Openings

– Pastor Rusty – Nov. 21, 2025

I’m a firm believer in “cause and effect”. When I say this, people immediately gravitate to the dark side and go to a negative application. There are positive applications as well. And there are negative experiences that open up wells of empathy, sympathy and compassion in the life of the believer. God takes a negative and turns it into a positive time and time again. He allows soul crushing experiences and turns them into winepresses that release a better version of the wine that you are allowed to host. One could say without these experiences you can never mature. God will take even the worst and dark experiences of our past, bring release and allow you to use it to bring release to others. I know you’ve seen this in your lives but maybe you haven’t fully appreciated how far and how deep this can go.

Ten years ago I had a unique encounter in Titusville, Florida. My wife and I had flown down for a small gathering of sons and daughters of Jack Taylor. Jack was about 81 or so at the time and about forty of us gathered from all over the states. It was a small intimate gathering with friends, pastors, prophets and apostles that we don’t see very often. Some had come in from regions that were experiencing sickness and viruses. Jack announced around the second day of this gathering that one of sons was going to lead us in a healing service that afternoon. We gathered in a hotel foyer that was reserved for this event. A friend named Van walked us through this powerful service. He had everyone that was sick or infirm set in a row of chairs up front while the rest of us were watching from the gallery. He said I’m going to walk you through 5 steps and you’re going to experience heaven. Well, this was interesting, so I thought, “I’ve come a long way so, even though I’m not sick, I’m going to participate with these steps from my on chair there in the gallery.” I don’t remember the first two steps (which is unfortunate), but the last three were life changing. Buy the time he got to the third step he said, “Now I want you to release the captives.” He led us through personnel forgiveness toward those who have brought offense or abuse or hurt. One of the participants said she did not have anyone like that in her life and Van simply directed her to a time in her youth when a specific event took place and she experienced injury. He said she needed to release the captives in her heart. The woman began to weep and release the captive. I thought to myself, “Well Lord, I don’t have anybody like that in my life.” The Spirit of the Lord said, “What about so and so?” I thought, “This is a heck of a time to bring him up!” When I was a young boy, I found myself in an abusive situation and the Lord brought the offending party. The more I thought about it the angrier I became. Finally I said, “Alright, I forgive him. I open the prison cell in my heart and I let the captive go free.” By this time I was in tears. I must have been carrying this for forty-five years. Then Van says, “Now I want to forgive yourself.” I didn’t understand this. I thought, “What is this, some new age psychobabble?” “What do I need to forgive myself for?”

And once again the Holy Spirit pointed out that I had held it against myself all these years for being a scared ten-year-old boy and had not reacted manly when all this went down. Wow! So, I forgave ten-year-old me for being a ten-year-old kid.🤔 Now the tears were streaming and wished I had never accepted the challenge of walking through this healing process. The Van said, “I’m going to pray for you, and you are going to Heaven.” I muttered, “Well, this had better be real heaven and not some smoke and mirrors trick, after dragging me through this emotional swamp.” So, I bowed my head as Van began to pray and immediately, I was caught up in a vision. In the vision I was standing in a field on a rolling hill. Off to my right was a stand of trees a hundred yards away. I could see someone walking toward me from the trees. They were wearing a white robe. They had shoulder length blonde hair. As he got closer, I could see it was Cameron, my oldest son, who was killed in a car accident ten years before. I hadn’t seen him in ten years. His face was bright and full of completeness. He was completely, spiritually intact. He was more spiritually intact than anything I have ever experienced here on earth. He shown with the peace of God. He reached out his hand and wrapped his hand around my wrist. His hand was exactly as I remembered it. In my brain I was saying, “ It’s Cameron, it’s really Cameron!” Then he spoke and said, “Come on dad, let me show you how things work here!” And he started walking me over to the grove of trees when the vision broke off. The euphoria of having been with Cameron in the heavenly realm was unreal. My body was physically drained. For the next three days my head was in a cloud. My wife Belinda had to help lead me around. I want fit to drive. The effects of that encounter to this day. There was an “opening” that has permanently marked my spirit/man to this day. I’ll share more about it in my next post. Till then “The LORD bless and keep you… make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you… may He lift His countenance toward you and give you peace. Amen! Pastor Rusty

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