A Pastor and His Son

A good reminder of God's Love.

Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at the church, the Pastor and his eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel Tracts.

This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their tracts, it was very cold outside, as well as pouring down rain. The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said, 'OK, dad, I'm ready.'

His Pastor dad asked, 'Ready for what?'

'Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out.' Dad responds, 'Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down rain.'

The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, 'But Dad, aren't people still going to Hell, even though it's raining?'

Dad answers, 'Son, I am not going out in this weather.' Despondently, the boy asks, 'Dad, can I go? Please?'

His father hesitated for a moment then said, 'Son, you can go. Here are the tracts, be careful son.'

'Thanks Dad!'

And with that, he was off and out into the rain. his eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract.

After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet and down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were totally deserted.

Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered. He rang it again and again, but still no one answered. He waited but still no answer.

Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to leave, but something stopped him. Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front porch! He rang again and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked, 'What can I do for you, son?' With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy said, 'Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell you that *JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very last Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE.'

With that, he handed her his last tract and turned to leave. She called to him as he departed. 'Thank you, son! And God Bless You!'

Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was in the pulpit. As the service began, he asked, 'Does anybody have any testimony or want to say anything?'

Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady stood to her feet. As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from her face, 'No one in this church knows me. I've never been here before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live.

So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, then stood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, 'I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away.' I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and more insistent, and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly. I thought to myself again, 'Who on earth could this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me.' I loosened the rope from my neck and started for the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder.

When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you! The words that came from his mouth caused my heart that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, 'Ma'am, I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU.' Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that I now hold in my hand.

As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract. Then I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more.

You see---I am now a Happy Child of the KING. Since the address of your church was on the back of this Gospel Tract, I have come here to personally say THANK YOU to God's little angel who came just in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in hell.'

There was not a dry eye in the church. And as shouts of praise and honor to THE KING resounded off the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little angel was seated.

He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably. Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, and probably this universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love & honor for his son... Except for One.

Our Father also allowed His Son to go out into a cold and dark world. He received His Son back with joy unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor to The King, the Father sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all principality and power and every name that is named.

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Abiding in Christ

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John 15:5-8

John 15:5-8
5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

1. There is a source of life and you are not it.

James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

2. We have to remain in Christ and he has to remain in us if we’re to produce fruit.
Remaining in Christ
Walking in a state of constant fellowship with God
Pray continually 1 thes 4:16
Be being filled with the Holy Spirit

Fruit Production; 2 types Internal and external
Fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5
Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control.
Disciple creation

3. When we don’t abide in Christ we can do nothing. We wither like a branch that has no life. It is then worthless and disposed of.

Psalm 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.

4. When we abide in Christ we can ask whatever we want and it will be done. However our wants are now his so really we are asking what he wants.

1 John 5:14, 15
14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5. It glorifies God when we bear fruit and SHOW ourselves to be his disciples.

1 Peter 2:12
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

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The Independence County Fair

Dear Friends,

I'm excited about all the people who are signing up to win the $100.00 giveaway from my blog. I wish everyone could win but unfortunately there will only be one winner. I'm currently at youth camp in Carlinville IL and having a blessed time working with some of our youth from Jubilee Family Church. Thanks for subscribing and verifying your e-mail address. Hopefully the material you find here will help you get closer to the Lord and we'll get to meet in person soon.

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Pastor Tony





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Two by Two

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When hearts connect God moves in the miraculous

1 Corinthians 4:15
Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

I’ve been meditating on deliverance and different seasons of my ministry where deliverance has happened frequently and when it has happened infrequently.

Mark 6:7-13
Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. 8These were his instructions: "Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. 10Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them." 12They went out and preached that people should repent. 13They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.


1. The Calling – Jesus Called the original 12 disciples to himself and gave them instructions as to what they were to do.

2. The Sending – he sent them out ahead of him to go into the villages where he was going to preach.

3. The Administration – 2 x 2

4. The Impartation – Jesus gave the disciples authority to cast out evil spirits. They were deputized with his authority to do his work.

5. The Instructions - "Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. 10Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them."

6. The Message / Method - Repent / Anointing with oil.


7. The Results – They drove out Demons and healed the sick.

What does this mean for us today?
I’m going to talk to the modern day disciples of Jesus today. The saved and spirit filled people in this room. If you are not saved or spirit filled we will talk to you at the end but for now I want to address the believers in the building.

1. You are called
The Calling – Every believer has a calling to put people back into right relationship with the Father. We’ve all been given the ministry of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:18 (God the Father) reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
Romans 11:29 29for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable.

Your calling may not be to vocational ministry but you are called!

2. You have been sent
The Sending –
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.“
City (Cape Girardeau) State, (Missouri) Country, (United States of America) and the entire globe.

3. You need ministry accountability
Matthew 18:19
19"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

Ecclesiastes 4:12
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 11:14
14Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

4. You have a spiritual impartation available to you
Matthew 28:17-19
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Receiving an Impartation of God from a Man
2 Kings 3:11
But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there no prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD through him?" An officer of the king of Israel answered, "Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah. "

2 Kings 2:9,15
v9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?" "Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit," Elisha replied.
v15 The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, "The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha." And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

5. The Instructions –
“Travel Light” trusting the Lord to provide for the essentials of life.
1. 1 Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages."
Go where you are celebrated not just tolerated.
If people don’t receive your ministry move on.

6a. Your message
Stop sinning
6b. Our Method
Anointing with Oil
James 5:14
Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

7. Our Results
We should be casting out demons and being used to heal the sick.
These ministries are for those who want them and will press into his presence to be used in these areas.
Acts 10:34
34Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism

Luke 11:20
But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

Note: 54 our of 65 times the phrase kingdom of God is referring to a present or past kingdom. Only 11 times does it refer to a future coming kingdom.

I pray that if you need to make Jesus the Lord of your life you'll do that now. If you need an infilling of the Holy Spirit I also pray that you'll ask the God that gives generously to those who ask. Maybe you need to be healed, declare the word of the Lord over your situation or maybe you need deliverance from demonic activity. I pray that you get freedom from the spirits that are oppressing you.

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