From: Kent Hovind
Sent: June 16, 2009
To: David, future king of Israel
GOD: Good morning, Son!
KH: Lord! It’s the middle of the night!
GOD: Well, Son, you, like most of My children, seem to hear Me better at night (2 Sam. 7:4). You are tired, aren’t you, Son?
KH: Yes, Lord. I’m tired of lots of things. I’m tired of all the injustice in America and the world, tired of being away from my family and ministry, tired of all the loud cursing and lewd talk in here. I’m tired of seeing people ruin their lives with stupid habits or decisions. I’m tired of the tiny worn out foam pad we sleep on here and the really low budget food we get. I’m tired of the back pain every day from that car hitting me 40 years ago. I’m tired of only getting to see my grandchildren 3-4 times each year. I’m tired of all the slander and lies about me and my case from the atheists and even some of Your children who can’t seem to read, understand, and obey Proverbs 18:13 and Exodus 20:16.
Yes, Lord. I’m tired.
GOD: I know, Son. That’s why I’m here. I monitor all of your systems every second of every day. I’ll never give you more than you can handle (1 Cor. 10:13).
Let’s go for a walk and visit David and his fugitive band at the brook, Besore (1 Sam. 30:9-10) – they are real tired and discouraged right now, too…There, Son. That’s David resting under that tree. Go talk with him.
KH: OK, Lord…Excuse me, David. You look tired and discouraged.
David: I am tired! Bone tired!
KH: All your men look exhausted, too. What happened?
David: It’s a long story, and I need to hurry now.
KH: I’d love to hear it if you can tell me while you rest a moment.
David: Well, let’s see…I was the youngest of 8 sons of Jesse (1 Sam. 16:10-13). I was out keeping my dad’s sheep when the prophet, Samuel, showed up at dad’s house and anointed me with oil. The Spirit of God came on me and I began a new walk with God. I was just a teenager, but I was different on the inside from then on.
KH: I know what you mean. The same thing happened to me on February 9, 1969, in Bloomington, Illinois.
David: Where’s Bloomington?
KH: Never mind. It won’t be built for about 3,000 years. Anyway, what happened after that?
David: All sorts of things, good, and bad. Dad sent me to take food to my three older brothers who were fighting the Philistines, again. Those people have been causing trouble for 400 years. I wish Joshua’s replacements would have done the job God told them to do (Josh. 1:4; Judg. 1)! Maybe one day they will leave us alone.
KH: Ah…don’t hold your breath on that one. They were on TV last week for blowing up a car bomb in Israel.
David: What’s a TV and a car?
KH: Never mind, my bad. They won’t be invented 3,000 years either. Anyway, so what happened?
David: When I got to the battlefield all of our soldiers were scared silly over this giant man named Goliath. He was almost 10 feet tall! No problem for the Lord, though. I went out and killed him and became a national hero overnight. That’s not why I did it. I just saw a job that needed to be done and did it.
KH: FANAFI. That’s my motto, too. Find a need and fill it. So what did the army think?
David: The people thought it was great, but King Saul became jealous and tried to kill me. That started my long life as a fugitive. It’s very tiring living out here in the woods. I’m tired of the entire mess. Especially after what happened this week.
KH: What happened?
David: Well, my band of 600 men went with the king of the Philistines to fight with King Saul, but the Philistine lords rejected the idea of us fighting with them. We all felt pretty bad. We were not wanted in Israel and now we are not wanted in Philistia. We were coming back here to Ziklag where we left our wives and families to get some R&R. When we got here we discovered the city had been looted and burned and our families were nowhere to be found. It’s so discouraging! We just marched three days out, were rejected and marched three days back only to find this. We’ve been hunted by King Saul for several years. It wears a body down to always be nervous about the king or some government agent trying to kill you for no reason.
KH: I know what you mean. So what did you do about it?
David: That’s not the worst. Now some of my men are talking of stoning me, because they are so grief stricken for their families. I understand how they feel.
KH: That’s terrible! This is just another heavy burden to bear for you, isn’t it?
David: Yes it is. I’m tired in every way, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I can’t do much about the first three without a time of rest so I figured I’d work on the one I could work on, the spirit. I spent time meditating on God’s promises (Ps. 119:15, 23, 48, 78, 148) and encouraged myself in Him (1 Sam. 30:6). He has never failed me. Two hundred of my men are too tired to even cross the brook, but the rest of us will push on.
KH: What drives you?
David: Two things, God’s promises and the fact that my wife and kids’ futures are at stake. King Saul may hate me for no reason, and the Philistines may not want me and even some of my own men may be mad at me, but God loves me, and my family is counting on me. I’ve got to press on no matter how tired I feel.
KH: Thanks, David. I pray it will all turn out well.
David: Thanks…OK, men! Let’s go get our families back!
GOD: Let’s go home, Son. You know how it turned out, don’t you?
KH: Yes, Lord. They got everyone and everything back, and even got a lot of new stuff to boot. You did keep Your promises.
GOD: I always do, Son. I know you are tired, too. I’m right here with you. Press on, Son. I’ve got your back.
Dr. Kent E. Hovind is currently at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Please send postcards and letters to:
Kent E. Hovind #06452-017
FPC Edgefield D-2
P.O. BOX 725
Edgefield, SC 29824
Feel free to send Dr. Hovind a letter or postcard. Please understand he is not able to answer every letter he receives, but he certainly appreciates any support and encouragement. He can also receive new books, but only directly from bookstores. And no hardcover books are allowed. No DVDs, CDs, or anything hard or sharp such as staples, etc (no tracts with staples in them). Do not send more than one tract at a time, as all gifts containing more than one tract will not be allowed. Do not put “Dr.” on his name, or it may be discarded by the guards. They do not always return postal items that are not delivered to inmates, so you may want to save a copy before mailing, so that you might try again in the event that he was recently moved for example.
Mrs. Hovind is currently at the Federal Correctional Institution in Marianna, FL. Because of prison regulations, Mrs. Hovind can only receive letters. Please refrain from sending stickers, stamps, books, or media of any kind. If you would like to write her letters of encouragement, please send them to:
Jo D. Hovind #06453-017
FCI Marianna, Satellite Camp
P.O. Box 7006
Marianna, FL 32447
Please write with the understanding that whatever you write could be subject to monitoring by the guards. Please do not write politically-charged or tax-related comments, etc. In the event that Dr. or Mrs. Hovind is moved to another facility, one can always check for current addresses by using the Inmate Locator on the Bureau of Prisons website:
http://www.bop.gov/
From the CSE team,
Thank you for your continued support.
Lots of us are tired out here, too. Thanks for reminding us of what’s really important-proclaiming the glory of God. The Jaggers Family
I can’t wait for you to get out of there Dr, Kent. I pray for you each day.
God bless you.
Dear Bro. Kent.
Please don’t give up (Galatians 6:9-10).
We haven’t given up on you! We pray daily for not only your release, comfort and protection, but also that you will be vindicated in due course. Please hang in there as we know that we are NOT THE ONLY ONES who continue to love and support you and the CSE Ministry team. Our daughter has been currently working on a letter for you, but because she is wanting to type (copy)a whole story that she hopes will encourage you, it is taking her longer than she had first expected. Hopefully you will receive it shortly.
In the meantime, we will continue daily to uphold you, Jo, your family, Ricky and the whole CSE Team.
in Him whom we love,
The Roberts family
(Australia)
Would that we could take some of the burden from you Kent.
Praying praying praying. I am sickened by what is happening in America and see this as suffering that many of us will experience as our country is destroyed by evil, corrupt men and women. It is to “refine, purge and purify” as in Daniel 11:32 but don’t want to give a simple answer. You are suffering. God is with you. You are bearing fruit in your suffering but it remains a travesty and shame on our legal system.
Please administrators…you may not want to post this but
We need the answers to these questions
When is the earliest Kent can be released if there is a parole system that applies to him or some other system? I see prisoners released directly from my ER ALL THE TIME because they have a medical condition that the state does not want to pay for. Heart trouble, kidney problems…and many of them fake it! That is a fact, yet there is no mercy for Kent?
Is there nothing the governer can do?
What is going on with the ministry?
When is Jo’s release date?
Is there somewhere this information is posted?
Thanks
Joy
Brother Kent, I was driving home the other night and was rather overwhelmed with a single thought – “What has Jesus been doing all this time?”
the answer came, “He has been building the homes His saints shall live in”.
It didn’t immediately occur to me that it was an answer linked to
” I go to prepare a place for you “.
John 14.2 has those words. Then in Revelation there is a woman fleeing to a place prepared.
The character of Jesus as a carpenter, master builder, in a hands-on sense, hadn’t occurred to me so vividly before.
Either as a mansion with many rooms or a city with many diverse homes the sense of hands-on construction hadn’t so impressed me prior to a few evenings ago.
Another woman in Revelation is fated for destruction. Sitting atop 7 hills? Beautifully arrayed, cruel at heart.
When I sat in on some lectures on Canon Law, the lecturer referenced parish priests embezzling church funds as deserving gaol. The parish itself was equated to a “legal fiction” [corporate entity endowed with legal "person"ality]
For all of its intricacy and brilliance the Canon Law struck me as simply a manual for cruelty totally anathema to the Christian Gospel’s predication on unconditional love, unmerited grace and forgiveness, the remission of sins paid for with Holy blood.
I had a sense of awe. How could such bastardry be so interwoven with even a veneer of jurisprudence.
If but one juror had simply known that they could of their own sovereign volition simply exercise in their divine right an act of forgiveness and grace.
Jury nullification.
Marie Durand, is a classic example of a personal experience which lived on to tell the story of the Church of Rome, during her time period of life. She was imprisoned for thirty-eight years for no other reason than she was a Huguenot { a French Protestant}. Marie was fifteen years old when she crossed the deep moat that led to her prison cell in a massive tower of the ancient fortress that still stands. The walls are eighteen feet thick. they have no windows, and narrow slits in the massive masonry permit little light but much wind and cold to enter. In the middle of the floor of the circular room is an opening covered with an iron grating which guards could pass food. Marie Durand was confined in this tower from 1730 until 1768. On any day of those thirty-eight years she could have had her freedom by saying TWO WORDS, “I RECANT.” Can you imagine the temptation to say them? Why waste your youth behind these grim walls? Outside you will see sunshine, hear the happy laughter of children, find the love of friends and the pure comfort of home. But she resisted all seductions to purchase LIBERTY at the PRICE of COMPROMISE. As a matter of fact, into the masonry of her prison cell she scratched the word “RESIST.” One of Marie’s letter’s preserved in the Paris Protestant Library contains the following sentences: “I am in this awful prison thirty-eight years…We MUST NOT Judases by betraying our own CONSCIENCES…Your humble servant, Marie Durand.
I wouldn’t have known about “diesel therapy” if I hadn’t read of your treatment.
ON these pages, maybe a year ago a lawyer posted a comment saying that the law was like a locomotive train, “you better believe its coming”
The implication is “get off the tracks, the law will ruin you”
It is an appalling analogy.
In immutable truth the train driver who sees a stranded man those rail tracks and doesn’t do everything in his power to stop the train for the sake of that man is, himself, culpable of a grievous crime.
the Nuremberg defense was no defense.
Marie Durand, I salute you.
Kent,
I have shed tears for you, been angry for you and I swear if I could I would take your place in that prison if it meant you were back out kicking the enemy’s butt. You walk hard with Christ and you inspire my life to be more about Him. God Bless you today. I hope that God is really doing something amazing in that prison. God bless your wife and children and grandchildren. I am praying that the Lord protects them and helps them while you’re in there.
To the Hovind family:
Waiting is the hard part. We know that time is linear in this world. Not so in the life to come, when there will be no more separation. Time was created by God for the sake of His creation. When we are reunited in heaven, time will no longer be. While we wait for Dr. and Mrs. Hovind to come home (and lots of us out here are waiting with you), remember the last standing order from our Savior. Go and tell them. Eric, keep going. What a team you will make with your dad when you are physically united as a preaching team once again.
James and Veybe Davis
Camano Island, WA
Beloved Brother Kent Hovind & Sister Jo,
The joy of our Lord Jesus will remain your strength.
Here is an hymn below to encourage both of you:
Be not dismayed whate’er betide,
God will take care of you;
Beneath His wings of love abide,
God will take care of you.
Refrain
God will take care of you,
Through every day, over all the way;
He will take care of you,
God will take care of you.
Through days of toil when heart doth fail,
God will take care of you;
When dangers fierce your path assail,
God will take care of you.
Refrain
All you may need He will provide,
God will take care of you;
Nothing you ask will be denied,
God will take care of you.
Refrain
No matter what may be the test,
God will take care of you;
Lean, weary one, upon His breast,
God will take care of you.
Refrain
Sade Tennyson
FYI—There is an excellent commentary by Dr. Don Boys at cstnews.com re: DR. and Mrs. Hovind. Dr. Kent I just wanted to let you know you are my hero and I pray for you and Mrs. Hovind every day that God will protect you in prison, and that your release will be soon. Also that when you are released, that He will bless you with a double portion of blessings upon your ministry when you are finally set free.