I am still feeling the effects from last night’s touch. I am so thankful Jesus touched me and let me feel his power shake me and hear that audible sound of him breaking/cracking something inside my heart. It sounded like a shotgun firing or a clap of thunder- a loud crack! It came with the feeling that he had broken/destroyed something that had had me bound. And I woke up hearing the song “God Will Take Care of You”.

I am very grateful for what you taught us last night. I love the anointing God has put on you to shape and mold us to be more like him! He is giving us some beautiful testimonies! Gnite!

Bess

Bro John, 

I loved Billy’s email (see Meeting / Last Night 9/7/2017).  I’ve been thinking along those same lines this week: just how much has been given to us, and do we really appreciate it with our whole being.  If we do, we will live like it and treat others with a godly love. 

As Billy said about the order of God for our families (God, Jesus, Pastor, Husband, Wife, Children), if we are not in line with God’s government, then the family is out of order (and most of us have surely been there)!  At first, it may not seem like a big thing to let small things slide by, but over time, it gradually gets worse and becomes one big mess.  It takes time for parents to learn how to do certain things to keep the family in line, but we have been given so much godly instruction by a godly pastor and others who have been wonderful examples, the excuses are sometimes pitiful. 

My own testimony on Sunday encouraged me so much.  I’ve been telling myself all this week that God will take care of me because He’s always done it.  That was so good for me to go back over all that and refresh my memory!  It was so real to me that, at times, I felt like I was back in time.  I want to always be real with God and myself.

I know that none of us can really understand a situation unless we’ve been there. We cannot know the feeling of being told we have cancer or the hurt of losing a loved one (and many other things) unless we’ve really experienced it.  So I know young mothers cannot understand the wonderful blessing of being able to stay home and take care of their own children, being able to choose when they go to town and buy groceries or even a simple thing such as taking a walk during the day.  To me, that would be top of the line.  I do pray for them, that God will put the value of that into their hearts. 

I looked up the words to that song you sang Sunday, “God Will Take Care Of You” (by Civilla D. Matin) and it blessed me all over again.  The words are certainly true:

Be not dismayed whate’er betide,
Beneath His wings of love abide.

Chorus
God will take care of you,
Thro’ ev’ry day, O’er all the way;
He will take care of you, God will take care of you. 

Thro’ days of toil when heart doth fail,
When dangers fierce your path assail.

All you may need He will provide,
Nothing you ask will be denied.

No matter what may be the test,
Lean, weary one, upon His breast.

What a wonderful God we serve!  What a wonderful pastor He has given us!

Sheila

Hi Pastor John. 

I loved the meeting last night.  It really has been given to us, as you wrote in your Revelation study about God’s government:

Page 8 Note: This is the order of communication: God to Jesus;  Jesus to his angel; the angel to John; John to the seven pastors of the seven congregations.

I love the order of God, it brings peace with it, and I love and desire peace; I didn’t have peace until I met you.   You recently spoke and said, “To you (us) it is given”.  After hearing the testimonies last night about that traveling evangelist, it made me more thankful and grateful for the order of God that has been given to you,​ and you ​passing it along over the years as you have received it.   I feel that one of the most important things that stand out among us, ​as compared with other groups of God’s people, is that we seek to recognize God’s order.  God’s order saved my life.  I saw it in you when I was a teenager in Louisville, KY, ​ when you visited.  I’ll never forget the song that you sang for the first time there.​  I didn’t understand what I was feeling then nor what it was called, but I knew I needed it and I knew we didn’t have it there (government of God).

God showed me this order as a young man going to work one morning as it related to my family:​

God
Jesus
Godly Pastor
Husband
Wife
Children

The messages lately have been wonderful and happy, but it also a very sober and fearful feeling with it.  A happiness, ​in ​that God is teaching us, but a soberness and fearful feeling in ​that we will be held more accountable​.​

I pray that all of God’s people would have and seek God’s order in their lives.  It will bring them peace and it will bring honor to God and his Son.

Thank you, Brother John for leading and loving us; it’s no small thing.

Billy M.

Pastor John,

A couple of months ago, I heard this from the Lord; I wrote it down then. Beth reminded me of it this morning while we were talking, and I dug it back out. It is good, I want to share it.

When your life glorifies God, you stop testifying of the times when it didn’t.

Jerry

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It is certainly true that our sinful past is the biggest thing we have to talk about. Thanks for this.

Pastor John

Hi Pastor John,

I just wanted to share some good thoughts I’d been having after talking with a few people. Mainly it’s about provoking each other to jealousy – which is a good thing because it pushes us closer to Jesus, and makes us seek him more. But then we were saying how we all can’t been the same way exactly: we all can’t be an arm, or a leg. We have different roles. And we can never be happy if we’re constantly looking around at others and not being happy with the Jesus we have and who he made us to be. That will only hold us back from fulfilling what Jesus wants us to be. We should do our very best in what He wants us to be. Then we are being good servants and we show Him He can use us and can depend on us in the role He assigned us. If we don’t fulfill our assigned roles, how can He trust us for anything else?

I just wanted to share these thoughts.

Jenny

See you tonight!

Hey there, 

I wanted to share my day with you.  I am going to start back at the beginning.  A few weeks ago I wanted to find my favorite doctor as a child.  His name was Dr. Bill Holmes.  He was a neurologist.  I wasn’t even sure if he’d still be alive.  I reached out to the hospital we heard he was volunteering at on Brownsboro Road.  When I called, the person didn’t recognize that name.  I was sad that I couldn’t find him.  Then about a week later my mom went to lunch, and there he was, eating lunch with his wife!  She let him know that I had been trying to find him, and we were able to connect via Facebook.  I just felt like that was Jesus, in this big city of Louisville letting him go to that restaurant at that time on that day.

Today Dr. Holmes (now in his 70’s) came over to my house.  I gave him a great big hug when he walked in my door.  He said, “I have a book in my car I want to show you.”  On the front cover it said, “Kids I have known” with a big smiley face.  We flipped through the book, and he knew the kids names and stories. Many of them had passed away.  One family had three boys and they all died before they reached their teenage years.  I believe they were diagnosed with muscular dystrophy (I was diagnosed with muscular atrophy).  He had kept the card and note my mother wrote for him when I was 9 years old, all these years.  We found my old braces I wore as a kid, the metal leg braces I don’t even remember wearing since I was so young.  The plastic ones I do remember, and now here I am today without them!  

We were planning to go to lunch together today.  I had really hoped my parents could go with us, but I knew my dad had worked several Saturdays in a row, and he would be working today.  But a guy at his work walked up to dad out of the blue and asked him if he could volunteer to work for him this afternoon!  It’s just amazing how Jesus put it in his heart to do that for us :).

Dr. Holmes cried twice during lunch, once when he read the card about how very thankful we are that God placed him in our life.  The second time he was telling about how he volunteered to be a chaplain at a hospital.  He walked in to see a Pentecostal lady (he’s Baptist) and he asked her if she would like him to pray for her.  She said, “I would like to pray for you.”  She laid hands on him and prayed about ten minutes, and then she said, “Can’t you feel the spirit?”  He cried and said, “She didn’t even know I had just been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.”  Please pray for Dr. Holmes, I sure do love this man.  He always made me feel special when he walked in that children’s clinic room, and always gave me a big hug before he left.  

I just want to say thank you to Jesus for letting me live, and for God’s people who prayed for me when I was a very little girl.

(I’ve promised to send photos, please see below).

Love y’all,

Rebekah E.

Good Morning!

I just wanted to say HOW much I enjoyed the Wednesday night meeting, and last Sunday.  By the way, loved Darren’s song!

The anointed feelings are so good!

I was here too, praying in the Spirit during probably 1/2 of the meeting!  Wonderful! Makes you want to stay in a meeting, hearing testimonies and spiritual wisdom all day long!!  

Thank you so much for all you do, and having the hunger for the knowledge God gives!  LOVE the stirring up within my spirit , when you get fired up speaking truth!! NEVER gets old hearing truth!

Congratulations on your new grandbaby!!

Melissa

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Thank you for writing, Melissa.  It’s good to know that the wonderful feelings of the holy ghost are being shared by our family in Christ who are watching the meetings from afar.

We are all “wells of salvation”, and we draw living water from each other’s spirit, and when we do, we feel the eternal joy of the Lord (Isa. 12:3).  Let’s all keep pulling that refreshing water out of each other!  If we do, we will stay happy and free in Jesus.

And thanks for thinking of the newborn baby.  Little Martha is precious.

Pastor John