I was listening to the morning conversations that Sister Betty put out!  They are so good! 

I got to feeling so good and so thankful, and in the middle of that, I remembered something wonderful!

Right before God sent Jerry, and shortly after I came out of the coma, two very sweet ladies convinced me that I needed to be water baptized.  I was a broken-down mess, but I wanted to be fixed.  I remember right before I was getting in that big tank of water, I was hoping and praying to come up different.  I wanted to come up clean and different.  I didn’t, and I remember how sad and disappointed I felt because it wasn’t real.  I really had hoped it would be.

Why did I ever think that!!!  It surely wasn’t from anything I grew up thinking or having been taught.  As a Catholic, I was baptized at birth and was taught I was good to go!

So where did that thought ever come from, or Praise God, Who did that thought come from! 

That is just absolutely wonderful to me.  And bless those sweet ladies who thought they were helping me.  Something in them thought baptism would change me, too.  They just had the wrong one! 

I pray Jesus gives them his baptism. 

Beth D.

If any of you would like to view the contents of the IK database that Damien made for my notes, the link below allows that.

The Outline for my notes is on the right, with the Bibliography down below that.

You can click on a topic in the Outline or click on a book in the Bibliography to view the notes on that topic or in that particular book.

Or, if you prefer, you can do a word search in the box provided.

Or, if you prefer, you can search by century (0-7), to see the notes that apply just to that century.

Damien has done a terrific job with this. I wanted you to see it, and I hope you benefit from it. These are the notes that I am using to write the next book in the Iron Kingdom Series.

jdc

https://www.goingtojesus.com/ik/ikdatabase.html

Good morning, 

I read the email on the Iron Kingdom database*, and it is amazing how much food God has provided for His children.  I sat for a while this morning thinking about all that is available for someone needing something from Jesus. Questions or feelings, things to gain or things to get rid of, God has laid it out for whosoever will.  I can’t think of something God has not covered!

I read to Joshua, and I have not wanted to leave Moses, so I went back and read Genesis, and now I am back with Moses in Exodus.

I thought of God bringing Damien all the way from Australia to help layout treasures for His children.  Look at all the hearts God spoke to and placed here to give to His children! The anointing and the truth in the music alone can open and draw hearts nearer to God.  How many times I have been fixed, or felt Jesus with me, through a song or a testimony!

Even the translations provided are cleaner and purer; they feel different . I feel it when I have to look something up in KJV. My heart sinks a little when I have to go to the KJV.**

It is overwhelming to really sit and see what God has done for the ones He has called or, or will call.  Look what God has had you layout for us!  Flowing with milk and honey, just like He said it would!

Praise God!  It is big!

Thinking about that and reading Exodus 4 made me smile – made me smile and filled me with faith!  God has everything under control; we really do just have to be available and move when He says move. 

Exodus 4

10. And Moses said to the Lord, “If you please, my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither before nor since you began speaking to your servant, for I am slow of mouth and tongue.”

11. And the Lord said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes the dumb or the deaf, or the seeing or the blind? Do not I, Jehovah?

12.Now, go! I will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you should say.”

13. But he said, “If you please, my Lord! I beg you, send . . . send by the hand of another!”

14. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said, “Do I not know that Aaron your brother, the Levite, can speak well? Also, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

Verse 15 just thrills my soul! 

15.And you will speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth. And I will teach you what you should do.

I know I have said it before but it’s so good to me what God has given us! I had to say it again! 

Beth D.

* https://www.goingtojesus.com/ik/ikdatabase.html

** Going to Jesus.com – Bible Translations

Good morning.

I sure loved last night’s message John, wonderful!  I wish I could have physically been there, but it came across good and clear on Youtube.  And thanks for praying for me, I am feeling improved today, hopefully will be back to normal in short order.

I read little Jessa’s notes, that was so good.  They were some of my highlights too, but I wrote down one myself last night that stuck out to me:   “We need God’s touch every day”.  Yesterday’s touch and yesterday’s word was perfect for then, but He has something for us TODAY.   If we don’t have that, all we have is “tradition” – or memories of blessings past.  Thank God for the things He’s done for us in the past, but if we want something BIG (to God)… there’s nothing bigger than God speaking to us and leading us in the Spirit’s way TODAY.

I had a song to sing last night, not knowing what your message would be on.  I so wished I was there to sing it, but I have attached the words.  I especially loved the first two lines of the first verse of the song, because you spent a good deal of time on Israel being important to God.  I had no way of knowing you would talk about that – it encourages me so much when I’m on the same page with you and God, in my thoughts and music.

Thanks for showing us the way.  I believe I am better today, spiritually and physically, from the message last night.  Praise the Lord.

Gary  (lyrics below)

This is Big, Yall   (G.S. – June 2021)

Israel was a tiny nation, smallest on the earth.

But God had chosen only them, and He knows what things are worth.

His blessing came to Abraham, the father of the faith.

And Jesus passed it down to us, And we still are blessed today, cause,

(CHORUS:)

This is big, yall.    ‘Cause God is big, yall.

  Though men see something small, In God it’s big yall.

    Yes, this is big, yall.    Cause God is big, yall.

   When the holy Ghost power is in it,  to God it’s big. (Yall)

David was God’s shepherd boy,  playing on his harp.

No one knew, he would be king, that God would love his heart.

That little lad grew up in God, and one day with a sling.

Killed Goliath with a stone, as all began to sing.

(CHORUS)

Samuel was Hannah’s son.  She lent him to the Lord.

He did his chores for Eli till,  one day he heard God’s word.

And God made him a prophet, he found favor with all men.

Not one word fell to the ground,   Lived faithful to the end. 

 (CHORUS)

We were in the wilderness, when we heard Jesus call.

He gave us truth, a man to guide,  we followed, one and all.

And now we gather here in Christ, we’re blessed much more than most.

Oh hallelujah, we have rest,  free in the holy Ghost.  

(CHORUS)

The world may look, at just we few,  and pity us so much.

We have got no buildings, traditions, rites, and such.

But we have found the Hidden Son, in truth we lift Him up.

What’s small to man, is big to God,   For Jesus is enough! 

(CHORUS)    

God’s people need a shining light, we pray that’s what we are.

Our echo is so valuable, to those with hungry hearts.

We know when someone’s born again, and who God’s people are.

Yes we are small, but to the Lord,   that’s giant in His heart.   

(CHORUS)

Pastor John,

I love love love EVERYTHING you said tonight! Thank you!!  ️🏻I can feel it and want to live in it! I am so thankful for all the experiences and touches from Jesus! They are BIG and I need more of them!

Jessa said she took notes on tonight’s meeting of what she felt was important to remember. I agree!! 

Amy F.

Pastor John,

When my friend and ma’am Natalie died, it felt like God was teaching me and letting me see how the wicked and the righteous died looks like. The fear that I felt at that time was fear of how true the word of God is and how the enemy works in wicked people.  I experienced how they criticized me and say false about me.  It really change my perspective about life and death.  How precious life is, to be wasted in sin.  How precious life to live in righteousness and Holiness in Spirit.

Leika

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Yes, Leika. If two people, a Saint and a sinner, are dying, even if they have the same disease, it is not the same. God is doing something very different in the lives of those two dying people.

Solomon encouraged Israel to spend time contemplating death, for “that is the end of all men.”  You are a wise young woman to be doing that.

Pastor John

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Leika’s reply: 

As Psalm 90:12 says” So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”

I am sitting here reading the new book, Slander: What It Is and How It Works*.  I am already about a third of the way through it. I feel so thankful and blessed to be able to read it and understand what God has given us through you, John!  The dream He gave Jimmy and the wisdom and knowledge He has given us through you is amazing.  As you have said, “To you, it has been given.”

My hope is that we can get rid of every form of Slander among us. I don’t want any!

Thank you, John

Stuart

* https://www.goingtojesus.com/gtj_books.html?tname=slander

Hi, Pastor John.

In my dream I was at a large meeting with a lot of people that I didn’t know, but I also had the feeling that there were people there that I did know.  The Spirit of God was present and people were speaking in tongues, testifying, singing songs together, and such like.  Suddenly, I felt the Spirit move upon me unlike that I had ever experienced before.  I can’t explain it, but it was more than what I was hearing, seeing, or feeling in this place.  I rose up and yielded to what I was feeling and totally submitted to it.  The feeling in my body was total peace; total peace of pain, total peace of conflict, total peace with this world . . .total peace.  And with this total peace, I felt total rest in my heart and soul.  My body and mind were numb from God’s peace and presence. 

As I was looking at the same scene of others praising God in this place, I stood up and attempted to testify of what I was feeling and why I was feeling it to God’s people there.  As I was trying to convey with tears to the audience, I kept getting interrupted by a song, or a testimony, or someone or something else; some activity.  However, I do remember saying, “I have had experiences with God and feeling the things of God in my heart and body a large portion of my life, but I have never felt this before–it is more than this (pointing to everyone praising God).  Expecting others to listen to my words and my heart, the people there (one-by-one) went on with singing, testifying, and ignoring me.  Each time that I tried to tell what I was feeling, hearing, and seeing, I was interrupted.  I shook my head and bowed my head in tears, “God, they don’t want to know more than what they are doing now.”

I woke up in tears, still feeling the effects in my body and heart.  It has taken over a day or so for that feeling to subside.  I pray it comes back.  I know there are times to rejoice, times to sing songs, times to speak in tongues and praise God.  We need it and others need to see, hear, and experience it, especially with each other.  Jesus is worthy of all praise from our lips.  But I know there is more to God than those things, especially after this dream.  His Government is always expanding: His truth, His love, His compassion, His mercy, His knowledge — everything God is is ever expanding.  It’s like when you wrote your first book, Spiritual Light*, you thought you had fulfilled your main mission that you were created for.  If you would have stopped there and been satisfied with that one book, we wouldn’t have the other books and knowledge that God gave you for us (and God’s people).  Look at the bank of wealth God has given to you (us) over the years and the additional books that you wrote that are posted now online. 

I pray we are not just satisfied with what we have now, which is so very rich and good.  Most of God’s people do not enjoy the liberty of The Spirit that we have everyday, but I pray that we continue to seek the increase of God’s government as God mercy gives to us and totally yield our hearts and minds to that.  It will always lead us closer to Him. 

Love always,

Billy M.

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Thank you for this, Billy.  It is an important message for us, and all of God’s people everywhere.

Pastor John

*Going to Jesus.com – Spiritual Light