The Jones

Just believe that God is good all the time already.

So, God was good again today.

I felt like staying home from work today because I was feeling a little sick and tired. But I dragged myself out of bed and even managed to make myself a sandwich (my wife was proud).

I’m trying to just come back to simple faith and not over-analyze situations and people and how God might do a thing.

I’m thinkin’ just believe God is good all the time (Nahum 1:7), believe that He’s for me and not against me (Rom 8:31), believe that He wants to work and He will work through me (2 Chronicles 16:9a), even if the effect is not how I envision it being (Isaiah 55:9)… He always does something (Matt. 7:9-11). I’ve learned that from experience.

So, obedience is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22b). When I am obedient to God at my workplace He totally blesses it. Today I was talking to my co-worker. He just stopped me in the aisle and asked me about fatherhood. He’s been dealing with the possible decision of having a kid or not. He’s been nervous and scared about what will happen, how his life will change, how will he pay for things, stuff like that. I just told him about my experience with fatherhood, and how I can now relate to God in a different way; how I can see how much he loves me because of how much I love my son.

I told him the peace and provision that Jesus has brought to the life of my wife and I. In the end he thanked me and told in so many words that he appreciated me talking to him about “spiritual” stuff. And that he wasn’t totally “into” all that stuff, but that he appreciated me talking to him about it.

I told him that we are not just physical beings, that we are spiritual, and that we can communicate with God’s Spirit. He also said that he appreciated the other day when I “did that thing over in the front” (I prayed for his shoulder pain to go away and he felt the heat of God on it) He told me that my other co-worker was like, “I can’t believed he just presumed that you were cool with that and just did that to you” But the first co-worker said, “I actually didn’t mind, it was nice that somebody cared enough”…or something to that effect.

It’s just awesome to see that God uses ordinary people like me, people who were messed up just like the rest of the world, but that God is changing into His likeness…people who are just hungry for God to change the current situation, and the world with his love.

Thanks Lord that you use me. I want to keep listening, and obeying.

Love,
-jer

Remember God's love and his benefits.

NIV Psalm 103:1 Of David. Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits— 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, 5 who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 6 The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel: 8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. 9 He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; 10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; 14 for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; 16 the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. 17 But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— 18 with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts. 19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all. 20 Praise the LORD, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word. 21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will. 22 Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Testimonies (vol 2)

God has been stirring in his people. Church as usual is going to look different as He pours out His revelation on His kids. 1) So, the other night at Ecclesia my friend Andy and I were praying for a guy who is deaf. We were commanding his ears to pop open in Jesus name. The funny thing was that Andy’s ear popped open instead. He was trying to figure out why it happened and what it meant. Then he remembered that he had damaged his hearing by listening to a subwoofer to loudly for prolonged periods of time. God healed Andy because he was standing too close to prayer… haha! 2) Another friend, Dan, has had hurting ankles for the past two weeks or so. He’s had pain to the point where it was almost too much to walk on. We listened to a testimony at Bethel church online (www.ibethel.tv) where they switched the lyrics of the song, “it’s the end of the world as I know it” to, “it’s the end of my pain as I know it, and I feel fine.” After Dan sang the song a couple times he realized that his ankles were completely healed! Praise The Lord! And on top of that, our friend rachel noticed that when she ran out to the car to get something her heart rate didn’t even elevate (she has had heart problems, in fact she needs a new ticker.) So, there are a couple of fun ones. Let the testimony of Jesus build you up. Love,

-jer

sources of encouragement

Sid Roth: http://www.sidroth.org/site/PageServer?pagename=tv_archives

David Herzog: www.thegloryzone.org

Randy clark: www.globalawakening.com

Jason Westerfield: http://www.kingdomreality.com/index.php

Kris Vallotton: http://www.kvministries.com/

Kevin Prosch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_41guaiBjs

Bill Johnson’s Blog: www.bjm.org

Bobby Conner: http://www.bobbyconner.org/

Rick Joyner / Morningstar: http://www.morningstarministries.org/

John and Carroll Arnot / Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship: http://www.tacf.org/

Che ahn / Harvest Rock Church: http://www.harvestrockchurch.org/

Patricia King / XPmedia: http://www.xpmedia.com/

Bethel Chruch, Redding, CA: www.ibethel.org

Bethel Church media: http://www.ibethel.tv/media/free

Jesusculture: http://www.jesusculture.org/

Testimonies: Vol. 1

…The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy Revelation 19:10b

Whenever you tell of what Jesus did you are releasing that testimony, and setting
an atmosphere for it to happen again. That’s how I grasp the verse/concept anyway.

I want to start documenting here the miracles that I see in my own life, and the
lives of those close to me:

So here are a few that I can remember.

1) The first miracle that I saw first hand was at Living Hope Church about
2 years ago. Sue and I and some others from the church gathered
around a woman who had had a lot of problems with her guts. She
had ulcers and she was telling us about an intense stabbing pain in her hip.

I didn’t really know how to pray, but all I know is that I prayed really really hard
that God would heal her, and he did. After the group prayed and laid hands on
her she was completely delivered of all of the pain and health issues. She started
jumping up and down and praising God (sound familiar?)

She also told us a week or two later that she’d been checked out by the doctors
and gotten x-rays and whatnot, but there was no trace of the issues.

Praise God aye?

2)Then there was a lady the other wednesday at Prayer Centre at the
LHC Orchards campus. She has had a tumor somewhere in her brain that was
messing with her vision. A few of us laid hands on her and prayed for her. One
of the girls praying reported that as we were praying she saw (in the Spirit) the tumor shrinking.
As far as I know it has now completely dissolved.

3)Just this past wednesday Jesus also healed a man under the big top tent that was
put up for Easter. His wife told me he was having pain in his arm. I put my hands on his shoulder and arm and commanded the pain to leave and asked Jesus to touch him and restore his arm.
Guess what? The pain went away and he had more range of motion than he did before! Amen!

4) One of my good friends John had a bad headache last night and had to help take
care of his kids and finish his homework at the same time. Just like Jesus I had compassion
for him and prayed for him. The pain left instantly and he was like, “You guys don’t even understand, the pain is gone.” I was so pumped!

These are just a few of the one’s I can remember. I hate to forget
what God has done that’s why I’m scribbling these down here.
The Jews did the same thing by building piles of rocks whenever
God did something significant for them. Then they would recall the
stories to their kin whenever they would pass that place again.

God wants to touch his kids.
Jeremiah 29:11 His thoughts toward us are good, they are full of hope…

I am excited for this time in my life. I’m excited to be part of the Kingdom
of God. I’m excited to sluff off the bonds of legalism and dead religion and
move into the glorious inheritance prepared for us!

Love you all,
-jer

God IS good ALL the time.

So, another rad day in the Kingdom.

So, I’m at work, and I go on my lunch break.
There’s a lady in the break room and my first
thought is, “aw man, I was hoping I could chill
alone and read or get on the phone”

I lay my bible on the table so I can get a fine
beverage. And she asks, “So, what church do you
go to?” I tell her I go to Living Hope. She says,
“Oh, me too.” So that’s kind of funny.

We start talking and she’s telling me about her life
and how her son is in prison and asks if I can pray
for him. God has been awesome in increasing my
boldness, so I offered for us to pray together right there.

So we join hands and pray in the breakroom of my work.
Later she tells me that she also is suffering from some
kind of post traumatic stress deal because of a bank
robbery that she witness to. So God used me to bring
peace to her whole person by His Spirit as I laid a hand
on her shoulder and asked for His Shalom peace to
overtake her. We could both feel the change in her.

I only want to give away what God has given to me.
I wanna be a river, not a lake.

And if you want to back up to last night…
We had a sweet time at the big tent in
front of LHC. People gathered to pray
and worship. Two people were healed of
pain in their bodies after prayer and laying hands.

God is preparing this church for a big shift.

Back to today: I want to learn how to listen
more and obey more. so today God gave me the
feeling that I should go to Fred Meyer and look
for someone to pray for.

I find a lady in a wheelchair on oxygen and prayed
for her. She appreciated it and said that she
believed in prayer. I know that she was touched
that a stranger would care enough to pray for her.

I am not tooting my own horn here. I want to encourage
my friends and anybody who is reading this that God
wants to use us to do great things. Things that we see
Jesus doing in the Bible, and greater things. I’m just a
guy who is hungry for that to happen. Are you hungry?

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Matthew 5:6

Love,
jer