Dear Christian Believers,

God’s richest blessings to you through our Lord Jesus Christ

It’s been a whirlwind of activity for me these past few months, starting with teaching and coordinating the “Living in God’s Power “teaching series that started on March 17th and finished five weeks later; then traveling to Dallas, Texas and Lawton, Oklahoma to teach and minister; then onto Florida to vacation a few days with my son and his family plus teach fellowships in Sarasota, Tampa, and Charleston, S.C.; then home for 3 days and off to Greensboro, N. C. to teach at a Day in the Word, plus the Pentecost Sunday Fellowship. And now I'm home again to catch up on my work here, which includes getting the June Newsletter finished and out in the mail.

Pentecost Sunday morning I was thinking about what I would teach and share at the fellowship, I couldn't help but think of how we take for granted great historical days that come up each year on our calendar. When Pentecost had fully come in Acts 2:1-4 it was a “new day” for mankind, a historical time in Church history, and for all eternity. God poured out HIS gift of holy spirit, eternal life, and the new spiritual birth became available for the first time. On the historical calendar date of June 28AD Pentecost fully came, but for us, OUR Pentecost came when we accepted Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives, believed that God had raised him from the dead, got born-again of God’s Spirit, and spoke in tongues for the very first time. NOW, what are we going to do, that is the question. Are we going to be excited and thankful to God for the next few months, a year, 5 years, 10 years; 20 years, OR are we going to lose the fire of Pentecost because of time, and what it brings to our lives, such as challenge, disappointment, discouragement, hurts, changes, or even worldly successes. Have we forgotten our day of Pentecost? Is it now just an exciting memory of the past? Is it just a ~Christian, historical day on our calendar? Maybe it’s time we honestly answer that question.

Acts 1:8
BUT ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Every Christian, (all that have received Christ) have received God’s gift of holy spirit. What ARE you doing with it? Not what you have done with it in the past, because that is over. But what are you presently doing with it? What are you doing with the power we’ve received? Are we witnesses unto Jesus Christ as he commanded in Acts 1:8? What’s the difference between a Christian that has received God’s greatest gift, knows about it and does nothing with it, and a the agnostic who doesn’t believe in God, nor His, Word, or His gift, and does nothing? ... N-O-T-H-I-N-G! ... No Difference! Our celebration and thankfulness of any Christian holiday or event is not in observance of a calendar day, but in the doing, the living of what that day represents. We’ve received power - we need to USE IT! We are witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ - Witness! Remember the Poem, “God Has No Hands But Ours?”

“God has no hands but our hands with which to give them bread, He has no feet but our feet with which to walk among the almost dead, We say the we are his and that HE is ours, Deeds are the proof of this, not words and these are the proving hours.”

People these are the proving hours. Our nation of America and the whole world are in perilous times and under attack like never before. If ever there were a time for exercising God’s power and being witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ it is now. We cannot live in Disney World, a land of make believe, and yet far too many Christians are asleep when they need to be awake and walking with the power of God. We are living in the proving hours, and I pray to God for His people to awake. I pray for His protection upon our nation and the lives of His people everywhere. Let’s believe to exercise the power we've been given and BE witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ - Ambassadors for Christ, delivering God’s message of hope, salvation and deliverance through Christ.

Love, John