John Newlin: December 2017

Friday, December 22, 2017

* 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!

(December 2017)

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Thursday, December 7, 2017

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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Monday, December 4, 2017

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.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

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