Before you read this study understand that we do not teach, we share and then ask all who read the following take it to God and verify it with Him. We believe a lot of the world is misled by the church of the world and religion vs the one true church. And to know the truth can only come from knowing, not just knowing of God, John 14:26, I John 2:27, Rev 3:19-22.
Many are called but few are chosen because many are misled by false teachers Matthew 7:13-15 so we help all who wants to know the truth how to find and know the truth of and by God and not of and by man.



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Pastor J. R. Wilhite, author   Close Window

The following few pages can be the biggest blessing and help you will ever get…or you can get offended. It will be your choice of which you allow it to be. I suggest before you start you take a few moments and relax and decide that, no matter what, you are going to be blessed or just don't read this at all.

We believe we are doing God a favor, and that He should be blessing us, and that He should increase what we do. When we should be down on our knees thanking Him for allowing us what we have in His ministry. YES, it is His ministry not ours. Before we start in a ministry, we should get to know Him well. I do not mean four years at a college a man has developed. What does man know about God? Man has divided God into so many different denominations that I have lost tract of them all. Even the word denomination means to divide. So all man can do is divide and Jesus said a house divided will fall.

That is what man bases his reason for his schools and needs of his schools. Oh yes we need to know how to count money and keep track of money and to get a loan and all of the worldly stuff. How about not getting in debt except to love each other. Or are we to only believe that the words in the Bible are not to be taken literally, that they have no substance at all.

In 26 years, in and out of the ministry, I have seen many more (over 80%) ministries in debt, failing, or closing than making it. So is man's way the best way? We started H.O.M.E. in 1995, and have had no debt. The largest group that has been before me in the past 6 years was 126. I agree that is not a Lakewood Church or a mega church, but considering the fact that we have not passed an offering plate and are debt free and have had as many as126 that is not bad. We have had no divisions, no arguments, and no splits.

It is not our goal to just grow, but to teach others to hear and actually listen to God and have a one on one relationship with God as Adam and Jesus had and go forth and teach others to do the same. That is what Jesus came and died for, and that is what he told the apostles to go forth with and to teach. Comunion means to have an intimate relationship with God the Father. Pray in your prayer closet, privately, meaning one on one. You can have what Adam and Jesus had. Jesus said we would do all He did and more so why don't we?

The scribes and Pharisees of the day that Jesus walked feared losing their power and seats of notoriety. I wonder if we have gone back to that today. Let's see, 2,000 years ago they attended church once a week, gave of their tithes, and donated their talents. Sound familiar? It should, we have regressed 2,000 years in more ways than one.

Pastors it would do you well to spend as much time as you can each day, say 3-4 hours with the Lord before you start other tasks. You say you cannot because you are too busy; well, part of your problem is right there. Why should God offer you His time, if you will not offer Him your time?

You may or may not like Kenneth Copeland, but you have to agree his ministry is growing and doing well. Guess what? He spends at least 4 hours a day with the Lord. godsgifttoyou.com is growing and has over 15,000 visitors a day, $7,500 a month tithe base and it is not based on my working, it is based on the time I spend with the Lord.

We are going to put all we get into advertising to grow godsgifttoyou.com even more because we want to have as many evangelistic and missionary teams that we can support that the Lord will bless us with.
Why?

Because we can only reach so many on line and the rest we will reach with the teams we support off line. Even if it is only one each, praise God! If it is 200 each, praise God! No matter what, we will praise Him for what He allows us to have because it is His and He wants to share with as many of His children as He can, instead of giving it all to one or two.

Those who are struggling and can not figure out why you are not growing ask your self these two questions.

What I would recomend to anyone starting off is get yourself off alone where you can get to know the Lord first and know Him well. Then let Him guide you and teach you. Here are two verses ( and yes you can read all the verses around it as well) that back up all I am saying.

John 14

  1. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
  2. 1 John 2

  3. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

There are many others, but if you do not get it with these two it would not matter how many I used.

As I have said, I have done the worldly version, and it really did not get me anything other than a sheet of paper that said that by the world standards that I was a pastor. By God's standards it did not go far. Remember what happened to the 12th apostle? I mean the one the other 11 decided to vote on to fill the vacancy left by Judas' suicide? Right, nothing. Then we got Paul, who was Jesus' choice. He was, of course, the last person anyone would have expected. He was not even a close personal friend of Jesus like the others came to be in the 3-½ years of His earthly ministry. We know he spent 8 years in Jerusalem and in those 8 years he learned from the other apostles and had private time. He had his time on the road of course, but he had no training in people management, money handling, business, and he had at least twice as long as the other apostles, so what does that tell you?

I know that I am more at peace now that I ever have been in my life. I know there have been and there will be those who will try to change me to their way of thinking, but it is not going to happen. Why? Because of my relationship with God there is no way anyone can change me.

I pray that if you have read this far you have come to understand what I have said has substance in it, and you are ready to make some changes. If so, email me, and I will send you to a page on the site that will teach you to do just what we are talking about and much faster than it took me.

My prayer for you is:

3 John 1

2. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth

Remember to show faith when you pray, then praise and give thanks.

God Bless You as you hear His words and follow His leading.


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