Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” John 20:19
AMEN! the peace that HE only can bring to us and the world we live in!
This note From Rick a supporter of FGGAM………
thank you all; and thank you for what you guys and gals do… If the world could all only listen and learn from you… You are priceless in so many lives !!!…Rick
Please pray for Rick he was laid off from his job here right before Christmas.
Please pray for our Gretchen too..
Pastor Larry Moss years ago told me to get the book by Oz Guinness, “The Call” Larry had me read that book as Oz Guinness wrote about answering God’s purpose for our lives. Then years later, this past April in fact, Larry told me to leave KKIM, that God told him that HE did not want me to be concerned about the day to day operation of the radio stations, HE wanted me out Preaching, reaching others for HIM! This get’s me up in the morning, to serve GOD! It’s like getting to play baseball as a kid everyday!!!!!! Better in fact! The notes like we got yesterday from Rick keep coming in as confirmation we are doing the right thing.
By the way Oz Guinness spoke at the Biblical Worldview Conference in Albuquerque a few years ago! Outstanding speaker and writer!
Oz asks in his book, “The Call,” Are you in a position right now in which your are taking a stand could make a difference? What is that position? What is holding you back?
For me, the fear, the holding back in leaving KKIM was that I had poured my heart and soul into KKIM for nearly 7 years and leaving to go into full-time ministry without a pay check. I am now free to serve God completely in the way’s that He wants me to serve and I can go at anytime of the day to serve, it’s like I am a fireman on duty for the Lord 24/7. I have the loving support of my wife Sharon and the kids and doggies. Sharon and I are working together at FGGAM, by following the call of the Lord it has made our marriage stronger, very much so, it was strong before, but much stronger now.
I drug my feet leaving KKIM, and I am dragging my feet writing this book people have been telling me to write, The Lord is also telling me to write this book, a story book of the lives HE touches. There are so many books being written…..would mine make a difference? Then I remember one person at a time! AMEN! So please pray for us as we go forth for God’s Glory Alone!
Ask yourself this day.. are you answering the call on your life?
Leslie Montgomery has a great write up on the Holy Spirit in just a moment that you need to read as you ponder that question. Then later on in the CUP today Shari Hardway Johnson shares on Christmas! These two Women of God have been gifted so by HIM to write!! WOW!
Let us go into prayer for Rick and Let me repeat this prayer need from yesterday……..
Can you add Andrew Knutson to your fggam prayer list? This amazing young man is married with 3 young sons. He works for the FBI and recently returned from Afghanistan where he was on a select team to prepare the security infrastructure for the country. He is currently training for a domestic tour. He only has a couple of weeks to go but has a shoulder injury which is extremely painful. This hero needs our prayers so he can remain stateside with his precious family. I do appreciate this ministry and reach out for prayer for Andrew! Thanks and love to all!!! -Leslie Mouser
We are praying Leslie! Also Leslie thank you for your support of FGGAM!
From Michael Holland of the Family Life Line a Dear friend of this Ministry……
would you please lift my sister-in-law up in prayer? She is struggling in a hospital right now, and is facing many difficult situations. We really appreciate you praying for strength for Beth and our family…….Thank you.
We are praying for Beth and have been Michael! Thank you Michael for your support of FGGAM, your love and support of us is so much appreciated!
Please continue to pray for Jolene, as she faces cancer surgery. Please pray for complete healing.
Let us remember this my friends, the knowledge of Jesus heart is a knowledge of the heart. And when we live in the world with that knowledge, we cannot do other than bring healing, reconciliation, new life, and hope wherever we go.
Let us be so thankful for the family here at the CUP and FGGAM! PRAISE GOD! Thank YOU LORD!
Do you not feel the love of our Lord? AMEN!
The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people. You must be satisfied that it is not abnormal. I admit that it is unusual, because there are so few people who walk in the light of it or enjoy it, but it is not abnormal . . . This is unusual only because our spiritual lives are so wretchedly sick and so far down from where they should be. You must be satisfied, again, that there is nothing about the Holy Spirit queer or strange or eerie. I believe it has been the work of the devil to surround the person of the Holy Spirit with an aura of queerness, or strangeness, so that the people of God feel that this Spirit-filled life is a life of being odd and peculiar, or being a bit uncanny. This is not true, my friend! The devil manufactured that. – A.W. Tozer
Graham Cooke
”I know that I can walk into a room and change the atmosphere just by being there. It’s called manifesting your spirit, that’s why I wrote a book on it. How to live in the presence of God that enables Jesus to come through you at really high levels, so that you change the atmosphere, you create a new environment, and everyone gets touched and you probably never said a word.”
December 12, 2012. Jesus wants to resonate through you just as He did following His resurrection. Mary and some other women were the first to see Him, but did not recognize Him. Eight days later Jesus appeared to His fearful disciples, having walked through the wall of the room in which they were hiding. How? The mystery of it carries a message. Quantum physics suggests that Jesus could have become the same frequency as the wall so that He just walked through it and appeared to His disciples. He found something that resonated exactly with Him and He walked through it. I believe that today God allowed me to resonate with Jesus so that a doctor treating me could see Jesus and feel His love and power. Let someone see and experience Jesus through you today. It will change everyone and everything.
John 20:26 (NASB) “After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus *came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” Ras Robinson
Leslie Montgomery author/broadcaster, formerly with Focus on the Family has become a Dear Friend and shares today on the Holy Spirit! AMEN!
THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Jesus said that he had to depart in order for the Holy Spirit to come (John 16:7). And when the Spirit of God did come, he was given to the church as a promised gift or down payment to confirm to us that Jesus Christ will return (Luke 24:49; John 14:16; Acts 1:5). Believers don’t all agree on how or when we receive the Holy Spirit, but the fact remains th
at he indwells and is accessible to all who have faith.
When we pray and ask the Lord to show us what to do in any specific situation, we are also asking the Holy Spirit to be with us, guide us, and teach us. Scripture tells us that the Spirit of the Lord is evident in a believer’s life when:
• The power of sin is no longer in control (Romans 8:2-6),
• Self-control is displayed (Galatians 5:22-23),
• Prompting or leading is given to the believer (Acts 8:29; Romans 8:14; Galatians 5:16,25),
• Talents/gifts are manifested in a person’s life (1 Cor 12:4-11),
• The strength and power to witness is evident (Acts 1:8; 4:31),
• The conviction of sin occurs (John 16:8),
• Comfort through difficult times/trials is experienced (John 14:16,27),
• We have a teachable heart (1 John 2:27),
• God’s character traits are manifested in the believer’s life (Galatians 5:22-23), and
• Inner strength is given (Ephesians 3:16).
Interestingly enough, it was the Holy Spirit who led Jesus into the desert where the Spirit knew he would be tempted by Satan (Matthew 4:1). Does it seem logical that God’s Holy Spirit would do the same in our lives? If Christ is our example, then the answer is yes, and for the same reason – so that we may glorify God. Additionally, difficulty in life increases our faith and helps us grow in spiritual maturity, both of which are evidence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Through the Holy Spirit the believer is controlled by God’s desires and is equipped to do all he has called him to do, including the endurance of suffering (Ephesians 5:18-21; Romans 12).
We read in Acts that after Jesus was taken up into heaven, the early Christians were suffering tremendous grief over their loss. But Jesus had promised them a Comforter, and sure enough, at Pentecost the
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received that comfort through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The predominant role of the Holy Spirit is the same now as it was for the early believers – to soothe our grief, fill and control us, and remind us all of Christ’s teachings.
There may be times when we must wait patiently for the fulfillment of a promise. We must cling to what God has told us despite external evidence that may seem to indicate that God has forsaken us. There may be a moment in time when we begin to believe the lie that God doesn’t care, has deserted us, or is not invested in our agony, when in fact he has promised the Comforter who will come. There is sometimes a moment of time (that feels like eternity) between our loss or grief and the fulfillment of a promise. Even Jesus experienced this when he cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
The apostle Paul tells us in Acts 20 that the Holy Spirit warned him that he would face prison and other hardships. His response? “I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus” (v. 24). The “ministry” he spoke of was that of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace, which is always sufficient when needed.
Suffering is a part of every believer’s life at one point or another and as such is inevitable. How we handle it depend
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on whether or not we have faith in God. I pray daily for those who are suffering and often wonder where God is in the midst of the heartache of others. Many of you have shared such feelings. I’ve felt that way before too. But faith tells us that He will never leave us nor forsake us, nor will He allow us to endure anything He does not believe will strengthen our faith. Some of my deepest struggles in life have been accompanied with tremendous spiritual growth.
In closing, I encourage you to seek the Lord in prayer and ask Him to help you keep your eyes on the prize before you so that you can run the race with confidence and surety that He is with you and guiding your every step. He is faithful even when we are faithless. He is ever-loving even when we doubt His love, and He is always ready to apply the balm of Gilead on our wounds when we will ask and allow Him to do so. You are in my thoughts and prayers
Thank you Leslie! Merry Christmas! By the way please pray for Leslie’s family they have whooping cough in the family! They have been hit hard with sickness! Her little guy, Elijah is the one with whooping cough.
Let’s now hear from Shari Hardway Johnson……….
Christmas Message #4SILLY BIRD…Watch out forChristmas Snares!
Psalm 124:6-8 ~ Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
There are times that it seems that utter chaos abounds in every direction I look; but no greater time than Christmas. What better time for the enemy to attack the church than when the Savior is being magnified in every city across America. The politically correct nuts can harp all they want about calling the season a Holiday or Christmas, but it diminishes the meaning not one very bit in the scope of eternity or in the hearts of Christians. But the attacks of the demonic world can take its toll on family.
Our hearts desire at Christmas is to have the picture perfect snapshot of times with our loved ones. But throw a few “Oops” into the mix and a stressed out mom, dad, child, aunt or uncle and the snapshot turns into one of those crazy western pictures with guns and saloon girls and Jesus is nowhere to be found, nor is there anything that resembles peace on earth. I’d like to offer my suggestion, and hope that I can keep it myself on how to stay out of the fowler’s snare this Christmas.
Pray hard, lest you become prey…
Before we get right into the thick of the season, pray a hedge about your family daily. Every day lift your family’s petition to the Lord that He keeps Satan and his band of merry demons out of your home. God “hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.” It is we that walk into the trap; often times unknowingly but occasionally we go willingly, just not willing to look for another way. If you see an episode of the “Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s” on the horizon is it not better to walk away than to ruin your entire family gathering? You’d be amazed at what can transpire in a lucid moment in time, when you’ve walked away from the trap (argument or hurt feelings) that Satan has set. Then you can return a few minutes later and knock the prop from under his snare by calmly coming back into the situation. Shout Hallelujah! Christmas Spirit is saved.
The snare is broken, don’t fix it…
You’ve prayed the hedge, you’ve walked away from the fight and then in the midst of it all Satan has another trick up his sleeve, “Total Recall.” It’s a great tool of Satan to remind you again and again of past brokenness that has long been mended, but can open into a festering sore by a spoken word or memory. Place those past pains under the blood of Jesus and don’t let Satan uncover it. If he attempts to bring it to mind, counter act it with a good memory or better yet, just run through a few of the blessings God has given you. It won’t be long till that snare is tripped as well and Give God the Glory! Christmas Spirit is saved.
Our help is in the name of the Lord
Silly Bird… Don’t go it alone. The enemies are very subtle and spiteful; they lay snares for God’s people to bring them into sin and trouble, and to hold them there, and then is God’s time to appear and save the day. Or… depend on God from the beginning and cover this Christmas with an abundance of prayer. Pray over the kids, the dog, the turkey, tree, everything about the day. Leave nothing to chance, for prayer is a lot like Christmas insurance, and the premium cost is absolutely free!
God Bless you Shari and Merry Christmas!
For God’s Glory Alone in the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and family
Merry Christmas!!!
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