Many of you here who are my friends now for many years, and you have read my Words and teachings, know of my story and what happened to me.

I only talk about it now, because I pray someone listening who may need this instruction will listen and and be helped.

May you not go down the same roads I went down, for they were long and in many ways very difficult.

I was born in Plainview, Texas to a godly father and mother, who raised me in Church to know The LORD.

I was saved at the age of 12 in The First Baptist Church of Claude, Texas. Later I was called vocally by The LORD to preach the gospel at age of 17.

I went to 5 years of Bible College at Tennessee Temple Bible School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to prepare for the ministry.

I grew up in the Baptist Church and I set and listened to my teachers who taught me about The Bible. Later in Bible School I was taught deeper things about The Bible and about what a minister has to do to minister for God. I graduated from bible college in 1971.

After Bible College, I went out and begin to preach in Churches across America as pastor, and continued on for some 23 years of my life.

I really did not know that I was but a child who did not understand all the things of God completely.

I had listened to other preachers and teachers — and I was trained in a denominational religious training. I thought I was right.

I became a really a smart boy preacher who knew it all. No, I do not mean I was extra intelligent, but I was over-confident and too sure of myself, that I understood all about God. I was downright cocky and stood erect with great boldness.

In 1989, after many years of ministry, my life came apart. I left the ministry and I did not want to be a preacher any more. I washed out.

The same year I lost my marriage and family, and found myself single and alone, having lost my way. I began on the road downward — and away from The LORD.

I was very discouraged with the ministry, and I was hurt and beat up by the devil. I got into trouble and sin and I remember one night I tried to kill myself.

I was full of defeat — and did not like my life, or what I had become.

Oh, at the time I saw it as a way out. But just before I took too many pills, I prayed a four word prayer… I said: “God, please help me!”

God did! He helped me. I stopped short on taking too many pills and I lived through that night.

I wondered around for some 10 years, lost as a ball in high weeds. I really was a total accident looking for a place to happen.

Anyone around me was like those on the boat with Jonah, and when they found out they were cursed just being with Jonah, they threw him overboard. It is a terrible road to walk down — running from God!

I am not exaggerating. I speak this ashamed that I did those things, many many things I hope I never have to even talk about in detail.

After I continued in this state of mind for some 10 years, ‘after I left the Ministry’ The LORD did break in one day and say: “I will not let you live another year living like you’re living!”

I stood there shocked. It had been so long since I had hard Him speak to me, I was totally surprised and shaken.

My knees shook. I said to The LORD, “Or what will you do?”

He did not answer me. He was silent. It went for days, and weeks — and He said nothing.

Then, one night right before Easter of 1999, I went to bed and could not sleep. It was like someone had thrown sand and gravel into the sheets.

I tossed and turned and kept saying, “What is that?”

Suddenly The LORD spoke again. He said, “What are you going to do now?”

“What do you want me to do?” I asked. He said nothing.

This went on all night. Every few minutes He would ask me again, “What are you going to do now?”

Finally, I screamed out in the night, “W h a t do You want m…e t…o doooo?”

Still no answer!

I tried going back to Church, and that did not help. I could not find peace. In desperation, I decided I must go out into my remote desert place where I had a remote compound and a recreational vehicle trailer, and work shop — where I had found sculpting stone in the ground, and where I had been making stone sculptures to sell.

It is some fifty miles from town, and I went to pray, and ask God to help me understand what He was telling me.

I truly did not fully know! I said to Him, “Surely you don’t still want me to preach?”

After some hours of laying on my stomach on the floor of the trailer with my open Bible, The LORD suddenly came upon me.

It was as if the sky fell and a huge heavy cloud pressed me into the floor. I could not breathe! I really thought I was going to die!

In my mind I prayed and said, “LORD, if you don’t let me breathe I will die!”

At the last moment before death, He did let up on me, and I was able to take a breath.

Then I heard Him say to me, “Why have you done this to Me? Don’t you know I love you?”

And then I heard Him crying — sobbing — as if He was broken in heart.

I asked Him, “Why are you crying?”

I was shocked. I really thought He came to kill me for all the things I had done.

I sat up, and then He said more, “I want you to love Me! I cannot make you love Me, for you must choose to Love Me!

If I force you to love Me, it will be Me loving Myself! I don’t want that. I want you to choose to Love Me.”

I wept. It was like I have never experienced before. He wrapped His Arms around me, and just loved on Me for hours. Weeping. I felt His great Love for Me.

I was amazed that He still loved me!

I have never gotten over this event. That night I learned just how much God loves me!

I cannot tell anyone fully all I learned about His Love. It was really wonderful!

Then He continued to talk to me ‘outright vocally,’ for five whole days and into each night. He told me many things, but He never spoke to me about my sins.

He did not even mention them, He just talked to me, and taught me many things from His Heart, and many things about His Word — The Bible.

I did understand Scripture like I had never seen them before. I saw things I had questioned before, and suddenly I understood them.

Each night I went to bed at 10 pm, and he would waken me at 3 am, and say, “Now we must talk more!”

On the third day of this Encounter with The LORD, I went up on the small mountain out in this remote desert place, and up thee I took large stones and built an Altar. (I was so full of joy, singing and happy — because I was free and forgiven.)

I found twelve (12) stones for The Tribes of Israel, and twelve (12) stones for The Twelve Apostles — twenty four (24) total.

I fashioned it and did not break or shape any of the stones, but I just fit them together with a flat top, just the right height to kneel down beside and pray upon.

I got upon that Altar and prayed saying, “LORD, I will go anywhere and do anything You want me to do.

I will even go to India. (I said that, because before that day I had heard so many stories about how ministers had been killed in India, or had their hands cut off and such, I had told The LORD, I will never go to India.)

But, that day, I said, “I will even go to India if You want me to go!”

Nothing more spectacular happened that day. I was very peaceful and full of joy. I went back down to my remote camp trailer and The LORD continued talking to me vocally up into the night till 10 pm.

Each morning He woke me up exactly at 3 am. I sat up in bed to hear Him say, “We must talk some more now.”

And all day, He talked to me.

On the following day after building my altar, I went back up the mountain. It is about a 30-minute walk up the mountain to the Altar.

I knelt down to pray and I wanted to read My Bible, turning to Isaiah 40. I wanted to thank God for the passage that says, “They shall mount up on wings of eagles and run and not be weary…..” but I cold not see the page.

Suddenly my eyes fell upon 41:10, and The LORD begin to read to me, and said: (reading from Isaiah 41:10),
“Fear thou not, for I AM with thee. Be not dismayed, for I AM thy God. I will strengthen thee! Yea, I will help thee! Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My Righteousness!”

Suddenly I was caught up into the air. My body remained below on the Altar, and in my spirit, I was taken up there with Him and I heard Him talking.

I look back now and know I was up there for some nine (9) hours before coming back down.

He was everywhere around me… and the whole top of the small mountain moved around and around as a huge hurricane circling.

The LORD said to me, “What is that in your hand?”

I looked down and saw I yet held my Bible. “It is Your Word,” I said.

He answered, “All your life you have been wanting Me to talk to you, and all this time you held in your hand My Word!

It….. is….. My …… Word!”

He spoke so loud I felt as if I was flying at the force of His Words. Since that time, I can just pick up The Bible and open it anywhere, and it speaks to me.

Time would fail me to tell you everything He said to me, as He continued to read directly from My Bible, The Book of Isaiah — chapter after chapter.

At points I would literally fly backward from the force of the words.

At one point I heard Him crying. I said to Him, “Why are you crying?”

He answered and said, “Oh, My People — My People — they are hurting everywhere. They are as sheep in pens and cannot come out.”

[I know the pens were likened to ‘religion’, that had them pinned up and not free]

He cried, “Someone must go tell them to seek Me, for now I can be found. Go tell them to seek Me now and they will find Me. They must be set free!”

I came back down, and was again standing by my Altar. It dawned upon me that I was now full of Compassion, for His Compassion had hit me, and had remained upon me.

It was amazing. I was so moved by Compassion, I just wanted to go talk to some people trapped, and help them.

The rest of the days, The LORD continued to talk to me about The Word of God, explaining things to me.

Time will fail me to tell all this account, for it would be too long, so I must stop here and just say….. I have never ever been the same since that day! I am like a new man in the way I think.

I eventually went back to town and went to see some of my past friends. When I tried to tell them about the experience, I could not finish, for I would cry.

The words would not come out. I did cry like that for some three months. Literally, people thought I had lost my mind, or that I had a mental breakdown.

One thing that was puzzling to them, was that I was Baptized with The Holy Spirit and talked in Tongues, and moved in The Gifts of The Spirit.

One thing for sure, I have never been able to preach the same sermons I preached before — nor even walk into the pulpit the same.

I have found that the Words are in my mouth speaking, and that all I have to do is show up to preach.

When I get there and look at the people, the Words begin to come into my mouth to speak. I absolutely love to preach now.

I used to be somewhat afraid to get up and speak — but now, it is easy.

The Message just comes as He talks to me, telling me what to say.

I do now tell you these things only to brag, but to glorify My God, Who is so very wonderful. It is certainly not me, for I am a miserable failure and one worth no honor. It is all to His Glory — for He is all and all.

Maybe I can tell you more later. It is getting late now, and this is already long, so I will stop now.

I love you, and I want you to know God is so wonderful, and He Loves us so very much, it is impossible to even tell you just how much.

I give Him all the Glory for all these things!

Postscript

Note: One of the greatest things that The LORD has done in my life and is doing now..

Is YOU — and the Many friends who have come into my life. Our lives are living in Him, Who is our all and all.

I know that The LORD is doing something with all of us.. …… It is not about me — but it is all about Him and He is the one foremost, Who has so many people coming to Him, and are now even His Body.

It is amazing to me to just sit back this morning and behold what The LORD has done.

A few years ago, I owned nothing and had nothing — but today, I have been blessed with 80 acres of land in this desert place [only about 17 miles from the place where I had my God encounter.] and this land is land where God said He would bring many people from all over the world in these end time days.

A place of Healing and Help to His Body, His Church — His very people, of whom He Himself, is the head.

I see Him enlarging the boundaries of His Land — and not all will even actually be here, but will be a real part of it.

Now I see even — on this blog — many people whom The LORD is bringing around Himself and in each other.

I have the blessing of being in their midst.

God is awesome and wonderful and His Ways are past finding out.

Praise The LORD, for he is great and wonderful is His Name! Hallelujah!

 

~ Desert Prophet Ken Dewey
The light will shine in His glory… In the desert.

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Evangelist/ Prophet/ Pastor Ken Dewey is the founder of “OUT OF THE DESERT MINISTRIES“ in Belen, New Mexico, USA.
He writes on Facebook and OutOfTheDesertMinistries.com Prophetic Words, Sermons and Teachings while leading people into true Church settings and preaching in an End Time Gospel Tent Ministry.
For more information and messages, please visit OutOfTheDesertMinistries.com.

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