Travel Day - Jonesboro, Illinois to Salem, Kentucky

Thursday was a travel day for us. First thing on the agenda was II Timothy 4:5. I make sure I fulfill this verse about once per week. Are you familiar with what it says? 

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. II Timothy 4:5

Do the work of an evangelist. You probably think you know what the work of an evangelist is but you would probably be way wrong. The work of the evangelist is the very unpleasant job of emptying the holding tanks on the bus. 

Since II Timothy is written to a young Pastor, it is obvious Paul was instructing Pastors to do the work of an evangelist. Therefore it is the Pastor's job to empty the evangelist's holding tanks on his RV. Not many pastors buy into my sensible interpretation though.

Since we were close the drain, close to the water spigot, did not have far to travel AND it was not raining, I took an hour or so and rinsed the tank several times. While I was doing that Kelly Jo was getting things inside ready to ride.

Here we are about ready to go.

Jonesboro Trinity Pentecostal Tabernacle

The trip was about 90 miles from Trinity in Jonesboro, Illinois to Faith Church near Salem, Kentucky. It was a beautiful day to travel and the traffic was light all the way. We really made good time and did not stop at all along the way. We pulled into Faith Church about 12:30 PM and in a few minutes we were parked and hooked up.

We have preached here several times for Bro. Phillip Sanders through the years including a revival last year in April. Bro. Sanders and the church made a well planned transition in leadership in January and now Bro. Israel Sanders is the Pastor. Bro. Israel is a great man and God is blessing the church and his ministry. He is making his father proud and thankful.



We are very honored to be back here again even though we can only stay two nights this visit. Thursday night's service was excellent and we are expecting another great one tonight.

We will have more pictures from revival here at Faith Church in a later post. Thanks for reading.

Davy

Jonesboro, Illinois - Revival In Pictures

We appreciate Pastor Geoff Bond and his family and church for all of their kindness to us this week. We have had a wonderful time with our friends. God has blessed in revival and we have enjoyed every service. Each night was good and the altar services were really good. Thank God of helping our friends and blessing us in the process.

We had lots of visitors from other churches in the area and that is always a blessing. There were also several visitors that drove quite a ways to be with us and we are very thankful for that. God has certainly blessed us with some awesome folks to enjoy on our way to Heaven!

Today we plan to drive to Salem, Kentucky and begin a two night meeting at Faith Church for Pastor Israel Sanders. We are looking forward to being with all of Faith Church again.

I hope you enjoy the Jonesboro, Illinois Revival In Pictures.

Davy

Praise God For Healing Odie One Year Ago

Last night marked one year since Odie was miraculously healed and vision began to be restored in her left eye. She had woke up totally blind in that eye and had remained blind for nine days. It was a very fearful time and fear certainly hath torment. The "what ifs" seemed insurmountable and the possibilities for recovery were slim to none according to the enemy that attacked out minds.

Until God turned it all around!

When God touched her late in the evening on April 21, 2014 we started praising God for the miracle from that very moment. It took several days for her to receive complete vision in her left eye but from totally blind to seeing in a few minutes was glorious.

We were fervently praying. Our families were fervently praying. Our home church was fervently praying. Our friends were fervently praying. Churches all over the USA were fervently praying. Our friends in Nigeria were fervently praying. God heard those prayers and gave Odie a miracle!

Since so many prayers were made to God for Odie and us, we felt like we out to pause for a moment after one year and say Praise God for His help! God is our healer. God is our helper. God is our encourager. There is no other God like our God! Praise His holy name!

Will you take a moment today to thank God for touching Odie and giving her back her sight in her left eye? He is worthy and we want to make sure He knows we fell He is!

You can read more of the story as it was unfolding HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Thanks for reading.

Davy