The Day God called me to Jesus Christ and allowed me to Sing with Angels on an evening in 1972…
As with all things pertaining to the Will of God, all who are ordained are truly ordained by the calling of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. By Our Faith in Him we shall be commissioned and guided by His Holy Spirit to move as was Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26-40. So to answer how I shall use this ordination required by man as proof as a minister of God, I shall use it to Glorify God, plant and water as God shall add to the church daily; such as shall be saved. So shall I speak as God gives me the strength and utterance to speak His Word in Spirit and Truth! To spread the True Gospel of Jesus Christ the Hope of Our Salvation by the Grace of God!
Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,
In all things I try to live the life of a Christian. My goal is to edify, exhort, and fellowship with the body of Christ.
In 1972 I was in the world and a chief of sinners. At that time I knew I needed something new in my life and didn’t know what it was. In reality, I took soft drugs to escape what I thought was reality, searching for something that would lead to life. And actually it was leading to eternal death. Not knowing Jesus Christ my Lord. But by all grace God called me for no man comes to the Son, except God call him. And no man comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ.
So in 1972, I stopped at this little church in Manhattan Beach California, called Faith Tabernacle. Myself and my wife entered the door and upon entry there were about a hundred, hundred and fifty people in the building. The pastor was standing in front, looking at all the people in there and they were speaking in tongues, which I had no Idea what that was at that time. My wife was skeptical and very uneasy for what was happening. I myself tried to keep an open mind, as I was still in the secular world carnal man, in the flesh. Not knowing who or what the Holy Spirit was and what it could do for you.
But I was searching, I mean, really searching. Deep in my heart I knew there was something else to life rather than the sinful man that I was being in the world. So we stayed and I went up to the altar to pray.
To make a long story short, and not take a lot of your time but to share with you the power and the grace of God and how he will touch each and every person if they seek, knock, and it shall be opened (if you seek God. He will answer).
As I was praying and in front of the alter, there were about a hundred other people praying in the room and speaking in tongue. At least I thought they were speaking in tongue or some type of heavenly language. As I prayed many in the room laid their hands on me and started to pray with me and as I looked up I had my eyes closed and I just was in tears seeking God for his forgiveness. Because I’m one of those persons in the world that I really don’t care what other people think about me, because when I believe in something, I take it for what it’s all worth at full face value. As I prayed the other people in a room were speaking at times in using that Lala laaala something and it seemed to be repetitious not true from the heart. I’m talking the spiritual tongue not earthly language like Spanish, Hebrew, Latin etc. as in the days of Pentecost. I’m talking about intercessory of prayer, were the Holy Spirit takes over and talks for you directly to God, His Spirit and your spirit, one-on-one in this spirit; speaking to God. As I prayed, many of the others in the room were fading from my sight. There were many holding hands and had their hands placed on my shoulders, but as the others faded away in the room there were six only, three on my left three on my right. They became as silhouette transparent images, and there was a great bright blue light in front of my eyes and those six people were not speaking in an earthly tongue. They were speaking the heavenly language. As I started praying I lifted up my voice louder and louder as I did the six people beside me and myself were seeing the brightness of the glory of God, our speaking in tongue became as a beautiful singing song. We were actually singing praises and glory as the Holy Spirit came upon us. My prayers along with their prayers were ascending to the throne of God. He was touching me with His Virtue, Glory and Grace. I mean He was literally touching me. His Holy Spirit came upon me like I’ve never experienced, His mighty hand touched me, I will never forget it. Those who were beside me praying, I will never forget them for their prayers were ascending to the throne of God as a sweet smelling savor; we became as “One in Christ Jesus” having all things common singing praises to God before His Throne. The fervor and prayers of the saints availeth much. Their prayers were making intercessory by the Holy Spirit for me. When the Son of God Ascended to the Throne and sat on the right hand of God and gave gifts to men as was said, He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. That’s what he did that day in 1972. He baptized me with the Holy Ghost and fire. I was afterward baptized in water fulfilling righteousness and the putting way of the flesh.
I thank God that he called me to Jesus Christ in 1972 to be a servant for him and to share with others the Hope of Glory Jesus Christ our Lord the only begotten son of God.
The closest thing I can find or heard from my experience is this YouTube message below of Angel Singing in a harmonic background of this video and many others like it. I all I can say is this sound I hear in this video is very close to the “Sound I heard the Day I was Called by the Grace of God to the very Open Arms of Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory” this I shall never forget, nor can anyone take this experience from me. For what I heard, felt and experienced was “not of this world” nor could it ever replace the Peace, sound, harmony and Glory that I felt that Glorious Day! For I truly know Jesus Christ has ascended and is now set beside the Father of all creation, the Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Angelic Host Singing Hallelujah in Harmonic glory
But you know something, I know, that I know, that God really touched me that night. And you could hold a gun to my head and pull that trigger or behead the earthly flesh, for I know that it in my heart all things that the power of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit is a very, very real thing. And there is nothing in this world that could tell me otherwise, for let God be true and but let man be a liar. As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. For no man shall pluck me from the Fathers hand. For to Live is Christ and to die is Gain by Grace through Jesus Christ the Lord!
May God bless all those that seek his name, that he may call him according to his grace through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I could not write a book that can contain all the things God has done in my life since I have been born. For even as a babe, a child of God He had called me to serve Him in 1972 and to this day February 9th, 2014 the date I write this letter to all who may seek the hope of salvation; I shall do so until the His Son comes in all His Glory to take the Bride home.
Shalom,
IXOYE5@theverlastingospel.com
Martin Thurman Sr.
