Pastor John,

Today Jesus and I spent the whole day together. It was one of those days where Jesus stayed with me and continued to teach me. I want to share one thing Jesus taught me today.

I put the 11/20/2016 meeting CD in as soon as I got into the car this morning. I was really enjoying the CD. Well, when brother Gary’s song, “I just had to raise my hands and praise the Lord” came on, I felt the Spirit fill the car. I listened to that song over and over. I felt so full. I felt flooded with thoughts of how beautiful the truth is. How much love God has shown to us, to lovingly pick each of us up and place us here, to learn and grow, just to get closer to Him!

As I pulled up to go to work, I did not want my time with Jesus to end. I felt him so strongly there with me that I couldn’t pull myself away. It was such a longing to stay with Jesus and to feel those feelings with him. I said, “Lord, I want to stay in this place with you forever!” This was what Jesus taught me when I said that.

There will be a day when we never have to leave that place with Jesus. We will never have to stop, never be interrupted or distracted from praising him. We will be saturated with those feelings eternally. An eternal fellowship with the Lord. This we feel now really is just a foretaste of what is to come. What a beautiful gift from the Lord!

Beth

Pastor John,

Wednesday night was so good to my soul.  I absolutely loved hearing you preach and teach the New Birth while going through 1John.  It is so simple, even a fool need not err.  It’s just like you said Wednesday.  God says “If you are thirsty, drink!”

I love the truth.  It is more precious than our very lives.  I just love it!  What peace and comfort and healing it does bring to my soul!

Thank you for the wonderful food and encouragement.

Donna

Pastor John, 

I always have loved Brother Branham’s humility.  I was young and in my twenties and listening to one of his tapes, “Faith is the Sixth Sense”.  I had scheduled a knee operation (torn MCL), and I was sitting in my rented house in the living room, listening to this tape and eating some supper (Judy was working at K-Mart), when the power of God touched me.   I started crying and feeling the power and the love of God running through my body.  I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror while Brother Branham was still preaching that Faith is a sixth sense.  I was very young in the Lord, but I believed what he was saying.  I knew without a doubt that God was healing my knee.

Later, I noticed my knee didn’t hurt, but was only sore.  Later still, right before the surgery, I noticed I didn’t have any pain at all.  I called the Doctor’s office and told them to cancel the surgery.  When the receptionist asked my why (?), I told her my whole testimony what God had done while eating my dinner that day.  I wasn’t thinking about my torn MCL at that time . . .but God.

I know that these types of touches create God-like faith to put our trust in Him.

I love, love!  Especially, the love of God!

Billy M

Here is that sermon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RdabdSpazg

Praise God John!

God already knows everything that has been done under the sun, and he is looking for the ones who want to be above the sun of this earth – the ones he has called and drawn to his Son to have life and have it more abundantly, the life that is not from this world, the life that this world knows nothing about!!   Not even the angels and other creatures in heaven have been granted to taste of this life.

Whew!  That is really something to take in!!  What does that say about how the Father and the Son feel about the new creature he has made of us by his sweet holy Ghost!! My, my!  Wow!  How wonderful the testimonies were Sunday morning and the songs that were sung.

Stuart

Hey John,

What life in the gatherings this weekend!  I cannot get over it! Sunday morning, you said, “Here is something you need to know: no angels are like God!!”  That was and is a brand new thought!  So Good!  But the SON is like God.  You said that the SON loves to make someone like GOD, that it excites him to make someone like GOD.  He is not interested in your failures, just in making us like his Father!!

I am thankful to be able to hear such words of Life!!  The testimonies, the  translation of 1John, and Songs!!  This is living.

Thank YOU.

Jr.

Pastor John,  

You pointed out something this morning that really stayed with me. You made it clear why Jesus had to come here and die to purchase the holy Ghost for us. The reason was this: Obeying rules perfectly, even rules God gave (such as the law), is not enough.  Satan obeyed to the letter what God told him to do before he was cast out of heaven, and he was a mess, in his soul.   Rather, we must be like God, where our obedience is really nothing more than our nature.

It makes me think, even the seas obeyed the word of the Lord when He commanded them to be still. The trees and the grass yield themselves to him every time the wind blows. Raindrops fall upon his command.  All things in nature obey God, and yet, none of these things are holy.  None of them will reign with the Son of God because none of them have been made like God by the Spirit.

One last thought.  It is always so, that after we have done all that we can do, it is what God does that makes the difference.

Jerry

Hi Pastor John!

I had a sweet touch from Jesus today.

I have been praying a lot about having a positive attitude, the kind of attitude Jesus expects me to have and the kind of attitude I want to have.  Well, today I went to an inspection and worked with the nicest man.  His name is Anthony.  I have met Anthony before.  Anthony is probably 50 years old.  He is a black gentleman who does all the detailing work on the rental cars.  It was chilly this morning and Anthony was washing cars outside in the parking lot.  As I inspected the vehicles, I noticed how very clean they were.  It really stood out to me what a great job Anthony had done.  When I finished, Anthony nervously asked me if I found anything wrong with the interiors of the cars.  I told him that the cars looked great and what a great job he had done.  Anthony lit up.  He said, “I try to do my very best, cleaning these cars.  I need this job. Every morning, I get  up and thank the Lord for letting me have this job because so many people don’t have one”.  

After I left the lot, I felt so good.  I asked Jesus to bless Anthony and thanked him for letting me see him today.  I said, “Lord, I love Anthony’s attitude.  That is the attitude I want ALL the time”.

I love that Jesus will encourage us when we are praying for something good, something Jesus wants us to be or to have.  Jesus giving me that encouragement today was him showing up again!  That really hit me today.  It did something to my heart.

Beth

Pastor John,  

There were so many good things tonight, but a couple of things just stayed with me.

(1) Tom was talking about reading the apostle Paul’s story last week. The story of apostle Paul being on a ship that was in distress, and of Paul telling the man in charge, “an angel told me that if you will stay on this distressed ship, you will be alright, because God has told me that I am going to Rome.” (and that ship was taking him, and subsequently…everyone else that stayed aboard!)

Tom pointed out that neither snake bite, not hurricane, nor any thing would keep Paul from Rome to address Caesar.

Tom then pointed out that the will of God was working the same way throughout his entire life.  And that neither the sin of his youth, nor any religion, nor any other thing would have kept Tom from his appointed place here with this body of Christ because that was where God wanted him to be.

That was wonderful!

The Spirit then told me here at home, while streaming live through the computer, that the “Truth” is just like that ship that the apostle Paul was riding on to Rome. The truth – the Spirit of Truth that we have been given – is on its way home to the Father, where it came from.  Nothing will stop that.  And if we will stay in this truth, we shall go home with it!

Nothing will stop that!  We must just stay aboard the ship.  We don’t even have to steer.  I love that!

(2)  I believe it was after Leah’s sincere testimony about still being here with the saints, after so many of God’s people have left and went a different way.  You then exclaimed, “God’s testimonies make these meetings worth having!”

That is so good pastor John!  I love the absence of superstition, and the absence of the influence of Christianity in that statement.  You were implying in that statement that the meetings of the saints that we have can be worthless if the Lord isn’t working among us in them!  That is golden.  A spiritless pastor could never say that something his congregation was doing could possibly be worthless because it would invite his congregation to examine everything among them, and everything among their work, as to whether the Lord was in it.

It would draw a line in the sand, it would indicate that there truly was a difference between God’s work and man’s.  And to look for it! So, Christianity just rejoices in everything!  That keeps everyone sufficiently confused while shining as little light as possible on what is real, or what is not.

(3) oh, one more…. what Token was talking about tonight 🙂  In summary, that God’s children are to be “Wise as Serpents…and harmless as doves”. That means so much!  How many times are God’s children misunderstood by those in this world, and by some in the body of Christ as well, as they endure quietly the sufferings heaped upon them by others.  An obedient saint of God will be accused of everything except being the wise individual that Jesus has made them.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. I wonder if knowing that you can judge nothing by its appearance is near a close second?

I loved tonight.  Thank you.  Thank you for your prayers.  I would have been there, but I’m awfully sick right now.

Jerry