I know that I know

[Jo Smith]

From: joie (Original Message) Sent: 10/26/2003 8:37 PM


Dear Eric, I surely did enjoy reading your testimony. I really love it when some of our members open up and tell us something personal about themselves. But most never do. I personally am not the least bit afraid to reveal my true name or where I live or anything of that nature.

I am trusting my God for His protection in my life. He has never failed me yet; and he never will.

I live by and in faith; not fear. Perfect love casteth out fear.

Eric, Know this. I have found my God. I have found what I sought. Jesus sent me the Baptism of the Holy Ghost on May 31, 1964. Last night Larry and I were telling each other about our own personal Baptism. And even though we both already knew about it in the other's life, It was such a blessing to us. Each time I tell my personal experience that night, it brings again that glory to me.

It is true that I searched the Word of God most all of my life. I attended 'church' all my life. But I was always hungry for the truth of the word. I longed for someone to 'feed' me. Two different times God spoke to me and said, very clearly, IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE FED, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FEED YOURSELF.

Now I understand that. Since I quit going to 'church' and began letting God himself teach me, I am satisfied with this Heavenly, daily FOOD.

It is greater than anything I could ever have imagined. I just long to share my glory [given to me by my Jesus] with everyone else. I long to share this glorious food with all.

Years ago, when I was still in my twenties, I would study and study. I would have a page full of Scriptures proving what I was studying. But when I would finish, I would still not be sure it was right. This was very frustrating. I wanted TO KNOW. I wanted to be SURE. I wondered if there was anyway to be sure. I asked my husband, the one who died, is there anyway to ever really KNOW? I said, I study and study and put all these Scriptures together, and it looks so right, but then I am still NOT SURE. It is very frustrating. I wanted to KNOW.

I moved where I live now ten years ago. I live all alone. I moved here all alone. It is a very isolated place. I have spent the past ten years studying the Word of God day and night. I sat here alone for years, hand writing in a book the things God was revealing to me.

He started showing me Scriptures which fully interpreted the other Scripture which I was studying. He showed me things in Scriptures which do not really appear there in the natural reading of the Words. He showed me things I had never even imagined. Sometimes it was so strange and different from anything I have ever heard that it would scare me. But then He would explain it to me and show it to me in many Scriptures and then I would KNOW FOR SURE.

NOW I KNOW FOR SURE. NOW I NO LONGER 'DOUBT' OR WONDER "IS THIS REALLY RIGHT"? NOW I KNOW. AND THERE HAS NEVER LIVED ENOUGH PEOPLE TO MAKE ME DOUBT IT.

I know that what I teach is truth. It cannot be rebuked-- not with written Scripture. It is unrebukable. Therefore it is truth.

I am fully satisfied with Jesus in my life. I am fully satisfied with the Holy Ghost in my life. I am fully satisfied with the Heavenly Bread He feeds me daily. I will never turn away from it.

I am going to raise the dead before I die. I am going to work miracles for His honour and glory. He is going to confirm the Word which He has given me. I am going to do the full works Jesus and did and the 'greater'.

I am going to be among the saints who take over this whole world and reign in righteousness. We are going to subdue the nations and do away with the wicked. This is the heritage of the true saints; not some silly taking off into the sky to escape trouble. We are going to walk straight into the face of 'trouble' and stop it. We are going to subdue this whole world and take over the kingdoms and rule them by the Spirit of God.

Jesus is our Captain. We shall never fail. Those who belong to this group will rise on up soon in the power from on high of the Baptism of Fire by which we will cleanse this whole world and rid it of evil.

My what a glorious heritage we have.

Jo Smith

[Jo Smith]

From: joie Sent: 8/22/2004 9:49 PM
I will just post my testimony here instead of doing a new thread.

Yesterday I went out and bought myself a hamburger, something I almost NEVER eat. I knew I did not need it. It was not very good. I just wanted something to do to get out of this house and go 'see' someone else. this is quite common among those of us who live all alone.

About one a.m. I started itching on my chest. It got worse in seconds, so I went to put some alcohol on it. Within seconds, I started breaking out in hives, whelts and blisters, some of them the size of a quarter or 50cent piece.

My lips swelled, my ears red as fire. my hands and feet felt as if they were on fire. I was in whelts from my head to the bottom of my feet, inbetween my toes. I was a mess. It was almost unbearable.

I became a bit frightened. So I called a minister friend of mine at 2:00a.am and asked for prayer. He prayed for me over the phone (this is the same man who prayed over the phone when I had that gall-bladder attack, and I was healed instantly)--. In a few minutes it started letting up. In a little while most of the blisters had gone, my hands and feet no longer burned. This morning it was totally gone.

So I just want to PRAISE MY LORD FOR THIS GREAT HEALING. Jesus is real, He never fails. He has never failed me yet.

[Jo Smith]

From: joie (Original Message) Sent: 5/22/2002 9:02 PM



Last night I was visiting with my daughter, Rhonda. She and I were discussing a message God has been showing me on how we must PRESS our way into the Kingdom of God. People cannot just 'drift' and make it. We will have to put forth all of our effort and be whole-hearted about serving God. This is an every day work we must be about.

I was just about to quit talking; for I knew she needed to go to bed; for she must get up early to go to work. But just then the wonderful presence of the Holy Ghost came into our midst. As we began to worship and just enjoy His glorious presence, His Spirit began to give me many prophecies. Some of them were messages to Rhonda; concerning some things God has in store for her life. Then her son, Eric [age 10] came in and joined us; having been drawn by the Spirit; which he loves.

The Spirit caused me to speak in tongues and then give some messages out to Eric. Then He began to reveal to us how He will lead us to a place of safety and security when the terriors are all around us.

We were just filled with His glorious love and the wonderful Spirit of Worship. Then as we looked around us, the room was just glowing with the beautiful Amber light which I have seen several times. One being the night He filled me with the Holy Ghost. Rhonda saw this also.

It was very refreshing and wonderful as He filled us anew with this glory. I just wanted to praise Him and thank Him for this blessing. I can never thank Him enough for bringing me out of darkness to His marvelous Light.

While others fight and claw and hate this glory, I rejoice very much in His presence. I ask God lots of times to give me their portion; all those who do not want a portion of His Great Spirit. Lord every more feed me the bread from Heaven. Ever more give me a full blessing. Give me their portion.

I love you, Lord Jesus.

Jo







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From: Freeborn551 Sent: 7/13/2007 12:20 PM
I want to give a good testimony and praise today. I did not wish to start a new thread for this, so I looked at some we already had done. When I found this one, I knew it was a good one to use.

That testimony above is and was a blessing.

Now I wish to say, and especially to Larry, that the man I give all of my printed messages to, >>>. I carried him some yesterday...>>> He was sick, so please pray for him and his son also.....>>> they are having some health problems right now.....>>>>>the son told me he did not care, for he is tired of messing with life now, anyway..>>so he needs a touch from God.......>>

Well, anyway,
when I first went in....the man told me.....soon as I arrived.....he said, "I have come to see that Adam is the serpent". I was very glad and surprised at this, for he has never accepted anything I teach about Adam, before.

I asked him, How did you come to see it. He said, I was reading your message about this, and I just came to see what it means, that by Adam sin and death came on all men. He said, that had to be the serpent.

He said by this one man death came on all of us, as in Adam all die. So that has to be the serpent.

He has no doubt now. It was solid in his speech.

So I wish to thank God today, for that 'fruit' of my labour. I had almost given up hope that anyone will ever see this truth and accept it.

But now, this man, to whom I have been ministering for a few years, has come to see this truth.

He said to me, "You cannot trust or believe any of those organizational preachers. They all just say the same things, and do not know the Word."

Praise God for this testimony and fruit of our labour.

So I ask you all to pray for this family. They are in need of much from God right now.

Love , in Christ,


Jo Smith

[Jo Smith]

Testimony of Sheila:

From: PastorShelia1 (Original Message) Sent: 11/12/2002 4:47 PM
Delivered from the Hurt of Abuse and the Scars of Sin

My Testimony of God’s Amazing Grace

By: Shelia Holcomb


Before I begin my testimony I feel it is important to give you some information on my childhood, so you will be better able to understand some of the decisions I made in my life, however stupid they may have been. But every decision I have made during my lifetime good or bad is what has brought me to where I am now and I am very thankful for the mountains and the valleys.

When I was born my mother was only fifteen years old and now years later and after I went through the process of forgiving her and working through many things, I am now able to look at her life through her eyes to try to better understand how she must have felt. Someone gave me this advice when I was really struggling with all of this, I was told that maybe I could forgive easier if I try to see her life through her eyes and not the eyes of a hurt child, you know what, it worked, I can understand her more clearly now. She was not mature enough to take care of herself much less a baby. So she would send me here and there to whomever would willing to take me at that particular time, most of the time it was my grandmother, several times throughout my life she would decide that she wanted me back and she would come and uproot me again. I never really knew any stability in my life and I always felt as if no one really loved me or wanted me.

Then at the age of nine she came and got me and took me away from my grandmother which, really at this point of my life, was the only mother I had ever known and I was very attached to her. Anyway, my mother came and took me to Illinois where she lived, by this time she had remarried and she had two more children by her new husband. He hated me and the only reason I could figure out was simply that I was not his child. Now this was not my fault, although I did blame myself for many years. He started just physically abusing me, but at the age of nine that changed, he raped me and this abuse went on until I was thirteen and I finally told my mother, she didn’t believe me, actually no one believed me. Finally I just let it drop and I buried all of those feelings of anger and hate for years, that has now all been dealt with and forgiven and now it is all under the precious blood of Jesus, Praise God. I told my mother that I wanted to go back to Memphis to live with my grandmother and she consented just because she felt I was causing so much trouble and she did not want to be bothered.

Now my grandmother was now also remarried and I resented him for taking her away from me too. You must remember I was only a child and I felt like she was all I had and now I had lost her too. I was very hateful to him and caused so many problems, he was very kind and loving to me but I just could not accept what he was offering to me. My grandmother finally after a long struggle went to the courts and told the judge that I was out of control and they just could not handle me any longer, so they removed me and placed me in a foster home, the home I went to was wonderful, but at that time I could not see things clearly, all I could see was that the only person who should love me had now turned her back on me as well, I just wanted my grandmother so, I ran away. The courts then really called my bluff, so as a ward of the State of Tennessee I was placed in a Catholic all girls reform school for three and a half years. Now as I look back, I can honestly say it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. But at that time all I could see was that I was totally alone, unloved and unwanted in this great big world.

Now I will jump ahead some. In 1987 I lost my three children to their father and I totally lost it. I turned heavily to alcohol and eventually that turned into crack and cocaine. By this time I had lost everything including my dignity as I had turned to prostitution to support my drug habit. I was arrested several times on various charges, but I was never convicted and I never served any time, I know that God was taking care of me even back them in my sin, He saw what I would be one day in Him. I give GOD all the PRAISE, HONOR AND GLORY for all that I am today and all that I will be.

The drugs and my roaming had taken me to many places but on December 20, 1990 I came across a man that told me about Jesus and how He could deliver me and make my life an example to others. I had not eaten in a couple of days and he asked me if I was hungry, so he took me to a restaurant and bought me something to eat. The entire time he shared about Jesus Christ with me. He told me Christ could and would set me free if I was willing, and how He (Jesus), would give me a new life without all the pain and turmoil I was living in. Of course being a Christian does not eliminate us from pain, trials and tribulation but with Christ in our hearts He will give us the strength to overcome and withstand even in the worst times. I began sharing my life story with this man and he still said Jesus is the answer, and boy was he right. Right there I gave my heart to the Lord and I decided to live for Him and serve Him for the rest of my life.

I had been singing for many years and I had destroyed my voice through drug abuse, I just abused the gifts that God had given me. So I prayed and told the Lord that if He would heal and restore my voice I would use this gift for His glory for the rest of my life. Now, God has done exceedingly and abundantly above all that I could ask or think. The songs that I sing and others that I have written they are all His I am only an instrument holding the pen. It does not matter where you are, Christ will come to you and meet you if, you are willing to let your life go and let Him be God of and in your life.

I have had so many miracles in my Christian life as I am a walking miracle myself. One of these miracles really stands out to me and I would like to share this with you as well. About four or five years ago I was diagnosed with an incurable bowel condition, the doctors were not real sure what it was exactly, but they had come to the conclusion that with ulcers all through my body and many in my bowel system, they said they wanted to do surgery and remove some of the bowel. My reply was that I wanted to get prayer for this and that I believed that God was going to heal me and I will not need the surgery at all. They went ahead and scheduled me for another scope the following week, just a few days after Christmas. Then on Christmas Eve I placed a long distance call to a minister friend of mine and asked him to pray for me, he said no problem but he would need to call me back in a few minutes. While waiting for him to call back I got about ten bibles and placed them opened on the floor in a circle and one opened in the middle of the circle. When he called me back I knelt on the bible in the middle and said, “pray”. When he prayed for me the fire of God hit me and went through me, I had such a peace come over me. I went over to my bed and fell asleep (now Adam was put into a deep sleep in Genesis when God removed the rib to create woman) God did the same for me as I lay there sleeping He performed surgery on me to heal my body. I slept for seventeen hours and when I woke the bleeding had stopped and so had the pain, I knew without a doubt that I was healed by the precious hand of the Master. I was on about $400.00 worth of medicine a month and I went into the kitchen and threw it all in the trash. I did go back for the scope when I was scheduled and the doctors were amazed there were no ulcers anywhere and I just praised God for His healing power.

I am now an ordained minister and I am married to a wonderful man who is also a minister. We know God has put us together for a ministry and we are enjoying serving the Lord together. I am now a southern gospel singer\songwriter. The Lord has blessed me and I will continue on this road He has placed me on for my desire is only to serve Him. I will travel anywhere I am invited to give my testimony or to sing or both. God is wonderful and it is to His glory that I am writing this, if one soul is reached in any way then this is worth everything.

Again I cannot stress enough that this is for the glory of God that I am here and that my life is what it is today, for without Christ we are nothing, but through Him we are joint heirs with Him. He is our Deliverer, Savior, Helper, and Healer and any problem we may have is never to great for Him to help us, we just have to take it to Him and leave it at His feet and in His care. I thank God for His power is still healing, still saving and still delivering. He is good all the time. I have made my mistakes but His grace is sufficient. God loves us and if we truly repent and confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we can help anyone out there, please contact us at the information provided below and we will do our best to help in any way we can. If you have questions about loved ones who may be on drugs or other addictions we will try to answer your questions, if we do not know we will do our best to find the answer for you. If you have loved ones that you need prayer for we will gladly join you in agreeing for that person for the Kingdom. Please always remember we are human and we will make mistakes but just confess to God those mistakes and get them under the blood of Jesus as soon as possible, God still loves us and He will help us in all of our situations.

GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU ALL. I GIVE FULL PERMISSION TO ANYONE WHO CAN USE THIS TESTIMONY TO COPY IT AND GIVE IT OUT OR TO SHARE IT PUBLICALLY, BUT PLEASE GIVE ALL THE GLORY AND PRAISE TO GOD. THANK-YOU. WE ARE YOUR BROTHER AND SISTER IN CHRIST JESUS.
Jerry & Shelia Holcomb
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