My Personal Testimony
I have been an Adventist since I was 15 years old. I had been dragged to all kinds of different churches up until that time, and once the Lord lured me into His church He has held onto my hand and has not let it go even though I have been treated inappropriately by so many of my brothers and sister in the faith. My family, I am sorry to say, is no longer practicing Adventists, because of the unkindness of the brethren. Even though my mother still believes that the Sabbath is the right day to worship God she cannot go to church because of the horrible things people have said about her and to her over the years. I guess this sort of thing happens to other people as well. That is probably why there are so many Adventist who have lost their faith. If only there was another church my mother could attend. Please pray that she finds peace in forgiveness toward her brothers and sisters.
I came here to the Philippines in faith that the Lord would provide for His ministry and I know that He will and I have no doubt that He will. I remember when I was in China as a missionary teaching English and covertly spreading the gospel how out of touch the main church was with what was and is going on in China. To a great extent the GC does not know the work going on there.
I know of one pastor called by the Lord, who never set foot in an Adventist college or seminary who was the son of a line of Taoist preachers. He was being groomed to take his fathers place as the head of the Taoist sect and the Lord chose him to be an Adventist preacher and God would not take no for an answer. He tried to run from the ministry for a time and finally his father noticed that something was bothering his son. His father asked him what was wrong, and he told his father what was happening. His father told him that he better listen and do what the spirit was telling him to do and that he could not run from God nor from doing God's will. He became an Adventist preacher, a pastor. His father is very proud of him because his son recognized what was going on and followed God's call.
This pastor without any conference education was taught by the Lord and led by the Lord and did the Lord's work and still does. He did not have a license for his church and he thought that he should get one before the government closed it down. Simply because there were other people from other churches that were jealous of him and his success, not realizing that he was only doing what the Lord wanted him to do. The Lord told him to get seven licenses, not just one license. He told the Lord that he would be lucky to get one and the Lord told him get seven.
He finally realized again that it was foolish to argue with God and he applied for seven licenses. In the mean time there was a lady that was interested in the truth and was baptized. She had a problem where she had a bent back and she had this condition for more than twenty years. She asked this pastor for prayer and anointing and the pastor and some elders went to her house and prayed and anointed her. The next day she got out of bed and stood straight upright and was healed. The whole small town of one million heard about the miracle and the day that the vote for the seven licenses was to take place this miracle lady walked past the building in plain sight of those doing the voting. The members talked among themselves saying that this miracle was of God and that they had better grant the request. The pastor received his seven licenses for seven churches and now these seven churches are all full and he needs more churches. We can only do the Lord's work by faith and trying to do it any other way is foolishness.
A pastor in Canada retired and said that it was nice while it lasted but he was glad it was over. He never was called by God because a pastor called by God is never finished preaching until he is finished. If he breathes he must preach, it is like oxygen to him. The church may not have called me but I was called by God and I know that He will provide no matter what anyone says. So if I ask you, dear reader, to fund a missionary in the Philippines, I hope that you will know that I am going to hold Crusade after Crusade in the Islands of the Philippines until God closes the doors of the Gospel.
Please read Revelation 22:11. I do not want anyone to give that does not want to give willingly and gladly because I do not want any bad feelings hanging over this ministry. I have been a person who worried about everything for years, because of the way my mother was when I was younger. I do not worry about things anymore because I know that God will take care of it. My wife on the other hand like most women worry and I can understand that, but I do not worry about this stuff because I have jumped into the red sea up to my neck and I know that the Lord will part the seas so I can walk on dry land. I just need others to believe that too and this Ministry will be fruitful, bringing souls into the Kingdom of God.
I am in this church because it makes sense and no other one does. The Bible makes sense when explained the way I heard it in 1978. I need to preach it because I was told to. This ministry is not a thing anyone would want to do for fun. Like sleeping on hard wood floors, eating who knows what, going who knows where and reaching out to who knows who. Who, in their right mind wants to do that! I have to because God wants me to. He could use the rocks and the trees but I am thankful that He asked me. I am not perfect. He is not finished with me yet.
When I preach I do not preach from a boxed sermon, I let the Spirit of God lead me in the words that I speak. In fact sometimes I do not even know what the topic is half an hour before the sermon because God has not given it to me yet. I do not want you, dear reader, to think that it is me doing all the work, because I know I can get vain and proud and arrogant about it so I asked the Lord to take care of it and He has in a big way. I am here to do the Lord's work and it will get done, but, I need your help financially.
I know that Lord is coming back soon and I know that He will be faithful to take care of all my needs if I just let people know what they are. I hope I am not running on and on, it is just what I had to write to you or I would not be able to sleep at nights. I hope you understand and rejoice in the Lord with me because He is our only hope and friend and we will be seeing Him in the clouds of glory soon. I need to tell the people who have no other way of finding out about the Philippine Crusades, that I need their help to get the Gospel to the Islands of the Philippines. I have budgeted $20,000.00 USD this coming year to hold several Crusades and I would like to get 1000 one time gifts of $20.00 or even better yet get 335 Holy Spirit filled brothers and sisters to pledge just $5.00 per month. This will allow He is Coming Ministries to get the Gospel preached in the many planned Crusades in the back woods of the Philippine Islands. Everyone can bookmark this website ( www.philippinecrusades.com ) to see how the Crusades are progressing during the year. There are other material needs that you may be able to help us with. Please check the link! -needs-
Perry Kusnezoff - Evangelist to the Philippine people!
Terry Hinchey - Director - Asian Evangelistic International, Urgent Outreach