* JESUS AND HIS GOVERNMENT AND ALL HE IS DOING

“‘Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven. – Matthew 6:9-10 NIV

the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end. – Isaiah 9:6-7 NIV

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. – Luke 2:14 KJV

For four thousand years following the fateful decision by Adam and Eve to disobey God and their then being thrown out of the Garden of Eden, humankind was lost.  The Kingdom of God was not on earth.  Only through a rare few individuals known as prophets did God intercede and speak to people, prophets like Elijah and Isaiah.  God in that period was working on a plan to reconcile people to himself.  We’ve looked at this much in past years, how he spoke to people through these prophets, how he chose the Jews as the people to take the message, the history of the Jews, the receiving of God’s word, how eventually God’s plan was fulfilled in the wonderful coming and actions of Jesus Christ, his son and our savior.

Jesus made the point he came to preach the Kingdom of God.  That was why he came, he said.  His going to the cross and doing what he did made that Kingdom real and available for all who accepted Jesus as their savior.

That Kingdom in our current time on earth is inside each believer in Jesus Christ.  It is here on earth, but only inside us.  So wherever we believers go, we take the Kingdom of God with us.  We walk into a room, God comes into that room, regardless of however anyone else in the room thinks or believes.  Putting on the armor of God described by Paul, our feet are shod with the gospel of peace.  We take God’s peace with us.  And his truth.  And his righteousness.

But God’s total plan of reconciliation is yet not over!  It continues.  Soon, so very soon, so incredibly soon, the Lord will return to collect his believers: 

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.–1 Thess. 4:16-17 KJV

In just a few years after that, about seven or a little more, he comes back with his holy ones (the angels and the believers) to win a victory at Armageddon over his enemies and to establish his Kingdom rule from Jerusalem.  (Revelation 19 and 20). 

Then the Kingdom of God will truly be on earth in a physical way, as well as inside the believers! 

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

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A FINAL END OF YEAR WORD!

Cathy and I send a special thank-you from the bottom of our hearts to all those who are working with us in the fulfillment of the ministry to which the Lord has called us.  Right now that focus is especially on getting the new book WAKE UP, AMERICA! published and brought to the attention of and made available to everyone in the United States and the world.  A big task.  We again thank all of you for your prayers and your continuing donations and your support in all ways.  God bless you all!

We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas! 

Now and always, Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

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A MUST-READ CHRISTMAS STORY - CLEMENTINES

God loves us. He really, really does. That’s a key part of the Christmas message. Why else would He ever have sent His son here to go through what he went through? And why else would Jesus ever have willingly gone to the cross? 

I was reminded of that this past weekend in a way only God can arrange. Sunday afternoon a friend was coming to visit us at home. Late in the afternoon the doorbell rang, and I opened the door. There stood our friend, holding out a box of clementines. For those of you who do not know, clementines are small citrus fruit, like small oranges, and they seem to make an appearance in grocery stores about this time of year. They come in small but clearly distinct boxes. 

Our friend handed me this box of clementines. “God told me to get this for you,” she said. And she went on, exclaiming that God was very specific and strong about it. “So I went into a grocery store and I couldn’t find them. I thought that I would just get a poinsettia, but well, God said to get clementines.” So she stuck with her search, and she found them. Later in the kitchen she spoke with Cathy and asked if clementines were my favorite. Our friend couldn’t get over how insistent God had been. 

Later I thought more about this. I remembered how as my children grew up we would always get a box of clementines sometime around Christmas. It was a regular feature in our house. The box could always be found sitting somewhere in the kitchen. Everyone liked them. To this day when I see a display of clementines in a store, I want to buy a box. 

And I thought some more. Here we are in the ministry involved in our usual activities and praying for guidance from God on key issues, like where and how to proceed in the expensive television ministry, where and what meetings to arrange, whether to begin another regular meeting in southeastern NC, and more. For months, even years, we have been going steadily forward, always fighting and overcoming attacks of the evil one which do come whenever anyone steps out for God. Into the midst of all that God sent an obedient woman friend to bring a box of clementines. Even when I write this the Holy Spirit is so strong in the office I keep stopping and reflecting. Is that love? Yes! And much more. That is God saying - John, even in the midst of all this, I’m still here, and I love you, and look, I even know little things about you, like how you like a box of clementines and what that means to you. 

So I've been feeling really warm every since. God sent me a box of clementines for Christmas. God knows where you are and what you’re going through. He knows every hair on your head. Every day, if we’ll just look around and take time to see with spiritual eyes, we’ll see God directing our paths. 

What a heavenly Father we have! 

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GOD MOMENT: THE EIGHT HOUR HEALING

Some years ago Cathy and I were preparing to attend a night meeting (not a meeting we were leading, just a program we were attending).  Just before leaving she whacked her foot on the lower sharp, pointed corner of a kitchen cabinet!  The pain was excruciating.  Eventually though she was able to hobble down to the car and off we went.

After the meeting was over, Cathy informed me she could not walk!  So I prayed for healing, for an end to pain, and she was able to get up and slowly walk to the car. We went home, slowly up the stairs, and into the bedroom where she lay down fully clothed on the bed, propping her foot up on a pillow.  I remember the foot was dramatic!  Looking at the bottom, it appeared as if a pitcher of blood was just being poured in the foot and the foot was filling with blood from the heel to the toe.  Cathy spoke over the telephone with her brother, a doctor, who told her she wouldn't be walking for six weeks.

But we quoted the healing scriptures and prayed for her foot to be healed.  Then we just went to sleep for the night.  Now, Cathy had the alarm clock set for about six or seven in the morning, and it was her custom to leap out of bed when the alarm clock rang. As morning approached, I suddenly heard the clock alarm ring.  And of course I instantly remembered how she was used to leaping from the bed. Well, that is what she did. She leaped up from the bed and came down hard standing on both feet. And she did not yell in pain! The foot was completely healed.  I mean completely.  No swelling, nothing.

 

It was an eight hour healing!!  I use this account often to describe how sometimes healing takes place over time.

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* GOD MOMENT: SIGN OF THE DOVE

Cathy and I had long loved the beach environment and we one day finally realized we could live and work there.  Our goal was to find a house close to the ocean with a good view.  But after weekends of driving two hundred miles from our home and then searching and finding little that fit our desires or pocketbooks, we were becoming a bit depressed.  Finally, we decided to rank what we had found.  Two houses came out at the top of the list.

A second-row house had a great view but a walk-through revealed wood floors suffering from water damage, repair work underway on interior walls and floors, and a general musty smell.

The other house had been decorated by someone with great taste and flair, but it had no ocean view, and huge threatening dogs lived in a pen backing up to it. 

We turned to prayer, seeking God’s guidance.  One day I came home from work to hear these words from Cathy: “I think our house has something to do with the word, ‘dove.’  That’s what I keep hearing when I pray.  And I also hear it is “farther down the beach.”

So we returned to the shore yet another weekend.  We scoured maps and searched everywhere for Dove Street, Dove Avenue, just any street that included the name dove, or for a development with that name.  We also looked farther down the beach.  Nothing was found. 

Just before driving home, we visited a house under construction.  It was a few hundred feet from the ocean, on about the fifth row of houses.  As we looked about, the couple that lived across the street came to meet us.  After telling us how wonderful the neighborhood was, the husband said, “We would pay fifty thousand dollars just for the right to live in this neighborhood.”  Quite an endorsement.

The next weekend we returned and drove again to the house under construction.  We had by now realized it was indeed “farther down the beach,” about four blocks farther down. 

Cathy and I walked through the construction rubble into the house.  The rooms were taking shape, and the wood sub floors were down.  As I looked about the main living area, Cathy continued out the back door.

Suddenly in a firm but not loud voice, I heard her say, “John, come out here.”

I walked to where she was standing.  She had a finger at her lips, motioning me to be quiet.

Cathy said not a word but pointed down to the right.  There standing quietly and looking back at us was a dove, a real, living dove.  For a moment we were overcome and absolutely still, looking at the beautiful bird and realizing the incredible hand of God.

We quickly checked out the entire house and even climbed onto a high unfinished deck.  No stairs had yet been built so we had to use a ladder.  Once there, we stood in awe, shocked by a spectacular view of the ocean.

We bought that house, the house farther down the beach, the house of the dove, the house to which Cathy had been guided.  It was also the house with our desired view of the ocean and, as has proven to be the case and as we were told, with a great neighborhood.  God is so good!

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* SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD

The most famous and well-known sermon ever delivered in America is Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.  Way back in 1741 Edwards gave this sermon at a church in Enfield, Connecticut.  I have read that Enfield was not an especially spiritual place.  Nothing special on that front was happening there at the time.  Edwards reportedly read the sermon he had written down word for word. 

As the sermon went forward, people in attendance began shouting out “What shall I do to be saved? O, I am going to hell!”  People came forward to the pulpit.  One report says people begged him to stop.  At one point Edwards asked everyone to be quiet so he could continue.  The anguish of suddenly realizing who God is and who they were was upon them.

You can read this great sermon on the Internet.  Just type in the title above and hit search.

What does the message all come down to?  Read and think about this paragraph taken from the sermon.  It goes right to the heart of the message, to the point of who God the Father and Jesus and human beings indeed are and the disastrous position any are in who have not been born anew.

The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God.

Without a person’s being born again, without their accepting Jesus and thus without his saving grace standing between them and God the Father, they are in the hands of an angry God.  That is God who hates sin, who has always hated sin.  Early in Genesis 6 God looked at the world, saw the behavior of people, and decided he would limit man’s days to 120 years.  Just a couple verses later he saw that every inclination of the thoughts of a man’s heart was only evil all the time.  He decided to eliminate all humans.  God grieved that he had made man, but then Noah found favor in the eyes of God, and God spared Noah and his family.  Every other person on earth was killed in the flood.

God hates sin.  He hates evil.  Of course he does.  The only hope any human has is in the Lord Jesus Christ and what he did for them on the cross.  And to benefit from that hope, a person must recognize Jesus for who he is and accept Jesus as their Lord.

All those people who are not born again, who have not believed truly in the Lord Jesus, are in the hands of an angry God.  It is just a matter of time until his wrath is poured out on them.  And be assured, unless they change their ways and come to the Lord Jesus, it will be…for eternity.  Right now the mass of humanity is in this lost group.  And time is running out.

To paraphrase Edwards’ closing lines, the wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of humanity.  Let everyone fly out of Sodom.  Haste and escape for your lives.  (That escaping of course means to seek Jesus, change what you have been doing, realize who he is, be born again, accept him as your Lord.).

I know that most of the readers of this publication are indeed born again believers.  But I also know that each of you know many among your relatives, family, friends, work associates, neighbors, who are not.  God reached those people in Enfield that day back in 1741.  Perhaps he is ready through you to reach those you care about.  Give or send them a copy of this article.  Ask the Holy Spirit to help you in speaking to them about Jesus and their great need.  Ask him to arrange the time and place, to guide you to all such encounters he would have you have anywhere.

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                                                                                          (October 2017)

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* THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US

It is, isn’t it?  For everyone but those totally blind and ignorant of the times in which we live and what is happening.  Certainly it is for all those true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.  For those believers, staying focused on Jesus is essential to not drifting off into sadness and depression.

William Wordsworth wrote those words in the title above in a poem in 1802.  He was concerned about the industrial revolution, that age in which humanity suddenly discovered what it could do with advanced machines and organization techniques.  Factories and mills were growing fast with workers were working long hard days therein.  I understand he was concerned about the materialism and the separation of people from the natural world, the natural environment.

Well, today we can apply his same words to our world, although instead of being concerned about the industrial revolution we are concerned about the implications of the modern computer and other technology on all our lives, especially children, and about the fall away from God, the ever growing materialism, the focus in entertainment and elsewhere on sensual pleasures and violence, the massive growth in deception and delusion.

Another great line Wordsworth wrote in the same poem was

We have given our hearts away…

Well, the world surely has.  True believers in the Lord have not, and that is why their hearts ache at what they see and hear.  That is why the world is too much with us, late and soon.

But we must persevere.  We must keep our eyes on Jesus.

 

We know the end of the story.  We know who has won.  We have read the end of the book.  We cannot give up now. We must each finish the race God has given us.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

                                                                                   (October 2017)

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* THE US CONGRESS AND AN ISLAMIC IMAM

So in a nation beset by so many terrible issues, including the recent as yet unexplained tragedy in Las Vegas, we see this week the US Congress chose again to have an islamic imam pray over the Congress.

According to news reports, he is from Duke University and was actually invited to do so by a North Carolina congressman.

There’s not much more to add to that, is there.  This formerly great institution that is currently so disparaged by the overwhelming majority of the American people chose to be prayed over by a representative of a false religion and to have prayers prayed that were not prayers to the one true God of Christianity.

According to reports, he prayed to “The holy one” and stated “we call you by different names.”  In the conclusion of his prayer, he closed with “your most holy and beautiful names” (note the plural names).  At some point he said that God can be experienced through “multiple paths.”

This is all just false religion and a false prophet.

As you all know, Jesus is the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through him (see John 14:6).

Amazing.  Sad.

That’s really all to add to this. 

In this time of trial and difficulty for those who care about the country and their fellow humans, once again we see how lost so many in the highest levels of government in the nation’s capital are.

Don’t ever stop praying for the Lord to reveal himself to the leaders of this country.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

(October 2017)

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* EVIL

…He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. – John 8:44 NIV

Please note:  he was a murderer from the beginning.  Yes, he is a liar and the father of lies, but he also was a murderer from the beginning.

Evil is and has been very real in the world of homo sapiens ever since Eve encountered the devil in the Garden of Eden.

The devil himself, also known as satan and lucifer and the evil one, was as we know from scripture a very important high ranking angel.  And a very beautiful one.  And obviously a very proud one, for he decided to rebel against God and in doing so led many many angels to join him.

His fate is sealed.  In these very days in which we live, he knows his time is exceedingly short.  At the end of the Tribulation period when the Lord leads an army of his holy ones into the battle of Armageddon, the devil is seized and locked in a deep pit for a thousand years.  That is going to happen pretty soon now, and you can be assured the devil knows all those prophecies in the Bible about these last days.  Nothing says he is stupid; just vain and proud and crazily ambitious.  You know he has read the Bible.

In these last days he and those who follow him are wreaking all sorts of havoc.  They are active throughout the earth sowing discord and lies and leading all sorts of terrible things to happen.  How else can you explain ISIS, or Al Qaida, or Boko Haran, or any of the other violent terrorist groups?  How can you explain the massive growth of horrible drugs and their impact on humanity?  How all those millions who blindly follow false gods and doctrine?  How else these maniacal leaders we see in so many places.  And on and on.

These people do not know God, they have not been born again, they do not know scripture, they cannot protect themselves from the attacks and false leading of the devil and his minions.  Any lost person who does not know the Lord is a ready subject for the plans of satan.  The Bible advises us not to give the devil an opening, a foothold.  But anyone who does not know the Lord has given the devil his entire body as an opening, a foothold.

That’s what we have now.  That’s what we see in these evil and apparently blind or ignorant groups operating in such outrageous ways.

And that is what happens to individuals who suddenly in the world’s analysis must have cracked up, or must have a screw loose, or must be under the influence, or must be just plain nuts.  Well, part of that is true.  They are under the influence…of the devil.  That influence may come directly or through illicit drugs or other openings.  But these sad people have no way to defend themselves.  They don’t know the truths we have written about regarding God’s tools for protecting ourselves.

Remember, all you believers, as spelled out in Ephesians 6:12, our battle is not really against flesh and blood.  And we do not use the weapons of the world but rather spiritual weapons to fight with.  Paul was explicit about this in 2 Corinthians 10:3-7.

(You can look up our writings on how to protect yourself in several of our past newsletters, such as the ones of February 2017, December 2016, and October 2015, or watch our television programs titled Fighting Evil on YOUTUBE or the ministry web site, or get the CD by that name.)

There really is evil.  It has been here as long as this human species.  It is active now.  It has been active in the past to be sure.  Remember Hitler and the Nazis and the gas ovens?  Remember Stalin?  Remember…well, ugh, who wants to recount all the horrors of human existence.  Not me.

That man who shot all those people in Las Vegas.  Think he was evil?  Certainly he was under the influence of evil.  To be sure.  Influence of what?  Of the devil.  Doesn’t matter what human terms are used to explain it all.  They are pointless.

This is the effect of real evil.  It is the same evil some of our military have encountered in fighting in the Middle East and unfortunately are not prepared to deal with.  The same evil no doubt that some others hoping to do good encounter when they go to desperate places.  Unless they are born again and baptized in the Spirit, they don’t have the gifts, the skills to discern and recognize and take appropriate action.

Evil is real.  It has always been thus for the human society.  Thank God, it does not win in the end.  But it does provide a lot of horror and pain along the way to that end.

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PS - To read more on evil, go to our blog.   To get there, click on John’s blog in the menu column of our website.  Or go directly to johnnewlin.blogspot.com.  Once in the blog, enter the word evil in the search block at the top left and click on the search button.  The first two articles that come up are: Waking up to the Realities of Evil and The Cosmic Battle of Good and Evil in our Time.

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                                                                                          (October 2017)

                                                                                        Copyright © 2017 by John Newlin

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* GOD MOMENT: I DIDN'T DO THIS!

The wife called with great concern.  Her husband Jack had just been taken to the hospital with a bleeding brain tumor.  He was now in intensive care.

Quickly I went to the hospital, calling Cathy to meet me there. 

Arriving, I found a large number of coworkers of the man standing about.  They could not get into the intensive care.  Jack was in a coma.  His wife came, and I spoke with her a few moments.  Then Cathy arrived and talked with those present.  With all the people about and Jack in a closed off intensive care unit, I wondered a bit about my next step.

I quietly walked away from the group and around the corner, finding a chair where I could be alone.  There I prayed.  I asked God what he wanted me to do here.  It was very clear:  pray for him to be healed. 

So I returned.  Somehow the crowd of coworkers had dissipated.  Cathy alone was there.  We went up to the entrance of the intensive care unit and pressed the red buzzer.  I had even wondered if we would be able to get in at all. 

But instantly a nurse answered and said for us to come in.  She gave us the specific location.

Jack was all alone in his room, lying in a coma.  Cathy went up one side of the bed and I the other.  The air was full of electricity.  It was palpable.  I anointed Jack with oil for healing, and I spoke the healing words as I was led to do.  And I said “Be healed in Jesus name!”

Cathy and I turned and walked to the door of the room.  I glanced back at Jack still lying on the bed, and one arm raised and waved at us!

The next day I telephoned the hospital room and his wife answered.  She was excited.  Jack was sitting up in a chair praising God.  The neurosurgeon had been by, and he had said “I didn’t do this.”

No he didn’t. God did.  All glory to God!

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN

Yes on Saturday, September 23 a great sign will appear in heaven.   There can be no other response.  It is a great sign.  Now I am not going to over-interpret.  But it cannot be denied this is a great sign.  (I do not know whether you will be able to see it where you are.)

The first lines of Revelation 12 describe the sign – a woman in heaven, with the sun at her head and the moon at her feet, with a crown of twelve stars, and pregnant.

On September 23 the constellation Virgo will be in the heavens.  The constellation Leo will be at her head.  Leo contains nine bright stars.  They will be joined on this date by Mars, Venus, and Mercury, thus bringing the number to twelve stars.

The sun indeed will be at her head, and the moon indeed at her feet.  And the planet Jupiter will be in the region of her body that might be described as her womb.  And in fact Jupiter has been in this area for nine and a half months.

You can’t make this up.  It will happen.  From all the research I have done so far, this precise arrangement with all these items in place has not ever occurred in the period of human history from Adam to now. 

Lately we have seen extraordinary signs in the heavens.  Not too long ago the amazing four blood moons.  Early in August this year the total eclipse of the sun that began in the Northwest US and continued all the way across the country and out through South Carolina.

Now this great sign of Revelation 12.

I don’t have to decide if it is a great sign.  The Bible says it is.  A great sign.  In the King James translation, a great wonder.  We are in the last of the last days and things are speeding up.  This sign and recent events emphasize that.

In the last few weeks prior to our sending out the September newsletter on the 11th, we saw four extraordinary natural disasters of huge magnitude: hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the astounding fires in the western US, and the largest earthquake in Mexico in a hundred years. 

Now since that newsletter went out, we have another astounding hurricane in Maria plus a lesser one, with still another possibly on the horizon.  Some islands in the Atlantic have been terribly hit.  (We and others have prayed and taken authority in Jesus as indeed you all should, ordering the storms away from land, and indeed Irma was much reduced in power when it hit the Florida West Coast, thank God.  And it appears Maria will swing away from the US Atlantic Coast, thank God!).

Just this week on Tuesday, September 19, Mexico was hit with a second earthquake, this one much more deadly as it brought significant damage to Mexico City.

Jesus warned of fearful signs, earthquakes, roaring and tossing of the sea, and signs from heaven:

11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

25 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. (Luke 21 NIV)

Well.  Now you’ve got it.

I still have things God has told me I am to do, so I don’t expect him to come tonight to collect his believers.  But I do think the time is short.  Things are speeding up.  And remember, God can do a lot in a short time.

I close with Luke 21:36, the Lord’s warning:

Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.” (NIV)

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

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PS   It is more than interesting to note, and I should point out, that this September 23^rd sign is occurring right in the midst of some key Jewish holy days – Rosh Hashanah and the Feast of Trumpets on September 21/22 and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, on September 30.

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* ANOTHER CALL TO ACTION: TO ALL WHO LIVE ON THE COAST (and really anywhere)

Eleven days ago we issued a warning and request for action regarding the terrible hurricane Irma that was heading toward the US East Coast.  The storm was then a category 5 hurricane and was in the process of ravaging several Caribbean Islands.  Because of your efforts and those of other believers, thank God Irma did not proceed directly to hit the Mid-Atlantic States or the Atlantic Coast of Florida. Even though it brought great hardship to the Keys and to many places in Florida, by the time it made landfall on the West Coast of Florida it had decreased significantly in power.

Now it is time for believers to take action against two more storms.  One is Jose, currently a category 1 hurricane that appears to be heading away from land although it may skirt the New England Coast and impact the Mid-Atlantic and Northern Coast of the US.  But the other, Maria, is already a category 3 major hurricane growing in power and is right in the midst of the Caribbean again.  Its path as of now appears to continue westward over several places already hit by Irma and perhaps eventually straight at Florida or the US East Coast in general.

So now I repeat the same message as before, this time for Jose and Maria:

In John 14:12-14, Jesus said that those who believe will do the same things he had been doing.

In Mark 11:22-23 he made the point that anyone who has faith can say to their mountain “go and throw yourself into the sea,” and if they believe and do not doubt, it will be done as they have said.

It’s time right now once again to focus on these verses and to put your faith into action.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of power and not just word!  It is these verses and others that lead us to realize that in Jesus all things are possible.

What did Jesus do?  He healed the sick.  He also changed the weather.  And much more.    And he says we can do the same things as he.

Well, we do.  People do receive their healing!  And the weather is changed!

The mountain for those living along the coast today is the harsh and strong storm named Irma.

So all believers – and that includes you – should go outside and face the ocean, wherever you are.  In Jesus’ name speak to the storms Jose and Maria today, right now.  Order their winds to diminish.  Order them to turn away from any coast and dissipate and disappear.  And whatever else the Holy Spirit guides you to speak, all in Jesus’ name.

The miracles we have seen in this ministry have all happened because we take Jesus at his word.

So what are you waiting for?

May you live in the blessings of God always.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

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