The Battle

Hey friends, family, our loved ones.

I’m writing as a rallying cry to all our faithful friends who can pray for us. Annie and I have experienced great and real spiritual resistance since moving to our cottage on the church grounds. We have been attacked almost nightly by fear, confusion, and a myriad of other powers and spirits. We mentioned it at our weekly staff meeting Wednesday morning and we were informed resoundingly that spiritual warfare is real and stronger hear on the island and this type of thing is not at all uncommon.

Just a quick overview of some of Satan’s attacks: causing Annie and I to fight over ridiculous and petty things, keeping us awake in fear and confusion at night and thus rendering our quiet times almost ineffective as we end up being so tired we sleep in, he has attacked our ministry, and he has attacked our closeness.

This is a call to prayer as Annie, Sean (our student ministries pastor and head), and I prayed over our cottage today and have been bombarded by the enemy since. Annie and I got in a ridiculous fight while driving today and our fighting caused me to speed and get a ticket for it. Tonight our bedroom was attacked as 3 cockroaches were waiting for us to freak us out and make it hard to sleep again. I killed them all and Annie was way less freaked and so God is definitely helping us. Also know that God is working on this cottage and cleansing it and purifying it, but the enemy is fighting tooth and nail against us.

We need your prayer. We need you to pray over the cottage and the church grounds as a safe and holy place. We need you to pray specifically over our bedroom, as that is the only place the roaches have shown up and the place we most need them gone. Please pray that our bedroom would be a place of rest, sanctuary, purity and holiness. Understand that the enemy is attacking our closeness, that he is taking away our emotional and spiritual connection and that this definitely needs prayer. We also need prayer over our middle school ministry as it is going through much change and needs grace. Please also pray for our pastoral staff who has backed us up and especially our student ministries pastor Sean, his wife Jess, and their son Kana. Annie and I expect them to come under attack if they aren’t already, since Sean was a part of our prayer today.

Understand we will also ask the rest of the staff to join us in prayer over this cottage, so they are also subject to attacks. We believe in God’s power and victory and we know that with corporate prayer, mighty works are accomplished, so please know we covet your prayers and are blessed by the ones already. Thanks guys. Much Aloha.

Moving To Kailua

Hey yall,

tomorrow Annie and i are moving to Kailua, Hawai'i. needless to say we are ridiculously busy. here is our work address

JD and Annie Groves
Faith Baptist Church
1230 Kailua Road
Kailua, Hawai'i 96734

Ill write soon. pray for us and our sanity in this crazy move
soon we'll be in paradise

peace out
Only In Love