Hi Pastor John,
A few thoughts and points you have made in sermons have been resonating with me this week after Sunday/Wednesdays’ meetings:
- How much God loves us and his people! The feelings from our last two times together continue to resonate with me. Every testimony, every blessing validates how much He really does love us, to put us together and take care of each one of us. We have been treated in a heavenly manner, we love God’s government and order because it’s so full of love!
- The power of our prayers. God puts it on our hearts to pray and, when we do it, He responds. It may not be immediate, but He is listening, and we have seen the power of prayer in action over and over again. God’s response is so much better than we ever could have anticipated. He wants us to anticipate good things for our lives and a response to our prayers. If we have an unanswered prayer, and if He hasn’t told us to stop praying about it, we need to keep knocking because we need to have the faith to anticipate an answer and be available to rejoice in that answer together. It’s like you said before, we need to have patience because God is doing something.
- All the examples of God’s people who are lost without the knowledge of the truth. The more we learn, we love and hurt for them even more because the freedom we have is worth everything. There was a thought for the evening recently: “There is no reason to quit God.” But, I like to think about the opposite: “There is every reason to continue with God.” It’s like you said, “Give me liberty. (End of story)”. The truth is that you have liberty in the spirit or you put yourself at risk of death. We can live! Forever!
Your father said in a sermon I recently listening to that there were five wise and five foolish virgins; so, half of God’s people may not enter in. It is such a narrow way! I think that as one learns more, it gets even narrower because you get closer to God and He expects more. But, He gives you the knowledge and tools with the Spirit to grow so you can do it with Him. So, let’s grow and learn how to be wise together forever with Him! 
-Wendy
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