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Praise the Lord Y'all!

Boy, alot has happened since I took my little vacation from H-F a few weeks
back!  More on this later as the "revelation" of the greater truth that
arose from my mistake, which I will explain, is AWESOME!

I have a new job!  I drive one of those HUGE trucks that delivers concrete
block to job sites, one of those that has that big crane on it with the
'forks' that swings the cubes of block out to the ground.  I like this job
but the hours are long in the building season.  It pays better than I have
been used to and I thank God for it!

On the home front my daughter who had been living with me decided to go
home to her mom today (10/18/97).  Pray for her as her mother is an
alcoholic and the major reason she went home was to protect her sister.

I have been attending a new church.  The bishop (ex-PAW) is the pastor and
I guess you would say that he and the church are 'independants' though as
far as I can see they are very dependant upon the Word.  When I asked
Bishop Denise's requirements for a preacher he said that they had to be
saved and that they had to live what they preached.  He added that if the
Lord had something for me to say that we would both know.  I almost fell
over!  I have asked a couple of others in churches that fellowship with
these guys the same question and to my great joy, I am met with puzzled
looks. They say "Come and get to know us and then I'm sure that God will
use you."  

The bishop and I sat for a while as he assured himself of my doctrinal
stance saying that a pastor must guard the pulpit with his life (to which I
added "because it IS a matter of life and death" ;-) and we agreed on every
point.  God has given me sign after sign that this is where He wants me.  I
knew this day was coming but to actually have it come to pass fills me with
a sense of reverence and awe that I cannot explain.

He said that he was there to help me to be free in Christ and not to bind
me.

I told him that I came to preach, to teach and to play music.  He said that
if he had sent for me that he would have ask for someone to preach, to
teach and to play music.  God is GREAT and GREATLY to be praised!!!

I haven't preached yet or taught a class because he wants people to get to
know me (been going for three Sundays, maybe four) a little but there was
an alter call, they have one every night the bishop preaches for saint and
sinner alike, and since all were saved, this call was for all who had sin
in there lives to come forward and lay it before God.  I stood right where
I was (I had confessed my sins minutes before this call).  When I looked
up, I had my head bowed and my eyes closed, I was the only one left
standing because EVERYONE ELSE was at the altar.  The bishop then asked me
to come and pray for those at the altar.

I started by saying "Lord I first offer a sacrifice for myself that I may
be clean as I minister before thee!"  God moved in a powerful but "layed
back" manner, kinda like a locamotive traveling at 3 mph; slow and no
"show" but just try to resist it.  The bishop was speaking in tongues (to
himself as is proper without an interpreter, I could just hear him ;-) and
many wept.  I wanted to weep but could not as this represented a great
victory of the Holy Ghost in my life.

I will attend again tomorrow and will be hearing that the bishop is going
to start me on my minstry in earnest.  There have been many 'visitors' in
and out of the church.  They know God is about to start something.

Some will say that this is arrogance, let them.  I KNOW the God I serve and
I also know that if this ministry passes from me, it will fall on someone
else but my cry before God is "Why not me Lord?  You use the foolish things
of this Earth and am I not foolish?  You use the base things of this Earth
and am I not base?"  

Confound the wise of Oh Lord!  Confound the wise!

Timothy Litteral
brotim@gte.net  Luke 6:26
I have chat by appointment only
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