IT WAS AFTER OVER ONE-QUARTER CENTURY OF EVANGELIZING HERE IN THE USA. THAT GOD ALLOWED ME TO VISIT THE UNITED KINGDOM.

FOLLOWING AN INVITATION FROM BISHOP M. R. THOMAS  TO COME TO THE COUNTRY OF ENGLAND I MINISTERED IN LONDON, BEDFORD, AND SOME OTHER LOCATIONS THERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

WHICH WAS DURING THE COURSE OF A MONTH BACK IN 1998.IN THE LENGTH OF TIME I WAS THERE I MET SEVERAL GREAT MEN OF GOD AND GOT TO PREACH IN THEIR CHURCHES. PREACHING MORE THAN ONCE OR TWICE IN THE SAME ASSEMBLIES.

IT WAS AT BISHOP THOMAS CHURCH THERE IN BEDFORD ENGLAND, THAT I MET APOSTLE LESZ BRITTON, DURING OUR FIRST EUROPEAN  A.W.C.F. CONFERENCE. AND WE BECAME FRIENDS RIGHT OFF.

HOWEVER I NEVER REALIZED BEFOREHAND THAT HE WOULD BE COMING TO AMERICA AND THAT I WOULD BE HOSTING HIM, NOT ONCE BUT TWICE WHEN HE CAME.

WHILE HE WAS HERE ON HIS FIRST TRIP TO THE STATES HE SHARED WITH ME HOW GOD, CAME TO ASKING HIM THIS ELUSIVE QUESTION. LESZ, WHY WANT YOU BE MY BRIDE?

BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER LET ME FILL YOU IN ON APOSTLE LESZ, BACKGROUND.

HE TOLD ME ABOUT LOSING HIS WIFE AND BECOMING A WIDOWER AND WAS RAISING THREE SONS ALONE WHEN I MET HIM IN ENGLAND.

OUR INITIAL MEETING WAS NEARLY SIX YEARS AGO. SINCE HE HAS REMARRIED, A WONDERFUL WOMAN FROM KENYA AND MOVED TO NIAROBI, KENYA. THERE HE SET UP SEVERAL CHURCHES.

HE TOLD ME, "BROTHER WRIGHT, IT WAS AFTER A GREAT NUMBER OF YEARS AS LIVING AS CLOSE TO GOD AS I THOUGHT I COULD BE. WHEN GOD, JUST ASKED ME THIS HEART WRENCHING QUESTION... WHY WANT YOU BE MY BRIDE?"

OF COURSE IMMEDIATELY I REPLIED QUICKLY BUT GOD, I AM TRULY YOUR BRIDE! BUT THAT’S WHEN GOD SAID OH! NO YOU ARE NOT MY BRIDE EITHER. AND HE SAID I BEGAN TO ALMOST ARGUE WITH GOD THAT SURELY I WAS HIS BRIDE AND HAD BEEN SEVERAL YEARS.

HERE AGAIN GOD RESPONDED BACK WITH NO! YOU ARE NOT. BY THIS TIME HE HAD MY FRIENDS UNDIVIDED ATTENTION.

AND SO HE ASKED GOD, IF HE WASN’T HIS BRIDE THEN WHAT EXACTLY WAS HE?

HERE'S WHAT GOD TOLD HIM EMPHATICALLY, YOU ARE JUST MY GIRLFRIEND, YOUR GIRLFRIEND? HE REPLIED. … YES YOU’RE ONLY MY GIRLFRIEND... NOW CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW LESZ MUST HAVE FELT?

AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS SERVING GOD, BY PREACHING IN THE TRINITARIAN CHURCH WORLD.

AND NOW HE GETS THIS KIND OF MESSAGE STRAIGHT FROM THE GLORYLAND? GOD TOLD HIM THAT SINCE HE HAD NEVER TOOK ON HIS NAME IN WATER BAPTISM AND THAT HE HAD ONLY BEEN TRYING TO COURT GOD SO TO SPEAK.

BUT AGAIN LESZ SAID BUT LORD I WAS BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 28:19.

JUST LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHERS,

NEEDLESS TO SAY. AND BEING MUCH CONCERNED NOW LESZ, BEGAN TO INQUIRE AROUND. AS WELL AS GET INTO SOME SERIOUS BIBLE SCRIPTURE SEARCHING.

MEANWHILE HE MET BISHOP M. R. THOMAS WHO HAD RECEIVED THE HIGHEST AWARD FOR HIS MINISTRY THERE IN BEDFORD ENGLAND FROM THE QUEEN HERSELF.

AND WHO BY THE WAY HAD BEEN THE ONLY PERSON TO ACHIEVE SUCH HONOR FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH.

DURING A DISCUSSION BETWEEN THEM SELVES ONE DAY BISHOP THOMAS, SHARED THIS WONDERFUL REVELATION OF WATER BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

AND CONSEQUENTLY SOON LESZ WAS TRULY THIS TIME, MARRIED TO JESUS IN WATER BAPTISM RIGHT AWAY. AND IS HIS BRIDE TODAY.

I HAVE SAID ALL THIS JUST TO TELL YOU THAT IF YOU HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 28:19, THEN YOU ARE ONLY GOD’S GIRLFRIEND. THIS PARTICULAR SCRIPTURE HAS NEVER, BEEN MEANT TO BE USED AS A FORMULA FOR BAPTISM. AND WE ONLY OBEY THIS GREAT COMMISSION GIVEN BY JESUS, WHEN WE ACTUALLY (CALL) ON THE NAME OF JESUS.

THIS IS SCRIPTURALLY CORRECT WHEN WE SAY THE WORDS IN THE NAME OF JESUS… OTHERWISE ALL WE HAVE DONE IS REPEAT THE WORDS OF MATTHEW 28:19 RATHER THAN OBEY THEM.

IT IS SO WONDERFUL TO KNOW THAT I DID NOT HAVE TO TRAVEL 4500 MILES TO RECEIVE THIS REVELATION BUT THANK GOD, I BEGAN TO GET PARTS OF IT AS A NINE OR TEN YEAR OLD BOY, SETTING IN A BAPTIST CHURCH PLEASANT GROVE, ALABAMA.

UNDER A PASTOR WHO AT THAT TIME WASN’T TEACHING IT. BUT I RECEIVED IT (THE REVELATION FROM GOD) DURING HIS PREACHING.

AND LATER ON IN LIFE I REALIZED THAT I WAS CALLED AS A PROPHET, FROM MY MOTHERS WOMB.

WHEN GOD CALLS YOU HE EQUIPS YOU SO YOU CAN PREACH THE TRUTH.

IT REALLY DOESN’T MATTER HOW YOU GET STARTED OFF BUT HOW YOU END UP, SO I SUPPOSE. NOW DON’T LET PEOPLE TELL YOU HOW TO BE BAPTIZED GO TO THE WORD FOR THE RIGHT ANSWER. HERE IS THE BIBLE WAY SO READ AND OBEY ACTS 2:38. THAT IS IF YOU WANT TO PLEASE GOD RATHER THAN TO APPEASE MEN. GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS.

SO IF YOU HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS THEN YOU SHALL BE FILLED.

THEN SHALL YOU KNOW IF YOU FOLLOW ON TO KNOW THE LORD AND TO KNOW HIM, AS HIS BRIDE OTHERWISE YOU, TOO COULD BE ASKED THIS ALARMING QUESTION. WHY WONT YOU BE MY BRIDE?

YOUR FRIEND AND COMRAD IN CHRIST, MAXIE WRIGHT

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