Dear Friends, we now have a viable healing ministry. It is up and running and it is called Deep River Ministries. It seems so timely with the recent tragedy in our nation. We are so pleased to be about the business that we believe God has been calling us to for years. The transition to this ministry has been difficult and trying. However, Anna Marie and I have the sense that we have found our PURPOSE. The joy of the Lord has become our strength, there is clarity of thought and motive, and the work is without the kind of striving and push that so often accompanies a person when they are a round peg in a square hole. It seems that God has opened doors for our going out into many places to do what He has called us to do. We pray that the coming months and, hopefully, years ahead will yield MUCH FRUIT for our lord as He prepares a HARVEST to receive the marvelous works of healing and deliverance our God desires to pour out on our generation.
There is coming into our lives a depth of relationship with the Lord that is like diving into water over our heads. There is coming soon, an experience of God’s presence that is referred to in the scripture as swimming in a river that comes from the throne of God. It is for the healing of the nation and beyond.
Welcome, my friends, to Deep River Ministries.
“On both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of tress…and their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
Ezekiel 47:12
Ezekiel 47:0 describes a River flowing out to the east from the temple of God. It becomes a DEEP RIVER with banks lined with trees that sweeten the existing bitter waters of life, and everywhere this River goes it brings life so that all living creatures flourish in its waters. This River is also described in Revelations 22:1-2 as “the river of water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.” This is a perfect image of the healing ministry Jesus has issuing forth from God’s throne into all nations. The trees by the River have leaves which are for the healing of the nations. IT is clear that the Church of Jesus is called to take healing to all the peoples of the earth. This River is referred to by Jesus Christ as a River that shall flow out of the “belly” of the believer. (John 7:38) The Holy Spirit so fills us that we cannot help but share this life-giving water with a dry and thirsty people. How desperate we are for healing in our time of disaster in America. So many are in pain, so many feel loss and grief. So many are afraid. We have not a high priest who is untouched by pain.
We have now ministered in at least six healing missions across the country. One thing we have discovered is that the people of God are also desperate for healing. And, if this is the condition of the CHURCH, what in the world is the condition of those outside the church? PEOPLE NEED HEALING!
It is so exciting that this RIVER gets deeper and deeper. Ezekiel saw a man wade out into the water ankle deep, then knee deep, waist deep, and finally the man was swimming. We began the healing ministry, wet behind the ears, twenty-three years ago. We were only ankle deep when we started. Healings, though remarkable, were very sporadic. The frequency of healing events has increased until now, where I sense we are is waist deep. God is bearing significant fruit at this time. People are coming to Christ and are being healed. However, there is coming a day in the near future where we will swim in this river and it will be like being in over our heads as God pours out His Spirit and His gifts.
In the next issue I will write about a time God showed us what “being in over our heads” will be like. It is a glorious time in His Presence. Healing and other gifts break out spontaneously everywhere in the meeting. Let us go there, with God, as He hears the cries of all the desperate people now. This is the time for our nation to cry out for our Father’s mercy, and as God sees our wound, so must we, and so must we be willing to go with Him to be with them in His Healing Light.
Contact Fr. Jack: frjack@deepriverministries.com