2007 marks a very special year for our ministry.   This year is my 30th anniversary in full time ministry.  I was saved when I was five years old and filled with the Holy Spirit at eleven years of age. I got it the old fashioned way, where I laid on the floor and cried out to God to fill me with His Spirit.  One mother was on one side of me saying  "hold on"  another mother on the other side saying "Let Go". I didn't know whether to hold on or let go, but in that moment the Holy Spirit visited me and filled me to overflowing with the evidence of speaking in heavenly tongues.  I was never the same again. 

 

In all my years of knowing God,  I have never backslidden.  I haven't lived a perfect life, no one has done that but Jesus.  But I have never intentionally turned my back on my Savior and my Lord.  I have done my best to live holy before Him .  God has been faithful to keep me.  He is a wonderful God.  He will keep you if you want to be kept.

 

I just read some statistics concerning ministers in a book written by David Ravenhill, the son of the late Leonard Ravenhill.   Less than 10 percent of ministers who started out in their 20's are still in ministry at the age of 65.  That is a sad statistic. 

 

I am determined despite of what is going on in the body of Christ right now, to hold out to the end and to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the gospel of the Kingdom until I die.    I will not be swayed or discouraged regardless of what is happening around me.

 

We must in this hour, keep our eyes on Jesus.   Get our eyes off of people.   We must be accountable to our local pastor and to others that God has put in our life.  Accountability means that even when I'm wrong, I don't leave my accountability, but I accept the correction and remain accountable and submissive.  I must keep my intimacy with the Lord and obey the word  and the voice of God.  And I must keep my word, even when it hurts.  I must walk in love and fulfill my purpose.

 

As the Lord wills, it would be wonderful to serve Him  full time for another 30 years.  And at the end of it all.... it matters not how many people knew who Helen Trowbridge ..... How many television shows I was on, how books I wrote, how many conferences I spoke at... it only matters if He knew me.  They came to Jesus and said, "we healed the sick in your name, we cast demons out in your name"  and Jesus said, "depart from me ye workers of iniquity, I know ye not".  I just want Jesus to know me and know my name and hear Him say, "Well done thou good and faithful servant."

 

Please pray for us this month as we are in Spain for three weeks on a missions trip.  Pray that souls will be saved and lives will be changed.