It’s getting weirder!

djc

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1732226,00.html

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Hi Damien.

Yes, I saw this a few years ago on TV.  It’s been in the works a long time.  Those weird creatures described in Revelation are not in the distant future.  Until our generation, they creatures seemed impossible to many, especially unbelievers.  And many believers wrongly assumed those creatures were just symbolic.  But they are nearer to becoming a living reality than folk think.  The final breakthrough will be when scientists discover how to combine living beings and machines, in particular how to enable a living being’s brain cells to control the operations of it non-living attachments.

It’s coming.

Pastor John

Hi Pastor John,

What an honor and a privilege it is to be where God and his Son are doing their work!!  We were so blessed Sunday to meet two saints of God that have heard his voice and believed it!  And keep it.  I felt so honored to be in the same room with them.

And to see the power of God all over Sister Teri Saturday night was a sight that not many people get to see in their lifetime, and yet it is something we get to see over and over again as God’s spirit fills our gatherings with his power and love.  I loved seeing brother Sony feeling and expressing the power of God that is able to keep you and lift you up, and carry you all the way home.  It was beautiful!!

It was an honor to see Brother Michael humbled under the power of God and hear him tell about his dream the Lord gave him the night before, and to show how he was feeling about what the spirit was showing him in the dream and what he wants in his life.

I am overwhelmed, and I thank God that he has allowed me to see and hear such things on this earth, among us mortals that are created from the dust of the earth that he breathed into.  I am lost for words to express my gratitude and thankfulness for what he has done for us.

Bro. Stuart

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You’d get a lot of “amens” on that, Brother Stuart!

Hi Pastor John:

Sitting in Bro. Paul’s living room Wed night listening to the reading on The Father And The Son pages was an honor.  I looked at my bible and saw how a precious thing it is; I mean, all the scriptures that were used in both the OT and NT from over 2000 yrs of history — and God revealing himself to many authors to tell us a more complete story of His son.  I was seeing the love of God for us.  He could have revealed them to anyone, and maybe there are others, but sometimes it’s very hard to grasp the magnitude of His love for our little group.  Watching everyone’s smiles, and feeling what they feel, made my blood bubble for happiness and joy.

Things have been crazy the last 6 months with Mom dying, and at work, so to feel those good feelings like that again was worth every mile coming back from Virginia to be there last night.  I would say I can’t wait for the finished product, your new book, but it’s very nice to be fed a little at a time.  It was like dinning at a very fine resturant, where you have people waiting on you hand and foot, and not like a fast food place. You can take your time and really chew you food in small bites and slowly sit back and digest everything and wait for that satisfying feeling that comes from a good dinner.

Thank you for coming and thank you for staying longer than you planned.

bro. billy

Hi Pastor John

Proverbs 24:16:  “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked fall into mischief.”

I looked up the word “falleth” and found a couple of definitions that I really liked, besides the usual ones like “fall”, “cast down”.  The ones that stuck out to me were “be judged” and “overwhelm”.

I have been thinking about this scripture for a couple of days and some of the thoughts I have had ae these:  “When a wicked man falls, he feels mistreated, but when a just man falls, he just feels treated.”  He feels he has been judged, and he maybe a little overwhelmed at times, and he has missed the mark.  So, he continues on and learns from what he just went through. But the wicked say “What’s the use?  I can’t do anything right; everything I do is wrong.”  And even if they don’t say it out loud, that is how they feel in their hearts.

Another one of my favorite scriptures is this:

Proverbs 6:23:  “For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instructions are the way of life.”

If we want to go into the way of life, reproofs and instructions are the way to get there.  And we all need them.

Stuart

Pastor John:

I am a member of a Baptist church.  We recently had four new members join us.  They are about to split our church because they believe in speaking in tongues and the church as a whole has taken a stand against it. We are to vote on whether to allow it or not on March 30th. so I would greatly appreciate the book you wrote, “Speaking in Tongues at Spirit Baptism”.

Thank you,

P. M.

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Dear P. M.:

I was dismayed when I read that there was a group of people somewhere who had become so proud that they plan to vote on March 30 on whether God will be allowed to manifest Himself in their gatherings through some among them, as He is pleased to do.  How arrogant fallen man can be!

You should flee from the midst of such fools as soon as you can, lest you become one of them.  And the four souls who joined that church should repent of that foolishness and learn to listen to the Spirit that they have received from God.

Pastor John

Hi Pastor John:

I feel so good this morning, in this hotel room.  As you know I cover a few states, urban & rural addresses.  Last week I came upon a man who trained draft horses and oxen.  The horses were beautiful, but I was interested in the oxen, because of the many scriptures that speak of the yoke.

This person raises and trains these oxen from youth, and after their initial two year training, he sends them to 3rd world countries, and then proceedes to train one person from the village to use them to cultivate their fields.  He stated that a pair of oxen is picked out to be joined together from the beginning as calves, and through a process of two years, they become large enough (2000 lbs each) and trained to really be of some good.

He took me downstairs and showed me a yoke.  He hand-makes the yoke for each pair of oxen, and each side of the yoke is custom cut and fitted.  He rounds out the cut-out and shaves it with glass or iron to round out the corners so the edges will not cut into the necks of the oxen because it needs to be able to rock back and forth.  As the oxen grow, he has to continually remake a new yoke and custom-make each side again.  He measures the neck of each oxen and custom bends a piece of tubular wood to fit under their neck and attach them to the yoke.  It would be normal in a two year period to make 5 or 6 sets of yokes, and it is very seldom that a used yoke can be used on another set of oxen, because of the custom fit for the previous pair.  Part of the training process is to find out which ox is the right and which is the left.  I was so excited because of the scriptures about yokes.  He told me that it would be impossible to put a draft horse and an ox together.  I smiled  :).

I asked him how big a tree could the team of oxen pull.  He told me he hasn’t seen one yet, because they are trained to pull together.  I smiled again!

I look back on my life, when Jesus took over in 2001, and remembered when Jesus took off a yoke that had been too heavy for me after ten years, at your house in the doorway, and then gently put a new one on me that was custom-built by Jesus.  This yoke has been very much lighter and easier to pull.  Now since Jesus healed Judy, I have a partner that pulls with me.  It seems that were are planting more fields now.   🙂

The one scripture I really love is in 1Samuel, where that team of milk cows were being led by the Spirit of God.  These cows had never been trained or bound to a yoke before because they were used for breading, and the yokes were not made for them, but God used them to carry His Ark.   Now, we carry the Ark of God if we have the Spirit of God in us.  He is able to gently lead us and guide us.

One thing the man said is that oxen basically eat the whole time they’re working, because of the enormous appetite they have by working…so he all the time gives them breaks and feeds them while they are yoked.   🙂

I understand now when Jesus said, “my yoke is easy, and my burden light”, and… how you can’t be yoked again with unbelievers (christians), “for what fellowship hath darkness with light?”

This is just a small example of what God has been teaching me about this yoke.

Your fellow yoke-man,

Billy

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Hi Brother Billy:

It has been a blessing to be yoked together in Christ with you.  This yoke we wear is very light, and the work is easy because of the Spirit Jesus has given us, and the food we are fed all day is so good!  Let’s keep plowing.

jdc