August 2023 Newsletter

Grace and peace to you, friends and family in Christ! Lord bless from Kentucky! It’s great to be home, but what a ministry trip! We believe this will encourage you, and we

pray God’s best to you!

In Lovington, NM, we were thrilled to see the Church of Living Waters family again! The Lord has added so many new people since we were last there in 2017. Jesus healed Josie from two years of pain from neuropathy that continually felt like a knife stabbing her left foot! Hallelujah! Another woman was healed of back pain, too! At the Treasure Quest VBS that week, over 20 children prayed to get born again! It was so wonderful! Glory to Jesus! Thanks to Pastor Junior and Anna for having us! We also thank Jesus for the Fritch AG family and for healing America 75% of her shoulder pain from years of salon work! Pastors Brian and Jady were so kind to have us.

In Amarillo, we got to see friends and family, and my sister visited with us about healing. The next day before we left the Cutberths’s home group, she asked us to pray for her husband, Mike. He wasn’t sleeping well from stabbing pain in his foot from neuropathy. I shared how Jesus had healed Josie, and we prayed. Jesus took away all the pain, and the tears came for several of us! Glory! Glory! Glory! I posted on Facebook about it, as well as over 80 salvations from our Texas trip!

So blessed to have tickets for Yezekiel and I to go minister in the Philippines in October! It’s been 6 years! Please lift us up in prayer, and may the Lord’s will be done. We’re so grateful for you being part of us sharing the love, power, and truth of Jesus Christ! Lord bless!

It is overwhelming to consider writing about the love of God. I know so little compared to the

vastness of it. It is like when I heard Revivalist Keith Miller share about if you were at the beach and filled your cup with ocean water. Your cup would be full, but there is infinitely more water you're unaware of that is available! I have tasted and seen that the Lord is good and that His love is beyond comparison. Christ saved me, set me free from porn addiction, and gave me purpose. I am redeemed! This former orphan is a family man with a beautiful and anointed wife, as well as a quiver full of amazing and anointed children! I wrote a song once about His love for me, and I heard Him say He always believed in me. Such love!

Ephesians 3:14-19 shares, “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” There’s so much more of His love to experience! One definition of the word “depth” in this passage is “mystery.” God wants to reveal more to us.

His love has overwhelmed me many times, like when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1992, when I married Jill in 1996, when I was soaking in His love being ordained in 1999, when I was singing outside Jerusalem in 2000 with Georgian Banov and the mission group, when the Lord woke me up early in the morning and said “Come away with Me,” and I sat on a dock at the Sea of Galilee and watched the sunrise communing with Him with no other humans to be seen, when each of our children were born, when I was in a plane flying to Dallas in 2009 and saw some of His glory and a circle rainbow for the first time, and the countless and wondrous times worshiping Him by myself, or with family, or with others at church or home groups and then I became aware of His infinitely greater love for me in a new way! So priceless!

We pray you would encounter the love of Jesus in a fresh way; there’s mystery awaiting us all!

Love in Christ, Steve, Jill, Judah, Yisaac, Jonah, Yissachar, Jakin, Yezekiel, Jerusalem, & Justice