the middle of India and he can’t write anyone or pray with anyone or even talk about God with anyone, all the people he meets are new so he has to watch his back and we have been praying for him and Angel. I have realized it does not matter if they know you are praying for them only that you do it. And if some of you could help me pray for everyone I would appreciate it a lot. Kelly keeps writing to tell me about on-line jobs, so I guess she does not know how sick I really am, Kelly is the girl that was crippled and the day she sent the letter I knew God was helping me do something right. She has her letter on the friends page which one day I was so upset, Kelly sent the letter of healing and how she held on to all the prayer letters and she would read them all the time. Her testimony of getting cured and through away here special shoes and her braces, was a heavy story it is on page 3 of the friends pages. It made me feel good; at least I was lead into doing something right. And she saved every letter, and kept them close to her. Marcella has been with the living waters ministry and she is another writing me all kinds of blessings and scripture and prayer, so that is the least I can do is pray for them. Which I did and have been, so prayer team if you can give a hand with some prayer for others I will get healed, I have realized if I pray for my self nothing really happens but when you pray for others, I feel so much better. Next we need to pray for Fred and Shirl, Fred had a large battle with cancer, and as far as I know now he is doing alright, they need prayer for finances and good health. I could imagine the hospital bills. Plus Pastor Fred and Suzanne who just lost Suzanne’s mom to cancer, I prayed hard and she still went to be in the arms of God. We need prayer for all 4 of the leadership, and we were friends. Fred who had the cancer is not being in the leadership anymore. But I heard he might return if he gets better. Plus Hugh Keith and Darla Izzo we are all in region 2, plus now we have new leadership for region 2 Karen Local elder, Alicia Bishop, Walter is the Regional elder, plus Eric Lewis and his wife from Sacramento. I can’t forget Keith Ratcliff from Amarillo Tx. He was and still is a close friend. Hugh made me cry for joy when he sent me a card, People care and I want to give back the love they have given me. Each of us has their own story and we are Christians and we are prepared to suffer for the name. Please help me pray for everyone, there is a feeling when all of us pray for each other, a special feeling of care and compassion and just plain loving your neighbor. Prayer is so powerful, I know God has so much power he can heal me in seconds, He could even put my weight back on me, He could also bring back what the devil stole from me, the way I looked, and felt and He can do it two fold. I put many years into my training and after 50 years or so and 23 years of hard training, I was finally going to prove to my real human dad that he can be proud of me for something, it is not self pride, although at times I would have visions of winning contests and that would give ME self pride, maybe that is why God made me stop, or that was His plan, I might have died or pushed myself to much, there was another athlete that trained hard everyday and all of a sudden while running he just keeled over and died. This infection and the loss of all my weight and strength may have a story within itself, with a testimony behind what I had to go through; at times for me it was horrible. God has the driver’s wheel, he is taking me for the ride and all I have to do is just trust in Him, and just let Him drive to where He wants to go and take me, there is a plan, God always has a plan. I give Him the Praise and the Worship, I just have to tell the devil to get off my back trying to make me doubt. The darkness will use anything to mess with my mind to try to take my eyes off of Jesus like Peter did walking on the water. I just have to be stronger and have just plain faith, we don’t need mountains of faith to move them just a tiny mustard seed worth to do anything. Trust and Truth in God is the key, God will give us the faith we need, and the Holy Spirit will always guide us. We just make God our idol and nothing else, and love Him with all our mind, strength and heart. We have to focus on the Son our Jesus to be our personal Lord and Savior. He is our advocate He is the one in heaven pleading for us, as the devil would be there saying well he bought himself a box, that is greed. And Jesus would be there and say that box is valuable, Paul got it for the future, and the box he really wanted he gave to someone else. If Paul gets a new belt for 52 cents he is thrilled not greedy, and possibly God put it in a pile that Paul had to search for but he finally found the right kind. You see I would never buy a new belt that is something I just can’t afford, and I just wouldn’t do it in the first place. Let’s continue praying for Kim and Kevin from the healing rooms they are trying to help and heal people, so let us pray for their ministry downtown and hope that it will save many people and help and heal many. We also have to pray for mike at Mike’s prayer friends, Mike took my prayers and sent them all over the internet, I would be going through the search engines and see one of my own prayers on someone else’s site, it made me feel good that a man would do that. Plus Dr. K.P. Yohannan who is the founder and president of the Gospel of Asia, the GOA is one of the biggest ministries around. We have been writing back and forth and people are hurting others because they are trying to learn about Jesus Christ. Some of the stories I would read are just unreal, people are trying to save people from the darkness of hell, and some people just don’t get it. Remember last week do you want to spend eternity in the darkness and flames of hell. Anyway let us continue I have not heard from Columbus Murphy out of Chicago, we have been prayer partners along time with Leslie, and she was having trouble getting a job, and Omar was in trouble for something to do with the family. We have been close Columbus and I; we have been sending heartfelt prayers for almost 3 years or maybe more back and forth. We need prayer for the whole family, please help me out warriors. Next are Carol Genoza and all the people of Genoza reality, the same people I have to pay my rent to. They have no idea we pray for them they do have a smile when I go in the office and pay my rent. So maybe they do feel the compassion and care running through my veins. When you pray for someone it makes a difference, here is a story we had professors of a particular ministry and subject, and most of the exciting people would go first and as the course was over we would get the professors that were boring, but this one guy stood out amongst the crowd. And even though he was at he end and was supposed to be boring, he wasn’t he was one of the most interesting people of the school, and none of us could figure it out till one day we asked him, and he just told us that he would pray for each one of us one at a time. It did make a difference and I have learned from that man for a long time, praying for people adds spirit to people and heart and for some reason love gets in there also. They say in the end times that people will be so cold. These end times is when we should be praying the most. That is why I even pray for the landlords Mr. and Mrs. Sakia who are some beautiful people and it is a long story but I don’t know why they had to hire anyone to collect my rent from me and each month they loose probably a certain percentage when I can just pay them. I don’t know it is going on 4 years now soon, so we have been friends for a long time and I am very close to the son who has Down syndrome or something like that, or something familiar. One of these days when I put my arms around him I will pray for complete healing and watch what happens. Maybe someday that is why I am here, that boy deserves to be a perfect man and through my prayers and yours it is quite possible. Another person I miss is Bishop Shawn Chamberlain he has his own ministry now, and he keeps wanting me to write on his boards and he doesn’t know in he last 6 months how sick I became when he used to call me, and we used to talk for hours. His new ministry is www.rootsandwingsministries.org give it a try. Plus add a prayer to the ministry and to Shawn. We then have Phillip and Marie Hardgrave’s, which are such beautiful people who I went to ministry school with and Marie dropped out early and Phillip remained till the end like I did, out of about 40-50 people I think 12 made it all the way. That school has a long story behind it. Anyway pray for Phillip and Marie that their lives go well and no more attacks from evil. And they have a happy life. Robert and Judith used to play all the percussion behind me while I played the bass or the 12 string guitar, sometimes when they needed three to run all the instruments Beth would be back there too, so we always talked during our practice days and all the specials for the holidays and it would turn into a symphony of 30+or more pieces, which I wore a tux and went all out, the church was so big you could kick a football and never hit the ceiling it could hold 1600 or so, I did have a wonderful time playing it was great with like 5-6 violins 2trombones, 3 trumpets, 2 French horns, 1 guitar, a real harp, an oboe, and like 5 flutes, and a few piccolos, plus so many others, we sounded great, and it was a great experience, and now I don’t hardly play at all. I did play the bass and guitar and tried out at one church, and I went to one church when I first got here and the man from the tower came down and almost shook my hand completely off, and thanking me and telling me he never heard anyone with both talents with the bass, guitar and also voice. He kept on saying where did you come from, he figured I would be on the road with a band or something, he could not believe I had all that bottled up inside me, and he felt it come alive when I became relaxed. And the music minister didn’t say anything all he would say was can you just go bong –bong instead of bingo, bong, bang, bingo, bong, up and down the fret board, fingers moving like a machine, all in tempo and all in key. All he said was he would call me, and he never did. I never played much after that. You figured I wanted to play in one of the largest churches like where I came from, but the music minister played the guitar and the bass, plus I also play the keyboards. And he just didn’t want me around, that was the feeling I got, the man in the tower never heard anything like it playing and singing my own original songs with the harmonica. Then a bass and drum solo while he played the drums I played the bass, and it was like Jack Bruce with the Cream all over the fret board and in all different octaves. I drove home crying my eyes out, I knew he wouldn’t call, there was nothing wrong with my playing or trying to be a show off, I am to modest to have a personality like that. The guy in the tower was overwhelmed and the music minister didn’t seem to want me around. Talk about a broken heart, this day was as bad as the day I had to quit the gym. It just felt I was worthless. Anyway back home we had Joe, Carl, Larry and his wife and Mike and his wife that did landscaping, plus Lenny and Kathy, and Jimmy and the mother Donna, and Fred their dad just passed away from cancer. Then when I was in school I was working as a security guard in a Christian School, and I had to catch anyone sneaking out of the building, break up fights, and make sure they weren’t doing drugs on the property. But then I wanted to work for the Boys Club of America, and they hired me, to cook for kids teach them how to make a snack to feed about 200+ and hold them over till
their parents came home. And they got a new memo that day and I turned another good job down working the main food bank giving out orders to churches and other ministries that feed the poor, and didn’t get either job because of a memo, that had nothing to do with me. Talk about another broken heart, all things changed after that. Also at the church so I had Robert and Judith behind me and we got real close after a year and a half in fact we all got close with the symphony. So I miss all of everyone at the churches at that time I was going to 4 churches at the same time and went to school and even got extra lessons once a week every Wednesday morning from one of the church pastors. Then on Thursday I would pick up the perishable items and put them away and then a big truck came in and we had to restock all kinds of caned goods. So anyway I prayed for my tutor Terry he was a guy and the minister of that church that was one of those churches that didn’t believe in Revelations or the Old Testament. But I worked with an 85 year old man for two years and of course we became friends, after a few letters passed my best friend stopped writing because they said they didn’t want to sound like or with the attitude of Job’s friends. Then on Fridays we handed out the food, and I even delivered to people that could not make it to the church. So when I left I gave and sold all kinds of stuff away, mostly I gave all my good 1800 bibles to one guy, and my antique chefs knives to another guy, and my video tapes to another, and Rob and Judith got the rest along with Rebecca who took care of the cat.
When I got here I needed a vacuum and I met the nicest man in the town Herbert Namohala from Hilo Kirby he gave me the best deal on a used vacuum and all the extras then he came to the house and fixed it and brought me more stuff for the machine.
Then right across the street is Shiigi Pharmacy, where I meet Shannon who has done more then help my mind, and my life, she always new the right answers and she also knew what she was doing with orders changing, and different prescriptions and some didn’t work and she had an answer to almost anything, so we turned out to be the best of friends, along with Annette, she is always worried about me and always asking how are you how are you feeling, and the rest of Shiigi’s was Sherry, Mel and Michael plus more that worked on the weekends, but they all have been a blessing to me. And they all have a nice family business.
Then across the street again is my doctor, Dr. Conner, she is also a Christian and she believes in the power of prayer and we pray almost every session , she realizes that I am up against all different ailments and she tries to give me the best care, and we and the church have been in prayer for her mom Ethel who started not to feel like herself and we have been praying for a complete healing, I have not heard anything yet she could be doing better by now, but most of the conversation is about me and this cadidiasis, and she put me on two new jugs of a liquid called Nystatan. We got all the people of the world praying for Ethel for a whole physical healing. Dr. Conner knows my family and the history of my life so that is why we pray together, she realizes also what we are up against, the devil and his games and all his tricks and warfare. Being I am a pastor of this church she knows that ministers and Chaplains get tormented a lot more then just a normal everyday person. Plus we are still praying for Mary who left last month and she hired a new young man, so our prayers are with him, and Allen is still the main office guy who knows all the procedures and the ins and outs of all the general office and care for the patients. He is in all of our prayers probably across the globe. So we pray for the whole office and everyone that comes in. We think about that atmosphere of peace and comfort, so help us all pray for a diagnosis and for this cadidiasis to be gone and for me to eat every two hours so I can gain some weight back and hopefully get rid of this brown stuff off my tongue and the pain to go away. We do hope that Ethel does have a miracle healing this month, and that she tells her daughter (Dr. Conner) that she finally feels better, that is what we are all hoping for. We pray that the whole office has a common ground of care compassion and tranquility with everyone from the staff to the patients.
Locally we are still praying for Pastor George and the whole congregation and that he does not have to work so hard at his other job, last time I heard George gets up real early and starts his sermon, then he works a full time job at a Pharmacy in town, plus now they have a Thursday night service. So he is very busy, we all pray that God helps him with the words for the church and does not get hurt putting in all those hours and then he goes to sleep early and starts the day early with the writing of the sermon a little each morning. My other best friend would be Pastor Rob and Suzie, We also pray for pastor Rob and his second job working and that he catches up and does not have to spend to many hours away from the church, and then when people need him and want to see him, he is there and not running wires through a house. Suzie is always there if you need prayer or someone to talk too. We all pray that Rob has more time in the church then at the jobsite. We are all praying for the congregation to here the bread of life, and fully understand what it is like to be saved and how to make Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior. Rob offered me a free night to preach but I am too tired and run down to even stand for 20 minutes, he would let me run The Church Ministries name, I figured maybe I could do this sitting down, but without teeth it is hard to do any counseling or speaking without any teeth. Plus the vibration from talking or singing causes more pain. We all are praying Pastor Rob gives me a call and offers to pray with me. That is what I need some good pastoral prayers. If I only can get a group of people together and I thought of Willie, maybe he knows some people that can come let’s say on a Thursday night. I could probably form a small praise and worship band all I need is a guitar player or a bass player because I play both, a good piano player would be good, I can also play the piano. Pastor Kennedy has been writing every week and telling me how well the church is doing and during the week he tells me he goes into the slums of Kenya, Africa and helps people to understand Jesus and he is doing quite well, in fact his church or ministry with his wife Mary and the new baby they are all doing very well, they always have a service that is anointed so you know the Lord is there. This way healing and education can begin. Out of all the services I hear about he is doing the best in actual reality. I need to get a hold of him and let him know we are all praying for him.
If I could only get a building downtown I wanted the grand western auto building which has about 6,000 sq. feet so we could have sections for showers, beds both male and female separate, for battered women and runaways, and there is so many people sleeping on the street lately and it gets cold at night. Plus food at morning and night with a different preacher every weekday, and I will cover Sunday. Saturday I still have to write to the world and hit all the areas that Jesus wanted us to go. At least being sick I still can reach the lost and save some souls if a pastor or minister makes copies of this sermon ,which some do now, but all the time difference that is why I keep it up all week. Plus now I have a simple prayer button that you can here about most everyone in my world during that date, and the prayers we have been sending out for everyone. The Pink Elephant was going to help me with clothes but now that is closed, and I can go to Goodwill on Saturday morning and go for the warehouse special as is sale. So for a few dollars we can get some clothing for people on the streets. Maybe we can start a thrift store and be able to give out cloths and still make some money for the food and have a breakfast and lunch. I feel maybe the Salvation Army and Goodwill will still help out the mission, and this town needs one. I miss Cindy, Tina, and Larry from the Pink. Plus the sally shop Barbara has been a real blessing and we all are praying for her and here son Chet and Deek and Sonny who work at the Sally Shop, if the mission went up we would start getting donations ourselves, We still have been in prayer for Evangelical Free Church of America EFCA, plus our prayers to the Voice of Martyrs, and the Prison alert we are praying for each person and situation. If I could get the roll of stamps for non-profit , but you still have to pay a certain fee. Then I could send out newsletters and prayers to all the prisoners all around the globe. The little girl with the short hair has always helped this church and they would all help us get started with things they may be throwing away, If I only could get the building the donations would come in. And I could build a staff out of people that need housing so you give them room and board and a place to go a nd a small amount of cash each week, we could slowly build a staff. But we need a building, if God could help us get the building. Getting a different preacher each night before dinner hour from all the local churches would be a life saver. So maybe I could use one of the computers I have but I need them herein case one breaks down, like now, so someone will donate a computer. We don’t know what will happen, all I do know if I can get the people off the streets it could help this town and there would be many happy people. We would have devotions in the morning bible studies in the afternoon and just general help like clean up and dishwashers and cooks, I could train all of them and even order the proper equipment and a lot of the stuff can be written off if it is used to donate in helping this town of Hilo. There is so many ways to start a mission if we only had somewhere to start, and it would have to be on the ground floor, we’ll keep praying. God has to open a new door sometime I don’t understand why me with all this talent can’t have some kind of option to help people. Take someone like Debbie in Penn. She has her whole congregation praying for me, they got a picture off the internet and they all pray for me every weekend, and her son is still in prison suffering because he has autism and there was something within the family and Debbie has been trying to help her son with all kinds of new lawyers and doctors notes and files, and he still is in there. Please pray for Debbie and Aaron in Pennsylvania. Next is our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Warriors, run by Jeff Gale in Australia and Janel and Jan have been his right and left hand in the whole operation but Janel needs our prayers because of her boys, she needs full custody and everything would turn out for all their lives, so let us pray for SWPW and all the staff, they have helped me continuously and I don’t know where I would be or how I would feel with out their emails of prayer. They have done so much for me Please help me pray for all of them. Next is Sis Shanna or (BelovedServant), right now she has so many ministries and she is leaving for somewhere in the 10/40 window or maybe somewhere in Africa, she was nice enough to let us have her links to all her ministries, we have about 5 listed all in a row near the bottom of the Bible Creed page. She is a blessing to let us have those and they even have radio stations of different countries, so this way we can all learn how things are doing, I have so many likes now that you could spend days on the site just learning about god, we have two areas where you can ask a question and it will give you a list of answers, plus we have so many bible studies for free that even give you awards and documents, we have so many dictionaries (biblical) and two other ask questions so I think there are 4, plus there are so many sites to find out what is going on in each country, and anything about the bible. The Church is following Jesus’ orders Matt. 28:19-20- Mark 16:15b-18 to make disciples of all nations and that is what I am trying to still do, that is why I need your prayers so at least I can still work on the site. We need to spread the Gospel or the Good news and after last week I don’t want to see anyone suffer. The Word has to get out there!! Mary and Jay have also been a great help, Hiss Will Ministry out of Wyoming, Mary has a global prayer area, and she has and is still praying for me and sending me cards and lines of poetry and scripture. She and Jay I have known for a long time about 3 years now, so if you find it I your heart to pray with us for Mary and Jay that would be a blessing to me. Because they help me and if they can help me then I can focus on the mission. Plus we still have Elena Ramirez who is so talented and she has a link on the friend’s page, page 1, so if your interested in her work go to the first friend’s page and you will find the link it is a long straight line. This will open a whole new world and this would deeply help her, and I know she can use the prayer and the finances. I wish my email was working and I could write back to everyone but you see if they read this opening prayer or should I say opening announcement, you see I can’t write everyone back but I can do it this way, this way I can communicate to everyone and pray for everyone, I hope everyone understands, that if I just open outlook express, the whole system crashes, and I can’t get in there to delete all the junk mail. But I have about 11,000 emails to go, But as we go through the emails I can’t answer them or even put them in a folder, the right click does not work, and I have to keep restarting to get anywhere with this thing maybe I should just delete the hole thing and save the folders that is what I think I can do. I will miss most of everything even awards, and certain things I wrote away to. Anyway we need prayer for Elena, she has helped me so much, and she has sent me even the private card, where I felt I was almost healed, but the next morning I felt the same. So it does work, and she is anointed, so please pray for her and she can help me. Then we have Debora Bates w/ Prim and she has also been helping me, Peter Samuel is somewhere in the 10/40 window and he needs prayer to go on, he has not written me in a long time , but that does not matter he needs help, anything can happen when and if he is in certain countries. San Dee Harding is also helping me and I have not heard from her either for a while but please pray for her also, this way she can pray for me and get others to pray for me, I have been staying alive just by prayer, and this way any email helps me get through another day of this torment, like now I have been typing since about 11 am so I have been getting
up and down for the past 14 hours or so, so this is the hardest I have ever felt, I have all kinds of pillows so I can get some comfort, the thing is I should trust God no matter what and that is where I am sinning I should trust God to the fullest extent, no matter what happens. The thing is now my heart can’t take the stress anymore and when I last was at the doctor’s office my heartbeat was 137, and my doctor explained to me that my heart will form a film over it to protect it from betting so fast. I have to remain calm or I am going to die, and if I just trusted Jesus I would be calm, but the devil is making me get all upset and making my heart race. So I am at the danger point. I could have a heart attack in my sleep and just die. So sometimes it is hard for me to sleep, not knowing where you’re going to wake up. I believe I am heaven bound but Satan is putting doubt in my mind and that is the cause of all my problems, the evil one gave me this infection and took away 23years work. The phone company is giving me all kinds of problems I just paid them 50 and another 32, so today they still wanted more money and this would drive anyone mad. It is like I can’t catch up and it is hurting me because I missed one payment and they are really giving me the business, but I can’t blame them, some people can pay there bills on time, but when you have Social Security it makes it hard. That takes more food out of my mouth. I just pray I could get ahead once. I can’t forget Rebecca she took care of my cat and drove to the airport and put the cat on the plane after watching him for 3 months. So I still owe her something, plus take someone like my mom she has helped in the past but now that I forgot her birthday on the 26th and now I will never here the end of it, maybe she will realize how sick I am. Most of the stuff I had to leave or try to sell, but that is where Rob and Judy came in. When I left this big house I had a stereo and I had to sell the speakers and I couldn’t even send the amp it was to heavy it weighed over 75 pounds just the receiver alone. So I had to get rid of everything and didn’t get what anything was worth, it took me forever to get big speakers I had to get pa speakers for the rears and I finally found some good speakers from radio shack, anyway the guy Jay took everything that wasn’t nailed down and went and sold everything, stuff it took me years to get and build but anyway I had to leave my computers and I had about 3-4 and the one I spent 1700 on I got next to nothing, which is ridiculous. The receiver which cost me over 450 dollars, I never got what it was worth. I sent some stuff but the biggest and most valuable I just gave away or I sold for pennies. Everything was either too heavy or too big. Here I came to Hilo to build a mission everything was going fine and I get sick with a disease that can’t be diagnosed. I guess it really does not matter God gave me a Christian library 10 times better then what I had. So God treated me right through the whole thing, it was Satan that messed up everything now I am passing out while I do the sermon; again I crashed my head to the keyboard. Just imagine boss 401’s and they didn’t have a scratch I got pennies for them. The miracle was that God gave us the biggest surprise and he really helped me. But some of the things were just priceless, bibles from the 1800’s and a first addition of the ASV teacher’s edition 1st printing, the pages were not even brown and gave it all away. A full silver collection that filled two china closets never got anything for all those pieces. It is 3 am and I didn’t even finish the opening statement. Well I forgot Scott and Eileen they helped this church more then most and their computer took a dive and I have not heard from them in a long time. So please pray I here from them. Kurt Showers and his daughter Courtney, they almost got back together but have not heard from them either, they need prayer the father almost was getting back to communication with his daughter, but don’t know what happened. Trevor Steel he helped me, he had people write to me in prayers from all over the world that didn’t know me, but knew him and all of a sudden I got letters from all over, and he was from the same area that I just came from. All my jewelry I give away, and gave to special friends. All the valuable stuff that guy Jay took, one box I actually gave to him. Hi-way to Heaven and Touched by an Angel all the tapes recorded, gave away, almost every episode for both and all the seasons. Gave to a friend and he disappeared. A full box with all of them marked and titled. Well it does not matter; it is only things, only stuff, besides God did a miracle during the last minute, on the last day. So Rob and Judy got all the rest of the things that were just outside for a yard sale. Let us get back to prayer we need to pray for Robert and Judith and family, we need to pray for Trevor Steel, and Kurt Showers and his daughter Courtney, a prayer that they did finally get back together. Anyway I belong to the Presidential Prayer Team, So each day I can go to the website and pray for whatever the President added or someone else added, so I have lists of Senators, Governors, plus the five teams the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Marines. Plus I pray for all the civilian workers over in Iraq. Remember all the doctors and surgeons, and all the reserves that are stationed all over the world. It says in Psalm 1 that we should pray for our leadership. So I have been in prayer for all the organizations from the President, Vice-president to the members of the White House and cabinet and the house of representatives, and all their aids, plus we need prayer even for the clean up men and maintenance, in Washington, and the Pentagon. Plus all the underground places of defense, plus other employees for the NSA, FBI, DoD, U.S. Treasury, Secretary of State, all military leadership and other organizations, like NASA, there is so many other organizations we need to pray for plus all the families that have sons and daughters over in Iraq, plus my special obligation to Elizabeth Bradford of the U.S. Navy, a dedication of prayer. So we are told to pray without ceasing 1Thes. 5:17 so my prayers for all leadership I hope helps out, so if anyone else joins in we have a powerful country. I wish I could list everyone but I can’t, I would be here all night long I pray for all the members of The Church Ministries, The Salem Voice, Living Waters, SWPW, GOA, and Missions Asia, and the list goes on so my friends please help me in prayer for everyone listed and all of other leadership you can think of, plus friends and relatives of your own, Like my mom hopefully some day she will be saved, along with my human dad, and little brother his wife and family.
