LiveForgiven

Stacy & Jeff, we love you two and are praying daily for your family.
As Wayne Watson once said in a song, “Why are we turning here?”.
God only knows and we can trust him with our very lives since we have Him on the throne. Living Forgiven, The Hatchels

Dear Stacy & Jeff,

We pray that you enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along. We speak of uncommon provisions to cater for all the expenses needed to take care of you. We pray for the blessings of God to overshadow each and everyone of you and restore you, Stacy, back to good health. So be it, in Jesus Name. Amen.

Pastor, we mailed 3 of the books you signed for us at the Cup Filler. Those who received them are looking forward with anticipation to diving in. We thank you for taking the time to do the book signing! Folks from Houston, Granbury and Van Horn (West TX) thank you too!

God is so good to have brought you two people & your family to minister to us and through us. I am sure you know that Stacy’s illness is not only a blow to your family, but to the entire church as well. She is the epitome of love , kindness and beauty. As I pray for you, Stacy, I am asking the Lord for a Miracle because I believe He will perform it.

I’m claiming Psalm 16 in your behalf and praying it will minister to you as it has to me.

Much Love,

Bettye Bechtold

Dear Friends,

Thanks for being steadfast during adversity, being “real” as you lead us each sunday morning and loving us as a church family. It is a joy to my heart to see it each time I see you…What a joy to be blessed by you all….Stacy, how blessed you are to surround yourself with a beautiful family….you are surely in God’s favor….May you find strength each day, during your treatments, to smile and feel the sunshine! Also know that I pray for you daily and try to put myself in your place….All I know is that you have taught me about being a “graceful” servant….You are loved! Have a good week. Enjoy your girls senior homecoming this week. How proud we all are of the girls! Love ya, Binky

Hey my dear sweet “girlfriend”. I miss seeing you!
I heard you were at church Wed. (Oct.) for Starting Point. I’m really bumbed I missed you. I wasn’t feeling well so I stayed home. Mike and mom both said they saw you. Mother said you looked great as always. Mike said you were looking forward to the Pork Tenderloin. YEA!

I hope you are feeling well and I again will say for you to call on me for anything anytime. I love you dear friend and miss you. You and Jeff and the kids are in my prayers always.

Love you lots!

Cheri’ Wheeler

Jeff and Stacy,
We heard about the cancer from Mom and Dad about a month ago. Apologies for just now posting, but know that you have been in our thoughts and prayers regularly.

Justin, Sherrie & Allie

PS - Funny coincidence, I read a great book recently by a guy named Jeff Warren.

Dear Jeff,
I am attending a womens book study at Gena Flanary’s, every Sunday evening for 7 weeks.

I want to thank you for your obedience in sharing what God put in your heart. I am only just finished with chapter 4. I do believe it is the most important
book I have read, in my 48 years. I know God used

I am very sorry. My laptop seems to have a mind of it’s own.

Forgive me, I need to say more.

God used Gena to rescue me with your book. I am telling everyone I know about it.
I have a feeling that it is going to travel the world by world of mouth.

I hope and pray, I have the chance to tell you in person, why I needed it so much and how it is and will effect my life and the lives of all those precious people, I love.

My story is filled with,
much pain and upheaval, although I was raised by wonderful and faithful Christain parents. Your book seems to be talking straight to me. It is obvious that it will speak to masses of others who are suffering, also

Thank you is so small and insignificant, here. Yet,
my daddy, taught me that gratitude is a must. So, I thank you and I thank God.

Blessings, prayers and GRATITUDE,
Becky Hooker

Hey Becky,
I praise God for the transformation He’s done/is doing in your heart and life in these days. I don’t normally take time (or have time!) to repond to the comments here but I just had to take a moment to celebrate with Jesus with you! I thank you for your encouraging words. If for no one else, God had me write this book for you.

Jeff,

I can’t tell you how grateful I am that you took your valuable time to respond to me. I am also thankful that Gena told me about it. I would have never checked, thinking, you would not HAVE the time.

Gena, has been a constant source of Love, acceptance and guidance, in my life since the fourth grade. She allows God to use her at every turn.
I love her.

I pray we can meet, when it is God’s time.

Love and blessings to you and your family.
Thank you, again,
Becky Hooker

P.S. Please, do not feel the obligation to respond.

I have just recently heard about Stacy and just wanted to quickly let you and your family know we are praying for you.

Kashia, Emilee and Mason

Just wanted you guys to know that I pray about Stacy and You and your family alot. I coach and teach at Ennis High School. We live here in Mckinney and love the things Christ in doing with Church and the community. I just wanted you to Christ has touched me through you. My family is touched by christ to. Philippians 1: 12-26 reminds me of you and your God given drive to spread the Gospel. I am conquering my own fears and stepping out in faith to show Christ. God Bless you Stacy and Jeff and family.

Rodney, Lauren, and lil Rylan

Jeff: Just wanted to tell you how powerful I (and others I have spoken with) felt your message was yesterday morning. Grace Defined and your personal passage (2 Cor 5:21) provided a strong and important message to all of our Church Family.

Sin - Grace = Guilt and Sin + Grace = Gratitude is now on the wall on my office and will serve as a daiy reminder how important receiving, giving and living in His grace really is.

Thank you for being our Spiritual Leader and please tell Stacy we continue to pray for her everyday! Our God answers prayer!

Oh WOW!!!! I have been floating around in a crazy new world after reading the last two sentences of Page 98 this morning in the beautiful book that you and God have written for us!!! It says: “Faith (receiving forgiveness) without action (living forgiven) is no faith at all. Could it be that being a Christian is not what we think it is?”

JEFF!!!!! LIVING FORGIVEN IS THE ACTION!!!!!!! I have always known in my heart that our definition of “action” just couldn’t be right — Oh my goodness!!!

Sorry, I am just astounded and so in love with this incredible God Who loves us so very much. It is overwhelming and so very warm and cozy at the same time.

Okay, I have to stop and get back to work. Thank you so much for opening up your heart and soul and allowing God to write this book through you ~~ He speaks to me through this book in every word. He is so cute like that

As always, Stacy and your amazing family are so close to our hearts and in our many prayers as God carries each of you down this wild journey of faith. You “jumped” and He is catching you over and over!

Remember Whose you are ~~

I love you so much.

Gena

Gena,

I’ll say,”WOW”!

My Love, prayers, praise and Gratitude,

Becky (your friend)

Man, your song today was incredible… I know you are so humble that you do not like to hear complements - but I just had to tell you how much I loved it. God got the glory - as we watched you sing with a mighty passion for our awesome Lord.

About the book, pastor Jeff, I do not read. If a book doesn’t come on CD where I can listen to it on my iPod… I don’t read/hear it! I read your book because it was about to be taught by one of my volunteers at Dawson - and I was praying about making it part of a new curriculum line up within Seed Sowers. All of that to say - I was not reading this book for myself. I feel like I live a life of freedom in Christ. The past four years of my life I have dedicated to help inmates find the freedom I have found. WELL, I had nooooo clue that this book was going to disclose bondage that I was unaware of.

I finished the book about three weeks ago - and it is amazing. Jeff, my life is so different. I have a new awareness - a new way to handle my circumstances. Grace. That little simple word has taken on a new presence as I acknowledge it in a new dimension… if that makes any since at all to you. Where I thought I had grace before… there is now total grace. And I am learning how freeing it is to not only accept it from God but to give it to others… and to give it to myself.

Thanks Jeff… for the way you allow God to use you. I am so grateful for your family and each of you are in my prayers… especially Stacy. I pray for you guys often and feel so blessed to have a pastor like yourself.

Elaine

Jeff,
Your song yesterday at church brought me to my knees in tears and adoration! When we started singing, “He loves me” over and over again I got this sense that God was actually whispering those words in my ear. Thank you for that song. Did you write it or is it readily available?
Also, I am having a community group meet at my home and I just want to say “WOW!” Your book is so inspiring to me and the other ladies who are walking through it with me. I just read through section 4 and my heart is so full of the grasp of grace. I want to just shout it from the rooftops that we are ALL forgiven and God’s purpose for us is SO much greater than the plan we have for ourselves!! The Lord is using you in a great way through this book and I thank you for your enthusiasm in getting the word spread about it.
God bless! Stacy we love you and you are in my thoughts daily. You are an inspiration to me.
Tracy

Jeff, and dear Stacy,
I’m sure you are aware that you continue to be in our prayers.
A dear friend in Huntsville, Alabama has an extensive, effective prayer team, and you have been placed on their list. This team of prayer warriors is praying for you every day!
It is a blessing to see how deeply you and family are loved. Joyce and I love you too, and join the host of people who continue to lift you before our Lord in prayer.
Bailey and Joyce Stone

You brought a new insight on forgiveness this morning. I do not know if I have thanked God for “the gift to forgive.” Knew it is the Holy Spirit that makes it occur, but this is a new way to thank God.

Your music last week was just wonderful. Blessings on you and your family.

Jean Jernigan

Jeff and Stacy

I see God working so much in your lives. I saw how much you love each other as you sat together in church Sunday and listened to the wonderful praise music. My heart was not only moved by the music, but by God’s love shown through you ! How blessed you are to have each other and your family. I looked at Emily the other day and saw Stacy’s beautiful eyes and soul.I pray daily for your continuted strength and healing….may you know you are loved!
Binky

The EGG Group is a 17 year small group that started out as an an Experiencing God Group. Currently we are participating in the Live Forgiven study which has inspired us to think about whose we are, what we are here for and that we are not defined by our accomplishments or the approval of others or the church we attend. We appreciate the books emphasis and the reminder that our significance is in the Lord. After this length of time as a functioning small group we challenge others to be vulnerable and real with one another. Byrd, Muecke, Otteson, Paschal, Presley

Jeff,
I wanted to tell you that the version of John Mark Mcmillan’s song “How He Loves Us,” rocked the house! Way to go pastor. Is there a recording contract in your future? Would love to hear the arrangement from New Community on a DVD with Carol Haskins playing Cello, Robert Till on guitar and Jack Haye on keyboards. Outstanding arrangement! Glory to God. We are still singing that song!
The Bain Family

Yes I am going to buy two of your books on Amazon.com (liveforgiven) but how do i buy the dvd and where? I’d like to purchase that as well.
thank you ,Cathy Moore
Becky hooker my first cousin in texas told me about your book helped her so much and is spreading the news to me and my sister. and others.

Hey Cathy- just click on the e-mail link just under the book cover at the top of this page. Thanks! Nora will take care of you. May God use Live Forgiven to change lives…
In Him,
jeff

Thanks a lot, Jeff…….I thiought I had pretty much figured out how a mature Christian thinks and acts and lives - not that I was even doing “that” right all the time, but …..

Then, like a blinding flash of the obvious, comes Live Forgiven and I’m again awed in child-like wonder at God’s grace. At the same time, I fear (there I go again)I have wasted so much of that grace during the time that I didn’t (understand how to) fully embrace it, because I didn’t believe I was worth it (I wasn’t), didn’t think I’d earned it (I couldn’t), and carried so much guilt I couldn’t let it go (Christ already did).

Thanks to you, Jeff, I’m out of excuses. Thanks to you, I have to start over.
Thanks to God’s grace, I’m looking forward to the journey.

Hi Jeff,
Just got off the phone to two Pastors who have been trogh your material ‘Live Forgiven’. We are very excited about your trip in February to Cape Town.

We have a full program for you already and believe God is going to use you in many special ways.
Its ‘Valentines’ weekend so we are looking at a couples dinner that evening which you will speak at also.
Have also enjoyed reading the material myself Jeff and am planning to do a ’small Group study’ myself in the New Year. I hope to discuss with you how we can get this material into churches around the country using the publishers of Barbara and I book.

Have a blessed Day, John

Hi Jeff and Stacy! Just wanted to let you know that you are in our prayers. We missed this past Sunday to take the boys to see Clemson (beat up on Duke)! Great weekend but we look forward to getting back to hear you at FBC. Stay strong!!!!