Our Inheritance:  The Nations

by Pastor Stacey Carver

"The time is come for thee to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe"

(Revelation 14:15).

 [Left] Pastors

Stacey & Sophia Carver

pastor the Harvest Time

Church International in

Madison, GA and are a special part of the family

of A Great Love.

Missionary Lemuel Conner & Pastor Stacey Carver

   First, I would like to say how much I appreciate Sister Bobbie Jean.  She has been such a blessing to me and to our church.  I look up to her as a spiritual mother.  She has helped me so many times and encouraged me through some tough times in the ministry.  I am so drawn to her because of the love of Jesus that flows through her, and also because of the power and boldness that she ministers with.  I am so thankful that Jesus has placed her in our lives and I appreciate her for all of her help.  Sister Bobbie Jean, you are a blessing to us!

   As a pastor with a local church in Madison, Georgia, let me share with you our experience of God’s effectual working in myself, and His believers here ~ a heart for the nations.  I testify to you of the precious flow of the Holy Ghost into this local church, out to the nations, and back again!  And, as is the way with God, that which comes ‘back’ is pressed down, shaken together, running over with an ever-incresing measure of His glory!

   A turning point was in store for us with the arrival of a man named Lemuel Conner. I first met Lemuel Conner in 1997, when he attended a meeting at our church.  We had the same interest:  SOULS! 

   Subsequent to Sister Bobbie Jean’s return to minister amongst us in 1998, Lemuel  shared with me that he had been diagnosed with a very serious liver disease, hepatitis C, due to his past alcohol and drug use.  He was becoming so chronically ill that he came to the point he was no longer able to work; completely incapacitated!  His skin had turned a yellowish green tint, and his eyes likewise were yellow.

    I told him that Sister Bobbie Jean was coming, and that she was a prayer warrior who had power with God.  He came to be in the service in which she ministered. 

     During the service, Bobbie Jean received a Word of knowledge from the Lord, and called out, “Someone is here with a liver problem!”  Now, realize, we had not shared with her about Lemuel’s condition!  Lemuel responded, and ran down to the front, presenting himself, and she told him to raise his hands. She then proceeded, in Holy Ghost boldness and anointing, to minister to him.  He went out in the Spirit, as the Lord continued to minister to him. 

     He called one week later, with the report that ALL symptoms had vanished, his color was COMPLETELY back to normal and without the aid of ANY medication, his strength had FULLY returned and he was able to return to work full time with no more problems; and he has had no recurrence in ANY measure to this day!  We give God all the PRAISE, all the HONOR and all the GLORY!

     Lemuel is going stronger than ever.  We know now that God was knitting our lives together for His purposes, which include missions work in the nations.  Lemuel lives in Mae Sai, Thailand, and has been a missionary there for the past year and a half, and God has recently opened the doors for him in Burma as well.  I have had wonderful opportunities to join him and help in these works.

     Thailand is composed of approximately 62 million people; 95% Buddhist, 4% Muslim, and less than 1% Christian.  The Lord has shown us that all these precious people need is a preacher to preach the Good News of the Gospel, Jesus Christ, to them.  They are so hungry and ready to receive.  There have been over 800 souls born again, and the Holy Spirit has filled hundreds.  We have witnessed the Holy Spirit confirming the Word of God with signs and wonders following.  Many blind eyes, deaf ears, crippled, aches, pains and fevers have all been healed.  It is just like Jesus said it would be in John 14:12, “He that believes in me, the same works that I do you will do also and greater works than these will you do because I go to my Father.”  This is all new to these Buddhist people.  BUDDHA NEVER HAS HEALED EVEN ONE, SO WHEN THEY WITNESS THE HOLY SPIRIT BEARING WITNESS THAT JESUS IS ALIVE AND THAT HE HAS POWER TO FORGIVE SINS, HEAL AND DELIVER, THEY QUICKLY RECEIVE!!!!

   One night at a crusade meeting with about 300 people, speaking Thai, Chinese, Akka, and Lahu were in attendance, God told me to preach short, and He would do the rest.  I spoke for five minutes, and found that five minutes of John 3:16 was enough for the Holy Spirit to bring 175 to receive salvation in Christ, Jesus!  Glory to God!

     We preached and taught God’s Word to 400 people daily for 3 days.  The Holy Ghost FIRE was all over the place!  The Holy Ghost moved so greatly, that some falling under the power of God wept until puddles of tears pooled on the concrete floor.  It was the sweet Holy Spirit, doing a work that only He could do!  Many were out in the spirit for 1-2 hours, and testified afterwards of seeing Jesus, and He spoke to many, telling them that everything would be ‘O.K.,’ and that He would use them to help spread revival in Burma.  The pastors there said that they had never seen the Holy Spirit poured out to this degree!

These precious people will never forget that day, and the words that Jesus spoke to them.  I am the one that was so blessed to be allowed to see how much Jesus loved these people, and to see how much they love Him!

     On May 25, 2003, in Fang, Thailand, the Pastors form Fang, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and other places came together in unity for the first time ever to pray, holding a service mainly dedicated to prayer called “Bless Thailand” with over 1500 in attendance.  The Lord used Lemuel, and gave him favor with the pastors to bring this together. Three days prior to this prayer service, we held conferences for the pastors and their members. With the help of supporters in America, we were able to provide for the pastors by providing hotel rooms and meals during this conference!  Many pastors and church members received the baptism of the Holy Spirit while at this conference!  We were blessed to impart to them, to build them up in the faith and encourage them to go and to share Jesus with others!  We know Thailand will never be the same again.  To God be the Glory!!  These pastors agreed that once a year they will come together for the “Bless Thailand” conference to PRAY FOR THEIR NATION!

     Ministering internationally has stirred up so many things in my spirit that I have then been able to bring back to America, and share with our church and others.  People in America are awakening to the cry of the nations, to people who are truly hungry for the Lord.  So many have still never heard of Jesus!  This is stirring us here in Madison, Georgia, to an even greater fervency to do more ~ especially to PRAY MORE FOR THE NATIONS! 

     When God intervened on behalf of Lemuel, miraculously healing him from a life threatening condition in 1998, He was also intervening miraculously on behalf of nations ~ people whose lives this man, Lemuel, was to touch with the Gospel, and with the demonstration of the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit through this instrument and others that God would join together with Lemuel FOR THE NATIONS!