"To Walk with God"
Campmeeting
After the Alabama meetings, Pastor Shelley went to Red
Deer, Alberta, Canada, to be a speaker at
Frontline Worship Centre's campmeeting,
"To Walk with
God." It was hosted by Peter and Cathryn
Nash, and Neville Johnson and Paul Keith Davis were also guest
speakers.
It was another series of meetings with
tremendous revelation and anointing being
imparted. I was so grateful that it was webstreamed
so that I could watch it from Jerusalem! For DVDs and CDs,
inquire at www.frontlineministries-int.com.
Here are three divine
experiences that were shared at this
campmeeting:
Visitation of the Angel with the Silver
Sword
Near the end of the campmeeting, Pastor Steven Shelley
was unexpectedly asked to preach one more time. This is how he
described the experience he had after he finished preparing his
message:
I poured myself into finding a message this
afternoon and I thought it was good. I started out the door, then
went back in to get my phone.
All of a sudden there was
a Presence of the Lord that enveloped
me. The
Presence of the Lord was so tangible that literally it felt
like arms came around me. My knees just buckled and I
landed on my knees. I
felt tears coming and I wasn’t
sad.
Then
I heard a shuffling sound.
Standing there in the little hall where the mirror is was
an
angel who I have seen before. He always carries a silver
sword.
He actually took me to a place in the spirit when I was in
Jerusalem. Then he had
the sword on his shoulder, but today he was holding the
sword out in front of him and the blade was down.
And I was so overwhelmed that I just waited to see
if he would say anything to me. He said a little something
to me and then I said, “Why have you
come?”
His answer was so powerful that it shook
me off my knees. And I
thought for a split second that an earthquake had
taken place. I thought,
“Now this is going to be profound. When I get down to that
conference, everyone is going to know that this hotel has
shook."
He spoke with a very loud and commanding voice. He said, “I have come to set the captives free! Then I will release
joy.”
Pastor Shelley preached about the acceptable
year of the Lord's favor - the season of
liberty. When he got back to Alabama he told
us:
At the end of that service, that angel came
into the meeting room. I felt him when he
came. And I saw more deliverance
in one session than I have seen in the last few years of
ministry.
I asked how many needed to be set free. About 200 hands were raised
[out of about 1000], but almost all of them came forward. I saw people set
free.
I
have a desire to see people free – so free that the next
time I see them they are still free. I believe the
kind of freedom God wants for us in this hour is what will be
permanent.
Divine
Experience of Being Drawn into
God
Neville Johnson shared this awesome divine
experience he had before coming to the
campmeeting:
Most Christians are taken captive by the
tyranny of time.
We never get around to doing things that are important. There are just so many other
things that take our time.
I get up most mornings more towards 5:00 in the
morning because it’s quiet.
I make a cup of tea or a cup of coffee, sit down and just
quietly talk to the Lord.
Most of my experiences come out of this
time.
So just about two weeks before I came here, I got
up in the morning and I just sat down. And I had missed
doing this for three days, and I was feeling real
guilty. I had
never done that before since I had started doing it. I thought, “Oh, God.” I was so busy, and there
were so many deadlines to meet. I was being pressured from
other people, and so on, to meet these deadlines. And so I missed it and I
thought, “Oh, boy, I’m going to get back into this.” I closed my eyes and I began to tell the Lord
that I was
sorry.
Suddenly I was no longer
there.
I was standing on the Sea of
Glass in heaven. And I thought, “I’m
going to stand right at the back.” I felt so
guilty.
You don’t have any idea what goes on on that Sea of
Glass - I mean the choreography, the music. There were angels with
babies in their arms who had just come into the Kingdom of God. There were women with babies
who had just died and had come into the Kingdom of God.
There were people dancing. I mean, it was full on –
worship, music, singing, saints, angels all joining
together.
And I was standing in the back
here and thought, “I’m close enough. Lord, just let some of that
stuff wash off me.” And
I stood there and I heard this Voice: “Neville, come here.” I looked at everybody. They didn’t seem to hear
it. I took two steps,
like this, right to the back and I thought, “I just imagined
that.” It was
like I was having a dream, but I was
awake.
Then I heard, “Neville, COME HERE.” And I thought, “Oh, man, I’m
in trouble.” So I
started to walk slowly through the crowds. I mean, there are people
dancing. The
choreography - I cannot explain it. It was just perfect - people
dancing and singing and angels flying, but it is all symmetrically
arranged.
And I got right up to the
front of the Throne.
I’ve never seen the Father’s face yet. I see His outline full of
light. I see His
arm. I have seen His
arms and feet, but never His face up to this
day.
And I just stood there, just waiting. I put my head down and I
thought, “Oh, man, here it
comes.”
He said, “Neville,
I’ve missed you.” I thought, “That is
something I didn’t want to hear.”
I said, “You missed me?” I was totally undone
straight away. I
thought I was really going to be getting a good telling
off.
He said, “Neville,
I’ve missed you.” And I started to cry. I still felt I was
guilty.
I said, “Lord, I’m sorry. I know You are the priority
in my life. I
don’t know what happened, but I missed having time with You. I have a covenant with You,
and I missed three days and I’m sorry, I’m
sorry.”
And when I said that, I
saw this arm reach out and He pulled me into
Himself.
Instantly there was an explosion
of love.
I could not tell you how it felt. It is impossible for me to
explain. I felt
incredibly safe. And I
thought, “I’m in
God.”
A lot of Scriptures
started to go through my mind – in Christ, in God - all of
those Scriptures. “I
will come to you and manifest Myself to you.” All of those Scriptures kept
running through my mind.
And I thought, “My
goodness!”
In God is a massive place. I cannot explain this. It seemed like He was much bigger on the inside than on the
outside. There were eons and eons
of history flashing before me. Eons passed – way up into the
future.
I saw one or two glimpses of the Millennium – just
one or two glimpses of
what the Millennium would be
like.
All this stuff was going on within me and I said,
“Oh, God!” That’s all I
could say: “Oh, God!”
And I said, “This history is His
story.” And it
never ended.
And I saw that eternity is like a
circle. It
just never ended, like a circle never ends. And it keeps on expanding
to another layer again and it never
ends.
Then I saw my life coming to this
earth. I saw
that I had fellowship with eons in heaven. I saw . . . I don’t know whether to tell
you this. Oh, what the
heck. I saw that I had made covenants with people who I
would be joined to in this earth. I would come and I would
say, “We’ll get together, we’ll work together, when we are down
there.” The problem is,
when we get there, of finding them among six billion people. And as we grow older and get
into secular life, the memory
goes.
My little grandchildren were incredible. I heard them talking
together very young.
And one was saying to the other, “Do you remember the
trees in heaven? They
are nothing like the trees we have in our garden, are
they?”
What? And they
were talking about this, which kind of blew me away:
“Remember when we agreed that you would come first and I
would come after you?” I thought, “Where did you
get that from?” They
cannot remember it now. They have grown and are
schooled. All this
stuff is in their mind and locks it
out.
Don’t label me as New Age. This is New
Testament. The
Apostle John saw people in the Book of Revelation worshipping God in
robes. Those
people had not yet been born that he saw. He said, “These are the ones
who came out of the Great Tribulation.” They hadn’t even been born
in this world. But he
saw the history of God, the history of God’s
purposes.
And I thought, “Lord, I want to stay here
forever.” Whole galaxies began to float
past me. I saw angels in charge of whole galaxies with
everything ticking and working properly. I saw the purposes
of God.
And then I suddenly realized, “I shouldn’t
be seeing this.
I was really bad.
I didn’t keep my covenant with the Lord to wait upon
Him.”
When I thought that, the love of God totally overwhelmed me
again. That’s the grace and the
goodness of God. And
this went on for a long, long, long time. And suddenly I was
back in my room.
I thought, “My goodness.”
I said, “Lord, shall I talk about
this? Am I
allowed to talk about this?”
I felt the Lord just smile at me. And I
thought, “Was that a yes or a no?” He just
smiled.
God is love.
We are going to become absolutely like Him - pure, pure
love. God’s not
going to release people in the earth with absolute authority unless they are one hundred per cent
love. They would destroy the
world. If everything
came to pass that you said, what would happen if you get angry? Do you know the things you
say when you are angry?
No, He’s not going to take that
risk.
Look, we have got to keep
pressing in.
That day is really on our doorstep. There is coming a time when
that is going to happen.
This is an experience of the
Feast of Tabernacles just like salvation is an
experience of the Passover Feast. We speak in tongues. It was an experience of
Pentecost. This is an
experience of the Feast of Tabernacles. It is the next level. Can you get this? The revelation of it
will build faith into your
life.
Visitation from Bro. Branham - How
To Have Creative Miracles
Pastor Shelley shared:
I recently had an
experience. We
just had a week-long campmeeting/conference. The Friday night before the
conference I had a dream.
I dreamed that I was in a casual service. It was with a tour
group. One of the
ladies asked me to pray for her friend. She picked
up an African/ American woman with no legs and sat
her in front of me.
She could walk on those
stubs.
One of those from the Cloud of Witnesses
stepped into the crowd. I realized I was seeing
him in the realm of the spirit. It was Bro.
Branham.
I said that I was going to release a
blessing over her.
He said, “That’s nice,
but she doesn’t need a
blessing. She needs her
legs.”
That hit me pretty hard. I was approaching her
condition as if the Lord was only going to bless her. I should have been praying
for God to give her her legs.
That is what is going to happen when we
change our mentality from servant to son. If God can cause a starfish
to grow another leg, he can do it for his children. He is doing it in small
measure all over the world, but a new day is
coming.
I said to Bro. Branham that I had seen
these things when I was younger, but now I don’t even know
what to pray to help her.
He said, “That is why I am here –
to help you. The first
thing is that there has to be an atmosphere of pure worship
in this room.
Ask her to
worship the Lord and everyone else to focus on the Lord in
worship.”
She lifted her arms and started moving back and
forth as if she was on stilts.
Everyone was lost in worship. I then saw her
growing taller and taller. No one in
the room saw it yet because every person
in that room was so focusing their praise and adoration on the Lord
Jesus Christ.
She had perfect feet and legs
restored.
He was saying, “The model for what He is about to
do is not about a circus sideshow.
It is not going to be people
running to come see a miracle, but to come and see the
Lord.
We are not going after miracles. We are going after
Jesus and wherever Jesus goes, miracles follow. God doesn’t operate a
carnival. Miracles are
not for you, but for the unbelievers. You focus on
Jesus.”
I believe God has a higher order
than asking people if they feel a little better, and we need to
prepare for that.
Pastor Shelley's
Speaking Itinerary
(For details, click here.)
Shekinah Worship Center Annual Conference, Lancaster, California
August 13 -
17
(This conference
includes
Neville Johnson and
Sadhu Sundar
Selvaraj and can be streamed at
www.rcftv.net.)
Church of Glad Tidings,
Yuba City, California
September 4 -
6: Men's Camp
September 6 -
7: Church services
Fusion Church, Auckland, New Zealand
November 6 - 9
Frontline Worship Centre's New Year's
Conference, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
December/January (Exact dates to be
announced)
Cornerstone Fellowship, Frederick,
Maryland
February 19 -
21
Vanguard Revival Ministries' Fire and the Glory
Conference
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada
May 13 -
16
