THROUGH PRAYER - Jerry Savelle Ministries

THE
3
BONES
OF
SUCCESS
BY TERRI SAVELLE FOY
2014
THE YEAR OF GREATER
HOW TO
CHANGE
YOUR
CIRCUMSTANCES
THROUGH
PRAYER
BY CAROLYN SAVELLE
VOLUME 40 NUMBER 1
NEW YEAR 2014
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BY JE RRY SAVE LLE
FOR DR. SAVELLE’S HOLY SPIRIT-INSPIRED WORD FOR 2014
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Never stop celebrating
what I’ve already done
Now expect Me to do the greater
and it will come
2014 will be known
as the year of the greater!
I’m ready saith the Lord
to do a new thing
The likes of which
you’ve never seen
My glory shall come
in such a way
That you’ll stand in awe
and begin to say
My God, my God,
I never knew
That I would get to see
this side of You
Such splendor, such power
for Dr. Savelle’s Holy Spiritinspired
word for 2014
magnificence
too
and
No wonder the earth
will bow down to You
The prophets said these things
would come to pass
And now they’re here—
at last, at last
The greater glory
they spoke about
We’re in it now—
let’s shout, let’s shout
A new wave of His glory
is what shall be seen
For this is His plan
for 2014
Our God is taking us
to a brand new place
And soon we’ll see
Him face to face
In
October
last year,
the Holy Spirit
spoke a resonating
word to my spirit. The
word was this: “Never
stop celebrating what I’ve
already done. Now, expect Me to
do the greater, and it will come.”
I was both excited and filled with great
expectation as He revealed to me that God
has something special in store as 2014 will be
known as “The Year of the Greater.” I believe the
Holy Spirit spoke this prophetic word to the Body of
Christ to prepare us to get into a position of expectation to
receive an unusual manifestation of God’s blessings in this new
year.
We must challenge ourselves to lay hold of this promise and do
exactly what He said: Expect it, and it will come! In life, I have
learned that I get everything that I expect. So when God says to
expect something, I immediately align my thinking with His
Word and wait for it to come to pass.
God always wants to do greater things in our lives. It is the
nature of God to bring increase to His people. His desire is to
take us to higher levels.
As I have meditated on this prophetic word for 2014, it has
become doubtless in my mind that this is what God wants
to do for us. In scripture, God confirms this in Psalm 115:14
which says, “The Lord shall increase you more and more, you
and your children” (KJV). God wants to bring increase into our
lives. He wants to bring greater good to us and the lives of those
around us.
The word increase means to grow or to become greater. This
involves not only gaining a greater revelation of the nature and
power of God but being empowered to prosper in all that we do
and possess as the direct blessing from the Father.
Let’s look at an example of this in the story of Isaac’s life.
Genesis 26:12-14 says, “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and
received in the same year [a] hundredfold: and the Lord blessed
him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew
until he became very great: For he had possession of flocks…
and great store of servants…” (KJV). Isaac was blessed by God
in all his works and possessions. Scripture says he became
great—moved forward, grew, and possessed.
This is what happens when you are in the greater—you
progress; you grow; and you accumulate. In other words,
when you enter into the realm of the greater, God adds to
you.
Jesus told us that the number one requirement for
experiencing addition in our lives is to “…seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things
shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33, NKJV).
The most important thing is to seek first the will of God,
His ways, and the things He is asking us to do. Never
seek increase first; always seek first the God who is able
to increase. Developing a close relationship with God
through daily time with Him in prayer, praise, and worship;
studying His word; obeying His voice; and serving others is
how you seek God first.
Seeking God’s kingdom first is losing ourselves in
obedience to what He desires. It’s pouring ourselves out in
service to Him in whatever way He desires. It’s being the
witness that He has called us to be in this world, not only
through our words, but also through our actions. These
are the essential things to keep in mind as you expect the
greater in your life.
God
wants us
to increase.
The Bible speaks
of increase in the
time of Joseph. As
Joseph grew in power as a
leader in Egypt, Genesis 47:27
says, “…Israel dwelt in the land…
and they had possessions there
and grew and multiplied exceedingly”
(NKJV).
The word exceedingly means without limits. Like
Joseph and the children of Israel, God wants us to
grow beyond the limits of our circumstances to live in
a prosperous place. It is unnatural for God’s people not to
increase. If you are truly God’s child you are blessed, and if you
are blessed, then you are empowered to prosper.
In a time when the ancient world was experiencing drought and
instability, the children of Israel grew prosperous. They became
stable when they entered their season of greater blessing. You
and I will also grow as we experience our new season of
greater blessing.
To grow is to be fruitfully stable. That’s good news for times
like these, isn’t it? Fruitful stability is God’s desire for His
people. Even more, He desires for us to flourish abundantly in
unpredictable times.
Though it’s obvious in scripture that this is how God wants us
to live, we have a responsibility too. Our part is to receive the
prophetic word, believe it, and confess it by faith.
Second Chronicles 20:20 says, “…believe in the Lord your God,
and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall
prosper” (NKJV). God wants us to fully embrace His word for
this year. Keep it in your thoughts. Keep it in your mouth. Hold
fast to it in your heart, and don’t diminish it through doubt and
disobedience.
The increase I enjoy in my life has been so I can sow more than
ever. There’s nothing more fulfilling than that. In the same way,
I encourage you to always stay committed to increase your
sowing when God brings increase to you.
The increase and prosperity of God always has a purpose. God
has a plan, and His plan always goes beyond us and our desires.
God’s purpose is to touch our hearts to sow for the building of
His kingdom.
Let me share one other thing the Holy Spirit brought to my
attention regarding this being the Year of the Greater. The
last time that Oral and Evelyn Roberts were at our home, he
said to me that the Lord told him, “Oral, if you think you saw
miracles under the big tent, well, you haven’t seen anything
yet. They are coming back big time!”
I really believe in 2014, we will enter into a new wave of
anointing for miracles. God’s mission is to increase the
miraculous in a way never seen or experienced before for His
glory and for our good.
Haggai 2:9 confirms the move of God for our time saying,
“‘The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the
former, saith the LORD of hosts” (KJV). The glory in this
passage represents the manifest presence of God. God is
cluing us in on the fact that His presence will increase. In
Haggai’s day the glory of God would, at times, come upon
everyone in the house of worship. I’ve witnessed this in my
own life and ministry. When God’s manifest presence came,
people were healed and delivered.
Hebrews 3:6 describes “…Christ as a Son over His own house,
whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the
rejoicing of the hope firm to the end” (NKJV). As believers,
followers, servants, and friends of Christ, God yearns to
express His manifest glory in a greater way in and through
our lives—for we are the representative body and house of His
dear Son called for this season.
I stand as a prophetic voice to say over this new season,
“A new wave of God’s glory will be seen in 2014!” We are
dawning the year of greater works. Let us be diligent in our
request for it, believe it, and receive it by faith.
Finally, don’t forget to thank God. Remember it is God who is
truly great and performs all great works. Psalm 48:1 reminds
us that “great is the Lord and greatly to be praised…” (KJV).
As I was reading this, it rose in my heart that when I praise
Him greatly, it’s like sowing seed, and my harvest will be great.
I challenge you to practice praising God in your life every day.
Praise Him joyfully, often, and extravagantly for who He is
and His faithful promises to us. Sow the seed of praise to see
God’s greater manifested in your life, because the greater is
coming!
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IN A PROPHETIC WORD, THE
HOLY SPIRIT SAID THAT 2014
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YEAR OF THE GREATER. IN
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It is not uncommon for people who hear me speak for the
first time to be surprised by my soft, “child-like” voice.
I was recently in Austin, Texas speaking at a conference
and the woman driving me to the hotel afterwards said to
me, “I think I know why you sound like a kid.” Well, I was
pretty interested because I have wondered that my whole
life! She said, “Every time you speak, you are speaking to
the child inside of us that stopped dreaming.”
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2
I meet so many people that are settling for far less than
what they should, and what God desires for them. It
doesn’t have to be that way. I have discovered one of the
main reasons people don’t reach their full potential is that
they have never given themselves permission to dream for
the impossible.
God said in Genesis concerning the people at the
Tower of Babel that nothing they imagined to do will be
impossible for them (Genesis 11:6). That is why one of my
responsibilities is to encourage and teach people how to
dream big and accomplish their goals.
There are three powerful keys that I have applied in my life
that have produced successful results that I want to share
with you. I like to call them the three bones of success!
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1. BARE BONES
What are the basic, bare bones ingredients needed for dreams
to become reality? What are the common essential elements
in successful people’s lives that propels them to accomplishing
their goals?
Many people miss the truth that success is something you
attract by the person you become. In other words, if you want
more, you must become more. One success coach said, “If you
don’t have much, you probably haven’t become much.” Ouch!
So many people ask me, “How has your life changed so
drastically in such a short time?” The answer, “I changed my
daily routine.”
I started with the bare bones. I asked myself, “What can I do
today that will change my life?” It sounds simple, but honestly,
it started one morning with one CD. I made the choice to
invest in changing myself.
At that time, my life was a mess. I was frustrated, my marriage
was falling apart, and year after year nothing in my life was
changing. Things had to change...I had to change! I finally got
fed up and made the commitment to listen to a faith-building
message each day for 21 days.
I got a CD from one of my favorite preachers, put it in the CD
2. WISH BONE
You have got to have a vision for your life. Proverbs 29:18
says, “Where there is no vision people perish.” I looked up
the word perish and it means die. I looked up the word die
and in the original Greek it means die!
Nothing makes me more mad than seeing people just
existing. Especially when I think about how our lives here
on earth are but a vapor (James 4:14). There is no time to
waste. We are not here just to take up space, we are here to
do something.
Mark Twain said, “I can teach anybody how to get what
they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find
anybody who can tell me what they want.”
Why is it that children can dream all day long but as adults
we stop dreaming? Give a blank sheet of paper to a child
and ask them what they want for Christmas and they will
fill the entire page in mere minutes! But if you give a blank
sheet of paper to most adults and ask them to write some
dreams and goals, they will sit and stare at the page.
Napoleon Hill was hired by Andrew Carnegie to interview
500 millionaires to find the formula that made them so
successful. It took 30 years to compile the data and write
the book. He interviewed Thomas Edison, Henry Ford,
Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander
Graham Bell, John Wannamaker, Charles Schwabb, Etc…
What did they have in common? Clearly, defined, written
goals.
Successful people have a vision, write it clearly, and keep
it before their eyes. People are constantly moving towards
the dominating images they keep before their eyes.
Joel Osteen tells the story of when his dad, John, had open
heart surgery and was in the hospital. He asked Joel to
bring him his tennis shoes and set them right beside the
bed because that was his vision that he would be out of the
hospital jogging again. He lived another 12 years after that
surgery.
People will never leave where they are if they never see
where they could be.
Instead of looking at what is...bills and debt, overweight
body, dirty house...we must get a picture of what could be.
We must surround ourselves with vision.
3. BACK BONE
Many people think that I just write my dreams and they all
just simply come to pass. That is so far from the truth. Nothing
worthwhile in life just falls in your lap. I have had to fight for
every vision and goal that I have had.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 in the Amplified Bible says, ‘For a dream comes
with much business and painful effort...” We don’t like that
side of dreams. But when it looks like it will never happen, we
have to keep trusting God and fighting for our dreams.
Thomas Edison said, “Most of life’s failures are those who
didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave
up!”
My dad is known as the “no quit” preacher. I remember
years ago when I was going through a hard time and felt like
quitting. I went over to my mom and dad’s house and said to
them, “I can’t take it any more, I just feel like quitting.” Dad
looked at me and said, “You are not going to quit. Savelles are
not quitters! You are going to get through this. Quitting is not
in your blood!” I just stood there and he asked, “What are you
thinking?” I said, “I think I’m adopted.”
I had to learn to fight for my dreams. You have to realize that
God has a great plan for your life but you also have a spiritual
enemy whose goal is to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10).
Successful people understand that dreams don’t come to pass
on their own, we have to fight for them.
Each day we have to choose to keep moving forward. Each day
we have to choose to not be distracted or discouraged when
things don’t seem like they will work out. We have to choose
to not feel sorry for ourselves and get busy dreaming.
Choose today to fight for the vision God has given you!
Choose to wake up each day expecting it to be better than
the day before. Choose to make the most of the time God has
given you on this earth to do something that matters.
Successful people make sure they cover the bare bones, use
their wish bone, and grow a back bone!
Each day we have to choose to keep moving forward. Each day we have to choose to not be distracted or discouraged when
things don’t seem like they will work out. We have to choose to not feel sorry for ourselves and get busy dreaming.
Choose today to fight for the vision God has given you! Choose to wake up each day expecting it to be better than the day
before. Choose to make the most of the time God has given you on this earth to do something that matters.
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE MAKE
SURE THEY COVER THE BARE
BONES, USE THEIR WISH
BONE, AND GROW A BACK
BONE!
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Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Jerry Savelle landed in Kenya, East Africa to answer
the call of God to teach the uncompromised Word of faith, truth and freedom
to a nation God was calling to be His own. Brother Jerry preached in several
crusades where he delivered God’s message of salvation, but he soon noticed
that the same people were coming forward to receive Jesus night after night.
That was when he realized that Africa’s greatest need was to receive teaching
on the basic biblical truths, so that once they had received Jesus they could lead
productive, stable Christian lives.
Because of his commitment to teach the God’s
Word, Jerry Savelle has truly been a father to many
in Kenya. It was in recognition of the apostolic call
on his life to Africa that Pastor Carla Porter, pastor of
Victory Faith Church in Nairobi welcomed Brother
Jerry back to Kenya in November to recognize and
honor him for the tremendous impact he has had on
many African nations.
God placed an anointing of apostolic impartation
that flowed in a tremendous way through Brother
Jerry during the conference. God’s anointing on his
life, and his generosity of spirit, blessed us all as the
Holy Spirit used him to distribute gifts and graces.
Much spiritual strength was imparted, as we could
sense limitations being removed by the power of
God.
During the celebration, hearts were stirred during
the opening night of the conference as Brother Jerry
read Romans 1:11to the congregation: “For I long to
see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift,
so that you may be established.” Opening his message
with this scriptural expression of his great love for
the Africans, he allowed God to use him powerfully
to minister for three days about God’s plan of
provision for our lives to be radically changed.
It was with great honor on the 24th of November to
celebrate Jerry Savelle’s 35 years of ministry in Africa.
The celebration included testimonies by people
whose lives have been blessed and significantly
changed throughout the years of sitting under
his ministry. Also, noted were the many who have
been saved, taught, instructed, healed, and totally
transformed because of the gift of revelation God has
imparted through Jerry Savelle Ministries.
Heritage was a prominent word during the
conference as Brother Jerry spoke about the lineage
of faith that he walks in because of the lives of Oral
Roberts, Kenneth E. Hagin, and Kenneth Copeland.
He encouraged us all when he decreed that we also
walk in that same heritage of favor and blessing that
he walks in through the divine connections of faith.
It was with a spirit of gratitude that the ministry and
work of Jerry Savelle was honored along with his
faithfulness and perseverance in obeying God’s call
for his life in the continent of Africa.
How To Change
Your Circumstances
Through Prayer
By Carolyn Savelle
Prayer is powerful tool for living the victorious
Christian life. The apostle Paul advises the church
in Thessalonica to “pray without ceasing” (I
Thessalonians 5:17, NKJV). Jesus even, before he is
arrested and crucified on the cross, asked Peter in
the Garden of Gethsemane, “Could you not watch
with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter
into temptation” (Matthew 26:40-41, NKJV). But
what makes prayer so essential to the life of believers?
What should we pray, and how can prayer alter the
circumstances in our lives?
I believe there are two answers to this question. One
is that Jesus called us to pray. He exemplifies our best
example of how to live the Christian life here on earth,
and the Bible often talks of him going off to seek the
Father in prayer (see Luke 5:16). Jesus stole away and
practiced a daily ritual of quiet time away with the
Father in prayer, and so should we.
It is through praying to the Father that Jesus found
power to do miracles for those He encountered. It
is through prayer that Jesus attained the grace to
fulfill His call to surrender His life on the cross for
the redemption of the human race and gain victory
over sin. So prayer was a first priority for the Savior
in effectively fulfilling His purpose here on earth.
Even now as He sits on the right hand of the Father
in the heavenly realm, the Bible says Jesus is making
intercession for us (see Romans 8:34). So if Jesus prays
to intervene on our behalf, we should follow suit.
The second reason I believe we should pray is simply
because it works. All through the Bible and the history
of the Christian church, when God’s people cried out
to Him, turned their faces in prayer to Him, interceded
on the behalf of others in supplication to Him, or
called out to Him in faith, the Father was faithful to
answer at the voice of His people (see Jeremiah 29:1213). Prayer is our way of touching God in our time of
need and getting an answer that comes directly from
Him.
In the Amplified Bible, James 5:16 says, “The earnest
(heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes
tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].”
Whatever we have need of, it is through the pipeline
of prayer that we attain answers to those needs. I like
to think of prayer this way: It is the most effective
and powerful form of intimacy in the spirit realm. It
touches everything in the natural and in the spirit.
It is the intermingling of the Spirit of God and His
will with the heart of man, his everyday life, and his
destiny.
Prayer creates such an interwoven bond between God
and the hearts of His sons and daughters that when
we make a request to Him, it is no longer our will but
our Father’s heart that we begin to pray through. In the
prayer of the righteous, submitted, born-again believer,
it is no longer us asking but God asking through us
for our benefit and for His glory. God already knows
what we need (see Matthew 6:8), He just needs our
partnership to see the answer brought to fruition.
You may be thinking, If it is God praying through us
on our behalf, and He already knows what we need
before we pray, why is it so important to that we practice
the act of prayer to see change in our lives. There are a
several reasons for this. First, since God gave us free will
when He created man, prayer is a way demonstrating
submission of our will to His divine authority and
lordship. By design, God created man to make our own
choices, so when we pray we are saying to God that we
choose to submit to the wisdom of His guidance in our
lives, because He always knows what is best for us and
how to best resolve the circumstances in our lives.
Another reason is found in Genesis 1:26, “Then God
said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image… let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the
air, and over the cattle, over all the earth…’” (NKJV).
Because God has legally bound Himself from sole
authority and chose to give us dominion on the earth,
He cannot do anything unless someone asks Him.
Therefore, in order to see true change in your
circumstances, God has created a system where you
must ask in order to receive. By definition, to ask is
to make a request or solicitation, to submit a need
or desire, or to invite. In Matthew 7:7-8, Jesus says,
“Ask, and it will be given to you... For everyone who
asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who
knocks it will be opened” (NKJV). So submitting our
requests to God is essential to see change in our lives.
We even see this rule of asking practiced by Jesus in
Psalms 2:8, “I will declare the decree: The Lord has
said to Me… Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations
for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for
Your possession” (NKJV). Even Jesus who was the
representative of the Father in the flesh, and called
Immanuel, “God with us” (see Matthew 1:23), was not
exempt from this law of spiritual activation to receive
through prayer.
Throughout the Bible we see other examples of this
rule of asking in the lives of great men of God. If the
Jewish people were to be delivered under Daniel, he had to intercede
for it. If the nations were to be converted by Paul, he had to pray
without ceasing.
Finally, prayer and the rule of asking is potent in its power to change
things in our lives. Practicing prayer allows us to attain things by the
Spirit of God that seem impossible to access. As mentioned, since
it is God who prays through the believer by His Spirit, we have a
certain command in prayer that is actually a weapon in the kingdom
of God against any interference from Satan.
Prayer is like a missile that penetrates the air of the spirit. It hits its
target every time when we pray God’s will and His words. Prayer is
so powerful that we never have to say there is nothing that can be
done about a situation. Prayer goes beyond the limits of the seen
realm to hit the catalyst of the things we are truly battling in the
unseen realm (see Ephesians 6:12).
So let’s put our battle clothes on through the spirit of prayer. By
faith, let’s partner with God in heavenly realms, and let Him use us
as His mouth pieces to shift things on earth. Let’s speak the promises
of God back to Him. Let’s rid ourselves of the mentality of the day
that says, “Que sera sera (‘Whatever will be, will be!’),” and begin
to see change in our lives and the world through our declaration of
scripture and requests in prayer. Let’s stay in our prayer closets, not
leaving until we’ve heard from God. Let’s stand and cry out to God.
Ask Him to move and cause there to be a hunger in our hearts to see
a permanent change.
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Pastor Harold Nichols was
not only a man of God but
a “great man of God,”
and all who knew him
well would no less agree.
First Samuel 9:6 comes to
my mind when I think of
Brother Nichols, “Behold…
there is in this city a man of
God, and he is an honorable
man…” (KJV).
When I think of an “honorable” man, I think of one who is:
1) TRUTHFUL, HONEST, FULL OF INTEGRITY AND OF
IMPECCABLE CHARACTER.
2) SUBMITTED TO GOD’S WORD AS THE MORAL STANDARD FOR
CONDUCT AND BEHAVIOR AND ENDEAVORS TO LIVE BY THAT
STANDARD EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE.
3) RESPECTABLE, TRUSTWORTHY AND OF A GOOD REPUTATION.
All who knew Brother Nichols would certainly agree that
he was all of these. He, in my opinion, was like a modern
day Daniel of whom the Bible says, “…an excellent spirit
was in him…he was faithful, neither was there any error or
fault found in him” (Daniel 6:3-4, KJV).
There are not many people that you can say these things
about in the world today, but you certainly could about
him. Knowing him for 43 years, I often said, “The world
would be a better place, if there were more men like
Harold Nichols.”
Brother Nichols was loyal to God, his wife of 70 years,
his children, his church, his friends, his co-laborers in
ministry, to me, my family and my ministry. He faithfully
served as one of my Board of Directors for nearly 35 years.
His loyalty was not only something he believed in, he
practiced it and lived it every day of his life.
I will always remember Brother Nichols for his joy. He
was, indeed, a man of joy. Often, when I came around
to see him, he would be singing or humming a song. He
loved worshipping God and never ceased to be thankful to
God for all that He had done in his life.
The last time he ministered at our church, Heritage of
Faith, everyone got a big laugh when he told us the story
of he and his wife’s holding hands. He and Lou had held
hands everywhere they went from the very beginning of
their marriage. He said that in the beginning, holding
hands was out of their love for each other, and even
though they were still in love, they grew to hold hands as a
way to “to hold each other up!”
One of the greatest lessons he taught me was to love
people. Even if they sometimes were “unlovely,” he always
tried to see their best side and only talked about their
good traits. He saw potential in people when others didn’t.
He truly reflected the love of Christ.
I often told him that he was one of my heroes and
affectionately said to him, “When I grow up, I want to be
just like you.” I am deeply honored for having the privilege
to have known such a noble man of the faith.
Brother Nichols, like the Apostle Paul, fought a good fight,
finished his course and kept the faith. There is laid up for
him a crown of righteousness for his faithful service to the
Lord all these years.
I don’t know how heaven could get any brighter, but I
think it did the moment Harold Nichols arrived. We will
miss him greatly, but as Paul once said, “For me to live is
Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21, KJV).
Being with Christ is the ultimate victory. And knowing
Brother Nichols, he is now sharing sermon notes with the
Lord and enjoying the victory he lived so diligently in faith
to receive.
A few weeks before his passing he said, “I’ve been working
on a new sermon, but my voice needs to get stronger, so I
can preach it.” I responded, “Well, I can hear you just fine.
Go ahead! Preach it to me.” Without hesitation, he did. He
called it “Anchored in Jesus”.
What an honor to have the privilege to hear his last
sermon here on earth. I will always be grateful to the Lord
for placing Harold Nichols in my life and will never forget
the impartation he made in me.
Brother Nichols, we love you; we salute you; and we look
forward to seeing you again in heaven!
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partner with this ministry. A partner in our ministry
is one who shares the vision and goals of this ministry
through prayer and sows faithfully and continuously,
helping us achieve the vision and goals that God has
given us. My mandate for 45 years has been to teach
people how to be winners in life. God wants you to win
in every area of your life. And, with God’s Word, you
can do just that. You can then have a greater influence
on the people you associate with and work with.
The Apostle Paul said in Galatians that you are to
communicate with those who instruct you. That simply
means that if this ministry has brought instruction into
your life, if this ministry has helped you along the way
in your spiritual growth, if it has blessed your life in
some way, then Paul says to communicate with it. The
word communicate here in the literal Greek is a little
deeper than saying “I love your ministry.” It literally
means “to give” and “to partner with.”
I would be honored to have you as my partner. One
of the greatest compliments I ever receive is when
someone comes up and says, “Jerry, I’m your
partner.” That is such a blessing to me. When you
partner with me, it means you believe in the call of
God on my life.
There is no way we can fulfill all that God has
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