Good morning John,

I had a really neat experience this morning.

When I was about 12 years old, I had a motorcycle wreck, and I broke the tip of my ring finger on my left hand and two of my toes. Ever since then , my fingernail has grown a little crooked, but otherwise has been fine. In the last year or so, it has started acting up, aching and feeling tender at times, and whenever I would bump it on something, it would throb with pain for several minutes. Well, this morning I was getting ready for work and making the bed, and I hit that finger on the back of the bed, and it started throbbing with pain. I asked Jesus if he would touch my finger and take the pain away and the achiness that I’d been having in the finger. As I was talking to the Lord and looking at my finger, the pain instantly disappeared! It was like the pain just “popped” right out of it, and it has felt just fine since then.

So then, I came into work and was doing some work in the lab, and when I started unscrewing a cap from a bottle, I remembered that I had also been having some pain in the muscle/tendon between my left thumb and forefinger (on the same hand as the finger that Jesus had just touched a little earlier). I could feel the pain and the weakness in my thumb that sometimes makes it difficult to grasp things tightly with that hand. So, I started praying again, and I thought, “Lord, you just touched my finger . I know you can do the same thing with my thumb if you want to.” And he did! I started bending my thumb back & forth, and grabbing objects on my bench, and there was no pain or discomfort, and the normal strength in my hand was there.

Vince

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Very thankful for the way the Lord is encouraging us lately to believe in his power to heal.  He has done so much for us, and he keeps doing it!

jdc

Hey Pastor John!

The meetings this past weekend were so good ​!​ I love when you preach​,​ and ​I feel like ​I am being stirred up down deep in ​my soul. After the meetings​,​ I came home and began asking the Lord to check me. I started praying and I asked the Lord to help me, to clean me and make me pure ​, to help me ​occupy in my place and to help the body. I wasn’t sure what to pray and what to ask for I needed the Lord to help me. After that I started reading in Psalms 19. It was so good, I loved this.

​Psalm ​19:

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.”

I felt like the Lord was helping me pray. Showing me what to pray for, what to desire so that I may be acceptable in His sight. It felt good, clean and holy. I love the hope in Jesus. That He hears us and helps us.

Michelle

Pastor John,

Our translation ​of the Old and New Testament books has a link to it on this web site.  Look under ‘G’.

http://www.biblereadersmuseum.com/BibleLink6.html

djc

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Thanks for the notice, Damien.

Pastor John

Sunday after the meeting, I got a message that one of my friends that I use to go to church with had passed away.  Her name was Kathy.  She was about 8 years older than I, and we used to sit beside each other when I went to church.  She was a sweet lady.   She had diabetes, and as she was driving, her blood sugar level went over 400 and she blacked out and wrecked her car.  She was in the hospital and had some other issues, and developed a blood clot that killed her.

Kathy never went to the doctor for help with her diabetes.  The church didn’t believe in doing that.  It is so sad, God’s people are in a mess!  Suffering and dying when they don’t have too.

I was there once, Pastor John.  For a long time, I didn’t go to a doctor.  Instead, I would stay home and suffer, thinking I was doing the will of God.  My heart goes out to Kathy’s family and the rest of God’s children who think they are doing the will of God when they are not.  At the same time, I’m so thankful that Jesus rescued me from that.  Thankful does not even come close to how I feel.  I don’t know what we would do without His tender mercy. 

Michelle H

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Hi Michelle.

These kinds of stories remind me of the lament of God through the prophet Hosea:  “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”

He was not happy when He said that; He was hurting.

Pastor John

John,

Okay, these are just too good!  These statements are  comments that Preacher Clark made in a sermon in the 1970’s.

“You don’t even have a chance [of being right with God] if you’re not persecuted.  Paul said, ‘If any man [or a woman, either one] will live godly in Christ Jesus he shall suffer persecution.’  If your preacher is not being persecuted, he can’t be living right.”

And then, this was touching from Preacher Clark to you, John:

“John, the further you go, the more hatred is going to come your way, when you stand for the truth and you’re able to compete intellectually with the world.  That’s the greatest thing yet – being able to compete with the world on their own ground and still uphold the truth.”

Amen!

Amy B

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Thanks, Amy.  One thing we can say for sure – Preacher Clark was right about the hatred that has come our way simply because Jesus has enabled us to communicate the truth; still, I am thankful for the grace to be his servant!

jdc

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Hey! 🙂

I loved last night’s meeting. I have a neat story about it. This week, I loaded some CDs on my computer – Thanksgiving Live being one of them. Yesterday, while I was working, the song The Lord is a Refuge came on. I hadn’t heard it in a long time. It felt so good, I just sat there and enjoyed it! It was so good when we sat down for the meeting last night and you started singing THAT song! I love it when that happens.

As I was listening to that song, it was stirring up memories for me also – mainly when we were recording it in your office in 2001, the Spirit came on me and I could not stop my feet. I knew we were recording, but my feet would not stop walking, so I walked around and around enjoying what was happening. I could hear myself on the cd saying “I can’t stop my feet!” I remember the feelings that I felt of “you can run to Jesus. And you don’t have to stop. Just run to him” he was it! And just the “name of The Lord” His name was so wonderful. I just wanted to say it over and over again…… So, at the end of the song I just couldn’t help it, you were talking and in the background I started saying that name J-E-S-U-S and then he gave us an impromptu song about him! And his wonderful name J-E-S-U-S. That was really a wonderful experience.

I still remember those feelings that day. Jesus was doing wonderful things for us during that time and I remember on the way home from work that Wednesday before everyone arrived for Thanksgiving praying in my car to be available for whatever Jesus wanted and a feeling
washed over my whole body. I am so thankful I was available! What a wonderful blessing that was.

So, needless to say, The Lord is a Refuge for Me holds sweet memories.  I love that song! It was good hearing it last night.

Amy B

Hi,

I’ve been listening to a sermon from 1992.  It is so good!  You were preaching that a good indication of someone’s heart is when they hear the truth, they love it!  The truth cuts no corners with you. 

“The real truth of God doesn’t just come to tickle your ears and to please you; it comes to save you.  If you really love the truth when it is told, you really want to be saved.”

I never quite thought about it like this before, how, if anyone tells you something that is sent from God, that is the truth of God for you.  I always in my mind just related the truth to be doctrine or the baptism.  The truth of God is much, much more than just that! Praise God!  I can feel that!  The real truth of God is what He is saying to us today.

Paul

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That is right, Paul.  As I have said before, the only truth that exists is what God is saying right now.  That is why we need fellowship with Him; we need to know what He is saying right now.  Otherwise, we are in the dark, no matter what we think we know.

Pastor John