KEN DEWEY
Evangelist/Prophet/Pastor Ken Dewey is the founder of "OUT OF THE DESERT MINISTRIES. He writes on this Web Site, many Prophetic words, and Sermons, and teachings while leading people into true church settings and preaching in an End Time Gospel Tent Ministry.
Ken became a christian (Born Again) at the age of 12, and was called to the gospel ministry at the age of 17.
Upon graduation from High School, and three years in the Army, he attended Tennessee Temple University (Bible School) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated with a Graduate Of Theology Degree in August 1971.
He is the Father of four children, Dawayne , Darla , Delisa, and Delores.
Ken began ministering as Pastor of the Fabius Baptist Church near Fabius, Alabama during his Bible School training. Upon compleation of his Bible Training he moved to Texas where he continued working as pastor in various churches until 1989. During these years he also served as a Home Missionary for five years to the Intermountain West, in the state of Idaho.
Ken left the ministry in 1989 and moved to New Mexico. Having experienced many problems , his marriage ended in divorce, beginning almost ten years of backsliding and wandering.
After twenty three years as pastor, he left the ministry and began to pursue a career in art and became a stone sculptor. Using alabaster stone that he found in the desert, he was carving beautiful stone sculptures. Early in 1999 he was in his sculpting studio when suddenly a voice said to him:
“I will not let you go another year living like you are!”
From that time, until the week of Easter that year, he entered a most miserable time of testing. Finally deciding he could not go on any longer under such conviction, he began to go back to church, thinking this would help. But this didn’t help. After many sleepless nights, he resigned to go out into the desert to his remote stone quarry where he dug alabaster. His desert place is some 35 miles from town. He went to fast and pray and seek the Lord. He told his friends, “I will not be back until I find out what God wants”.
On Easter Sunday he prayed until late in the evening, and a very heavy Spirit of God came upon him. He said, “I could not breathe, and all I could see was how very sinful my life had become.” He thought, ‘if you do not let me breathe, I am going to die.’ At the last moment his breath returned, and he heard Him say, “Why have you done me this way? Don’t you know I love you? I have been here all the time waiting for you to come to me.” He felt God pick him up and just love him, like he had never been loved .
FIVE DAYS WITH THE LORD
For five days the Lord spoke directly to him. On the last day he said “God told me to go back to town and tell everyone to seek Him, to call upon Him while He is near, seek me while He can be found.
Needless to say, the desert ‘God encounter’ changed his whole life. From religious training, where He was taught against the baptism of the Holy Spirit, to a clear understanding of the baptism, he stated he has received the same with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
According to him, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and other things in bible doctrine, were taught to him the wrong way. Filled with God's power, he now ministers in a new way.
After having returned home to tell of his encounter, and to attempt to undo much wrong, he began telling everyone, "You need to seek the Lord until you find Him." In the course of time, God has taken Ken out of this country into Peru, and even to the country of India.
GOD WILL SHAKE NEW MEXICO
AND AMERICA
God continues to speak. In January 2007, God gave visions of Himself pouring out His Glory in New Mexico. “God will shake everything that can be shaken, and only that which cannot be shaken will remain.” he said.
Another experience with God on February 17, 2007, greatly impacted his ministry. God told him to go to the desert, and he would show him the precious stone. For years he has searched for a beautiful alabaster strata that would be precious. Upon searching to find the stone, God told him, “I am the precious stone that the world needs.” He was commanded to go and lift up Jesus and that in doing so, He would draw all men unto himself.
At the same time God told him to go back to town and tell the devil to “Let the people of God Go.” Jesus had set the people free by his death and resurrection, and that the devil had no power or right to hold men in bondage any longer.
In June 2007 He was told in a word from God, that God would put him on television. Five days later he signed a contract with KCHF-Channel ll, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a weekly program entitled “The Precious Stone”. The Precious Stone TV ministry has ministerd to thousands of people in New Mexico since August 2007. It continued up until January 2009 when the Lord closed this door and opened other doors.
In January 2008 he began creating this web site desiring to tell as many people as possible about Jesus Christ and the Gospel of Good News.
The vision for his ministry is to first reach the lost with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Which according to him, is the very heartbeat of God. The Lord is not willing that any should perish.
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