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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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