What is True Freedom?

This is a Personal Message to You
from John Elley

You can have HOPE and you can Overcome your Fears
and be able to Deal with your Struggles and be Truly Set Free!

I've been Set Free, and YOU can too!

  

What is True 

John 8:31-36
The Truth Shall Make You Free
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

John 14:1-6
1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
4 And where I go you know, and the way you know."
5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

The Truth is that Jesus is the One & Only True Living God! He is the Christ, the Messiah & Savior of the World, He is the Word of God, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, The Alpha and Omega (the First & the Last), the Son of God and the Son of Man, the Lamb of God and the Great I am, He is God in human flesh, the Image of the Invisible God.

Colossians 1:15-16 (ESV)
The Preeminence of Christ
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things were created through him and for him.

God the Father is Holy and Perfect in all His ways and we fall short of His demand that we too are to be perfect and Holy, for we have been created in His Image. But because of sin which originated in the Heavens by Lucifer who became satan (the devil), when he rebelled against God and then satan brought that sin before mankind in the garden and Adam and Eve acted upon that temptation and they too rebelled against God in their disobedience to what God had required of them, now sin and the results of sin which is death has been applied (credited) to the entire human race.

Jesus came to this earth and lived the Perfect Life that we could not, cannot and to this day, are not able to live. He PAID the sin debt that we could not pay. He paid the debt for us, He paid for all our sins by the shedding of His Blood on the Cross at Calvary, He Died for us in our place. He died our death, He is our substitute, He substituted His Life for us.

The Perfect Life that God demands from us was lived by Jesus Christ for us. His Perfection (Him living life perfectly according to the Perfect Standards of God), is applied to us, when we admit to God that we are sinners in need of a savior and we accept Him (Jesus) as our Lord and Savior.

We are credited with His Perfection. It's as if we lived the Perfect Life that Jesus lived (which we haven't and can't), and HE (Jesus) lived our sinful life. When we accept Jesus as our Savior a transfer takes place in the perfect life lived by Jesus Christ and the sinful life we live. Jesus Christ's perfection is transferred to us and our sin is transferred to Him.

2 Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Colossians 1:13-14
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

By believing and having faith in what Jesus did for us, that we could never do for ourselves, our sins are paid for. Jesus PAID our sin debt for us. Jesus then rose from the grave in Triumphant Victory over death and sin on the 3rd day just as He said He would and by this act of His and in our faith of what He has done for us, we, too shall rise in newness of life with Him. God has given us the gift of Eternal Life through His Son, Jesus Christ.

So if you are always frustrated, angry... if you struggle with depression, despair, fear, pain, sorrow, guilt over things you may have done or things that were done to you, you can be set Free!

And if you are tired of smoking, and/or addicted to drugs and you Want to QUIT, you can be set Free!

You can have HOPE in knowing you can overcome your fears and be able to deal with your struggles and be
Truly set Free!

However, you can't do it alone. You need help.
The ONLY way you can do this is through The Lord Jesus Christ who wants to help you and He will help you, according to His Will, if you go to Him. Plus, He will do so much more for you, than you could ever imagine.

  

Welcome, my name is John Elley and I am a Follower of The Lord Jesus Christ. I would like to share with you my testimony of what Jesus has done for me, and what He would like to do for you, if you will let Him...

There is more to life than we realize. Take the time now to come to know the one and only True Living God.
Your life will change in more ways than you can ever realize or ever think was possible when you come to believe and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is the one and only True Living God, who can not only help get through and overcome whatever you are struggling with in this life, right now, but He can SAVE YOU from Eternal Destruction (Death) and give you Eternal Life.

I have been blessed with a new life, here in this life, and for the rest of Eternity. You can be blessed with a new life as well. I have been set free from my addiction to smoking, from sexual lust, from the love of money (greed), fear, despair, pain, sorrow, guilt, anger, depression and so much more because I accepted Jesus into my life as my Lord and Savior, and through the Power of His Holy Spirit, I am learning to live my life in the Freedom He has given me, while I'm still here on this earth, and He has been making some wonderful changes and transformations within me and in my life.

  

Jesus has also Forgiven me of

Another words, I won't Die. Yes, my physical body will pass away and cease to exist, but I will continue to live and God will create a new body that will never cease and never die again.

Death is a Seperation of the Soul (which is the real You), from the Body into 1 of 2 Eternal Destinations. It is a Continuation of Life! The human soul is the part of a person that is not physical. It is your mind, your thoughts, your emotions, and your conscience. It is the part of every human being that lasts eternally after the physical body itself experiences physical death.

We can only get to Heaven by the Grace of God through our Faith in His Son Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:8-10
By Grace Through Faith
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What is eternal death?
Eternal Death is the fate that awaits all people who ultimately reject God, reject the gospel of His Son, Jesus Christ, and remain in their sin and disobedience. Physical death is a one-time experience. Eternal death, on the other hand, is everlasting. It is a death that continues through eternity, a spiritual death that is experienced on a continual basis. Just as spiritual life, by grace through faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9) is everlasting life, eternal death is never-ending. Source https://www.gotquestions.org/eternal-death.html

Click here for the definition of sin and to learn about The Fall of Mankind and Beginning of Sin in the Human Race!

  

This is my Testimony...

This was my Old Life.
Looking back on my life now I can see I was more of a mess than I ever thought, but I also see how good God has been to me in cleaning my life up.

I realize I do not deserve any of this goodness that He (Jesus), has done and continues to do for me and through it all I can see and understand that the only reason He (Jesus), has done any of this is because He Loves me.

I was not living my life in accordance or in fellowship with my Lord Jesus. I was a horrible person who angered easily, used extensive profanity, I dealt with bouts of drunkeness, addictions to nicotine (which is a drug), so yes, I can call myself a drug addict because of the years of smoking and the stuggles of trying to quit, I committed sexual lusts and I desired to have the same things that other people had, which is considered coveting. I committed acts of deception, lies, theft, hatred and so much more. I basically broke every one of the Ten Commandments and all that is a part of them. I WAS A MESS...

I was dead in my trespasses and sins, living without hope and without God in my life. I used to walk according to the ways of this world and I conducted myself in the lusts of the flesh and I was a child of wrath.

But God has taken that all away from me because I came to Him for help, I confessed of my sins and accepted Him as my Lord and Saviour and my life has not been the same ever since.

I give all my Praise to the Lord Jesus Christ. He saved me from my struggles and He saved me from certain death.

In my past there were times I was angered and felt a sense of hatred, as I'm sure we all have at one time or another, whether it be toward a sibling or someone at school for something they said or did, and we would feel this anger to the point that we would have a strong sense of hatred towards them. Well, in the eyes of God, having the feeling of hatred towards someone, for any reason, is the same as committing the sin of murder.

I've lied and deceived. I have lied numerous times to get out of situations that I got in to in order to minimize the consequence. We all have told a lie at some point in our lives. Even when telling the truth about something, if you only tell part of the truth and hold back on telling it all, that is a form of deception/lie.

I was a thief, for I have stolen. I started young. I was about 5 or 6 or when I stole a box of crayons from the store and when we got home my mother asked me were I got them, because she did not buy them and they were brand new. I told her a lady at the store gave them to me. Wow, a lie and an act of theft all in one shot.

My mother did not drive so she got my aunt to take us back to the department store and she marched me right in to the security office and told me to tell them what I did.

I was scared to death and after I did that she even made me give back the box of crayons. Boy, that made me mad. I had a lecture from the security officer and he let me go.

We need to realize that the act of theft or stealing is taking something that does not belong to us and keeping it. It is also the act of finding something that is not ours and instead of trying to find the person who it belongs to, we instead make the decision to keep it. That is a form of theft/stealing because we are taking and keeping something that does not belong to us.

There were other times such as when you find something that is not yours and you keep it. We have all done it, including myself, especially as children when we find something that someone had set down or forgot where they put it and we pick it up and then they say, "hey that is mine, give it back" and we say, "nope finders keepers, loser weepers." Just doing something as simple as that, is considered STEALING. And STEALING in the eyes of God is a sin.

  

Jesus answered my Prayers and helps me to STOP smoking.
At the age of 18 I started the ugly habit of smoking. Over the years, during my marriages, I tried numerous ways to quit. I tried the gum, hypnosis several times, the fake cigarettes etc., but nothing worked.

Finally after 29 years of smoking, Jesus finally saved me. Starting in July 2004 and I was having a problem with swollen glands in the side of my neck, and I could feel what felt like a lump in my throat.

I went to the local clinic and they ran several tests and they all came back negative, but the female doctor that was taking care of me finally told me when I asked her what she though it could be and she said it MIGHT be throat cancer, but more tests were going to be needed.

They gave me a 14 day prescription of antibiotics and told me to come back in 14 days.

As I left the office I was horrified and scared to death. I did not know what I was going to do if I really did have throat cancer.

After I got home that day, I went on the computer and I looked up the symptoms for throat cancer and it seemed that I had them all. Now the feelings of desperation and fear really started to set in.

After the 14 days there was no changes in my condition and I was really starting to worry more so I went to the emergency room and asked them to find out what was wrong.

They set me up to see an ear, nose and throat specialist and it was another week and a half before I could get the appointment.

When I went in to see the specialist, he looked deep down into my throat area whit a big bright light and did a few other tests and finally he sat down on his chair with wheels and rolled himself against the wall on the other side of the room.

He then proceeded to write on his pad and this was making me very nervous.

He then looked up at me as said, "From what I see, there is No Sign of cancer and You DO NOT have throat cancer".

I felt a great sign of relief. He then told me that my throat was raw and burned and that the swelling of the glands on the side of my throat was a reaction to the rawness in my throat.

He then said the following, he said, "However if you DO NOT QUIT smoking NOW, you WILL HAVE throat cancer".

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That hit me like a ton of bricks, because every day since I went to the clinic about 3 weeks earlier, I was on a daily basis, trying to smoke less. Each night I would take the cigarettes I had left and tore them in half and threw them in the garbage and I would tell myself I was done smoking.

Then, each day after I woke up, I would make it to about lunch time then the urge and cravings got to me and I would go out and buy another pack and I would tell myself just smoke one to relieve the urge and anxiety. I ended up smoking about 6 to 8 during the course of the day and then at night before going to bed I did the same thing. Tore them up, threw them out and said I'm Done.

It was during this time, that I started to turn back to Jesus. I was praying daily to God, more than once a day, to help me to finally become a non-smoker and to prevent me from having throat cancer.

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After the doctor said those words to me "However if you DO NOT QUIT smoking NOW, you WILL HAVE throat cancer", I left his office and I had about 6 cigarettes in my pocket. I took them out, tore them up and I never touched another cigarette again. That was on 8/14/2004.

As I mentioned earlier, I tried numerous ways to quit. I tried the gum, hypnosis several times, the fake cigarettes etc., but nothing worked. I always had serious withdrawals, cravings, urges etc.

But this time, things were different. From that day in 2004 until the present time 2019, I have not had any desires, urges, withdrawal symptoms. Instead I had an IMMEDIATE Distaste and feelings of disgust for any kind of smoking.

Even going to the store after this I noticed the smell of smoke from people who were smoking in the parking lot and the smell made me sick to the point I had to hold my breath as I walked past them until I got into the store.

I told our pastor about this and he said this was because GOD stepped in and took away the urges and withdrawals and GOD answered my prayers.

I give Praise and Thanks to the Good Lord Jesus for helping me through this time and for saving me from my addiction to cigarettes and nicotine which is one of the tools that Satan uses to destroy mankind.

(Update for 2019) I am no longer addicted smoking, to the computer and the internet as a means of trying to make money with it, and allowing it to consume me as it has done in the past, because Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit within me has set me free from this idolistic affliction and so much more.

John 8:31-36
The Truth Shall Make You Free
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
33 They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, 'You will be made free'?"
34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever.
36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

  

I wrongly continued to live and walk in sin, even after accepting Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.
There was a lot on anger in me because life was not going the way I wanted it to go. I took a lot of my anger out on my sons. I remember there were times when I would yell and curse at them, and even gave them a good beating for things they did, but, I was blowing the situation totally out of proportion because they were never bad enough to deserve how I treated them.

During my first marriage, my wife Helena and I gave our hearts to the Lord Jesus and we accepted Him into our lives as our Lord, but we did not continue in our walk with Him. We did not continue to learn who He was and what He had really done for us, and we were not following up on our commitment to Him by going to church and fellowshipping with our brother and sisters in Christ, or in raising our sons in a way where they would know Christ.

Since I failed to lead my family in following the Lord and living our lives for Him, life continued to be a dfficult struggle and things fell apart because, even through we gave our hearts to the Lord, we were preventing Him from helping us because we were still living in disobedience to Him.

Because I failed as a father and a husband to bring my family up in a Christian environment my first marriage ended in divorce.

I walked out on my first wife and my sons due to financial, martial and infidelity problems. My sons suffered a great deal due to my actions and the divorce and for that I am truly sorry, because a lot of their suffering is the result of my sin of anger (outbursts of wrath), selfish ambitions, covetousness, idolatry, envy, etc.

I did however reconcile with my first wife during our separation and we decided to become friends again and to get through the divorce as peaceably as possible. We remained friends until her death on 6/20/2015 due to health related problems. She is greatly loved and missed by me and all who knew her.

I remarried a second time and I thought this marriage was going to lead me into a better life. Boy was I wrong. the marriage lasted 1 year and 3 months and financially wiped me out and put me into serious debt.

In 1999, after my second divorce, I was introduced to the internet and became addicted to it and I tried to make extra money at home like a lot of other people were trying to do in the beginning.

I committed idolatry. The computer and the internet became an idol to me for many years as I tried to find ways to make that almighty dollar.

I had my own adult sites that I tried to sell all kinds of stuff to satisfy the human urges of sexual lust. The Holy Sprit convicted me of my wrong doings and I closed it down after a year and a half.

I also had a gambling website that lured people into the sin of online gambling. Made some money with this, but I closed this down when the government announced that it was going to make online gambling in the US illegal.

I no longer struggle with these addictions, lusts, strongholds, desires because I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ into my life as my Lord and Savior and over time He has been changing me and has helped me through His Power, not my own power to overcome these things.

I could not do it on my own, but through the Power of the Holy Spirit from Jesus Christ Himself these things were made possible.

  

Jesus continues to Transform my Life into who He created me to be. Thank You, Jesus.
After my 2nd marriage ended in divorce, while I was living in Florida that I came to know a very wonderful and beautiful Christian woman, whom I had met online. Upon meeting her numerous times and getting to know her and falling in love with her, I decided it was time for a major change in my life.

Jesus brings a wonderful women into my life and answers numerous prayers. In 2007, I made the move from Florida, to live in New Hampshire so I could start my life over with a very wonderful and beautiful Christian woman, who would become my soul-mate in Christ, my best friend, my partner and companion and my lover.

She had also gone through a divorce and in our conversations and meeting have fallen in love and made the decision to be together.

During our first several years together we we not living as God wanted us to, because we were living together as girlfriend and boyfriend. We had other family members living with us and I was working at a job that I was not happy with and that did not pay enough to cover our expenses properly.

We were experiencing a lot of troublesome situations and since we were not following God as we should have and since I did not do my part in seeking God for help, guidance and assistance, like I should have, I was misguided and mislead by outside influences and I made a very wrong and hurtful decision to leave my girlfriend in her time of need.

I left her and moved to New Jersey to be with my sons. On my way to NJ she continued to call me on the phone to find out where I was because I did not come home that dreadful day after work. I was a coward and ran off. I finally answered one of her calls and she pleaded over and over for me to come back home, but through my self-centered foolishness I refused.

I was totally wrong in what I did and how I did it. I hurt her and myself very much and I will regret it for the rest of my life.

During the 8 months that I was away, she continued to stay in touch with me. In the beginning I kept trying to push her away. I am so very thankful to my Lord Jesus that He kept her determined and focused on not giving up on me.

Each time she contacted me I could feel Jesus touching my heart and softening it to be more acceptable to wanting to be with her again. I was becoming less aggravated and angry over the things that I could not change and realizing that I needed God back in my life and that the only way to change the things that needed to be changed was through Jesus.

One day when she called, we were talking about getting back together and that it would be best to move back to New Hampshire, since we could not afford to move to NJ. The cost of living in NJ was just too much for the job I was looking into getting. She said she wanted to get back together the right way in God's eyes and that if we were to live together again we would have to get married first.

I was in total agreement with her because this is what I wanted as well, and I said YES, let's do this now, the right way, in the eyes of Our Lord. So I said let's get married. We knew that there would be some people in my family that would not be in agreement with this, but that would have to be their problem.

In a matter of 3 weeks she made all the arrangements for our wedding and honeymoon and made the bridal parties gowns and made matching vests for her grandsons who were in the wedding procession. My wife and I have given our hearts and our lives over to Jesus as our Lord and Savior, and our lives have been truly blessed.

  

Jesus answers prayers to have successful cataract surgery
My 1st Cataract surgery was done on 9/15/2017. Feeling good, eye sight clearer than before, doctor said it will improve in a few days with healing. I thank Jesus for providing the resources for this to be done and for giving the doctors and nurses the knowledge to do what they do. Praying for Jesus to complete the healing process since He is the only one that provides all healing within us. Best part, I wrote and read this without my glasses. Actually clearer to read through the eye that was operated on than my eye waiting for the surgery in two weeks. Actually can't wait. It's nice to see all that God has created with more clarity. Thank you Jesus, all Praise and Glory to You.

On Wednesday 9/27, my wife was communicating with a friend of ours in England, who is an Evangelist and she asked him to pray for my upcoming cataract surgery on Friday 9/30. He said he will pray, and then a few minutes later after he had gone into prayer, he messaged back to my wife and said that I would have 20/20 vision.

It was such a blessing to have him give us these words that he received from Jesus that my eyes would be healed, giving me 20/20 vision, which is what I and others have been praying for, and my Good Lord Jesus would be answering our prayers.

My 2nd Cataract surgery was finally done on 9/29/2017 on my right eye. On Saturday 9/30, I went to the post-op appointment with the doctor. They said my surgery went well and they gave me an eye test and before I could asked how it turned out, the doctor said "well, you did good, you HAVE 20/20 vision". I just about cried right then and there as I thanked our Good Lord Jesus for giving me 20/20 vision. Jesus answered our prayers and the words that he gave to the Evangelist on Wednesday 9/27, were now confirmed by the doctor.

All Praise and Glory I give to Jesus, our Almighty Father in Heaven. The amazing thing also is that the doctor said my eyes will continue to heal over the next couple of weeks and that my vision will get better as they heal, but Jesus is working ahead of that. Thank you Jesus, no more glasses for me.

I thanked the Doctor for answering his calling to be an eye surgeon and said God gave him an amazing talent... the doctor told me that he believed that God gave him that talent as well. When my wife and I got to the car to leave we were both moved to tears... we are so thankful. Thank you and all Praise and Glory to our Lord Jesus.

I know a lot of people will say they know someone who has had cataract surgery and they also received 20/20 vision, so what makes mine so special?

Mine was foretold by Jesus 2 days before the surgery that I Would have 20/20 vision and on the 3rd day it was revealed in testing that I had 20/20 vision. Yes, everyone that goes through this does have a slim chance of having 20/20 vision, most however don't, and they still need corrective glasses. In my case I was told in advance that I would have, not might have or could have, but I would and I did.

He made Alive - By Grace Through Faith
Ephesians 2
1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Brought Near by His Blood
11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands
12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Christ Our Peace
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Christ Our Cornerstone
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

  

Jesus answers our prayers during financial hardship with a Wonderful Financial Blessing
Our Lord Jesus is an Amazingly Awesome and Wonderful GOD. Thank you my Lord Jesus for the blessing you provided for me and my wife in October and November 2016.

Like so many people in this great country, we run our finances pay check to pay check with very little left over for savings.

However we have been running extremely tighter than usual and over the last several months our little bit in savings has gotten smaller and smaller as we pay our bills each month.

In the beginning of October we were starting to have car issues with a bad wheel bearing and since we are so tight financially we did not have the extra finances to cover the repair.

During my daily prayers that I do every morning, I have been praying to Jesus to help us with our financial situation, such as an increase in work at my job so that all of us at work could receive some needed over-time, or for help in any other way that my Lord may decide to help us with that I have no clue as to what He may decide to do. Another words, I was praying for a financial Miracle.

Well, in the nick of time He answered my prayers. We started to receive over-time at work and we were able to afford to have the wheel bearing fixed along with rear brakes.

Thank you my Lord Jesus for your help and assistance.

Even though I just started to get some over-time at work, we also ran extremely tight with our household finances since our mortgage just went up because of an increase in our taxes.

On 10/31 when I transferred money from my account that I get direct deposit into from work, into the account that we pay our mortgage from, I found that we were short. I also had to transfer what little we had in savings money to cover our mortgage.

We were able to scrap enough to pay our bills and mortgage from the month and to pay our tithing to the church, which we have been doing on a weekly basis.

So after paying our mortgage, bills and tithe for the month we ending up with 0.31 in my checking account, 0.14 in my wife's savings account, 0.48 in my saving account, 0.95 in our money market, and $5.55 in our main checking account for paying bills.

Yup, we were broke, but we are thankful to our Lord that we were able to meet our expenses and responsibility to our church and still have a little left over.

But as I have continued to pray for financial assistance, it turned out that our Good Lord was not going to stop helping us just by providing extra work so we could receive over-time.

During the last week of October, my wife was told by the person who writes out the checks from the church that God was going to bless us financially.

She was told that a person or persons who are to remain anonymous have donated some money to the church and they were instructed by God that this money was to go specifically to us as a financial blessing.

This came to us a a great surprise, relief and blessing that we are extremely thankful to our Lord Jesus.

On 10/31/2016, we received the financial blessing that we were told we would receive and it came right from our Lord Jesus Himself. Wow, Our God is awesome.

Matthew 6:32-34 New King James Version (NKJV)
32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

I can't stress enough how important it is to have Jesus in your life. Not just for the blessings you will receive here in this lifetime, but mostly because you will be building and storing your Treasures for all Eternity in Heaven.

My wife, Nancy and I have been so blessed this past year since we have gotten closer in our relationship with our Lord Jesus.

  

Jesus answers another prayer of mine
During the first week of October 2017, my dad came up from Florida to visit my wife and I, and during his visit we went to church on Sunday. My dad doesn't go to church on a regular basis so this was good for us to do and it is what my wife and I do every Sunday.

After church service our pastor has a time where people can come up to the front to be prayed for. Our pastor will ask what need or concerns you may have and he, along wit our prayer team members will lay their hands on the person and they will pray to Jesus for them.

My wife went up for some prayer and my dad asked me what she was doing and I told him she had some concerns that she wanted prayer for.

While we sat there waiting, I asked my dad if there was anything he wanted prayer for and he said no, he was good.

My wife in the meantime came back and sat down after she had her concerns prayed for and while we were watching others who were going up to be prayed for I got up and decided to have some of my concerns prayed for as well.

While I was standing in line thinking about the things I wanted to be prayed for, I also, thought about my dad and hoping that he would come to know Jesus himself and to be saved. I found myself thinking about how my dad needs salvation and I found myself tearing up and lightly crying to Jesus while I was in line asking Jesus to open my dads heart and to touch him so he could make that decision to want to know Him or to at least plant the seed that could in time bring my dad to make the decision to accept Jesus into his life.

A few minutes later my dad came up and stood next to me in line and said he wanted to have some prayers for my mom who is still in Florida and was not able to come up to visit us because she is in a nursing home with dementia/Alzheimer and blind due to macular degeneration. My dad visits her and takes her out to eat pretty much every day and takes care of her as much as he can.

When it was our turn to be prayed for our pastor asked my dad what he wanted to be prayed for and he told him about my mom and her health issues and how he misses having her with him all the time. They have been together since high school and married for the last 63 years.

My pastor then asked me what I wanted to have prayer for and instead of me asking for prayers for my concerns, I told him to pray that my dad gets the desire to want to know Jesus and to bring Him into his life.

It's not that I don't need prayers for my concerns, because I do, but I felt it was more important to have prayer for my Dad's salvation. I do pray daily every morning for my concerns and I give thanks daily for all Jesus has done for me and for saving me.

Anyway, my mom and dad were both prayed for, and even though my dad did not make the decision then to accept Jesus into his life, I know the seed was now planted within him and that in time that seed will grow and will hopefully convict my dad into wanting to get to know Jesus and to ask him into his life.

Thank you Jesus for answering another prayer of mine, and that was to have my dad to come forth for prayer and in doing so, having a seed planted within him so that in time he will hopefully make the decision to want to know You (Jesus) as his Lord and Savior and to ask You (Jesus) to come into his life.

All I can do now is to continue to pray for my

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About John Elley      A Believer in The Lord Jesus Christ

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