January, 2008
Dear
Lamplight Family,
We
are pleased to share more exciting news with you about what the Lord is doing
through Lamplight Ministries. We thank
the Lord for using us to help many needy people in several different countries.
We thank you for your continued prayers
and financial support.
COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE
BEEN HELPED BY OUR
PUBLICATIONS
We
enjoy sharing these comments with you each month. If you would like to see the effect of your prayers and your
contributions, please visit our website at www.lamplight.net
to see 566 comments from people in 41 different countries who have been helped
by our books and Scripture cards. Many more comments are waiting to be
added when and if we can make the time.
BOOKS FROM
LAMPLIGHT MINISTRIES NOW ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED IN CHINA. Pastor
Jim Koshita who has temporarily left Zambia to minister in China said, “God is
doing a new thing in my life and ministry.
I am still in China. I am
ministering in Tianjin and Tangu. My
wife just told me on the phone that we have received more books from you. I will be back in Zambia on July 23rd. These books will be distributed to many
church leaders. Your books are
completely different from other books I have read. They are right from the throne of God and carry a special
anointing. It is so amazing that a man
at the age of 76 can write such life-changing books. Our great God Who sees your labour will reward you mightily. People here who speak English will be
greatly blessed to have your books.
Enclosed are some addresses of people here in China plus one man in
Belgium who are expectant of reading your books. I will send other addresses soon.” (We have sent books to each of these people in China and to the
man in Brussels, Belgium. If you would
like to contribute to this fruitful ministry to help Jim Koshita with his
needs, please send us your contribution.
We will send this money to Jim.)
AN EVANGELIST IN PAKISTAN HAS REQUESTED PERMISSION TO TRANSLATE UNSHAKABLE FAITH IN ALMIGHTY GOD INTO
THE URDU LANGUAGE. Bishop Kenneth Spartan said, “It is a pleasure to know about you and your
ministry. Brother Jeff Pike met me in
Kenya and gave me your book Unshakable
Faith in Almighty God. This book is
a masterpiece of theology - particularly your explanation of the rapture, the
second coming of Christ and the persecution of the Church. I wish to translate this book into the Urdu
language to be used in Bible schools and theological seminaries. I have translated books by Demos Shakarian,
Gordon Lindsay and Charles and Frances Hunter.
Please take initiative to bring this book to benefit us in the Third
World. May God use you like a salt and
let you shine like a light." (We
gave Bishop Spartan permission to translate this book to help needy people in
Pakistan.)
A PASTOR
FROM GHANA HAS
ESTABLISHED TEN BIBLE STUDY CENTRES WHERE OUR BOOKS ARE THE ONLY TEACHING
MATERIAL. Pastor Solomon Danso said, “I send you Calvary greetings in
Christ hoping that you are doing very well as family and ministry. We received two boxes of your books. As the Lord made the way we sent them to
rural areas where Bibles are very expensive and scarce. We have used these books to establish 10
Bible study centres where your books are being used as the only teaching
materials. Your books are like an
encyclopedia. We are appealing to you
to send more of your books and Scripture cards. Anything you send us will be very much appreciated and used to
the glory of God. May God richly bless
all of your financial supporters for enabling us to use your ministry to
transform our country. Thank you and
God richly bless you.” (We have sent
more books and Scripture cards to Pastor Danso.)
A PASTOR IN
ZAMBIA TEACHES IN HIS CHURCH FROM RECEIVE
HEALING FROM THE LORD. Pastor Nikhosi Emmanuel said, “Thank you for the books you sent me free of charge. Your book, Receive Healing from the Lord, has been very helpful. Whenever I feel sick, I read this book. I gave this book to a pastor who has been very
sick. After reading it for two days, he
was healed. I have used this book to
teach the people in our church. This
book touches my heart. It carries a
strong anointing of God. It is very
clear and easy to read and understand.
Please send me more of your books to give to other pastors." (We have inadvertently misplaced Pastor
Emmanuel’s address. Can anyone in
Zambia help? We will send books
immediately.)
COMMENTS FROM JACK HARTMAN
An update on our next book: I am very excited about our next book which will be
titled What Does God Say?. This book is the most important project I have ever worked on in the 76 plus years I have lived on this earth. I have worked on this book every day for the
past 53 weeks. This work is incredibly
difficult, detailed and time-consuming.
I have never tackled anything like this.
I am almost at the end of Draft #3 and will begin
Draft #4 in the next few days. There is
still a long way to go. We are taking this
massive project one day at a time. This
book will consist of 95 different scriptural topics with between 3 and 25
passages of Scripture in each topic. I
am working diligently to write a headline of brief explanation and one
paragraph of approximately 100 words before each passage of Scripture. This paragraph will give a clear and easy to
understand explanation of what this Scripture says.
I am very encouraged to observe the tremendous
anointing of the Lord on this book. I
am using massive amounts of material from six large file cabinets that are filled
with thousands of Scripture meditations I have written during the past 33
years. It is very exciting to see the
work of more than three decades being pulled together to be condensed into one
book. We do not know when this book
will be completed. The book will not be
done until we have peace in our hearts that this book is exactly what the Lord
wants. I had done virtually all of the
work on the early drafts of the book as I always do. Judy is now intensifying her labor to take what I have written to
write, rewrite and condense it. We work
very well together as a team.
In
recent newsletters we have given you an overview of some of these topics. We would like to continue this explanation
by sharing a brief explanation of the following topic with you (all we have space
for). Each month we will share
information on additional topics as space is available.
The topic titled FAITH IN GOD tells you that you cannot please God if you do not have strong faith in Him. Your Father instructs you to live by faith. He wants every aspect of your life to
revolve around your deep, strong and unwavering faith in Him. If your faith in God is insufficient, you can
learn from God’s instructions exactly what your Father tells you to do to consistently
increase your faith in Him. You will
learn how to develop deeply rooted faith in God that will enable you to receive
manifestation of His glorious promises when difficult times come upon you. Your Father promises that you will not be disappointed if you persevere in faith, absolutely refusing to give up.
Please pray for us as we continue to work on this
book. With every month that passes, the
Lord is showing us more and more what the final book will be like. We cannot wait to place this book in your
hands so that you can see for yourself the comprehensiveness
and simplicity that God has graciously given us to write this book.
Please pray
about supporting our ministry financially. Anyone who reads our monthly
newsletters can see that God is using Lamplight Ministries to help many needy
people throughout the world. We now are
expanding into several additional countries such as China, Pakistan and Belgium. We are in awe of what God is doing.
We continue to send out books to these needy people with faith
that the funds will come in. We sell
only about 10% of our books and Scripture cards and give away approximately 90%.
Please pray about supporting this ministry on a monthly basis. We need more consistent monthly partners to
stabilize our cash flow which varies tremendously from month to month. Thank you and God bless you.
COMMENTS FROM JUDY HARTMAN
The
world keeps becoming more hostile toward Christians. We find the description of today in II Timothy Chapter 3. In the 1960’s I learned this chapter by
heart. At that time the verses appeared
appropriate for the way the world was. Today
this chapter describes the condition of the world clearly. As the conditions described in the Bible for
the last days continue to become reality, we must know what God tells us to do
during the last days. I am relearning
this chapter this month. Please let me
know if you decide to focus upon it and write it upon your heart. You will find applications for verses in
this chapter as you go about your day and interact with others. You will have a word ready for someone who
is hungry to receive it. Please let me
know what happensJ
Jack
and I are focusing our energies upon writing a book that will provide the tools
for anyone to prepare with confidence for these times of intense persecution
against the church. Brothers and
sisters, just because we are not experiencing the extreme abuse that others are
experiencing today, they are part of the body of Christ. Where one is suffering, we all should be
aware of what is happening and do all that we can to help.
We
have been tithing for many years on all money that comes into Lamplight
Ministries. One of my deepest joys is
sending the tithe to the pastors in the nations. When you invest in Lamplight, you are investing in India, the Philippines,
Ukraine, Israel and in Indonesian refugees.
You are investing world-wide through the internet, through Literacy and
Evangelism International, and universities in Latin America and the US. We are sending special offerings to Kenya. All ministries are well known to us and
tested and proven faithful to be excellent gospel soil. You are investing in Lamplight which we
appreciate so much and you also are reaching the nations financially as well as
through our publications.
Every
day we must spend some time in touching the nations with the gospel in some
way, first of all through prayer. I
have a huge map on the wall and can touch the nations as I pray for them. You might purchase a globe and pray for
nations as you become more and more aware of their location in relation to the
trouble spots of the world. “Father, we
agree in Jesus’ name for counsel, might, wisdom, and understanding for those
who are living where Christians live in daily danger for their safety, their
livelihood, and for their lives. Amen.”
I
am rereading Trust God for Your Finances,
written by Jack in 1983. I believe that
we all need to read and study it for the first time or reread and study this
book. All signals appear to point
toward times of great turmoil in the world.
We will never again live in what we once felt was a peaceful world. God has given us instructions in the Bible are
to learn and obey in order to be a blessing to others. Blessing and favor do not come automatically. We
must be closely connected to God. We
must know what God’s directions are and follow them.
I
want to thank you for providing my new Dell Latitude D830 computer which was an
absolute necessity when my previous computer crashed. I chose to stay with Windows XP instead of the new Vista operating
system. I did not realize that my new
laptop would come with Microsoft Office 2007.
What a surprise to not even be able to find how to use italics at first. With the F2 key I am finding what I need and
learning Office 2007 rather quickly. This
computer practically sings and dances. It is absolutely comprehensive. It will save a great deal of time AFTER I
have become familiar with it. I have an
external hard drive for a backup, so I feel very blessed to have such excellent
equipment. Again, I thank you so very
much.
I
am totally excited as I hear people day after day tell me on the phone or in
emails that one of our books is ministering to them in a huge way, making a
difference in their lives. Thank you
for your prayers and support that makes it possible for our books to reach the
nations. We are blessed to be an
extension of you to the world. We thank
you for your partnership with us. We
ask you to pray for us without ceasing.
We
will have our yearly Board of Directors meeting in February. Please pray for our Board as we meet to
survey the past year and to thank God for His provision and Lamplight’s
outreach to the nations. Please pray
for us as we look to God for His direction and anointing in the coming year and
the years ahead.
We love you and thank God
for you. Blessed to be a blessing,
JACK & JUDY HARTMAN
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