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    Johanna's Eleven
    Johanna's Eleven
    Johanna's Eleven
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    Johanna's Eleven

    By Brian Warner

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    In 2006, the Spirit told me to remember where I came from. This was during a time when the church in general was receiving very bad publicity, and I was part of the complaining culture. I wanted my granddaughter, Johanna, on her eleventh birthday, to understand our history and the path the Lord had us on. There is no greater thrill than to see your children and grandchildren become a part of the body of Christ, the Church.
    "Brian, remember where you came from."
    This is a recounting of some of the incredible events that brought me to faith in Christ, and led to planting and pastoring a Vineyard Church.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Warner
    Release dateMar 28, 2011
    ISBN9781458091130
    Johanna's Eleven
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    Brian Warner

    Retired Vineyard Christian Fellowship pastor, Christian, ex Gestalt Therapist and ex lover of Humanistic Psychology, avid skier, married with an incredible wife, children and grandchildren,organizational development and executive development consultant for business and industry, avid promoter of Christian church growth and development.

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      A great account of coming to faith in Christ and and operating and blessing others with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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    Johanna's Eleven - Brian Warner

    Johanna's Eleven

    Led by the Spirit

    By

    Brian Warner

    Copyright 1996

    Published by Brian Warner at Smashwords

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1……Prologue

    Chapter 2……X-Ray Vision

    Chapter 3……The Accident

    Chapter 4……The Mantle and Project Place

    Chapter 5……Margy and Binky

    Chapter 6……Mobil Oil Corporation

    Chapter 7……Doug Explains Gifts from God

    Chapter 8……My Friend Don and Mrs. Phipps

    Chapter 9……Caught Up! My Father's Death

    Chapter10……Denial and Opposition

    Chapter11……Childhood Dreams

    Chapter12……The Gift of the Holy Spirit

    Chapter13……Katherine

    Chapter14……Tickertape

    Chapter15……Hand Movements

    Chapter16……The Elder's Wife

    Chapter17……Therapy Ends

    Chapter18……Peabody Border

    Chapter19……Carol and Ron

    Chapter20……English Friends

    Chapter21……First Baptist and Sunday School

    Chapter22……Elim Bible Conference 1986

    Chapter23……The Letter

    Chapter24……Signs and Wonders Conference

    Chapter25……Sunday Evenings and Church Conflict

    Chapter26……Meetings with Ken Gulliksen

    Chapter27……Team Building Contract

    Chapter28……Land of Anointing

    Chapter29……The Lamb is Born

    Chapter30……Calling the Group

    Chapter31……Don Page, the Warriors

    Chapter32……The Melrose Vineyard

    Chapter33……Marriage Visions

    Chapter34……1994 and Toronto

    Chapter35……Sailing

    Chapter36……Tufts University

    Chapter37……Fruit

    Chapter38……Vermont

    Chapter39……Vineyard in Turmoil and Buying the Field

    Chapter40……Sign in the Heavens

    Chapter41……CNN

    Chapter42……Worship

    Chapter43……Greater Blessings

    Chapter44……Nana, Nana Marian, John

    Chapter45……Cheryl's Great Prayer

    Chapter46……Early Resistance

    Prologue

    Just before my granddaughter's eleventh birthday, I felt the Spirit urge me, Remember where you came from. This was during a time when the church was being denigrated everywhere for not being the organization that fit the image Christ intended in scripture. I was part of that complaining culture until the Spirit spoke to me, Brian, remember where you came from.

    Remembering some significant events has led me to understand that the church, the bride of Christ, is alive and well, and it is His will to fill it with all that are called. It is also His will that His body, the church, learn to function in all authority, with all the grace and gifts of the Spirit.

    There is no greater thrill than to see your children and grandchildren in the body of Christ. Even though there may be conflicts and problems as we interact with other people and those in leadership positions, the blessings, and benefits of being in the body, a church, far outweigh any possible losses. The church is being redefined.

    Hopefully, this is helpful to you in understanding the path where Lord has taken us. The chapters with the asterisks, to me, are descriptions of supernatural events.

    Dear Johanna,

    I have been eagerly looking forward to the time that I could write this letter to you, a time when you would no longer be a child, but looking forward to discovering and learning more about where the Lord is taking you in your life. It has been wonderful talking with you about the things of the Spirit. Each time that we do, I always come away from those conversations amazed that the Lord has created such an intelligent, inquisitive, caring and loving granddaughter. I love all our conversations and look forward to many more, but I thought it would be helpful for you to have something that you could take your time and read, and not be limited to only having conversations

    Nana and I love you very much. It seems like this is our favorite topic of conversation, now, how our grandchildren are doing, how they are growing, how bright and intelligent they are, and particularly, you, Johanna. It appears the Lord has given us this incredible gift as we have gotten older. There are some very wonderful things that have happened to Nana and I in our lives. We have had wonderful friends, with incredible adventures around the world. We have seen and done a lot that others have not been able to do. The most wonderful and awesome gift has been the Lord bringing us together, falling in love, marrying, and having two incredible children, Michele and your mom, their growing and the Spirit filling them and leading them to be filled with love, and marry wonderful godly men. Then to have that love give birth to you, Johanna, the first of our grandchildren, is almost more joy than we could handle. It was like all the promises of God being fulfilled in this miracle that love produces.

    I know you like mysteries. It is almost impossible to describe the life your mom and dad have and that Nana and I have without being amazed at the wonderful mystery hidden and kept secret for so long that everyone tries to understand and figure out. What's going on here? People always say to us, What is this? not quite being able to grasp the mystery of our lives. You are part of that great wonderful mystery which has been hidden for so long.

    So the Lord has led me to write down some of the incredible things that have happened to Nana and I in our relationship with God and to share them with you, knowing that he is leading you to seek him out. It is hard for many people to understand or believe this great mystery of our lives, and they scoff at what we know the Lord has done with us and that he mysteriously has given us great love, joy, and power.

    We know you are on an incredible, mysterious journey, with incredible clues to get you more curious. The maker of the universe: He is compelling you. That is what He does

    All our love,

    Nana and Grampie

    For Johanna, Our Grand Daughter, and Our Family in Christ

    by Brian Warner.

    X-ray vision *

    Working as a part time ski repairman in a ski repair shop at Skotch Mountain Resort in New York, it was my third year of undergraduate work at Oneonta State University. Skiing was my love and I had befriended the owner of the ski shop and the ski repair shop at the mountain. Dave was the son of a mortician in Oneonta and owned the ski shop and repair shop. They would often give me a ride back and forth from Oneonta to the mountain which was about 35 miles away.

    One weekend in January, being taken back to Oneonta in their Mercedes, very tired and in the back seat with two others that had been skiing, my head was tipped to the side and down, going in and out of sleep. All at once I was looking at the road under the car! I could see the road passing under the car right through the bottom of the car! Thinking it was a dream, I opened my eyes and the sight stopped but as soon as I closed my eyes, I could see the road again, rushing by underneath. I turned my head from side to side and the view was stationary.

    Where I came up with this test is unknown, guessing that dreams move with you when you turn your head. This went on for several minutes and then stopped.

    The Accident *

    Two weeks later, as a passenger in a Thunderbird, coming back from skiing, on a cold, dark, and rainy night, the Thunderbird ran under a refrigeration truck. Sleeping in the front seat, the refrigeration tank came in the front windshield on my side and over the top of me into the back seat. The driver, a fellow skier and son of a local doctor, was unhurt except for some minor bruises. The truck driver had backed the truck illegally across the highway with no lights on after leaving a local tavern.

    The ambulance was delayed in getting to the scene of the accident, having been told this later. I was in shock and going in and out of consciousness, and close to death by the time the ambulance got to the emergency room. Emergency surgery restored my collapsed lung and x-rays revealed that all but two ribs on my right side had disintegrated next to my backbone from the impact of the refrigeration tank under the truck coming through the windshield and over the seat I was sitting in. The prognosis

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