Good morning,
All I can say is a big “Amen” to Amy’s email! I really enjoyed reading that this morning.
There was so much love in your message on Monday night. I trembled at the thought that we could become cursed children of God. Cursed with the inability to leave, and instead, be kept around to seduce unstable souls. Whew! I don’t want to be one of those spots and wrinkles among the body who thinks I’m okay when Jesus sees it differently, and he is only keeping me around to try the hearts around me. Oh Jesus! Help me to see myself the way you see me!
But I felt such hope that there is a cure for slander if we have sincerity, and hold on to our first love. You told us a seed of slander won’t grow in good soil! And you reminded us that our safety is in openness. You said sunlight is like a disinfectant! That was so good!
My heart leaped when you said “We’ve been called into fellowship with the Father!” Let me just stop right there and think on that! What a privilege and an honor to have fellowship with the Father! And if I have fellowship with the Father and you have fellowship with the Father, then we can’t help but have fellowship with each other! THAT’S where I want to live. That’s where the peace is. That’s where our safety lies. The slanderer can’t work in that place.
There was so much love in the hours you spent preparing this wonderful message for us; listening to the old meetings and looking up scriptures and making notes. And I know it wasn’t easy on your back to stand on that hard basement floor for so long. Thank you for loving us to do that for us! It was wonderful! I agree with Amy that it was the best you’ve ever explained slander, and I feel better equipped to handle any future situations. When you said “I love you all” at the end, I felt those words were coming from you and Jesus, and I believed it!
I hadn’t planned to write more than an “Amen” to Amy’s email, but I couldn’t help myself! It was just so good to my soul!
Thank you!
Lee Ann