Hey, your message tonight was so good! At times I have felt that disappointment of why people have such a hard time believing the truth. I have thoughts of “have I done enough?” or “what more can I do?”  I have the Speaking in Tongues book in my shop on the table, and a tag on it that says “free”.  A few people have taken the book, but for the most part it’s as if it’s invisible.

As you were preaching tonight Jesus reminded me of some sweet thoughts I had the last couple of days after watching people’s wrong attitude and behaviors.  I had been thanking Jesus for giving me the heart he has.  My desires are to love him, live right, be good, and love others. That is no SMALL thing. So, it felt good to know that if others don’t ever know the truth as he has let us know it, then it’s been given to us for our benefit, and we can just be happy in knowing the truth!!  That feels good!!!

Natalie

When I heard Brittany singing Brother Billy’s song the power of God fell on me & overwhelmed me so that I couldn’t stop speaking in tongues. I found myself praying with all my heart for Brittany & our young people.

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Amanda

 

Pastor John, 

I loved the meetings this weekend!  The whole weekend felt “joyous!”  Watching Naomi enjoy the feelings and then Sister Betty receiving the holy Ghost and dancing around enjoying every minute! You feeling better and being there Sunday!  I feel so blessed to have been there!!

On Saturday morning Lyn, Sandy and I were eating breakfast and talking. I don’t remember how we got on the subject but I was telling them how much I love the basics, there’s just something about when you preach on the foundation that I LOVE!  Then we came in Sunday and you began preaching on the foundation…whew….I LOVE it!  It just stirs my soul!  The holy simplicity of it just makes you feel like rejoicing!  I wish all God’s people could hear what we hear and feel what we feel!

As Beth would say, I feel fed, fat, and happy!!

Michelle

 

Good morning Pastor John, 

Last night I feel like I floated to bed and floated to sleep.  Thoughts of thankfulness just poured from my heart.  Jesus has given me the most wonderful life!  I don’t want for anything.  He has supplied my every need and then some.  When I lay my head down each night, I have a clean conscious and am surrounded by peace.  When I hurt He’s there to quickly comfort me, when I’m happy He’s there to rejoice with me and when I’m sad or down He’s there to lift me.  He has given me the most wonderful family that I love more and more each day.  He’s given me a pastor that I can trust and who feeds me the most heartiest meals ever prepared!  

This morning I was walking downstairs and talking to Jesus.  I said, “Jesus what more could I want or need?” My only thought was more of Him!  Please, Jesus, give me more of you!

Feeling loved and blessed beyond measure!

Love you very much!

Michelle 

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Happy birthday, Michelle!  Sounds as if Jesus has already given you a wonderful present!

Pastor John

Good Morning, 

Tuesday evening I was paying bills and discovered that I had not entered a check in the register.  This was after a long day, and I asked Jesus to encourage me.  I wasn’t necessarily praying about the missing check amount but just to feel Jesus.  After praying, I had a feeling to look in my phone.  I’d used the calculator in it last week to deduct that check entry.  I knew I had used my calculator since then, and that the check amount wouldn’t still be showing there.  Still, I went to the calculator and looked.  A recent entry was showing, but a thought came to see if the menu button would help.  There was a “calculation history” option here, and I scrolled back and found the missing check amount. 

Right after that, while doing the payroll, the first check did not print.  That was odd.  I loaded it into the printer again, and it did the same thing. We’ve used this printer since 2001, and it has never done that.  It works well even though it is old.  When the ink gets low, the print starts getting so light that the words only half-print.  That didn’t happen. There was no print on the checks.  Still, the thought came that maybe it was out of ink even though it had never behaved that way when out before.  Hoping and praying that it would work with the new ink, I loaded the checks again.  Before I hit the print button though, the feeling came to me that maybe Jesus was trying to save me from something.  So I stopped and looked closely at the check on the computer.  There were errors in the Federal and State deductions, making the net pay considerably higher than it should have been.  This was a salary check, and for those, normally, I only need to enter the correct pay date.  The check is automatically generated, and I print it.  For some reason it was very off, but Jesus slowed me down and helped me.  

I felt very encouraged after those things Tuesday night, and my day didn’t seem long at all anymore.  I am thankful Jesus helped me. 

Cris

 

Pastor John,

On the way to work this morning, I was thinking.  We have the holy Ghost and we’re happy to have it, but to keep it and fully enjoy it takes some work.  There are some that are willing to do the work to enjoy it, and there are some that do not.  The holy Ghost is a precious gift that will make you happy and give you great joy, if you want it.  

Michelle

John,

At one point when you touched Amy B., and she went down, I went down on my floor too! I got touched by the Holy Ghost and couldn’t stop speaking in tongues for about 15 minutes when everyone was getting blessed… it was great to feel that here in my home watching on the Internet, because that doesn’t happen very often. I can’t help but think it was a reward for me sharing my testimony recently with two other young people here in San Francisco who are curious about the truth. I hope God used me to help persuade people away from their mundane Christian groups they’re involved in and they can check out one of these meetings on YouTube sometime and see the joy and the truth and the Love and the tenderness–– And the power of God!

Brad

Hey Pastor John,

I’m so thankful for the touch I got last night.  It was so unexpected, but so needed!  When I got home last night, I was sitting on my stairs telling Jesus how thankful I was.  I asked Him how could I possibly repay Him for all He has done for me. He said, “Live right.”  It was so sweet!  Live right.  He’ll do the rest.

Michelle

Pastor John,

I just finished reading your Blog, “Where is the God of Judgment?”  I think it is excellent.  Those thoughts are just not of this Earth.

At the beginning of your Blog, you quoted a verse from Isaiah, and that verse made me recall something that the Lord started showing me a few weeks ago. The verse is, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil.”

What the Lord was showing me that day was that everything in this entire creation is His; it is all His doing, as Isaiah was declaring in that verse.  This includes the path of disobedience. The path that leads a man away from God’s salvation is just as much the Lord’s creation as the path of obedience that leads to eternal life. If anything exists, He created it.  If there is evil in the world, Jesus created that evil. How else would it get here?

Every single thing that is within this creation came into existence by the expressed will of the Creator, and it exists with boundaries and limitations, starting points and ending points, created by Him alone.  Within these boundaries men have their being. They are permitted to move about, explore and unearth hidden things within God’s created Earth, rearrange and assemble old and new-found materials, tear down those things that they have built, and then start the process all over again – all of this occurring with what appears to be an unfettered freedom.  But it is all being done within the confines of an existence…a creation in which every tiny atom has been created, and its capability measured by the Son, to His exact specification. 

We are all in a box – Jesus’ box. And everything in here with us, the Lord has meticulously created and installed.

If a man chooses to ignore God’s unwavering command that “all men are to repent”, Jesus created that!  The very choice to ignore God is the creation of God. That choice is in the creation “box” with us; otherwise, it could not be done.

If a man chooses murder and hatred over love and thanksgiving and mercy, it is only that Jesus created the possibility of that path of wickedness; otherwise it could not exist.

Nothing that is in this creation is here of its own doing.  If a created-man can think of it, desire it, do it, see it, touch it, hope for it, act on it, etc, Jesus did that!

We have never seen nor experienced, imagined nor desired, nor have we had a single thought that has ever extended outside of God’s predetermined creation for us.  It is not possible.  Man cannot think or perform outside of the creation that contains him.  That is what makes a revelation from God so very precious!

There is a song that we sang together not long ago, while we sat around your basement on a Saturday morning.  It is entitled, “I’m Going That Way”.

The glorious truth is, everything is going that way – His way. 

The way of righteousness is going that way, as well as the way of disobedience and eternal damnation.  No man has ever gone any way that Jesus didn’t first create.  All things are the works of His hands, and nothing escapes His goodness, nor His wrath.

So the question for a man isn’t, “Will he choose God?”  For that has been decided for him.

The question is, “Will he choose the path that God has created that leads to eternal life, or the path that God created that leads to eternal suffering and damnation?

Jerry

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Jerry’s email reminded me of an experience my mother had before she died. 

She was only 67 years old and was diagnosed with cancer.  Judy, me, and others were in the hospital waiting room for news about her cancer surgery.  The Dr. told us that he could do nothing but sew her back up and keep her comfortable. It was a sad day. 

During her surgery, the Lord gave my mother a dream, or a vision, which she couldn’t speak about it for weeks.  She finally called me to talk to me about it.  She told me that everyone on this earth is given a clear square box that contained only so much space. You couldn’t have someone else’s, nor could they have yours.  In it, you could put anything you want, good or bad.  You could rearrange the items in your box, but if you wanted to add something, you had to remove something.  In her box were good and bad things, and mom told me she knew the difference, and she also knew that she could not meet Jesus with the bad things in her box. Mom said she knew love definitely belonged in there. There were things in her box that she had a feeling that they were not good, but really didn’t know why; she only had the feeling of it not being good. 

Mom spent the remaining months that she had left after her surgery working on putting good things in, taking bad things out, and arranging the right things in her box.  Those of us who knew the “before and after surgery” mom knew she worked double time to make sure the things that were in her box pleased God.  God gave her time to get things right before she left here.  After her surgery, and especially at the end of her life on this earth, I felt like God gave me the mother I had when I was growing up as a child . . . full of the Spirit and joy of the Lord. 

I cried just before she died in 2009, during my last visit with her, but afterwards, I never cried again for her.  I miss her tremendously!  I only feel joy and happiness for this great hope (legacy) of pleasing God and living forever with Jesus that she left us all with.  From the moment after her surgery to the day she died, she was working on keeping, arranging, and putting only god things in her box. 

I pray the Lord allows me to see myself honestly and helps me to keep my “box” in order. 

Billy M.