BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

This is awesome! David thought. A while later, Phil looked at David and said, “You and I are going to play. You’re going to a new level. Don’t play one thing that you know. I won’t play one thing that I know.” David thought he was going to throw up. Phil took one look at David’s face and said, “I’ll walk you into it. Wrap chords around the sounds I make.” Closing his eyes, David played from a place he’d never touched before. A River of Prophetic Sound “Something was born in me during that song,” David remembers. “It reminded me of what the Bible said in Ezekiel 47:3-6. As I played, I felt an anointing up to my ankles…up to my knees…up to my waist. And then it became a river of prophetic sound. That song changed the whole meeting and the direction of my life. That’s why I love Phil Driscoll so much to this day. He told me, ‘You’ll never go back to that place. If you do, nothing will satisfy you.’” When David’s dad relocated to pastor another church, David accepted the position as assistant music director for Pastor Paul Zink. David’s life, along with everyone’s in the church, changed when Pastor Zink attended a meeting in Atlanta to hear Kenneth Copeland. He taught on “Man, Another Speaking Spirit Like God.” Back home, Pastor Zink began to focus his teaching on faith. Soon, he took a church in Bangor, Maine. When he left, David accepted a position with Benny Hinn. In January 1985, Pastor Zink returned to plant a new church in Jacksonville, Fla., and asked David to help him. He taught "Faith, the Authority of the Believer" and "The Power of the Tongue." That year, immersed in the faith message, another call was imparted to David. The call to preach. And David Said… “I could play and sing all day,” David admits, “but I refused to speak publicly. Pastor Zink said, ‘David, at least introduce your songs!’ But I wouldn’t. He finally told me to memorize some verses from Psalms and speak them while I was playing. If my fingers were on the keys, I could speak. Pastor Zink knew I was called to preach, but I was struggling with it. “For my 25th birthday on Aug. 19, 1986, I took a three-day retreat at a cabin to fast and pray. During the drive, I listened to a message by Kenneth Copeland on David and Goliath. He said, ‘And David said, This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand....’ He went on to quote more things that David said. ‘And David said.... And David said.... And David said....’ Somewhere along the way, it changed from what David said to Goliath, to God speaking to me.” 'And David said.' David Ellis became the David who spoke. That weekend, God confirmed his call to preach. “In 1988, I experienced a dream come true when I began traveling with Nancy Harmon. One year later, in 1989, we were on break from touring when I got a call from a woman who said, “Honey, my name is Lucy McKee. We’ve got a church of 20 people and Billye Brim is coming.” “Who’s he?” “Not a he, darlin’. Billye is a she, and you’re going to love her.” David flew to Montgomery, Ala., and ministered music at their meeting. After a supernatural set of events, he found himself in a Cadillac driving with them to Linden, Ala. “Billye,” David said, “do you remember a book used at Rhema called "Blazing the Gospel Trail"? Well, that was my great- grandfather, and he held a brush arbor meeting here in Linden. He planted 17 churches in Alabama alone.” Billye turned to David, her eyes blazing. “Get ready,” she said, “your whole life is about to change.” And it did. BVOV : 21

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