 We
have just come through the Biblical feast of Shavuot (Pentecost)
during which the Jewish people traditionally read the Book of
Ruth. Believers of Yeshua love this Book especially for
the love relationship that develops between Ruth and
Boaz, a type of Yeshua, our Kinsman
Redeemer.
Therefore
in this update, it seems fitting to share Pastor Shelley's
recent dream of seeing the Lord and feeling His
love, as well as two amazing experiences in
Bro. William Branham's life dramatically
revealing the power of divine love working through
us!
"Because I Love You, You WILL Soon See . .
."
Early on
May 5th, Pastor Shelley took his wife and four children to the
airport so they could visit his wife's family in Canada while he
stayed at home. That night, the Lord gave him a
spiritual dream that seemed very real. Here
are the highlights he shared with his
congregation:
I took my wife and four children to the
airport on Tuesday morning to go home, and I was so
lonesome. When
you’re at home and there’s a lot of noise, you think, “Lord, if I
could just have a peaceful minute by myself.” And you get a peaceful
moment by yourself and you’re so lonely. I found myself thinking,
“Lord, I’d just love to hear some noise. I’d just love for Moriah to
crawl up here next to me and say, ‘Daddy.’ Just right now would be so
good.”
I went to bed feeling a little bit blue, and that
was the first night.
And the Lord gave me a dream. And I said a moment ago that
some people don’t believe in supernatural dreams. Well, sorry. I’ll guarantee you one
thing, if you don’t believe in them, you’ll probably never have
one. But if you’ll
believe in them and ask the Lord to deal with you sometime
to give you answers in dreams, He can do
that.
Every dream is not from the Lord,
you ought to know. I’ve
had many spiritual dreams.
You see, I posted that on Facebook that I had a dream, and
Paul Keith said, “Oh, you’re getting to be an old man now because
old men dream dreams."
Well, that’s all right.
I just want God to speak to
me.
I’ve had a lot of dreams, but it’s been very
rare that I’ve ever dreamed of Jesus, actually seeing Jesus
in a dream. But this
dream took me by surprise.
It was just before I was waking up for the
day.
And I was standing on a hill looking down over a
valley. Maybe this will
mean something to somebody.
I saw the most beautiful vegetable
garden. There were
flowers in it, but it was a vegetable garden. And it was so well
organized. I’d love to
be able to tend to a garden like that. It had slightly raised
beds and gravel paths in between, and cages and
trellises.
I was able, kind of strange, to recognize plants
that didn’t have the vegetables on them yet, and I’m not that good
at it. But I was able
to say, “My, that’s such and such.”
Somebody said to me, “That’s your grandfather’s
vegetable garden.” And
I thought, “Well, my grandfather’s been gone a long time.” He did love gardening. And I thought, "I’ll go down
and look at his garden."
Somebody, as I walked down there, shouted down the hill. They said, “Jesus is in that
garden.”
Oh, I picked up my pace. I walked a little bit
closer. And standing
there at the edge of the garden was my grandmother, who died in
1990. And she looked so
beautiful and so young.
And I said to her, “I’m so surprised to see you.” She said, “Listen, I’m here to tell you that Jesus is looking
for you in the garden.” She said, “Now go find Him.” She
vanished.
 I
started walking, and as I was walking, I looked at the beautiful
paths, I looked at the beautiful vegetables, and so forth. And I heard somebody say,
“He’s just up there.” And I took a few steps, and
there I saw the Lord Jesus
standing there in the dream.
He was walking towards
me.
As I started into the garden, I was thinking,
“I’m going to ask Him for this, and this, and this;
and I’m going to ask Him to help this one, and that one, and the
other one; and when I see Him, I’m going to tell Him what I need Him
to do for me and everybody I love; and I need Him to help the
church; and we need some finances for the TV broadcasts . . . I was thinking of all the
things I was going to tell the Lord. Isn’t that crazy? I was getting my
shopping list ready.
And when I saw Him walking towards me, I
was still rehearsing these things in my mind. I was telling myself, “Don’t
forget the TV bill.
Don’t forget the TV bill. Tell Him about the TV
bill.” Course, you know
how I pray. I say,
“Lord, You got a bill come in.
Your bill’s due, Lord.”
C’mon. It’s not
my bill; it’s His bill.
So I wasn’t going to tell Him that face to face, but I was
going to tell Him about the TV
bill.
And all of a sudden, He got close
enough . . .
He came and stood parallel to where I was. I turned. And He was a little
bit taller than I was, which just shocked me. And I looked right up
into His eyes, and I was going to tell Him this whole list. I was going to say, “Hello,
Lord,” and spew all this stuff
out.
 But
when I looked into His eyes, I couldn’t say all those
things. I
couldn’t tell Him all I needed.
I forgot about the TV bill. I was paralyzed by
His deep and penetrating stare. I could not
move. All I could
say was, “Jesus, I love
You!”
And I felt it from my
toes.
And He looked back at me, and He called me by
name. He said,
“Steven, (pausing just
this way) I . . . love . . .
you!”
And every burden, every need, every
trouble melted away.
I could have left.
I didn’t need anything else from Him in my dream. That’s all I
needed.
And all of a sudden, He looked at me and said,
“And because I love you, I want to tell
you something.” I said, “Yes,
Lord. Tell me anything
You want me to know.”
He
then said, “And because I love you, you
WILL soon see the fulfillment of everything that you have preached
about and believed for and even more than you have
imagined." I was melted in His
Presence.
Then He was gone, and the dream was gone, and
I woke up sobbing. I called my wife, and I
said, “Honey, I just dreamed that I saw Jesus, and He told me that
He loved me, and He told me that because He loved me, soon I was
going to see the fulfillment of the things that I have believed for
and preached about all my life.”
Most of you know what those things
are. I said
that to Paul Keith while he was at the conference. He sent me a note back and
said, “Now, our carnal mind wants to seek the definition of
what ‘soon’ means, but we understand what soon can
mean with God.
So I’m just going to stand on that and believe God
with you for the answer of that
dream.”
I want to see the creative miracles that
have been promised for this generation. I want to see people surrender
their lives to the Lord, those who are running from God. I want to see drug addicts
delivered, and alcoholics and those who are oppressed with devils
set free. I want to see
people delivered from depression.
I want to see sons of God raise up to work
the works of Jesus Christ in the earth. I want to see people who love God
so much, they take Him to Wal-Mart with them. And when they see people in need,
they’ve got faith to believe God for exceedingly abundantly
above. These
are the things I have preached so much for thirty
years.
I want to see mothers who are encouraged about what
God has called them to do, who don’t have to walk in depression or
be worn out physically in their bodies, but they have the peace of
God. I want to see
spiritual midwives, men and women, birthing the promises of God
in our midst.
God said we could have
what we have believed for and preached
about.
I am encouraged again! I am
determined to press into
HIM!!
When
Divine Love Is Projected, Sovereign Grace Takes Its
Place
On
January 26, 1957 in Lima, Ohio, Bro. William
Branham preached about two extraordinary
experiences that he often liked to share. The message
is called "When Divine Love Is
Projected, Sovereign Grace Takes Its
Place."
You can
read or listen to the whole sermon by clicking here.
These are slightly edited excerpts (for readability) from paragraphs
E37-38 and E41-44.
Hornets
Respond to Divine Love
This
may seem very strange, and if it does, well, we're going to meet
again someday. Animal life knows love. I've
watched it.
Sometime ago in my home, I got one of these here
power mowers. And I was mowing the yard at the
parsonage. And I'd make a couple rounds and somebody would
come in; I'd slip back and change my clothes, and run in, and
pray for the sick; and then maybe, get out and mow
another round, and somebody else come. And you know,
the grass was growing up in the front yard before I could
get to the back again. It was so hard.
So it
come that I was in the back yard on a hot August afternoon.
And I had just went around, nobody to see me, and I pulled off
my underneath shirt, with just my bare skin from my
waistline up. It was so hot, and the hot mowing
machine . . . And I was a mowing along, singing, "Oh,
how I love Jesus," thinking about the goodness of the
Creator above.
And
so packed away into the spirit of what I was thinking of, the Lord,
and I forgot down in the corner of the fence was a great big
nest full of hornets. And shoving my mower and
singing with my eyes closed, praying, I ran right into the
nest of those hornets.
And
all of a sudden, without thinking, I was
completely covered around with hornets, and they can take your
life. They're great big things. One of
them can flatten you on the ground.
When
those hornets had me covered, and I knew that I'd be stung to death
in a few moments, instead of running or being afraid, I loved those fellows. That
seems strange, but I did. And here's why. I talked to
them.
Now,
I do not say they understood me, but somebody understood me, for I
said, "Little creatures of God, I've interrupted
you. You were sleeping, and I interrupted you.
But I am the servant of your Creator, and His sick children
are in my home to be prayed for. And I was mowing the grass,
and I'm sorry I disturbed you, little creatures of God. Now,
in the Name of Jesus Christ your Creator, my Lord,
hurry back into your house, and I will not bother
you no more."
And
when I meet you at the judgment . . . Those hornets swarming
over me had never touched me as yet, and they lined up in a
single line and went right straight back in their nest.
Love projected, sovereign grace
takes its place.
Killer Bull
Responds to Divine Love
Seven
years I was game warden in Indiana. One day while I was
putting some fish in the water, I was crossing a field
where a great bull had just killed a colored man, and he
belonged on the pasture of Mr. Gurnsey up at Sellersburg, Indiana.
I forgot the bull was in there, for there was signs all
around, "Do not enter." But I had had a little old gun that I
was supposed to pack, and I threw it in the car. And I was
going across the field, over the hill, to pray for a sick man that I
knew.
And I
was walking through the field, not noticing, and all of a sudden
right out in a bunch of bushes, up jumped this big
killer. And he looked at me; he let out a roar; he
threw his head down; and hooked his horns into the dirt and threw
them back.
Immediately I felt for my gun. It was in the
car. There I stood, alone. The fence was about two hundred and
fifty yards, the bull was about thirty yards, no trees nor
nothing.
I
said, "Well, here is the end." I said, "I do not wish to die
as a coward, but I will stand and die as a Christian should
die." And as I reckoned myself, and that big fellow turned
around, I knew it must be death, to be gored to death in a
few moments. Oh, he was more than a match for my
strength.
And
I'm thankful I didn't have the gun, for something
happened. Oh, excuse my emotion, but something
happened. Love come
down. Now, this may seem strange, but it's
truth. I talked to that bull.
I
said, "I disturbed you, but I am the servant of your
Creator. I'm on my road to pray for my sick
brother. I'm sorry I disturbed you. Now, you will not
hurt me, for I love you. And how can you hurt me when
I love you?"
And
here he come. I was no more afraid of that animal than I am of
my brethren setting here. He come and I just stood there.
And I said, "I love you because God created you.
I disturbed you, and I'm sorry."
And
as he come close to me, I stood still, and he got within about ten
feet. He threw out his feet and stopped, and he looked
so depleted. He looked this way and that way. I
said, "In the Name of the Lord Jesus, you creature of God's
creation, go over and lay back down." And God being my
witness, the bull turned around and laid down, and
I walked in five feet of him.
What was it? Death was at hand.
Love was projected, and sovereign
grace stopped the bull.
Pastor Shelley's Speaking Itinerary -
2009
(For details,
click here.)
New Day
Believers Church
Tucson, Arizona
June
25 - 28
Frontline
Worship Center
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
July 26 - August 2
New Hope Revival
Ministries
Smiths Station, Alabama
August 5 - 9
Prayer Link of
St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
August 23 - 25
Church of Glad
Tidings
Yuba City, California
August 28 - 30
Desert Rock
Fellowship
Richland, Washington
November 12 - 14
Fusion
Church
Auckland, New Zealand
November 19 -
21
16th Annual International Campmeeting,
August 5-9
Registration is still open for the New Hope Revival Ministries' 16th Annual International Campmeeting, August 5-9, at their Smiths Station, Alabama, facility (near
Columbus, Georgia).
Speakers will be Paul Keith
Davis, Neville Johnson, Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj and Steven L.
Shelley.
Seating is limited and filling up fast so register
now at: www.revival.org.
In
Closing
Well, it
has now been a year since the symptoms first appeared that cancer
had attacked my lungs and spread to my hip. I ended up going
through four rounds of chemo, then decided to stop because that was
not quality of life (like they were trying to give me)!
I am
eating very healthy and visualizing the reality of the Scripture
that says that I am healed by the stripes of Yeshua!
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!
I appreciate your prayers
so very much! I still have occasional coughing
fits and some increased pain in my hip, especially after sitting for
a long time. I have many prophecies that my destiny on
this earth at this time has not been completed so I am
pressing into God for the full manifestation of my
healing!
We are still in very great
need of finances to finish paying our quarterly rent
that was due May 15th. I am also praying that the Lord would
make the way for me to go to the Campmeeting in Alabama in August,
but I recognize that it will take a big miracle since another three
months of rent will be due August 15th.
Thank you so much for giving and
praying! We're just
passing the hat again, believing for God to give some more of His
nudges!
I was
recently listening to a teaching by Neville Johnson in which he said
that if we had perfect love, we would not age and our bodies
would be healed and healthy. To develop that God-kind of
love, he said that we should not only ask the Lord for it,
but we should spend some quality time every day visualizing Yeshua and expressing our love to Him and
soaking in His love for us. Perfect love is an
attitude that we should also practice. If we do these
things, we will be gradually changed into His
likeness.
(1Jn
4:16) And we have known and believed the love
that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in
love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
(1Jn
4:17) Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is,
so are we in this world.
(1Jn
4:18) There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that
feareth is not made perfect in love.
May we visualize ourselves in Pastor
Shelley's dream, overwhelmed by the perfect love
of our Bridegroom, with expectation of the soon fulfillment of His
promises for His Bride!
Blessings, Grace and
Shalom from Jerusalem!
Nancy Bergen
Jerusalem Revival
Center
PO Box 49380
Jerusalem 97882, Israel
Tel. & Fax:
972-2-5825301
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