From John

[Michael]

Thanks for your prayers concerning my Mom. She is not yet out of the
woods. The update I had from my dad is that she has problems breathing
and the doctors will not provide oxygen for her at home. What is more
concerning is the forlornness that has come upon her. She feels empty
inside. As if the fight for life has gone out of her. He is afraid that
he will lose her and is pleading with her to continue to fight for life.
Sometimes its a place we all arrive at. And only a hope buried in Christ
can deliver us. Please continue to pray for my parents for the mercy and
Love that God has for them would express itself in their lives. He
appreciates the prayers that are being made on their behalf.

My dad has said he is not passing blood for the past couple of days.
That is good news and an answer to prayer. He is to be admitted to
hospital soon, which brings up another problem. That is the care of my
mom. Right now she is in hospital, but if she comes home she will need
care and my dad maybe in hospital. A little confusing I know. But a bit
of Gods wisdom is needed for me and my family.

Some people I met last night. Virgil has some serious stomach problems
he needs the healing hand of God. Miguel a friend of Virgil, Tom gave a
new testament to Virgil for Miguel and Virgil said he would try and get
Miguel to come to church and Bible study. In dire circumstance these
people are but God can and will reach them in whatever place they are
at. Jasmine, a lady of the streets, we prayed with her last night. God
showed a life being destroyed by sin. As He forgave the prostitute in
the scriptures ask our Lord to deliver this you woman from the power of
sin. I prayed with a man outside a gas station, I cannot remember his
name. God knows who he is. Ask God to take care of Him. I met a few
people 3 women and a guy in the poorer part of Oakland. This guys Mom
cried out from her window Jesus Loves you and I shouted back the same
replay. Pray for protection for these people and that they would go to a
local church. To hear the stories they bring would tear your heart. The
next time I go out I need shoes, jackets, pants, blankets and lots of
love. I enter into people lives and God gives me insight to these
peoples hearts. They are souls wounded and hurt by our world. They
continue to love and take of each other, Sometimes they would put us to
shame by their love for each other. They have nothing but they know how
to share. Many of these people love it when you pray over them. Ask God
to put in our mouths words of healing, forgiveness and acceptance.

I met a gentle soul, James. Just lift him before the Lord.

I heard that David got a job, his first paycheck was Friday. His legs
are doing better. Pray for a place to live and a place for fellowship.

Eric moved into place

Pray for Pastor Wiley and Pastor Dan as they lead a ministry to the
lost.

Pray for the growth of CrossStreets an midnight minirtry outreach to the
homeless

Have not heard form Luther for a couple of weeks.

Many prayers are being answered for Virginia. She is eating, She has her
insurance, She has family reconciliation, She is upbeat, now pray for
good news from the doctors. This lady has a heart for the poor.
Sometimes we show the world one face. But we cannot hide our heart.

I hear Mr. Clancy is improving. God has proven the doctors wrong as Mr.
Clancy has come back from a coma. But the real miracle lies in the fact
that Mr. Clancy will bow the knee to a healing Jesus. Please pray the
continuation of the grace of God and Mr. Clancy will accept Jesus

2Sa 22:4 I sing to GOD the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved.
The waves of death crashed over me, devil waters rushed over me.
Hell's ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit. A hostile
world! I called to GOD, to my God I cried out. From his palace he heard
me call; my cry brought me right into his presence

Job 26:6 Hell is ripped open before God, graveyards dug up and exposed.

Psa 9:16 They have no excuse; the way God works is well-known. The
cunning machinery made by the wicked has maimed their own hands. The
wicked bought a one-way ticket to hell.

Psa 55:15 Haul my betrayers off alive to hell--let them experience the
horror, let them feel every desolate detail of a d**ned life.

Psa 68:6 God makes homes for the homeless, leads prisoners to freedom,
but leaves rebels to rot in hell.

Pro 14:12 There's a way of life that looks harmless enough; look
again--it leads straight to hell.

Pro 30:15 A leech has twin daughters named "Gimme" and "Gimme more."
Three things are never satisfied, no, there are four that never say,
"That's enough, thank you!"-- hell, a barren womb, a parched land, a
forest fire.

Mat 18:9 And if your eye distracts you from God, pull it out and throw
it away. You're better off one-eyed and alive than exercising your
twenty-twenty vision from inside the fire of hell.

Luk 16:23 In hell and in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham in the
distance and Lazarus in his lap.

Rom 1:29 And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and
grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their
envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them:
mean-spirited, venomous,

2Pe 2:4 God didn't let the rebel angels off the hook, but jailed them in
hell till Judgment Day.

2Pe 2:17 There's nothing to these people--they're dried-up fountains,
storm-scattered clouds, headed for a black hole in hell.

Rev 1:18 I'm Alive. I died, but I came to life, and my life is now
forever. See these keys in my hand? They open and lock Death's doors,
they open and lock Hell's gates.

Rev 20:14 Then Death and Hell were hurled into Lake Fire. This is the
second death--Lake Fire.

[Michael]

Sometimes we forget why Christ came. We know He came to forgive us, He
came to reconcile us to God, and He came to sanctify us and show us His
love. But behind that is the ugly word and concept of hell. Rarely do we
hear from the pulpit this horrible and ugly word "hell" . My friends if
hell does not exist, we have no need of a saviour. If Hell does not
exist the death of Jesus was in vain. For when we depart from this world
one of three things can happen to us. We can cease to exist, which means
we really don't need God in this life or the next. We can end up with
God, which means we are in Heaven, or we end up without God which means
eternal suffering. This idea of spending eternity in suffering is what
brougth Jesus to the cross. For if everyone was to end up in heaven
eventually then their would have been no need for Jesus to come into
this world, to be humiliated, to be humbled and to die. But on the other
hand if we are separted from God and we die in that state. The erternal
suffering would be our inheritance. But God loved us enough that when He
beacem He flesh, He took our sin and died for each one of us. That when
when we beleive in Him, we would receive the forgiveness that each of us
could escape the the pit of hell. Its a love we cannot reject for if we
do their is no escaping that pit. Jesus says He is the Way, the Truth
and the Life. And if any man comes in any other way, the same is a thief
a liar and a robber. If we reject the Son of God in this life can we
honestly expect Him to receive us in the next. And if we believe that
Hell exists in the next life can we honestly keep quiet about the
forgiveness that Jesus purchased in this life.

Up Calvary's mountain, one dreadful morn,
Walked Christ my Savior, weary and worn;
Facing for sinners death on the cross,
That He might save them from endless loss.

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Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer!
Seems I now see Him on Calvary's tree;
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,
Blind and unheeding-dying for me!

"Father forgive them!" thus did He pray,
Even while His lifeblood flowed fast away;
Praying for sinners while in such woe
No one but Jesus ever loved so.

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O how I love Him, Savior and Friend,
How can my praises ever find end!
Through years unnumbered on heaven's shore,
My tongue shall praise Him forevermore.

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