Pastor John,

For most of Sunday’s meeting I had a terrible stabbing pain in my right knee. Amanda told her testimony how Jesus gave her comfort from her rough week. And Brother Tom talked how Jesus knows our cry, like we know the different cries of our children.

Brother Earl talked about praying for others, is when he got his best blessings from Jesus. I also remember you talking about staying on the right path with Jesus, and if you feel something is wrong that your not sure where Jesus is then back the truck up and ask Jesus to help you get back on the right path. Then I am remembering Darren and Gary singing Stand By Me. That song blessed me so deep when it says, “Don’t you know how much I love you? Don’t you know I’m everything? So stand by me.” Then you began to talk about the body and some of us having back or knee pain. Just over all us needing healing from Jesus.

Then someone came up for prayer and in not too long of time the whole body was standing around the meeting room, while you were praying for different ones. When you said Jesus heal us, it got my attention. I was sitting in my chair in my home looking at everyone getting prayed for. I could not stand because of the pain in my knee. All of the sudden I heard Jesus tell me just get on my hands and knees in front of the computer and to put my head on the computer. Then He said, “You pray for the body at Pastor John’s house, don’t pray for your knee.” So without delay I obeyed Jesus and did exactly as He said for me to do. As I was on the floor I started praying for Jesus to heal us, heal my family, touch each of them, you can do it Jesus. After a few minutes of praying I felt a gentle peace come over me. Then I noticed the pain in my knee was completely gone. When everyone was done praying, I had to write in the comment box on Justin TV and tell that Jesus just took my pain in my right knee, while we were all praying.

Well we went to Huber’s Farm after the meeting and I walked around that whole farm pain free. And now it is Tuesday and my knee still feels great. PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!

One thing Jesus said to me after healing my knee was to always be available and obey Him, if He calls to us too do whatever He will ask of us. Because we have all prayed for Jesus to heal something at different times in our walk with Him, rather its a bad week at work or a pain somewhere on our physical body. We don’t know when He will show up and just say a pray for your family don’t pray for yourself, and who knows what Jesus will do.

He is saying just live right and be available and obey Him in everyday because today could be the day He will heal something you prayed for long ago.

T. 🙂

(Michelle has been listening to Pastor John’s Old Testament classes on CD, recently completing Pastor John’s telling of the story of Joseph)

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Pastor John
The more I learn about the OT the more I feel whenever I ask Jesus to give me a heart like His. The love and mercy is overwhelming. I just feel so much right now there are no words.

Michelle

Morning Bro. John!

I love waking up to the words of the Lord and instruction for my life from the Spirit. I awoke this morning with this sweet truth:

“You have to listen to be saved . . . . and you have to obey what you hear.”

It reminded me of the first time I heard the Lord’s voice directing me to Romans 6:13 for instruction for my sinful life at that time. As I read, it was laid out there before my eyes what I needed to do to be saved. Would I continue to be a servant of unrighteousness unto sin or become a servant of righteousness unto God? Did I want death or Life? I thank God, Bro. John, that He put it into my heart to consider the two paths shown to me and where they would lead. He knows exactly what we need. Today, I can read the following verse in Romans and praise Him, knowing that it is true only because of the mercy and love of God sent down to me 25 years ago:

“But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.”

To just have read the verses in Romans that day and put it aside would not have done anything for my life. I would have continued in sin. I had to listen to the words of the Lord, and I had to obey the instruction that was there. To continue on the Path of Righteousness, the same instruction the Lord sent through Romans then, still applies today. To continue on the Path of Righteousness and be saved, I have to listen and obey the words of the Lord delivered to my heart each day.

I am so thankful He is still speaking to us through His Spirit, still giving instruction and guidance for our lives. Everyday obedience to the words of the Lord will lead us to our salvation. He loves us and will keep us to the end if we listen and obey.

It is a very good day when you can start it with instruction from the Lord wrapped around your heart. What a good life we have!

Sandy 🙂

John,

I wanted to let you know what has been going on since last Wednesday, and what God has been teaching me.

After I went up for prayer last Wednesday night, my legs felt so good. I was amazed by the touch that I got. I would stand up, sit down, and feel nothing, no pain or blood rushing down my legs. I was so happy! Well, as days went on, the pain started coming back and that “rushing feeling” would come back every time I would change positions. I started to feel discouraged because I knew that God had touched my legs. Every time I would feel something, I would remind God of what He had done on Wednesday night. I started to wonder what God wanted me to learn. As the week has gone on though, slowly, I think that I was getting a sour attitude. Last night, I was going up the stairs and I said something like, “My stinky ol’ legs” because I was feeling discouraged. After I said it though I thought, “Oh, I probably shouldn’t have said that.” I went to bed doing an “attitude check.” In the night I got up to check on David, and I heard the Spirit say, “At least you have two legs.” This morning, I felt very thankful. I’m not on bed rest, I can zip around here and there, and I can take care of my family. This is not a life long problem; some people have life long afflictions. I will be happy and thankful and let the Lord take it from there, whatever He wants for me. I’m not going to keep wondering, what is He going to do…? Heal me or not heal my leg? In the mean time, I’ll just praise Him and be thankful for what He has done. That kind of attitude feels much better!

Carrie
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Thanks, Carrie. We are very blessed, and we want to remember how blessed we are even when we face with some problems. I am glad you heard from Jesus. Stick with that, no matter what!

jdc

Pastor John

I just wanted to real quick tell you how much I LOVE listening to you! I LOVE what you teach. Everything is good. I love it. I feel very grateful that God has done what he has for me. And I am so glad God has kept me. I’m all teared up now! I have had the week off, and spent a lot of time listening to CD’s, whether I am around just pottering around, or out walking, or driving somewhere. I have loved it. I hope all is well with you.
Jenny

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Hi Jenny,

I am thankful that you have been blessed listening to the CDs of our meetings and of the music that God has given to some of the gifted folk here. God has been very merciful to us. I feel very blessed to be a part of the little body of saints that meets in my house, and someday, we will get to meet all of God’s children in land where we will never know anything but peace. Isn’t that great? Let’s stay faithful to Jesus so that we will be counted worthy to be there!

Pastor John

Hi Pastor John,

The Lord gave me some thoughts this morning. “If someone is trying to live life as a homosexual, their whole life is a lie.”

It is against the nature of a man or a woman to be a homosexual.

But then he gave me this: “If someone [among God’s children] is trying to live life as a Christian, their whole life is a lie”

It is against the nature of God to be a Christian.

I know we know all this, but it came so clear to me this morning that I just wanted to share how good it felt to know and believe what God has taught us, through his nature that he has given us.

We don’t have to believe a lie about anything or anybody.

Stuart

Hey John,

Judging by the pictures you’ve posted, looks like you’re having a wonderful time with Vince and Amy. I was listening to the, Bruised Reed cd from 2008, and you were talking about the Father and Son book is 90 pages, and it keeps expanding. You said something like, “I’d like to get it (from God) and give it to you.” Brother Glen said, “I would like to have it”. Little did we know how wonderful it would get . . .getting.

I sat there and laughed with everyone on the cd and thought how brother Glen (and ALL others gone on) know Jesus is sitting beside His Father in power and majesty as He had done before creation, and that creation didn’t fall apart while Jesus was here on this earth. Creation did what it was created to do. It makes me happy to know that.

I guess brother Glenn beat us to the end of your book. I bet he could tell us a thing or two, especially about the joys of the Lord.

Hey to all there!

billy

Hello there, pastor John.

Interesting little moment with Jesus yesterday….. 

I have, admittedly, been swept up a little too often by the political issues being bandied about on FB and in the newspaper everyday. America is dissolving right before our eyes at an alarming rate, both morally and socially and politically. It’s way too much for anybody to make sense of…. the controversy, the snide rhetorical spins on everything, the unsettling similarities between both parties and the starkly polarized opinions as well. I can’t imagine anybody voting with a clear conscience when so much evil is accompanied by so little good. It’s a farce. A pathetic farce.

Well, my mind ought not to be fretful of such things, but stayed on the One who shows us the eternal perspective. And I received some gentle correction yesterday, straight from the Lord, when my flesh began to drift into a fantasy scenario. . .

I saw a bumper sticker that was simply an = (equal) sign. I knew instantly what it meant: Marriage Equality.
I cringed. Feelings of repulsion. Anger. No. . . Indignation.
In my mind I began to imagine myself taking a big fat black marker and crossing out that equal sign on their car. As if that would be the righteous thing to do!

Then, I think the Spirit spoke to me and said, “What if someone did that to your “Say Yes to Jesus” bumper sticker, because it provoked anger in them?

Then, I felt/realized that my impulse would be a crime; defacing someone else’s property; it wold be a hate crime, not a righteous one; a sin.

Then, instantly, the Spirit spoke again:
“You cannot control this world. You are not a part of it. It is none of your business… Be about your Father’s business, and retreat from this world’s strife.
Rest in me.”

Wow.

(Thanks. I needed that.)

Brad
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Yes, Brad. The temptation is to do something about the symptoms of the disease, such as placards and bumper stickers. But faith will wait for Jesus to come, and pray for our enemies and those “who oppose themselves”.

Pastor John