Healing

Sister Lori, who is the wife of the associate Pastor Jack Easley, had been going without Medical treatment for 10 years. Why you ask? She just couldn't afford insurance. So we got in touch with a place called Crossroads medical clinic. It's a clinic started by our Baptist Association, so I called the people in charge. ( The reason I called them was because I had to use their services a while back but that's a story for another time.)
But back to Lori! Needless to say she was in bad shape, her doctor said to her she should be dead. She had to be put into the ICU unit when her blood pressure was 220 over 180, and her blood count was at 4, at the number 8 she should have had a blood transfusion. The doctors were saying she had a bleeding ulcer. Crossroads doctor said she needed some tests that she was having to wait on, so Lori was getting worse and worse. But going back to the Sunday before she was put in the hospital. Her church family anointed her with oil and laid hands on her and prayed for a healing, not just to feel better, but a total healing. She told us in her testimony that day that she wasn't scared at all; that she had turned it all over to the Lord. While she was in the hospital, she received all the tests she needed, 5 units of blood, and she had a scope put in her to see where the ulcer was. But guess what, they couldn't find an ulcer, anywhere! I mean not a trace, praise the Lord.
This Sunday she told her story in Sunday School , and what a wonderful day in the Lord we had. The Spirit was moving every where, in the singing, the preaching, even after we dismissed everyone hung around talking, fellowship was going on everywhere. I received one of the biggest blessings I have ever had ( Whoo Hoo ) as the Spirit stirred within me.
In the 7th chapter of Mark, verse 37 we can see what the people were proclaiming about Jesus after they witnessed His healing. "He had done all things well." There is no better description for what God can do. While Jesus was here among us he never did anything part way. The crippled walked away, happy and healthy. The blind man could see clearly and the deaf not only got his hearing back, he was able to speak clearly. That is how God works. He doesn't do anything halfway....he does all things well. Praise the Lord!

Writeing and Jesus

I have found out that some times I write like I talk. That's pretty embarrassing when you send it to someone who is a good speller. So, I have decided, that I will have my wife edit everything I do from now on. She was a columnist for two years with a local newspaper called the Navarre News. The column was called Cindy's Kitchen. She wrote stories about the recipes of family members and told stories about them in the process. Let me tell you that this woman, my wife, Cindy, can write. Cindy can spell with the best of them. She says she can't write! So its no big deal that she can take a chewed up pencil and make you want to take a vacation on it. I've told her many times that she needed to write a book or a cookbook, but she always has a reason why she can't write it. Well maybe one day! Miracles do happen don't ya know. I wonder how God feels when people don't use the physical gifts that he gave them when he created us. You can find out how he feels about us by reading Psalms chapter 139. Yes the whole chapter is really a good read. Try it, you might just like it; don't be afraid, Just open the Bible (Basic Information Before Leaving Earth ) I have had minimal teaching in Diction, Writing, Spelling, or even throughout school, English was not one of my favorite subjects. English Lit.; now I loved English Lit. Mr. Clark was one great teacher and a wonderful friend to me after I left. For me, school, was over, and I left for other journeys I had to take.

I was so caught up in the things that I wanted to accomplish, that I just never stayed with the basic grammar and spelling and to learn about it. Have you ever heard the saying "keep it simple, stupid"? We should never make things more complicated than they really are. That is how a lot of people are with accepting Jesus as their savor; they think, what do I have to give up? What will my friends think of me? I don't want to be called a Jesus freak! Oh no here comes the Bible thumper. If you ever want to be alone an elevator just start talking about Jesus. It will take only one or two floors to be completely by yourself... with twenty floors left to go.

Well Jesus did tell us to go into our prayer closets, to communicate with Him. So make the best of your time. You still have those twenty floors to go to talk with God. You'll will come out in a better mood than when you went in - you are set for the rest of the day. A smile is still contagious, even today. Did you see on the news channels where a man or woman wants to break the "hug me" record? People today seem to be in such a hurry that they don't have time to be loved. Give them a smile, it's an acknowledgment that you care about them. Be nice to people, and many will want what you have.

Did you see how I went from writing, to talking about the Lord, and how it makes people feel. Well I feel just great! And I hope you do to.


--
Pastor Perry J.

Another Study

Study Why Should We Do That

1 We study the word of God so that we can we can show ourselves approved.

2 So that we will not be ashamed.

3 So that we can rightly divide the word of truth.

4 Be an accepted workman.

This is 2 Timothy 2:15 everyone that has been told how to study, we quote this verse.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

So tell me what dose dividing the truth mean? Dose it means to cut it in many pieces, or just cut in half. If you really want to know the half of it, you will find out who, what, when, where, how and why. You can open your self up to the great mysteries of the world, go places that you thought you would ever go, so climb into your time machine and go back to the past or reverse the date module and go into the future. Etc.

Listen when you have the whole truth and nothing but the truth in your heart, not just your head, you will be ahead of the game. You may ask why! When you read the book of Luke, you will see in verse 2:51 that his mother kept all these sayings in her heart not her head. You do not worry about what you are going to say, because God will speak through you, he will go out before you, he will be with you side by side, he will carry your burdens for you, he won’t let you be over whelmed, and he will stop you, before you go blunder into things you can’t handle. All that comes with Jesus’ in your heart and spirit and with him there, you can overcome everything or anything.

All this will help you be the strongest workman you can be, “it’s not just a job it’s an adventure!” So let’s kick the tires and light the fires because we are in for a ride. And needless to say you will not be ashamed to go up to someone you don’t know and talk to them about you savior.

Secondly Shod your feet.

Ephesians’ 6 tell me to shod my feet with the preparation of the gospel with peace, that is just on piece, of the whole armor of God to put on for the battle. I fought the fight, run the race, I finished the course. There is nothing to cover the back side of a Christian because Jesus never expected us to turn around and run. The peace part; is the love of Jesus, which you and I should have for everyone, accepting everything holding your toung wither you like it or not. Come with peace not anger, come with acceptance not with accusations, kinds heart not a heart of stone.

Learn of me

Thirdly

He tells us not to lean on our own understanding, Seek the wisdom of the elders, he says to be quick to hear and slow to speak. The scriptures also say bridle your toung. There is an old saying it’s better to be thought a fool and then open your mouth and be known as a fool.

In Matthew 11:29 Jesus says learn of me, not only learn of me, he says I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto you soul. So if you want to study, or shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel, and learn of him. Read the Bible; study the basic information before leaving earth.

Fourth

Then we see the bad side of things so beware, and don’t do this.

According to Proverbs 22:25, it is talking about men that would do evil to one of Gods own. So learn this you stay around a person that will not change his ways and you just might start acting the way he dose, the scripture says if you learn his ways and you might just get yourself into a snare, well that’s not learning of God is it ? Isaiah tells us to learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and to correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless; plead for the widow, which was verse 1:17. What are you doing when you pray, the way the lord taught us? In Jeremiah it tells us this, Thus says the Lord: Learn not the way of the heathen, (nation) and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens, though they are dismayed at them. Jer.10:2 these are the people that we have to reach, even if they call us foolish. This is what a man said to Paul one time; as Festus was speaking to Paul he said with aloud voice, I guess Paul wasn’t to close to him, he said, thou are beside thyself; much learning doth make the mad. So Paul said to Festus I am not mad, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

The last statement that the Lord would say to us is if we continue on his course not our own. Is well done, well done, wink at us and say well done my good and faithful servant enter into the joy of the Lord?

Can we and facebook get along

I have watched the comments made on facebook ! About this game or that game, or how it's down for maintenance. Just think about it when you first started on ( FB ), how ever long you have been on, 1 month to 6 years. The one that has been on for the month has inherited the problems that you see today. The 6 year folks has went through many growth problems, and as the people that own ( FB ), try to accommodate the millions that are on ( FB ) now. They just try to give you more things that will peak your interest, and the more stuff that is on their servers, the more crowed it gets. We still seem to be a nation, no world of instant gratification, we call our children the we want it now generation. But we seem to fall into that category ourselves. What if Jesus said " ( Who was called Emanuel )" "( That being interpreted God with us)". What if instead of him being thirty and starting his ministry, that at twelve when he was in the temple astonishing the uper crust of Theologians and Priest, that at twelve he said to them" (I am God )"! The one who led my people through the wilderness, said I am King and I want it now, today. Do you think that Christianity would be the same today? "No I don't think so"! So far he has been waiting for over two thousand years to fulfill his destiny. So now let's remember that ( FB ) is just human and humans fail, we never live up to any bodies expectations. So let's be be like or savior the Lord Jesus Christ, or Ya'shua, or even Joshua, the name means the same, (Salvation). So we should have the patience of Job, because Jesus has been been waiting a actual really long time, they call him the Ancient Of Old.

Study

Febuary the short month

Well the second month is upon us. I thought we just celebrated New Years day, and all the college football games that lead up to it, and then the big one, the National Championship game. And now the Super Bowl is here, you have got to admire New Orleans, they really know how to come back from a disaster.
Guy's listen if your wives can sit and watch the Super Bowl with you, and wait on you hand and foot. Getting you the drinks you ask for, the dip you want, so you won't miss a play by play, and your all worn out from all of the adrenaline you wasted while you were like you where in an old country church lifting your hands and shouting, pointing, clapping your hands, and sitting back out of breath, in your living room or den. And your wife said " wow that was fun." You better look out!
Why! Because on February the Fourteenth this is her day, her 'Supper' Bowl, and you better remember the seventh just a week before, and what she did for you because deep down most women doesn't like football at all. But because she loves you, she acts like she dose.
So men tighten up your belt around your waist and make this day the most special day of her life. Because if the women is not happy the man is not happy. As Dr. Phil says don't mess with the nest. So don't forget Valentines Day she will love you for ad least a month or even till the next you screw up in her eyes. You at least had one day of bliss.

From The Desk Of
Pastor Perry Jordan