The Lord has helped me pass through the largest storm I have ever been through in my life. This storm started on March 16, 2015. My wife Jenni had the first of three major gut surgeries within six weeks. Her doctor told her last December 2021 that the surgeon had destroyed her stomach and bowels. So many doctors tried helping her. My wife’s storm ended on August 22, 2022, when she died in her sleep and went home to be with Jesus. I could write a book about what the Watts family went through in those years. So many bad days and nights. I am so thankful to the Lord for taking my Jenni (precious baby) home to be with him; she is not suffering anymore. One day real soon, I will see her again; that is so comforting to me.

My storm kept going. After Jenni died, my mom (Norma) fell downstairs, but the Lord allowed her to live (Thank you, Jesus). She had to be in the hospital for five weeks, and her ankle may never fully recover. Pray for her; she is 75 years old. My mom also has dementia. I don’t know how much longer my mom will last, but I know that, one day soon, everything will be good. On October 29, nine weeks after Jenni died, my mother-in-law went home to be with Jesus. I was not surprised, but it still hurt. I am so thankful that my mother-in-law is not suffering anymore; she is with Jenni. What a wonderful thought that is to me.

Because of personal circumstances, I had to leave my job because I am not able to go to work. I have no one to watch my 12-year-old son. The Lord has closed the door on finding a secular job. I tried finding a job working at home, and all of those doors have closed, but the Lord has opened another door. I have been praying to the Lord that he would allow me to go back into the ministry full-time, and he has answered that prayer. I looked at my life and told a pastor friend of mine in Uganda that, on the surface, it looks like my life is upside down and going really bad. But I told him that the Lord is working through all of this in a mighty way. The Lord has seen my son Jeremiah and me through it all. It is amazing what he is doing in our lives. Romans 8:28 is so true – “to his purpose,” not ours.

Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

I know there are many storms on the horizon, but I know the Captain of this ship. Jesus will see you through your storms also.

On November 8, I answered the call to go back to Corpus Christi, Texas. I will be helping Pastor McCarley with two churches. He is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Portland, Tx, and the interim pastor at Grace Baptist in Alice, Tx. He asked me to help him with the two churches about a month before all of this happened, and I could not get this off of my mind. I believe the Lord is going to do great things in and around the Corpus Christi area.

On November 9, I said yes to the Lord calling me into the ministry full-time. I have taken a huge leap of faith. There is no doubt in my mind that the Lord wants me in the ministry full-time. I did not say yes to him because I cannot get a job; I said yes to him because he has called me to do this. I have so much peace about this. It is amazing what the Lord is doing in my life and the ministry.

On April 28, 2020, the Lord allowed me to start a ministry; the name of it is 4HIM Online Ministries. The Lord has been spreading this ministry all over the world. Pastor James is in Uganda, and this ministry has helped him start four new baby churches — three in central Uganda and one in eastern Uganda. Pastor James is searching for radio stations to play the message from the YouTube channel that I have. Pastor James’s ministry is Gospel Tracts House, and he is on Facebook. I ask you to pray for him and his ministry. When you get a chance, look him up on Facebook. The Lord is opening doors to preach live online in countries around the world. He is spreading this worldwide prayer movement.

Pastor McCarley knows about this ministry, and when I come to Texas to help him, I will still be working in this ministry also. The churches will provide a place for my son and me to stay for free. I have to sell my house here in Georgia before I head back to Texas, but I know the Lord will sell it real soon; I see him working in all of this. I ask you to pray for the two churches and Pastor McCarley and me. I ask you to pray for our needs and also for 4HIM Online Ministries. It is so exciting to see the Lord work in everything that we go through.

The Worldwide Prayer Movement

I am asking all prayer warriors from around the world to join us for a day of prayer, fasting, and repentance on November 21, 2022, for these seven nations:

1. USA and on behalf of over 332,403,650 precious souls.
2. Israel and all Jews from around the world and on behalf of over 15.2 million precious souls.
3. Mauritius and on behalf of over 1,276,274 precious souls.
4. Benin and on behalf of over 12,842,303 precious souls.
5. Tunisia and on behalf of over 12,088,224 precious souls.
6. Eswatini and on behalf of over 1,186,345 precious souls.
7. South Sudan and on behalf of over 11,480,694 precious souls.

We are believing that we are moving the heart of God. We are interceding on behalf of the lost souls in these countries. I ask you to join us and be a part of the harvest of lost souls receiving Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Facebook Group: Prayer Warriors 4HIM Online Ministries
Email bkwatts64@yahoo.com
Keith Watts Online Missionary to the world

Everyone – and I mean Everyone – is born with the resolute idea that they alone are the one and only unique repository of truth. This is a strange phenomenon imbued by us all.

Perhaps it is because we can’t read another person’s mind that we think we know it all. But nothing could be further from the truth. Each and every person is only able to perceive what they have learned from reading or from inborn human intuition, plus various degrees and variations of hard wiring. But since we are like snowflakes, each different than the other, our individual perceptions will all be different. Parental love and guidance, as well as setting an example for the child, also play a part.

In my case, neither parent was loving and instrumental in spiritual guidance, although my dad instilled fear in us and raised us not to lie and always be clean and obedient. Mom, although a decent person, seemed to have no religious convictions and was always clean and well-groomed as well. And so, it’s a wonder how God was able to infiltrate my life to the extent that He has. (My spiritual life began at the age of twenty-six, but I was always a clean, obedient child and well-read.) Books were my first love.

I always stepped in for the underdog and was taught right from wrong by my dad. He also taught me to walk like a man, “Throw your shoulders back and for God’s sake, don’t bounce when you walk, but stride purposely. Keep your hair combed, your fingernails clipped and clean, and always clean or shine your shoes – and never ever wear wrinkled clothes.”

All his admonitions served me well in life, and although he demanded my sister and I to go to church, he seldom did so himself. However, he watched Billy Graham specials on television. Still, he was never able to overcome his vices of wine, women, and song. I guess he tried to be good and even had Father McKeon (a Catholic priest) as a confident and friend, although he never seemed to have the need for repentance. And so it all comes down to this if we want to be pleasing to God and to have right standing with him.

The Bible says, “There is a way that seems right to man, but the end thereof is the way of death.” And so, as diligent as we are, we can never know absolute truth and please God until we find Him or He finds us. Even science is an unreliable tool for discovering absolute truth because it seems that almost everything man touches becomes flawed. An extreme example is that in our desire to win at war and not destroy the opponents’ goodies, we have invented Biological Warfare capable of killing people without destroying buildings, houses, infrastructures and land, and we stand ready to use that technology today. How foolish is that!

Also (as the recent election shows), we are all divided in various ways of thinking and interpreting life itself. Because of the way we perceive situations and objects with our varied and /or myopic points of view, we can be deluded or even fooled by what we observe with our five senses. The mid-term elections were a case in point. By that, I mean how can anyone vote for higher gas prices, higher food costs, inflation, and starvation, not to mention heating costs in the dead of winter? Not only that but the socialist indoctrination of our children by perverts in the public school system. Furthermore, with the prospect of never-ending vaccines – even for these same children and with lockdowns looming on the horizon, plus having to wear useless masks again – to me, reeks of Communism in its deadliest form.

A good way to experience this phenomenon is to go to an art museum and discuss the same painting with different individuals. Everyone, almost without exception, will see a painting differently. A vivid example of this happened to me when I was selling my stained-glass artwork at an outdoor festival. My pieces are your normal, everyday subjects, such as birds, wildlife, and landscapes. As I was talking to an interested customer, she pointed to the bottom of the waterfall depicted in the panel and exclaimed, “I love that little sailboat in the pool below the frothing waterfall. I’ll take it, but only for five hundred dollars.” On further examination, I was finally able to see the little sailboat bobbing around in the pool at the bottom of the waterfall among the waves. She saw what nobody else ever saw – including me, the maker.

Today, as I prepare to appear in a video as the Persian Magi character “Melchior” in a Christmas offering for our three-thousand-member church (First Presbyterian Church of Bonita Springs, Florida), I find that the Wise Men of old (Magi) did a better job of seeking out truth than most “seekers” or “seers” of today who, “Thinking themselves to be wise, they became utter fools.”

God knows that only what He teaches is worthwhile in the larger scheme of things. Only God is the final arbiter of truth and wisdom. Without the laws and wisdom found in the Bible, the cultures of man can barely function as they should. But they instead find themselves becoming a flawed people, and often third-world countries desperate for food, devoid of reason, with only animalistic instincts to guide them. Drug addicts, alcoholics, and suicidal people are the results of faulty thinking and making bad decisions. The best decision a man can make is to follow God’s teachings, which are found only in the Bible.

The Word of God always turns out to be true, no matter who questions it. In The Holy Bible, the TEN COMMANDMENTS are a great example of good laws that keep people in line and still able to enjoy life to its fullest. Deuteronomy is written to expand on these truths in greater detail. Much of the rest is written for world history and how God deals with those who defy him deliberately.

The New Testament agrees with all that was written previously in the Old Testament. When Jesus came, He taught us from Holy Scripture and never deviated from it. He taught us, showed us our inclinations to do wrong, and healed us.

The Holy Spirit was given to us followers upon His death on the cross to help keep us in line, instruct, and comfort us in our trials and tribulations, not by outward manifestations or false piety but by a quiet and content spirit imbued by internal peace and hope.

YBIC

Jim Towers

You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit my website at

www.propheticsignsandwonders.com or www.dropzonedelta.com.