November 2024 Newsletter
- steveandjillhill
- Jul 9
- 4 min read
Grace and blessings to you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! The holidays are here and it is a season of celebration! In the Kingdom of God, we always have much to celebrate: salvation, healing, deliverance, joy, peace, hope, miracles, provision, answered prayers, and fellowship with God and the saints! God’s Kingdom supersedes anything we can imagine, and He wants us to stay expectant of the “impossible” becoming possible!
On the night of October 31st, we were able to give out candy and also bags with beads for the children to make salvation bracelets. In the bag were the verses explaining the symbolism of the colors and the plan of salvation. We pray God’s Word will bring forth His purpose in the lives of those children! The harvest is ripe.
Jill got to be part of a prayer meeting at Prayer Mountain in Moravian Falls, NC at the invitation of Betsy Meadows. What a powerful, blessed trip! They even got to see friends Mike and Mickey Gottfried, who we met through Steve’s involvement with Team Focus at Morehead State University. It is encouraging to see the Lord mobilize His people to pray. Truly, the Lord is using His people to bring His will to earth as in heaven.
And what a blessing to vote in this year’s important election. This was the line from early voting where we live. This year’s election had great voter turn-out throughout the nation. May we all continue to pray for the USA that righteousness would be exalted and the Biblical foundations would be restored. The God of all Hope is Who we look to, that He would fulfill His best in America! The best is yet to come!
Jill at Prayer Mountain, NC With the Gottfrieds
Voting line in Wilmore, KY
Yissachar has gotten to lead worship at the Church of the Savior youth service. Our youth-aged children have been attending their youth service for several months now. We are excited to get to minister at the Celebration Center in Marietta, OH on December 8th! If you are in the area, we hope you will come join us and be expectant! The Lord always has more for His children and we are believing for salvations, healings, and wholeness to be ministered, by the grace of the Lord.
Gratitude turns what you have into an abundance!
While this time of year is a specific time to count our blessings, being thankful is a command in Scripture that we should practice all year long. God’s commands are always for our good, and being grateful gives us a mindset that sees as He sees. It is the nature of the enemy to be negative and see the glass as “half empty” rather than “half full.” Being thankful opens doors in our lives to great blessing and joy!
Psalm 95:1-5 states: “Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the LORD is the great God, and the great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth, the heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.”
We are to be thankful for our salvation and that He is the great King over all the earth! He owns all of His creation and formed everything that is visible. It is good to consider all that the Lord has made and how grateful we are that we get to experience it! We are to be thankful for our family, home, health, church, safety, clothes, food, and everything that the Lord has blessed our lives with.
“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.” –1 Thessalonians 5:16-17
God’s will is that we would always be thankful to Him, regardless of what is going on in our lives. He will work everything for our good, by His grace, in a way we could never make happen on our own. Being thankful opens doors for us and shows the Lord our faith is in Him. The Israelites that complained in the wilderness did not inherit the Promised Land that He was leading them to possess!
We can all benefit from taking on the daily habit of gratitude. And what a difference it would make in our relationships with others if we expressed our thanks to them! Sending notes of thankfulness or verbally telling them what we are appreciative of would create a fuller experience of relationship. Everyone wants to be appreciated for what they do for others.
May this Thanksgiving season be filled with joys unspeakable! We pray for you regularly and ask the Lord to pour out His love and goodness on your life. We appreciate you!
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