Hi, Pastor John;
I have really been enjoying the Matthew readings, especially this last one. Feeling the joy, hearing the songs, Sue’s testimony, and especially your teaching, is “us”. I loved watching Jimmy Sr. and Rob feeling it, too, as well as all of us, seen and not seen on Livestream. I’m still bubbling over from the love of God for us. I love hearing Otis’ laugh and giggle; it is contagious.
The Bible is good for stories about God, and the scriptures are good for reproof, correction, and doctrinal issues, and it does help your faith to read such things, but I loved the part where you where teaching about Jesus coming and giving His life for us to have the Spirit flowing in us, so that we can feel what we felt during the reading – and afterward. If we didn’t know the Bible as you taught us, we still have the Spirit in us to lead us and to teach us God’s judgments and teach us about God’s kind of love, the life of God and His Son in us and living in us. It is wonderful thinking about these things.
To have an “us” at all, there had to be a call of God to each one of us that we heard, and obeyed, to start our journey so that we became an “us”, here-and-now. We were an “us” before the world began, in the mind of God.
I love the authority of God and the government of God . . . it is a safe feeling, knowing there is an anointed man of God over you. I felt that when I was a teenager, when I first saw you preaching at Brother Delbert’s. I knew we needed what you had, but didn’t know what it was. Now I know. It was the government and order of God. The working and flow of that yesterday is a result of it flowing among us.
I(we) love you Pastor John and your labor of love for us all.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Billy M.
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I couldn’t even begin to say all the different wonderful ways your preaching made me feel today! It was just altogether out of this world! The Anointing on you puts it all together, and makes it COME ALIVE, and quickens our hearts and souls!
When I hear it like today, it makes me want to laugh, cry, jump, shout, and just sit still from the joy of what is being said!!! I LOVE IT. I JUST PLAIN LOVE IT!!
Jimmy T.