Leanne Bond – Aspley special meetings, June 2015

The spirit of God is an amazing thing and it comes from the God above, the one spirit that Jesus taught about and it came with His life, the one way, the one baptism and it is just one.

It is a beautiful thing this one spirit and all over the world it produces the same fruit and teaches us about Jesus.

It guides us into the truth, the narrow way.

The spirit of the world is very different.

Man of many minds will make many ways.

Salvation without sacrifice is a doctrine.

Some disregard the ministry and disregard the teaching of Jesus.

It is a wonderful thing when we bow our heads in prayer to God and we thank Him for our eternal benefits.

We fully believe in the way that God has planned through Jesus, and we will find eternal salvation and deliverance from this cruel nature.

I have been thankful for the many readings through the gospel where Jesus said ‘I will’.

He said “I will” to the need of one person in Matthew 8.

I will come and heal him verse 7.

In the Philippines some years ago there was major flooding.

People were being swept away and being drowned by the force of the current.

There was a young man that was helping those that were in distress, and he saved quite a number from drowning in the floodwaters.

He rested after helping quite a number of people.

Then he looked up and saw a mother with a baby and she was doing her very best to save that child and herself, but she could not do it anymore and he saw that.

So he went in again to do what he could for the mother and little child.

He had enough strength to get the mother and little child to safety.

Later his body was found and he had drowned.

He had helped others live and that is the story of the gospel.

Jesus said I will come and I will go, and in the beginning Jesus was with His Father and He said I will go.

The perfect One coming into an imperfect world and knowing He would face rejection, but He said I will go.

I am very thankful for the willingness of our Saviour and for His life.

The woman that was saved in those floodwaters just longed to say thank you to that young man.

Thank you for helping me and my little baby.

It is a lovely word, the word thank you.

In the English language it is one of the nicest words.

I feel I need to thank God over and over again for His mercy to me.

I was reading again about the lady that came and anointed Jesus with that precious ointment.

It cost a lot of money and she could have gained in a natural sense, but she went to Jesus and anointed Jesus and Jesus knew what was in her heart.

Jesus knew that day her motivation was for the kingdom of heaven, and it helped Jesus and it encouraged Jesus.

There is a story about a man in the Old Testament.

We read a story about a man called Phinehas [Numbers 25] .

This man had courage to stand and stop the awful influence that was coming into the children of Israel and weakening them, because it was a doctrine of Balaam.

The children of Israel were a strong group of people because of their separation by God.

But the influence of Balaam weakened them and he got them to join the world little by little and the plague was spreading.

This man Phinehas stood up, took a javelin and put an end to it, to the terrible influence that was causing death.

He had a heart full of courage and may God help us in our day to be strong when we need to be strong, to do anything that may bring a good influence into the kingdom.

When we are with infectious people we need to keep washing our hands and have to be isolated and be careful that it would not spread and be careful of the influence, little by little, that could creep in.

I hope in our hearts we say ‘I will’ and we keep thanking God for His mercy and for His deliverance and we will give our very best to Him in the days that we have left, because time is running out.

The gospel is being preached in all the world and the end then will come; we are thankful that the gospel is still being preached.

And there is such a great need for the lost to be found and I want to be one that is willing to help those and to feed those that have been found and I would feed my soul so it would be a help to others.

For Jesus’ sake.