Dear Beloved Reader,
It is with a very sad heart that I announce the passing of a true Apostle, Prophet and Spiritual Father in the Lord, Rev. Wade Taylor.
I had the blessing of knowing Brother Wade for over 24 years. God brought him into my life at the most needful and perfect timing. It was in that year, God began to truly draw me alone with Him. I was having sweet fellowship with Him and learning His ways and beginning to understand what it meant to be a "prophetic voice, and develop an intimate relationship with our Lord."
Contrary to that, while I began being a Pastor in new church we started in CT, many of my friends and Pastors said," you really can't be prophetic, and you can't spend that much time with the Lord. People are dying and going to hell so you need to be out there doing that. Of course that is the Gospel message, but part of it. There is another part of becoming a Bride married to the Lord in intimate fellowship.
I had a great choice to make on what I was going to do with my life and ministry. At that time my spiritual covering said, "I had to stop being prophetic. I couldn't sing spiritual songs, or have services over 1 hour and 45 minutes." I either had to conform to what they wanted or "stop the growth God was causing in my life."
I made the choice to continue to pursue the Lord. This caused my "covering pastor" to remove the covering and credentials from us, and then unfortunately speak evil against me and the church. God had a purpose in it however. After much prayer and allowing God to heal my heart and not let it get hardened, I got a sure Word of the Lord. He said," Henry I am sending a spiritual Father to you and He will love you the way I do." You will know it is Him because you will see my love flowing through him to you and He will help you grow in Me."
That is a paraphrase of what He told me because it was such a long time ago. About 2 months after that direct Word from the Lord, I was invited to go to a place called Pinecrest Bible Training School in Salisbury Center, NY. I had never heard of this place, but Ifelt led to go.
Beloved readers, this place is in the middle of no where in upper NY state. It is in the middle of a pine forest. As soon as the car went on the dirt road in the entrance I felt the "manifest presence" of the Lord. The Lord's presence was just there. It was as real as I had ever felt him before. Somehow I knew I belonged in this place, and it was what my heart was searching for.
They were having a Pastor's conference and I was invited to go. Brother Taylor began to speak and I felt the Love of God and a "quality of the Holy Spirit," I had never seen or experienced before. There was such an imparting of life in every word he spoke, I burned on the inside with the Presence of the Lord. He taught the "deep things of God." That Pastor's meeting caused such a hunger in my spirit that I had to buy His book, the Secret of the Stairs, almost all His cassettes to glean from this Man of God. That meeting changed my life and direction for my walk with God forever.
My first direct meeting with Brother Wade was in the most subtle way you could imagine. I had just gotten my room there and checked in when this man came up to me in a warn out suit, but with the biggest smile. He said, "Brother do you have everything you need. Do you need any extra blankets or can I get you anything." I said, "no sir I am just fine and have all I need." This encounter happened before the first meeting for the Pastor's.
People came up to me that I knew there and said, "Do you know who that was?" I said, " No, I don't have a clue." They said, "that is Brother Wade Taylor." I said, "you are kidding, I would have never known." All the other ministers that were "so called" Spiritual giants you knew they knew they were giants. They had entourages around them, dressed in expensive suits, but not this man of God. He was simple, humble, and full of the Love of God like I had never seen. You would have never known He was the President of the Bible Teaching School.
Finally, I got a chance to meet him because I needed counsel on what to do now that we didn't have credentials anymore. I didn't go to meet him to get credentials either. I didn't know they gave them to anyone plus I wasn't a Bible Student there to get them.
I will never forget that first meeting with Brother Wade. He said, "Welcome Brother Henry and began to say a few words to me and the brother that went with me to get to know me, when all of a sudden He and we were caught up in the Holy Spirit. He began to speak into my life with such an authority and power of love I never experienced before. The Word from the Lord from His mouth didn't speak to the surface of me like when other prophetic people had spoken, His word from God was a Word in due season. It spoke to the depth of my being and changed my life forever.
I was blessed over 24 years to be able to know Brother Taylor not as well as others, but He was always there for me when I needed his counsel. It seemed like at least 2 or 3 times a year I would call Him for His Godly wisdom, and He truly each time gave me a true word from the Lord. He was a wise Spiritual Father because he never tried to control anyone, but bring forth the wisdom and mind of God to whatever your need might be. He was such an encourager and spoke the truth in love.
He said to me that day something I never forgot. He said, "Brother Henry, many see me as a Spiritual Father in the Lord. This is not something I ever sought after. But it is something that God told me was necessary I needed to be for many who will need it, and it iswhy this school is here. He said, Henry when you truly have a spiritual substance from the Lord you never have to demand people to submit to that gift, but people will seek you out, and willingly submit to the work of God done in your life to truly grow closer to God." He said, we provide credentials for those who the Lord Himself is raising up and you are one of them."
He went on to tell me that he never "sought out people" to be "under" His ministry, but the Lord told him to provide a spiritual "covering" for those the Lord was drawing unto Himself. He said, "that is what I do." He said, "Brother Henry, you are truly a man of God and I want to offer those credentials to you and be part of Pinecrest Ministerial Fellowship if God desires you to be. We are here for you."
As He was speaking to me, the Lord spoke to me and said, "This is the Spiritual Father that I told you about, you are to come and be part of this ministry and let him be a spiritual Father to you." So I knew I was where I belonged. I could write so much more of my interaction with Brother Wade, but it would be very long indeed.
By God's grace our friendship and love had grown over the years and in these last two years we were even getting much closer, and He has been sharing with me about the "realm of God's glory." I invited him to come and speak at our International Conference in Florida. The Lord said the gathering was to be about the 'wheel within a wheel," that Ezekiel saw in His vision. There was no one I could think of that had the revelation of this mystery like Brother Taylor. I was sad he couldn't come, but the Lord did come and use others to help unfold His purpose for our gathering.
I emailed him about two weeks ago and had a word for Him that he confirmed, and he told me he was going to PA to take care of his wife for a little while until she was better and then go back to DC. That was the last time I talked with him. I never thought God would take him so soon, though he was in his late 80's. He never looked a day over 50 if you knew him.
I will surely miss him and the wealth of God he brought to so many, but this man left a legacy of spiritual children all over the world. He raised up many spiritual sons and daughters in the Lord and reproduced that seed God put in him. His life was full and I know he is getting his victors crown.
Brother Taylor was not a perfect man. He had flaws just like all of us. He was just a man just dust like all of us. But His life was truly a spiritual value. He was a savoring fragrance of the Lord to so many people. We have lost a "giant" in the Spirit of God. Maybe He was not known by many in the Body of Christ, but to those who were blessed to know him they received spiritual riches of heaven through him. May the same Lord now bring forth the same spiritual fruit from their lives as the Lord did through Brother Taylor in those that were blessed to know and be trained by the Holy Spirit through Brother Wade Taylor. Our hearts of all of us at Flame of Fire goes out to His family and to all those who knew him.
Lord, thank you for the life of Brother Taylor on how You poured through him to impact my life and so many others. We are so grateful to you Lord for your working in your servant as you did to bless and enrich our lives. We know it was you in him, and we have grown to know you better through Brother Taylor's life as you made him transparent to show forth your glory. Lord, be with his children and grand children, and his wife. Bless them and comfort them in this time of need. We are rejoicing today that He is with you, the place he so longed to be and that you are holding him in your arms of love.
Beloved readers, please keep them in prayer and if anyone feels led to send letters of love gifts to the family as soon as I found out more information I will pass it on to you.
In His love,
Brother Henry Falcone
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