In the beginning of my life, when I was a newborn babe in Christ, I was weak and my support system was not strong. I took my first few steps of life in ignorance and pride. Originally, it was my perception that life was based upon the written word. And to that end, I sought to have the greatest knowledge of the word, greater than anyone. And in the exceeding amounts of my foolishness, I forcefully read the word, attempting, by speculation and examination, to forcefully withdraw wisdom from the Words of God. But, not surprisingly, I could not extract from the word what my spirit so deeply desired by sheer force. But, like any good human who was raised by a worldly perception of the word, I increased my foolishness by increasing the number and length of attempts to comprehend the Word of God carnally. And as well intentioned as I may have been, I was not walking in the grace by which I was called, in the Spirit of God. And so, in frustration and constant torment by the enemy, I was tried and tempted to chronic failure in my infancy for many years; and lacking maturity this was my state of being for the majority of my life as a Christian. But it is amazing what God has done through me, even in that time, working with a great amount of foolishness to bring about great things.

  In particular, the past year ofmy life in Christ has been the greatest year of life I have ever experienced. In the times since I have joined Anointed Word fellowship, and have been instructed in the ways of wisdom (by the Lord) I have grown in ways that I would not have been able to imagine in the days of my birth in Christ. It has only been in the past year that the Lord has opened to me the great realm of the Spirit, both through speaking in tongues (which, in times past, I was adamantly against) and through the greatness of my personal contact with Him, through revelation and relation. It is the greatest knowledge that I could hope for to understand that I am constantly in contact with the Spirit of God. I could not have imagined the creator speaking to me about things to come, and the great mysteries of His Spirit in my youth. But now that God has made me a man by His Spirit of sonship, I have realized the full glory of God, and am stepping deeper into it each day. What a great and mighty God we serve!!! He who can truly give sight to those who are blind to the truth.
 It is my greatest hope that anyone who reads this will be convicted of His/Her life in the Spirit. For God has not called us to walk by faith, but by sight. As the Word says: "Not by power, nor by might, but by my Spirit says the Lord." In this I especially want to encourage my Brothers and Sisters in the earth, not to deal with the Word coercively. It takes the wisdom and Spiritual discernment of the Lord to understand this thing that God has shown me. But we can ill afford to sit down with our word and attempt to grasp it purely of our own mind. In this, the Church has become confused and has misconceived many of the truths that God has intended for us in His word. We must be sure to walk by the Spirit of God. As believers, we can memorize the Word, we can read it daily, we can even speak it out in Church services and from the rooftops. But, if we do not combine it with revelation from the Lord and write it on our heart as . a confirmation of the Words of God to come, then our foundation in Christ is not sure. We must use the written Word correctly for it to be effective in the thing that God has purposed it for . And so, in this epistle which concerns my experience in moving from infancy to maturity I must speak of this: that as long as we depend on the Written Scriptures as our only source of truth, we will never fully mature in Christ. These things concern the milk of the Spirit. It is the things which Christ has desired to reveal in us, His Church, that we must realize to be fully matured and made glorious in His image and in His sight. And if anyone would doubt this word, then He is not yet mature with God, for what God has desired to do, He has purposed in His body, the Church, and this too must the mature believer understand among you. In this we must look to the elders which are among us in our fellowships, those which are mature in Christ. And if anyone be mature in Christ, he should instruct those among you which are young and in need of Spiritual nourishment and nurturing, treating him which he instructs with tender care, as a Father in Christ. Don't misunderstand me brothers, I am not saying that we should forget the Written Word of Christ. In fact, I am of the mind that every man should know it fully and memorize it on the account of the witness within Him. But we must see the Scriptures as the place which the Lord desires to build upon in our lives, and as the place of confirmation for revelations given to us by the Spirit of God. And so, those elders who are among you I uplift in the sight of God, to be given to the younger as Fathers and Mothers in Christ to them. Instruct those who are with you in the ways of sound doctrine, which is in Christ, and see to it that no one is mislead. For it is our responsibility as mature believers in Christ to see to the upbringing and protection which are given to us as babes. Grace, peace and deliverance I give to Him who reads this and believes the words that God has spoken through this single experience of my life in Christ. Bless the brethren and greet each other with joyous words and a grateful spirit. Seek God and produce good works in keeping with repentance. Amen.

MINISTRY EXPERIENCE:

   December 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005 - Discipleship Team Founder/Leader
                                                         Brookside Church, Chillicothe, Ohio
 

SIGNIFICANT REVELATION:

   "Things are before they are manifest."  "In the end times, a time of persecution in coming on the Church."  "We should always be prepared in power, and never be astonished."
 

NOTABLE MIRACLES:

   I have had healings performed through me by God on members of our Fellowship in recent times. 

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