Gary Anderson

Well, you made it to 79 years. I am just 3 months behind you and catching up fast. Happy birthday to you my friend. There is a special gift for you and your family in Psalms 91. Check it out. Perhaps it may have been good if we had taken the time to read it during our Sunday morning "Sunday School" sessions at Kerr's Drug Store?

God Bless

Gary

Happy Birthday Sandy. I do remember those East Jr High days we shared together. Keep lookin' Up, Jesus is coming soon. This life has been a wild and interesting "ride", but the good news for we who have chosen and yet will choose to receive Jesus as our Savior and Lord is the "The Best is yet to come". God bless you and your family. Gary Anderson

Greetings fellow classmates. As I was viewing the lists of our members who have departed this life I noticed an average loss of one classmate per year until 1995 (age 53). Since then the rate of loss has increased to an average of 5 deaths per year which has varied from a low 3 to 8 per year. If we consider an average life expectancy for men and women of 82 and 86 years respectively, then this would mean that those previously listed loss rates will soon begin to increase to an average of 4 to 5 times the rate until now. this means we will soon increase to losses of 20 to 25 of our classmates each year.

Why am I writing these numbers to each of us?

Whether we are given one more day, a month, a year or a decade of years, we must soon face the real test question of our life.....Where do I go from here and am I prepared for that change in my lifetime? I sincerely ask you to pick up your Bible and begin to read the words spoken to us by Jesus beginning in each of the first four books of the New Testament. And remember what our English Lit teachers told us in class, "As you read, ask yourself the questions, ' Why did the author write this and what is the message they are trying to give to me as I am reading their words?' ". If Jesus is the author of those words written in your Bible, then as the author, He is the one to ask these questions.

And as you ask of Him keep in mind the words of James 1:5-6, " if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind." And also the words in Hebrews 11:6, "... without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him." And finally these words from Romans 10:17 " So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ". May I invite you to click on my photo icon above to read of my own testimony about how I met this Jesus in my walk through this life. Certainly He is Lord of lords and King of kings.
May God bless you.

Sincerely,

Gary Anderson

In the early summer of 2015 I was diagnosed with Melanoma skin cancer on my ear by a skin cancer doctor at a clinic in Lee's Summit, MO. He urged me to go immediately to the KU Cancer Hospital where they would remove part of my ear and a lymph node and then begin reconstructive plastic surgery to my ear. I was also diagnosed with a second type of skin cancer on my face which the doctor said he could remove by skin graft in his office. Well, this was not at all what I was expecting to hear at this stage in my life. And as I pondered what my decision would be concerning the options I was being presented with, my daughter told me of a good friend of hers who was given the same diagnosis but chose not to have surgery and within ten months he was gone. Needless to say all of my family were very concerned that I should immediately have the surgery. However there was one other option I had to consider. And that option was to ask God to heal me of both of these cancers and grant me full life to every day that He has chosen to give that life to me. I chose God.

Soon I came in contact with a fellow Christian believer who has been gifted with a healing ministry. His name is Don Ware and his ministry is found on the Internet at "gwmkc.org". I went to visit with Don and asked him to pray for my body to be free of the skin cancers which he did. After thanking him I then made arrangements to travel to visit my three younger brothers, perhaps for the last time before I went home to be with the Lord. Although I did not tell them of the purpose of my visit I did leave each of them with a new bible laying on my guest bed after I left. For the next few months I must say it was like the testimony of the three friends of Daniel before being thrown into the fiery furnace (Daniel 3:8-30). They had decided that " ...our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up. ".

When I returned to the doctor's office three months later and he examined me carefully, in his own words, "I do not see any sign of the melanoma on your ear, however I still see the skin cancer on your cheek". Well I praised God for the healing of the melanoma and believe that if God has healed me of the more aggressive cancer, then certainly He is going to heal me of the second cancer as well. After all, does God only perform half of a miracle and not finish the job? "No He does not!" I resolved within myself and I have continued in faith believing God for my complete healing.

Oh, and by the way, it was after that second visit to the doctor that I decided to join the Weight Watcher program and experience my second miracle. Read about it in the "Q & A" link above, you will be blessed.

If you would like to read more about the roll of the Holy Spirit of God in your bible, may I encourage you to click on the "Photo" icon in the upper right hand corner of this page. Then you will see a display of a card lists many of the scriptures in the bible that tell us about the Holy Spirit and how God has given Him to each of us who would choose to invite Him into our life.

Praise God and thank you Jesus and Don Ware for your promise fulfilled.

Posted on: Mar 24, 2016 at 12:40 PM