I had a special treat this month. I was able to attend the Confirmation of Julia Bowen to the Lutheran Church. A wonderful lady that I got to meet on 2jesus right after Christmas when she attempted to take her life. (Read her testimony under that section) I just got back home from the Confirmation and this email was waiting for me.

Ferd and Beverly,

I just almost don't know what to say!! I am just smiling at the fact that you both were able to come to my confirmation! Praise God for His blessings!!! To actually meet you both, hug you and have you share my most precious day with me, wow ... that's just when life doesn't get any better!!! I wished you could have stayed for awhile longer.

So many things I want to know about you both, but I am going to take my next vacation and do everything to come and visit you both. To fish and visit your church and fellowship with two of the greatest Christians in the world!! I can't thank you enough and I just want you to know that you will always be in my prayers! Ferd, your web-site connection that lead me to you and Beverly was a God send. It gave me the strength to stay alive, to reach for something that I had only heard of and never thought could be mine. You were the seed and fertilizer that helped me reach my Father in Heaven and His son, Jesus Christ. How do you thank someone for helping you to live??? For giving you a reason and purpose for living?? There are just no words strong enough. I love you both very much and I want you to know that you REALLY are my family now, so hang on cause I won't let either of you go!!!

In Christ's Love,
Julia

If 2jesus never did anything more than help Julia I would be happy. But thank Jesus we have touched so many lives with Jesus' love and message.

We had another letter sent in that is about courage of another type. A minister, Reverend Joe Wright, opened the new session of the Kansas Senate with this prayer. Our ministers have been under pressure to make politically correct prayers and many fold under that pressure. Joe Wright is a soldier of God. Here is his prayer...

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your word says: "Woe on those who call evil good", but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that:

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your word and called it pluralism.
We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism.
We have indorsed perversion and called it alternate lifestyles.
We exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionist and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.
We have abused power and called it political savvy.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

Search us O God and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas and who have been ordained by you to govern this great state. Grant them the wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.

THANK YOU REVEREND JOE WRIGHT FOR SPEAKING FOR ALL OF US ...

Now for something that I am not so proud of. However I found a great message in it.

I was in the hospital for gall stones and with mine and everyone else's prayers on 2jesus was healed. I never felt better. I had told the doctor that I was a Christian and I was praying for God to heal me and that He had. He didn't believe me and told me I had two choices. 1) To have an operation right now and have my gall bladder removed. Or 2) To go home and get very sick and come back into the hospital for a 4 to 6 week stay and possibly die. And then in a snide way said unless my God saved me. I knew right then that I didn't want this man to treat me any more. So I said check me out. He said get someone else to and walked out. I called another doctor and he had him come back and check me out.

Now for the stinger!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This man planted doubt in me ... And I thought that I had lost my healing ... It took a lot of hard prayer to get back to Christ ... As strong as I am in the Lord and as much as Jesus has done for me I was lost for a while. I really reprimanded myself. After Jesus healing my heart, healing me of cancer, loving me daily and coming to me in a vision, I let one nonbeliever shake me. I was listening to his words over what the bible which is the word of God told me. For a moment I had taken my eyes off Jesus.

I am now back where I should be, regained my healing and learned a great lesson. I tell people daily to JUST DO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. I now know that is very hard for a lot of people because they are being bombarded by the natural. So now I will have more patience with them and pray harder for the Holy Spirit to protect them and shield them from the Devil.

Emails like this from a 14 yr old 2jesus regular really put me back on track.

Hi Beverly,

What does he have. I want to know fast. I began to treat him as a brother and not as a old guy.

P.S. Write back soon.

So that's all from the old guy except for a special thank you to Jeff Tanner our web master, who is always at hand to change the site and put names on our Prayer Garden. And all for free! This is Jeff's way of showing us he loves us. And we love him for making 2jesus what we think is the best Christian site on the net.