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Dear Christian Believers,
September God bless you in the glorious name of Jesus Christ our
Lord and Savior.
2003 We recently had our annual Christian Family Fellowship,
“Family Reunion 2003,” and I believe it was the best
we ever had. It was an exciting and refreshing event. Teaching and
taping the “Led By God’s Power,”
class before a live audience gave us a great atmosphere of believing
going into “Family Reunion 2003.” Reunion means . .
.“a gathering of a family, a reuniting.” It is important
that believers fellowship. That’s one of the founding principles
of the early Christian Church in the Book of Acts.
Acts 2:42-43
And they continued in the apostles doctrine (the Word
of GOD), and in FELLOWSHIP, and breaking of bread and
prayers.
And fear (awesome reverence and respect) came
upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
This is what happened at our reunion, we continued
in the Word of GOD as the it was preached, taught, heard, and shared
among the believers, we fellowshipped all weekend long, ate together,
and we prayed and sang praises to God together. Many were healed
and delivered by the Word of GOD spoken and others were personally
ministered to for specific needs. One woman had an affliction for
32 years, and she was delivered, and set free from her torment.
After her deliverance she was asked, how do you feel, and she said
“I feel like I’m walking on air.” Another person
was delivered of a 20 year affliction and has a new freedom and
newness of life. The Word of GOD preached and taught brings deliverance
and it encourages those that have afflictions to seek help and to
receive their deliverance.
Matthew 4:23-24
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner
of sickness and all manner of diseases among the people. And his
fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all
sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments,
and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were
lunatick (epileptics), and those that had the
palsy (were paralyzed); and he healed them.
Jesus would preach and teach and people came to him,
evil spirits couldn’t stand the power of his Words and they
would reveal themselves. Lepers came forth and cried out for help,
the paralyzed, the blind, the man with the withered hand stepped
forth and was healed, and the list goes on of those responding to
the spoken Word. When we fellowship together at a home Bible study
or in larger gatherings such as Family Reunion 2003, we increase
our opportunity to “...take upon us the fellowship
of ministering to the saints,” as declared in II Corinthians
8:4. To all that worked to minister to the saints, WE thank
you. To all that came and were refreshed, comforted, and exhorted,
We thank you. And most of all WE thank GOD for the privilege we
have to FELLOWSHIP with HIM and one another. Let us Continue in
the Word of GOD, and in fellowship with GOD and one another. Let
us preach and teach the gospel at every opportunity so that men
and women might be set free from their afflictions and that they
might have eternal life. Let us get involved with the fellowship
of ministering to the saints.
Love You!
John
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