Proclaim the Peace of Jesus
December 10, 2017
John 14: 18-20; 23-27 (ESV)
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Henry & Kay Loresch says
Dearest Pastor Tim,
Hello! I sent you a letter a year ago and never got a response. This is Kay (and Henry) Loresch from CCOJ. I was so overjoyed to find you online and hear your voice again! (thanks to Google) I will continue to listen to your audio recordings, as you really love the Lord and it has always shown in your words and voice!
I have a praise! I am back in Jesus’ arms after a long battle with a brain disorder that took over 10 years to discover the problem, and then get the surgery to fix. My brain was not working correctly, and even though I prayed every night… I felt like I was being ignored by the Lord. I had such severe hydrocephalus that my brain was being crushed into the roof of my skull, and the fluid kept building. My body began to break down and I lost my balance and the ability to stand and walk, among other problems.
Poor Henry didn’t know what was wrong with me, and said I was meaner than a junk-yard dog during this illness. He said he wanted to divorce me because he thought I had either been possessed or that my soul had left my body, but when he found out about the brain surgery, he held in there, and supported me to the end of it. The surgeon said it would either cure me or kill me, so I took the leap of faith. It took over a year for me to get back to the “me” we remembered, but I rejoiced in the Lord for the miracle of saving my life, and realized that He had never left me at all, but maybe was testing my faith in Him. We now live on the Olympic Peninsula in Sequim over the Dungeness Spit on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.