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Good morning to all, from our state of Hawaii to the rest of the world to all the congregations, pastors and ministers throughout the world it may be getting close for The Church Ministries to stay on line I figure if I can make a book out of the 287 pages of prayers and sermons that others can use for free. My health is not getting any better and the attacks from Satan and his agents have been getting just totally out of hand. Through all the study and all the reference I have read, plus the books, it does not make any sense for me to pay out of pocket for “The Church” or “Public Charity” on line any more. I am hurting myself more then helping, but the thing is if I can help one person out of all of this, it would be worth it. I have to thank all the people who have helped me through all of the 5 years with their love, prayer and compassion, and being sick and can’t sit for long periods of time, the pain in my mouth has not gotten any better, and the prayers to God seem like at times- God is very distant, I have a credit card and there is nothing ever in it, I can never use it because the money I put in each month –they are charging me about 30% interest, so now my provider has gone up a few dollars, but a few dollars means less I eat for the month. I don’t know how I can start a mission unless God cures me or helps me. No one hardly made any donations, I did better before I spent all that money on getting Incorporated and we are now tax deductible, ever since we became incorporated we have gotten hardly any donations, what I need- in other words is some one could rent me a building and write their particular tax off the building. I don’t know how it works, it feels like I have failed, I have tried everything for The Church and the membership is not growing but I get a new member about once a month, the credit card put me in the hole and I might not be able to pay my bills. It took me 8 months to save up about 50 bucks with them taking out 12-13 dollars every month, this month with no warning they took out an additional 39.00 for the yearly fee, here I am talking to a person that does not even talk English, say we are sorry- that you didn’t get a notification letter telling you the yearly cost is coming up, most of all the money I got I invested into “The Church” and I could have invested into fixing my truck, or getting a Harley, I have had no windows that roll down in years maybe about 3-4 years now, the passenger window has been broken for a good 5-7 years, and you know what it is like having no windows, thank God the air works but the way gas prices are, I can’t even use it. And I am afraid to use it because it puts more pressure on the engine, and I don’t know how long it will work if it is working even now -plus the belt is frayed. The summer is over but it is still hot outside. Plus now I can’t afford to drive the truck, because of the gas prices, plus the fact I really don’t drive anymore, I just don’t feel right, it is a long story- when I almost got crushed in my cab about 3-4 years ago by a 18 wheeler. Plus dealing with the pain in my back because the bones at L5-S1 is disintegrating, so the cartilage will be gone and rubbing bone to bone is going to be tuff- it could have started from the constant pounding when I played football in school, it is just to much, it is hard to even concentrate to even drive, I am looking out for the other person, and I will suffer, to be safe for others on the road- not for me to drive, the attacks from the evil one are heavy and I just don’t feel right anymore. I know I can drive with no problem, but I just don’t feel right to drive any more. I can get in the truck right now and drive it all over the place, but the stress alone would destroy my health care- and the last time I tried my hands on the wheel didn't feel right and here I am trying to build back my immune system, to kill the two infections in my body, one is just a simple one and it comes and gets worse at times, stressful times when I am under a lot of stress it knocks out the immune system- and causes more pain, when I get hurt or upset the pain gets worse, that through drinking the proper teas with all the right mixtures-helps to a point, but between that and vitamins there is a big difference in price. I go into the health food store and grab a small plastic bag of Graviola which is from the Amazon and it kills bad cells and does not touch the good cells, plus it cures cancer also- so they say. Olive leaf, like the old days during the early church, helped many people through their sickness, plus I picked up some detoxify tea which is supposed to clean my system out. Then I have tried wheat grass, sea kelp, Alfalfa in powder, valerian root powder to give you that calmness, like other non-caffeine teas, and powdered vitamin C which helps the immune system, Powdered Noni, which is supposed to help the body also, Echinacea I try once in a while to help the immune system also, I only use that once in a while in a tea. I can walk out of the store for about 5 bucks and have all these powders to at least give me some energy. So when I found out I had one dollar for the church I knew I had to go to the bank and change card numbers before they took out the payment, then I had to walk another good mile and ½ to pay 6.50 to keep the bank for donations open, that is the church bank, which had about 3 dollars in it for I don’t know how long. The hill walking home is hard and I just sit and pray for a ride - sometimes I am on my knees praying for a ride, people see me with a cane and they give me the right- of –way crossing the street, but here I am hitch-hiking walking with a cane-- suit jacket- a pressed clean shirt, pair of clean jeans and my loyal hiking boots, also carrying a backpack or a side bag, for mail and groceries this way I don’t have to carry to much heavy articles, carrying just a quart of soy milk is a job, and if I have to get stuff for pancakes then I am soaking wet from sweat when I get home, most of the time I end up walking- I even have to change all my under- where and put on some dry clothes. So Friday I got home and feel asleep till 11 almost 12 midnight. The walking I had to do Friday for "The Church" I ask myself is it worth it. I do have to praise God I had enough in the “credit card” there to leave me a dollar, so I didn’t get more money taken from me, or an over charge which I would owe them more money to get into the green and out of the red. All of this is adding stress to me, it reminds me of one of my best friends Randy (same age) who died of a massive coronary just by walking home from church just a few months ago. Joanna who worked with Randy for years and we were best of friends and had three way prayers and got to talk to each of them through email and the phone. They were the best prayer warriors, I ever knew, Joanna was hurt, very hurt, after Randy died, and I have prayed for them and their families constantly, I loved them both so much. I saved many of our prayers on the computer, I will always miss them so. Plus I had to pay for the P O box and that too is 29.00 dollars- , it is hard to live on a fixed income and keep The Church Ministries going, plus I would need some kind of large donation to get on my feet, this church cost me more and more, now I eat down the street at a church on certain days and at least 2 days a week I can have a regular meal, but I still can’t chew, so I can only eat or just swallow the food. My gums are so sore it is even hard for me to eat an over cooked pancake, cooking pancakes is a job, just standing up for a good hour or more, I can’t get anything done otherwise and even that is hard. I just have to stand over them, making sure they don’t burn or get hard. But that is what I survive on, I use fresh whole wheat flour mixed with regular flour and eggs and if I don’t have any soy milk I have to use something else, like canned fruit or bananas, they still have a discount area in one of the stores, where bruised fruit or old stuff is sold at discount prices they can’t put them on the shelves, the out side market some things are cheap but some things like an avocado 2.00 a piece and they grow wild in many places. But getting to those places cost gas money, so that is out; I know [But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.] (Phil 4:19 KJV) We are not to enjoy this life in this world anyway, which would make us not look forward to and thinking about the Glory of God, coming ahead and living with Him in heaven. The life we live on this planet is only a test of who we really are. And God writes everything down- all the things we have done in this world- get written in the book of life. No one I know- with the condition I was in would have walked all that way, just to keep everything going. I really didn’t have much choice either keep the Church going or not, or just give up. Like I said if I can help one person through all of this, I will be pleased, when I get to heaven maybe there will be thousands of people coming up to me and saying if it wasn’t for your words and faith and patience while you suffered- you still didn’t give up, and gave us the faith we needed to trust in Jesus Christ and to learn more about Him and learn more about prayer, and God as a whole as the Trinity- I would have never made it up here, I would have been left behind. No matter what happens, no matter what you face or what your mind will think about when you wonder about the future for instance, Do not ever worry- if you can even pay the rent, or have enough money to eat on for a month. Don’t open the door to the devil and his lies, that alone you should know when and where those thoughts come from. [Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.] (James 4:7-8 KJV)

Brothers and sisters, do not tell evil lies about each other. If you speak against your fellow believers or judge them, you are judging and speaking against the law they follow. And when you are judging the law, you are no longer a follower of the law. You have become a judge. God is the only Lawmaker and Judge. He is the only One who can save and destroy. So it is not right for you to judge your neighbor. Some of you say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year, do business, and make money." But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away. So you should say, "If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that." But now you are proud and you brag. All of this bragging is wrong. Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning. (James 4:11-17 NCV) I had to add this extra scripture, all scripture helps us to know God even more, so “do not fear” which is said 366 times in the bible. How did God know how time would end up? God is our creator, He even new about leap year. If your feeling down and out, if you feel hurt, lonely and like your future is over, don’t ever give up keep your faith- [And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.] (Rom. 8:28 KJV) The years I have sat and cried and felt alone, I always had the Lord, so at times you may have felt like me, or you may be suffering more than I, In the late hours of the night I talk to God and apologize that I acted like a immature child. I worried about things that were pushed upon me from the devil, and when I drew near to God, and talked with Him I realized that I was not totally faithful, worry is another sin we must over come. [For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?] (1John 5:4-5 KJV) It is hard living with a sickness that no one even knows what I am going through. It has been rough, but if I didn’t have Christ, I probably would have died of a problem inflicted by worry and fear. In all these years I have learned that God gets what He wants and things happen just the way the Lord planned, and the Lord loves us, so there is no such word as worry or fear. Cast all evil out of your thinking and stay close to the Lord in spirit. Do not rely on your senses, your human senses are carnal, Each of us has three sections, mind, body and spirit. It is what our spirit will live on, we will still have our personality and our memories, we will be in new bodies- not the old fragile bodies of the earthly flesh, and our carnal minds of the earthly senses, that is what God has taught me, to become more spiritual, if we become more spiritual now, we will understand the bible and the Trinity and the works that God will permit us to do. Like the fruits of the spirit- [This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.] (Gal.5:16-26 KJV) The Goodness that has been happening for me that I am being made new teeth, soon I will be smiling and I have to thank Candy as she is helping me with appointments, rides to the dental clinic, and compassionate doctors, each doctor or dentist that has worked on me, Dr Tim, I remember, there were two other doctors and I ask God for a special blessing for them all, God knows who they are and the whole place has been a wonderful peace, there was much pain in the process, but I took it and the second time wasn’t so bad, but the first impressions they were the most painful. You could tell the doctors didn’t want to hurt me, they really cared, and even the drivers Joe and the other girl who gave me a ride I wrote her name down but forgot it, I ask God to bless the whole cab company and the girl Saree that faxed all the paperwork who is the head of the travel plans for people that cannot get to their medical appointments, everyone knows what I have gone through, not to have teeth, other people treat you different, they don’t know what is wrong outside of the doctors office. There was another girl working at the same area I wrote down her name and I will add to the prayer list Keaui is the girl that helped, all of them are being prayed for and I ask God for a special blessing for all the doctors the nurses, the administration, the drivers, and all the people who helped get me to have a chance at a new life with teeth, it is going to be hard putting in this piece of plastic in and on the most painful part of my body, but it will take time and patience, because if I can get used to them, it will be hard at first just having them in, but when I apply pressure on them it will take some time to get used to the pain, maybe I can get something soft some jell or some padding to cushion the pressure of actually chewing, it has almost been 5 years since I have chewed with teeth. If it wasn’t for Dr. Conner my family doctor, none of this would have been possible, I cast a blessing for that whole office, with Linda, Michael, Roselle, plus I hope that Dr. Conner’s knee is healed, and I and The Churches prayer team also has been praying for her mom Ethel for a complete healing which we will soon in hope to see all the miracles become a true reality through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Who ever I missed, God is always watching and He can see and feel each of everyone’s heart. Plus even all the people who have given me rides, I even ask for a special blessing, it is so serious that some of you might have saved my life. Sometimes I just could not carry all the groceries up the hill to home. Sometimes the backpack gets full, and I have to carry that on the side with one hand and in the other hand a cane and those people that just looked me over and passed on by, are forgiven, I ask God not to punish but to forgive their fleshly nature, some just don’t realize, some just don’t care, some are afraid. I ask for forgiveness for each one who drove by me and some had their minds on something else besides saving a life, or helping another human being from pain and being so sick the next day, they just don’t see the big picture. I pray that people will just understand to care for one another. Well it is time to Worship and Praise the Lord, and to thank the Trinity for all they have done for us, to give thankfulness and to Bless our own God and to thank Jesus for suffering and dieing on that dreadful cross which he had to hang bleeding and rubbing his open striped back each time to take a breath. The Romans knew what pain was, and how to torment a man to his death, how ruthless people can be I will never understand. How can anyone deny what Jesus has done for us, and He hung there almost dead and he shouted forgiveness for them all. He was the greatest God-man who has ever walked this earth. He carried more love then anyone probably in the history of the world. How can we not Worship and praise Him, we should be on our knees, begging forgiveness for each sin we have done. He was a man of patience, power and comfort, with care for ordinary people the truth of His character with genuineness, poetry, authority, and compassion.

FULFILLED IN CHRIST!

(Heb 3:7-19 NKJV) Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, {8} Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, {9} Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. {10} Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, 'They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.' {11} So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'" {12} Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; {13} but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. {14} For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, {15} while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." {16} For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? {17} Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? {18} And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? {19} So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."

(Heb 4:1-11 NKJV) Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. {2} For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. {3} For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,' " although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. {4} For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works"; {5} and again in this place: "They shall not enter My rest." {6} Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, {7} again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts." {8} For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. {9} There remains therefore a rest (Gk., sabbatismos) for the people of God. {10} For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. {11} Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience."

The letter to the Hebrews addresses those who are on the verge of abandoning Christ for the works of the Old Testament, i.e., circumcision and keeping the law. Under OT Law men worked toward rest, but through unbelief failed to experience it. In the NT, the "faither" enters into rest apart from works of the Law. The rest foreshadowed by the Sabbath is entered into by faith, not by works or by striving.

(Heb 4:3 NKJV) For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,' " although the works were finished from the foundation of the world."

That this is a faith issue is further seen in Hebrews 4:1-2 - "Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it." (Heb 4:1 NKJV)

In Hebrews 4:5, we understand that the rest God has called us to enter is His rest. It is not the rest of fatigue, but of repose that comes with the completion of a task.

(Gen 2:1-3 NKJV) Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. {2} And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. {3} Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made."

The evidence of entrance into God’s provided rest is cessation from labor (Heb. 4:4,10). The rest that David proclaimed (Heb. 4:7-8), is to be found in Christ Jesus. The NT believer ceases from his strivings and law works, and by faith rests in the finished work of Christ. Unbelief that says “Christ finished work isn’t enough” is the reason rest is not a reality in our life.

When we move from the rest of faith to the works of the Law, we also move from grace and come under the sentence of death proclaimed by the Law.

Here is where the man in Numbers 15 becomes our teacher. His violation of the Sabbath may seem trivial to us, but it was an act worthy of death. If desecrating the shadow brought death, then what does violation of the substance incur? God’s message to us is faith in the finished work of Christ plus nothing equals salvation. Eliza H. Hamilton declared it with beauty when she wrote:

My Saviour, Thou hast offered rest,

O grant it then to me--

The rest of ceasing from myself

To find my all in Thee.

In Thy strong hand I lay me down,

So shall the work be done;

For who can work so wondrously

As the Almighty One?

The songwriter said, "Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I cling." And again, "I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus name

OBJECTION #1: The addition of verse eight changes the entire meaning of the scripture because it shows that the Galatians were turning back to God's that were no God's, not the Sabbath.

Galatians 4:8 (NKJV) But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how [is] [it] [that] you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.

The following is quoted from pages 216 and 217 of THE NIVAPPLICATION COMMENTARY written by Scot McKnight and published by Zondervan Publish House, copyrighted 1995.

The Galatians had had a typical pagan past (ignorant about the true God and worshiping non-gods). They had converted wonderfully as a result of Paul's preaching (3:1), but now they were "turning back to those week and miserable principles" (cf. 1:6; 3:3). Here Paul describes their new-but-batd situation" with the term principles, the same term he used in 4:3 for the Jewish past under the law. Futhermore, in verse 10 he mentions what is by almost every reckoning Jewish observances of holy days and seasons (cf. Rom 14:5-12; Col 2:16-17). What is revolutionary here is that Paul considers "moving into Judaism" as nothing other than a reversion to "paganism," to "non-gods" (cf. Gal 1:6). He asks, "Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?" Their move from idolatry to Christianity and now to Judaism is for Paul no different than a venture back into "idolatry" or "paganism."

R. N. Longenecker says it well:

Beyond question, Paul's lumping of Judaism and paganism together in this manner is radical in the extreme. No Judaizer would have accepted such a characterization of Torah observance; nor would those in Galatia who accceded to their message. . . . For Paul, however whatever leads one away from sole reliance on Christ, whether based on Good intentions or depraved desires, is sub-Christian and therefore to be condemned.

F. F. Bruce adds that this viewpoint is given "not as an exaggeration in the heat of argument but as the deliberate expression of a carefully thought out position." Incidentally, Paul's willingness to lump together both unconverted Jew and Gentile under the "elemental principles" encourages our application of the text of Galatians, which so often addresses the Jewish Christian problem, to all groups today. Every human being, Paul would say, is captive to the "element principles" in some way and is only set free by Jesus Christ.

OBJECTION #2: "Verse ten could not possibly mean "HEBREW" festivals because the Hebrews had no observable MONTHS, only days such as the first DAY of the seventh month or the First DAY of all months. Also the Hebrews did not observe "SEASONS" the Gentiles do. For example after Janus the God. (Lev. 23:24)"

The following is quoted from pages 122 and 123 of Wuest's, Word Studies in the Greek New Testament, Volume I, Galatians In the Greek New Testament, written by Kenneth S. Wuest and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, copyrighted 1972.

The days, months, and years which the Galatians were observing, were those which the Mosaic law required Israel to observe. This is made clear by Paul's statement in 4:21, to the effect that the Galatians are bent on being under the law. . . . The days probably refer to the Sabbath days and to the feasts which were observed just for a day. The months refer to the monthly recurring events (Isaiah 66:23), or to the seventh month (Numbers 29). The reference also could have to do with the celebration of the appearance of the new moon (Numbers 10:10, 28:11). Times refers to the celebrations not limited to a single day, such a the Passover, Feast of Tabernacles, and to the feasts of the fourth, fifth, and seventh months (II Chron. 8:13). Years may have reference to the year of Jubilee or the Sabbatical year.

OBJECTION #3: Is the term "fulfil" in Matthew 5:17, synonymous wit "end"?

Matthew 5:17 (KJV) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

THE GREEK - The Greek term translated " fulfil" is the aorist active infinitive of "pleroo".

PLEROO {play-ro'-o.}

1. to make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full

a. to cause to abound, to furnish or supply liberally

i. I abound, I am liberally supplied

2. to render full, i.e. to complete

a. to fill to the top: so that nothing shall be wanting to full measure, fill to the brim

b. to consummate: a number

i. to make complete in every particular, to render perfect

ii. to carry through to the end, to accomplish, carry out, (some undertaking)

c. to carry into effect, bring to realisation, realise

i. of matters of duty: to perform, execute

ii. of sayings, promises, prophecies, to bring to pass, ratify, accomplish

iii. to fulfil, i.e. to cause God's will (as made known in the law) to be obeyed as it should be, and God's promises (given through the prophets) to receive fulfilment

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

Matt 5:17 (ASV) Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matt 5:17 (DBY) Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.

Matt 5:17 (NASB) "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.

Matt 5:17 (NIV) "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Matt 5:17 (RSV) "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.

THE ENGLISH TERM "FULFIL"

Fulfil or fulfil

1 archaic; to make full: FILL

2 a: to put into effect

2 b: to bring to an end

2 c: to measure up to: SATISFY

3 a: to convert into reality

3 b: to develope the full potentialities of

MATTHEW 5:17 EXAMINED

1. The term "fulfill" applies both to "the prophets" and "the law."

Jesus said "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill" (Mat. 5:17). The term "fulfill" applies both to "the law" and "the prophets." The messianic prophesies of the OT, find their fulfillment in Christ. They have been satisfied and brought to fruition by His appearance and ministry. After quoting Isaiah 61:1,2, Jesus declared: "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." (Luke 4:21) Jesus fulfilled both "the prophets" and "the law," i.e., He completely satisfied and fulfilled the predictions of the prophets and the just demands of the LAW.

2. Jesus is the one doing the fulfilling.

Jesus clearly declared that He was the one who would fulfill the law and the prophets, NOT US!! If He declared "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill," then it is clear that He and He alone is the one who will fulfill both "the prophets" and "the law." Thus it is foolish to claim that the believer fulfills Matthew 5:17, by observing the OT sabbath.

I am sorry that I am sick, but the Lord has given me the strength to at least make something worthwhile for The Church’s Sunday sermons, but I need to send out new prayers. People like Susan Jones, who used to write everyday, she really cared, sending cards and things to build up my immune system. And to make me have hope that there is someone out there that cares, I miss her, she was having medical problems, but my email was down for a time and probably bounced back, I have not heard from her, lately but I send out my prayers for her, healing and to have her be full of joy. Please join me in prayer for the ones that give hope and care for others. Johan & Esther, with children Anneke, Jolene, and baby Simeon- from the Deo Valente Mission- South Africa and they have run the mission for years. Johan wrote me also everyday, with 3-5 emails a day, then we were writing back and forth, but when the email crashed the same thing happened, I saw that they need prayer, financial situations, extra bills, we all know it is an attack from evil, because they help about 350 people, plus the staff. Please join me in prayer for the family and their people. He knows how sick I am, and it didn’t matter if I didn’t write back, he just kept sending scriptures and stories and prayers, God please protect them all. Marcella- Living Waters Disciples Prayer Ministry- Marcella is special- she spends hours upon hours praying for people and for me, She spends hours writing out prayers like I used to do in the first two years or so, when I still had weight on my bones, she continued to write the most beautiful prayers and she still does, but they are on big prayer lists now, she probably had the same problem, her emails just bounced back, help this girl or woman- please help me pray for her, and bring healing to all the people she writes to. Willie and Liz they are my local friends, they used to bring me food and vitamins from the free food bank, they finally understand that I am obligated to a world wide audience, that uses my sermons for their own congregations, or Sunday school topics, or simple devotions. They helped me with the desk that holds the electronics, but it was so hard, because either one of us had enough strength to put this desk together, it was too heavy, and the central part of the desk- bent the support beams, and cracked the wood, but I fixed it the best I could, what can I say- Willie got over a small stroke about a year ago, and Liz had problems lifting, it turned out to be a help and nothing has been done since, I need two strong guys for about an hour, so at least I can finish moving in. It breaks my heart that I can’t get 2 people at the same time and find anyone that does not have a problem lifting. People call but they want money to help me. The coffee table and two end tables just are sitting outside, and I can’t do anything about it. One day they just waved and passed me on by- going downtown, I broke down, I am a sensitive guy, and they didn’t even talk out of their window, that was another broken heart- but a week or so ago they did stop but they were so much in a hurry that they couldn’t take me a few blocks down to the store, but they did give me a ride for about a half mile or so that helped my back. I don’t know what happened, but I love them and if they asked me to help them I would be right there, so please join me in prayer for the both of them. We went to the same church down the street, but I couldn’t even talk to the pastor, it seems others were just more important. That is how I tell about a church, if the pastor is interested in talking to a new visitor I would come back and give it another try, but being ignored by the leaders of the church, hurts- so I never went back after the second time, I can’t express my judgment, but the church itself (the people) - It just didn’t feel right either time. Maybe it is my teeth, maybe people stereotype me- I look like a well dressed man with no teeth. I don’t know what people think, even though my discernment level or gift is off the scale, I look at the floor not to look into their eyes, because now if I do look into my eyes I can feel what they are thinking, and I just don’t want to be hurt anymore, my head is bowed- just trying to be humble and friendly. When I talk to someone I look right into their eyes and listen. I try to be normal and be a regular Christian, but it is hard to do when you can’t even smile. Anyway I love them both, and I ask for prayer for them both, I know they are struggling financially, at least they were- so let us pray they receive a blessing, and a new and divine future. Then we have Karen- local elder in my district and in the letter I had mentioned Alicia who now is the bishop of my district, even she is so far away she does well and Karen wrote beautiful letters of prayer. Thank you to all- the people listed which is Karen, Alicea, Walter, Senior- Pastor Fred and wife Suzanne, Eric Lewis and family, Tony Z and his trip, Bishop Larry, Fred and Shirl, Hugh Keith and family, Darla and family, Keith Ratcliff who has suffered a bad injury and he will be under the knife and being sown up to every muscle from his knee to his groan. There could be a problem with infection, because of the area, so help me pray for the ministry and the people, all the people that know me and it is the same news still sick. But even though I am sick it does not matter I can still pray for others and God will recognize my voice, so these friends are like family, Dear Lord please help them all with any problems they may be having. Please bless them all. The computer at times, for weeks it didn't turn on. Then I was over quota because I couldn't get to the computer to work, then I was to sick to write anyone for 3 weeks and then one day it just went on, and I am too poor now to send it to the shop. I had to spend days deleting all the trash mail that people send me. I must have had a hundred fake lottery emails, and another hundred that want to donate millions with all the same story almost. Then all the prayer requests were lost. Then I lost the whole c-Drive (2 years of data) first, then after that the computer would not work. I am supposed to live without stress and it is something different every time with this computer, I had to call someone in the paper, and then I was given another number, and the guy was different, I had a big sweep of fear when he took the whole tower, then it did not work then I had more problems and had to call that guy again, it is the devil at work again. Senior Pastor Fred and Suzanne I wrote in a prayer for Fred’s mom and I have to check the boards again, to see the hands of God at work. Bishop Larry needs prayer for his health and he wanted me to be an elder for the region which covers a lot of area and about 5 states. Eric Lewis and wife- in California need prayer and I need to call them- plus Hugh Keith sent me a letter about the churches being not the same about the last century. Tony Z. and his wife wrote me- I guess they are still around, they were going to take his boat to India to visit Jacob and Daisy they sent me their picture so I need to get back to them, and maybe I can call now. Please help me pray for all of them. I hope everyone is doing OK? Hugh is the type of guy that really cared and I didn’t have the strength to even buy a card to send back in return after the many cards he has sent me. He still is writing and still sounds good. I still call his house and we talk but everything has been changing, I still feel weak, and do not feel right even turning this computer on, because of the stress. When I do get better -I am going to make it up to all my friends and loved ones. Hugh has been so close to me in and out his ministry the big ministry and in and out of The Church Ministries, I need to call them all or write each one of them, the thing is the sermon- even though it is a “sickness sermon” and leaving out all the extra pictures and stuff, the words and feelings are the most important, besides I can’t have the same prayer up for all this time, if I get sick staying up all night- so be it- but I have to tell the special people of my life that I still love them and care, it is so hard to even sit in a chair for a small amount of time. So please help me pray for everyone that is mentioned in this section. Bishop Director Jacob is part of my staff and he is a great missionary and teacher for the Gospel of Asia and he also runs Missions Asia, plus Dr. Yohann from the Gospel of Asia which is one of the largest ministries in India and that part of the world. I want to pray for everyone, but all this takes time I have been at this for 12 good hours already and I just wanted to change the prayer requests and prayers for all my friends loved ones and partners in Christianity. I pray for Vijay- He has sent me many letters in the regular mail, that is how I got to know one of my Bishop Directors, he wrote so many wonderful letters, I wanted him on staff. In fact if Vijay does not answer any of the emails- I will ask Hugh Keith for an extra Bishop Director. So now Vijay is no longer a Bishop Director so I will ask Keith Radcliff to be the new Bishop Secretary, it may be acting to early but because I had to make the changes before the first of the year. I still can add Hugh if he wants to be a part of TCM. He and his family are getting prayer. Please help me with all prayers for others. Darla Izzo and children – California- Darla was in Hawaii and she left my numbers at home so I will give her my address next time. Same with Darla, and her kids they all need prayer, she lost her husband more than a year ago, I wish I could write more, it is this sickness, and I am so weak I don't lay on the couch and rest and get sick if I try to eat regular and just swallow the food- it has to be real soft- and if it is too hard then the pain sets in and I have to deal with that- that day and the day after- but if I go to a church to volunteer and try to eat what every other not so well off and suffering financial person in town gets served- I have to get down what I can, the food is good, but too hard at times, so I eat what I can. Now I try to walk to build my strength back. I feel sorry for all the people who have to go through this. That is why it takes me a full day to do a sermon, and I am pushing myself to do this, but I care for everyone and pray for most everyone I know. Next is Bishop Director Joaquim Kalala and his wife- T.C.M. –Angola, Africa. He is a good man, they are all blessed and gifted-----but he helped me when I needed the help with the prayer ministry, it seems he enjoyed helping me, answering prayer requests, and he had a change in his life, and got closer to God. He mentioned he understood what I am going through and he and his wife care for me and The Church. I need to write him and tell him what a gift he is to The Church and for me. Just knowing that they both are praying for me is a blessing. So I need everyone’s help and praying for Bishop Director Joaquim. I need to send him the Bi-Laws but no ink again- and rent time is coming and I don’t know what to do. Trust in God you all know that scripture [Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.] (Phil.4:11-14 KJV) You are being prayed for and cared for, I do care for people. Most of all – [But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.] (Phil. 4:19 KJV) Please pray for this family- Bishop Director Paul- T.C.M.- wife Mercy, kids- Lesly, Hepzy, Belsy (Pastor: Director: Salem Voice Ministries) India. They have two sons and a daughter. Elder son Besly is a beginner student of the Aircraft Maintenance Engineering. Daughter Hepzy is a Bible College student as well as studying first year Degree Course. Younger son Lesly studying VIII grade in a High School. You see Paul is such a fine man he is worth 10 missionaries, he would supply his people with food , water, medicine , blankets, and he even builds houses for people, Satan tried to strike him down with leukemia and that was prayed away, now he is having trouble with his liver, the devil is trying to destroy Christianity. With all the violence that is happening, people are getting killed, beaten- their homes and churches are being burned, pastors are missing, this is terrible- all these people need hard prayer, with pure love and pure spirit. I will pray as hard as I can that Paul is cured and a miracle happens, and the whole country will change I feel God is watching all of this and He knows who the evil is, and there will be a change of peace and love for the whole country. All we need is faithful prayer and the miracles will start flowing like the living water of Jesus Christ. I know he will be healed; he is too good of a man to suffer.---Joanna and Randy, Joanna was such a blessing she would pray over the phone and really get into it, she has brought me out of pain and hurt, Randy the same thing between them both they would make the devil run for cover, sometimes it would be a three way call but for years Joanna and Randy were one of the areas of best of friends and prayer partners, when Randy passed on to be with Jesus- Joanna was real hurt and she seemed to cut off all ties, these two people saved my life several times, Please pray for them both and their families. Bishop Director Jacob and wife Daisy T.C.M.-Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India. I need to write, and tell them I am sorry for not writing, the devil has been playing tricks on my head and has brought upon a certain fear or something where I became almost uneasy to go into my office, but the Power of God will heal this small problem, and the healing of all things will come about someday, I will not loose my faith. I trust the Lord and I know He has a plan for this suffering, just like the book of Job. Next- Elena Ramirez- artist, poet, painter, (prayer cards for the needy) she sent me two of the special cards where she does artwork and her own+ poetry. Elena is very special, she loves the Lord and people, she is going through some difficulties, but with our prayers- all of us together- she will see a day of joy, she is a hard worker for the Lord, and God has been watching, she has been faithful. {Next is a combination of people--- Jeff Gale- Australia- Director owner- Spiritual Warfare Prayer Warriors- Jeff runs a prayer ministry that covers the world, and he has two ladies that have saved my life uncountable times and even Jeff’s emails have given me hope- So the ladies are Jan Loyally and Janel Kobylanski -S.W.P.W. they have out done themselves and they themselves are fighting the devil, because they have helped so many people- including myself, and they have suffered tragic loses, so please my friends pray for this team and the ministry.}--- We all have been praying for Vijay’s Mom who is sick in India, she is very sick and her blood is not matching up so we all need to pray for Vijay's mom. She was in intensive care, but with our prayers she might be O.K. now. Please join with us this prayer for healing. Next is Lillian Beal - Minister- Friend she has prayed for me and spoke with me and gave me the faith to go on, she is suffering some type of sleeping sickness, it has been a while so she might be healed by now, many prayers went out for her and her family. So let us continue to pray for her and family. --- Next is Bishop Shawn Chamberlain- from www.rootsandwings.org -N.Y. He has this internet ministry and is a pastor of an old church in N.Y. This man has helped me in the past, he used to talk with me for hours, and gave me the drive to go on- with faith and trust, he taught me to trust God and not to look behind, but to look ahead for the blessings of God’s plan. He is a good man full of loyalty, please join in prayer with me- that he is helping so many others, he will need prayers of protection so he can go on helping so many others.--- these two are quite special Scott and Eileen- Baby Ministry Virginia- Eileen had cancer, now it is gone, many prayers have followed them and their baby saving ministry, they wrote me and said it was my emails that helped Eileen, but it was Jesus Christ that healed her, and I can’t take any credit, I am just a servant of God. Poor and no teeth, they say I will get new dentures within 6 months. So pray for them and financial stability so they can continue saving babies, me if I get new teeth I don’t know if I can even wear them, the doctor tried to check out my old dentures, and I almost hit the ceiling, my gums are that sensitive. So it will take time for me to even get used to teeth again, I might be able to only put them in with some cushioning witch I don’t know if they even make something like that that it will cushion the denture but not be a holder or some type of glue, because I may only be able to put them in my mouth for short periods of time, please pray that things do work out with the paperwork and that I don’t have to wait so long, I need to eat solid food and be able to chew, and not just mostly swallow things whole, that is why I am having problems digesting things and going to the bathroom. I feel sometimes it gives me an ulcer or it tears up my intestine that is why time is so important, because the food may be scratching my stomach lining and intestinal walls. So let us all pray for Scott and Eileen, and their part in saving lives at such a young age. --- Here is another person who has helped me with my life, she has had her whole church congregation pray for me, and she would send me cards and wonderful emails with special things with them to balance out my pain, faith, and hope. Columbus Murphy- Chicago, Ill. She has been a real blessing that I even met her, so let us pray for her health and her voice; she sings in the choir and does solos. We must pray for all my own friends at the last church I played music at, the church was so large we had an orchestra during the holidays, plus I did drama, and studied sign language for two terms. The Christmas show was set up with a Latin type music and it seems like the music minister picked that type of music because of the similar way I play bass, and the style of my fingering, I miss playing in church, I went to the biggest church in this area, the man who sits in the music tower freaked out and could not stop shaking my hand, and he said he has never heard anything like I did and the sound and voice, this guy never has seen anyone just walk in and play all that. I played my Martin 12 string and sung and wrote the songs I played, and then he checked out me playing bass he played the drums- and it sounded like old Blind Faith or Cream, with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker playing solos all we needed was Eric Clapton. The music minister said he would call me, he didn’t even know I played keyboards too, plus the flute- I believe the minister was afraid of losing his job, and I was so hurt I didn’t play after that for about a year or more, then I played in a church for a few months then I didn’t play for almost 4 years, I just started playing the bass again. Do you see what people have done to me? The music minister was asking me if I could play the bass with as he said bong- bong, of course I said, with my hands up and down the neck, then he asked can I play a simple chord, and here I am picking like somebody famous. By the way- he never called me. I knew he would never call me just the way he reacted. Church’s have hurt me more then anything. Sorry for the story, it is true I have no reason to lie to you all- pray for me that I will be able to play again some day for the mission I want to build downtown. Now I leave everything up to God, and Wednesday I got hurt again, it had nothing to do with God, it was the devil or some evil agent. I was super sick on Thursday- I could not even go and eat or even ask to help at another church. Back to praying for the last church, this church I could kick a football and not even reach the ceiling. So I am still praying for certain people many I forgot- Robert and Judith they were my best friends. Larry and his wife, Kathy, Jimmy, Donna prayer for their loss of dad- Brother Fred- I wish I had more time to pray at his side-when he had cancer. Pastor Bill, Pastor Dan, still in prayer- FBC plus the youth pastor is getting prayer. Mike and wife, Joe, Larry and wife, Beth and husband, the whole church needs prayer-FBC Lenny and wife- I almost died in that church, because I was working and cleaning to hard, and I was getting yelled at because I cleaned 36 sinks until they were white again. Next we shall pray for Dr. K.P. Yohannan founder- Gospel of Asia- He is a blessing to have as a friend. Please join us in prayer for my friend and his ministry. --- Amy at the monastery, plus there is so much care and prayer from Amy, she has been very caring and understanding. I pray that some money comes in so I can at lest maybe take a course, and the chance of me having my picture in the book with all the ministers, I could never afford it. It seams I keep missing out, but I have learned to be happy with what I have. --- Phillip and Marie Hardgrave’s- east coast- We both need to communicate more! I just wrote to him and he wrote to me. He is the last surviving person that still writes to me from my last place I went to school- with care, understanding, and love, need prayer for them both- please help me! --- Carol and her son Sean- we have forgiven them, and the staff and all the workers and prayer warriors we pray daily for. I love them all, and they are prayed for everyday, with full love and compassion. We had a wonderful friendship, and the devil almost destroyed The Church, the prayer ministry, and some of the weeks of the sermons, which effected many people all over the world. --- Mr. and Mrs. Sakai and their two sons, which I love so much. I miss my little buddy, one of the sons. And they are prayed for a lot now, it is a sorry situation. I love them all, and they are forgiven of almost me dieing from chest pains. What all of them did- I can't even tell the story but I am a Christian they still remain close to my heart with

Alexander-India-He got his whole congregation together and prayed for my health, with a picture of me they hung up, so each person could pray for someone they know what they looked like- then he got shipped off to a new job right in the middle of India. I did get an email from him and he was glad to here from me. I send him all the blessings I have to give. Please pray for him, he helped me so much. --- Debbie and her son Aaron- Pennsylvania, Aaron got put in jail for something and he is medically hurting, he is not receiving what he is supposed to get, I haven’t been able to write because I fall into tears. Please help me pray for the release of her son Aaron. I wish I knew more of the story, but she offered me to come to a special healing service at her church for three days and asked if I would stay with her and all I had to do was get there. They also did the picture prayer from the whole congregation. I need to write to her and let her know I am still alive.--- Brett - best surgeon in Hilo, I found out he is back, but all the numbers don't answer- like he came and went, from like a mash unit in Iraq, and Hilo is light on surgeons, Brett is gone or I just can't find him. I ask for prayer for him and his family. --- Herbert, Mr. Kirby of Hilo- Daily prayer for the sons and whole family. He went beyond help with a Kirby vacuum, bless his heart with prayer.--- Pastor George- and wife, Daily prayer every day, plus the children and blessings on the whole congregation. Pastor George has always been one of my best friends along with Pastor Rob. George sat with me during all that pick line therapy and giving myself the bags of antibiotics. And we always had a bible discussion during the days he was always there, then he got that full time job, I just didn't get to see him any more. Neither one knows how sick I am. He does not even know I moved or really how sick I am. They don’t even know the love I have for them both, maybe someday I will get a call from them.--- Need prayer for Pastor Rob and his wife Susie- and the congregation, I truly miss Rob we need to get back together and fellowship- I am too sick to make it to the Sunday service, but he has no idea I am still sick, people think if you are dressed and look clean that you are doing OK, but that isn't the case I am sick the whole next day, I would like to go to a service- but my body can't handle it. Pastor Rob and George have been my best friend’s here- and they don’t even know it. I still care and forgive them, for whatever, it is such a long story between the both of them it would take me forever to write. AlI I know is I care for them and God knows I care, please help me pray for them and their families.--- Shiigi Drug- Shannon Hashiro, Shannon has always been there for me, she has also helped when confusion was set in by the evil of this world, I miss Annette, and I pray for all the staff- Sherry, Mel, Michael and Terry, and a few I know- but don't remember their names. God bless them all. I still see everyone the same way, and they all care about people. I pray for Shannon and ask God to bless her for all that she has done for me, plus for Mel he seems concerned about me now, he has watched me loose so much weight and just get sicker and sicker, the same with the rest of the staff, my prayers are with them all,--- Dr. Conner my family doctor, friend and spiritual adviser, we spend a time of prayer together, and I always feel better after I leave, she knows what to say to make me feel like a real person again, we are still praying for her mom, and I heard she was doing better, but that has been a while, the staff has changed or there is a new guy-Michael and met him once, but prayers are being prayed for him and Linda plus I talked with another girl Rochelle, and she is being prayed for, so between Dr. Conner and her mom and all the staff, I pray a large blessing for them all, these are the few people of the world that really care about people, and Doctor Conner probably has saved my life. It was a new beginning, and the doctor I had before this- had no feelings for me, and I left his office in tears, I prayed on my knees- in the church everyday, until I got an answer, it was like an angel telling me to go to Dr. Conner, and it was just a kid on a bicycle as I sat in front of a grocery store, so my whole life changed for the best. I never saw that kid on the bike again, so please help me pray for the complete healing of Ethel- Doctor’s mom, she might be healing already, God is with them all, and I bless the whole office and staff. Grace and peace to all. Amen. I know many others are praying also, the prayer line is big, but once you know everyone- you can get everyone to pray with you and for you across the world. --- Step Sister Barbara who has (Lupus), I pray for her any time I think about her, she had to quit her job, and she is having a tough time, but she told my mom whatever they are doing-"Prayer" keep doing it. I don’t think she knows about prayer, and I have tried to talk to her but her husband would not let me talk, he doesn’t know me, he might not know God, I don't know him or even met him, God has given me the gift to heal others through Jesus Christ. I don’t know how I will be able to talk to her, but God will help, and the prayers of anyone else- I could use your help. Maybe I should just write her a letter. That would work if she reads it, and believes- and has just a bit of faith, she will be healed, this is what I hope and many have been healed just through emails. --- My mom and Leland-Bless them, daily prayer for them both, my mom has changed a bit and she has loved me and now understands, I call her every Sunday. So she is getting to know me and understand The Church- and why I want to help others, it is natural to want to help others, it makes you feel good inside. Soon my mom will fully understand why I do the things I talk to her about. I am not sure if her friend loves her, and I pray that she falls in love with someone who does love her deep inside. I ask God to forgive her of her sins and I ask God for a way that I can explain about Jesus and what He has done for her, and the gift that will change her life. --- Mark, Lil, Gary, Glen, Gail and their husband and wives and children. Bless them all! and a fountain of prayers, to all my relatives, I love all of them but they don't even know me. Or even understand who I am, my beliefs, and how much I love them and pray for them, maybe someday they will know who I am, and why I do the things I do, and how much I push myself to just write a sermon and the pain and the suffering, I have to go though, plus and the financial situation I live. God is always there for me, and my prayers go out to each relative or part of family. My little 1/2 brother, his wife and kids- plus my real dad and Judy, I love and pray for them all, they probably don’t understand, they have no idea what I face every day, but the love is there for each one of them, even relatives I don’t know and step relatives I never met, I ask for a blessing for each one of them. And I keep them in prayer. I can’t forget Debbie and Paul who left me in San Bernardino for three days, hitch-hiking, and they were less than an hour away. Again they don’t know me. So why take a chance of some stranger to help him- let him take a shower and feed him, and let him get a good night sleep. But God helped me, and I hold no grudges, or have a bad attitude towards anyone. --- Deborah Bates from Prim ministry and prayer ministry, at times I can get many different prayer requests and send some letters out for her ministry- I have not gotten any emails from prim in a while, but prayer goes a long way, plus we need prayer for Deborah and all the people listed below. --- Peter Samuel needs our prayers as he travels and being like a missionary, he needs help and prayer and to be blessed as he travels. --- San Dee Harding needs prayer and she prays for so many people, I send her what I can in prayer or blessings. The rest I do verbally, when you can't write some 3 page prayer letter with scripture and a learning story I catch up verbally, the love and care is there! --- Rebecca- east coast- Blessed- I wish I could write a big letter and send her some money. She was the one that took care of the cat and put him on the plane and the shelter picked him up. She is a wonderful person, if she knew what I am going through she would be shocked, she would even fly out here if she knew how sick I was, if she had the money she would be here to help in any way she could. She is a jewel that needs a blessing. She has suffered like Lynne, she went through all kinds of female operations, and other surgeries, she had a rough life, and she has suffered for a long time also, she loves the Lord. And her future holds many rewards and blessings. --- Minister-Terry and his wife and children- east coast-here is another (best friend) during those same years, he has never written, maybe because we worship the whole bible, and he and his congregation only use parts of the bible. And will not play any instruments, because they say there is nothing in the N.T. that talks about instruments. "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" [Eph. 5:19] "a psalm" is a poem that is sung with an instrument(s)! I pray that he understands some day, and I hope he realizes before or if someone gets sick. I did so much for the church plus on Wednesday mornings when I could we would have a bible study, a long one that you can learn some facts and we would both learn and share our lives. --- Kenny who was my best friend for 2 years- plus his kids, his wife Gladis-east coast-We worked the food bank at the church and the big plant that stores all the food, we worked together for two years, plus unloaded trucks and no one would want to help, but I was always there to help him, he does not want to write because he said he would sound like Job's friends, Kenny was my best friend for those years, he hasn't written in years. We are praying for the whole family anyway. I used my truck every week on Thursday and loaded a half ton of perishable food, then unloaded it, and put it all away- then a big truck came with all the canned goods, we worked hard, unloading and putting stuff away- then on Friday we would hand out food for about 60+ families and everyone that helped could take a box home- then it got to a point that people would take home a whole shopping cart full of food and those persons had a job, a good one with good pay, I tried to tell everyone what was going on and of course they didn’t believe me. I got hurt again by another church for telling the truth. --- Pastor Kenneth, Mary-Kenya, Africa they have a great ministry, saving and healing all kinds of people, we send them all our prayers. They help so many people even the very poor to give the slum area all hope. They are number one in my book. And they write to me all the stories how God is helping them. I saved all of them. --- Kurt Showers and his daughter Courtney- we all hope Courtney came home to stay. Help us pray for them both!! --- Cindy, Tina, and Larry- From the old Pink Elephant, they helped me with much of my Christian Library need to find Larry's phone number and get their # here if they are still here. I still care and am still in prayer for them all. I need to talk to them and bless them, if I can get a hold of them. --- Barbara at the sally shop same store- Barbara is my favorite person and she has been a help as always and she talks to me like normal with a smile when ever I see her. Barb is home now, I guess her trip was cut short, or she didn't go to Germany, anyway I got to see her and talk to her this past week, she is a beautiful person, I don't know what happened but her son who is still in Germany- I pray for the whole family and miss Barb when she is gone. I miss her at the store, I enjoy talking with her. "Deek"- "Sonny"-New Girl and Guy- Salvation Army, [same store] please pray for the whole store. Deek has been a blessing to me and Sonny keeps smiling & helps. --- "Helping Hands"- "Goodwill"- We pray for all the workers of both of the second hand stores “Everyone needs prayer” And they both have helped me. They have helped with books and things people would need for the mission, when I first got here, they knew my plans, and helped me when they could. I just found out that the store the helping hands got closed, probably for the rent. --- My buddy in the old antique shop, on Kam- ave. downtown Hilo- I have seen him a few times last week, and he knows what I am hunting for, and he helps me out, my prayers are still with him, and he has helped me a lot.--- Evangelical Free Church of America. -run by Holly Fann still praying for everyone on the list I get one a week. The list changes every week, so there is a different prayer list for people all over the world. --- Mary and Jay, from His Will Ministries, Wyoming. Mary and Jay have been blessings, we have a 4 year relationship going on love and friendship. I still write to them and they are always sending emails and praise reports. Mary knows what I am going through. And still yet we still communicate, and pray for one another and all of there family and prayer requests for so many all over the world. They both are wonderful people and they help many in prayer. They tell us what is happening in the world with prophecy. --- Craig and Linda Hanson- “Best Friends” and 3 Children- Craig is still my best friend- I have ever had and ever have known, he helped me understand the bible- and to understand Jesus Christ. He is a pilot and makes good money, but that could end any time. I pray for the whole family- please join me in prayer. --- Trevor Steel- Florida- He also helped me through the hard times, Trevor needs prayer. Trevor had a hard life and I need to call him and write into his website. It has been a while since we talked but I will call Monday. --- Desiree from the Netherlands helped me a lot -please pray, I need to write her she tried so hard to help me, she deserves a blessing. I will find out how to reach her. And send her a prayer letter. --- We can't forget Lynne our Treasurer, she needs prayer more then most, she has a personality of a saint, she is a saint that is why she is under so much attack. Please pray for her healing.--- Norm, Carol, David, my Japanese lady that helps, and everyone else that works there at the store. They are prayed for and forgiven of all things. Need to make things right even though things (hurt the Church), my love for them all carries forgiveness and care.--- We can't forget our family- Chick, and Jim and Yolanda Thank you Chick for the advice and help and talks. God bless you Chick, thanks and have a wonderful holiday and Easter. Chick has been so close to me he deserves a large blessing, with all the love he shared with us all!!! We can't forget the rest of our family, Pam, Dave, Kawika, Bethy and

Mea- We love you all, and constantly pray for each of you we now know the problems of the schools and we understand. We love you all!!!! Thank you for the help, Please heal Bethy of here broken leg- with God's touch!! Our lives would be so different if it wasn't for family, I owe them my life!!!

Robyn- hope she is ok? Her bother Ron is online, but she has not, she needs prayer. They both need prayer. I saw an email from Robyn so she is ok.--- Rev. Roger Christie, who has helped me in all kinds of ways to get me out of the house and have fellowship, and calm me down with scripture and prayer and just being friends, plus he had one of his friends clean all the bad stuff out of my system, it is like a body clean that goes through your feet, and you end up with brown water, that came out of me. Rodgers' friend actually does the work, like when Jesus cleaned the disciple’s feet, we ask for a special prayer for him too. We also need to pray for Cher she is one of the directors or secretary to the ministry, she is a helping hand and cares about people, we ask for a special blessing for her and the whole ministry, here is a ministry who understands people and cares for people, there should be more ministries like the warmth I have felt entering the office. I thank God for real people, that stand in truth and compassion --- A special prayer and a blessing is needed for Alan, he helped me and The Church, we all need to give him a special prayer and a large thanks..--- We need a special prayer and a blessing for Margaret in Texas.--- We need prayer for Mary Lingenfelter she has cancer, Lymphoma we need prayer for a special healing. Churile Wyn and Preeja Sushan, there place of worship was almost burned to the ground, but some of the building was saved. We ask for special prayers for them and the whole congregation for repairs. I am sorry I forgot you sis shanna you just wrote me an email and everything is true, God bless you for keeping in touch and caring about me, God Bless you all. We ask for a special prayer for Candy at the Keaau Family health center the "dental department", all the doctors or dentists have been caring and understanding, each doctor has that special touch and they have done some great work making me a set of teeth, Dr Tim I remember his name he didn't want to hurt me and he tried to make impressions without hurting me, but each time he knew he had to push harder, to make the impression -it hurt but you can tell each time he did the impression the first time was not hard enough, but he had to push harder, even though I saw stars and tears fell he made the impressions, he tried to do it lightly but he had to put more pressure on my gums, but I got through it, and he made good impressions, the other doctor did the second step, and he understood the pain I was going through, I wish I could remember his name, God knows who he is and he will be blessed- but all the staff cared, even the nurses and Candy set everything up, and she has that care and compassion, I have been writing about the crew for weeks and telling everyone how good they all are and how they all care, plus we have Saree that does all the paperwork for my transportation, and she set up all the arrangements, she is one of the head girls with medicare or Medicaid, then she set me up with Hilo Harry's taxi and the girl driver the first time was a blessing, and I forgot her name but God knows who has taken care of me, she will be blessed then there is Joe from Hilo Harry's- he is a caring person also, I ask a blessing for Joe, this whole experience with all the people involved plus the staff from the dental office- from the appointments to the transportation to the set up of the transportation, and there is another girl we need to pray for -her name is Keaui, she was caring and also understanding I ask God for a blessing for all the people involved with the new teeth, the drivers and dispatchers and the dental clinic itself the first dentist helped me right away with a bad tooth, please God bless his heart- and he wants my bottom teeth strong so they can add an attachment for my back lower teeth, just think- in I don't know how many months it will take but I will be able to eat most anything, and for years I have been eating like a squirrel or a beaver for a good 8 years, then no teeth for almost 5 years now the Lord has blessed me with good people and if I can just get through the pain of putting this piece of plastic in my mouth, and get through the infected gums, and the pain of the pressure chewing, please pray for all the staff at the dental clinic and at Hilo Harry's Taxi, plus Saree who does all the paperwork and faxes the times and dates. Thank you Candy for the first talk we had and you knew the seriousness of the situation. Praise God the Father for giving me hope and thank You Jesus for your help putting love into each persons heart -plus the Holy Spirit for guiding me to call and thank what everyone has done for me. Please give them all a special blessing. Plus please bless my family doctor because she knows what to do with the pain and what it is going to be like, so Lord this is one of the greatest things that ever could happen to me, to actually be able to eat a steak or a nut or some dried fruit, I just don't know who to thank for all of this God and Jesus ,-the Holy Spirit, and all the offices and all the staff who cares about me, I have never felt this way before. I will even ask for a blessing for Scott for saving my life- driving me all over town to help me, please give him a blessing our Lord- Please pray for all, and thank-you all!!

I am also a member of the Presidential Prayer Team, and that is a honor to me, just to be able to pray for our leadership, plus all our troops the Army, Navy, and Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, even some Merchant Marines and all the Reserves stationed everywhere around the world, training and just stationed. Plus the men and women on ships and subs all over the world on duty ready for anything to happen. Plus I have my special obligation of prayer to Elizabeth Bradford from the U.S. Navy. Also we pray for all our leaders like the Senators, Governors all representatives, all members of the White House, the Cabinet, plus of course President Bush the Vice President, the First Lady, Laura Bush and all the President’s aids and special command units, plus Research Scientists, NASA. We all need to gather and to pray for the DoD, NSA, U.S. Treasury, FBI, U.S. Customs, A.T.F, D.E.A. and many other organizations, plus all the security in the airports, and state buildings, and so many other groups of security and government, And we have all kinds of Secretaries, (Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Sec. of Agriculture, Sec. of the Treasury, Secretary of the Interior, Sec. of Housing and Urban Development, Sec. of Homeland Security), Chief of Staff, N.S. Adviser. 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. Plus all the civilian workers stationed in Iraq and in Afghanistan that have specific jobs that help the military. also for Memorial Day, Gen. Peter Pace- Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Adm. Edmund Giambastiani- vice Chairman, Adm. William Fallon- Commander U.S. Central, Gen. George Casey- Army Chief of staff, Gen. T. Michael Moseley-Chief of staff-Air Force, Adm. Michael G Mullen-Chief of Navel Operations, Lt. Gen. James T. Conway- Commandant of the Marine Corps., Adm. Thad Allen- Commandant of the Coast Guard. plus we need to add Josh Bulten, Henry Paulson, Ambassador Rob Portman, Ben Bemanke, Hamid Karzai, Ryan Crocker, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Chertoff, Mike McConnell, Fran Townsend, Robert S. Muller, Kip Harley, Ralph Bashman, Mark J. Sullivan, and David Paulson. Plus we all pray for peace in Iraq. We all need prayer and care for all the people who have suffered the bridge breakdown in Minneapolis, Minnesota , the President offers his prayers and help with all the local officers. Mary Peters, Mark Rosenker, Tim Pawlenty,R.T. Rybak, Jim Clack,Tim Dolan all the EMt's and doctors, the hospitals in the area, and all the road crews finding people that still may be hidden or buried. Plus prayer this week for leaders,Carlos Gutierrez, Gen. Peter Pace,Tony Snow, Margaret Spellings, plus all the workers in Minnesota, that range from the mayor on down to the road or hi-way management, and all others that are giving aid. Plus John Roberts who needs prayer, and there are so many others that help the president in all situations, so we offer our prayers for the families that are suffering.R. David Paulison Direc. Fema,- Direc. Of Secret Service Mark J. Sullivan, -Mary Peters Sec. of Transportation,& -Sec. of Defense Robert Gates, Prayer for all. Please help us all pray for each other to bring us all healing and happiness, faith, grace and of course peace. There is so many more but I am trying to keep up adding each week more and more leaders of our country. I need to add the Sec. of Labor- Elaine Chao, Sec. of Agriculture- Mike Johanns, National Secuity Advisor -Steven J. Hadley, U.S. Central Command -Admiral William J. Fallon. Sec. of Veterans Affairs,- Ambassador Jim Nicholson, Head of the F.B.I. -Robert S. Mueller III, Head of the Border Patrol- Ralph Basham, Director of the C.I.A.- Gen. Michael Hayden, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy--John Walters, Secretary of Homeland Security--Michael Chertoff, Director of National Intelligence -- J. Michael McConnell, NASA Administrator-Michael D. Griffin, Secretary of Interior-- Dirk Kempthorne- White House Press Secretary - Dana Perino -Secretary of Health and Human Services-- Michael O. Leavitt Director, -Transportation Security Administration--Kip Hawley and if I missed any one God Bless you all!! I need to ad to the prayer list Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice John Paul Stevens, Justice Antonin Scalia Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Justice David H. Souter, Justice Clarence Thomas Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Justice Samuel Alito U.S. Trade Representative---Susan Schwab -Deputy Secretary of the State Department-- John D. Negroponte, Counsel to the President -- Fred Fielding, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives--- Michael J. Sullivan, Secretary of Energy-- Samuel Bodman, Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-- Jay Hein, White House Chief of Staff - Josh Bolten, Director of the Office of Public Liaison-- Tim Goeglein --Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--Mike Mullen,---Secretary of Commerce--Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of the Treasure--Henry Paulson, Chairman of the Federal Reserve-Ben Bernanke, Secretary of State--Condoleezza Rice,Secretary of Education--Margaret Spellings, Director of HUD----Alphonso Jackson, EPA Administrator-- Stephen L. Johnson, White House Chief of Staff---Josh Bolten, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff---Mike Mullen, Deputy Secretary of the Department of State---John D. Negroponte, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives---Michael J. Sullivan, Director, Transportation Security Administration---Michael J. Sullivan, Director, Transportation Security Administration---Kip Hawley, U.S. Trade Representative---Susan Schwab, Counsel to the President---Fred Fielding, White House Press Secretary---Dana Perino, Director of the Office of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives---Jay Hein, Secretary of Energy---Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Commerce---Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of the Treasury---Henry Paulson,Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice John Paul Stevens, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Justice David H. Souter, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Justice Samuel Alito, Secretary of Defense —Robert Gates, Director of HUD —Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Transportation —Mary Peters, Director of the Secret Service —Mark J. Sullivan, EPA Administrator —Stephen L. Johnson, Secretary of State—Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Education—Margaret Spellings, Chairman of the Federal Reserve—Ben Bernanke, Secretary of the Treasury —Henry Paulson, Secretary of Commerce—Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Energy—Samuel Bodman, Deputy Secretary of the Department of State—John D. Negroponte, Secretary of Transportation—Mary Peters, Secretary of Defense—Robert Gates, Commander of Multi-National Forces in Iraq—General Dave Petraeus, Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Ralph Basham,"NASA Administrator—Michael D. Griffin, Secretary of Interior—Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of Health and Human Services—Michael O. Leavitt, Director of the Office of Management and Budget—Jim Nussle, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (appointee)—Steve Preston, Secretary of Veterans Affairs—Gen. James Peake, Secretary of Agriculture—Ed Schafer, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy—John Walters, Chaplain of the House of Representatives--Rev. Daniel Coughlin, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate--Rev. Barry Black, Attorney General-- Michael Mukasey, U.S. Trade Representative-Susan Schwab,- Secretary of Energy--Samuel Bodman,- Secretary of the Treasury---Henry Paulson, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives---Michael J. Sullivan,- Secretary of Commerce---Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of State---Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Education---Margaret Spellings, EPA Administrator---Stephen L. Johnson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff---Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Federal Reserve---Ben Bernanke, Attorney General ---Michael Mukasey, Secretary of Agriculture--- Ed Schafer,Counsel to the President ---Fred Fielding, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy---John Walters, "I just want to say I hope I felt better and I could write prayers for everyone, I am just so sick -for so long they have to be verbal. At least we are praying for our leadership and all the important people of our government. God Bless all of you, all of your families, children, friends, and neighbors."