The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

John 14:1-3, “Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.

2 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have

told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 “And if I go and prepare a place for

you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may

be also.”

There’s a piece in the news today regarding a man who believes that

the 23RD of September –next week—will be the end of the world. He

bases his theory on some Scripture and on a “Planet X,” which NASA

says is does not exist. This is not the first prediction of the end of the

world; and it is not likely to be the last. But what drives a person to

be interested in the end of the world? Fear, uncertainty, frustration

and more are surely at the heart of it. Yet, the LORD is using this

fear in this man to awaken mankind to the Scriptures and the need

of salvation. Be sure of this: the existence of world is winding down.

Great catastrophe is coming! –but not from a “Planet X.” Jesus is

Coming! And that should joyfully excite all of us, who are prepared

to meet Him. He has gone to prepare Heaven for us, and He promises

to Come for us when that construction is completed. This is Good

News, but only to those who are prepared to meet Him. What about

those who are not prepared to meet Him? Well, that is our job to

share His Good News with them. Don’t get excited about predictions

of the world’s end. Just get excited that you belong to Him because

you trust in Him as your LORD and Savior. And don’t forget to tell

others.

We love you and pray for you every, single day,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”

Dear Grands,

John 14:10, “Do you not believe that I am in the Father,

and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do

not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in

Me does His works.”

Did you ever just blurt out something and then ask yourself,

“Why on Earth did I say that?” I’m sure we all have. And

more often than not we then seek to justify having said it

for some obscure reason. Believe me when I say that

Satan often pushes us to say things that we later regret.

But the LORD also often speaks through us, so that while

we don’t regret what we said, we’re a bit puzzled as to

where it had come from.

If what we say in such situations is right and good, we

can safely assume that the LORD has put those words

into us. Look at Jesus. He said, “The words that I say

to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the

Father abiding in Me does His works.” When we walk

with the LORD every day and think about Him instead

of ugly and useless things, He uses us to speak to others

on His behalf. Knowing that what we have spoken was

of Him gives us a warm and good feeling.

Love and prayers always,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”

Dear Grands,

John 12:12-13, “On the next day the great multitude who had come to the feast,

when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took the branches of

the palm trees, and went out to meet Him, and began to cry out, ‘Hosanna!

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.’”

I selected these two verses primarily because of the word “Hosanna.”

It means “LORD, save us.” This is the word the nations of today’s world

need to be crying out to Jesus! Virtually every nation on Earth today is

in some kind of trouble. If the world map were a dart board, it would

be impossible to throw a dart at the board without hitting a nation that

is in difficulty. The Jews who cried “Hosanna!” knew their difficulty.

Their nation’s rulers were corrupt, their spiritual leaders were corrupt,

and they had no one to whom they could turn except Jesus. It was

interesting to see how many suffering the devastations of “Harvey”

and “Irma” spoke of the LORD. They could well have appropriated

Simon Peter’s words, “LORD, to whom shall we go? You have the words

of eternal life” (Jn. 6:68). Our world’s hope lies only in Jesus Christ!

Our government is not the solution. Our academic institutions are not

the solution. Our finances are not the solution. Our religions are not

the solution. Only Jesus Christ is the solution! What He says in His

Word–in Holy Scripture—concerning End Times, is swiftly coming to

pass in our own day.

“Only one life; it will soon be past;

Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

Please pray for Michael Rudd, a young man who knows he needs the LORD!

We love and pray for you,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”

Dear Grands,

John 11:43, 45, 48, “And when He had said these things,

He cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come forth.’” …

45 “Many therefore of the Jews, who had come to Mary and

beheld what He had done, believed in Him… 48 “’If we let Him

go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans

will come and take away both our place and our nation.’”

When Jesus stood at Lazarus’ grave, and after He prayed

openly to His Heavenly Father, He cried aloud, “Lazarus,

come forth!” Someone has said that had Jesus not used

Lazarus’ name, all the dead would have come forth. I’m

not sure that is true, but I AM SURE that Lazarus came

forth, as Jesus had commanded. His resurrection had a

far-reaching effect: “Many…of the Jews…believed in Him.”

Many implies that not all believed, yet some did. How

could any of them not believe? Verse 48 tells us why.

Had they believed, “the Romans (would have) come and

take(n) away (their) place and nation.” In other words,

they would have lost all their position and authority.

All of this tells us that despite our best efforts in witnessing,

some will not believe. And why will they not? For much

the same reason as the Jews. They will lose their friends,

their position in life, their job –and the list goes on and on.

Jesus knew that some would not believe. Still, He continued

to share what the Father had given Him to share. So it must

be with us. Don’t get discouraged! Keep on keeping on!

It is not our job to WIN them; it is our job to WITNESS. The

LORD alone wins the lost. We are to keep on shouting:

“LAZARUS, COME FORTH!”

We rejoice in what the LORD has given each of you; and

we pray daily that you will be “to the praise of His glory!”

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”

Dear Grands,

John 8:29-30, “’And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone,

for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.’

30 As He spoke these things, many came to believe in Him.”

From the turning of the water into wine to the feeding of the 5000,

the Jews had stubbornly refused to believe that He was from God.

He quoted the Old Testament Scriptures to them and challenged

their failure of interpretation. It might have appeared to some that

Jesus was alone, but He forthrightly said, “He who has sent Me is

with Me; He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that

are pleasing to Him.”

Can you say that? Can you say that you always do the things that

are pleasing to God? I’m sorry that I cannot. While I have always

sought to live honestly and upright before Him, I have often failed.

My heart and mind have not always been pleasing to Jesus. But

when they were pleasing to Him, people believed upon Him and

were saved! Christ uses clean and pure hearts and minds to bring

the lost to Him. Isn’t that why we are here on Earth? Isn’t being

pleasing to Him what it’s all about? Pray for forgiveness of sin.

Rededicate your life to Jesus Christ. Be prepared to share your

faith with others, and just see what He will do with you!

May the LORD bless and use you is our prayer,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”