March, 2009
Dear Lamplight Family,
We are pleased to share with you the
exciting things that God is doing through Lamplight Ministries in many
different countries. Praise the Lord. We are grateful to you for your prayers
and for your financial support that enables us to help many people around the
world.
COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE
WHO HAVE
BEEN HELPED BY OUR PUBLICATIONS
If you would like to see the effect of your prayers
and your contributions, please visit our website at www. lamplight.net to
see 569 comments from people in 41 different countries who have been helped by
our books and Scripture cards. You can order our publications from our website,
from our post office box or the 800 telephone number at the bottom of this
page.
AN INMATE IN
A FLORIDA PENITENTIARY COULD ONLY GET A COPY OF HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE FOR ONE DAY. This woman wrote to us saying, “Greetings in the name of Jesus. I ran
across your book How to Study the Bible.
I really like your method of studying the Bible. Due to the number of inmates
waiting for this book, I was only able to keep the book for one day. I would
like a personal copy. This book has given me new insight into Bible study. I
really need one to sit down and take my time without being in a rush. Any help
you can provide would be appreciated. This book truly is a lamp and a light to
me just as the Bible says. Thank you.” (We sent this woman a free copy of How to Study the Bible and also a copy
of Exchange Your Worries for God's
Perfect Peace.)
A woman in the
philippines said that Unshakable Faith in
Almighty God greatly reduced the stress level in her life. This woman said, “Unshakable Faith in Almighty God is totally refreshing. It seems as
though my faith is always being pushed to the limit. At times I did not know if
I was ever going to make it. This book has taught me that our great big God has
everything under control. Knowing this greatly reduces the stress level in my
life. My husband Mario had a stroke. He no longer is able to provide for our
family. He too read Unshakable Faith in
Almighty God and he has been greatly encouraged. I will carry on and expect
great things from our great God.”
a woman in
thailand said that the teaching in Trust
God for Your Finances redeemed her financially when she almost gave up
hope. This woman said, “I was desperate and I almost gave up hope financially
until I read your book Trust God for Your
Finances. Mr. Hartman’s testimony on how he trusted God and followed His
instructions prompted me to do the same. I have faithfully obeyed God's
instructions. I gave more despite my financial situation. Miraculously, I have
learned that God’s promises are real. I have been redeemed financially. My
debts have been paid off. Thank You, God!”
A church in
zambia is being blessed greatly by a series of sermons from What Does God Say?. The pastor of
this church said, “I have been teaching for the past three weeks from your book
What Does God Say? on the subject of
patience. The response has been overwhelming. This is great stuff. Many people
in our church have never heard this teaching before. People who had little or
no patience are now able to wait on God with peace in their hearts and no more panic.
This book is a great blessing. It is a powerful manual for pastors. It is good
for the flock. Thank you very much.”
COMMENTS
FROM JACK HARTMAN
A progress
report on victory over adversity. After working
diligently for more than one thousand hours, we finished the seventh and final
draft of Victory over Adversity in
early March. Since we give away 80% of our books, we had no money to pay for
the cost of printing this book. We wrote to people on our mailing list saying
that we would require approximately $7,000 to print a conservative number of
books. As this newsletter is being written, we have received almost $6,000. We
stepped out in faith and sent this book to the printer with a 50% down payment,
trusting God that the balance of the money will come in shortly.
We don’t know
at this time when this book will be printed, but we believe it will be printed
some time in April. We will send a free autographed book to each person who
contributes toward the cost of printing this book. We will have more specific information
regarding Victory over Adversity in
next month’s newsletter.
I AM MOVING
FORWARD RAPIDLY ON God’S Joy Regardless
of Circumstances. God seems to want this book published
relatively soon. This is the nineteenth Christian book I have written or
co-authored with Judy. I never have seen a book progress as rapidly as this
one. Even though we have just sent our previous book to the printer, I already
have written the first ten chapters of Draft #1 of God’s Joy Regardless of Circumstances. I believe that this book
will continue to progress rapidly.
People in the
world are searching for happiness from external
sources. God put His supernatural joy into
the heart of every person who receives Jesus Christ as his or her personal
Savior. Many Christians block this joy from being manifested in their lives
because of their negative reaction to stressful circumstances. Your Father has
instructed you to always rejoice
regardless of the circumstances you face (see Philippians 4:4). You will rejoice at all times if you have total, complete and absolute
trust in the Lord.
This book
will explain what the Bible instructs you to do to walk in the joy of the Lord
regardless of what is taking place in your life. You will receive specific instructions
from hundreds of verses of Scripture that will tell you exactly what to do to
walk in the joy of the Lord continually. I am very excited about this book.
Judy has commented that she has seen my joy increase since I started writing
this book. I will keep you posted on the progress of this exciting book.
PLEASE PRAY ABOUT BECOMING A MONTHLY
PARTNER TO HELP US TO DISTRIBUTE OUR PUBLICATIONS FREE OF CHARGE TO NEEDY
PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. Anyone who reads our newsletters each month can see
that we are helping many people in Third World countries and inmates in prisons
and jails. At this time we do not have enough monthly partners to meet our
fixed monthly expenses. If you believe in what we are doing, please pray and
ask God if He would have you become a monthly partner to help us each month as
we reach out to help many people around the world. Thank you and God bless you.
COMMENTS FROM JUDY
HARTMAN
Dear Lamplight family,
We are thankful for you as our friend and for being
in our rooting section cheering us on to the next book! Victory over Adversity has been sent to the printer. We are knee
deep in the next book, God’s Joy Regardless
of Circumstances. We are blessed to have a group of people who are our dear
friends, even though many of you we have not met in person. We thank you
especially for continuing to invest financially in Lamplight Ministries.
THE DAILY DEVOTIONAL NOW CAN BE EMAILED TO YOU.
Please go to our website link below. A Scripture card will be sent to you each
dayJ Please let others know
about this daily Bible message as well.
You can help to spread the Word of God through
Lamplight Ministries by going to our website and writing on our blog. You might
write about how a certain book has blessed you or how you have used one of our
books in a Bible study. If you participate in a blog, I invite you to mention a
Lamplight book you are reading or have read and include the Lamplight website.
You have to put http://www.lamplight.net for it to create a link,
so please write it in that form. If you are on Facebook, I invite you to
mention a Lamplight book you are reading or have read or how the Scripture
cards make a difference in your life. That would be great! If you Twitter, do
Twitter about a Lamplight book that blessed you!
Sending the gospel to the nations is God’s
instruction to us. We are blessed to create the gospel in easy-to-understand
language, so that people whose first language is not English can understand it,
people for whom reading does not come easily can understand it, and people who
read well can be challenged.
We do not mention pastors’ names because now or in
the future that pastor might be persecuted because someone saw his or her name
online connected with the gospel.
A pastor from Pakistan wrote: “Basically, the
Pakistani national language is Urdu. I will find a person here who can
translate your books into Farsi and Arabic language. In Pakistan, people can read
easily Urdu language books. Here we can translate your books into the Urdu
language. This is a very good step for Pakistani people who want to learn about
God’s love. I am also thankful to God that I find you with spiritual vision. I
found you by the grace of God.”
The pastor extended an invitation to come and help
the people who are living in darkness. At this time Jack and I feel that I
should not go, but that we should direct funds for the mailing of our books to
the nations. We have the goal of the translation and distribution of our books
in Urdu, Farsi, and Arabic in 2009.
From a pastor in Ghana: “We are embarking on a mission
to the northern part of Ghana which is deprived in all aspects, both financial
and spiritual. I will want you to send the following books for us to be able to
reach and train leaders in various communities in northern Ghana. Please help
us to make our vision come true.”
We received an invitation to minister in Monrovia,
Liberia. Instead, we would like to send Lamplight books and Scripture tapes to
the pastor.
From Nigeria: “We need more preachers and lecturers
to help in our Bible college. We greatly need books for our library. The people
here love to read and study. Will you please pray about what God would have you
do? We want the gospel to reach as many as we can. If you’ll help give, we’ll
be faithful to see that it is distributed to those who need it.”
From a pastor in Malawi: “It is now 2 years we have
been reading your wonderful books like Exchange
Your Worries for God’s Perfect Peace, God’s Wisdom is Available to You and
many more. We are more encouraged with your teaching on how we can serve the
Lord best. Our vision is to preach and reach out to many people in Malawi and
Mozambique.”
From Singapore: “I read the book, Deep Inner Peace (replaced by Exchange Your Worries for God’s Perfect
Peace) during my difficult time. I was blinded with darkness; overwhelmed
with work, problems and family, but God is so good. He showed me through the
book by Pastor Hartman that I should always meditate on God’s Word day and
night. And I did that, reading almost every day till one fine day my eyes were
opened. Not only has God brought light and peace into my life, He made my life
more meaningful. “
From Ethiopia: “One of my friends gave me a copy of
your book entitled God’s Wisdom is
Available to You. I found the book is interesting and I prepared many
sermons using this wonderful book. I am blessed and the others are blessed,
too, because of this book.” (He requested other books.)
We have many requests from many countries for our
books and Scripture cards. We thank God for all of the lives that have been
transformed by the Word of God in the books we write. We envision sending more
books to all of them.
The mission field is now the Internet. Please join
us in presenting the gospel through Lamplight books wherever you can online.
Please let me know when you do and if there are responses. We can indeed reach
millions of people online. Let’s do it!
Blessed to be a
blessing, (Genesis 12:1-3),
Jack and Judy Hartman
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