How Spirit Led Life came to be.

On Wednesday, August 23rd, 2000, in the early morning hours, I found myself on a dark mountaintop surrounded by clouds. Suddenly, an angel appeared. She was a very large and awe-inspiringly beautiful being, seemingly made of white translucent light. She looked down at me as I gazed up at her. Then she swiftly moved behind me, her arms reaching around from behind and grabbing onto me. As she lifted me, I felt an enormous sense of peace. We began moving quickly, and soon we were traveling unbelievably fast. There was a large boom, like the sonic boom a jet fighter makes when it breaks the sound barrier. Immediately after the boom, I found myself standing on a beach in a desert. It was nighttime.

To my left, a woman with long dark hair was picking up pots around a large campfire. Four men stood with their backs turned towards me, gazing out at the sea. Directly in front of me stood Jesus. He moved towards me and, when He was about four feet away, began speaking to me in a language I didn’t understand. My first thought was, “Doesn’t He understand? I don’t know what He’s saying.” But that thought quickly vanished. As He spoke, I could feel His words penetrating and energizing my soul. He had an unbelievable amount of love in His eyes, and the energy radiating from him was indescribable. In that moment, whatever demons I had been carrying were gone. The anxiety and bouts of depression I had grown accustomed to in the past were no longer there.

When Jesus stopped speaking, I woke up in my bed. It was morning. The amount of energy and peace I felt was amazing. In some ways, it was as if I could feel everything around me. However, I also felt very confused. I had been an atheist before this encounter, and now I realized that I would have to change everything—the way I looked at life and how I thought. I had no idea how to be a Christian or even how to follow Christ in a worldly sense. I considered visiting various churches and telling them my story, but the Holy Spirit encouraged me not to.

Over the next two years, I grew closer to Jesus and realized that I could communicate with Him through the Holy Spirit. In February 2003, I launched my first online ministry as an apostle. It was called the Christian Church Association. In late 2005, I felt led to change the name of the ministry to The Body of Christ United, as many of our member ministries weren’t necessarily churches. At its dissolution in 2007, The Body of Christ United had over 330 member ministries and churches in 39 countries. My wife at the time refused to travel to the countries the ministry required us to visit. After praying about it, I made the decision to dissolve the ministry. Our Lord Jesus assured me that it was okay, and I didn’t have to continue.

I was young and lacked life experience then, not realizing that He would have wanted me to keep the ministry going. As Jesus respects free will and understood my situation. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time in prayer, getting closer to Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit, and even angels. Back then, I knew one voice through the Holy Spirit. Now, I can determine if a voice is coming from the Father, the Son, or ministering angels. I’ve learned a lot more about spiritual warfare, far more than I knew then. They say wisdom comes with age, and I have far more wisdom now than I did with the previous ministries.

In a world that is technologically far more advanced, the goal of this ministry, is to lead souls to Christ and convert the religious into the spirit-led. Any living, breathing human being who accepts Jesus Christ as their personal savior can also receive the Holy Spirit of God, through which Jesus, God, and angels can minister to us and guide us. Many confuse a relationship with Jesus Christ as being religion, but it’s not the same thing. Religion involves rules and doctrines we live by because we read or were taught them. Being spirit-led is about having a relationship with our Savior and our Creator through the Holy Spirit of God.