This book is to be an encouragement to all those who are seeking... To all those who want to be a part of something big... To all those who want to be a part of God's Family in Heaven! If you go to our website: TheVillageCarpenter.info you will see that we publish Christian Books and Gospel CD's. However, our mission is much bigger than that. We are praying to reach 200,000,000 Souls for the Kingdom of our dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... He is The Village Carpenter. Read our book... See our website... Come join us!
There is so much talk today about the taking of Christmas out of our society... Out of stores... And renaming the celebration of the birth of our Savior Jesus... We as publishers decided to give a Christmas gift to all who will read this book... When we were younger... We would read the Christmas Story as we called it or the story of Jesus birth out of The Book of Luke in The Holy Bible to our children. This practice seems to be lacking in today's society... We feel that it is a need that every child should know this story and have it read to them from the youngest age... All the way as they grow up. So many will not even read their Bibles today... Maybe this will help by having this story put into book form so that maybe... Just maybe this practice will return... To The Glory of God, The Lord Jesus Christ and The Holy Ghost! Enjoy this reading... With your children... At Christmas Eve... And throughout the year! The Publishers
Gods Holy Word... The Holy Bible uses the word Together 486 times in 471 verses. But for this book Doing It Together we are only going to look at the verses where Jesus said the word Together. The first time is when He was talking about the parable of the tares or where good and bad are together. He goes on to explain that there is a day coming when they that are together will be separated.
PRAYER TIME 10-7-2012 4:38 PM - 5:25 PMHOME STUDY BIBLE SCHOOL… Where is it? I am very frustrated because I can't find my notes that we have already written in preparation for our BIBLE SCHOOL. Several years ago The Lord started us off with THE VILLAGE CARPENTER a home improvement business that started sometime in 1972. We worked this business through out the rest of our life along with many other businesses.Also being involved in Church and Sunday School as a Teacher of The Gospel. As we continued on… About 2003 we were on the World Wide Web and at the advise of a former business man… We added the words World Wide to our business… THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES.When Father God called us into full time ministry of publishing Christian Books… We added the words to our ministry… THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES AND PUBLISHING HOUSE. Along with this, Father God spoke and said, “They wouldn't read My Book… The Holy Bible… But they will read these little books.” He went on to instruct us as to how to build our, or should I say… His Web Site: THEVILLAGECARPENTER.INFO we also realized that there was a need to teach people about The Holy Bible.So we started putting together notes and other information to start organizing a Home Study Bible School. As we prayed about it… Father God impressed us with the fact, that the books we were publishing were Gospel Tools to be used for ministers to teach from along with The Holy Bible. God's Holy Word and our own Personal Testimony are the two most important tools to be using in this… Bible School.He told me today to call it: THE VILLAGE CARPENTER BIBLE SCHOOL. This is where the prayer time of today came into this picture. Do you like this picture that we are painting for you? You see… You are not reading this by accident… Somebody is concerned about your soul. During our prayer time today, 10-7-2012 at 4:38 PM I set my alarm to go off at 5:30 PM to get up for a radio broadcast today.I basically prayed, “…Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth...” from 1 Samuel 3:9. Again, this was at 4:38 PM. I tried to be quiet and say nothing. There are those who know me that would laugh at this because they think I can't keep my mouth shout! True as it is, I am trying to be still before Father God and just listen… Today at 5:25 PM He spoke and said, “Charles, You build it… The Souls will come and study My Word!”Amazed, I lay there in silence thinking about what I had just heard. Then at 5:30 PM my alarm went off and I had to get up for our Pastors translation of our guest, Sister Kenia from Cuba. Her and her husband are our Bishops in Cuba for The International Ministers Forum.She was being interviewed on WWSU FM Radio 106.9 streaming live on the World Wide Web. She speaks very little English and our Pastor David Swartz interpreted as she spoke. The program went on with music for an hour and a half or better. She was asked to preach a little for the radio audience, which she did with great power and authority. Obviously being moved by her message… The announcer asked her to pray for all that were listening. This Sister Kenia did with great power. Amen. Hallelujah!It is no accident that you are reading this book right now. Someone is concerned about you and your eternal destiny. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who have chosen to go to Heaven and those who have chosen to go to Hell. If you are of the latter… Praise God because you have been chosen of Almighty God to be reading this book right now and to have one last chance to change your mind and go to Heaven to be with Father God.
Have you ever wanted to read the words of Jesus? Only the words of Jesus? And nothing else? Well now, you can. That's right. We have put the words of Jesus and only the words of Jesus in this book. Let us caution you: for the full meaning of all that Jesus had to say, you must use the cross reference numbers listed at the end of this book to track where these words come from. It is so important to read The Holy Scriptures... The Holy Bible. Also, may we suggest one thing? Before you begin, simply say a small prayer, something like this: "Dear Jesus, help me to read your words, help me to understand your words, and help me to read all your words. In your precious name, AMEN.
This book is dedicated to the family. You know who you are! We continue to love you! We continue to pray for you! We will see you in Heaven! This book is also dedicated to Natalie Forsythe; one of our authors, who 3 years ago gave our business card to Joy Renee' Blackburn; another one of our authors, who has since become my wife after we published 4 of her books. We continue to marvel at The Mighty Hand Of God as He continues to move in our ministry, The Village Carpenter World Wide Ministries, Publishing House and Bible School and now God's House International, which was founded by Sister Joy. God continues to show us that it is not age that He is concerned about... It is the obedience that we bring to Him as He continues to minister to us on a personal relationship so that we in turn can minister to others to bring them to Heaven with us. Dear Reader, We encourage you to seek for a personal relationship with Jesus who died on the cross and took all of our sins and covered them with His very own Blood so that we could be washed clean... To be white as snow, with out any condemnation. Amen. Hallelujah!
PRAYER TIME 10-7-2012 4:38 PM - 5:25 PMHOME STUDY BIBLE SCHOOL… Where is it? I am very frustrated because I can't find my notes that we have already written in preparation for our BIBLE SCHOOL. Several years ago The Lord started us off with THE VILLAGE CARPENTER a home improvement business that started sometime in 1972. We worked this business through out the rest of our life along with many other businesses.Also being involved in Church and Sunday School as a Teacher of The Gospel. As we continued on… About 2003 we were on the World Wide Web and at the advise of a former business man… We added the words World Wide to our business… THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES.When Father God called us into full time ministry of publishing Christian Books… We added the words to our ministry… THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES AND PUBLISHING HOUSE. Along with this, Father God spoke and said, “They wouldn't read My Book… The Holy Bible… But they will read these little books.” He went on to instruct us as to how to build our, or should I say… His Web Site: TheVillageCarpenter.info we also realized that there was a need to teach people about The Holy Bible.So we started putting together notes and other information to start organizing a Home Study Bible School. As we prayed about it… Father God impressed us with the fact, that the books we were publishing were Gospel Tools to be used for ministers to teach from along with The Holy Bible. God's Holy Word and our own Personal Testimony are the two most important tools to be using in this… Bible School.He told me today to call it: THE VILLAGE CARPENTER BIBLE SCHOOL. This is where the prayer time of today came into this picture. Do you like this picture that we are painting for you? You see… You are not reading this by accident… Somebody is concerned about your soul. During our prayer time today, 10-7-2012 at 4:38 PM I set my alarm to go off at 5:30 PM to get up for a radio broadcast today.I basically prayed, “…Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth...” from 1 Samuel 3:9. Again, this was at 4:38 PM. I tried to be quiet and say nothing. There are those who know me that would laugh at this because they think I can't keep my mouth shout! True as it is, I am trying to be still before Father God and just listen… Today at 5:25 PM He spoke and said, “Charles, You build it… The Souls will come and study My Word!”Amazed, I lay there in silence thinking about what I had just heard. Then at 5:30 PM my alarm went off and I had to get up for our Pastors translation of our guest, Sister Kenia from Cuba. Her and her husband are our Bishops in Cuba for The International Ministers Forum.She was being interviewed on WWSU FM Radio 106.9 streaming live on the World Wide Web. She speaks very little English and our Pastor David Swartz interpreted as she spoke. The program went on with music for an hour and a half or better. She was asked to preach a little for the radio audience, which she did with great power and authority. Obviously being moved by her message… The announcer asked her to pray for all that were listening. This Sister Kenia did with great power. Amen. Hallelujah!It is no accident that you are reading this book right now. Someone is concerned about you and your eternal destiny. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who have chosen to go to Heaven and those who have chosen to go to Hell. If you are of the latter… Praise God because you have been chosen of Almighty God to be reading this book right now and to have one last chance to change your mind and go to Heaven to be with Father God.
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Joel 2:28.May of 2009 we published a book called: “DREAMS FROM GOD” in which all the dreams have come to pass, except the last dream in the book which is coming to pass day by day.We have a new dream… That of going on a “China Trip” recently it has been prophesied that we would be traveling soon!
My wife Joy and I first met back in May of 2010 when she was referred to us for publication of her first book. Over the first couple years we had published 4 books for Sister Joy. When she invited me to go to church with her, I had picked her up and we were driving west out of town. A couple blocks later I saw a sign that read, “Young At Heart” outside a rather large nice looking building.I asked Joy if that were a youth meeting place? She said, “No, that is a Senior Citizens Place.” I told her that it looked like a good place to have Bible Study and Prayer Meetings. She said they do have Bible Study there. That was about 3 years ago. Last August Joy and I were married and February of this year 2014 we were asked by one of the local ministers if we would have Bible Study at the Young At Heart building?We said we would be honored to do it. The 1st week, only Joy and I came to the Bible Study and Prayer Meeting. The 2nd and 3rd weeks were the same. We continued hoping the people who were at the building playing cards would see our consistency and join us as we did indeed invite them each week before we would start. We would meet for about 1½ hour each time.Then on the 4th week, Joys sister came to join us. About the 7th week Sister Nora was out of town in Florida and Joy and I were again the only ones there. This week The Lord prompted us to read the longest chapter in the Holy Bible. We did and Joy was surprised that it didn't take very long to read it… She would read and then I would read and we kept switching back and forth.After we discussed what we had just read, I explained how The Lord had me to publish The Book of Revelation to show that it is not that hard to read and to understand. We had no-more than read this longest chapter in the Holy Bible, discussed it and had our discussion about The Book of Revelation when again The Lord spoke to me and said, “Charles… Publish this chapter into a book and call it 119!”So… You are now reading the longest chapter in The Holy Bible and we hope you too see that it is not that hard to read the longest chapter and understand it. May we suggest that before you read this or any book in The Holy Bible or any other book about The Holy Bible, you would be well advised to pray first and ask the Author of The Book; The Holy Bible, to open your understanding and to allow you to become knowledgeable and give you wisdom as you read. We have done that for years and we learn each and every day. God does want us to read His Holy Word and He wants to teach us so very much!Now; almost 5 years later, we must continue to share these same thoughts with you the reader of this book. You see back then The Lord told us, “Charles… They wouldn't read My Big Book… But they will read your little books!” So we continue to publish books. To date we have published over 215 books and God brings us new author after new author.Your Book Could Be Next!You must understand… We are no one special. In the 1st grade of school, we were actually put in the corner of the room while the other kids were in reading circle. It seems I just could not read as a 1st grader. They even held me back for a 2nd year to try to help me to learn to read. I can still remember those troubling words,“Run Jack Run” and “See The Cat” and “See Billy Walk” but when I got to antidisestablishmentarianism… I was really lost! (Just kidding). I made it all the way to 6th grade and the teacher told my Mom, if I didn't go to summer school, I would fail the 7th grade. Well Praise God, He had other plans for me. I didn't fail the 7th grade and I didn't go to summer school either and made it through high school. Got a job at the local Air Force Base and 2 years later was drafted into the United States Army.In the 3rd grade, I saw a boy cheating on his spelling test. I watched several weeks and decided to try it myself. Well guess what happened? I didn't get caught either. My grade card reflected an improvement, I was off to the...
We just finished mowing our Sister's yard, got into our car to drive the 2 miles to our home in the country. It's evening the sun is just setting in the west. On the car radio is Brother Chuck Swindoll. When I hear him say, "1/2 of the local church will be LEFT BEHIND in the rapture." I thought? Am I the only one who sees it? Am I the only one that Father God told that the number will be much greater than that? Am I the only one that Jesus... Has told that 3/4th will be LEFT BEHIND? Gods Holy Word? The Holy Bible uses the words LEFT BEHIND only 2 times in 2 verses. They are, The plague of darkness that says, Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither. Exodus 10:26. Next the story of the Amalekites who spoil Ziklag, So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. 1 Samuel 30:9. Greetings Reader? Of this book. We are so glad you are here. You are about to experience a Divine Appointment with Almighty God! You may think this is a wild and outlandish statement? But it's true? Let us explain. It is no accident that you are reading this book right now. Someone is concerned about you and your eternal destiny. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who have chosen to go to Heaven and those who have chosen to be LEFT BEHIND and go to Hell. If you are of the latter? Praise God because you have been chosen of Almighty God to be reading this book right now and to have one last chance to change your mind and go to Heaven to be with Father God.
There is so much talk today about the taking of Christmas out of our society... Out of stores... And renaming the celebration of the birth of our Savior Jesus... We as publishers decided to give a Christmas gift to all who will read this book... When we were younger... We would read the Christmas Story as we called it or the story of Jesus birth out of The Book of Luke in The Holy Bible to our children. This practice seems to be lacking in today's society... We feel that it is a need that every child should know this story and have it read to them from the youngest age... All the way as they grow up. So many will not even read their Bibles today... Maybe this will help by having this story put into book form so that maybe... Just maybe this practice will return... To The Glory of God, The Lord Jesus Christ and The Holy Ghost! Enjoy this reading... With your children... At Christmas Eve... And throughout the year! THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES, PUBLISHING HOUSE, BIBLE SCHOOL and GODS HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, PO Box 133, Lakeview, Ohio 43331 USA see TheVillageCarpenter.info
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel!
In this book you will find: We write and publish books for the Lord Jesus Christ, for The Village Carpenter. Jesus is The Village Carpenter. After praying about it... We added the words World Wide Ministries. I remember as an eight year old boy hearing this tragic news, praying. I mean really praying, probably for the first time something like: "God, what can I do to help?" My call from God was on this day. God really started drawing me about the 1985 era. We have even expanded to help other Christians to publish their books. We believe God's Word.
Today... I thought I had lost one of my best friends. That is what my response was when asked: "Who are you today?" And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
FIRE DEVILS COMING, Flee The Wrath To Come... Greetings Reader, Of this book. We are so glad you are here. You are about to experience a Divine Appointment with Almighty God! You may think this is a wild and outlandish statement! But it's true! Let us explain. It is no accident that you are reading this book right now. Someone is concerned about you and your eternal destiny. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who have chosen to go to Heaven and those who have chosen to go to Hell. If you are of the latter? Praise God because you have been CHOSEN of Almighty God to be reading this book right now and to have one last chance to change your mind and go to Heaven to be with Father God. We as a publisher have been honored to be introduced, By Divine Appointment to Brother Luke Chapman. Now you are probably wondering? What do you mean by Divine Appointment? Through Gods Divine direction, the following took place within the last nine months. We had to move out of our home of seven years. We moved to the county of our birth. We drove around remembering the places we played as children. We found a church in the country that we attended several times. The Pastor told Brother Luke to contact us as a publisher the very day they met. Father God told Brother Luke two times to call us. Now, We are not telling you this to discredit Brother Luke in any way. But to show that we all fall short of doing what we should do sometimes or not being willing and obedient to follow Gods leading as we have copied from the verses below, Please read them now... As God exhorts you to repentance with promises and threatenings. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Isaiah 1:16-20. Right to the point isn't it? Let's go on. Father God prompted Brother Luke a third time to call us as a publisher. Here's why? Brother Luke has been busy for eight years writing books? Good Christian Books of ministry. He has been in much prayer as to what to do to get them published. This time Brother Luke dropped what he was doing and obeyed Father God and called us. We were at our computer working on another authors book. We answered the phone and there was Brother Luke explaining what we just wrote about. As he told us of his most important three books, we wrote down the titles to these books. We then interrupted Brother Luke and asked, "May we pray about publishing your books?" He said, "Yes." As we prayed and committed these three books to Father God for publication, we could hear Brother Luke on the other end of the phone line crying out to Father God for His Blessing in finding a Christian publisher. But much more took place during these moments on the phone. Father God was busy blessing not only Brother Luke, but also us as the publisher. You see... Our Spirits were communicating with each other, Father God, Brother Luke and we the publisher. There is so much more to this story... Ask us about it when you contact us, but let us tell you of the Divine Appointment and how it took place. Sometime later... Father God told Brother Luke that if he had not called us; the publisher, he would have missed his Divine Appointment that was in an eight year making just for him. You see... As Brother Luke was writing his books, Father God was instructing him of many things that he needed to know. You see, Brother Luke was washing himself, cleaning himself and putting away the evil that the devil tried to destroy him with.
We as a publisher get all kinds of mail like this. The Holy Spirit Beareth Witness… Is what makes the difference. Here we are offering 3 things… How to help you write your first book… How to become our New Book Distributor… And How to help others to do the same… You can do it just like we did. To date we have published over 230 books,YOUR BOOK COULD BE NEXT !We pray, “Father God, You have given us many Words of encouragement in the building of these books. Thank You for the idea of publishing this book to help more Christians to publish their own testimony into a book to help others come to salvation. Thank You Lord Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah.”THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES PUBLISHING HOUSE and BIBLE SCHOOL at GOD'S HOUSE INTERNATIONAL PO Box 133 Lakeview, Ohio 43331 USA or see TheVillageCarpenter.info
Across the road from Killeen and Fort Hood the government built many barracks, which were like apartments for the service men and their wives to live in. It was called Fort Hood City. In the evenings after work I went roller-skating in Killeen or at Temple or to the USO or to the dances. The bus had chaperons on them that took us girls to the service club dances. We couldn't go out of the building. They had cement that they let us dance on just outside the door when it was really hot. The first time I went out on the bus with Shirley she said come over and sit with our gang. Someone will ask you to dance. Just about that time a GI asked me to dance and I said, "I don't know how." but Shirley said pushing me to my feet, “Oh yes she does.” When we were dancing he said, "You are a good liar, you are a smooth dancer." Soon someone taped his shoulder and that is the way the evening went. The Army Band played at every dance. That was the way it was but I did keep going to Church on Sunday. At 12:00 The Band played Goodnight Sweetheart Good night. We all headed for the bus. This was every Thursday evening and on Holidays. When it was a Holiday Dance we wore something real nice. One Thanksgiving I wore all green. Back then the fishtail two-piece suit or dresses were all in style. I had one and wore green hose with green wedge heel shoes with a big gold buckle that looked like a Pilgrims style shoe. We girls were given a paper bag with a ribbon to go around our arm and that evening the GI's had to pay to dance with us. One Sunday after that we were taken out to camp and had a picnic with the GI's. I turned in $125.00 that evening and I was proud, but I loved to dance then. One evening after their payday I had went skating. While Wilda and Aileen took their dates to the show in Temple, we were to meet back at the Camp Hood bus station to go home together. One of the GI's was a blind date Aileen had gotten for me but I didn't like his looks so while we were waiting for the bus I stood outside to hold our place in line while Wilda and Aileen sat inside the bus station. Two GI's came across the street from town and propped one foot on the bus station. I could tell they had been drinking the way they were standing. One said to the other, “If you don't want to talk to me, I bet she will.” I turned on my heel and said, “Yes honey what are we going to talk about?” One said, “Where are you going?” I said, “Home, when the bus gets here. I'm saving a place in line so we wouldn't have to stand all the way to Belton.” When the bus came I sat in the seat over the wheel on the left side and when these guys came up one ask, "Is this seat taken?" I said, "No" and moved over next to the window. The one I was looking at sat down beside me and we sang all the way to Belton. As the bus rolled into the station He ask, "Can I walk you home?" Since I was with my sisters I said, "Yes." He told me his name was Everett. While we were on the bus, we didn't let them go all the way to our home as we knew Dad would fuss at us. I told Everett I come out to the dances at the service club on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Yes, he finally came over and tapped the guy on his shoulder that I was dancing with. We danced a slow number then a fast one started and I said, "I don't dance fast ones." Everett said, "Just do a two-step fast and I'll do the rest." To my surprise I really loved it and he said to me, "You did fine.
You are about to experience a life changing DIVINE APPOINTMENT Come and enjoy what Father God has for you as you rest in The Lord. Read and pray over each verse on each page and see what is waiting for you. Write down on the pages what Jesus tells you in your heart. The pictures of The Log Cabin and The Aurora Borealis have a specific meaning... Enjoy and God Bless You in this DIVINE APPOINTMENT with Him. Amen. Hallelujah!!! THE VILLAGE CARPENTER WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES, PUBLISHING HOUSE and BIBLE SCHOOL at GOD'S HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, PO Box 133, Lakeview, Ohio 43331 USA call 740-777-1525 or see TheVillageCarpenter.info
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