Hi Pastor John:

I can’t begin to describe the feelings I had this morning while visiting PastorJohnsHouse.com. I loved the feelings looking into the pics of what I do/what we do, section at Pastor John’s House. This work is so very important, and I’m very thankful Jesus is letting me be apart of this. It is no small thing where God brought me from, to where I am now.

Thankyou bro. John,

billy m

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I agree, Billy.  This is a precious gift we have from God, this work we have been given to do for His people.  God help us get it done!

jdc

Hey John,

Thanks for tonight. Your message was fabulous, and I think that was the first time I have ever seen you preach yourself drunk!

That was amazing!

Gary

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Thank you, Gary, for knowing what is amazing!
I received several phone calls today about the meeting last night. God is good to touch so many people!

jdc

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John,

Last night felt wonderful. I had the urge to come lie down next to you and I am so glad that I did! (I had the thought that if I didn’t do it, someone else might, and I didn’t want someone in my spot!) I felt so thankful for you and for the way that you have helped our family. Thank you for holding up the standard and not “keeping your mouth shut.” I am so thankful for the feelings that I feel in the holy Ghost. It felt wonderful to lie there next to you. I laughed, I cried, I “mmmm”ed. 🙂 Jesus is so good…words cannot describe it! Thank you for taking such good care of all of us.

Love,

Carrie

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Oh Carrie!

That was the most wonderful feeling when you did that! Pure and perfect! I was so thankful! I still am!! Thank you very much. That was special to me. I think it blessed everybody.

jdc

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I loved it when you all were in the floor, being so blessed. It was beautiful! 🙂 And we didn’t even have to stand (or sit) around and wait for somebody to do something. or say something. It was happening, right then and there. It was wonderful. I am thankful for the feelings we felt last night. And I am thankful for the standard, the government, that has made it possible. I’m glad you didn’t keep your mouth shut. Our God is good!

Donna

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Thanks, Donna. Amen. I love it too!

jdc

This evening, I just met with an old high school friend at her mother’s house. I reunited with her on Facebook and she is in town for her mom’s surgery tomorrow , so i thought I’d stop by and visit. Pleasant enough, as such visits go. But toward the end we talked about different peoples’ views of God, in different religions, and I was prepared to be bold enough to say, “My experiences with Jesus have been on the outside of Christianity, so I am not affiliated with that religion” (but I never got around to saying that).

She is a Mormon, and I was aware of that at the beginning of the conversation, but she said something near the end of our time on that topic that was patently ridiculous:

She expressed this viewpoint ( a “politically correct” view, so as not to offend, exclude or judge anybody):

“Oh, I believe that everybody’s religion has a ‘piece’ of the truth, as long as it includes Jesus and the heavenly Father.”

As I drove away, the Spirit [and I] shouted out loud to myself in my car, “WHAT’S WRONG WITH HAVING ALL OF THE TRUTH?!!”

NO! It’s not okay to have a “piece of the truth,” because that’s a lukewarm way to live! It’s halfhearted, intellectually dishonest, biblically inaccurate, and it’s . .. it’s. . . ridiculous! Why would anybody settle for that lame excuse for faith?!

Ohhh boy.

Brad

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Hi Brad:

It’s because Xty has discouraged people from believing the truth can be found. Even some of God’s own children don’t believe they can ever know the real truth of God until after death. They have told me that.

It is given to us to know the truth. That’s not the same thing as knowing everything; only God knows everything. But knowing the truth does mean that we understand the gospel and, so, we know how to please God and can sense how God feels about the situations we are in. In this life, that’s all we need to know. If we know that, we know the whole truth.

jdc

Bro. John:

I had a beautiful dream last night.

I was in my natural birthplace of New Bern, NC. I needed to get back to my real home of Burlington, but somehow I had ended up without an automobile and the only way to get home was by foot. The trip by car was a three and a half hour drive but I had no car. So, I started my journey home on foot. It would have been a long and arduous journey, but for one thing. As I walked along, I recounted the faces and testimonies of each and every person in the Lord that I knew. It was a longer trip by foot, but I had experienced such joy along the way through those testimonies that it did not seem long or hard at all.

When I awoke, I thought of how that is the way it is as we journey through this life. Our testimonies in the Lord give us strength and keep us going until we reach our real home with the Father and the Son.

What a sweet feeling was in that dream.

Sandy

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Rev. 12:10-11)

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Hi Sandy, Thank you for that. What a remarkable dream from the Lord! We may not know who needs to hear our testimony, but one thing is certain. That is, if Jesus gives us a testimony, somebody needs it!

jdc

Good morning John.

Today I was organizing and mailing out various tract and CD orders from the Isaiah 58 site that came in over the past couple of days.

When a person orders a CD from the site, Earl had given me, and I usually add one or two of extra old CD’s from the meeting room that went un-purchased to the order since it does not really add anything to the postage, and so that people can hear live meetings.

This morning as I reached into the box, of perhaps 50 to 100 CD’s the sweetest feeling came over me.  I could have picked any of the CD’s in that box!   We have things of value!  Things that go unclaimed among us just might be golden nuggets of life to someone who is hungry for reality in the Spirit.  They’ve never heard what is on a CD that we have hundreds of extras of.  Tears came to my eyes, to have such things of value!  Where would we be without them, without each other, without this truth?  It’s hard to even wonder.  I am thankful, after your wonderful message recently from 1 Corinthians,  for you, for the saints who came before you and paid the price, and for every child of God whom Jesus has put in my life right now.

And beyond that, I am thankful for soberness, for sanity, and for the readiness of mind and heart to want to get this truth to God’s wandering sheep.

Gary

hi pastor john,

i was reading in Malachi 2:17, where God’s people wore him out. They had to work hard to make him tired, after he created everything in 6 days. He never said he was tired and needed rest on the seventh day. I just started to think on this and it was like, wow, his breath made the stars and moon, and man was able to tire him out. I pray that God won’t have that kind of conversation with me. It scares me to even think it.

Thanks,

rick

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Yes, Rick, I have noticed that. God’s people make Him weary with false doctrines. May we never to do that to our heavenly Father.

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jdc