The Blessitt's: Joy, Blessings & Jesus!

Denise and Arthur Blessitt        

Dear friends and followers of Jesus,

This is a brief summary of our late summer in carrying the cross and ministry.

   

Sophia carrying cross on Hollywood Blvd
Sophia said she'd carry the cross when daddy goes to be with Jesus!

Aurora Theater Shooting

Within minutes of hearing about the shooting on TV, Jesus told me to go and minister to the hurting. I put the cross in my car, called some of my children who live in Aurora and a few minister friends. By 10 am our team had met in the car park of Target, three blocks from the Aurora Theater. The police let us through their lines and we lifted up the cross and prayed as the news media gathered. A young man in his twenties ran towards the cross and us, he seemed distraught. He'd been part of the night shift working on repaving the street by the theater. He'd heard the gunshots and people running out of the theater and with the other construction crew they began to help the injured. He was so shaken afterwards that he couldn't sleep so he returned to look at the theater and think. He saw the cross and came running!

Aurora Man
With grandson Gideon and the man in front of theater 

 

We shared Jesus and he received Him as Lord and Savior. "Now, I feel peace" he exclaimed.We shared more about following Jesus. This is one of many stories we experienced during that week. Out ministering with the cross were Denise and I, my three daughters, Gina, Joy and Sophia, my son Joel and his wife Cuc Kim and my grandson Gideon. They stepped up and into the crowds of grieving people. I felt so proud of them. We prayed and many came to Jesus who comforts the broken in spirit and the hurting. We also witnessed to millions through the news media.

 

Shoeshine Man

During July & early August Denise, Sophia and I were in the streets of Los Angeles filming our weekly program "The Message of the Cross" shown twice a week on TBN TV. I carried the cross in downtown LA, Hollywood Blvd., Sunset Strip and Venice Beach. While carrying the cross in Pershing Square, a thought came to mind as I walked towards a man with a shoeshine kit. "Greetings" I said.

Shoeshine man
The Shoeshine Man 

 

 "I see you shine shoes. You take dirty shoes and make them look like new!" "Yes" he replied. I said, "That's what Jesus does too! He takes dirty lives and cleans them up. As a matter of fact He makes us like new. He gives us a new heart as He washes away our sins through His Holy Blood. Sir, Jesus will do that for you. You can be saved and shine! Glory". I shared more and he got saved! I had this man tell the crowd gathered about what he had just done in giving his heart and life to Jesus. He was beaming with joy and filled with happiness while we walked on. This is just one of so many stories of salvation on the streets of Los Angeles.

 

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Arthur sharing Jesus 

Carrying the Cross on the streets of America.

While carrying the cross one morning, two ladies rushed up to me after having parked their car. They were believers. We shared and prayed together by the busy six lane street. Cars rushed by while we talked. I continued on for about a block when a lady called out to me. I crossed the street and we spoke through her open passenger's side window, with tears in her eyes she said, "I drove by you three times and now this is the forth time. I was trying to find the courage to talk to you. I saw you praying with the other ladies and I knew that I needed that." After talking we wept, prayed and another life was touched with the cross and the Presence of Jesus.

Arthur witnessing on Sunset Strip
Arthur witnessing in the street 

 

TBN TV Programs

We are sharing Jesus and preaching as I host TBN "Praise the Lord" from once to twice a month from Denver, Costa Mesa and the Holy Land in Orlando. Plus the twice weekly "Message of the Cross" program training millions in sharing Jesus, an incredible witness to many millions each month.

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"Praise" With Lee Strobel, Jim Dixon, Arthur, Mark Mittelberg 

 

This sounds big and it is but it's still all about Jesus and sharing Him. On a flight recently, I felt sleepy, having just taken my shoes off and settling in for a restful flight when the flight attendant seated a young man next to me who was carrying a trash bag and vomiting into it! Oh, he was sick. I confess I immediately wanted to move to an open seat nearby, then I wondered what sort of illness does he have. The smell was awful, with vomit on his hands and clothing. Then Jesus spoke to me saying that this poor sick young man was now in the right seat. I shared the gospel with him and prayed for his healing but he was too sick to talk. I then led him in a prayer of salvation and repentance. Once he was saved he almost shouted, "Oh thank you, Jesus is in my heart". He reached out his vomit covered hand and grabbed mine! Then he hugged me! As we flew on amidst the stink and joy I wondered what the prodigal son looked and smelled like when his father embraced him. In that same chapter in the Bible Jesus says there is 'joy in heaven over one sinner that repents more than ninety nine that need no repentance'.

 

E-mails and letters

"Thank you so much for answering my phone call and praying for me and my daughter. I finally slept last night without a sleeping pill. Anxiety is something I never want to experience ever again. Thank you for being available to the hurting and showing the love of Jesus."

Praying with a couple 

 

"I prayed the sinners prayer with you back in 1986. I was watching TV. I was as down as I had ever been and happened to stop on the channel you were on, maybe TBN. At the moment I came across that channel you were talking about salvation and invited people to say the prayer with you. I immediately started crying as I said the prayer. It changed my life forever. Jesus changed my life forever."

 

"I learned about you on TBN and met you a few years ago and asked you to pray for my daughter, who had multiple sclerosis. You surprised me by graciously asking if I would call her on my cell phone so that you could pray with her directly, which I did. The Lord heard your prayer and answered for she is completely healed from that disease and she and her husband have three beautiful children".

 

Thanks

We want to thank you our dear friends for your support in sharing with us the mission of the cross and sharing Jesus to the world in every way Jesus opens to us. We love you. Together we have witnessed Jesus doing mighty things in peoples lives through the years and in every nation. I was thinking of how some of you have supported us since 1962. Others joined in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, & 2000's. It has taken us all together to do the mission of Jesus; none is greater than the other. We have shared together on this earth in the harvest fields of the world and we will share together in heaven rejoicing in Jesus and the saved souls forever. Many of our dearest friends and supporters are already in heaven. But God still has a mission for you and I. Today we are reaching more people for Christ than ever before. Thank you to our friends and fellow pilgrims both new and old. Great is your reward in heaven.  

 

My 72nd birthday is on 27th October and on that day I'll be teaching a 'Share Jesus Seminar' what a way to celebrate! Please keep us in your prayers and go to www.blessitt.com to get our preaching/teaching/cross walk and TV schedule.

 

We love you, God bless you. Pilgrim followers of Jesus.

Arthur, Denise and Sophia Blessitt, Luke 18:1

 

The apostle Paul says that as the Philippians had been generous in their giving, God was going to meet their needs! "I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God and my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!" Philippians 4:19

 



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