Pam tells me she wants to get a cap with a Texas star on it. We have been Oregonians, Pennsylvanians, Washingtonians, Tennesseans, and this is our new day. We have met delightful, friendly, sincere people here in Abilene. Pam has said, “We’ve found our tribe.”

As well a connecting with our friends the Bellas and the Israel Prayer Mission, and with our friends the Poormans and Iris Abilene, we are meeting precious Saints from various churches and people in the community. We have connected with a community prayer group and with some of the local pastors. New names are going onto our prayer board!

Iris Abilene is sending a container of treasures to Mozambique with the help of Global Samaritan, which is based here. Along with the students from the Adventures in Mission program at Camp Barkeley Pam and I got to assist in packing pallets with things like computers, TV’s, optical and dental equipment, stuff animals, cloths and solar lighting. Too much fun, and at the same time, very meaningful!

Pam and I receive a fortifying prophetic word from Stacey Campbell as she and her husband were in town as part of the Iris Abilene board and ministered at a local church. To hear Stacey’s wonderful message on the prophetic ministry (starting at about 43 minutes) and her prophecy to Pam and I (starting at about 1:34) you can go to  http://www.beltway.org/media/item/encounter-night-with-stacey-campbell/  

Steven C Johnson

Landing Strip Enterprises

 

[The photos are of Steve taking in the view from Camp Barkley, our bunkhouse, the overgrown rifle range and of Pam at the Mess.]

There are interesting twists and turns in life. The housing we anticipated having in Abilene was given to another missionary couple while we were traveling to Texas. Like Elijah, a 90 year old widow met our needs by opening a room to us and to our dogs Tucker and Jack. We felt honored to share the home of a woman that is a strong intercessor. We had great fellowship and a roof over our head but it could not be permanent.

A week ago we visited with Norman and Angel Poorman who we met in Israel in 2012. They own 1000 acres that were formerly part of the WWII Camp Barkley. We got a tour of the property on the high back seats of a Safari Jeep. What a powerful experience to learn of so many miracles that lead to the purchase of the property! Dreams and visions and audible voices have given details for the process of “recommissioning” the property to raise up soldiers for Jesus! They are linking with Iris Ministries, Bethel Church and the Israel Prayer Mission.

Most deeply impressive was learning that soldiers from Camp Barkley were in Germany to liberate Jews from the Nazi death camps! A book could be written, should be written, on the miracles that have been part of the reactivation of this Camp. We trust that the Camp may equip others to be part of Yeshua’s war of liberation for the Jewish people and all the Nations.

The Poormans graciously have allowed us to stay at one of the bunk houses as we continue our process of settling here. We have enjoyed encouraging the students who are in the housing next to us.

We are meeting new people and visiting churches. We are learning the lay of the land and doing the many practical things that are part of a move. Leonardo and I are working on a book on overcoming strongholds that prevent Israeli Jews from embracing Yeshua. The material will be used in future workshops.

Your prayers are certainly welcome to give us grace and guidance for this exciting and often tiring transition.

Steve and Pam Johnson

Landing Strip Enterprises

Many have joked that for forty years Moses’ wife nagged him to pull over for directions. Father Abraham may have also been challenged by Sarah to pull into a gas station to get steered right. Many others in scripture found themselves wandering – wandering into the perfect will of God.

There are times when we truly seek to follow God but are unsure of our course. In those moments of perplexity, and seeking, we trust must more in the capacity of God to guide us than our ability to make out the map.

Sometimes the leading of the Holy Spirit looks like wandering. Perhaps the time of temptation in the wilderness felt to Jesus more like confusion than being “led by the Spirit in the desert” (Luke 4:1).

In every believer’s life there are wanderings. Patriarchs were nomadic but they were on track.

If your spiritual GPS doesn’t seem to be getting a signal today be filled with peace. Yes, keep asking and believing for guidance, but know the sense of wandering is part of the curriculum for those proven by the Lord!  

Some wandered in desert wastelands,

finding no way to a city where they could settle.

They were hungry and thirsty,

and their lives ebbed away.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

and he delivered them from their distress.

He led them by a straight way

to a city where they could settle.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love

and his wonderful deeds for men,

for he satisfies the thirsty

and fills the hungry with good things.  Ps 107:4-9 (NIV)

 

Steven C Johnson

Landingstripenterprises

 

 

Astronomers know the best time to star-gaze is at night.  Painters know darkness provides contrast for the light. Light shining in darkness is a theme of the prophet Isaiah. “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned” (Isaiah  9:2). 

 

If you’ve traveled much by air you’ve probably taken off in a dark, cloudy environment, broken the canopy of clouds and been met by radiant light.  I love those experiences!  They remind me that whatever the darkness, there is Light unwavering above it all.

 

“The glory of the Lord shone all around them.”  Those shepherds must have looked like deer trapped in a car’s headlights.  One does not plan for a multitude of heavenly angels irradiating the darkened pasture. 

 

In Christ that which is Above-It-All comes down to us!  Later, the baby, grown to be a man, declares, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world”  (John 6:51).

 

The next time He comes more than a few shepherds will witness it. “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first”  (1Thes 4:16).

 

“Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble….”

Steven C Johnson

https://landingstripenterprises.com/