Hi John.

I loved the meeting today!! It is so wonderful to understand what the Father and the Son are showing us. How valuable it is to be able to see the table that he has spread for God’s “daughter” and “queen” – for the Son and his bride to partake of together! When we were singing the song “Glory Bound Train”, the line that kept going through my head was, Come and listen, won’t you brother; have your heard and don’t you know?” All I could see was the table that God and his Son had spread in front of us while you were preaching John!! Oh!! If only our brothers and sisters everywhere could understand and see the table that is spread by His spirit where no flesh can ever enter in! And how good it tastes and feels to just put it all on the altar and live!! It is overwhelming at times how much peace and relief that truth brings to your soul, and strengthens you in him to want more!!

Tank you John!!

Stuart

Hi John,

I loved tonight’s meeting, loved the feelings coming from the spirit while Gary was singing his song, “Jesus is the One”! To know that is all that matters. Also it felt very sweet when we started praying for President Trump and everyone in charge of this country. If they would do the same, who knows what God would change. I am so thankful to be a part of what He is doing at this time on this earth. Everything we have been through to get to this point has been worth it. I love being around his anointing and feeling the peace that comes with it. Thank you, John!!

Stuart

PS. Loved what you said tonight: “If you’re waiting to be blessed, you’re waiting for something that has already happened!”

John, Good Morning.

I was at work one morning contemplating all the different opportunities for my position as cross dock manager.  It is not complicated, but if you apply yourself to do a good job and consider, all the possibilities can be mentally taxing.  For some reason, staffing was unusually short on this day, and Bill asked me if I would mind driving a forklift to help out a little.  My answer was “Sure, be glad to.”  Doing this, for me, was like riding a bicycle since I had done so much of it earlier in my life, and I realized my mind started to relax.  The next thought that came to me was how easy this job was, and I started just enjoying what I was doing.  I had no expectation that the Spirit was fixing to speak to me.

This is all the spirit said to me: “Condescend to men of low estate.”  I often ponder whether or not I understood the Lord completely as it applied to me in that situation, but I am thankful for hearing that from Jesus, and your Blog made me want to tell about it.

I love it when the Lord does things like this because after such an experience, you would know that what Paul said is right even if it wasn’t written in the scriptures.

Wendell

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Let’s always remember where we came from.
jdc

God Condescended to Us

Paul exhorted us to “condescend to men of low estate” (Rom. 12:16 KJV).  But we cannot condescend to anybody as far as God condescended when He came down to help us.  Nobody is as far beneath us as we are beneath God.

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Hi Pastor John,

I enjoyed reading your recent Blog about “condescending” and also Wendell’s email back to you, and have been thinking about it since then. It seems to me that to condescend to someone means that the person to whom you are condescending is “under” you in some way. It also seems to me that you cannot condescend to anyone who is over you, but only submit to their higher authority. And the Father does not submit to anyone or anything because nothing is above Him; He can only condescend to deal with any of His creation.

Thanks,

Billy

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That is right, Billy. Those are good thoughts to contemplate.

Pastor John

Hi Pastor John, 

It was really something reading Psalm 18 last night.  We get the benefit of the work that you all do in the translations.  Thank you, to everyone.  In verse 9, you talked about the Father bowing the heavens and coming down in a thick cloud under His feet.  You also gave us a scriptural reference in Mathew 27:45, and told us that it was during the hours of noon to three PM during the crucifixion of Jesus, when this took place.  I haven’t thought about this until last night, but the Lord brought back to my attention in 2009 when I was in total agony in the hospital room being completely backed-up from the blood clots in my bladder, and not one drop of fluid would pass. (I tell of this in my book,“In God’s Shadow”  ,in the chapter titled, Agony, pages 53-58).

Sister Gwen called me about 11:30 AM on the morning of November 10^th, 2009 and prayed for me.  Sister Gwen was anointed by God to pray for me so that I could endure what was soon coming to pass.  After she hung up, I had to go to the restroom, and that’s when the pain really started, at 12:00 noon.  The horrific pain that I experienced lasted until three PM, and then Dr. U came.  Jesus prayed for us in the garden of Gethsemane, and knew the pain that he would shortly endure before receiving again the joy he once had with the Father, and then share that joy with us.  It’s too much to write about here, but it was an amazing feeling during your teaching last night.  Those scenes in the hospital are still fresh in my mind.

Reading Matthew 27:45, I can’t help but thinking about the agony that Jesus went through for us, and remember the agony that I went through at the hospital because of a lack of flow in my body, but also remembering the joy and peace after Dr. U comforted me.  I know what I went through was just a small snippet of what Jesus went through for us to have joy and peace of the Comforter. Reading about my story again made Jesus’ story come alive more.

There is just a lot of similarities (to a lesser degree) from Jesus’ story and mine; more than I can write here.  In short, I believe I went through those things to help me understand better Jesus’ story. There was total agony and then total peace, before and after the story about Jesus’ crucifixion.

I am crying now, because of the love that I feel from Jesus.  He cares for and about us.  It truly is a story of God, and He will use any means possible to share or act out with men the story about His beloved Son.  

Billy M.    

 

Hi John, 

Unfortunately I was not able to be in the meeting last night due to sickness, but was thankful for the YouTube stream which is the second best thing to being there when you can’t.

About an hour into the meeting, before you got up and preached, the Spirit touched me with love for everyone, it was special.  I sat up straight on the couch (was watching it on our living room TV), and started praying for every single person going around the room in a circle, by name.  I started where Cathy Bartow sits, and prayed out loud for each person.  It was very special…. I would say their name, and then the Spirit would pray for them whatever feeling I was feeling —- like:  “[ their name….] – make them the person THEY want to be”,  then another person, “[their name] – fill them with YOUR strength Lord,”,  then the next person:  [their name] – make them the person YOU want them to be”….  each one was different, and it went on like that – I got to most people in the room till you started preaching, and that was so good I knew it was the right time to stop and listen to you.

It’s good to pray for our family – In this world we need it.  I was thankful for that experience last night. 

And thankful for you John – when you got up about an hour into the meeting, the feeling coming across the YouTube waves really changed. I could feel strength and confidence that the truth brings that when you pass it out.  Thank you for that readiness.

I love us.  But I don’t want to miss another gathering.  🙂  🙂

Gary

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Hey!

Last night was so good and encouraging!  I love every time we talk about the Father and the Son and the “basics”.  I have been reading “God Had a Son Before Mary Did” , and last night’s message was exactly what I have ben reading.  Just reading the scriptures in the book by themselves takes you somewhere, and then last night – Shew!  The whole time during the message, I could feel the Spirit.  So thankful for the great messages lately and the anointing that knows exactly what we need!  And then, to know the truth about the Father and the Son – what a blessing it is to know these things!

Amy

 

 

Pastor John,

You know those moments where you really get it?  Like when Jesus just really let’s you get it.  I got something!! It is so simple and basic and wonderful!!

Last time I told a testimony I had an entirely different testimony planned out before I stood up. Then I opened my mouth and it was nothing but tongues and tears (love it love it love it).

Then a few nights later sitting around after the meeting, I looked up and saw Haskell’s sweet Mama sitting over across the room.  I felt like I wanted to go hug her and pray for her.  I had yet begun to hug her and I don’t remember exactly what happened next but I ended up on the floor leaning on that sweet woman’s legs.  Pastor John as I was there, I thought “Jesus I cannot lean on Haskell’s sweet Mama.  Help me get up.”  But the more I tried to lift my head, the heavier it got.

Early this week I was talking to Jesus about how much I love when Jesus takes over.  I was telling the Lord how much better His testimony was than what I was going to say.  To stand up and try and get words out while the spirit of God (let me just say that again – whew!) while the spirit of GOD shakes your body and controls your tongue – and that thought right there is when Jesus interrupted my thanking him and said “Think of how good it would be if you quit trying to over talk me!”  And he said it in a funny way.  I had to laugh out loud.  I never looked at it like that.  I can just hear bro Earl saying, “Just yield and let the spirit take over.”

I get it!

Just yield!  Shut up and eat!

I sometimes think some may think “she’s too happy, or she’s feeling it too much too often.”  So I find myself trying to rein it in.  I never want it to be my flesh. But you know what?  Nothing in my flesh wants me smiling, shaking, stuttering, or wallowing around on the floor.  So I just want to live in what Jesus gave me. I want to feel every feeling.  I want to yield.

With my job, I have hours every day with Jesus.  Listening to nuggets of gold and talking to Jesus about them.  Jesus has given me that time with him, time to eat and grow.  It would be insane if I didn’t walk around smiling and mushy!  Whew!  I just get it, Pastor John.
Beth 😀😀😀