Pastor John,

On our daily lesson plan for school, I always leave a section titled “Bible”.  I leave it blank unless the Lord gives me something in particular to talk about with the kids ahead of time.  Sometimes, it stays blank.  I love not feeling “obligated” to have something written down.  Most of the time, though, at the end of our day, I can go back and fill in something that we discussed.  It is always unexpected, and I usually never remember how we got there.

Today was so sweet. We wound up talking about how Jesus gives us pleasures in this life, whatever it is that you like, just so that we can understand what “pleasures forevermore” means–just to get the idea.  We talked about loving peace and how this flesh doesn’t, but Jesus does.  We talked about the waterfall and the little bird sitting peacefully by it.  We talked about whether we wanted to be like the waterfall or the bird.   If we don’t love peace, we’ll have that, forever.  If we love peace, we’ll have that, forever. 

Then we talked about if we do make it there, where there are “pleasures forevermore”, how we’ll see the people that we love who have gone on before us and made it there.  I’m excited to hope to see my grandma again.  I look forward to seeing Preacher Clark and Uncle Joe.  It brings tears to my eyes to think of meeting King David.  I have fellowship with him.  That brought up the whole story of David, Bathsheba and Uriah.  It was so good having the kids put themselves into the story.  Would they have forgiven David?  Would they have been happy Absalom was dead?  After that, David spent the rest of his life teaching Solomon what he had learned.  It was a wonderful lesson for all of us in the mercy and love of God.  What sweet, sweet feelings from Jesus this morning!  I love it when he does that.  My mouth just waters.

Last night was wonderful, and Jesus gave me something unexpected again today to put in my “Bible” section. 🙂

Cris

 

 

Hi Pastor John,

I’m sitting here looking at God’s beauty of the sunrise, but what we heard last night is beyond words, as you were teaching us.  What love from the Father to create a place for us, together, so that we could relate and be shown the Son.

God sends food to the shepherd for his sheep.   All you have to do is eat when the food is given.

Wonderful food last night. I’m glad we got to eat it together.

Billy M.

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Pastor John, 

Last night, through the streaming video, I felt like something heavenly drew near.

I had to start it over to watch the beginning, once it finished streaming live, but I was able to see it all. When I turned it on, it was 8:20pm and by 8:22, I and the room I was standing in, felt full!  It was so wonderful, and unexpected. I felt saturated. 

In your message, I felt like every sincere heart everywhere had their questions answered and every form of confusion made clear. That message was power, and it was able to subdue everything that wasn’t Jesus, everywhere, if taken in. It was the Answer!  I hope there is a way to persuade God’s children to listen to this, once it is available on the websites. 

Beth and I were discussing, this evening, what we each experienced from the gathering of the Saints last night.  We spoke of the power that we could feel and the value and clarity of your message. 

Thank you brother John 🙂

Jerry

 

 

Stuart:

Thank you God!! Thank you God!! Thank you God!!! Thank you Jesus!!! Life!!!!!

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Beth:

I feel so at peace and content and full tonight. I am so thankful for our life. I am thankful Jesus let me love the truth. Good night Pastor John ⭐

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Natalie:

Bro John, tonight was a cleansing of our souls. Your love for the truth that overflows and stirs up our love that is in our life that Jesus has given us. It sets us free from this flesh that is a war with the spirit. I felt like Jesus was calling us out to a place of liberty, saying LIVE in the HG I have given you. Gods message was so simple. God help me to take it in to the fullest! I thank Jesus for loving us this much!!! Yay!!!

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Cris:

Goodnight!~from this stupid, helpless, hairy sheep 🐑😊

 

I am very thankful for the touch I received Saturday night (Feb. 20, 2016).  I was at home, sitting in a chair with a blanket and pillow, eyes closed and listening to the testimonies, and the songs, and the praying.  It felt like I was someplace else, wrapped up in my blanket, floating along. I could feel it when the tightness and congestion left my chest.  It felt so good!

Also, my right shoulder has not had much pain for a few days now. That is wonderful!  I have had pain in the right shoulder over 6 months now, and the past 2 months have been so bad the pain would wake me at night, and I’ve not been able to use the right side.  I
still don’t have normal strength or good range of motion, but the lack of pain is wonderful.  Constant pain is so wearisome, and a lack of it has made me feel better all over.

I am very thankful, and thank Jesus for the touch, and thankful for
the prayers.  Jesus is still a healer and our friend.

Love,

Debbie T

 

Pastor John,

I feel like Jesus gave me some strength today through the songs, testimonies, and the teaching in 1Corinthians and Jude.  I am grateful for feeling the power of God wash over me today!

Bess

Hi Pastor John!

I was listening to a CD from December and had such a sweet day with Jesus.

As I sat listening, I thought about how much I like your voice.  Many times just the sound of your voice will move my heart.  I asked Jesus why that is, and I got a very quick response.  “My sheep know my voice.”  I always thought of that differently, but you are His voice for us.  It was really sweet to feel that today.

Another sweet moment today is as I was driving home today,  I was kind of daydreaming and I thought about morning sickness.  I have no idea why just an OUT OF NO WHERE kind of thought.  I started thinking about Abby and how beautiful she looked in a photo on Facebook.  She was just glowing.  I thought, “That’s because she has life inside of her, Lord.”  The spirit said, “just like my children glow with my life in them.”  I know I have said this before, but I have to say it again.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE how everything is a shadow of Heaven, an echo of Jesus .  It stirs my soul every time Jesus lets me see a little bit.  When I first saw Uncle Joe on the PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE video, I asked Jerry why he had makeup on?  Jerry said “He doesn’t.  Jesus just makes you shiny.”  Ever since that moment, I have wanted to be shiny.  It is a prayer of mine to be shiny in Jesus. 

I love our life.  

Beth

 

 

Hi John,

I love us 🙂 God has been so good to us!  It’s like Gary sang: “the holy ghost burst out”. So sweet!  What a joy to have someone like brother Earl in our life, full of the holy ghost and loves it. I loved Token’s testimony and her sweet dream of flying with Jesus 🙂  

Amen!  Having on the whole armor of God is the only way to fly!!  Such a wonderful set of scenes!  Thank you Token.  Wow, that was so good about brother Coy wanting to learn, so real and earnest.  God help us want to learn always!!  If we stop learning, we will end up lost and wondering what happened, and say as many now do, “It use to be.” – lost without him!

I am so thankful that I want to be here and that I love being here.  John, I loved what you said about wanting to be around people who love telling and talking about the God they love.  It is why I am setting at your doorstep most mornings before you get up when I am in town 🙂  – I know – you’re  waiting on me some times 🙂  I can’t wait to hear about what God has done for us, and to be around people who love what God has done for them.  

Wonderful reading tonight in the Gospel of John!  Wow!  So good!  Thank you, John, for feeding us!!  God help us take it in.

Stuart

Thank you for all the good food you serve to us.  I just finished reading the Excerpt of the Day from the Father and Son book, and then the Pearl that just came out.  We have so much good food!   I just wanted to say “thank you!”  and eat it all up, yum, yum, yum!

Donna N

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Thank you and Rob for eating it, Donna! I don’t prepare the food, though; the Father does that.  I just serve it (after I eat some!)  The Father must enjoy watching His children eat what He prepares – any chef would! – so, let’s keep making Him happy!

Pastor John

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Hi John,

Donna N’s email reminds me of some thoughts I was having a few days ago.  I was reading the first chapter of Mark. After Jesus called his disciples he went to the synagogue to teach. When I read verse 22, “and they were astonished at his teaching”, I stopped and thought about it for a while. I asked myself, why were they astonished?

The men there at the synagogue knew the scriptures. They most likely had expectations of what they would hear from Jesus before he began to teach. They probably thought that they had heard it all before, but many left “astonished at his teaching.”

As we all know, there is something different about the word of God when we hear it. It cuts deep into our souls, many times beyond our understanding at first. 

I have heard you talk about great orators, those who can speak eloquently by crafting their words into persuasive speeches.  While in college, I used to enjoy good lectures. Some could stimulate my brain and emotions. Some may even have persuaded me to change my behavior or perception on a few things.

But, when I heard the word of God spoken, it did something to me that went beyond my understanding and emotion.  It cut deep into my soul and awakened my spirit.  It stirred up an appetite for more.  As an example, when I first heard that water baptism was not needed, I did not understand it. However, I could feel that there was something more to it than what my ears were hearing.  The feelings that came with that simple truth were enough to cause me to put the lack of understanding on the shelf.  I believed that in time Jesus would give me the understanding, and he did!

When I was in Christianity, every Sunday a priest would read from a prayer book, or read scriptures that were selected for that specific date or feast day, followed by a brief sermon. It did nothing for my hungry soul.

One time a young priest stood up, walked away from the pulpit and came down close to the crowd, of maybe a 100 people. He then asked the congregation, “Have you ever wondered why some protestant Christians stand on the street corner and preach about Jesus!  They have a zeal that we need.”  He more or less went on to say that these street preachers have deep convictions and a personal relationship with Jesus.  When he finished, I stood up and clapped.  I could feel his sincerity and hunger for more of God.   He later quit and fell into homosexuality.

I love the word of God.   I appreciate you passing on to us the spiritual food that you receive from Jesus.  I am thankful for the desire and liberty that he has given us to take it in.

“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God” 1 Cor. 2:4-5

Tom

 

Morning Pastor John,

I had a quiet moment with Jesus just now.  I was thinking about the neighbor’s cat that we occasionally let in.  How he is getting more comfortable here, trying out different spots in the house.  The cat started out timid and thankful for a little spot on the floor.  He hardly moved from that spot except to eat or drink. As I was fixing my coffee and thinking about that, Jesus said “everything of this world will get more comfortable if it hangs around long enough”.  Bad spirits, bad children, bad behaviors etc.

That is what I am having for breakfast this morning.

Beth

 

Good morning,

Cris’ chorus that she woke up with reminds me of the past couple of nights.  I’ve been reading the Malachi book, and he chorus reminds me of how it makes me feel to have the truth – I love that we have good, common sense holy doctrine, like in the Malachi book.  It’s just good – in the true sense of the word.  Thank you for teaching it, and for staying faithful to it.

Jenny

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I woke up with this chorus from Saturday night playing in my heart & head. Very thankful!

“Oh Lord we’re thankful. So thankful.
We’re thankful, Lord, for what you’ve done.
Thankful you’ve revealed your Son.
We’re thankful, so thankful.
And we praise you cause we’re thankful, Lord.”

Cris