Hello my beloved brothers and sisters.

I wanted to tell all of you who joined me in worship last week @ Hope Church know that the Holy Spirit is moving in the congregation. One example in particular is: Amy up front helping to leading worship this week. Cyril can fill you in a bit about why that is particularly a good thing. I felt a change, but I also recognize at the same time the "stuck in a rut" motions that are prevalent @ HOPE. Please continue to pray that God chooses to use me to glorify him @ HOPE and that my brothers and sisters there will see "the day is near".

Equally encouraging is that Pastor Jeff was certainly used as a vessel of the Holy Spirit @ today's service. His message was timely and the Holy Spirit was speaking loudly and in no uncertain ways to many; noticeably to both Robin and I to our son Jessi specifically. Cyril, I am comfortable having you share w/ my RPFL family what is currently happening in our life and why I mention my son. Jessi along with the rest of us need your prayers. We are indeed praying for God's miraculous healing, truly believing that He is able to have this cup pass. But to be completely honest, somehow fear still weighs upon us. We say we are ready to trust in our LORD... NO MATTER WHAT, but we recognize that it will certainly be a very trying cross to carry if our fears are not relieved. I for one would rather scream the joy of His MIRACLE in Jessi's life, which is very much our own life too. Timing of events seems to be equally difficult. Sending our youngest daughter Michelle off to college yesterday for the first time, has made our days and nights an even more challenging emotional roller coaster ride.

Please pray that Jessi will wholeheartedly open his whole being up to the Holy Spirit and draw closer to God in a new and life changing way.

Pastor Jeff's message certainly spoke volumes to me, leaving me confident that God IS indeed speaking to Jessi. I don't believe in coincidences. It is also quite obvious that as the Holy Spirit speaks to Jessi, the world is busy trying to speak louder; working even harder to hold onto him. Jessi's self-pride and ill spent vested time is very much at work fueling him against God; helping him fight against the Holy Spirit. Nothing would make me happier right now than to see the enemy pinned quickly and for Jessi to raise his personal Savior high, proclaiming "VICTORY in JESUS!" I am comfortable knowing that Satan and his dominion are not a formidable opponent when it comes to Our God, but I am also quite aware that some demons are very strong, especially when it comes to our weakness. Especially when our pride and stubbornness deceives us making us believe we can fight the world and evil without the aid of the Holy Spirit; that somehow WE are able to do it on our own.

Please pray. Please be in prayer with me and my family for both a miracle and most of all for a Holy Spirit kind of change in Jessi's life.

Here is what this Sunday's service was focused on. Right now I am praying that the pit Jessi is feeling in his stomach and the tiredness he is experiencing is the cleansing of the Holy Spirit in his life.

The Scripture reading before this morning prayer was 1 John 2:15-17:

Do Not Love the World

¹⁵Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. ¹⁷The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

Pastor Jeff's message: Romans 13:8-14

Love, for the Day is Near

⁸Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. ⁹The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself." ¹⁰Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. ¹¹And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹²The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. ¹³Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. ¹⁴Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

Your brother in Christ,
Mykel