Pastor John,

The message and music last night felt so clean. Where can you go and here such truth and feel these things that God has for his children? What a refuge city we have entered into! God is so good to us!

Billy M

Hi Pastor John,

What an honor to be a partaker of such holy thing! The songs, the preaching, the testimonies! Where else can you find such wonderful heavenly blessings? When you and Donna were singing her new songs, all I could do was set back in my chair and let the words of the song just resonate through my body. “Magnify our King! Let the whole world know there is a king!” I could feel every word of it in my heart, tears flowing down my face for the honor to know he is our king and the privilege to feel his sweet spirit in my soul.

It is not a light thing if we fall in love with what he has done for us. There is no way we can sin if we do. That love of God will not let anything interfere with that sweet fellowship in his spirit. It feels to good, and we will love it too much to even contemplate any wrong thought, much less act on it. I am just so thankful for what he has done for us!

Stuart

Hi Pastor John,

I am so thankful for what God has done for us! He sent his Son so that we could be recreated in this body here on this earth. Without the spirit that his Son purchased for us with his own suffering here in this earthly body, we all would be lost. He did it because he loved us and wanted us to be where he is with his Father, and he knew the only way we could do that was by being re-created and filled with the same spirit he and his Father had.

 
What an honor it is to be a partaker of such heavenly gifts, receiving and being recreated and filled with his spirit! He gave us everything we need to see him face to face one day. It was not just an option, an extra blessing; it was a necessity, and we cannot live holy without it. He sent the spirit to guide us nto all truth and give us the strength to do what He put in our hearts.

 
Too many times I have seen and heard things like, “I wish I would have done this, or I felt like I should have done that” (and I have done it myself), and when we first get the spirit, we do have to learn his voice and sometime we may choose the wrong thing, but we learn from that, not just what was right and wrong, but his voice so that the next time, we will follow the voice and do the right thing no matter what it looks like.

 
I want to honor him by following his voice and keeping my life clean before him. I want to hear his voice and move right away, and not hesitated and wonder and doubt what I am hearing from him. I know I can do that. I know we can do that, by keeping him first in our lives and not letting the things of this world rob us from hearing his voice, or giving in to some pleasure that makes this body feel good for a little while but pollutes the soul.

 
I owe him everything, and I love what he has done for us, and it is in our hearts to do what honors him if we are thankful for what he done for us. I want to keep my ears (my heart) clean and ready and waiting to hear the voice of my Father and his Son.

Stuart

Pastor John,
As I was sitting in traffic I saw this license plate. I couldn’t believe my eyes!
Michelle

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Hi Michelle.

That is only to be expected now. The last presidential election proclaimed to the world that this country has chosen evil over good. Very many people in this country are now proud to be immoral, and they think there is something fundamentally wrong with anyone who is not immoral, especially if that person loves the gospel of the Lord Jesus. As Peter said, “They think it strange that you do not run with them.”

It has been a long time in developing, but as that license plate indicates, this is now the kind of culture we live in. Pray that God will raise up young people to be a light for the generation that is growing up.

Pastor John

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Pastor John,

I am going through some dvd’s I have from 2002, during our “Way of Grace” days. It is so amazing to me that watching these videos from 10 years ago, and hear some of the same things we are talking about now. On the video, the beautiful song “The Way of Grace” is playing and everyone is laid out on the floor. And you say periodically different things the Spirit was saying. You start out by saying “Rest…..Rest. Let him love you for a while…..You rest.” Then you tell a story about you and Uncle Joe painting one day. Here is how the rest of it went:

When I was a little boy, I worked with Uncle Joe painting. He worked for the City School maintenance. I was sitting down and he said, “Here, let me paint a stretch while you’re resting.” But I wasn’t resting. He took the paintbrush out of my hand and made me rest. Let Jesus have your paintbrush! Don’t even think about it. Let him take it!….
Then you quoted a few scriptures: “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures”, “Casting all your care upon him because he careth for you”, “He leadeth me beside still waters.” and then the last thing you said was, “This (the rest) comes with authority.”
He really does mean “rest” and we really do have to learn how to do that. I love how God continues to show us things until we get it! 8) He is very patient.

Hi John,

Still basking in the feelings of the meeting today. I was reading a little in Isaiah tonight, and I found this verse:

Isa 11:10 “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.”

In consideration of the “rest” we felt today, and even tonight listening to Donna’s song around the fire, because of JESUS, our rest truly is glorious.

We don’t even have to think. It’s who He is.

Gary

Good morning, Pastor John:

I had a very short dream just before Vince and Amy came to stay with us. In the dream, I was outside doing my daily routines when I felt the presence of the Lord, and I stopped and said with all of being,”Lord, I love you with my whole heart.” At that moment, I heard a very pretty voice singing, “Come to Jesus, Come to Jesus, Come to Je ee sus, right now”. My eyes popped opened wide on the word, now.

It was a little after 5:00 am, and I started to walk through the garage to my music room. With each step I felt the Spirit. I sat in my chair in my music room and said, “Here I am, Jesus.” I didn’t know what to do, but just sat there and started talking to Jesus in a normal voice. I started telling Jesus how I felt; my frustrations, my fears, my loves, my desires, etc. As I was talking softly with the Lord, the power of God filled the music room, and I started speaking with tongues. It was so strong that I fell on my hands and knees on the floor, praising God. I was crying very hard and praising God when I heard three words, ” I took it”, then as soon as the Spirit fell, it was gone. The tongues stopped, the crying stopped, the praising God stopped.

I rose up, still kneeling with my hands on my lap. It was so quiet and peaceful that you could hear the silence. I pondered, “What just happened?” My mind went back to your testimony of how you killed that gnat on the wall with your finger, and God telling you, “That’s about the size of the spirit that you’ve been wrestling with for three days.” I told myself, “It’s gone.” Whatever “it” was that I have been struggling with was now gone; Jesus took the “it”. I don’t know what the “it” was, but God knows. There was nothing left for me to do but clean myself up. As I was wiping my tears and stood up, I said, “Well, let’s go to work.” I took a shower, got dressed, and signed in to start taking phone calls for my work.

The contentment and peace I feel now just goes without saying. This has been the best most peaceful Christmas that I have ever had. I love peace. The best Christmas present that I ever had was having Vince and Amy stay with us. We felt so honored to hear their testimony in full of how God put them together. It was no small thing, watching tears flow from Rebekah E. and seeing the happy expressions on the C… girl’s faces. We all were wiping tears at one time or another. God knows all of our, “its”.

God is so kind and good,

Billy