Walking Out Your Vision
Part 2, June 13, 2010
Who am I?
Patricia Adams, Pastor
When the Lord lets me begin to share some of the wondrous things He has done in me and my life with others, I feel a tremendous excitement and joy inside to the point that I have to control and contain my enthusiasm. Otherwise I would pour out so much at one time that it may not make sense to the listener or reader until I slow down and put everything in order. It reminds me of a glass, full to the top with the new wine, to the point it overflows, but too quickly shared and it begins to spill out and slosh all over. It’s still good but its better sipped a little slower and I don’t want any of the preciousness lost because I didn’t take the time to put the information in proper order. As I begin to share more in my blog I will take it at a pace where I feel the peace of God and knowledge that the time is right to continue.
Just a little about myself, even though it dates me, we gain wisdom with age. It’s hard to compress all my years of experiences with the Lord into just a few paragraphs but it’s important to know my calling and vision is not a youthful exuberance but based on a true, long lasting and still growing relationship with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the person of the Holy Spirit.
I’d always felt the hand of God on me as a child but I didn’t have my first experience with Jesus, meeting Him face to face and hearing His voice speaking to my heart, until I was a teenager. The love I felt coming from Him to me was like nothing I’d ever felt before. Even my parents couldn’t love me that much and they did love me. I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues in 1976. After growing up in Presbyterian and Baptist Churches I joined a spirit filled Charismatic Church called the Rock Church. I served in a ministry of that church for five years that went to prisons, youthful offender homes and institutions and homeless shelters. It’s always so wonderful watching the hand of God transform lives.
I’ve sang in choirs and musical programs in every church the Lord sent me to. For a while my daughters and I sang as a three part harmony trio in churches near our home. I feel free when I’m worshiping in song although I’m not a soloist except in my own prayer closet. I’ve owned my own businesses, held a professional license, managed business offices for others, and have been employed by and served in other Christian ministries for many years. I graduated bible school in 1998 and was serving the ministry I sat under in any capacity they needed, when the Lord gave me the call to pastor the church called The Anointing Church. I was ordained as a pastor in 2002 after the Lord had sent miraculous confirmation of the calling He gave me that I’m now “walking out”.

About the VISION
The VISION for the church shows me this is not church as usual. All the preparation the Lord has done in me and in my heart over the years shows me this is a church that will be orchestrated by the Lord Himself. All my trials and paths I’ve had to walk since He has given me this calling is to make sure I do things His way and not my own. I’ve had to walk paths where I didn’t want to go but in knowing the leading is from the Lord I always had a choice to follow Him or take the path everyone else is traveling. I’ve had to really learn how to hear Him, how to know His leading and wait for confirmation of the next path I was to take. It can be really challenging to learn how to recognize the difference between the confirmation of a path and deceptive pressure to take you in the wrong direction. When you cry out to the Lord and say “Thy will be done, not mine”, then be prepared to do it His way. I could have at any time taken the reins out of the Lords hands and started the church in any location and stood back and said, “ok Lord now bless it please”, but that’s not my commitment to Him. I don’t want an “ok blessing”. I want what I saw in that VISION. I saw a church that when you walked through the doors it was as if you’d just stepped into the activities of heaven feeling the Holiness that only comes from the presence of God and surrounded by angels at work and saints watching from the sidelines. Once you walked through the doors you were under the protection of the Angels at the door and the mighty hand of God inside. I could feel the peace that passes all understanding and the joy of the Lord where all the worries were left outside the door because you knew you were in a holy place where you could get the solution and answers to so many questions. If you didn’t get the answers that you understood, you received the assurance that the solution would come by divine intervention in your behalf or the behalf of your family and you only need to Trust Him to work the situations out for you. There is a price to pay for the answers and solutions but we were all willing to pay it. That price is repentance, receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior then listening and obeying the voice of the Lord your God by the Holy Spirit. In the VISION many were afraid to be in the church or to seek the Lord for their issues. That fear was the realization of the Holiness of God and the unveiling of the secrets that held them in bondage and needed to be repented of. The sins revealed were not hammered accusations but were instead the inner revelation and remorse of the things they thought were hidden to everyone. The Lord requires us to acknowledge our wrong, repent of them and receive Jesus as Lord and then forgiveness and inner healing flows so freely. The heavy weight of all the hurt because of our failures and failures of others in our lives that bred anger, hostility and resentment was removed and the joy and compassion that is Jesus Christ my Lord began filling their hearts as they began to laugh, cry, dance, sing and worship finally feeling the freedom in the Spirit they have never known before and is promised to all of us. The sanctuary was filled with people seeking the Lord for direction in their life, healing for themselves, family and friends. Many were there just to honor Him and thank Him for being the Lord of their lives. My job was to help people to find Him, encourage the ones who were afraid to enter in, show people how to worship and to admonish all that if you seek direction and answers and receive it then the solution comes when you follow Him. Never take God’s word, written or spoken lightly even though you have a choice to take His direction or not. (2Peter 2:20-22). At the end of the service when the Lord was ready for us to leave this part of heaven and return to our lives the doors swung open wide and we were sent out to do all we were instructed to do and share our experiences with the Lord for all who were hungry for His touch and to make hungry all those who needed Him and bring them back the next time. This is REVIVAL. This is lives being saved and changed by the power of God. This is the way church is supposed to be but God HAS to be in charge before He will show up. I want real REVIVAL. I want God free to show me all He wants to do for His people. I want to see real changed lives. I want real true WORSHIP from the heart where He will inhabit our praises and come and sup with us. I am hungry for all that God wants to do in this church so I wait for His timing but I believe He is mounting an army of believers who want the same thing as I do. I’m waiting on the confirmation that His timing is NOW. I’m ready when it comes.

Walking out your Vision

Walking Out Your Vision
Part 1, April 6, 2010
Patricia W. Adams, Pastor
The Anointing Church

Habakkuk 2:2 (kjv) "And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it."
As the Lord told me to, I wrote the vision He gave me and share it with anyone who will listen or read it. When He gave it to me I was expecting to go from His word revealed, confirmed to me by other believers, to the fruition of the vision and I began walking toward it expecting the Lord to open the necessary doors. He also gave me Habakkuk 2:3 (kjv) "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie though it tarry, wait for it: because it will surely come , it will not tarry."

I didn’t realize this wait could take years. Even when it takes more time than we anticipated or expected, we still must wait expectantly as if it will come to pass this very day. We must prepare continually, be obedient to the voice of the Lord our God and go and do what ever He calls us to do in the mean time, never giving up hope nor letting our guard down and watching in the ready position for the time when the door has opened for us.

Many of us have a calling and vision of what the Lord wants us to do. Bible School taught me that if the calling and vision is beyond your own ability to bring it to pass and for it to come to pass would take the hand of God, it probably was given to you from God. therefore. never take it lightly. God does His work in His time and days of preparation, though they be many, are never wasted so we must stay vigilant, keeping our lamps trimmed and staying daily at His feet.

I wanted to use this blog to share some of my experiences while I wait, in hopes that it will encourage those of you who are also waiting on your visions and callings to come to pass and letting you know you’re not alone. My days of preparation and stepping out in faith, believing God, include this web site, ministry address and this blog to continually share the vision of what God is getting ready to do.

I have approached the old owners and the new owners of the building the Lord sent me to, on more than one occasion trying to see if the doors would open up to me, without success. A few times I attempted to start the church in locations other than the building the Lord sent me to only to have the Holy Spirit make it crystal clear not to. This must be done in God’s timing and God’s way and He will make it clear when I can go in and posses the land He promised. What is so different about this church that God will build? Why is it taking so long to come to pass? This will not be church as usual, this will be REVIVAL.

Welcome!

Welcome, my name is Pastor Patricia Adams of The Anointing - Church.

I want to share my heart with you in this blog.

Please stay tuned for more from my heart and God's Word.

God bless you~

Pastor Patricia