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Isnt he amazing.....BRAVO!!!!!....Vitesse De Dieux

Happy BDay Socks. From all of to you .which one of those handsome men are you?

Somehow the course, the communication here at GSC will take strong twists and become a very harsh place to even try to reason with...there is a strong drive to prove ourselves right, I think it depends on the listener..which most certainly will never end peacefully, because eventualy anything started with value ends up getting trashed...it is a stronghold...somehow we feel our righteouness hinges on trust and being able to share our deepest feelings which is the most sacred....then people get hurt..I dunno...is there a right and wrong..

went to my brother's funeral a few months back and when I returned, I called a friend,who is still in twi, and he asked how the trip went, I said,"I was really tired and had just got in from the airport', his comment back to me was, "So it was an UnEVENTFUL time"!!!! I said yes, and just hung my head..sad for me and sad for him...because there was no emotion..duh.. there is something wrong here folks..these attitudes are just words strung together....... perfecting of the saints has 0 to do with cookie cutter thinking..

hhhmmmm sorry, I added a new signature line this morn...

your welcome PB..:)

Bul, click on the link..it says son of.. go to youtube, I think there more songs.

exie, that is the greatest gift anyone can give, helping someone to believe in themselves...hugs

Your so welcome Rainbowgirl!! My pleasure.....

This was just to special to put into the "Music Lover's) thread.. Sorry, I cannot embed this one.. It is definitely worth listening too! Get the tissues. It can be bought as well:) It is on the net, so im not concerned about copyrights. http://iacmusic.com/songs.aspx?SongID=3947...;ArtistID=61998

Great Day for Stew- So I decided to make your stew recipe Chas...everyone is commenting on how good is smells and cannot wait to eat. :)

very well said..sunesis..thank you

Happy Birthday!!

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I totaly understand that..

THanks squirrley

All I can say is..the Body I know is bleeding ....we need more ministers and less fighting..

It talks about the "Able Minister's" in the Epistles...so, how are they sorted by gifts? if God says we are all able minister's. Why just the few type's listed above? I think there are alot of folks who would have awesome minister's..but Craig casted a huge stumbling block...that is a awful way to hurt the Body of Christ.

Today I will be making this soup for my daughter's friend (30yrs) who has Breast Cancer..this is a great comfort food. Potato Soup Sautee sm chunks of Italian Sausage with Leek(chopped) boil 3lbs of chunked potato in 3 large cans of chicken broth when tender remove and slightly mash add back to broth/if you need to thicken-use a little instant potato flakes drain meat/add to broth. add Italian spices let simmer s&p turn off flame and let cool add 1/2 cp of sour cream when reheating, do not boil-it will curdle the sour cream

Im not trying to derail this thread..but people still have teachings by VP in thier thinking.. these notes were passed onto me...I thought I would share them with you since it covers this very topic..these were hand typed notes, not from a colateral. I can find nothing wrong with the way it reads..being that Jesus CHrist was the greatest example of love and a Doulos. I dont know why I should get any flack since the front page of this website is loaded with docs too..

I just found this prior to coming onto GSC, thought you may want to look at it. THE SEVEN CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAITHFUL MINISTER <H1 class=western goog_ds_charIndex="62">Victor Paul Wierwille</H1> The Scriptures used throughout this pamphlet are quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted. Any explanatory insertions or comments within a scripture verse are enclosed in brackets [ ]. Greek words are printed with English letters and italicized. God Bless and of course greetings to all of you in the wonderful name of our living lord and of our savior, Jesus Christ on this January the 15th, 1984. I don’t remember the last time I taught here but it’s been along time ago, I think it was in November of ‘82, but in April I know of ‘83, I was here during the Advanced Class. So I am real thankful to the Father to be back here on the campus here in Emporia with all the staff, the college, the Corps and you from around the state that are in here tonight. I appreciate the commitment and dedication of the leadership on this campus under the tutelage specifically and the guidance of Rev. John Lynn and all the wonderful greatness of God’s Word that lives here. On the 3rd of March which is a Saturday, the first Saturday of March, Mrs. Wierwille and I plan on being in the state of Kansas to do a vision building day with the believers of the state of Kansas and according to Rev. Johnny Townsend, he is planning on doing this in the area of Witchita. So we are looking forward to being back in the state with our wonderful people at that time. Tonight I had prepared for you an eight and a half by eleven sheet of paper that has the whole teaching on it. This teaching that I am going to share with you tonight I think is one of the most important teachings that I could do at this time in the history of our ministry and of my life. I’d like for you to turn to Second Timothy. Tonight the subject is “The Seven Characteristics of a Faithful Minister.” I wanted to share this with the leadership Friday at International but we had so much other business to take care of that we never got to it, so you are the people that will have to live through it tonight. But everybody there I think was an ordained minister and I had been working this and I wanted to share it but as I said, just time was not available. This is also the truth regarding a Twig co-ordinator and there is an exhortation of each characteristic given in this second chapter of Second Timothy. The number seven, people, is the number of perfection and this is the only place in the Bible where all the seven characteristics of a faithful minister are put together in one chapter. So all you need to do is understand this chapter and you’ll be always able to judge from the Word of God, let the Word of God do the judging of whether the ministry of a Twig co-ordinator or any other individual is according to the Word of God. And it is these seven characteristics that I listed on your paper ‘cause I thought you might be able to write in other things but these seven are: Number 1: Son be strong in grace. Number 2: Son be strong in service. Number 3: Son be a strong athlete. Number 4: Son be a strong husbandman, a cultivator. Number 5: Son be a strong workman. Number 6: Be a strong vessel. Number 7: Be a strong servant, a doulos. Those are the seven characteristics given in Second Timothy chapter two with an exhortation on each one of the characteristics and tonight I want to go through this second chapter with you verse by verse. II Timothy 2:1: Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in [whom?] Christ Jesus. Timothy was not Paul’s physical son but he was his spiritual son. He was the one, Paul was the one who had taught him the greatness of God’s Word and led him to the Lord Jesus Christ and the great truths of God’s Word. The first chapter of First Timothy gives a real great insight on this word son. I Timothy 1:2: Unto Timothy, my [what?] own son... And the literal of those words, “own son”, are “true child”. A true child. Unto Timothy my true child in the faith. And that is basically the meaning of chapter two, verse one. Thou therefore my true son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. True son, to be strong in the grace. Grace is God’s divine favour perpendicular from God to man, unmerited. And that grace is in what Christ Jesus accomplished for us. And the first requirement of a faithful minister is that he is to be strong in grace, divine favour perpendicular. He is not to be strong in his own mental acumens or the seminaries he graduated from - that’s all secondary. The primary is that he remembers to be strong in what? Grace, divine favour. That’s why a true minister of God is never critical in a negative sense. He’s not raising hell with people. The only people who ever raise hell with people are people who forget the grace of God, and the love of God, and forgiveness of God. A true son is one who remembers that it’s by grace that he is a minister of the Word, and that he is to be strong in that grace. And if he remembers that and verse two: II Timothy 2:2: ...the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, ... In other words, a true son stands faithful with the one who taught it to him. Paul taught Timothy, and Paul said, “The things that thou hast heard of me, Paul, among many witnesses...” - other people heard the same thing. And a true minister, a faithful minister, a son strong in the grace, is concerned about committing to faithful men that same truth. ...who shall be able to teach others also. So that is the exhortation about a son who is strong in grace. Number two is in verse three: Be strong in service. The King James reads, “ Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” It should be translated and read, “Thou therefore endure training, mental pressure, as a good server of Jesus Christ,” because we are athletes of the spirit. We are not warring soldiers that go out to kill and to destroy, but we’re athletes running in the spiritual race of life. Thou therefore endure training as a good server of Jesus Christ. The second great truth regarding the characteristics of a faithful minister... he is strong in what? Service. Strong in service. He endures training. Verse four. “No man that warreth...,” and the word warreth is a deliberate forgery in the King James. The word is service, serveth, or serves. “No man who serves entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a worker, a server.” Number three is: To be a strong athlete. And that is in verse five: And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The word strive in this verse is the greek word, athleo, from which we get our word athlete. Literally this verse accurately reads, “And contending in the games...” the athlete will strive to be the best - masteries “...but he’s not crowned except he...” do what? “Strive lawfully...” stay within the bounds of that athletic competition as he contends in the games. And he was talking about the Roman games. So he’s a strong athlete who develops himself to be absolutely the best it is possible for him to be. But he is not rewarded or he doesn’t receive, he’s not laced with the floral tributes, except he contend in the games according to the rules. The fourth characteristic is in verse six: “The husbandman...” the King James says, “...that labours must be first partaker of the fruits.” I figured most people didn’t understand the old English usage of the word husbandman. The husbandman is a cultivator, the one who cultivates the land, Biblically speaking. Today we would call him a farmer. This son is to be a strong cultivator. He is to cultivate people properly. He is to work with them properly like you would prepare the ground properly to receive the seed, a farmer would. And that’s why he says he must be first partaker of the fruits. You must be a partaker in cultivating and seeing this fruit develop if you’re going to be a faithful minister, a wonderful Twig co-ordinater. You have to work with people and you have to cultivate them. You have to prepare them to receive the Word of God. You just don’t come in and bulldoze your way through a Twig meeting. You love those people, and so you cultivate them, you understand? Some people need help here, someone else there. That’s how you get to be partaker of the fruit that you will see in their life as they grow. And there are quite a few verses after verse six that set this great truth in here. And I think the reason He used this many verses from six on through fourteen is because it’s such an important phase of a faithful minister’s responsibility. And that’s why he expanded it, so we would have a greater understanding and not screw up. The exhortation begins in verse seven: Consider what I say... These words, “consider what I say”, are the translation of the word “selah”. Selah, in the Old Testament, whenever you read that word in the Old Testament, class, it always means “consider what I say”. Flip to Psalm 3, please. To the best of my knowledge this is the only place I could remember where it was used for the first time, I’m not sure, but I think it is. People read the words like selah and they don’t know what they mean. At the end of verse two in Psalm three, do you have it? Psalm 3:2: Many there be which say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." [Then is the word:] Selah. And then after verse four: ...He heard me out of His holy hill. Selah. And then in verse eight: ...Thy blessing is upon Thy People. [And then the word:] Selah. It means consider what I’ve said, and it relates itself to the context of that which immediately follows. So back to verse seven of Second Timothy, please. II Timothy 2:7: Consider what I say; [what I have just said and what I’m gonna say now.] and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. The Lord give thee understanding. The reason he says that is because human nature is always to go back to what men say, or read what the world calls the most up-to-date periodicals, things that people talk about. The word of God says that a faithful minister is to go back primarily to the Lord, for it’s the Lord that’s gonna give him understanding. See, it’s always a temptation to go to the world, and then to quote what the world says. It’s wonderful to quote what the world says if it agrees with the Word, I guess, but the Word teaches that a faithful minister has to rely upon the Lord, not man, to give him understanding in, what? All things. And we are to remember, verse eight: ...that Jesus Christ of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel: …Paul says. And the reason it was his Gospel is because God revealed it to him and Paul declared it. Verse 9: Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not [what?] bound. The word “evil doer” here is the same word that’s used regarding two of the men that were crucified with Jesus. It’s the word malefactor - kakourgoi. You suffer trouble from other people because they will treat you as a malefactor. Paul said he had suffered it even to where they’d put him in jail. But when he was in prison the Word was still not, what? Bound. Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, were all written from Rome when he was in prison. See, I don’t think Peter was ever in Rome. Told the Corps that last Wednesday night. So, if that group over there wanted to have a Pope, they should have had Paul. Paul was there, but Peter never was. So, the first Pope in Rome could not have been Peter, he never was there. Well, you figure it out, I don’t care. But Paul was in prison in Rome, and from the prison in Rome he wrote some of the great mystery revelation, 'cause the word of God is not bound by chains. You see, no matter what people say about you, you know your own heart, you know your own mind. And they can speak of you as a malefactor, an evil doer, but you know the purity of your own soul and of your own mind, and you know that you are a faithful minister. Verse 10: Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, [for the born again believers] that they [then the word "also" should be there - that they also, the elect, also] may obtain the salvation [the wholeness] which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. You're a strong cultivator of the people. Verse 11: It is a faithful saying: [text literally reads, “faithful is the saying:”] For if we be [are] dead [we are dead with him, not be, but are dead] with Him, we shall also live with Him. Verse 12: If we suffer[ed], we shall also reign [should be “reign also”] with Him: Then there should be a period. Verse twelve ought to start with the word “If we deny...” “Faithful is the saying, for if we are dead with him, we shall live with him. And if we suffered with him, we shall also reign with him.” You see when Jesus Christ died, we died with him. When God raised him, we were raised with him. When he was seated at the right hand of God, we were seated with him, everything with what God wrought in Christ Jesus. Now verse twelve: ...if we deny Him, He also will [will also] deny us: If we deny the truth of the greatness of this, then God can’t do anything else but deny us too, and say, look dude, you’re wrong! You’re not a faithful minister. To teach anything else but that every believer died with Christ, and arose with him, is to deny what Christ Jesus really did for us, and we’re not faithful ministers. Verse thirteen goes on to say: If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: [Why? Because God] ...cannot deny Himself. Verse 14: Of these things put them in remembrance, [a good cultivator puts people in remembrance] charging them before the Lord [The word "Lord" is "God" in many texts, and I think that's what it should be here, charging them before God] that they [contend not] strive not [contend not] about words to no profit, but to the subverting [or the disrupting] of the hearers. If you’re going to be a good cultivator, a faithful minister, a good Twig co-ordinator, you got to remember to charge them before God that they contend not. You do not contend about words that are unprofitable. You know, you can spend all night arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. That would be words to no profit. And all it would do is subvert, distract the hearers. And that’s why verse fifteen now comes as the fifth great truth: Son be a strong workman. Verse 15: Study to shew thyself approved unto [whom?] God, a workman... [who] needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. You study diligently, you apply yourself as a Twig co-ordinator, as a faithful minister, to do one thing: to stand approved unto God as a workman. A workman of the Word. A workman of the Word, not of theologians, or all that other stuff, but you work the Word, people. And that’s the only way you can stand approved before God, working the Word, rightly dividing the Word of truth. The scriptures, the Word of God, is the Word of truth, but only to the end and in the proportion that we rightly divide it do we have the true Word. And most of Christendom today is built on tradition rather than the right dividing of the Word. They are sincere, but sincerity is no guarantee of truth, people. The Devil is as sincere as you are. I think many times more so than you are. Shouldn’t be, but.... Look, you will never have the true Word until we rightly divide it. And that’s that right cutting, I think it’s orthotomounta or something in the text. I teach it in the Foundational Class. And then come the following verses regarding this strong workman: Verse 16: ...shun profane and vain babblings... And I put this on your paper, ‘cause I doubted if too many of you would be able to understand what really profane was. Shun profane is the dishonorable, and vain babblings is intellectual stupidity. And you’re constantly being tempted with that and bombarded with it in the world. So, a faithful minister, a Twig co-ordinator has to shun... the word shun, you know, means to avoid, ...you avoid profane or dishonorable, because we are to study to show ourselves approved unto God. The profane would be that they would lower the study to show yourself approved unto God. They would demand of you, you study to show yourself approved to the tradition. It’s dishonorable to study to show yourself approved to tradition. The vain babblings, as I said, are the presentations that people hit you with. It sounds so intellectual, and they’re so intellectual, and they hold degrees from the most reputable so-called academic institutions, and so people sit back and say, well he’s got to be right. But what he says is contrary to what the integrity of the Word says. That’s why it’s intellectual stupidity. Seventeen says: ...their word [this intellectual stupidity, their word] will eat as doth a canker... And the word canker is the word gangrene. Then it names these two fellas, "Hymenaeus and Philetus." Verse 18: Who concerning the truth have erred... And how did they err? They said that the resurrection is past already. And they did this in a very intellectual way. And so they overthrew the believing of some. Verse 19: Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, [His Word standeth sure because His word liveth and abideth forever. God does not change. He is the same yesterday, today, forever] having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Verse 20: But [For] in a great house [in a big home, a big house, a big family] there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to... Then King James says what? Dishonour. That’s another terrible mistake. ...less honour. Not dishonour, less honour, because a vessel that’s of less honour is still not a dishonourable vessel. And what he is giving here is an illustration out of the culture of his time. That they had vessels of gold and of silver that were used for the anointing of the head of the guests. There were vessels that were used for the washing of the hands and the face. Then there were vessels that were used for the washing of the feet. And then there were vessels that were used when you have to go to the bathroom. Now those vessels that were used for the washing of the feet were not gold or silver, they were lesser vessels, and that’s what he’s talking about. And yet very needful. Likewise the vessels that they used when they went to the bathroom. Those were considered lesser vessels. Then comes the sixth great truth: Be a strong vessel, a good strong vessel. Verse 21: If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto every good work. You see, the lesser vessel was clean, but it was just not used for the anointing of the head, it might be used for the washing of the feet. And those vessels are meet for the Master’s use, prepared unto every good work. And in order to illustrate this, he gives the exhortation in verse twenty-two: Flee ...youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, [which is the love of God in the renewed mind] peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. We are to be a strong vessel unto honour, and we have to flee youthful lusts. What are youthful lusts? Well, I don’t think it’s particularly sexual - maybe occasionally, but... You know when you’re young you want so many things, you want to own things. You know, you want this, you want that, you want two cars, you want this, you want that. You want all new furniture in the house, you want three T.V. sets. All of that stuff, and that’s what He says we ought to flee. God said He’d supply our need. Every faithful minister, every Twig co-ordinator will have his needs supplied. God never promised He’d fulfill our greeds. And it’s in greeds that you get burdened down. When you get all these things that when you’re young you think you like to have, you get so burdened down that you’re just like the rest of the world, you get nothing done for God. All you work for is the world. And the world for the most part gets people so tied up they’re never free to serve God, all they can do is go out there and serve the world and pay off what they’ve already accumulated which they didn’t need. You try to keep you’re life as simple as you can if you’re a faithful minister. You see, Jesus Christ came that we might have a life and have it more abundantly, but the abundance is not particularly in material things, possessions. See, I don’t care who owns this auditorium, as long as I have the privilege of teaching the Word in it. I don’t own it. You don’t own it. The ministry has it. And yet, every one of us in here tonight can get blessed, see. If I owned it, I’d have a barrel of trouble. You know then, I would have to pay tax on it, I’d have to see about all the heat, everything else. Now all I do is bless people, they all work together as a family and we all get blessed. Like, you know, I don’t care about these material things, as long as I can use them. And that is why I can speak with great authority in this field because I’ve been there. I was born and raised in a very wealthy family. And then, of course, when the time came to inherit the Wierwille stuff, we gave it all away, gave it all to the Way Ministry. The whole farm, all the money, everything else. And it’s wonderful. If I still owned the Way International farm, I couldn't enjoy it as much as I enjoy it now. And yet I have the freedom of living there, I have the freedom of spending my life there, what else could a man want? You know, I can walk all over that three-hundred acres, every foot I want to walk on it, nobody throws me off. So can you. So it’s not in ownership, it’s just that we have the freedom to use that which is made available to us. And that’s why in verse twenty-three comes up another truth, like we had earlier only here it’s stated: ...foolish and unlearned questions [do what?] avoid... ...like poison ivy. Foolish and unlearned questions, and they’re unlearned questions because they do not represent the accuracy of God’s Word. They are simply put in there to irritate you. They want to irritate you. They say something which is contrary to God’s Word. You know, like they’ll say, “Well, you don’t believe Jesus Christ is God, well then explain John 1:1 to me.” That’s a foolish and unlearned question. You explain it. Don’t ask me to explain it. Let them explain it to their friends or enemies. You see, you just don’t get taken in with those things when you are a faithful minister. You don’t spin your wheels with foolish and unlearned questions. You avoid ‘em like I said like poison ivy ‘er something. Why? Because, you know that they will just gender strife. They are asking this of you not because they want to learn, but because they want to fight. And you and I haven’t got time to fight as faithful ministers and Twig co-ordinators. All we got time for is to love God’s people and then hold forth the Word in all of it’s greatness and all of it’s truth. Let them fight with somebody else. And then comes this great twenty-fourth verse which winds up the, which is the seventh one, which puts it in the perspective of perfection, class. Verse 24: And the servant of the Lord... Seven is: Son be a strong servant. And the servant of the Lord... ...must not strive; The word “servant” is “doulos”. The marked out minister. You got God’s brand on you, you been branded by God. You have his stamp on you as a Twig co-ordinator, as a faithful minister, and as a doulos of the Lord. He must not strive. Strive is the word battle or fight. ...but be gentle unto all... That’s the second great exhortation here. Be gentle, gentle. You see, people through the years have violently disagreed with what I stand for and what I believe to be the truth of God’s Word. And yet I always endeavor to be gentle with them, as much as lieth within me. And a faithful minister, a faithful Twig co-ordinator, has to be apt to what? Teach. Apt to teach, he must be able to teach. Apt to teaching. I so believe that I’m apt to teach that when I finish tonight, I don’t expect any questions left over the subject I’ve taught. And I expect everybody here to understand it. Because I believe I got the ability to teach. Because first of all, the enablements came from God with the manifestations, and then I have studied to show myself approved by rightly dividing the Word. So, when I teach, I expect people to understand what I teach, ‘cause I try to make it so simple that nobody is stupid enough to miss it. You just can’t miss it when I teach. ‘Cause nobody would be that stupid. Else the devil would never let you get in here, ‘er something. See. Apt to teach, and then you have to be patient. Good Lord. That’s another one of those youthful lusts - impatience. You want everything right now. A faithful minister, a wonderful Twig co- ordinator, is patient. And whenever you work with people, which is all basically that we work with, it just takes patience to work with people. And sometimes it takes a whole month ‘till you see any fruit, but you’re cultivating, remember? And when a farmer plants a field, he doesn’t see the wheat crop immediately, he has patience. And I as a minister of God, for God, I have to have patience with people. Wait. Just wait, they’ll come. Sooner or later. If it doesn’t come sooner or later, what have you lost? Nothin’, you just wait. That’s why we were able to do those thirteen major television productions, which should’ve been done ten years ago, but I just had to wait ‘till the right people that were committed and had the talent that could put it together. You know, I don’t like to wait, either. But, I cannot be a faithful minister and not wait, because if I don’t, I become critical, just opposite of what the Word says. And then you criticize people and find fault, and that is not being a faithful minister. So, I do not criticize or find fault, I just... apt to teach, patient. And look verse twenty-five: In meekness [in meekness] instructing those that [are screwing themselves up, who ] oppose themselves; [who hurt themselves.] You'd like for them to walk the Word, but you know they're not. So, in meekness you instruct those that oppose themselves. And the reason you can do this in meekness is because you are strong in the grace that is in whom? Christ Jesus. When you forget God's grace, that's when people become critical. That's when they begin pointing fingers. All you have to remember is what God forgives you for and you have no problem forgiving others in your Twig, or people that are under the ministry that God has given you and made you responsible for. So in meekness, humility - tenderness, honey - you instruct those that oppose themself. And the rest of that verse reads accurately: ...that God at some time will give them change of heart to the acknowledging of the truth. [Literal] Isn’t that beautiful? You’re a strong doulos, a son of God who is a strong servant. Not striving, you’re gentle, you’re a teacher, and you walk meekly and humbly with the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation in your life. Verse 26: ...that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil... These are those that are opposing themselves. So, in meekness. And meekness is what helps them to recover themselves. You can’t recover anybody, the individual has to do that. You can’t get saved for me. I have to do it. And these people, if you have them in your fellowship and you are a faithful minister, you will in meekness instruct them that they by the freedom of their will can have a change of heart. And when they have a change of heart, they recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, ...who are taken captive by him at his will. The Adversary took captive of them at the Adversary’s will because they did not have the renewed mind, did not put on the mind of Christ yet. Every day in this ministry we got new babies. This next month perhaps we will have a couple thousand new babies, just here in the United States. Well, you wouldn’t expect a human baby to play football the first day. Well, what about a spiritual baby? You just got to take time. And the greatest thing I know that brings people into the greatness of all of this is the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation in a faithful minister. That he so loves because God loved him, that he just surrounds the Twig, the believers, with the love of God. And I see this in our leadership, and I’m real grateful, real thankful. And I appreciate that God put here in one chapter all those characteristics of a faithful minister, a faithful Twig co-ordinator. A Twig co-ordinator is ministering to the Twig. And all you need to know is this chapter, and you can make a decision according to the Word of God regarding the faithfulness of any minister, anyplace, anywheres in the world, or in anything you read. So, number one is to be strong in what? Grace. Number two, be strong in what? Service. Number three a strong? Athlete. Number four? Strong husbandman or cultivator. Number five? A strong what? Workman. Number six, a strong what? Vessel. And number seven, a strong what? Servant. Those are the seven characteristics. Thank you, Father for allowing me to teach the Word to your wonderful people here tonight. Thank you for the greatness in which you have set all these wonderful truths in such an abbreviated form in one chapter in the sacred scriptures. And tonight, Father, I thank you for our ministers all over the world, our Twig co-ordinators that minister, everywhere. And may they walk on the greatness of that Word and be the epitomization of the truth that we have shared with your people tonight, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen? God bless, I love you, you’re the best.

So am I where I am today because of my own believing?

Looks like great fun...oh, how I love fresh veggies!!Im in NH so this is far reach,but Im sure there ae some around who would enjoy this day!