May 2024 Newsletter

Grace and peace to you, dear friends and family in Christ; we pray you’re well. Glory to God for beautiful days! Lord bless you all; congrats to all of the graduates! Jonah graduated and is set to go to Northern Kentucky U. in the Fall! We thank God for awards our children received by His grace!!

CFC’s Spring revival ended yesterday; it was amazing! How can anyone measure Christ’s worth and His presence? The Holy Spirit moved mightily! CFC let us have a display table and gave us $1000! We plan to use it going on our Texas mission trip in July! Jehovah Jireh provides! We continue to pray a 100 fold return to each of you who have sown seeds that will bear fruit! Also, Jesus opened doors, and we’re believing to move close to Lexington soon; our ministry address will remain the same.

We’re so thrilled to go minister at the following, Lord willing: the CFC Vida Nueva service on June 9th (Pastor Esteban said they’ll serve us Mexican food afterwards, so thank You, Jesus!), July 7th at Eldon AG in Missouri, Harvest Time Church in Midland, TX, July 14th, as well as helping with VBS the 15th-17th, in San Angelo July 21st at New Mount of Olives Church, Jerusalem AG to help with VBS the 22nd to 26th, and then minister at the Sunday, July 28th service! Glory to Jesus for open doors! We ask you continue to partner with us in prayer (even now😃) for these opportunities to share His love, truth, and power! If you are close to any of these places, we’d love to see you there!

We’ve been recreated to live by faith, not by sight. With heavenly vision, not fleeting lusts. With noble intent, not lawless surrender to the world’s system; with self-control, not controlled by our flesh. As people of light, not darkness. As royalty, not slaves; as children of the king, not the devil. 1 Peter 2:9 declares, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the

praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” The Bible records godly counsel being given to kings to live in the righteous ways of the Lord. Proverbs 31:3-5 challenges, “Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes intoxicating drink; lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the justice of all the afflicted.” King Jehoshaphat, a righteous king, gave amazing advice to another king in 1 Kings 22:5, “Also Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire for the word of the Lord today.”” Through thousands of years, this remains wise advice to us all! Let’s seek His counsel; let’s seek God always!

The Lord wants us to learn to yield to godly counsel and live righteously for Him! Proverbs 12:5 says, “The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Job 36:7 confirms, “He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; but they are on the throne with kings, for He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.” The eyes of the Lord are on us, as a Father looking lovingly at his child! Jesus has made us royalty, but earthly royalty gets corrupted by wealth, power, influence, and authority given them. Consider the counsel of Proverbs 23:1-3, “When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you; and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.” In Daniel 1, Daniel is shown to have a heavenly, royal spirit that would not give into the corrupted, earthly spirit of the king of Babylon. Verses 5 & 8 show, “And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king’s delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king...But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.”

Only our Lord has the might, power, and authority to make us a royal priesthood, or kings and priests, to live holy lives! We need to live holy like priests even as we walk in royal authority. The earthly law that has ruined kings, emperors, & rulers throughout history of “absolute power corrupts absolutely” is superseded and surpassed by the saving grace of Christ! Only Jesus has the might to do that! Jesus modeled for us how to live a holy life. He never sinned. Let us cry out to Him and allow His anointing to flow through us to do the same. Hebrews 4:14-16 shows, “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

Christ’s sacrifice as the Lamb of God made a way to live victoriously over sin and death. Revelation 5:8-10 reveals Jesus taking the scroll that He alone is able to break the seals of, “Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.” Thank You, Jesus! You are worthy of all our praise! We appreciate Your Word counsel!

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