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Lori Gibson
Lori Gibson
Hello!
Born in Tipton, California during the Great Depression of 1929, I was the third daughter of Elmer and Eunice
Bailey. We then moved to Oklahoma and six years after that to New Mexico where Jimmy Dale was born. My
parents in Oklahoma worked in the oil fields; in New Mexico, the cotton fields, planting, chopping and picking.
Then we migrated back to California in an old Model T Ford supporting a canvas cotton sack on each side of its
running boards with all our possessions, and the famous mattress on top; where we again labored in the fields of
cotton and picked the fruit orchards of Tagus Ranch. It was there that my two sisters, Gene and Jackie, left home
finding jobs in the city of Tulare, where sister Jackie, now 84, lives today. We were at that time the “Grapes of
Wrath” generation. We moved from one town to another as migrants in the San Joaquin Valley and north as far as
San Jose toiling the farm fields in their harvest seasons.
My parents eventually separated, and Mother raised Jim and I by herself, then we settled in Tulare also. After
High School, in 1947, I met and married Carl Gibson, Jr., in 1949 at Glendale, California. During my pregnancy in
1951with my daughter Lorraine, I received the LORD Jesus and my life was completely invaded by this Man from
Heaven. Carl too, accepted Christ and we were called this time not to the ‘Migrant Fields,’ but to the ‘Mission
Fields’ for a different kind of harvesting, tribes of grain who had never heard the Gospel of the Kingdom of
Heaven.
After Bible School, Boot Camp and Language study for one year and a half, we were stationed among the Guaymi
Indian Tribe in Panama off the shore- lines of the Caribbean Sea … right on the tip of the Peninsula called
Cusipin, where the small towns of Almirante (United Fruit Co.) and Bocus del Toro were our only connection with
civilization. It was there that Claudia and Gregory were born to Carl and I.
As I turn back “The Pages of Time” I can now understand how important doctrinal teaching is and how very careful
one should be about building on the foundation of the LORD Jesus Christ.
We were taught that the gifts of the Holy Spirit were no more … they had vanished with the early Church, the
Apostles. We were told, “Stay away from those who believed in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, those tongue
talkers, that was all of the devil!” We were so endoctrinated by the ‘Rapture” theory, and all these other doctrines
that the Spirit had to absolutely work without our knowledge of it.
For instance, the Indian women would bring their babies who were partially covered with “yaws.” Yaws is a
venereal disease that somehow or other transferred itself to these babies. I bought “Lifeboy Soap” which I used
to bath them with… and they were healed! So I bought more “Lifeboy.” Several other such miracles I attributed
to man-made solutions rather than to the Angels and the power of the Holy Spirit. We never prayed for their
physical healing, how could we pray for something no longer granted by God? The very doctrines we needed
most to believe …were denied us from believing! We loved the LORD Jesus, we loved these uncivilized people;
we gave all that we knew to give! We believed Satan was out there somewhere but no demonic spirits were
circling round us! Talk about equipping the saints for the work of His ministry to be carried on as to what He began
to do and teach … we where certainly not equipped. I can’t explain the hardships we endured; however, dear
ones, we did not count it as a hardship, but as joy just to be privileged to labor for Messiah Jesus … and that is
the truth! Often I wondered … why God did not do the miracles He used to do … and sometimes I got up the
nerve even to ask Him!
After Carl and I were called home to take a furlough, of which we did not want to take, our lives were shattered. I
wanted to stay in Tulare with the children and my family; but Carl wanted to live in Burbank near his family, which
by the way, is where I should have moved … but I did not! And as our Pastor once told me, “There is a ‘Beverly’
on every corner,” I found that to be true once again. Carl and I separated and three years later filed for divorce.
What a tragedy! What a terrible way to profane the name of our LORD!
I, myself, turned away from Jesus and followed after Satan … just as Paul declared it would happen in the
scriptures … and Jesus turned from me. But let me tell you … nothing went right in my life. The hedge of
protection was removed, but thank you Jesus, not altogether! Carl soon found the grass was not greener either!
After eight years of torment the blessed God of the Creation, began to call me Home!
During those years I tried to return to Jesus, but I was not allowed to; hear me, I could not!
But when the set time came for the Father to draw me by His Spirit again, I came, and I came hook line and
sinker!!! Things that I had never known before about my Father, His Son, the blessed Holy Spirit and the Angels, I
was soon to learn and learn I did, and still am. The LORD tied a short rope around my ankle and taught me to
follow Him wherever He goes; I was taught too, how to say , NO! When I was baptized in the Holy Spirit I spoke in
an Oriental language for several hours … then later Hebrew.
My sister, Jackie, a died- in -the –wool Baptist, had been filled with the Spirit a few years before I. We ministered
together in deliverance for several years. Sis and I found out just how real the ‘spirit world’ in fact is. The LORD
revealed to us, by His Spirit, the realities that are ours as joint heirs with Christ Jesus.
My children Lorraine, Claudia and Gregory love and serve Yeshua/Jesus. Greg is the founder and president of
Sent Ministries. I have one granddaughter, six grandsons, and eight great-grandchildren. All, but two, of the
grandchildren have received Jesus, as well as their spouses. Greg has married two of his sons and in April his
first-born.
In the SheepShed, you will find continuing “Acts of the Holy Spirit” which He is doing and teaching today. Some
Lessons refer to the ministry Sis and I did together. Others are gleaned from many of God’s faithful servants
throughout the centuries who have answered their calling for obedient service. And this, therefore, is why I sign,
not my name, but simply SheepShed. However, the absolute most, I have learned and gleaned from, have written
about, have been from hours, upon hours at the “feet of Jesus” in the wee morning hours since 1971! And since I
have found that “Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever,” He placed within me a driving desire to know
the truth of the LORD’S Messianic Kingdom and my Jewish roots; not my western roots pertaining to the
Western ized Gospel. I am not in the least bit interested in “Entertainment Tonight” and “Showboating” and
“Highfalutin Fashions.” I rebuke “Replacement Theology” and the “Manifest Sons of God Government takeover”
before the return of King Jesus. I do not believe anymore in the “Rapture of the Saints” before any Tribulation
period.
We are commanded to follow the commandment given to the disciples, by Jesus, to wait for the anointing of the
Holy Spirit’s power, to occupy till He comes, and to pattern ourselves with the same methods He Himself used while
preaching and teaching. I believe we should be “walking in the light as He is in the light,” and that is a mystery only
the Spirit is able to fulfill in us. What a tremendous command that implies! “As He is in the Light.” Does this not
mean for us the full knowledge of His Light? One cannot walk in what he does not understand, now can one? But
we have come “short of God’s glory.” We, I believe, should become transfigured in our innermost being, as was J
esus in the presence of His disciples on the holy Mount. The same word the Apostle Paul used addressing the
Galatian Christians “… until Christ is “formed “in you” is the same Greek word … transfigured!
There is a price to be paid; we must separate ourselves from a world look-a-like, while
still attempting to be “holy as He is holy.”
Brothers and Sisters in the Body of Christ, “we cannot give what we do not have;”
that is, unless, we put it on a ‘credit card,’ which I don’t think the Holy Spirit owns.
May the LORD’S face shine upon you,
May His arm not lay behind
His back inactive, but be extended
Toward you to
Work signs and wonders
By
His Angels who minister
For those who are
To inherit the Covenant
Promise of Salvation by His
Blood Atonement!
SheepShed
