Hi Pastor John

Since last weekend, I’ve been thinking about how much I’ve learned and am still learning. The Lord has had such mercy on me, and as I’ve been writing these things, it really makes me see how blessed I am. These are the thoughts I had, day and night. Sometimes as I was falling asleep, I would think of something and write it down.

1. The importance of tithes/offerings.
2. My name was written in the Lamb’s book of life before time began.
3. One receives the holy Ghost with “stammering lip” and “other tongues”.
4. Don’t speed.
5. Leave something with people you see- even if it’s just a smile.
6. It’s ok to be happy, laugh and be free in the spirit.
7. We are different from the world because of the spirit that dwells within us- not our outward appearance or ceremonies.
8. The holy Ghost will dwell in an unclean temple………….God is merciful.
9. I can trust the love of God and the love of God in my brothers and sisters.
10. You can have a perfect heart and make mistakes.
11. Traditions bind God’s people
12. The truth will indeed set you free.
13. When God puts two people together, it’s a beautiful thing.
14. There is perfect order in God’s ways.
15. You can feel safe in your Pastor’s hands.
16. It’s ok to ask questions.
17. You must be able to stand naked before you can have perfect fellowship.
18. When you fall, God wants you to learn, get up, and keep moving forward.
19. Jesus’ sacrifice was IT!
20. Jesus is IT!
21. We are human. Everyone of us has battles.
22. The meanings of different doctrines I’ve heard through out the years.
23. If you know the truth, all the counterfeits doesn’t matter.
24. Spiritual authority.
25. The devil has no control over my life.
26. God has every bit of control over my life.
27. The love of God is so deep, my human brain cannot comprehend – but it’s exciting trying to find out!
28. What God gives us is for people not against them.
29. Benjamin Franklin (not the Bible) said “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”. (Funny, I always heard this, but never knew who said it….duh.)
30. Two foolish virgins cannot get along with each other. A wise virgin can get along with anybody.
31. I WANT TO BE SUBDUED!
32. God can heal anything….sickness, disease, a broken heart, a broken relationship, our thoughts.
33. Happiness comes from God………..not the world.
34. Jesus is my bestest friend………..He has never left me alone. Ever.
35. God’s mercy is remarkable.

When I came to your house 2 years ago, I thought I was lost and didn’t have a chance. Just look at what the Lord has done for me! I’m so thankful for His mercy. I’m thankful that in this great big world, He looked down and saw me and my family and led us to you……….all of you! There is nothing that God can’t do……for anyone.

Thank you,
Sister Michelle

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This is good. I like point 8 – that God is so merciful – He will stay in an unclean heart. That is love! But it is also frightening. I also like point 10.

They are all very good points.

I’ve been thinking a lot also, about how far from Xty I have come too. I’d say there are still many things from it that still need to come out. – I was in there a long time – I tried so hard to make it work – I took in as much as I could. I even remember one time in one of the last churches I went to – in a great effort to feel closer to God, I made a concious decision to ‘take in’ as much as I could. I remember the Lord kind of challenging me about it. He suggested it might be poison, and it might not be such a good idea to take it in! He was right… Well at the time, I thought they were my thoughts, but now I’d say it was probably the Lord. This was around the time I would call “the beginning of the end of my time in Xty”.

Anyway, just yesterday I was thinking about the poisonous doctrines in Xty. How they are just empty, and just leave you so dry and hardened from any feeling, or something. You end up not being able to feel anything. It is just so bad. So evil. Like Jesus said, it is an abomination.

The truth is just so much better. I mean, IT IS TRUE, and that is it! It is so good. It is not poison – it is nourishment for the soul. It is just so good! When I think about all that I am learning now, compared to the empty, poisonous lies I was being taught, I feel so grateful for the clean, pure, wise, holy, right and good things I am learning.

Jesus rescued me!

~jenny h

http://www.pastorjohnshouse.com/video/filluswithglory.html

Here are a few comments about the “Fill Us With Glory Now” song on youtube that we have received recently.

Name: Richard C.
Comments: I enjoy watching the video of the new song. I watch it over and over and weep as I long so much for the Holy Ghost to fill my worship also. I would really like the CD of that song.

Name: Dianna L.
Comments: I just watched the video on YouTube where the Spirit of God fell in your gathering and you were given the song, “Fill Us With Glory Now”. It was beautiful and I would be interested in obtaining a copy of the song. Please tell me how I could obtain one? Thank you.

Name: Bridget G.
Comments: I would like a copy of the song given to you from the youtube post “Fill Us With Glory Now”. Thank you so much and Gods Blessings on your ministry

Name: Godwin E.
Comments: pls i wanted to get the complete version of these song “Fill Us With Glory Now” sang by pastor John , i have been blessed by it
(This man is from the Ukrane)

Good morning John,

I woke up very early this morning. Laid in bed for a while but could not go back to sleep. Finally after a good while of unsuccessfully trying, I just started speaking in tongues and prayed silently in the bed. And the Spirit started to flow as I did…. I was praying in tongues for a little while, then the Spirit started speaking to me, in English. Here’s what it said, as close to what I remember. I inserted in [brackets] things that I felt, that were not really spoken just, so I could relate what I was feeling:

“Expect to be used. Tell that to the young people [meaning about 10+ to young adults among us]. Tell them to expect it.

[God talking] …. If you [young people] will get still, and put aside some “things” [not bad things, just things that occupy your time and thoughts], and listen carefully, expect to hear from me. I will talk to you, just get still, and listen.

You are going to have experiences. You are already having them, you just don’t think they are important, but they are. If you will tell what I’m doing in you, and what I’m saying when I talk to you, and tell how I’m making you feel, no matter how small YOU think those things are, I will do things [in you, and for others] that will surprise you when they happen. Expect to be used.”

That was it best I can recall, it’s pretty close.

Gary

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John,

Here recently, I’ve been typing out your short sermons from our meetings. I had literally just finished reading this one below about experiences and saw this email from Gary. Wonderful lessons!

Taylor

Experience
Saturday, December 31, 2011

A lot of people push aside the need for experience saying, “It’s not by works”. It’s by God’s work. That’s not work of the Law; He’s never kept the Law. God has never kept that Law. He isn’t about to keep that Law. He IS the Law. Praise God. We are His workmanship.

When God first somehow got through to me that He was calling me out of Christianity, I was afraid to move, I remember telling you about it, you might remember. I was telling you, “I don’t know what to do next; I’m afraid to move in any direction.” And I felt like and said, back in ’93, I felt like my back was right outside the walls of Christianity. I had come out but there was nothing out ahead of me but a desert with no signs, no roads, no nothing. I didn’t know which direction to go. Didn’t know how I was going to get across it, get us across it, to the promised land; didn’t know. I had no idea.

A good little time passed because I was sitting in the basement at Elderwood Lane (when the Lord showed me about leaving Christianity I was living in Lexington). I was sitting in the basement at Elderwood Lane rewriting the tract on “You Must Be Born Again”. And the Lord surprised me by speaking to me. And when he did I was just amazed at what he showed me there. But that wasn’t the point. The point was that when I leaned back against that wall of Christianity, I fell down because it wasn’t there anymore. I was out. I was out there in the desert. What got me out there was an experience, with God. He moved me. He moved me with His voice. He got me farther away from it.

And what He showed me, it’s a little bit embarrassing but it’s a perfect parable, it shows that when the Bible calls something, something, that’s what it is. Solomon said a parable in the mouth of a fool is like a man with one leg shorter than the other. But God’s no fool. When he says something, when he describes something with a word, that word fits. And when he called Christianity Babylon, the Great Whore, that’s exactly what it is. Because what He showed me when I was writing the tract, was that those street walkers make their money by committing the act that ought to produce children, but children is not what she’s after. If she finds out she’s going to have one she gets rid of it.

In this New Testament, the seed of God comes through the mouth. Jesus said the seed is the Word. And Satan’s ministers make their money by doing the thing that ought to produce children to God, but if someone really gets under conviction they tell them they’re already saved and put it out; real children of God is not what they’re after. They’re after the money. When He says that’s the Great Harlot – glory to God – while He was talking I was being transported across the air. The back of the wall wasn’t there, it was over there somewhere. And He’s continued to move us through the desert with experience. We still don’t know where to go from here, but we know what’s going to get us across it. It’s an experience with Him. God, don’t leave us. Don’t leave us out here; we don’t know where to go. Praise God. Praise God for the experience.

Hey Pastor John,

I went for my one year checkup on my ear. WOW a year already!!! Dr. —– said that everything looked great and does not look that disease has came back. yay! He said I have one of my bones that are a little exposed but we are not going to worry about it right now, since it has not caused me any problems.
They also did my one year hearing test and my hearing is still the same as the last time. Looks perfect! He said it is better than his! 🙂
He said he will see me in one year, unless I need him. We will do scans again at that time.
As we were leaving I thanked him for taking such good care of me, and I gave him a copy of Bro Billy’s book. He was very excited about reading the book! I hope that he reads it and gets touched from it.
Jesus could not have given me any better of a surgeon. He was definitely hand picked for the job! Very thankful for that! I am very happy for a good and healthy report!

Mary

Pastor John

I’m so excited right now I just don’t know what to do with myself. I have been reading the GCC book. It has really done something to me. It has stirred up feelings that I had no idea where in me. Ever since I began reading I keep thinking, “Oh, Lord, I wish I had that kind of faith.” I would read these stories and I could feel something, like stepping up to door and then taking a couple of steps back. I would feel a bit disappointed in myself because I sort of felt like I believed in my head but not in my heart. So, the past several nights I really felt this strong desire for more faith. I been feeling an aching in my chest because I want to have the faith so that that door can open and I can just let it all in. I know that God can do anything but I want to know it in my heart, down deep. I just want to open my mind and heart to God to what ever! Whatever He wants, however He wants. I can’t explain it. The feelings are consuming at times. I keep wondering, “Lord what can I do to increase my faith? Lord help me to increase my faith.”

Well, tonight I was reading, my eyes were following the words and then like a ton of bricks all these thoughts just came to me:
1. It usually takes about $50 to fill my tank of gas, and it will usually last around 5 days or so. Well, last week, I was on empty and went to fill my tank and it only took $36 to fill it and it has lasted 8 days!!!
2. I wrote you and told you about how I had to go to our storage (for work) to find some papers. Honestly, it could have taken forever to find those papers. I asked Jesus, “Please help me find those papers.” I was going to look in an area to the right but I felt like someone said “look in the middle row box on the bottom.” I did, and there were all the papers I needed.
3. Last night, I was talking to Jesus as I was drifting to sleep. These things with T—- have been tough. He has been refusing to sign the papers. But last night, I asked Jesus, “Please help him to realize his errors and repent and find his way back to You. And Jesus, please let T—- sign the papers.” It has been a very tough situation. And then I felt like “check your email”. So I got up and looked at my email, and there was an email from T—-. He said the papers have been signed and on their way to my attorney’s office.

All these things just flooded my thoughts and I just started praising God. These things, Pastor John, these experiences are increasing my faith. I just started speaking in tongues, laughing and praising the Lord. It’s like another light bulb went off in my head. I just love it when the light bulb goes off! I just wanted to share. I feel so good right now I think I could run a marathon. God is sooo good to me, and I’m so so very grateful that I have a wonderful, kind Master that knows the desires of my heart! I can’t wait to see what Jesus will do next. I just keep praying Lord let me have the eyes to see it, the ears to hear it and a heart to take it all in!

Love all of ya’ll and miss ya’ll very much!!!
Michelle

Hi Pastor John

I just wanted to tell you how much I have enjoyed reading GCC book, your fathers biography. It has really touched my heart and soul hearing the wonderful stories of God. I also listened to one of your father’s cd. It was so good. I remember I was sitting at a red light and your father said something and I thought, “I don’t understand that. And then he explained what he just said! It was perfect that I even said aloud, “Thank you. I understand now.” I thank God when He lets me understand something. He doesn’t have to, but He does! It is no small thing when He turns on His light bulb in your head and heart.

Also, this morning I had to go to our storage (for work) to get some papers for tax purposes for our CPA. Our storage is really a mess. I started looking through stuff and was getting a little frustrated. I thought, “This is going to take all day.” So, I said Jesus, “Please help me find these papers.” It was amazing. I picked up a box and moved it. Then I started to go through a bunch of boxes to the right when something said, “Look in the box in the middle on the floor.” So I did, and there they were – all of them! Every piece of paper that I needed!!! I know that was Jesus helping me. What could have been an all-day thing only took me about 10 minutes. Jesus is so sweet. He has truly been my hope……my hope in everything.

Michelle

Hi John. Suzi here.

These are some sweet and welcome, unexpected moments from the Lord that I want to share.

Part 1.
I have so often enjoyed the colors that God has created in nature and that He has created through man-made products. The opportunity to see color with my eyes and to be touched by the beauty of nature has given me comfort and awe through the years.
Last week, I was noticing the colors of nature as I looked outside my windows. I was seeing pretty colors in the furnishings of my house, too. I said, “God, I could kiss you for these beautiful colors!” Right after that an inaudible voice said, “Did you hear what you just said? Kiss God?! You are not worthy to do that!” I gently responded right back, speaking as a small child would in all simplicity, “The Spirit said that through me, so it’s alright!” And I was happy, tenderly happy, with such a lovely, innocent thought that the Spirit had whispered to me, “Kiss God.” Later I remembered, “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry.”
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Wonderful, Suzi! And I predict that you will get to kiss your heavenly Father someday.
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Part 2.
A couple of days ago, Tom and I were getting ready to go the hospital for his outpatient procedure. The texts and emails to Tom had been sweet and encouraging. As I was getting things together, I felt thankful feelings, and began to sing out loud:

“I’ve got so much to thank him for,
So much to praise him for,
You see, he’s been so good to me.
And when I think of what he’s done,
And where he’s brought me from,
I’ve got so much to thank him for.“

I was walking through the house singing this, and said, “Tom, I felt a gentle nudge from the Spirit to sing this little song.” I wanted to explain to him how very gentle the feeling was, and I said, “It felt like this.” I blew gently on his cheek. “It was like a feather on my cheek, so gentle.” He said, “That’s Jesus kissing you back.” At that, I felt a lovely holy ghost ‘chill’ up and down my arms, continuing for a few moments. We were both rejoicing with tears in our eyes at this sweet moment from the Lord. It was comforting to share that touch together right before the medical procedure.

(2nd verse: “When I look around and see the good things he’s done for me,
I know I’m not worthy of them all.
But his blessings he freely gives, I owe my life to him,
I’ve got so much to thank him for.”)

Suzi