>> Hi. I'm Stan Lovins with Revivals for Jesus.
And I thank God that you're joining us today
for supernatural encounters, that God is doing a great work,
and I believe he's speaking to his people all over the globe.
And so one of the greatest encounters
that, that I was blessed to have,
I was wide open, I was helping a friend, wide awake,
and I was at their house. And they had been sick,
so I went over to pray for them
and take authority over their sickness,
and all of a sudden God opens up a supernatural vision.
And in this vision it was pitch black, complete darkness.
There was no ambiance of light,
no reflection, no casting of light.
And I could hear literally a combination
of like Niagara Falls and the rushing waters
and the winds, the turbulence, hurricanes.
You can hear all the power of all that combined,
I could literally hear behind me,
but I couldn't see anything. And under my feet
I could literally feel, literally in this vision,
I could feel the earth or whatever it was
I was standing on was being shaken
with each step of authority and power,
and every step it had encountered,
it was getting closer and closer.
And I had fear in my heart that struck,
because there was so much power I couldn't see.
And I begin to step to my left
and I don't even know what happened stepping to my left
because I couldn't see where I was stepping.
And as I step, took one step,
I literally saw two beams of light
and they were brilliant light.
And as they were, they were shining to my right,
it was like a search light.
And everything that the light shined upon
turned to brilliance.
The foliage, even in what appeared
to be like a fern branch, began to be in full bloom
and it just blossomed and was beautiful.
But you couldn't see any casting of light,
there was no reflection. It was just two laser beams.
And then I looked back to follow the laser beams up
and I saw a figure of a man with a robe of glory.
And I saw round his train
I saw multitudes of those who were worshiping him.
And I could see the the souls that were worshiping.
And it appeared to be the Lord Jesus.
I could not tell His face, but the beams of light
were coming from the sockets, the sockets of his eyes.
And it was just, he was crystal pure and, and it was holy.
And I felt peace in my soul. And I was comforted.
And, and it was like having the Savior meet you
in the midst of your darkest hour.
And His head, as his head turned, even right now,
as I'm telling you, I get blotches in my eyes
because it was so bright.
And as those beams of light looked right at me,
I bowed my head because I didn't feel worthy.
And as soon as the rays of the beams
from the sockets of our Savior's eyes
looked upon me and came upon me,
it literally lifted me up into that light.
And then the vision stopped.
And it was such a tremendous encounter, I was trembling.
The Bible talks about fear and trembling in reverence to God,
not because I was afraid that God was going to hurt me,
not by any means.
But it was because I was in the presence of the Almighty,
the Lord Jesus, and the power that
He carries from the heavens to bring forth a new heaven
and new earth is tremendous. So the next morning
I stayed up all night and I went over to our pastor's.
He was at a study where he was studying the Word of God.
It was about 6:30 in the morning.
I couldn't wait to get up and go and to talk to him
because the Lord said,
go and talk to Pastor, Pastor Bryant.
And as I went there, he was a missionary,
had been a missionary in Africa for 26 years.
And as I walked into his office,
he was sitting there and his Bible
was open right next to his desk where he did the studies.
And I told him exactly what I shared with you
of how I had this vision.
And I was concerned, why did I step into darkness?
I had all these thoughts running through my head.
Why would I step into darkness when I'm of the light?
And I said, I don't understand
and I don't know exactly what that reflects
on what God's trying to speak to me.
And maybe you've had that, that question,
the times God's spoken to you
through an encounter that you've had with God.
And so I just simply ask, and as I began to ask,
he, he got this little smile on his face
and he looked, and his Bible's already open.
And as, as I walked over he said, Go, go look.
The Lord spoke to me this morning
and told me to underline a passage, just one scripture.
And so when I walked over there, I looked and there it was.
It read in Second Chronicles 16:9
that was underlined, just part A, and it says,
For the eyes of the Lord, the eyes of the Lord
ranged throughout all the earth,
earnestly seeking and searching for those
whose hearts are fully committed to him.
And I just dropped to my knees,
and I begin to weep, as I begin to weep,
because I know I had encountered a heavenly,
supernatural revelation that God was with me
in the midst of all the torment of the past,
the torment, I grew up in a hell home with abuse
and molested at the age of seven and incestuous rape
by my mom at the age of eight and,
and my dad molested me at the age of seven.
The torment and shame and all that.
So I knew what darkness was all about,
and I didn't want to step back into that.
But the reality was there was another man,
a spiritual father in the Lord who spoke to me.
And is name
is Charles E Johnson, and Charles E Johnson,
I asked him the same question. Why would I step into darkness?
And, and he smiled really big. He said,
Because you were commissioned by the Lord
to go into the depths of the darkest of the dark.
And, and God is going to send you
to bring healing to the hurting in a great capacity.
And I begin to rejoice with tears and celebrate
because it's humbling to know,
when you come from a past that's so broken,
that there's a loving God that's going to meet you
right where you're at in the midst of your hurt,
in the midst of your trials. God loves you.
He's not ashamed of you, and he wants to lift you up,
and he'll bring those beams of light,
the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
How beautiful are the feet of those
who bring the Gospel of peace.
God brings peace in the midst of your storms
and the turbulence and the chaos in this world.
Jesus will meet you right where you're at.
Ask him, seek him, and he'll reveal himself to you
because he's a loving, awesome God.
Do not forget, my friends,
as Jesus has encountered the depths of darkness himself,
he conquered death.
He conquered a place called hell,
he conquered the grave,
so that you and I could have eternal life.
Right now you may be watching this and,
Well, that's amazing. That's awesome.
Maybe you've had a encounter, but, like,
I don't know that I know this Jesus.
Listen, the fact that
Jesus revealed himself through a vision to come
and speak to a sinner that got born again,
set free from the darkest of the dark.
I can tell you today you're just one step away, step in unto
Jesus.
As he was meeting me right where I was at,
I was willing to step away because of fear and trembling.
But God met me there to draw me back to himself.
That's the faithfulness of an awesome God.
Today you can know Jesus. You can put your trust in Him.
And you say, Well, I don't know how.
Well I'm going to lead you in this prayer,
but it's by your faith, if you believe
that Jesus died on the cross, you believe that
He rose again, He's a resurrection power
God that conquered all that for you
and I had to be free. All shame, torment, pain.
This Jesus took it on a cross over 2000 years ago
so that you and I can be free from it.
So right now, in the name of Jesus,
just repeat from your heart. If you confess with your mouth,
Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead.
He is the Messiah.
He's a living God who loves you and is a jealous God for you,
and it's impossible for him to make a mistake.
For someone here today, you think you're a mistake.
God's no mistake.
Maybe, maybe you didn't have any choice, like
I didn't have a choice of my dad or my good, bad, indifferent.
Neither one of us that's ever been born
has chosen our earthly father or earthly mother.
But you can choose a Heavenly Father,
and his name is Jesus, to come into your life right now
and make way for you to get your breakthrough
and have a supernatural, glorious encounter
with the living God. So right now say Lord
Jesus, I repent of my sins.
I turn away from all the darkness,
I turn away from my hurt, my pain, my shame,
I turn from that which is wretched in my life
and I turn to you, Jesus.
I believe that you died on the cross.
I believe that you rose again from the grave
and you conquered death,
hell and the grave to give me abundant life today.
I turn my life over You, Jesus,
fill me with the power of your holy ghost.
Fill me with your glory and allow your consuming fire
to burn out all my condemnation,
all my doubts, worries and fears, for today,
I put my trust in Jesus, the Messiah, the living God,
and it's in Jesus name we pray, amen.
My friend, if you prayed that prayer, you are born again.
Now seek after God, hunger after him like never before.
Lay down aside all the things that are holding you back
and seek after the word and get involved
with the fellowship of the body of believers
that are going to help equip you and activate the glorious
God-given treasures on the inside of you in Jesus name.
God bless you.
Thank you for joining me today on Supernatural Encounters.