Up Coming Events and Classes
Will be in the Williamson, Pikeville and Logan,WV areas Handing out Bibles in Road Blocks
Passover Seder / Communion Class @ Freedom Full Gospel Assembly House of Prayer March 3rd 2024 @ 11:00.am Everyone Welcome
Coming to A Deeper Understanding Of
Jesus Christ as the Passover Lamb.
"The Passover Seder with Brother Mark Carter was a deeply meaningful experience for my students and myself. While participating I was able to make fresh and new connections with the scriptures and see God in new ways. Discovering the ways in which the Trinity is honored and valued in Seder was especially helpful in this time. Mark's passion for learning and sharing is deeply transforming. I would recommend this experience to all."
Rev. Rob Musick, Dmin (ABD)
Chaplain/Instructor of Religion
University of Pikeville
I highly recommend this class. I now approach the Communion services at the church I attend with a much deeper understanding and greater appreciation of what our Lord and Savior did for us.
Eric Hubbard
Asst. Pastor
Thank you for visiting Message From The Mountains web page. Our Mission is to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ not only in word, but in action also. At the present time we are working in a Bible ministry, Putting Bibles in hospital waiting rooms, Aiding jail ministries by furnishing bibles, Handing out Bibles at storefronts, food banks, and in the middle of the road offering Bibles to people coming by in cars. We are able to help local food banks and a ministry that feeds people that are shut in. We also do a Passover Seder / Communion class to bring people into a deeper understanding of the gospel of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Serving the local hospital as Chaplain ministering to the sick.
We are more then happy to meet with you and or your church to give you a understanding of what the class is about in detail. When setting an appointment for a class, We can set a date and time, We furnish everything at no charge. the grape juice, unleavened bread, plate settings, bitter herbs, apple nut honey mixer, ect. There is never any charge for the class. (but such as I have give I thee:) God gave His word freely and we pass that word freely to others.
Contact: Mark Carter 606-237-8460 or form below
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Matthew 11:29
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim 3:14-17
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God has put it on my heart to tell the testimonies of my life so that people can see how God can work any one’s life at any time. We all are God’s creations. As in Psalms 139:13 & 14 For thou hast my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. In Jeremiah 1:5 we see God telling Jeremiah that Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. We all have our purpose in life. First and foremost, Is to serve God with our whole Heart, mind, soul, and strength. And to love our Neighbor as we love our selfs. As He tells us in Mark 12:30,31 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Also Ecclesiastes 12:13 tells us; Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. God is always wanting to show “those who obey and do His commandments” how much He loves us. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. We only have to be aware of His presence in our lives and to see the things going on around us each and every day, That we all can carry the testimonies of Jesus Christ and what God has done for us.
Testimonies of Just Some of The Things That God Has Done in My Life
At Eight Years Old
This is a testimony that I have always wonder, Why me? But I know that in time I will know exactly what God has in store for me on this matter. I just have to be ready when it comes. It was when I was eight years old I was sitting in a little church above the house where my Mother was a member for many years. I remember plainly that I was sitting in the front role on the right-hand side of the church, about a third way over from the aisle. Brother Harold Coleman was in the pulpit speaking, I can’t remember what He said that day Because God began to speak to me in an audible voice. As I sat there God told me “That I would be here when His son would return” Why He would tell me an eight-year-old boy in a holler in the Appalachian Mountains. Just a few years ago in 2010 in January, I was shoveling snow in my driveway. My father in law had just passed away. When I heard that same voice. He told me” That it is time” at that very moment I knew what He was talking about. Some time went by and Satan began to tell me that God never spoke to me and that it was all in my head. This went on for three days. I had never had Satan in my face like this before. At this same time, my Mother was taking ill and I had gotten an airline ticket to go down and be with Her. Now this whole time Satan is still in my face telling me that this is all my doing and that God did not speak to me. As I was driving to the airport in Huntington, Wv, Satan was as if he was setting on the dash in front of me chewing me out about God speaking to me that it was all in my head. Well getting to the airport after parking and checking in. It was time to board the aircraft, Finding my aisle seat, I put my bag in the overhead compartment and sat down. in a just a moment a lady came that had the window seat. I got up and she sat in her seat. We began to talk, the everyday pleasantries, We came to find really fast we both were Christians. She began to tell me her testimony of her daughter that was now 21 years old. How at the age of about a year old she had died in the emergency room. As the testimony unfolded she began to tell me how when she went into that room after the nurses had removed all the IV’s and tubes, That as she walked into the room she saw a cold gray clammy baby laying on the bed. She walked over and picked the baby up in her arms and held her close to her chest and began to cry out to God to give her baby back for a little longer. She went on to say that as she was crying out to God the baby said, mommy. As I sat there, What a testimony! Then she looked me right in the eyes and said God has told me”That it is Time” The very same words that Satan had been telling me that it was all in my head. At that very moment, Satan left the scene. I like to think he went right out the back of that aircraft at 30,000 feet. I was wanting to rejoice for God giving me a confirmation on what He had told me and removed the enemy from before me, But my heart was breaking, For I knew what it meant for this Mother, That her daughter’s time was running out. It amazing how God can take two people from different backgrounds and bring them together in a one spot and He had told both of us the same words, But yet they meant so many different things to each of us. My God is an awesome God! Does this make me some kind of special? In no way form or fashion. God is ready to do things in our lives every day. The men and women of the Bible were no different than we are today. We can experience the same amazing grace and power of the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit fell on Pentecost, It fell on all who were there, because they were there in one accord, worshipping together. I may never see this lady again on this earth, but I know we will meet again in our heavenly home. I thank God for bringing her into life for that short plane ride which only lasted for two hours, But will last for the rest of my life in my testimony of how God has moved in my life.
Money Laundering
Debe and I Had just bought our house. Boy was things hard. We even had to borrow the down payment. It was everything to just keep up. I was at work as always Debe was at home doing laundry. We had been talking that we needed seventy-five dollars to make the house payment. Wow, where were we going to get that much cash in such a short period of time? I came home and Debe met me and said come here and look and in the laundry room, To my amazement over the washing machine on a line, she had seventy-five dollars drying. she has always told me not to worry that God will provide and He has. Later on when we were getting on our feet and doing much better. The washing machine broke down and it cost seventy-five dollars to fix, but that was ok with me.
The Parsley Flakes
It began at this time of year, November the air had a snap to it. It had been so hot that year. Debe and I had just gotten married in August and this was going to be our first Thanksgiving as husband and wife. We had just got word that her mother and Father, sister and her husband was coming in to spend it with us. Debe was so excited. Being away from home she had missed them so much. Debe had gone to Piggy Wiggy to get things for Thanksgiving dinner, she wanted everything to turn out just right. Among all the things she had gotten was a bottle of parsley flakes. There were a lot of first time buying since it was our first Thanksgiving and we hadn’t bought any kind of these things before. That was in 1977 that she got that bottle of parsley flakes and as you can see in the picture below. This is the same bottle of parsley flakes that she got in 1977 and we are still using them to this day. We use them all the time and they have never run out. The picture was taken just this spring for a testimony at church, how God was showing Debe and me that His blessings will never end.
Load Of Coal
January 5, 2010, my father-in-law had just passed away and snow was on the ground. My coal pile was running low where I was able to gather coal as usual. I had spent some time at the skilled nursing were father-in-law had been. Debe had gotten a phone call from her aunt that her uncle was going to be coming to the hospital and that he had a tray of sandwiches and I could meet him and pick them up. As I was driving down the road I was talking with God about I needed help with getting some coal since I had not been able to get any this past fall. As I was talking to Debe’s uncle I saw a truck with some fellows that I knew from a coal company going by on the highway by the hospital. I began my trip back home and as I was coming up the road there going up the road in front of me was the fellows I had just seen go by the hospital. I pulled into the driveway and parked and here they came down the road, and they stop to chat. We said our hellos and shot the bull. As they were ready to leave I ask them that if they saw any coal beside the road to let me know. Sometimes trucks break down and loose their air and the tailgate opens and coal falls out. They said the would. I went into the house because it was getting really cold. About three hours later I heard something outside and it was the same guys with a dump truck load of coal. The one man got out as the other went to turn so that he could back up the driveway. I will never forget this fellow ask me Who do you know? because they had gotten back to where they parked their trucks and the boss pull up and he said the boss never came up there. The boss asks them where had they been and they said up by Mark Carter’s house. The boss asks how I was doing. They told him that I ask them to watch out for some coal. Their boss told them to take the truck and get a load from the mines and take it to me. I was in amazement again what God had done for me and my family. It was such a load off me to see ten tons of coal in my driveway, What A Blessing!
Ronnie's Key
It had been a very trying time for a friend of mine. Ronnie and I had prayer one night after church that God would give him the confidence to overcome the things in his life. Little did we know that God in all his wisdom had already been putting things in motion. A week later Ronnie was shot in the back with a 357 magnum. The Doctors would not give a percentage of if he would make it or not. But, by the grace of God Ronnie make a speedy recovery. After a few weeks of rehab, I went to pick Him up, to take him to his car, that he was living in at the time. It was getting late and the sun was going down. We found the battery dead in the car, so we had to get booster cables to jump the car to start it. In all the chaos both sets of keys Ronnie had was in the car when the door shut and was locked. By this time I was really feeling bad, Ronnie was tried and now here we are both sets of keys locked up inside the car. Ronnie went to the house to see what he could find. As he left I was praying and asking God to help because we both was not up for all this. As it was getting dark out of the twilight came Ronnie walking with an old key from some old car he had had some years ago. Thinking to myself “does he think that key is going to work, yea right” He walked to the door and inserted the key and turned it and there was a click and the door unlocked. We both just looked up at each other and the look on our faces would have been worth catching on film. I just could not believe that key worked on this car. The key would not work on any other lock on the car. The trunk, glove box or the other door. I would love for someone to give me the odds of that key working on this car. I know that God had a hand in this because the word tells us “you have not because you ask not.” We were in need and we were not up to this. We gave God thanks because we know it was God who opens the door.
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From Dust It Came And To Dust It Returned
It was 5:40 am and we were going into the mines to work. Third shift crew was to wait at a side switch on the tracks so that we could go pass them on our way to the work area which is called the face. As we proceeded towards the face, low and behold there came third shift in a hurry to get outside, which I can understand fully. I had already told everyone to keep their heads low, so that no one would hit their hard hat on the roof of the mine and knock a rock loose and As we changed directions to go back towards the outside to a side switch so we could get out of the way and let the other crew pass. I was setting with my head down inside the mantrap next to the one inch thick metal of the side of the mantrap. As we were proceeding towards the outside a fellow worker raised his head up and as the Holy Spirit had me tell everyone to kept their heads down they didn’t. His hard hat hit a piece of rock causing one end of the rock to fall. The rock was long and had a sharp pointed end and this was the end that falls down towards the mantrap. The rock’s sharp pointed end hit me pushing my head into the one-inch metal then proceeded to go thought my hard hat into my skin all the way to my skull. But before it could enter my skull my nephew setting straight across from me saw it all happen. He said that when the rock got to that point it just turned to dust. I did have to get three stitches and had a head ache for just a little bit. Hey, that beats having a rock go through you head, which it would have if God had not intervened on my behalf. You know I don’t owe God my life because of this testimony, but because of what He did for me at Calvary. 1 Cor. 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. such a load off me to see ten tons of coal in my driveway, What A Blessing!
Road To Top Of The Mountain
The light from the deep new snow showed us the way as we walked the winding road up Taylor Fork. This was the first snow of our new life together. Debe and I were just enjoying the smell of the fresh snow and watching our little dog Buddy run mostly under the deep snow. When we had gone as far as we could to the end of the holler. Without me knowing Debe said to herself that one day she would own the land at the end of the road. Thirty years later the land came up for sale. And at the same time without a word being said Debe’s Dad calls and says that He wants to go ahead and give her an inheritance. To our surprise what she was given was the very amount that they were asking for the land. The deal was made and now Debe owns the land she had desired. Without saying a word even to me, God heard her heart. The bible says in Psalms 34:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. There was a place on top of the mountain that as a teenager I would sit and look out over the mountains and wonder how God made things. I would say some day I would love to have a cabin up here. Now that owned the land we owned that very spot. But how would I get there? If only I had a road up there. There were some old logging roads that were washed out in some places and very rough. The fellows that brought the load of coal stopped by to shoot the bull. I asked them when are you going to come and put a road to the top of the mountain? They replied: Like they would let do that. We talked a little long and they had to go. The next morning they pulled up into my driveway and beep their horn. I without to see what they into. And again they said, Who do you know? and the same answer I told them, The man upstairs. They began to tell me how they went back to the office and the boss told them to come and see me about putting a road up to the top of the mountain so that could move equipment to do work over in the next holler. They came and done the work putting the road up the mountain. At no charge to me. Now I ask myself if I only had some lumber to build a cabin. A few days later I was going down the road and the lady that lived next door stopped me and ask me if I knew anyone that would be interested in taking down her barn for the lumber. I didn’t know if I could do it or not. I told her I would like to have it but it would be a slow pace taking it down, cause I could only work on it two-three hours a day. She said that would be fine. Needless to say but I have a cabin in that spot on top of the mountain. No one can ever tell me God did not have his hand in all that was done. The fellow that brought the coal and seen to the road and always ask me Who do you know? Well, he finally gave his life to Jesus Christ. I hope all this played a part in him showing how God can work. It did me! The time I have spent at the cabin has taken me to such a deeper, understanding of who God is. I was sitting on the porch of the cabin one day tell God how grateful I was for a place to come and sit and talk to Him. This is when He said to me, “That good But the work is down there.” Needless to say, I have not got to spend time there like I would like too. This is when I came off the mountain and went to Jacob’s Well Mission and have been there almost six years. The things God has shown me at that place on top of the mountain has given me testimonies that most can’t understand or for the most part think I am crazy. But I know that I know where it has come from. When God shows you the truth it will always without a doubt be confirmed. With all this said the most important thing is the testimony that this has given me. The land, road, and cabin is only icing on the cake.