The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

1 Corinthians 2:12-16, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God,

that we might know the things freely given to us by God, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught

by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he

cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man.

16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

Everything God does, He does with a purpose. When you were saved (born from Above), you received

the Holy Spirit. He dwells in you now, just as He has from the moment you accepted Jesus Christ. Why?

“…that we might know the things freely given to us by God.” What things? –the things the Apostles teach;

the things we are taught in the Bible—

Not everyone in the world, however, possesses the Holy Spirit. He is given only to those who commit

their lives entirely to Him.

A man once came to my house with a burden. He was a business man and the problems of his business

were getting him down. I listend to what he said and, although I’d never been in business, the Spirit of God

gave me the instructions the man needed. “Your problem is,” I told him, “that you’re trying to run your

business all by yourself. Give it to the LORD and let Him run it.” We prayed and he surrendered leadership

of his business to the LORD. Almost immediately, the LORD began to prosper that business. The burden

the man had been carrying was gone! He had given it to the LORD.

The “natural man” says it’s foolishness to trust in a God who is invisible. He just doesn’t understand

because he doesn’t have the help of the Holy Spirit. But the one who has the Spirit, understands the

matters of the LORD. The LORD’s mind feeds the man’s mind –“we have the mind of Christ.”

How marvelously the LORD has provided things for us! Yet, as a child must grow to maturity to understand

the instruction of his parents, so we must grow spiritually to understand the even greater things of the LORD.

We prayed for you last night and will continue to do so,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”