Cleaning Bathrooms For Christ?

We make GOD out to be some big Meanie. Don't we?

I've always said I just do whatever the LORD puts before me, whether it be running the sound room, praying, cleaning the bathroom...

Well, yesterday I cleaned a bathroom for a brother at the church. He's been laid up in the VA hospital for weeks. He needed his place scrubbed down so he had a "semi-sterile" environment to change his bandages in. My wife and kids took the kitchen and living room, and I took the bedroom and bathroom.

It would be easy to say, "You've always said you'd scrub toilets if GOD put it before you. Now HE called you on that one."

???

Is GOD some BIG MEANIE, or BULLY that pokes, prods, provokes HIS children to anger?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!

Remember, it is the enemy that provokes.

In Matthew 4, the enemy is called "the tempter". Chapter 4 verse 3 he accuses, "IF you are..."

Ya, if you are the Christian that you think you are, you'll scrub that toilet. Ya, GOD called you on that one! Ya, open your mouth again and see what GOD does! Ha! That'll teach you, huh?!

GOD does NOT treat HIS children that way. Luke 11:11-12 shows us this. If earthly fathers can take care of the needs of their children, how much more will our HEAVENLY FATHER provide what is needful?

I considered it a privilege to help out my brother in the LORD.

I mean, who else was available? who else was willing?

I'm not special, don't get me wrong.

I'm called.

That doesn't make me special either.

Many people are called of GOD, but it would seem most are too busy to answer the call.

That's one call you want to take!

Romans 11:29 KJV
(29)  For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Ya, that's what I was trying to say.

Matthew 9:37-38 KJV
(37)  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
(38)  Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.


Ya, that too.


That was something the LORD is still showing me.  No matter how busy I get during a given day, what am I doing that I can take with me? What am I doing that has "eternal" value?


Oh! But I have to get "this" or "that" done...


Do you?



Are you sure?



Is that what you said, or is that what GOD said?




Did you ask HIM?


Don't worry, there is no "Judgement Seat of 2guntom". You do NOT have to answer to me.

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Prison, Church, News Headlines...

59 total came forward during the revival in Morgan Co prison.  The revival ran Sunday thru Thursday.

Now that I've been back to the reality of my world, I'm finding myself asking a lot of questions.
Actually, 2 questions:
WHY?
and
HOW COME?

The LORD had shown me that I was supposed to be going to the hospitals every week. HE also showed me that I was supposed to be going with somebody (or he with me). That somebody moved to another state a week ago.

The LORD showed me I am supposed to be helping the pastor. He's so weak right now...
...that really bothers me.

The pastor is not the only one that's suffering from an ailment of some sort. All the elders are being afflicted somehow or another. That really bugs me!

I understand this is indeed spiritual WARFARE! In war, you knock out all the ranking leaders and the underlings will scatter. I understand that.

Now the attacks are coming in different forms and to everybody.

So, WHY and HOW COME?

We have prayed, and prayed, and prayed...
and prayed some more.

Here is the scripture that I can't shake-

Matthew 17:14-21 KJV
(14)  And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
(15)  Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
(16)  And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
(17)  Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
(18)  And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
(19)  Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
(20)  And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
(21)   Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Unbelief, Prayer, Fasting.

It's like I'm right back at the beginning again.

Prayer and fasting- the cure for unbelief.

I'll get to that news article in a minute.

Testimony Of Joseph Rojas

Went to Prison cont.

Wow! What a time!

Fishers of Men Ministries has been having a tent revival all week inside the Morgan County Corrections Complex.

Yes, there is a REAL tent inside one of the sections of the prison!

I went to minister, but I have been ministered to! It has been a truly amazing time!
Monday, 28 came forward,
Tuesday, 12,
Wednesday 11,
and tonight is the last night.
There have been some getting saved every night.

And the singing? Oh! What a time! I have to stop and remind myself while I'm there just exactly WHERE I'M AT!!! I've got my eyes closed, my hands raised to the heavens just worshiping GOD (1Tim 2:8), and then I realize I'm standing in a prison amongst convicted felons. Then I'm reminded of Paul and Silas.

"And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed." Acts 16:25-26 



Oh! I pray that ALL the prisoners would hear us pray and sing.
I pray that the LORD would shake the earth!
I pray that the LORD would open the doors of the their hearts and loose the bands of sin!



It is so hard to find words to describe what I've experienced this week.


This much I do know: when it started Monday night I was ashamed of myself. I am a free man and I go to church every time the doors are open. I "go" to church. These guys in prison "have" church! They don't have freedom to come and go as they please; church really means something to them! They NEED that place of refuge; they DEPEND on the hope that Jesus gives them.
I had to repent of that! These men in prison have taught me a lot, and I am thankful! It is my hope and prayer that GOD turns this back to them and blesses them 100 times over!

Went To Prison

Wow!!!

I went to Morgan County Prison last night with "Fishers of Men Ministries".

It is hard to describe what went on if you weren't right there beside me.

28 came forward, at least 2 got saved!

More soon!

GospelGunTom?

GospelGunTom?

I thought you were 2guntom?

GOD changes things.

I used to be all about guns, but that has changed.

I'm 40 years old now. I have to ask myself what those 40 years have produced that I can take to eternity with me? The guns didn't do much, not much at all.

I've been selling off my guns as the LORD allows. I used to have a 1911 for every day of the week, and a downright pretty one for Sunday, but what does that avail in or to the Kingdom of GOD?

I asked GOD if HE wanted me to sell off all my gunsmith tools and stuff. I told HIM I was certainly willing if that's what HE wanted.

Then a slew of repair jobs came in.

Okay, so I remain a gunsmith.

I used to live for that stuff, but it just doesn't have the same appeal anymore.

I like to see people get saved!!!

I like to watch GOD move on people and set them free!!!

I love to be in the presence of GOD!!!

That, that I can take with me.

That matters!

The Kingdom of GOD is at hand!

Missionary To Greeneville?

Missionary to Greeneville?  But don't you live there, you ask.

Yes, yes I do.  Let me explain:

Yesterday was September 9th.  Let me back up a little further to Wednesday the 8th. There is a new family that has been coming to church.  The LORD nudged me and I knew I needed to talk to them. I encouraged them to grab me after the service so we could swap phone numbers. We talked for a while after church and swapped phone numbers. There was a need there, a monetary need.

I thought to myself, "Well, I don't have any money, so I can't help them there. I'll visit with them and pray and let GOD take care of their needs."

See, I'm virtually unemployed.  I say "virtually" because I do work ONE day a week. This is all of the LORD's leading. I had asked GOD about this many times initially. Many jobs made themselves available and I asked GOD which one should I take. HE was silent. I spend my days praying and reading my Bible, but wondering what the LORD has in store for me. I begged GOD one day to PLEASE let me know what job I need to pursue.

HIS reply was, "Don't you enjoy the time we spend together each day?"

What? Of course I do! But don't I need to work?

GOD did let me know that I will have a job at a specific place as soon as a position is open.

But as time goes on, it appears that I am moving into a FULL TIME ministry...

Back to the topic at hand.

So, I am as poor as poor can be, but I'm not.  I draw a measly unemployment check, and work one day a week. I drew up a budget and there is not enough money coming in to pay the bills.
But,
ALL the bills are paid.
But, there's more.
Not only are the bills paid, but there is always money to give when someone is in need; ALWAYS.

That's what happened yesterday. See, these people that are coming to church just moved to this area. They didn't have enough money to get their electricity turned on. I was planning on going to the power company to pay my bill, and I thought it would be nice if I had "some" money to put toward their deposit. I sat down with the checkbook, receipts, and slips. I started adding and was shocked!

WHERE DID ALL THIS MONEY COME FROM?!

I mean, I know every check, every deposit, but the bills should have the account sucked dry, including sucking the ink off the pages. I checked, rechecked, and asked my wife if she had receipts that she forgot. She brought me a DEPOSIT slip; there was even more money!

It was real obvious that I was going to do something new today. I ran to the bedroom and went to my prayer "spot".  I said, "GOD, do you want me to pay these people's deposit? Is this money for something else? I don't want to be hasty and..."

Then a flood of scriptures came to mind.

I got up and asked the LORD to slow down; HE was going too fast!

"...Freely you have received; freely give." Matthew 10:8

"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer..."Philippians 4:6

"...but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing." Psalm 34:10

"...no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." Psalm 84:11

Then I went back and started reading Matthew 10, the whole chapter, verses 7-42 in particular.
Then I heard GOD say my full name, followed by "Missionary to Greeneville".

I cried.

It had been bothering me for a little while that I didn't have a specific title or ministry.  You know, like pastor, deacon, chaplain, soup kitchen worker, whatever. I didn't have a "focus" or an outline for what I was supposed to be doing. Of course, I always do what GOD puts before me whether it's driving the church van, putting gas in somebody's car, buying someone some food, going with the ministers to the jail, praying with someone in need, or what ever. I just didn't have a specific "thing" to do or to be called.

But now I do. GOD said I am a "Missionary to Greeneville"!

PRAISE GOD!!!

Then after all of this, GOD confirmed HIS word with HIS word and what I was supposed to do yesterday.

Proverbs 3:27-28
" Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee."


Yep, I had it by me. Time to go to the power company.


It came with a certain amount of resistance. If we doubt, then our faith falters. If our faith falters, then fear creeps in. If there is fear, then the enemy can have his way with us. I was not afraid; I was on a mission.


The lady at the power company was not necessarily joyful of what I wanted to do. I explained that I had a name, and I wanted to pay the deposit. She had a similar name listed, but I didn't have their address. She didn't want me to just pay for "a" account and turn on the wrong person's power. I gave her the phone number I had and asked if it was the same she had. The numbers matched. She quit resisting and gave me a total.


I'm not bragging on me; I'm bragging on GOD.  One plants, another waters it, but GOD makes it work!

1 Corinthians 3:7-9 KJV
(7)  So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
(8)  Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
(9)  For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Ya, that's what I was trying to say.

So here it is the 10th. The family called me. I left no name at the power company because I wanted anonymity. She called and thanked me. She was crying and praising GOD. She said "they" turned on the electricity today and she knew it had to be the church. I didn't tell her any different. I read the 2 verses from Proverbs 3 and said that's what we're supposed to do. See a need, fill a need. I told her to praise GOD. She informed me she had been calling her friends, praising GOD and running around the house.

I love it.

GOD is so worthy of our praise.

We don't praise HIM nearly enough for HIS bountiful, and manifold blessings.

Psalms 107:8, 15, 21, 31
"Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!'


Halelujah!


GospelGunTom, Missionary to Greeneville

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!!! Welcome !!!

Who is "2guntom"? 

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far...

Everybody at work was talking about this ebay thing. I got my first computer (circa 1996) and went to check out ebay. Much to my dismay, I could NOT look at a thing. A "username" and password were required for viewing.

A username? Ya, I got your username... 2guntom.

Then I started buying stuff and building a reputation.  Then I started selling, then came 2guntom.com .

Needless to say, the name stuck.