Dennis and Ruth Nelson
I was sent a wedding invitation from my friend Dennis Nelson and his soon to be wife Ruth. It was way back in 1990 I think? I flew over to Singapore and there witnessed their marriage. It was the first Asian wedding I had ever seen. Back then everyone had several cameras around their neck and took loads of pictures. We have kept up with each other through the years and have met up with each other on occasions in Shanghai, China, where they were posted for employment and now over the Internet as they are back in the States.
Dennis desires to share a testimony with us about a prophecy I spoke over him 19 years ago….
“At least I did not have to wait 400 years like the Jews in Egypt or those in the 70 years in exile….I do not think I would have lived long enough!!!”
I want to extend my deep gratitude for your prophetic word and healing ministry. Today, I proclaim that His prophetic word is fulfilled by those that believe.
In the summer of 1986 after graduating from college you prophesied this word from God: “For I would use in counseling and inner healing and deliverance. But, you are afraid of it…” In 1989 I took spiritual gifts evaluation and my two lowest scores were “Mercy” and “Deliverance.” There was not much within me to fulfill this call. You prophesied: “God wants you to teach the word, to preach, to council, to minister in deliverance and healing and you are running like a scared rabbit…the Lord is telling me He wants to give you a ministry and you are dodging it!…God looks more at our willingness to do things…and that is where you got the problem. You do not have the, “I’ll do it!”…Hiding is not a severe problem, but considering the call it is severe” (God’s word by Rusty Russell).
After turning 40 years old in 2002 I realized I needed to get on with God’s path for the rest of my life. Otherwise, it would pass me by and I would have missed God’s best. So, in the spring and summer of 2003 I became certified to teach Old and New Testament courses. And the following year I enrolled in a Bible degree program. It was during this time that God told me to prepare for His ministry. The one He was going to place in my hands. I just needed to be faithful and obedient to His will.
On a day in 2005 I was discussing this old prophetic word to my Pastor. He asked me, “Why are you not obeying God’s call to do Biblical counseling?” I did not have an answer. This pricked my spirit; although I did not want to go back to school, I knew it was God’s way of “kicking” me in the backside. So through many divine appointments and the removal of earthly mountains I finished a Biblical Counseling degree in 2010. Yet, this was not the end. Just, the end to the beginning, I still needed to believe by His faith.
This past spring (2011) I took the next step of faith by jumping off my own theological cliff. I believed by faith and in the power of God’s word and started by proclaiming healing, liberty, deliverance to all those were in bondage. They, just like me had to believe in the power and authority in Christ’s name.
I now understand a little better when the 70 disciples returned proclaiming that the Demons were subject to Christ’s name. Jesus proclaimed: “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you…” (Luke 10:18-20 NASB).
God’s prophetic word is now being fulfilled. I have begun a Biblical Counseling and Deliverance Ministry within my church. Christ has been showing me how to lead the captives to the freedom that is only found “In Christ!”
I cannot say I am without any fear, because I know there is nothing within me that can fulfill His word. The gifts of Mercy and Deliverance I know I do not have, but I know the One who does and that is all I need. It is only through my faith and willingness to walk on His Highway of Holiness that I can fulfill His word. I know this is not the end but only the first step in many more leaps of Faith. Thank YOU Rusty!!
A dead man, dying daily In Christ,
Dennis J. Nelson
Dennis Nelson D.B.S.
“Seek the things above!” (Col. 3:1)
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Rusty has been in the ministry since 1973. He has served as an Associate Pastor, Senior Pastor of two churches he pioneered in Athens, Ga. USA, and Oxford, England until 1981, at which time he was sent to the Nations in a Prophetic Healing Ministry. Since 1981, Rusty has ministered in 57 Nations holding Miracle Crusades, Leadership Conferences, and Prophetic Seminars. In 1990, Rusty became the Founder and President of Miracle Life Ministries Inc. He has established a Mentorship Program to raise up Prophets for the Local church in several countries including: Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and China. Rusty and his wife, Mildred, are celebrating their 38th year of marriage. They have two children, Jason 29, our grand daughter Abby 4; they have a daughter, Becka, who recently graduated from the Univ. of Florida and is a co-ordinator Consultant in Tampa, Fl.
Rusty travels extensively in Asia, basing out of Singapore for his Asia ministry. Enjoy and be encouraged as you read the testimonies of those who have been healed and changed by Jesus through the Prophetic ministy Jesus has entrusted to Rusty.
Mercy – perhaps not; Discernment – certainly! Leading by pure-grit faith…I love it! Thanks, Dennis, for applying your gifts to a broken world for the purpose of breaking strongholds which results in in freedom, wholeness, and restoration to our loving God.
God uses the foolish things to confound the wise. Thanks Dennis for following the Lord in this leading – you are His champion!
IN CHRIST!!!! Love it Brother! you are safe in Him, cliff jump away!
best,
A great adventure awaits!!! Go in boldness.
Dennis, you were 7 and had the measles, I was asked to take care of you for a week. Faith promise and tithing were just new in my life and I thought, Oh! the money your mom gives me will be just that. I was forbidden to talk to her kids about Jesus, so I prayed for you to ask me about something like that and you did!! You asked Jesus to be your Savior and I knew I had to tell her when she came for you. She said she knew that would happen! Your dad gave me a case of peas from the can co. as pay so I learned to keep trusting – - so have you and Jesus gives us the power and peace to serve Him. Step out! for Him! Love, Aunt Clarice