Evangelist Valerie Stewart is the founder and president of Taking It By Force Outreach Ministries, Inc. She began to return to her hometown of Taylor, MS in December 2004 to carry out Spiritual Warfare revivals and youth conferences. The enemy turned up the heat on the people who came out to the services by causing great sicknesses to the point of death, which came upon her sister, a praise team member, and others in the community. She was troubled and thought to herself that she would stay away thinking all the trouble would cease. However, God spoke to her through her then 9 year old daughter telling her that “the devil is mad at you for opening the people’s eyes and I know you think you are the cause for all that’s going on back home.” Her daughter told her “but whenever you get discouraged, just begin singing this song I went to the enemy’s camp and I took back what he stole from me.” On the way to work that same morning, the Lord spoke to Valerie telling her that “yes, the Kingdom of God suffereth violence, but the violent taketh by force.” He told her that, “the enemy has turned up the heat, but you must turn up the heat also.” She could not shake this scripture for months and in July 2005, she founded this ministry based on St. Matthew 11:12 as she felt the Lord was leading her to do so.

Since then, she has held many more conferences in MS, AL, Wisconsin, and Ohio. She is continuing to travel nationally and internationally with attempts to open the people’s eyes to their real enemy, the devil and his demons. Such a strange and unique ministry for someone who didn’t believe that demons even existed in this day and time just a few years ago according to the way she was taught in the church back home.

The ministry has held revivals during the evenings and youth workshops during the day for 5 days consecutively in MS with Valerie both preaching at night and teaching during the day. Even though she solicited help and people told her they would come and help, all had something to come up, but Valerie knew God was stretching and grooming her for this end time work. The ministry also awards scholarships to the C & D average students who desire to attend college or a trade school and she believes in helping the underdog. The first scholarships were awarded to two students in her home church in MS in August 2005. The ministry has also hosted a Grief Seminar for the four families who lost their daughters in the Lee High school bus tragedy in February of this year. Scholarship monies were given to each family who lost a child.

She is excited about all that God has done and is continuing to do through her and this ministry. What an awesome joy to witness salvations, signs and wonders and the consuming grace and love of the Almighty at work in His people.