All You Need is Love
Feb. 2019 Valentine’s Day issue
BILL ASHPOLE MINISTRIES
“Love”
“ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE”
GOD’S LOVE
“Just as the father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in my love. (John 15:9, NASB)
Years ago, before my wife Bonnie Lou went to heaven I received an American Greeting card that stated, God know how much you mean to me because I thank Him for you every day. But I don’t tell you nearly enough what an amazing HUSBAN and loving father you are.
Bonnie Lou goes on the say, Bill, The verse on this card that reads “Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, Ephesians 5:2 means everything to me. Forgive me for all my shortcomings. I appreciate all your messages you have preached. I love you with all my heart. You have been a real blessing. We have raised our children for the Lord. I pray for your every day.
The cards goes on to say, ---SO, TODAY --- I’m celebrating you with a grateful heart and letting you know how sweetly your love completes my life. I love you, signed, Bonnie Lou. Oh what Memories I have of the four years we dated and the 67 years se were married. Oh how I still miss her so. Love is so wonderful to have in our marriage. I remember so many times when I was at my computer in my office that Bonnie Lou would come in and I would be so deep in my thought in writing my message and she would come behind me and put her arms around me and give me the biggest kiss. And I would say, Honey, you just messed up my message for I exploded in my heart and I would turn my swivel chair around and I pull her in my lap and surround her in my arms and I forgot about my sermon and surrendered to her love and kisses. Oh what memories to remembers. Love is such a wonderful thing.
God’s Love is also so wonderful. Many time while in prayer I would feel His love in and around me. I remember especially this one time while in prayer. It was during the 24 years I was pastoring my last church, Faith Assembly of God in Mililani on the Island of Oahu and I made a promise to our Lord that every morning for one year I would get up at four A.M and pray till daylight and I kept that promise. I was so filled in my life and around me with love from our Lord Jesus that His love was going to explode within me. It was so great that I cried out with a loud voice, Lord, this is so wonderful but I don’t know how much more I can take it. No human love can be like His love. I love my time with my Jesus. He has promised that He will always be with us.
Even though I am a handy cap and my right leg had been paralyzed from Polio. I remember some 70 years ago when I attended the Arkansas Assemblies of God Camp Meeting. After the preaching they had some fifty preacher and wives line up in front of the platform and ask those that wanted to prayed for to walk through the line. I went forward with some hundred or more in the line. I cannot run but when this preacher and wife laid their hands on me. I took off running around that auditorium of a few thousand people and when I got to the back of the building I slid down and could not get up by myself. I said to Jesus. I ran all this way, way am I not healed. I heard His voice tell me, because when you pray for others, I want them to know that I am the one that heals them, not you. You are the vessel that I use but I Jesus am the healer. It so wonderful that we can be a vessel for God and we all can receive a Miracle from Him. Jesus has also raised me up from death so many times and I am so grateful.
Pastor Bill Ashpole
577 Ilima St.
Wahiawa, Hawaii 96786
ashpolebam.org
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