I wanted to write about my experience, concerning the trouble with my eyes at work on 5/28/08. I was doing my everyday task at work on the Cherry Picker machine I drive. I had just finished picking an order and started to come back down from a high shelf at the top of the isle I was in. All of a sudden my eyes felt like I had a dark haze over them and wiggly lines in each corner. I was not sure what was happening at first. I was getting scared so I asked God to help me, and about that time my co-worker Nick (who has the holy Ghost) asked me how I was doing. And he was unaware what was happening. I told Nick what was wrong with my eyes, and without hesitation he started praying for me. He said sweetly, "In Jesus name, heal him Lord!!" I told him I appreciated him praying for me. Well he left and I went to tell my supervisor what was happening to me, and said I was going to call Margo to come and get me and take me to an eye doctor. Well the doctor told me I was having warning signs of migraine headaches and he wanted to see me at his office in a week. So I go back to the eye doctor on 6/6/08. The doctor said over all my eyes are OK. My left eye however has poor vision but my right eye is good. I believe he is going to give me glasses so that my eyes are not under such stain. He says many things trigger migraines so he told me what my eyes were doing was warning me that a migraine was coming. I have been feeling slight headaches all day but nothing to bad. So, last night Margo and I were watching a movie called "Facing The Giants". In it you learn from the story of a couple who wanted children but were unable to. In the end of the movie the wife is asking the husband, "Is anything impossible for God?" She goes on to say they were going to have a baby and the man weeps with joy and says, "Oh God! I'm overwhelmed!" Right then I started thinking about this past weekend in NC. It was so good to my soul to watch God doing so many things all at once, and blessing all who were there. I started to think of why this happened to my eyes, and what was it that God wanted me to learn from my ordeal. I asked God Wed night for along time to show me something about why this happened with my eyes, but did not here anything back. I know God does everything for a reason. I also know he teaches us with everything around us. Thursday morning 5/29/08 around 9:00am someone knocked on the door to our house. I answered the door and it was Nick from work (the one who asked Jesus to heal me). I have been talking with Nick for awhile now he has read your book SIT and I have all ways liked what felt from him. I thought maybe he was here to see how my eyes were doing, but he was here to see if he could park his truck in my driveway while he passed out fliers for a business he is trying to start. I said sure, and after he finished passing them out I asked him to sit a spell. We began talking about being led by the Spirit of God. I told him about the Spirit speaking through Sister Sandy and God saying, "I'll show you a personality cult." I explained to him about if you are in your flesh when the word of God comes you will think it is foolish. He said he agreed with that. I also said that we all would die if the word of God stopped coming for us all. It is important that we are prepared ahead of time to receive the word of God for our lives. As I said previously, I sought after God for an answer for along time the night before Nick came knocking on our door. Well as he and I were talking, right out of my mouth came the answer I had prayed for the night before as to why my eyes got so dark and hazy, and almost to the point I could not see. What the Spirit said was, "Without Me you would be blind!" I spoke in tongues hoping Nick would too, but he did not. But, at least he did say Amen! When the word of God came I felt so blessed to have heard from God. He is so wonderful and always right. Without Him we are all blind to His thoughts, ways, and feelings. I pray we all keep our hearts in a condition to be able to react the right way when He speaks to us. I love it when He does speak. I thank my family for praying for me. I know God answered. I love my Jesus and my family, but most of all our God.
Pastor John, I am so thankful you are OK, and that your injury wasn't as bad as it could have been. When we first heard of your accident immediately the Spirit fell with a strong feeling of prayer. I am sure the feeling hit many of the family to pray for you. I remember praying, "God, don't let him have a very serious injury, such as severed artery, or ligaments, or veins. I know I did not know what to pray, but the Spirit did. That is why I am so grateful for the Holy Ghost that Jesus made available to us all. After reading your response to Margaret I began having a lot of thoughts about why this happened to you. The Spirit reminded me about the importance of prayer and a clean heart without condemnation. I remembered Jesus prayed one of the most important prayers of all time. He prayed, "Father make them one as you and I are one." So when I got home today I started looking up things on prayer. I looked in the TFT and TFE book as well as the KJV bible. Here is what I found. TFT (3/18) Just Ask TFT (5/21) Ask TFT (6/08) The Promises of God- In this particular TFT I found this in it. You said that you would not be here if Oral Roberts hadn't healed your daddy of cancer just a few years before you were born. Also it says Oral Roberts knew God loved people and that Oral Roberts loved people the way God loved people, with power. I thought in order for Bro. Roberts to have healed your daddy as well as the multitude of people he healed, he had to be praying and talking to God, and living right so that God would answer his prayer to heal the sick, make the deaf to hear, and the stutterer to speak plain. Make ones in wheel chairs stand and walk, make the blind to see. I believe God has many prayers. He wants to answer. He is waiting for the ones He has chosen to use to pray them. So considering all the dangers there are facing God's people we need to have our minds on them because I know God thinks of His people all the time. We have a connection through the Spirit, the same way Oral Roberts had a connection to heal people. TFT (7/08) Ask Seek and Knock TFE (7/24) The Payer of the Spirit Prayer Scriptures Acts 6:4 "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." James 5:15 "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." James 5:16 "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." Psalm 55:17 "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud; and he shall hear my voice." All of 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 Matt 21:22 "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. This is what I was thinking about all day. We have a good God who has all we need. You said you didn't know what God did this for. As for me, it gave me a lot to think about. God's people need prayer. And if He is waiting for anyone to pray, I pray we are ready to heed His call. I believe he heard our prayers for you and I think we have many things to pray for. Like the body of Christ to be one as the Father and the Son are one. So that we can get closer to the day when our dear Savior will come to take us off this dangerous and wicked world. Love you, Tony
Today was a wonderful day. I hope your day was pleasant as well. I got to spend 10 hrs at work pretty much by myself. We are having our end of the year counting of our inventory. Normally they put you in pairs to get the counting done faster, but I was alone all day. I could talk to Jesus all day. If some other spirit tried to influence me, Jesus would repeat what Paul said, "One died so that all would die." So whatever there is around us we do not have to be afraid. We just fall in love with the influence of the Holy Ghost. That is what Jesus died for. I look forward to what God will do and say next. I spoke in tongues all the way home from work. Now that is a good influence. If we follow the Spirit more we have a whole lot less time to follow anything foolish! Praise God!!! So overall I felt like Jesus was asking today, "Who's influence do you want to follow?" I pray we all choose the right one.
My name is Tony. I remember having questions once, just like you. Always wondering what was the right way to follow God. I am 37 years old, and I have had the Holy Ghost since September 2001. Before Jesus touched me I lived pretty wildly. Always in trouble, and always thinking thoughts like, I wish I were not doing these wrong things. I had been in and out of Christianity since I was 19. I would always get tired of doing wrong and start thinking of God, during these times. Then I found myself going to church. Through many experiences such as being sprinkled in a catholic church, or repeating a prayer after a man who told me if I except Jesus in my heart then I was saved. The last time I got under conviction, during one of those times when I would fall away and start living wildly again, I kept wondering in my thoughts to God when I would pray, “What is real, what is right, and what is truth.” So in June 2001, I went to a Billy Graham crusade, and thought I would rededicate my life to Jesus. At least that is what they told me I was doing. There was something different I went there this night. All who were present at the crusade, were invited to an alter call. At least 600 to 700 people in a football stadium standing all around me, each had a prayer partner with them. They handed each one of us a prayer package, and they started explaining to each and every one of us how to pray step by step, but I could hardly concentrate on what the man who was my partner was saying to me. Because I started looking around at all these people and I saw so many sincere hearts crying very hard. I know I will never forget what I saw that night on these faces. I saw real emotion and all those prayer partners had to offer was a prayer kit and a repeat after me prayer. From there I started going to a Baptist church where they taught water baptism, being totally submersed under water. I remember thinking right before the minister dunked me under and said I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and holy Spirit. My heart was racing a hundred miles per hour. I thought “All right! This is what I have been praying for.” I have been sprinkled, and I have said the sinner’s prayer, and was told I am saved. I even followed instruction from Billy Graham, but I never really changed. I always went back to what I hated more that anything Sin! So the minister dunked me and when he brought me up I remember thinking, “I’ll feel different really alive for the first time.” But my heart broke when I didn’t feel anything. So 2 months later after being baptized, I went through a very hurtful event. I went to the Baptist place wanting to play a song for other people getting baptized. So the minister asked if any one wanted to share anything with the one’s being baptized. I went up to him and whispered in his ear, that God had put it on my heart to play a song for the one’s baptized. He politely whispered back, “Maybe next week.” It broke my heart for him to make me feel like he was in charge and he decides who has something from God. So I left another church, but this time I didn’t want to go back to the world or my wild living ways. I remember getting a thought, a still small voice said, “Leave it all behind and seek me! Leave everything you though was right about Me (God), and just seek Me.” The bible says seek and you shall find, knock and I’ll answer. God was telling me just seek Him, and He would show me His Truth. God had been convicting my heart of sin, ever since I was 19, but mans outward ceremonies were getting in the way. So when I listened to the still small voice things changed. All those ceremonies never changed who I was, just a broken sinner who needed to know God. In August 2001, I met a man named Gary. I remember him telling me about these prayer meetings he used to go to. I heard him speak in tongues, and I had never heard such a sound before. One day I needed a job, so Gary told me about a man named Billy, and said I should go see him for a job, so I did. I went to see Billy, filled out the application, had an interview, but didn’t get the job. As I was leaving Billy followed me out to my car, and we started talking. Out of the blue Billy says, “I feel a lot of hurt from you.” I had never met this man before. I thought, how did he know I am hurting inside? He then said that God has something for me, if I had a willing heart. After our conversation we met somewhere to talk more. He told me about the same prayer meetings that Gary used to go to, but Gary had fallen away. God used a backslide brother to get me to a Holy Ghost filled Saint! We talked with Billy about Acts Ch2, where the men who followed Jesus received the holy Ghost baptism. Billy invited me to the next prayer meeting. Everything in me was coming alive. It was now September 2001. I went to the prayer meeting, and it wasn’t long until they started singing, dancing, shouting, and speaking in tongues! I was so excited at what I was feeling, because for so long all I wanted was to know Jesus, but all those ceremonies were in they way, until now. It was my third prayer meeting when I got the Holy Ghost and was born again. I had gone up for prayer and I feel back on the floor and laid there. I remember feeling more peace than I have ever felt in my life. It occurred to me that not one single person in the room told me come and get prayed for, and know one told me what to pray for. It seems that all I was doing was going by what I was feeling. So while I was still on the floor, I remember I head a voice, just like the one before that told me to leave it all behind and seek Me. The voice said “Stand Up!” With no delay I stood up and something hit me from my head all the way to my feet. It was very warm feeling, and then I started running all over that floor, shouting and dancing, and I heard speaking in tongues. I suddenly stopped, my eyes popped open, and I froze. Someone said don’t stop there you show them you got the Holy Ghost. Then that same power from God hit me again and it was even warmer and tingly than the first time. I didn’t realize the person I heard speaking in tongues was me. I spoke in tongues for a long time after the second touch from Jesus. So you see, all of those other things I mentioned earlier never changed me. I always went back to doing those sinful things. It took God’s Spirit on the inside to help me keep God’s commandments. Ephesians Ch 4 talks about one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. I followed many examples of baptism, but only one changed me, a broken hearted sinner into a new creature in Christ. That one baptism is the New Birth, the Holy Ghost baptism with a witness when you receive it from Jesus, and that is speaking in tongues as God’s Spirit speaks through you saying, “Abba Father”, which by we have received the Spirit of adoption, which says we are the Son’s on God. No man on earth can give you such a baptism. A year ago, God allowed me to write a song entitled "Stay in My World". With God's help that is what I have been doing - and I hope you will too! With Love in Christ,
Bro Tony
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