Go Fish Ministries, Inc. News Letter Oct.1, 2010

Go Fish Ministries, Inc. News Letter Oct.1, 2010
Jesus said: Follow me and I will make you fishers for the souls of others. Matthew 4:19
Sis. Kimberly Hartfield, B.S. M.S. Christian Counselor Contact or unsubscribe: gofishbooks@gmail.com


Counselors’ Corner

It’s October! Fall is officially here. The weather is turning cooler in the mornings, but boy is it hot and dry in the afternoons. I finally got my fall garden planted, but the weather isn’t letting much germinate. I do have butternut squash coming up though. Squash is so easy, a good plant for beginners, like me. My spring kale is still hanging in there, but barely. This hot dry weather is about to do everything in. Hopefully we’ll get some more rain soon. I just built some cold frames for my garden out of some old scrap lumber the neighbors threw out. I had enough to build three frames, which should help when the weather turns cold and in the early spring. I just need some plastic to cover them when it’s cold.

Well this month has been very busy. I had the Priscilla Shirer Conference one weekend and Awana training the next weekend. Both were real blessings to me and many more, too. God was busy at both! I saw miracles at the first, and more blessings at the second. I also have gotten some extra work from a lady at the church, which has truly been a blessing to me. But also a learning experience as well. We were cleaning up and organizing her office when I found an envelope containing $20. Now I really thought I was beyond this kind of temptation by now, but I found myself struggling about weather to keep that $20 to myself or tell the lady I was working for. Well I battled it out and did the right thing, and handed her the envelope. As I was leaving that day, I told her of my struggle with that, and what did she do? She turned around and gave me that $20 for gas money on top of what she paid me for the work I did. God blessed me greatly for winning that battle, but it served to teach me that none of us are beyond temptation, even myself, when we are facing hardship. Proverbs:7-9 says, “Don’t deny me these two things that I ask of You before I die: Take away from me self-importance and lies, and don’t give me poverty or riches, but provide my food daily; If I’m too full, I might think I don’t need You, and say, Who is Yahweh? But if I’m poor, I might steal, and misuse the Name of my God.” This is my prayer from now on! Pray that God will help me and that I will win any future battles with temptation!

Speaking of our sins, I have a word or two to say about making promises and not keeping them. Now a certain man at the church promised to come and look at my bathroom sink that hasn’t been working for nearly two years now. He called for assistance from one of our pastors at temple, who said that he would come and help. Three different times for one reason or another, they said they were coming and have not shown up. The last time came and went, without even a call to let me know what the problem was. Now my kids and I were really hopeful that we would finally get our sink fixed, and were let down again. And knowing it was two godly men who made that promise and didn’t keep it, sure doesn’t help our faith any. It reinforces my lack of faith in men, in general, and Christian men, in particular, especially those who don’t keep their word. And this coming from a pastor at our church, doesn’t help matters any.

Now maybe I shouldn’t be complaining, because they were going to do it for free, but making promises and not keeping them, is a real issue with me. It shows a total lack of integrity, as far as I’m concerned. Now maybe there was a legitimate reason for them not showing up, and I can accept that, even if it is the third time. But a phone call to explain would have been appropriate, I think. I gave them my Mom’s phone number, in case there was a problem this time, and called the secretary’s office and left a message after the no-show. But I have yet to receive any explanation. Now, Christians, I just don’t think this is appropriate behavior for people, who call themselves Christians. I say this with my recent struggle with temptation, fresh on my mind. We, as Christians, should treat each other better than this.

I realize that we all struggle with sin and temptation, and we all have things come up that hinder us from doing God’s will. I have struggled myself a great deal over the last few weeks since I’ve been working, finding the time to work on my paraphrase. I know this is what God wants me to do, and yet I seem to let everything else get in the way. The last word I received from God about my lack of employment was that God didn’t want me to have any other responsibility at this time, because it would hinder me from working on the paraphrase, and doing what God wants me to do. I see now that, in fact, that is the case. I struggle every day with what to do and not do. God’s work seems to always get put on the back burner. God graciously let me get two small part time jobs to help pay the bills at least, but it messes up my mornings when I used to do my paraphrase research and study. Now I have to find a way to readjust my schedule and do that work at another time. And I am at a stand still. God help me! Pray that I can be more faithful to God’s call on my life and that I will win this battle over finding time for God’s work.

I still have Christian books for sale, so if you want one, just let me know. I’m marking them down to $3 for hardbacks and $2 for softbacks, but that’s always negotiable. My book inventory is listed below, so you can still let me know if you see anything you want. Well, that’s all for now, so God bless to all and go fish for Jesus!


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Notes and Prayer Requests

• Pray for Amanda and my first grandbaby that she is carrying! It’s a girl!
• Pray for Rose, my oldest, whose having a baby as well.
• I am a Christian Counselor and would be willing to provide services to those in need. I have a master’s degree in Psychological Counseling and am an ordained Minister as well. Please pray that I may be useful to God’s kingdom. I can also mow yards, clean houses or anything else that needs doing. I charge $50 for a yard or 3 BR house. You provide the equipment.
• I have published all of my New Testament paraphrases on the Triond website. You can see all of my writings by going to my main Triond link at https://www.triond.com/users/Mama+Heartfilled
• I’ve also began to publish my working drafts of the Old testament on my Blogspot at http://gofishministry.blogspot.com/ and http://mamaheartfilled.lifewithchrist.org I’ve done Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and will be working on Deuteronomy, soon.
• I would appreciate if you’d let me know of grammar, punctuation, and other mistakes I may have made. My goal is to make the paraphrase as simple and clear as possible. I know they still need much work, as they are drafts of a work in progress. I don’t know of many other Bibles that use the Name of Yahweh (I am in Hebrew), so I have worked hard to get it right. Please pray that God helps me in this work, and let me know of any mistakes you find. Thank all of you who are praying for me on this.