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

Hey,

I love the message from last night on slander and influences. I believe it is the best I have ever heard you explain it. It’s so good, I have listened to it again and it takes time to process everything that was said. So many good points. I felt like it cleaned out the dust from the corners or something. And if it didn’t, it should have. There were several times when you said things that only the anointing can say, and when you did, I could feel it go all over me in my spirit. I felt like I got answers to prayers, I felt full and “equipped” as Gary said. I trembled and rejoiced all at the same time. I love how you ended up by saying if you don’t lose your first love, you end up at the same place you started as you go through life. That is so wonderful.

In your explanation of the things that destroy slander, you mentioned sincerity. It reminded me of this scene I saw the other day on TV. I was watching the news and a reporter was interviewing the mayor or senator of Arizona. President Trump came for a visit to speak there. The reporter constantly worded her questions to the mayor with a negative connotation, and every time, the lady mayor was so thrilled to have the President there, she couldn’t take in the questions. The mayor was smiling and talking about how thrilled she was that the President came and she was so sincere. There was not one thing in her that was answering to be sarcastic or dodge the question or try to be funny. She was sincere. And it frustrated that reporter to no end. She would say, but…and…don’t you think…and reword her question to get a negative slant toward the President every way should could. The reporter was trying to use her questions and the answers she thought she was going to receive to influence her audience and sway them to believe that the President was doing some wrong. It made me chuckle really. The mayor was too happy to worry about her questions. And therefore, didn’t take in anything or pass any negativity on, just her happy smile. It’s like you said last night, if you stay in the good soil, you don’t have to worry about anything. I love that.

At the end of your message last night, when Gary sang his song “You’re Still God”, I went to my knees in tears and prayer. It felt so good to do that and hear you all doing that. My heart was full, and it was prayerful. What you said about God knowing how to keep people in their own self-will when they won’t have His and that God will make you satisfied with your foolishness. That made me tremble. God help us not be satisfied in anything we think is right in our eyes. That changed my thinking about how to handle things and treat people in my life. Instead of fighting against God when you don’t understand something, you can trust Him, and wait until He shows up with the answer. No matter what the answer is, you should be able to rejoice in it, because God is doing it. It’s a better understanding of relationships in the kingdom of God. I also love how you put the 5 wise and the 5 foolish together. Sometimes you can forget the simpleness of it all and have to be reminded that they were all together in one group, they were not separate. They were intermingled with one another. We really are together in our walk with God.

Love you John and all the work you put into gathering this for us. It is very much appreciated. Also, when you say at the end, as you have in the past few messages we have received, “I love you all”. I believe it. And I felt the love coming from you and your spirit as you instructed us to live in the Spirit of God.

Thank you.

Amy B

Dear Bro. John:

I awoke from a wonderful dream last night. It reminded me of Bro. Gary’s new powerful song on Influences.

In the dream I was in a courtroom. It was not clear what the case was about but it was a mess. It came time for me to be called as a witness. I was the last witness in the case. After I testified, I was still sitting in the witness booth to the right of the lady judge and it was time for her to announce the verdict. I don’t know how we knew each other, but she knew I had the holy Ghost and remembered I had prayed for her at some time outside of her courtroom scene. She looked over at me before rendering her final verdict in the case, and reached her hand out from where she sat and whispered, “I want you to pray for me like you did that time before.” I laid my hand on top of hers and began to pray in the holy Ghost. She smiled when I finished praying and looked out at the courtroom and said, “Now I know what to do.” She rendered her verdict and it was over. It was God’s Justice that was rendered that day.

When I awoke, I thought about Bro. Gary’s song and the power of words. Bro. John, that judge remembered the power of the words in the holy Ghost. She knew that the right judgment would be rendered through her that day with the power of God’s word. And once she rendered it, there no longer was a mess. It was right and just and everyone left the courtroom in peace.

I pray to be that kind of influence in lives. To leave hearts in peace. When we don’t know what to say, the holy Ghost always does. It felt so good to be able to pray for the judge, but it felt really good to know that she remembered the time I had prayed for her before in the holy Ghost. It had left a good influence.

I love waking up to Jesus! He makes my day!

Love to all,

Sandy 🙂

Good morning,

Last night was so good Pastor John. All of it.

Brother Stuart’s testimony and brother Gary’s song really left me asking Jesus to show me my heart with my family members. I went to bed praying I have done nothing that would ever turn them away from Jesus. Praying for a heart like Jesus. More and more I am learning how very precious it is to take Jesus’ name.

I loved what you said about starting out loving everyone more than yourself and ending up that way too. I want to be that way too, like you. I felt excited after hearing that like it was instruction and guidance in what to ask Jesus for. It just felt good to hear everything. I think my favorite part was to “just be good soil and you don’t even have to think about it”. I love that you gave the instruction of being open and sincere. Hearing bro Jimmy tell of going to bed sincerely asking Jesus to help him or take him, and to then see that Jesus put that burden on him and we all get all of this. We get instruction and understanding, we get wisdom! We serve a very big God!

Seventeen years to protect hearts he loved and give you more wisdom….wow! God’s love for His children is very important to Him.

Beth

John,

I feel like this song* is a conversation between us and God:

Us talking to God:
“There is a light, a certain kind of light that never shone on me I want my life to be lived with you, lived with you, there’s a way everybody say’s to do each and every little thing, but what does it bring if I ain’t got you, if I ain’t got you!”

God speaking to Us:
“You don’t know what it’s like, you don’t know what it’s like, to love somebody, to love somebody, the way I love you! in my brain I see your face again, I know my frame of mind! you ain’t got to be so blind.”

Us talking to God:
“And I ‘m bind! so so very blind, I’m a man, can’t you see what I’am ?”

God speaking to us:
“I live and breath for you! but what good does it do if I ain’t got you! if I ain’t got , You don’t know what it’s like, you don’t know what it’s like, to love somebody, to love somebody the way I love you!”

Wow!!

Stuart

*Song lyrics taken from the Bee Gees

Dear Bro. John:

I would like to share something the Lord gave me yesterday.

I always love to hear his Voice, whatever it may be! Yesterday as I was getting ready for work, I took time to read the WhatsApp messages that were coming through. One of the messages was concerning the “new” variety of hornet called the “Murder Hornet” that had been found in North America, in WA state, I believe. Still thinking on what I had just read as I showered, I thought to myself, “Well, that hornet has a purpose, whatever it may be.” As soon as I had that thought, the Spirit spoke and said, “Can you think of anything that God created that doesn’t have a purpose?”

Well, I started thinking about different things that God has created such as animals (for food) and trees (for shade/fruit and beauty) and flowers (beauty/pollination), etc. Lots of things that have a purpose. Then I thought about not only does he create things, but he also creates situations such as the present Covid-19 virus. (and many more situations in the Bible that he created) There is a purpose for this virus, though we may not understand it fully. God ALWAYS has a purpose for his creations. That was about as far as this feeble brain would go because all I needed to believe was that it was GOD! No matter what God does, there is always a purpose!

This morning, I read the whole book of Ecclesiastes. My, what sobering scriptures and wisdom from Solomon! It humbled my soul to read and feel what Solomon was saying. It makes no difference regarding anything of this earth; all is the same and all will end up the same – dust! The king will end up the same as the servant, the rich the same as the poor, the mighty the same as the weak, and so on. Whew! All that matters is God! “Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

And: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”

There are just too many good scriptures to quote here from Solomon, but it sure blessed me to read such wisdom this morning. As you have said, Bro. John, this virus that is upon us is not about the virus. And it is not about the hornet. It is about God and his purpose for us. What season is it for us? What time is it? What is God’s purpose?

The question that the Spirit asked me: “Can you think of anything that God created that doesn’t have a purpose?” He sent it for a reason. What is God’s purpose for us? It seems Solomon searched and searched and found nothing but vanity, and that fearing God and keeping his commandments was all that mattered.

Bro. Gary’s new song, “I Come to Save You” says: “take this time, get to know My mind”. Help us to do that, Jesus.

Sandy

“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalms 46:10

Hi John,

I loved the Livestream Sunday morning on fellowship, the testimonies from JD and Tom, Rob, Bob and JD3 were top of the line. It really is that easy and simple when we touch God and confess where we really are. I don’t know how you can put it any plainer than what you did Sunday morning with what you said and read about true fellowship with the Father and the Son, and how we have it with one another. If we have fellowship with the Father and the Son, we will have fellowship with anyone else that has fellowship with the Father and the Son.

It was really a sweet feeling, the relief and the fellowship between JD and Rob and Tom, telling their parts of the testimony of what God did. I also felt the seriousness of what God is doing with us. We want to please Him always, searching our hearts to make sure we have fellowship with His people. Like you said, we know when there is something wrong. Really, we just need to be honest and follow the Spirit to get it straightened out. Thank you, John

Stuart

Pastor John,

I was just listening to brother Gary sing “I Came To Do Thy Will”, and there is a verse in that that says “betrayed now with a kiss”. It struck my heart. I thought about what an intimate gesture a kiss between brethren is, a holy kiss. I thought about what that really meant, to be betrayed with that kiss by Judas.

Then the thought of Satan betraying God came to mind. Satan had such an intimate place with God, I wonder if that hurt God’s heart? I always pictured God just angry and casting him out, but I wonder if it hurt him? It made me hurt thinking about hearts that have left God after having been given such an intimate part with Him. It also made me think about how we treat each other’s hearts that have been given such an intimate part of God. I want to take very special care of the hearts so intimately a part of God’s heart. That song touched me today.

Beth

Pastor John,

I want to share my dream.

I was standing in the center of a room somewhere near the top of a very tall building. Maybe I was in a tower. There were huge windows that made up most of the walls of the room. A pilot was in front of me wearing a pilot’s jacket and helmet. He pulled off his helmet and it was brother Earl. He placed his keys on the table and immediately began singing the Lord’s praises for delivering him during his flight and giving him a safe landing. Earl was full of confidence and thankfulness in what the Lord had done for him – his joy was contagious! I could sense there had been trouble in the plane during the flight but Jesus had kept brother Earl. I then walked to the window and I was allowed to see the landing that Brother Earl had just achieved. He was piloting a small, single-engine seaplane, there were floats on the bottom for landing gear. I watched as he swooped down and landed smoothly on the water.

That was brother Earl’s landing and that is what he had been thanking Jesus for moments ago – attributing all his success to the Lord’s doing.

The feeling in the room changed and another one of God’s children came in, removing his helmet. He had piloted a plane as well, just as brother Earl had. But this man was upset, disgusted even. It was apparent this man’s landing had gone poorly.

I was then standing at the window again looking out just as I had done before. I was being allowed to see this second man’s landing. As his plane flew by I could see it was missing one of the floats on the bottom, the float was used for the water landing. The plane didn’t descend much further before it started spinning out of control. The plane spun off and out of sight before ever getting to the water. I turned around saddened by what I saw and certain of the tragic outcome.

I then heard the second pilot exclaim aloud in defense of his failed landing, “But I was missing part of my landing gear!”

And I then heard your voice, pastor John, right beside me though you were not in the room. You said, “He could have (landed) too, if God said so.”

I immediately woke up. I was wide awake as if I had not been sleeping. I began to consider what I just saw and realized that I understood what you had just said to me, “He could have (landed) too, if God said so.”

If God says you can do something, it isn’t because of your abilities, it is because of His. If God says you can land a plane with no landing gear, you can land it, not because you’re an extraordinary pilot, thus he chose you, but because he is going to do the work.

At the end of this morning’s live streaming on Youtube, you prayed for us all …. God help us do these things and “to get past all the excuses.”

It made me consider my dream and what you had said – “He could have too, if God said so.”

Jerry