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Transformed as I Trust and Believe God’s Word

Because of the Word I learned in this ministry, I am able to renew my mind and take action on the Word of God so I can find myself in a position to experience God’s blessings.

When I took our ministry’s Foundational Class in 1994, I was taught that the wisdom and knowledge I receive from the Word of God is always the stability I need ANYTIME (Isaiah 33:6).

Knowing this, whenever I am challenged with a situation I remind myself to be Word conditioned rather than circumstance oriented.

This ministry has taught me that Romans 12:1 and 2 shows me the two alternatives I have when forming my mental attitude about a situation:

  1. I can be conformed to the world, or
  2. I can be transformed by renewing my mind.

Once I decide to renew my mind, only then am I able to prove God’s good, acceptable, and perfect will for my life.

This became quite apparent when the company I worked for was bought by another company, and there were massive layoffs. Entire departments were being let go. My coworkers were filled with fear because unemployment was at an all-time high, and they did not know what they were going to do if they lost their jobs. One of my coworkers asked me, “Why are you so calm? Aren’t you afraid of losing your job?”

When faced with the looming fact that jobs were going to be lost and mine could be one of them, I could have conformed to the world and worried over what to do if I lost my job and was not able to pay my bills, or I could be transformed by renewing my mind to what the Word says about God taking care of me.

I honestly answered my coworker, “No, I am not afraid because God is my sufficiency (II Corinthians 9:8), and He knows I need to pay my bills. He also knew that I would be facing the possibility of being downsized and has provided a way for me to escape (I Corinthians 10:13) as long as I trust and believe His Word.”

Instead of sitting around wringing my hands, I took believing action and sent out my resume. I gathered glowing references and even had several high-level executives post references on my executive search Web-site page.

A few weeks later I received a letter from my company’s top-level executives stating that my position was critical to the transition of computer systems to the new company. Instead of losing my job, they were inviting me to stay at least one year with a significant monetary bonus given to me, once I accepted, and another monetary bonus at the end of the transition. I accepted with the understanding that at the end of the one-year period, I may be looking for another job.

Several months later the new company executives offered me a position in their organization. They still paid the monetary bonus I was supposed to receive after the year was up, and I received a 13 percent increase in pay.

Renewing my mind to the Word proves God’s good, acceptable, and perfect will for my life in ANY situation.

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Change Your Mind and Live

As I was growing up, my mom and dad taught me the Word they knew. The principles I learned about unconditional love, tithing, and putting my trust in God carried me for thirty years, until I came to a more accurate knowledge of the Word taught by The Way. Then I got to share with them!

When my dad was seventy, he fell and broke his ankle. Due to a chronic respiratory condition, his pulmonary doctor said Dad’s lungs were so fragile that he would not survive general anesthesia. As a result, they did an epidural to surgically repair his leg. After a week in the hospital, he suffered a massive heart attack. When I went to visit, asking how he was, he said, “Not good. In your vocabulary, the ‘adversary’ has me in his clutches.” I said, “How so?” He said, “Well, they’ve told me they will try to do one bypass but that I probably won’t make it.”

I got out my Bible, read him I Peter 5:8, and said, “This isn’t MY vocabulary, Daddy. This is the vocabulary of the Word. And it doesn’t say ‘an adversary’ or ‘the adversary’ but ‘YOUR adversary’ because it’s personal! The Word also tells you who ‘your adversary’ is. It’s the Devil, and he is looking to devour you! You don’t have to let him take you out, but you are going to have to change your mind.”

I said, “Daddy, close your eyes and get a good mental picture of what I am going to say. I want you to see oatmeal in a bowl, cold, no sugar, no butter. Do you see that?” He nodded. “Keep your eyes closed and now see something different. Think about bacon, eggs, hash browns, cinnamon rolls, coffee, biscuits and gravy. You see that?” He nodded, smiled with his eyes closed, and said, “Yes ma’am, I do.”

“Now, open your eyes.” When he did, I told him, “THAT is how easy it is to change your mind. Daddy, you can think that cold oatmeal thought that you probably won’t make it, in which case you probably won’t. Or you can change your mind, go for the ‘big breakfast,’ and believe to get your need met, whatever that need is. You can only think one thought at a time, so make sure that you are thinking the Word! I know you are seventy, but you don’t have to leave if you don’t want to. But if you want to stay, you are going to have to change your mind!”

I saw my dad the next day right before his surgery. He asked if it would be OK if he gave the little, yellow retemory book I’d given him to his nurse because he thought it would bless her to know the verses that built his believing. Of course I said yes!

That day my father had a quadruple bypass surgery under general anesthesia. He lived for several years after that! My dad was always respectful of the Word I shared with him, and on several occasions he saw God work mightily because he believed what I had shared with him. What a blessing to see God work in my dad’s life to keep him here all those years, all because he renewed his mind to the Word!

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A God of Great Deliverance!

God has helped my family and me to see victories in many situations throughout the years because of the Word of God we have learned in The Way Ministry!

When my husband was mowing a sixteen-acre lot of grass on a tractor, his keys fell from his pocket. After he told me what happened, I purposefully determined to pray to God that we find these keys. Every time I thought of the keys I spoke in tongues abundantly, thanking God that we would find them. These keys were very important and necessary for him to have, especially to lock his shop door where he stored many valuable tools.

Through the Word taught, I knew that it was available to believe God to find the lost keys. I recalled the record in the Word in II Kings 6:1-7 where Elisha had believed God to find the lost borrowed ax head that had fallen into the water while one of the sons of the prophets was felling wood for a new dwelling. So surely God would help us find these keys! I did not become anxious. I kept lifting it to God. My husband and I did all we knew to do, such as raking the leaves all around our house as well as moving things and looking under them to try and locate the keys. On the second day in the early afternoon, having this on my mind, I climbed up on the tractor which was parked by our driveway and sat there on the seat quietly speaking in tongues. As I sat there quietly, Father showed me a picture of the blue fifty-five gallon drum, which was in the yard, and the still small voice said, “Go look under that drum.”

Of course, that is exactly what I did. I got up off the tractor and walked over to the fifty-five gallon drum, turned it over, and lo and behold, the keys were laying as “pretty as you please” right under the drum! I knew this was of God! Not only were the keys there, but I knew that my husband and I had just turned that plastic drum over the day before and raked underneath it and found nothing! Yet, here were the keys! God Almighty can do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think! This was Ephesians 3:20 in living color! My husband wasn’t at home at the time, so I couldn’t tell him yet. I was so excited that I ran over to my mother-in-law’s house, which was just down the driveway, and reported to her what God had done! God cares about every detail of our lives no matter how big or small! Our God is a God of great deliverance!

This has been a victory which I have recalled on occasion to remind myself, my children, and even others what God will do for us when we believe. Revelation is God’s prerogative of course, and we don’t rely on experiences, but the basic principles of believing coupled with the knowledge of how to pray and operating the manifestations of holy spirit are things that anyone can learn. And certainly they are among some of the greatest things I have learned from this ministry, which have enabled me to see victory after victory for which I am very thankful.

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We Have So Much Power!

My time at Advanced Class 2018 was such a blessing. We learn a lot at a class like this because we are there for two weeks. What stood out for me was the truth of how much power we have as born-again believers. For example, in the Foundational Class we were taught that we could pray perfectly—that is pretty powerful! In the Intermediate Class we were taught that we could bring forth a message directly from God to edify the body of believers. That is also powerful! In the Advanced Class we are taught how to operate the other six manifestations. So, we learn about three manifestations in two classes and then six manifestations in one class. These all teach us how much power we really have.

We were not only taught in the Advanced Class how much power we have, but also that we have the authority to use the name of Jesus Christ. In one segment we learned about our power of attorney, which is the authority to act on behalf of another person in legal or financial matters. In the class we learned about the power of attorney that God has given us, which is: Since Jesus Christ is no longer on earth to carry on his business, he has executed a general power of attorney, authorizing us, the born-again believers, as his agents to use his name and carry on his business for him. We take the place of Jesus Christ on earth; we are in his stead. A great verse that shows this is John 14:12. This verse shows the immense power that we have and the authority we have to use the name of Jesus Christ. This was huge for me to understand. I did not even think about it before I took this class. After learning this, I began to think about all the power that I have as an individual.

The class also teaches us about the power of the household. We were shown how the power of the individual believer is maximized as we stand together as a household. In team athletics, the individual greatness is realized in the context of a team effort. We are spiritual athletes, and blessings that result from our individual efforts to live and speak the Word and operate the manifestations are maximized when we stand together. None of us is as strong as all of us.

As I was taking this class and learning about all the power that we have, some questions came to my mind. What do I want to do with all this power? Who do I want to be for God? While I do not have the full answer to these questions yet, this class helped me have parts of them answered. For example, I know that I want to do the Way Disciple program. Not only would this be a blessing because of all the Word I would speak, I would also get to prove God as my sufficiency. I believe the Way Disciple program would also help me find a more complete answer to the question: “Who do I want to be for God?”

Since returning from the Advanced Class, I’ve been determined to apply the Word that I’ve learned. For example, I’m taking action on the Keys to Walking by the Spirit, specifically by studying the Word much. A benefit I’ve experienced from studying the Word daily has been its availability when I’ve needed it during my day. Recently, my workplace was downsizing, and many of my coworkers were let go. I could have easily worried in this situation, but because I had been reading the book Joy and Peace in Believing, verses like John 16:33 were fresh in my mind.

John 16:33:
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Studying the Word daily has definitely given me peace when I needed it the most. Thank God for this class!

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God Can Turn the Ship Around

It was in the spring of 1985, and the next start date for our area’s Intermediate Class had been set. My fellowship coordinator asked if I planned to be in the class. I affirmed that I would be fully registered that same evening. However, there was a small opportunity. At the time, I was serving in the United States Navy, and my ship, the USS John F. Kennedy, was scheduled to be out at sea during the class dates. I knew from a recent Foundational Class that James 5:16 promises “…The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” I let my fellowship coordinator know the need, and we agreed that our God is big—bigger than even a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier—and that I should attend the class.

On the day of the class, the ship put to sea as scheduled for a two-week deployment, but I kept confessing that I would be at the class on time. As the day wore on, the ship continued on its appointed course. Having recently graduated from the Foundational Class, I was reading records in the Old Testament that were written for our learning, especially as they related to believing God. One record that got my attention was Joshua 10:12, where it was recorded that Joshua said, “…Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” The next verse records the results: “And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies….” I figured since God did that for Joshua in that battle and I was in a spiritual battle, He would do the same for me. After all, we had been taught in the Foundational Class from Acts 10 that “God is no respecter of persons.” I kept the mind picture that I would be at the class and continued to speak in tongues as I had been taught, believing that God would come through.

A few hours later after lunch, an announcement came over the public-address system: “Good afternoon, Kennedy men, this is the captain speaking. We have experienced a small issue and will need to make an unexpected return to port this afternoon. The remainder of the cruise has been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date. We expect to be back at the dock by 5:00 p.m.”

I never did find out exactly what happened, but I departed the ship as soon as we returned and was in my seat on time for the first session of the class!

There is a verse from the Military Outreach Retemories set that I have enjoyed over the years that I claimed that day and continue to hold close.

II Chronicles 20:15:
…Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

We serve a loving, powerful God Who never changes. What He did before, He can and will do again. We just have to believe Him and claim the promises we have been taught in His wonderful, matchless Word. I am so thankful for this ministry and how we have been taught to practically apply the Word and expect to see the results!

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I Know God Is Always Near

I have been in this ministry for over thirty years. Do you want to know why? Well, the ministry of The Way International has turned my life upside down, in a positive way of course!

After taking the Foundational Class, I had the blessing and the privilege to benefit from the teachings of the Word, which allowed me to understand many things with a new light because with the Foundational Class:

  • I learned how to read the Bible by myself.
  • I have come to know God and how He works and what He wants for each of us.
  • I learned how to build my believing in God.
  • I learned how to renew my mind and how to believe His Word in order to receive concrete answers to my prayers.

Since then I walk in peace. I do not worry about anything, since I know that He is always near me and that He always answers my prayers as it says in Matthew 6:33 and 34 and Philippians 4:9.

Matthew 6:33,34:
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Philippians 4:9:
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

This great ministry of The Way International has shown me that God, the Creator of all things and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is real, and His Word is living and energetic for all who believe it and put it into practice. We can trust God because He is faithful and just to take care of us in all situations.

That is why, for decades, I have continued to stand steadfastly in this ministry, continuing to grow through all the avenues that the ministry makes available for our personal growth, such as household fellowships, The Way Magazine, Sunday Teaching Services, etc.

With all these things, how can I not love the Word of God? How can I not fellowship with The Way International?

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Freedom from Mental Bondage

One of the biggest things that I have learned by way of the Word of God taught in this ministry is that I am a son of God NOW and that I can walk without any sense of sin, guilt, or condemnation.

I grew up in a denominational church where I was taught that God was both a loving God and a wrathful God, Who judged you by your works. You had to maintain good works—­both to earn your way to heaven, and to stand righteous before Him every day. That’s what my church taught, that’s what my parents had taught me, so that must be the way to worship and stand approved before God. If you didn’t maintain these good works, not only would you not go to heaven, but in the here and now God would either punish you by allowing bad things to happen in your life, or simply withhold His goodness and not answer your prayers.

This denomination didn’t teach the Bible, and I was always very unclear on the standards of behavior I was supposed to adhere to, besides going to church every Sunday and doing my best to keep the ten commandments. I was encased in the fear that I was not good enough for heaven and probably never would be. I also felt that as “good” as I endeavored to be, I would never be quite good enough to please God. But, I didn’t know what else to do since I didn’t know of any other way to love or worship God.

What an eye- and heart-opening time it was in my first fellowship. I heard of a God Who is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. I heard of a standard for truth, the Bible, that doesn’t have just commandments, but over nine hundred promises! I learned that God wants me to prosper, to be in health, to be more than a conqueror. Truth versus tradition—­what a contrast I saw! I had never heard the things of God taught so clearly, so logically, so powerfully before.

I received great mental deliverance when I took the Foundational Class. I learned that because I had confessed the savior from sin, Jesus Christ, that I am a son of God now (I John 3:1,2). I learned that I could know that I know that I know that I have eternal life because I can speak in tongues. I learned that I don’t have to walk in fear, guilt, or condemnation, because I am redeemed, justified, sanctified, and made righteous NOW.

I am ever grateful for the freedom from mental bondage I received by way of the Word of Truth taught by this ministry. Now I can walk as a son of God with power, coming boldly before His throne of grace, manifesting the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation, and sharing His Word and His love with others.

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Delight Thyself in the Lord!

I heard that “the Word of God is the will of God” for the first time in my life in The Way Ministry, and that simple but powerful statement became the foundation of my growth in the Word of God. The Word of God taught in The Way Ministry drastically changed my whole life.

Two of my favorite verses in the Bible are Psalms 37:4 and 5: “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” I never understood those verses before I came to The Way Ministry, but through the rightly divided Word, they became clear to me. I’m very thankful to God for the blessings I continue to reap from applying them each day of my life.

Delighting myself in the Lord put into concretion the desire of my heart, which was to have a brilliant life. At the end of my studies, I wasn’t sure that there would be a job for me even though my parents had done their best by sending me to the best schools in my country at the time. To be able to get a good job, you must come from a well-known family or be acquainted with higher-ranked executives. Thank God, through the teachings I was receiving weekly at home fellowship meetings, I actively started studying the Word, praying with great joy, doing the Word by renewing my mind in any situation, and seeking ways to serve God and His people. Then, I saw God’s mighty hand work in my life! I got a wonderful job that was exceeding abundantly above all that I asked or even thought! It was a job beyond all of my expectations—secretary at the U.S. embassy.

With that tremendous victory in my life because of the rightly divided Word of God, my heart started burning with the desire to give my very best to God even more. And what I experienced is that the more I gave to God in service, in abundantly sharing and tithing, the more I received from Him in any aspect of my life and the lives of my beloved ones. I was very blessed!

I can remember once while enjoying the performance of The Way of Togo dance troupe, I thought in my mind that I would be very happy to work with that wonderful group. It was just a thought, and God brought it into reality! Some years later, the Country coordinator appointed my husband and me to supervise that wonderful group. God always does exceeding abundantly above all that we think.

The Word of God is true and always works effectually in our lives as we decide to believe it wholeheartedly. I experienced and continue to experience many victories, many blessings, and tremendous joy. I overcame and continue to overcome situations with the Word of God I have learned in The Way Ministry, and I’m thankful to God for making it available to us.

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At Peace, Blessed, and Filled with Thankfulness

I am very blessed to have been raised in this ministry. I was taught at a young age to love God and believe His Word. That was just life for me, and I didn’t know any different. In my early twenties, however, I let distractions into my life, and I got too wrapped up in the world. I got to the point where I lacked confidence and drive, and I was not satisfied with the results in my life. I was internally conflicted because I knew what I was taught, but I wasn’t doing those things.

I had many conversations with my parents, and they, being strong believers and Way Corps ministers, had sound advice that pointed back to the Word each time. I had a close friend at the time who had just returned from going Way Disciple. I’d known her my entire life, and after just those six months, she was completely transformed into a strong and confident woman of God. It definitely caught my attention.

Soon after, I was informed that there was going to be a Region meeting put on by our ministry that would last the whole weekend. I hadn’t been particularly social with the household, but it was heavy on my heart to go. I am so thankful I did. It seemed like each teaching that was taught was just for me. I learned about putting God first and eliminating distractions. I learned about who I am as a child of God and that I am more than a conqueror. I learned that the things that I’ve done don’t determine what I can do for God. I heard more and more about Way Disciple and how it’s changed lives for the better. It was during that Region meeting that my focus shifted from wanting to serve and please myself, to wanting to serve and please God. I started serving in fellowship more, I started doing outreach, and I got my head in the Word.

A couple months later, I signed up to go Way Disciple. It was a truly life-changing experience. I grew in so many ways, and it was after serving God to such a high degree that I knew that’s what I wanted to do my entire life. I decided that I needed to go into The Way Corps. I preferred to go into The Way Corps program married, but at the time I had no one in mind. I had no idea when I’d get married—it could be years down the road—so I started moving ahead with my application to apply for The Way Corps. I had no doubt that God would not only meet my needs but the desires of my heart. I just kept putting Him first, trusting that all things would work together for good.

Well, God honors believing, and He honors those who are faithfully committed to Him and His Word. Not long after applying for The Way Corps, my Way Disciple brother expressed interest in me. We were best friends, and we loved moving the Word together. However, I was not willing to halt my service to God just to get married. We kept dating, knowing that I was going to be going into The Way Corps, and not knowing what the future may hold.

Not too long after all of this, my Way Disciple brother called me on the phone. He told me that before we got together, he’d decided to go into The Way Corps; he just didn’t know when would be the right time to apply. He asked me if I’d be willing to go the following year with him as a married couple. I knew that this was the absolute right thing because I went to God. I prayed and trusted that He would work in me to make the right decision. I felt completely peaceful about the situation and I told him yes—I would go into The Way Corps program with him as a married couple.

Now, almost two years later, I am completely at peace, blessed, and filled with thankfulness as my husband and I are on our way to completing our two years of in-residence Way Corps training. This ministry has taught me the accuracy of God’s Word. It’s taught me how to believe, pray, and understand and enjoy God’s Word. There is nothing else I’d rather do for the rest of my life than to serve God, my heavenly Father, Who has withheld no good thing from me; and I’m so thankful for The Way International, which has provided me a great avenue to serve Him.

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Incomparable Satisfaction in Serving God

I came to this ministry at a very difficult time in my life; I was very worried about the present and the future. I was a public-sector employee, recently divorced at that time, with two children living in a relative’s house. My youngest son was with me, while my eldest daughter was living with my mother because my salary did not cover the expenses of my broken family. I questioned what little I knew of the Word of God. I repeated in my mind that if God with His power created man in His image, why did I not have that power, and why was I living such a limited life?

One morning a fellow believer came to me carrying an orange book and told me about this ministry. The title of that book was Power for Abundant Living. I heard about “power,” “life,” and “abundance,” and I wondered how I could obtain that power to manifest it in my life. I needed abundance.

I participated in ministry meetings and decided to take my first Foundational Class in 1992 and to continue to attend the home fellowship. Then I learned principles of health and prosperity, just what I wanted for myself and my family.

I learned that in order to receive anything from God we should believe, and that believing comes from hearing the Word. I learned that the Word is true. I learned countless ways of service, from organizing an event, making cards and banners, even coordinating and teaching in a home fellowship.

Making myself available in service has given me an incomparable satisfaction in serving God. Now I have been faithful for twenty-six years in this ministry, and I have been a household fellowship coordinator for over twenty years; and I can tell you, without challenge, there is no taste of victory. We are more than winners.

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