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I never again want to see the look I saw in the eyes of my precious little girl the night she suddenly came under attack from a sickness that made it difficult for her to breathe. She’d completely lost her voice, too, but she didn’t have to say anything because the panic in her eyes told the whole story. Doing her best to sleep, she lay in our bed and I lay right beside A LIFE her with my hand gently on her back. “In the name of Jesus,” I said, “little lungs, you be free ABIDING and be clear.” I must have said those words a BY JEREMY PEARSONS hundred times or more in addition to the many scriptures I read over her through the course of that night. I wasn’t scared at the presence of sickness in my home. I knew better than to yield to fear. But I was, however, frustrated by the total lack of power I sensed in my words and my prayers over her. My words were good, but something was missing, and I knew it. 06 All through that night, the Lord was it’s time to press in.” I knew exactly you, you will ask what you desire, and it a ripened piece of fruit on the end. house, we welcome all the peace and Jesus said in John 8:32 that a disciple so merciful to us and to Jessie. After a what it meant, but in my mind, opening shall be done for you. By this My Father For that branch to have any fruit on calm we can get. is simply someone who will abide or visit to the family doctor the next day, the Bible meant I would be preparing is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so it, it must stay connected to the tree. continue in His Word. After preaching she bounced right back and began doing messages, which meant I’d be working; you will be My disciples.” I knew Jesus Jesus went on to say, “neither can you In these verses, Jesus not only instructs what many of Jesus’ disciples considered much better. But I was still very aware and I was too tired to work. Time and was calling me back into a life abiding [bear fruit] unless you abide in Me.” A us to abide in His Word but to also to be a hard word, John 6:66 says, “From that something was seriously wrong, again, I ignored the voice. Then, one day in Him, but my flesh was determined Christian that won’t abide in Jesus is as abide in His love. This, of course, is that time many of His disciples went not with her but with me. I needed to be in October, I went to have lunch with my not to go there. Then came that night in powerless to bear fruit as the stick that’s accomplished in part by reading and back and walked with Him no more.” able to lay hands on my daughter with grandfather. As we sat there and talked, December when Jessie, my sweet little been disconnected from the tree. But if meditating on scriptures that reveal the When I read this, I have to ask, what confidence, knowing that what was in he began to tell me how the Lord had girl, could barely breathe; and though you will abide, then you will abound. unsearchable depths of me was greater than what was against been correcting him about how much my confession was good, I felt powerless It really is that simple. Praying for the the love that God has for me. Over the next twenty-four hours, TV he, too, had been watching. He told against the attack. The next day I asked sick and seeing them recover is major us. But according to Jesus, TO ABIDE IN JESUS IS TO STAY IN HIS I came face-to-face with the answer to me that he wasn’t going to be feeding the Lord what the problem was. I heard fruit. Stopping a deadly disease in its we maintain a living my problem, and I’m thankful it didn’t on anything but the Word of God night that voice again. “Jeremy,” He said, tracks with our God-given authority communion with His love WORD AND TO LET HIS WORD STAY take any longer than that to see how to and day with the same sense of urgency “you’re trying to bear fruit without is the kind of fruit we are called to by loving others. Here it fix this serious lack of power. and expectation he had decades ago. abiding.” That was all I needed to hear. I bear and the kind of fruit that glorifies is important to note that IN YOU. Clearly, he had heard the exact same turned off anything and everything that God. But expecting to bear these kinds everything Jesus said Several months before this ordeal, the voice I’d heard; only he responded to it was not going to feed our faith, and this of fruit without maintaining a living in John 15 led into one Lord had begun to deal with me about much more promptly than I did. I left time I did it for good. communion with Jesus will serve only very powerful statement spending a little extra time with Him lunch that day knowing this was God to frustrate our faith. in John 16:1 kjv: “These things have did they go back to? And what would and His Word. For me, this meant one once again speaking to me. Before I Several other significant challenges I spoken to you, that you should not I be going back to that would be worth very clear thing: I was going to have to got home, I called Sarah and told her arose during the same time that Jessie To abide in Jesus is to stay in His Word be offended.” One of the meanings of severing my connection with Him— turn the television off. Without realizing we’d be shutting off the television and got sick, and I began to see clearly why and to let His Word stay in you. The the word offended is “to be separated.” more mindless TV watching? When it, I was watching two or more hours of the movies, and we’d be getting into Jesus had started months before that first thing we did after we turned off the Is that not a picture of what happens Jesus turned to the twelve and asked TV every day, and most all of it was at the Word again. I deleted all the TV calling me back into the abiding place. television was turn on the preaching. I to people who were once close to each them if they were planning on bailing night when I got into bed. and movie-watching apps from my He knew that I was going to need to am of the opinion that every believer other but have allowed something to out, too, Peter answered Him in verse 68 iPhone™ and iPad™. bear some pretty big fruit, and there was should be listening to at least one get between them? If their differences saying, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You I was serious... sort no way I’d be able to do that without faith-filled, Jesus-magnifying, anointed are magnified and allowed to grow, the have the words of eternal life.” of. Despite my best abiding in Him. sermon every single day. Making this space created by offense will sever their “IF YOU ABIDE IN ME, AND MY WORDS intentions, three adjustment is easier than you may living communion and the relationship After you’ve had a taste of the fruit that days later, I had To abide simply means to stay, remain, think. You could easily listen to at least will be fruitless. It is especially sad to see comes from abiding in Jesus, you’ll say ABIDE IN YOU, YOU WILL ASK WHAT YOU added back all the or continue in one place. Jesus said in one whole message just in the time you a husband and wife that were made one the same thing to Jesus that Peter did: apps and was lying John 15:4 wuest, “Maintain a living spend getting ready for school or work, in the sight of God allow offense between “There is no place I’d rather be, Lord, DESIRE, AND IT SHALL BE DONE FOR in bed again, tired communion with Me.” This train of driving to and from the house, or getting them that gives way to separation and than right here with You. And I am thought began in John 15 by Jesus YOU. BY THIS MY FATHER IS GLORIFIED, from the demands ready for bed. divorce. It is literally a tearing apart, determined that by Your grace and by of family and identifying Himself as the vine and us and the fruit they were called to bear the help of His Spirit, I am never again THAT YOU BEAR MUCH FRUIT; SO YOU ministry, trying my as the branches. As long as the branch At the beginning of 2016, Sarah and I together will never be born. With the going to allow anything to create space hardest to drown it stays connected to the vine, it’s going to committed to giving a tithe of our time fruit that we know we are called to bear, between You and me. I have entered into WILL BE MY DISCIPLES.” all out with an hour bear fruit because in that connection is back to God. He so graciously gives us Sarah and I have resolved together to the abiding life, and I am not coming or two of television. a living communion between the two. twenty-four hours every day, so we are give no place to strife in our marriage. out.”  Everything that branch needs to survive giving ten percent of that to prayer, to There will always be opportunity for it Now, please don’t and bear fruit is flowing to it from the reading our Bibles, and to listening but, for the sake of our children, our You see, by the end of the day, I would be misunderstand me. I was still reading vine. But in the moment the branch is to men and women of God preach ministry, and our calling to each other, WATCH & LISTEN ONLINE so tired in my mind and in my body that my Bible, and I was still praying; but disconnected and that communion is the Word with passion, boldness, and we refuse to allow anything to create Visit the resources page at all I wanted to do was turn my brain off the Lord was calling me deeper, yet I lost, so is all the life that branch needs sincerity. Making this simple change space between us. I have found that www.pearsonsministries.com/resources to watch or listen to free messages by Jeremy and and “check out” as they say. I distinctly wasn’t yielding. In the time that I was to survive. Jesus said it this way: “The has not only increased our faith, but it since I started giving more of my day Sarah Pearsons. remember reaching for the remote spending in the Word, I was led again branch cannot bear fruit of itself” has also introduced a whole new level to God’s Word, my love for my wife is on several occasions and hearing that and again to John 15:7-8: Jesus says, “If (John 15:4). You’ve never once seen a of peace and calm in our home. With a fueled by a deepening revelation of familiar voice on the inside say, “Jeremy, you abide in Me, and My words abide in dead stick lying on the ground with five-year-old and a two-year-old in our God’s love for me. 08

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BY SARAH PEARSONS 1018 got to be my husband. eyes. Ikept to myself, thinking moment, Iwould’ve hadfor hearts were acartoon version of me inthat is my If fast?” beating heart there so and Ikept wondering, “Why, oh, why preached, of all my was soul stirred, and his triumph over Goliath. As he began to minister on faith the of David andwas wide-eyed as mesmerized he LOOKING up I GUY stood to speak. That is untilthis one REALLY GOOD- main inthe speaker the auditorium. disappointed that Ihad to miss hearing back ofthe room. the Iwas slightly of teenagers and found aseat toward my way through massive the crowd Ireluctantlya youth service. made she asked if Iwould go with her to and toward end the of meetings, the waswho quite abit younger than me, I went to conference the with afriend life. for one of greatest the miracles of my back and was know setting me up God huge and risky step, but now Ilook my job! At time, the like it a seemed IgaveSo my two-week notice and quit I could dobut something Ishould do. finally decided it wasn’t justsomething desire to gobig grewso inme that I attime work for that year. But the I had of already all taken my vacation urge to go. There was just one problem. went by, Ihad astronger and stronger and didn’t know why, but as days the Fort Worth, Texas. Ihad never been attend aconference that August in For some reason, Ihad desire the to three and living inBranson, Missouri. summerthe of 2006.Iwas twenty- askwho us how we first met. It was Thatwhat is Jeremy andpeople I tell GOD.” IN YOU BELIEVE MAKE WILL STORY “THIS He has

though Iwas flipping out the on to keep my on cool outside the even “WHAT?!” Imouthed silently, trying andheart, he doesn’t know why.” Jeremy Pearsons? He’s had you on his you interested ever be inmeeting from said, who “Sarah, afriend would Just one month later, Ireceived acall forbelieving agodly husband. lift visionmy and remind Iwas myself that sounds crazy, but Ididit just to a picture of Jeremy inmy Iknow book. to make ahusband page and evenput for God thatbelieving year. Idecided and scriptures I was for everything vision where pictures Iplaced book A few weeks later, Imade my first Jeremy.” ask You to make away for me to meet New Year’s Eve night Iprayed, “Lord, I I couldn’t hold it in any longer. On to Jeremy meet grew to point the that Four months went by, and my desire secret. that was this supposed our to be little about from him.Ihad asense Lord the I shouldn’t say anything to anyone me about your But cousin?” Iknew in me not to ask, “Why didn’t you tell and me to it talk; call took everything Jenny, is who related to Jeremy, would overrushed me again. My friend good on same feelings screen, those the online, and Jeremy’s when facecame preacher that had to up look they my brothers about great this young my talking. flesh I Nevertheless, told told myself that had to have just been under anointing. the That was it. I had just ahandsome seen guy teaching terms with what had really happened: I snapped back to reality and came to After returning home, I quickly going that girl.” to marry He was a firsttime, andsaid he to himself, “I’m two months aftersaw I him forthe picture of me back inOctober, just I found out later that a he had seen and away. walked that Inever answered him,just giggled “Tell me we have a chance.” He claims staring at me. Finally, he said sweetly, sat silent at end the of piano the just enough courage to up look at him.He lastthe note rang out, Imustered up firstsongs called “Faithful,” and as sing for him.Iplayed himone of my and afterdays, a few he asked me to He had heard that Iwas asongwriter, and we clicked on a whole other level. sight. We never lacked for conversation, But seriously, it really was love at first king. beauty salon fitting herself for her sixmorethen months at palace the spent sixmonths inoils, and soaking judge me. Just Esther Queen think: to prepare for his arrival. Hey, don’t working out and prepping my outfits my husband, I spent awhole month Knowing that I was about to meet coming to me, meet Iwas ecstatic. information that he was secretly least.the But Iwas when given inside in just amonth, Iwas excited to say attendingbe a meeting at my church When Iheard Jeremy was going to wholethe thing asecret. No one Ihad because kept knew else God. thiswasall I knew shouted, “Lord, how didYou dothis?” phone, lifted my hands to heaven, and with everybody.” Then I hung the up wouldn’t opposed to hanging be out sure, why not? If he’s everintown, I inside. I nonchalantly replied, “Yeah, It had to be. For example, ifyou’ve come from a that there’s something more. and always known, daring to believe pressing past what it’s always seen sandin the and to step chooses over, about aliving faith that draws aline it’s always and seen known. I’m talking about faith adead that just copies what and refuse to go. let ofhold apromise hands, both with its naturalbeyond lay boundaries, Hispresskind will plan.faithof This praise, and faith that presses into into prayer, faith that presses into into His presence, faith that presses of faith akind thatpossessing presses pressure on people. is not sameGod the thing as putting have to go after it. Pressing into on me; Ihave to press for it. I inmybest life, it won’t just fall I’ve that learned if I want God’s petition mean can to also press. to ask for something desired. To make apetition is to request or petitions of your heart.” To give you desires the and secret Lord, inthe also and He will amp petitions of my heart. My had given me the secret God it happened all just like that! togethergo to in October. Africa And March, inSeptember, married be and knowing that we were going to in meet met, up he stood from his prayer time Sarah.” Even though we had never aboutto talk Sarah, let’s about talk gave in,and said, “Lord, ifyou want picture.the He couldn’t shake it, finally about he couldall think was in girl the Lord on what to preach but for service, his to closet pray. He inquired of the he kneltbefore on floor service, the of youth pastor at time, the and one night says, “Delight yourself I’m about talking I’m not talking Psalm 37:4 faith it is impossible to Him.” please we find in Hebrewsthat 11:6 “without of doubt,full worry, and unbelief; for many of prayers these are they because day? Sadly, He is unable to approve so of petitions that clutter His desk every heaven sitting down to read pile the Can you our imagine Father God in soliciting afavor, right, or mercy. a paper A petition be can also best. your You heart. have to press for God’s in your to with believe head. Choose reasoned.be Don’t to figure it try out Bible faith is not rational and cannot into shape best the of your life. Real you and feeding you and bringing you Shepherdwhere Good the is leading and pressing into pastures wide-open yourself stepping out land of adry to paycheck, you have to imagine If you’ve only everlived from paycheck youwhich have known” (Deut. 7:15). you with none of terrible the diseases... from you sickness, all and afflict will thatto trust “the Lord away take will past your and history medical choose youwith same the disease, must press in your family diagnosed has been marriage made inheaven. If everyone and give you will ahealthy home and a press into and that believe God He can divorce; ifyou want better, you must and you’ve all everknown is strife and broken family, and you’ve all everseen seeking things. Psalmseeking 37:4 enjoying Lord the and have started petitions have is they simply stopped people donot receive secret their oneI believe of main the reasons reading my Bible and writing songs. of my evenings downstairs by myself maid Iwas because spending most concerned about me becoming an old can joke about it now, but were they parents back on look that and time Word,the enjoying His presence. My I spent majority the of my in time at andmymy serving church; ministry His for will my life. myself Ithrew into delightingtime and seeking inGod that He would answer it. Ihad spent didn’t just fling up a prayer and hope for an opportunity to Jeremy, meet I petition to Lordbook the and ask Him When to present Idecided my vision- approval. Hethese, stamps His signature of seal Living Bible, it says, delighted “Be with give you whatever you ask for.” In the “Enjoy Lord, the and serving He will ofis arespecter faith respecter of persons but because His favorites, not He because is a topthe of pile, the and become they tosmile His face. He moves to these command His attention, and bring a few petitions that force Him to stop, But as He scans stack, the there are a . At top the of erv says, He He 10 20

the Lord. Then He will give you all Esther is slow and strategic with her annihilate the Jews” (Esther 8:5). your heart’s desires.” And my favorite petition. She doesn’t freak out when she is in The Message:“Keep company hears the bad report, and she doesn’t She doesn’t just march in demanding with God, get in on the best.” just run to the king and frantically beg that he grant her desires, but with a for his help. She calls for a fast humble heart and with great honor, and seeks the Lord. Then she she solicits his will on the subject. “put on her royal robes and Notice she says, “If it pleases the king... stood in the inner court of the and the thing seems right to the king.” king’s palace,” and when he sees her “standing in the court, she We shouldn’t just want our way; we I mentioned Esther earlier, but let’s found favor in his sight” saying to her, should want His will. First John 5:14- take a closer look at her story. She “‘What do you wish, Queen Esther? 15 says, “Now this is the confidence gives us a great example to follow What is your request? It shall be given that we have in Him, that if we ask when presenting a petition to the to you—up to half the kingdom!’” anything according to His will, He Lord. Esther first hears of the decree (Esther 5:1-3). hears us. And if we know that He hears to destroy the Jews from her uncle us, whatever we ask, we know that we Mordecai when he pleads with her to Now, because of Jesus, we have it have the petitions that we have asked go into the king and petition him to even better than Esther! We are to of Him.” save her people. At first she is unsure, come boldly before His throne of unsettled, and reluctant to go because grace wearing our royal robes of The king gives Esther the petitions of she does not know the king’s heart on righteousness, being fully aware that her heart and says, “You yourselves the matter. To enter into the king’s He loves us, knowing His favor goes write a decree concerning the Jews, inner court without being called for before us and that His greatest desire as you please, in the king’s name, and could very likely mean death for her. is to give us the riches of His kingdom. seal it with the king’s signet ring; for But Mordecai encourages her to press whatever is written in the king’s name past her fear of death and ASK BIG. At the sound of bad news, we’re never and sealed with the king’s signet ring He says, “For if you remain completely supposed to fly off the handle, fearfully no one can revoke” (Esther 8:8). silent at this time, relief and deliverance spouting off scriptures and confessions 4.17 5.22 9.7 CHURCH UNLIMITED WEST COAST WORD CHURCH FAITH LIFE CHURCH will arise for the Jews from another without any power. Esther takes her I want to encourage you today place, but you and your father’s house time with the king, arranges several to delight BIG and dream BIG. 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Also, while online be sure to sign up for our free mailing list so that we can stay WWW.PEARSONSMINISTRIES.COM/SCHEDULE Pearsons. connected with you. 22 dropping the price of the home, adding the highest home warranty available, paying closing closing paying available, warranty home highest the adding home, the of price the dropping [email protected] with your testimonies and requests for prayer. Jeremy, Sarah, and the We to love would hear what our GOD GOOD doing is in your life. We believe that once we finally had our hearts in the right place of knowing that to be true, true, be to that knowing of place right the in hearts our had finally we once that We believe are now believing to be debt free in this home. We cannot thank you enough for your words words your for enough you We thank home. cannot this in free debt be to believing now are 2015, knowing our current home lease wouldn’t end until April 2016. After finding a house ahouse finding 2016. April After until wouldn’t end lease home current our 2015, knowing score was above excellent in the eyes of the lenders, and the realtor said she had never seen seen never had she said realtor the and lenders, the of eyes the in excellent above was score was required was still more money than we could see in the bank. We told the owner of the of We owner the told bank. the in see could we than money more still was required was off over seventy thousand dollars of debt. During this time, we listened to “Patience Under Under “Patience to listened we time, this During debt. of dollars thousand seventy over off for us in the realm of our finances. Two days later, the owner of the house called. She said, said, She called. house the of Two owner the later, days finances. our of realm the in us for decisions and found ourselves in a tremendous amount of debt. We believed we would one would we We debt. of believed amount atremendous in ourselves found and decisions God’s timing and see how God had been working in the years leading up to this: our credit credit our this: to up leading years the in working been had God how see and timing God’s house payment is now less than our previous rent payment! It is truly a gift from God. We God. from agift truly It is payment! rent previous our than less now is payment house our life, and then my husband heard a word from the Lord that God was doing something something doing was God that Lord the aword from heard my husband then and life, our God has impacted us through Pearsons Ministries in so many ways. I love meditating meditating Ilove ways. many so in Ministries Pearsons through us impacted has God day own our own home, but we decided to take the first five years of our marriage to pay to marriage our of years five first the take to decided we but home, own our own day Your teachings have helped us learn how to be abased and abound. We learned to not be not to We learned abound. and abased be to how learn us helped have Your teachings completely cover the down payment, so we closed on the house in under four weeks. Our Our weeks. four under in house the on closed we so payment, down the cover completely offer before the Lord, and we felt the release to move forward. We then received a gift to agift We received then forward. move to release the felt we and Lord, the before offer we liked, we started the process of getting approved for a loan. 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