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Press Release: October 2010
Great Thanks to Great Servants of God for Your Responses
I am greatly thrilled and filled with so much joy to receive acknowledgement messages from all of you, both television and radio evangelists across the nation in response to my forthcoming book, Closer Walk With Jesus. I am greatly impressed because you took time out of your busy schedules to send letters of love, congratulation, and encouragement for doing God’s work. May God bless all of you as he continues to use you as a reflection of his glory to the world.
The title Closer Walk With JESUS was not just from the popular song, it was my personal response to what Jesus asked me in one of his visitations. Jesus said, "Deny yourself take your cross and follow me." My answer was, "Lord, I will walk closer with you for the rest of my life." Following this, Jesus came to me and said, "I will be in charge of your spiritual training."
I was so excited when I received this message thinking Jesus was going to take me through a tour of heaven like he did St. John who wrote the book of Revelation. Later, it turned out that Jesus was going to train me to walk in the Spirit, but the training location was going to be in the earthly realm. I am ashamed to admit, that I got angry during the process of my training. Perhaps I still feel guilty about this and I have asked the Lord for forgiveness within my heart. I did not realize four major things Jesus was training me for. First, Jesus was showing me the other side of God, people usually do not teach - the God of corrective actions through chastening and the God of judgment. Second, Jesus gave me a mantle for his message. Third, the mantle that he gave me would define the messages to be delivered to the world. Fourth, to be an effective messenger, he asked me to wear the mantle first. Wearing the mantle was what brought us to a point of disagreement, and I got angry, not realizing what was happening. The way Jesus handled the disagreement was very interesting which I described in the book. He responded with a very soft voice. Then Jesus took me before God, the Father, and I still do not have words to describe this experience that shocked and left me in a state of awe about God. The second volume of the book will start with the account of this shocking encounter with God causing me to fall on my face and wept for two weeks on my knees begging for God’s mercy. It was the encounter when I experienced the holiness of God.
Again, thank you for your responses and may the Lord continues to bless you all.
Yours in Christ
‘Yinka Vidal,
Author, Closer Walk With JESUS.