October, 2008
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 566 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.
Twenty-two
people in a Sunday school class in Iowa
are greatly blessed by What Does God Say?
The leader of this class said, “Our class meets for two hours each
Sunday. We have discussed six or seven of your previous books in past classes.
Your new book is the best one yet. The response from the people in our class
has been phenomenal. One lady who was not assured of her eternal salvation now
is assured that she will live eternally in heaven. We begin each class by
asking people to state their biggest problem. Once the problems of the members
of the class are defined, we choose which of the 94 topics to discuss. The
people in our class are telling other people about this book. Please send us
ten more copies with an invoice. I believe the church book store soon will be
ordering several copies so that other people in the church can purchase this
book.”
A woman in the philippines was
healed of cancer after reading Exchange
Your Worries for God's Perfect Peace. Maria Mimarillas said, “I was so
excited after I read the first chapter of Exchange
Your Worries for God's Perfect Peace. My faith in God increased steadily as
I read the remaining chapters. I received an opportunity to test my newfound
faith when the persistent and painful stomach problem I had was diagnosed as
cancer. I wanted to test my faith, not die so soon with it. After a very
powerful prayer and hands laid on me, I felt something break inside of my body.
To make a long story short, there is no cancer, no more pain, no more fear, no
chemotherapy or no radiation. My faith has made me whole. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.”
a pastor in alaska said that Trust God for Your Finances was the
catalyst for a debtfree lifestyle. Dr. Ken Friendly said, “I would like to express my
sincere appreciation for your ministry and the passion you have to spread this
almost too good to be true Gospel! Your writings have been a tremendous
blessing to me personally and to my church family. I first read Trust God for Your Finances in 1983 as a
young Christian. This book was the catalyst for the debtfree lifestyle we now
enjoy. Thanks for obeying God. May His favor continue to overtake you and your
ministry.”
A man from wisconsin said that What Does God Say? is our best book
ever. This man said,
“Thank you for your new book, What Does
God Say?. I love it. It’s fantastic. This book is just what I was looking
for. I would like my family to have copies. Could you send me six copies and an
invoice? I think this book will be your best book ever. I still keep going back
to some of the old books for encouragement and spiritual reflection.”
COMMENTS
FROM JACK HARTMAN
A progress
report on our next book. Victory Over
Adversity continues to move steadily forward. We are almost half way through Draft
3. This book will give you facts from the Bible that will tell you exactly what
to do to deal with the problems in the world and how to walk in the victory
that Jesus Christ has given to you.
We believe
that God’s timing on this book is perfect as always. We do not know if the
problems the world is facing at this time will get worse. However, we do know
that this book will give you hundreds of answers from God that will tell you
exactly what to do to walk in the victory that Jesus Christ has won for you.
Are you
absolutely certain where you will go when you die? Several
people have commented to me about how much they enjoyed What Does God Say?. Whenever I can see an opportunity to talk with
an individual for a few minutes, I always ask that person who has just commented
on this book, “Are you absolutely certain where you will go when you die?”
During the
past month, I have asked this point of five people who told me they enjoyed the
book. This book tells exactly where you will go when you die and exactly what
is required to go to heaven or what will send you to hell. Not one of these
people who had read the book knew the correct answer to this question. All five
of these people gave me an answer that essentially says, “I hope that I will
live in heaven.”
Hoping you
will live in heaven will not get you there. You must know that you will live eternally in heaven because Jesus Christ
paid the full price for all of your sins and, because He paid that price, you
will live eternally in heaven. All that you need to do is to repent of your
sins and to say that you are trusting completely in Jesus Christ for your
eternal salvation.
Do not make
the mistake of thinking that living a good life will get you to heaven. Many
people tell me that they believe they have lived a good life and that this good
life will get them to heaven. This is not
what the Bible says. Romans 3:23 says that every person (with the exception
of Jesus Christ) is a sinner. James 2:10 says that God looks at a person who
has sinned once just as He looks at a person who has sinned repeatedly.
Adolf Hitler
could go to heaven if he trusted Jesus Christ. Osama bin Laden could go to
heaven if he trusted Jesus Christ. Mass murderers can go to heaven if they
trust Jesus Christ for their eternal salvation (see John 7:37).
Sadly, many
people today focus almost entirely on the seventy, eighty or ninety years they
expect to live on earth and totally ignore the endless trillions of years of
eternity. If you are not absolutely
certain where you will go when you die, you must carefully study pages
25-49 of What Does God Say?.
You can live
eternally in the glory of heaven if you trust Jesus Christ completely for your
eternal salvation. Jesus Christ is the only
way to heaven (see John 6:44). If you are trusting in any other way of living
in heaven except for Jesus Christ, you will live eternally in hell.
Do not make
the major mistake of not learning exactly what is required for you to live eternally in a place that is
so great that words cannot describe it. The Bible says that your eyes have
never seen and your ears have never heard and you have never even imagined the
glory of heaven (see I Corinthians 2:9).
If you are
not certain that you will live eternally in heaven, now is the time to get serious about your eternal destiny.
Carefully study pages 25-49 and follow God’s specific instructions so that you will live eternally with Him in
heaven.
COMMENTS FROM JUDY
HARTMAN
Dear Lamplight family,
I want to honor a treasured
friend of Lamplight. We never met in person, but we shared in the Lord through
our notes to each other for many years. Chester Mulder of Sun City, California
recently was absent from the body and present with the Lord after having been a
witness for Jesus Christ right up to his last breath well into his nineties.
A note to us from Chester written on
October 4, 2006: Hi, Jack and Judy: Your book on divine healing is a daily
blessing. Thanks. God has wonderful surprises for His people. I anticipate you
and I will share them together. What a future! Chester Mulder
On January 2, 2008 Chester wrote: “Happy New
Year, Jack and Judy. Hope each day is chuck full of happy surprises. Aren’t you
glad the Lord loves you and is causing everything to work together for your
eternal welfare? How great is our God?” Chester (Please
pray for Chester’s
family who will are missing this saint of God immeasurably as we do.)
God has commissioned us to
take the gospel to the nations. Do you realize that God has brought the nations
to us? I will begin assisting Dr. Nancy Sue Laminack in the teaching of English
to immigrants at our church, Christ Church, in Palm
Harbor. (I have a
Master’s Degree in Secondary Reading so literacy is a passion of mine.)
Lamplight is partnering with LEI (Literacy and
Evangelism International with headquarters in Tulsa, OK).
The reading lessons are filled with the gospel. We will train thirteen
volunteers for eight hours on November 1. Then each of them will be ready to
tutor one student. Nancy Sue, one of the loveliest and most gifted teachers I
have ever met, is available to come to your church for free to do the same
things at your church or for any group. We do not know when Jesus Christ will
return. You can help to fulfill Jesus’ last words to us: “Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature,” (Mark 16:15). Please let me
know if this ministry rings a bell for youJ
We are praying for each of
you as you face the economic crisis in the United States. We pray that you
prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers (III John 2). Creativity is
necessary at this time. Witty ideas and inventions may come to you. You may
find things that you can barter rather than exchange for money. We all must
simplify our lives in every area.
I am so excited about our
new organic square foot gardens that were just completed yesterday by the
handiest men on earth, Danny Bobber and his dad, Bob. We used Mel Bartholomew’s
New Square Food Gardening book for
the design. Danny kept improving on it. The result is two four by eight foot
raised wood-framed beds with an automatic drip watering system with a mulch
walkway and a four foot wooden lattice fence lined with chicken wire to keep
the rabbits out. I have planted lettuce, tomatoes, red peppers, and cucumbers
so far. I will add peas, broccoli, cabbage, kale, collards, and more lettuce.
We will be eating our salads right from the garden. I am ecstatic! Buy some
seeds or plants and plant them in a pot for your garden saladJ
A pastor in Delaware, Pastor Bob
Mathieson, told me that he ordered thirty copies of Trust God for Your Finances because of today’s financial situation.
He has been the overseer of a number of house churches, called The Outreach of
God’s Word, for twenty-five years. He wants the people go back and check the
basics. The house churches meet together once a month, but now twice a month
because of the current crisis. He has used Trust
God for Your Finances in the past. He tells his people, “If the economy
scares you, your life is not built on solid ground. There are no guarantees
that this thing will turn around or that it won’t happen again.” He teaches the
people to become debt free, exercising temperance, a fruit of the Spirit.
Pastor Ken Friendly of
Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in Anchorage,
Alaska told me that he uses Unshakable Faith in Almighty God as a
devotional. His church orders our Scripture cards often because they can’t keep
them on hand. They are gone as soon as they arrive!
A minister from New Jersey wrote: “I
don’t know where to start. In reading your book, Trust God for Your Finances, I felt ashamed. I as a Christian have
been failing God and not trusting in Him as I should my entire life. But as I
continued to read your book, it also let me know that there is still hope for
me. Despite the situations (financial or other), God wants me to be totally
dependent on Him. Should I expect tomatoes if I have never planted tomato
seeds? The answer is no!
“I thank you for allowing
God to use you. I’m in financial debt right now. I had no answer for it, so I
went on amazon.com and found your book. I thank God that I have the answer now.
I also gave it to my wife to read and I told my brother who ordered five of
your books. My job is laying off and my wife does not work, but God is not
limited by these circumstances. PRAISE THE LORD!” Please pray for this pastor,
his family, and his ministry.
Jack, you may have this one
already: it is Don Eichelberger’s: A man from Iowa told me: “We’re studying your latest
book in Sunday School. I ask the group, “Who has challenges in their lives?” As
the answers are given, we decide on a topic and then go to that chapter in your
book, What Does God Say? Most people
don’t spend much time in the Bible. Jack has it all alphabetized. We will read
for about fifteen minutes and then lay hands on people and pray for them.”
A lady from Georgia told
me, “I have been thinking of retiring from real estate. I want to do something
else for God. Fear starts bothering me. Your book, Conquering Fear, helps me a lot.”
A lady from Nebraska wrote: “Every
time I read one of your books or just immerse myself in the Bible, God’s Word,
I feel I am rededicating my life to Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. Thank
you so much for your sharing God’s Book of Instruction in all of your writings.
A lady in California told me: “Your cards on healing
are very convincing. If we accept salvation, we should accept His healing as
well. With His stripes, we are healed. If we accept our spiritual healing, we
should accept our physical healing.”
From a Lamplight partner:
“The comments from people who have read your books are very inspiring. They
really make me feel like we are making a difference in people’s lives.”
A lady from Ohio told me: “In all of
your books you have the Scripture to exchange worry for. I tell you, Judy, when
I am facing a difficulty, I go right to your books. The Lord wants you to make
an exchange. He never tells you to put off something without putting on
something. Your books are so steeped in Scripture, that no matter what fear or
worry I have, I go to the worry verses. I can focus on what I need to put on.”
A lady from Florida wrote: “Thank
you so much for sending me What Does God
Say? It is fabulous-very helpful. I’m amazed at how much information you
enclosed in one book. Please send me five more copies. I want to share with family
and friends.”
We love you and thank God
for our Lamplight family.
We thank God for the joy of
helping to cover the earth with God’s Word. “For the earth shall be filled with
the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea,” (Isaiah
11:9, Habakkuk 2:14),
Jack and Judy
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