Arthur J. Besler

Arthur J. Besler was born to parents born in Russia; they came to America in 1907, married in South Dakota, and became part of the Homestead Act with fifteen sons and daughters. By the time he left home at seventeen, the homestead cows and sheep ranch were approximately five thousand acres or more. When Arthur was growing up, his father read the Bible almost every morning, and Jesus became very real to him. He remembered a man who looked at him; he knew it was Jesus.

 

At nine years old, Arthur began to experience the Holy Spirit’s presence, and then at eleven years old, Jesus filled him with His Holy Spirit; that is when he started to speak in an unknown language, and there, he has never been the same. As he got involved in many different churches, he was not satisfied, for he knew Jesus wanted us as Christians to be more intimate with the commission; Arthur did not realize Jesus’ goal. And as for our achievement, to reach the world with the Gospel of salvation, of having one of the fivefold ministries involved called an evangelist.

 

So, when he was in his thirties, he had a dream one night; a giant Bible was brought before him, and the pages flipped open to the Old Testament book, as to the Prophet Jeremiah, Before I [Jesus] formed thee in the belly I [Jesus] knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I [Jesus] sanctified [a believer, which is consecrated to Jesus; that is, set apart to sacred duties or uses of ministry] thee, and I [Jesus] ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5. And there, Arthur’s life has never been again the same.