Jeff,
I read your bio in 1995 during a time of fierce alcoholism. I hold the record for women in Pima County Arizona for the highest blood alcohol content who was still walking and talking, over .6 (point 6, not point 06). I was always in the hospital with .4s and .5s. They'd hook me up to machines, I'd dry out and do it again.
I remember those days as if it happened to someone else. I credit your book as being an inspiration. I credit God for my health today. What pasts we've had!
Hope you're being blessed in life today.
In Christ,
Lyndaleen
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I have felt compelled to email you and I am not sure why the prompting but I know everything is in its proper season and in this moment I will be obedient to that prompting. I have no clue where you are in your walk or life but I do know that I am to encourage you. I can remember meeting you the 1st or 2nd time you came to Pastor Love’s congregation in Houston Texas. I brought my children back to where you were signing pictures so they could get a signed picture. After you signed the picture, you looked up and allowed me to look all the way into your soul through your eyes. What I saw was the heart of Christ and knew I was seeing into a pure heart of love for the Lord. I saw the sufferings of Christ in your eyes as well. I didn’t understand but for the first time in my life I was looking into the eyes of Jesus, which was amazing as I had come from a Godly heritage and been surrounded by believers my entire life. You were such a surrendered vessel that I did not see Jeff Fenholt but I saw Jesus. I didn’t want to break from the gaze but knew I must go for there were others waiting. Your witness in that moment put a goal in my heart to be so surrendered to the Lord that when people looked into my eyes, they too would see Jesus. I can tell you Jeff that to walk in that level of surrender requires great suffering. I am sure that you have suffered greatly, your name and witness maligned, your loved ones forsaken you at times, and you have walked alone many times during the years. It is inevitable if we are to have the very heart of Christ that we will feel the greatest of pain for we experience Jesus’ very heart. Jesus was judged, condemned, maligned, mocked, and felt the hearts of those around Him and He chose to willingly embrace those sufferings. I have no doubt that you have experienced all of these. Know that in the crushing Jeff, you exude a sweet fragrance of worship to the Lord that has pleased Him and you are a true worshipper that worships in spirit and in truth. Whatever place you are in spiritually, know that you have made a difference in this world but more importantly, your worship has touched the very heart of God. Your life has made a difference in a most profound way and though your anointed voice touched many, it was your yielded heart that impacted me. May God bless you abundantly in this moment and pierce your heart to the very core and fill you with His love in a way that satisfies your deepest longings. Thank you for being a yielded vessel in the moment that I needed to experience the love of Christ…build up your heart my friend…God will fulfill the destiny He has put on your life.
Father, I come before you and lift up my brother Jeff to Your Holy throne. Fill His heart in the deepest parts that only You know of. Give Jeff divine direction of where You are calling him in this day and this hour. Remove any wrong focus that the enemy places before Jeff that keeps Jeff’s focus upon anything that he is not called to, even if it appears to be good causes. Heal any areas where his loved ones and believers have brought injury or where they have raped the anointing you placed upon his life, even when it was done without knowledge. Bathe Jeff in your endless love that His joy may be increased to overflowing. Allow Jeff’s worship to burn within him such that he will release it back unto You Father. Keep his heart safe from the enemy and bless the fruit of his loins that Jeff will be known as blessed to all who encounter him. Keep strong Jeff’s testimony that Your love will abound in Jeff and his love for You will overtake those who witness it…that even death cannot touch his witness of his love for You. I pray and seal all this in Jesus’ name, amen.
Revelations 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Blessings,
Rebecca |
Jeff,
I remember hearing you sing "Hosanna" on TBN as a child when my mother would watch it. I ran from God's call for many years. But I always remembered being floored by the passion in your voice as you sang. I've often thought about the way you sang it, even in my darkest times. Now I've completely surrendered to our Lord Jeshua and and life is more magical than ever. Thank you for being a part of my journey.
Julie |