Sunday Service June 6th, 2004
The Church Ministries
Bible Truth Christian Church
Good Morning everyone from Hawaii and throughout the world, as you all know about the attacks on me, and it still hasn’t ended. I got this long pick–line pulled out on Friday morning and my doctor has stopped the antibiotics, It has been a rough road, I am still running a fever 99.5 which isn’t that bad, the biggest thing is that really hurt me was after I got back from the store, that I received all these messages that just about broke my heart saying I spammed someone with a prayer. You know this church is involved with a lot of prayer, in fact during my whole affliction that is all I could do. Plus we started doing prayers when the church opened August 7th just last year, and I send out about 10-30 prayers each night except when I am writing a sermon. Even then I still try to answer some of them. I have gotten so many joyful responses, and healings that this attack this time really topped the charts. I was upset for a good two hours and of course when I got home to talk to someone, it was a few minutes to late and, now that will affect my focus for the whole weekend. The warfare just doesn’t end it just keeps coming, you receive a blessing, and then torment comes upon you. In other words you are glad to get this piece of plastic two feet long out of your arm which the end was 2 inches away from your heart for the past 6 weeks. But this phone call and email made me so upset all for nothing, now I forgive them, and it doesn’t bother me, and I should be worrying more about my life than anything else, my jaw bone is not healed but I know by the power of God that I am going to get healed and all we have to do is have pure faith. I have gone through enough and then now Satan is attacking my prayer work, which brings me a lot and the only joy. I don’t understand it, but we all know that Satan uses people to accomplish what needs to try to upset me, my thinking and concentration. But it’s not going to happen, who is our God? Isn’t God mightier than anything that does exist? Then why do we worry, our childhood, our past experiences, there are a lot of people walking around with deep scars of hurt and pain, and it all can come from our past. That is why we use the Word.
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank-You for another week of life and breath, please forgive us of all our sins, please forgive us for not forgiving people that might have hurt us, we are Christian’s we are the true warriors of Christ that are trying to keeping this world from total destruction. So we are her today to worship you God in spirit and in truth, there is no other way, we want to please you Father, we want to bring joy to your heart, I feel sometimes Lord you are crying, watching what you have made being slowly destroyed, we are all sorry for any addition that we have unknowingly have done, to add to the wickedness of this cold world, we want to remain the light of the world and the salt of the earth, all we want to do is please You, and thank-You for all the things that You have given us , the things we take for granted , the things of our health, the things of our thought, and just being able to love You is such a great reward in itself. In Jesus Name, Amen
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. Rom 12:2 NIV
In this world it is so hard, to get through a day without getting hurt, here I was sitting on Tuesday and Wednesday awaiting orders for more antibiotics, and no one called me, and it got to a point I could not read my bible I was pacing and I was being flooded, in my mind with devil implants, the stickler of the mind, Satan can’t be every place so he uses other demonic beings to push your buttons. Like waking up Friday morning and just before you get your 2 foot line out of your system, you get all these thought patterns running full of being anxious, I sat with my best friend and pastor and told him what is going though my mind, or what demonic stronghold is being implanted in my mind, while on top of it, my nurse was running late and I actually started pacing the floor, I just wanted this thing out of me. You see Satan and his agents can’t read your mind, but they can implant fear and confusion. And I am fully aware of it. And yet I still fell for it.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Eph 6:12 NASB
for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. 1Cor. 14:33 NASB
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Cor. 15:57 NIV
So we are fighting a battle of unseen forces, and if you aren’t a child of God, or a doer of the word you may never get hit with any attacks, that is when you should be worrying, if you don’t feel some attack from the enemy you aren’t a threat, I expect it I don’t anticipate it, I am still fighting the severe pain, I still can’t chew, and had to go through 6 weeks of giving myself IV’s, three times a day, and I feel I am right back where I started, but I don’t want to upset this sermon, and this church. I know God will heal me. To tell you the truth if you don’t feel any warfare going on in your life you had better start doing some work for the Lord, or make some changes in your life, or you might be on the wrong road, the wide one! Do you think Satan will be attacking a bunch of drinkers in a bar talking about the good old times? Or do you think he is going to attack a pastor, or person that changes lives toward Christianity every day. Or a person who pours there heart out to many people with prayer to give them hope, comfort and healing, those are the ones he will attack the most. He has to attack the radio tower, or the weapons depot, if you get my meaning, he wants to cause havoc and try to destroy the light of Christianity. He will send his agents to the principle points, or the links in a chain, that are helping others to Christ.
Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them. 2Tim 3:12-14 NASB
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face  in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.  But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. James 1:23-25 NASB
For if you just listen and don't obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. But if you keep looking steadily into God's perfect law the law that sets you free and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. James 1:23:25 NLT
" Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
  "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matt. 7:13-14 NASB

I guess I’m a on a roll today, I am faced with all kind of threats from the adversary, that is why my head is in the bible every morning, and I am also being attacked by that to, What happened to this world of compassion, people write me back and are truly over taken on the words that we write, not just a few sentences most likely a page, but it is my duty as a child of God to be a doer. Some people think you are part of the prayer group and some think you get some sort of pay to write back, I do it for them, and the Lord, and the church, and it makes my heart feel better. When was the last time you went out of your way to do something for someone, and the look at there face of thanks or there words in return, and you actually feel the Spirit of God and the tears roll down your face out of joy. When was the last time you felt that way? I use to pick up food for a church food bank, and I would be on my way there, knowing what I was doing, picking up food for others and using my gas and my time, my truck, but look at the joy I received, I used too get hit by the Holy Spirit, and actually get the anointing, and the warmth, and that feeling of the presence of God, my eyes would be tearing, now how can you replace that with anything, that is only a portion of the effect of how you are going to feel in heaven. And the days I carried out the food to the cars for the crippled or the weak, and minister to them and felt the smile on there face and there thanks, those feelings are irreplaceable. It seems I have found in my life that things that are done for free, are the most rewarding not only in this life but the life to come. And I am the type of person that doesn’t look forward to the great rewards that our God will give us when we are finally with Him. Like working in a soup kitchen many years ago when God first called me into the ministry I was a chef, in a mission and I would serve that last person a full plate or bowl right to the last drop every time. That was God right there along side me. I never measured anything it always worked out, you would look at that long line and wonder sometimes, and there were a few times yes, that people came later that were hungry but I could always fix them a sandwich or something. Those were the days, I was happy and I felt good about my work for the Lord, oh yes I did get paid 32.50 every two weeks, not much for all that work but the faces that you looked at all stuffing themselves and really enjoying there food. It was heaven on earth to me. That is why I wanted to build one right here in town now, and that is why I came down with this affliction, the ball was rolling, and then bam on Nov 13th, my face was puffed up and it has been a test of faith ever since.  
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Col. 3:23-24 NIV
This "foolish" plan of God is far wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is far stronger than the greatest of human strength.
Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful, or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important, so that no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
God alone made it possible for you to be in Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made Christ to be wisdom itself. He is the one who made us acceptable to God. He made us pure and holy, and he gave himself to purchase our freedom. 1Cor. 1:25-30 NLT

Well now that I am completely devastated, I just found out that the Holy Christian Life and Church and Synod & Southern Evangelical Ministries has just closed, so my heart is truly broken, even crushed.  I just emailed Bother Rev. Ford, of Saint Luke Evangelical Christian Ministries, who was very close to the church and my friend and Brother Patriarch +Stephen Hopper, in which we are all very close. How much can a man take, I can not even concentrate. I don’t have any answers yet, I have to take a deep breath, and try to continue on through this devastation I have to complete the work that is put before me by the Lord. I am getting pounded now, It hurts me so much I may not be able to even finish, I can’t loose my faith and strength, I have to continue on like a good solder of Christ Jesus. The pain in my heart is overwhelming.
You have heard me teach many things that have been confirmed by many reliable witnesses. Teach these great truths to trustworthy people who are able to pass them on to others. Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. And as Christ's soldier, do not let yourself become tied up in the affairs of this life, for then you cannot satisfy the one who has enlisted you in his army. Follow the Lord's rules for doing his work, just as an athlete either follows the rules or is disqualified and wins no prize. Hardworking farmers are the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Think about what I am saying. The Lord will give you understanding in all these things. 2Tim.2:2-6 NLT
I am supposed to spread joy and peace and teach the bread of life, and the peace that Christ gives us, but I believe that it is more testing that is needed, and I know that all things work out for good. But we all have a future with our Lord and a future glory, so we should be looking forward to that, even now we don’t understand the sufferings or the complications of this life. I guess I have changed since this affliction started but within my mind, I strive to reach the goal and the prize to be as close to Christ as possible, because our life here only just a blink of an eye, and we have a future with our Lord with peace for eternity. No more pain, no confusion, no tears, just pure Love.
Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse. All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new bodies he has promised us. Now that we are saved, we eagerly look forward to this freedom. For if you already have something, you don't need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don't have yet, we must wait patiently and confidently.
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory. Rom. 8:18-30 NLT

I guess this might be calling to change the set-up of the church and just focus on prayer we do have a prayer area and a sign up sheet, but I have been intertwined with so many prayer ministries maybe I should just change the our cover page and just focus on prayer, It seems prayer is one of the most important things, being that we are able to spread the light and life of God, and comfort and compassion, which we have been doing, I have been putting up with spiritual warfare even with that, last week one of the networks just stopped coming through and of course even though I have been with that network for almost a year, I couldn’t remember the password, and had to spend hours re-signing up, and then I could not communicate with the leadership, but then the requests started to come back through, now I am going to loose the prayer network of the Holy Christian Life, which I have been with them for a long time. And then the new one I just signed up for the very first night I started praying for this new network, I get hit with a false assumption and ridiculed of a spam attack, and that hurt me more than ever. I did feel different spiritually that night. Now also the Kids in Need of Prayer are closing down for a while. There are other networks that don’t deliver there prayer list until late at night, which I do most of the payer work during that time, but sometimes they don’t come in till real late and I find myself up till 1-2am in the morning, but it doesn’t matter at all I am up that late anyway, I don’t sleep well at all, but this is part of the church and the ministry, I will have to do a little shifting around and it takes a lot of work shifting web pages around, but in a sense, maybe this is what the Lord wants me to do. I want to be able to reach out to people in need. We have the biblical and counseling knowledge, and spiritual guidance, and we have changed many a life, but it is not us at all, the Holy Spirit tells me what to write and I am just a vessel or a portal, and God does the speaking not me, it is nothing really what we have done, we are to give God all the Glory, He made us and he gave us our minds, and our teaching, and our thought patterns, He is always guiding me with correct words, and scripture. We have made a lot of close relationships with so many other churches and prayer teams and there is an incredible list of single people that keep writing back for help that are under extreme attack, or just need someone to talk to, and they need individual comfort, and the compassion of Christ.
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:34-35NIV
Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other intensely with all your hearts.
For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. 1Pet 1:22-23NLT

For it has pleased God to tell his people that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you, and this is your assurance that you will share in his glory.
So everywhere we go, we tell everyone about Christ. We warn them and teach them with all the wisdom God has given us, for we want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ. I work very hard at this, as I depend on Christ's mighty power that works within me. Col. 1:27-29 NLT

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 1Cor. 4:16-18 NIV
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1John 4:18-21

The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry. Psalm 34:15 NASB
And so I solemnly urge you before God and before Christ Jesus--who will someday judge the living and the dead when he appears to set up his Kingdom: Preach the word of God. Be persistent, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to right teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever they want to hear. They will reject the truth and follow strange myths. But you should keep a clear mind in every situation. Don't be afraid of suffering for the Lord. Work at bringing others to Christ. Complete the ministry God has given you.2Tim. 4:1-5 NLT
I have fought the good fight, I have finished  the course, I have kept  the faith;  in the future there  is laid up for me  the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on  that day; and not only to me, but also to  all who have loved His appearing. 2Tim.4:7-8 NASB
The LORD hears his people when they call to him for help.
       He rescues them from all their troubles.
   The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
       he rescues those who are crushed in spirit.
   The righteous face many troubles,
       but the LORD rescues them from each and every one. Psalm 34:17-19 NLT


Well my brothers and sisters my love for you all is all I can give, and I know that Jesus is with us all, and we must maintain to walk in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and among all else is to Praise God and to keep worshiping Him, day by day, not just here and there, don’t forget we must Love the Lord thy God withal our strength all our might all our soul and with all our heart, and good things have to happen, if we depend on Him, He will always grant our prayers and give us all that we need. He wants to help His children, and He always hears us.

and to keep you from becoming disturbed by the troubles you were going through. But, of course, you know that such troubles are going to happen to us Christians. 1Thes. 3:3NLT
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. 2Thes. 3:3NASB
Father at the close of this service, I ask for a special prayer for the healing of Patriarch +Stephen Hopper and his assistant, at the Holy Christian Life Church and Synod for complete healing, I also ask for the healing of all the prayer requests, and all the troubles of all the people crying out to you, that have come through this church. I thank you for all the blessings you have performed and will continue to bless, for all the members and close friends, and all the people who have prayed so deeply for me. I ask for continued blessings for all the prayer networks who have worked very hard to be true servants for you O’Father. I ask for forgiveness for us all, for the mistakes we have made, for we are still in the flesh, but we are still trying to live a life of love, and selflessness. I wish to also thank Brother David M. Ford for the message and blessing he has sent so promptly.
Dear Father, thank you for understanding us so much, thank-you for sending your Son Jesus down to earth and suffer and die for our sins, so we are able to have life and forgiveness, so we are able to come to you, and talk with you O’Lord, please be with us all the rest of this week, please watch over us, and if anyone out there who does not know Jesus and wants to know more about Him, and to be saved, and find a growing relationship with Him, please go through the website and read and follow the live evangelism tracks.We love you Father, In the Name above all Names Jesus Christ, Amen, and Amen. 
© 2003, Rev. Paul Bonanno, D.D., Ph.D.  
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