I am sitting here sitting in Maryland and I realized that as a new corner is turned in the season in time another one changes in the spirit.  God has been so very very good to me ( apologies to Garret Morris and SNL) but he has and I am blown away how he can love one such as I.  As I get older and I see life changing, I see that although I have come so far from where I was in June of 1997 I still have so far to go.  

I can remember like it was yesterday, May 1997 I was lost, hurting done with church and the hypocrisy that I saw in it. Then God met me and nothing was the same.  I felt the presence of God like I had never done before.  I call myself a spiritual schizophrenic because I fight for what I don’t need and don’t know what I do need.  I asked God for power to spread his word, anointing to take his word to the earth.  I felt so new life never before.  I so long for that again!  So much has happened in the last 18 years. I am now retired from the military, married and getting ready to leave my dream job. 

God I meant it when I said here I am Lord send me. And he did, I went to Japan, Austrailia, Iraq, UAE, Dubie, PI, Thailand, Maryland, Hawaii and now Texas. Just when you think you know what God wants he throws a kink in it. God told me to pack and move to Hawaii, one month after I got married.  That was a fun and painful assignment. I learned so much about God and how to sit and listen and when to move and take authority. Then a new season.

I am looking forward to the new year and new challenges ahead. New and old friends. As I look ahead to my imminent move to Texas I anticipate what God will have me do. Start a church? Sit and just relax?  All ahead Flank 3!

Blessings.

Bishop Jackson Plant

Plant Ministries

Published by Bishop Jackson Plant

Bishop Jackson Plant is a military veteran, retired from the US Navy in 2008. In 2018 Bishop Plant joined the board of Directors for Shilo Ministries. Pastor Plant is an Ordained Bishop with the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) Bishop Jackson Plant’s burning desire and hunger for a revival to see this lost world come to Jesus are the foundation of Plant Ministries. Pastor Plant has multi faceted ministries, ranging from Director of the Church Of God Christian Servicemen's Center in Yokosuka, Japan; Evangelist for Ministry to the Military's (MTTM) in the Far East; Associated Pastor for various Church of God Ministries in Maryland; Formerly Senior Pastor for Kingdom Time Ministry in Hawaii. Pastor Plant was called to minister in 1984, a call which he tried his best to run from. For five years he ran, then in 1989 after a death experience; God got a hold of him and he quit running and embraced the call. During 1997-98, Pastor Plant attended the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola, Florida where God purified his heart and reaffirmed his call to ministry. Then the Navy transferred him to Yokosuka, Japan and then to the USS Kitty Hawk. It was there where he preached for the first time and began the call as God’s servant. Additionally, he was appointed as the Singles Pastor at the Yokota Christian Serviceman's Center. In 2000 Bishop Plant was credentialed, ordained, and appointed through Church of God. He was sent forth as a Senior Pastor at Yokosuka Christian Servicemen's Center in Japan. Bishop Plant is operating Plant Ministries and lives in Harlingen Texas with his wife, Julie and chi Huey.

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