Mary Momma Jenkins 2011-11-30

REMEMBERING MARY "MOMMA" JENKINS (GOD-DAUGHTER OF SMITH WIGGLESWORTH)

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Our precious mentor, a true mother in the Lord, Momma Mary Jenkins, went
home to be with the Lord on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 30, 2011).
How fitting that this gracious saint, who always praised the Lord, entered
Heaven on that blessed day. She was laughing and eating breakfast with a
friend, Laura, while recovering from surgery in a Baltimore, MD hospital,
when she suddenly fell asleep peacefully.
I met Momma in 1998, while I was preaching at a convention, with my
friend, Flo Ellers, at WhiteHorse Christian Center in IN, (pastored by
Jeff Johns). She was an amazing woman of God, trained by a miracle worker,
Rev. Smith Wigglesworth. Momma lived Luke 4:18 and she preached it too!
And she expected signs and wonders and miracles to follow, blind eyes to
see, deaf ears to hear, lame to walk, and the dead to raise! She said if
the pastors would pray into that and preach it, the pews wouldnt be so
empty. She lived an abandoned life. Self & the preservation of reputation,
was forgotten when God wanted to move. No matter what the cost, she
followed him!
It was a great privilege to be ordained with her hands, and asked to
travel with her for four years. We set up tents, and rented hotel
ballrooms, and preached in many a pastors pulpit through out New England
and across the Midwest. She joined me in my prayer summits too and we Team
Tag Preached with the fire of God! She rarely tired, and usually slept
about two hours a night.
She taught by love and example. I often felt when I looked into her eyes,
aflame with the passion of some story she was delighting to recall, that
it was as if I were looking at God with black skin on!
Momma, was called out by the English evangelist, Wigglesworth, whom she
called Poppy, when she was only 3. He gave her father a word about a baby
being born at home in the Americas. Her father, living overseas, had lost
track of the dates, while working on a rig off shore. Sure enough, when he
called home to Georgia, Cutie Mary had been born. Later Wigglesworth
returned to America to anoint the 7 yr old and later again to bring the 20
yr old into an apprenticeship with him on the road.
Rev Smith Wigglesworth But he told her that her real ministry would not
begin until she was in her sixties. It began after a life and death
experience at age sixty-two. Meanwhile, the child was visited by angels
and had accurate prophecies, growing up.
She married a Bishop of seven churches, and raised a family, studied to be
an LPN nurse, and conducted a 200 voice choir. She sang with her cousin,
Mahala Jackson, in the White House and visited with every president since
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Roosevelt. Her offspring made her proud, one becoming a 4 star general in
the Army. Others are preachers. And she had many spiritual children. She
was raised from the dead herself in a hospital. She was healed of being
blind in her sixties. And she was healed of kidney failure and heart
disease, living to be a centenarian of plump and healthy stature, eating
anything she wished. Her health food was simply GOD!
David and I were delighted to see her driving her own car last Christmas
time, when she braved the work hour traffic on I-95, to bring a car load
of her friends to our special holiday event in Maryland. And my friend,
Rev. Billye Brim, last saw her a few weeks ago, driving herself all the
way home from Branson, MO to Baltimore, MD where she lived. She ever
remained active in ministry, loved to be with people, prayed every day of
her life and was always a finely dressed lady with impeccable manners.
Praise the Lord never sounded so delightful as from the lips of Momma
Jenkins.
She is included in the miracle testimonies section of my 2001 book, Oceans
of Glory, telling about Smith Wigglesworth raising a 14 yr old boy from
the dead that she witnessed. But I heard her tell many stories of her own
amazing adventures along that line. She raised over 27 babies from the
dead, out of coffins and handed them back to their mothers. She scared an
entire town, walking into a morgue, keeping the motor of a taxi waiting,
and bringing back a corpse, alive to attend his own funeral! She once
walked into an mental health facility in New England, and emptied it out.
All the patients were instantly healed. The hospital closed shortly
thereafter. She took me there to show me.
Then there was the story about the Siamese twins that God used her to
separate. She was simply directed to take a bus to an unknown destination,
got off in Phoenix, AZ, went to a premi hospital unit, overheard the
nurses discussing the tragic birth, met the bereaved parents, separated
the twins and left the hospital staff facing the media trying to explain
how they were successfully separated!
I left her in the hot sun one day, in my car, waiting for a train, while I
checked its belated status. When I returned to the car, I was shocked to
hear a tape, that had been stuck in the tape player for two years, belting
out sound. And the car window that had not worked either, due to a
computerized short in the car, was rolled down! I asked her how on earth
she had managed to get either item working. She simply said the devil had
irritated her by not allowing the window to roll down when she was hot.
She asked Jesus to do it, and commanded it to obey. Voila! The presence
she kept with the Lord gave her that authority.
She stopped bank robberies. She emptied out bars in CT near her home. She
took down an entire motorcycle gang in Central Park, knocking over their
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gang leader and all their bikes that had encircled her to mug her, like
dominos! Then she didnt let them back up off the ground until they said
the sinners prayer and vowed to become preachers. Indeed they did too!
Momma saved my life once too, praying out the very exact number of my
airline flight a few days before it almost crashed in St Louis due to Air
Flight Control Tower error. It came within 300 ft of connecting with
another aircraft on the ground.
Though we will miss her, I can not cry. I can only laugh and rejoice that
she cheated death so many times, lived in the hope of the rapture, and
stepped right over into glory!
Well done! Good and Faithful Servant Mary Jenkins!

With much love,

Dr. Shelli Jones Manuel

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