Comments on: Manley Beasley Project

By: Waylon

Waylon — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:23:05 +0000

I was given the book ” Adventures in Faith ” the late brother wrote. It has honestly changed who I am, While in my first 3 attempts to read it I threw it across the room each time at different points, The Lord compailed me each time to read it again. Upon completing it I am a man driven with purpose for the Lord and the Faith to go forth into the calling God has given to me. I can’t wait to look at Brother Beasley face to face when my day is called and thank him in person for obeying the Lord in his ministry.
God Bless

By: Sherri Campbell (Graham)

Sherri Campbell (Graham) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:42:32 +0000

I knew Bro. Beasley through the relationship he had with our pastor, Ron Dunn of MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church, in the 70’s. Many times Pastor Ron would invite Bro. Beasley to speak at MBBC. It’s such a joy reading through these entries. I’ve read them to my husband, Bill, and it’s such an eye-opener experience especially for me. No WONDER I think the way I do – believe the way I do. With Spiritual Fathers, like Ron Dunn, Peter Lord, Manley Beasley, what ELSE will you be but FULL of Faith, no matter the cost. One statement (this isn’t an exact quote) that I remember Bro Manley making is: “It’s not possible to enter into the TRUE Presence of the HOLY SPIRIT, and leave unchanged.” This ONE statement seems to be what fuels my thinking when we (My Husband and I pastor Life
Bridge Church in Fort Wayne, IN) have a service. I cannot stand the thought of business as usual, nor of chasing the miraculous. We simply go for JESUS and HIS Glory always being central, then try to get out of the way and allow the Holy Spirit Freedom. No wonder so many inspired youth from that era (that sat under Manley, Bro Ron Dunn, and Peter Lord, are now in their 50’s early 60’s, and are directly involved in church leadership.

By: Dojug Grubbs

Dojug Grubbs — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:47:32 +0000

Brother Manley Beasley often preached at my home church, Olivet Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, when I was a teenager and young adult. I even purchased a series of cassette tapes that he had published. Brother Manley was the closest thing to a prophet and a “true man of God”, that I ever had the privilege to meet. I had the privilege of talkiing to him as a young “preacher boy” many times, and he made impacts on my life,that I will never forget. Thank God for Brother Manley, and may we who knew him, re-kindle the fire for revival that Brother Manley preached, and that America so badly needs.

By: Rev John C. Dowden

Rev John C. Dowden — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:19:45 +0000

I am a United Methodist Minister on disability leave of absence. I have served both Baptist and United Methodist Churches as well as a staff Chaplain in a Baptist Hospital. I also received Clinical Pastoral Education training at Rusk State Hospital.
I grew up under the ministry of Manley in the 1950’s at Hillcrest Baptist Church. My family and two other families started Calvary Baptist Church in Nederland. My brother is also a Methodist Local Pastor. Manley has left a
tremendous gift to so many of us. John

By: Jason Robertson

Jason Robertson — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:51:55 +0000

I am one of Jimmy Robertson’s nephews who grew up at Milldale Baptist Church. I grew up listening to Manley while he lived at Milldale and through the years when he would return. My life and ministry has been greatly influenced by him.

Often my dad would ask me when I would be in a crisis of faith, “What would Manley do?” I knew that Manley trusted God and never looked for the route of ease.

Such faith led me to leave Milldale in 2001 and plant a church in Southern California. Many times I have been asked, “Why would you leave the legacy of Millale and move to California where no one knows you, where most churches go bankrupt?”

And I answer, “Leaving Milldale? I am not leaving anything… I am continuing a legacy of trusting God… trusting God for something that if He doesn’t keep His word then I am doomed.”

By: scott price

scott price — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:16:02 +0000

I met Manley in the late 70’s or early 80’s when he was in revival at First Baptist Church of Sapulpa, OK. I made a decision in that revival but it was his tape ministry that meant so much to me. I worked for a few years as a bus driver, traveling across the country, and the CB Radio conversations were so wicked that I listened to any Manley Beasley tape I could get my hands on. After Manley’s death I had occasion to be in Euless, TX and stopped at a service at First Baptist Church and ran into Marthe. She bought my dinner and let me talk of the way Manley had blessed me through the years. She shared some insights that only a wife could, and gave me several more tapes and some literature. I still have many of the materials in my library, “Now Faith Is”, “Dealing with Adversity”, and “He that is Spiritual”. What a blessing to see his life shared in a new work. I hope that the younger generation can be inspired as I was.

By: Debby

Debby — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:41:43 +0000

I had the privilege of being led to the Lord by Bro. Manley. It was in the seventies. My then husband was a music evangelist who was working with Manley in a revival service in Oklahoma. Back when there were seven day revivals and morning services and the revival team was feed at the church at lunch time.

For about two years as I sat in revival service after revival service at the invitation I would feel my heart almost beat out of my chest saying you need to be saved. I had prayed and joined a church as a young teenager who had never heard you had to ask Jesus into your heart. I kept thinking I did that it must be the devil trying to make me doubt. As I remember the day I prayed with my Sunday School teacher I was more concerned with the fact that I had joined a Baptist church and my mother was not going to be happy about that. I made my teacher go home with me to tell my mother, who was a Methodist did not think to highly of the Baptist. But that is another story.

We had just finished the morning service there in Oklahoma and were in the fellowship hall ready to eat. I was about to sit down when out of my mouth came these words,”Bro. Manley if you are saved are you going to know you are saved?” His answer was a simple one, even though I knew the answer, yes. At that time I sat my food down on the table and said then I am not saved. To the shock of all those there. Bro. Manley led me in a simple prayer of repeatance and faith that day. From that point on I have never doubted my salvation.

By: lynn weddle

lynn weddle — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:51:16 +0000

I met Manley as a very young child.Even at this young age I recognized the Glory of God in his life. He literally changed the atmosphere of a room when he walked in.Later in life while in my mid 30’s I Went through a very difficult time.As I prayed and searched I ran across some cassettes and albums of Bro. Manley from the 70’s .As I listened over and over I began to see for the first time in my life that nothing touches the life of a child of God outside of the hand of God. He either performs it or permits it.My life will never be the same.

By: lynn weddle

lynn weddle — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:29:54 +0000

I first met Manley as a very young child.
Even at this young age I recognized the
Glory of the God in his life. He wound literaly change the atmosphere of a room when he walked in.Later in life while in my early 30’s I went through a very difficult time. Through praying and searching I ran across some cassette tapes and albums of Brother Manley from the 70’s my father had.As I listened over and over to these my life was changed .I saw for the first time in my life that nothing touched the child of Gods life outside of the hand of GOD.Whether he performs it or permits it ,it has to come through him first.My life will never be the same.

By: Harold Palmer

Harold Palmer — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:16:24 +0000

What can you say about Bro. Manley. I have never heard any pastor teach more boldly on faith, though he always said he was not a teacher, but a pastor. Fact is I learned so much in what he said…. or was it how he said it, or that he was even able to say it at all. If you ever wanted to see or hear faith just listen to him. He would start off a sermon barely able to talk, and finish stronger than ever. They ask him how he did it…. “I was faithing it” was his answer.