Out Of Trouble

When first filled with God’s precious Holy Ghost, I did not understand the heavenly benefits of this blessing. A tireless adventurer, I was constantly in and out of scrapes, often encountering real or potential physical harm. Once I was saved by the Almighty’s intervention when I was attacked by a merciless gang, bent on destroying me. I was in a new school, walking home with a group of friends when a gang of teens approached us, singled me out, took me by the hair and threw me to the ground to stomp my face. They just did not like me and were after me to cause my utter destruction. After they threw me to the ground however, the Lord intervened and sent a young protector who dispersed the group allowing me to flee home in safety.

On another occasion, I was challenged by a violent would be attacker who was out to show the neighborhood that I was an easy target. Having been schooled in the basics of boxing arts however, I managed to deck my challenger with one punch. In later years I found out that this same attacker has spent many years in the State Prison with multiple visible scars from knife wounds and other battles. But, during those early years, God protected me because I was a believer.

By the time I was “filled“ with the Holy Ghost, I had been in and out of the country, seen a lot of trouble, and had been saved from several life threatening issues. While in Africa, my car narrowly missed being hit by a 13 foot long snake as it fell hundreds of feet with a loud thud from a tree over the road. Had we driven another foot forward, the snake would have broken our windshield and killed my entire family. On another occasion in New Your city, I was saved from being assaulted by two vicious trained Doberman Pinschers attack dogs. When the dogs saw me, they stopped their vicious barking and ran up to me licking my leg to the amazement of their hostile owner. The Holy Ghost was with me during those times and I was slowly learning to recognize the blessings that came with being “filled”. It took many years , but finally I came to realize how wonderful is the blessing of being guided in truth by the Holy Ghost.

In John 16:13 Jesus says, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth.” (KJV). The word is simple and profound and it encompasses all that a human being could need for any sort of trouble. It took me many years to learn this truth. Now however, I can attest to the marvelous power and benefit’s the Holy Ghost brings to those who have repented and are save and finally have been “filled“ .

Take my life for example. If I had been filled with and led by the Holy Ghost before being attacked by a gang, the Spirit of Truth would have guided me in my walk home from school on that day. In being filled, one also must be led by the Holy Ghost. But, having been filled and led, there is no way I would not have been prepared for the battles I encountered. Just as sure as I know that God is with me today, I know that I am filled with God’s Holy Ghost and that I am prepared to meet every situation., every difficulty and every challenge. I still have difficulties, but I am confident that Jesus is with me and His Holy Ghost guides me and leads me the best and safest way and out of all trouble.

　

Is God Calling You?

The wonderful Power Of God Is made manifest In the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It was in the book of Acts that the believers first received the awesome power of God in the form of the Holy Ghost. The scripture says: "And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness." ( KJV Acts 4:31)

God's Injunction All Believers Is To Receive The Holy Ghost

In the book of Acts The Almighty promised the Holy Ghost through his servant Peter. He said, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." (Acts 2:38-39".

God Does Not Alter His Course

God does not change, when He speaks through His word, or through a legitimate prophet, through His Holy Spirit, or through the Living Word- His son Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, He does what he says He will do. He told us in His word, "For I am the Lord, I change not"- ( Malachi 3:6-KJV. (Hebrews 13:8 -KJV) If your Bible does not say these things, then you have a version that denies the power of God and you need to get the King's James version of the bible.

God Does Not Lie

Just remember, that God is who He says He is, he has not changed, and He will not change. If He said something, then it is true. If He said He will do something, then He will do what He promised. You can bank on His words and when you are filled with His powerful Holy Ghost, then His words will cause His power to manifest in your life. Having received His power, then you will receive one or more of His wonderful gifts. "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the Same Spirit".."For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit". "To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another diverse kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues"

You Must Have Faith In God

Whatever you currently believe or do not believe about the Living God, one thing you must have faith above all else is that God does not lie. All you have to do is to look into His word to see that this is true. To Abram he promised "..I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:.." (Genesis 13:16 KJV). The Abraham believed and had faith even until he was a very old man. But, in spite of Abraham’s advanced age, God did as He had promised. "For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age,.." (Genesis 21:2) The scripture explains that Abraham, "..being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body, now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb," (Romans 4:19 KJV).

Are You Called By The Almighty?

God has said that the Holy Ghost is for all that are called of Him. Are you so called? if so, receive ye the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost Nudges Me About Slugs

Personally, I have never liked slugs, and I usually don't talk about them either. But, just as the
 Holy Ghost, shows us things to come, He is also the Spirit of Truth and guides us into all truth. So when I first had a dream about slugs, I wondered just what the dream meant. After all, some dreams are good, and many are not so good and are about things that require prayer. So when I first had a dream about slugs, I wondered just what the dream meant. After all, some dreams are good, and many are not so good and are about things that require prayer.
Earlier in the year, I had had my fill of the little creatures. I had a backyard garden which the slugs were determined to destroy one way or another. I used slug bait and slug traps and all the slug eradication gimmicks I could muster, but in the end, after the garden had been cleared away, the slugs were still around. I had not resorted to killing them on sight, but I was at that point when I had the slug dream.

After I had that sluggy dream I prayed and the Lord through His precious Holy Ghost answered. I was still shocked about the topic of my prayers, but the Holy Ghost even the Spirit of Truth dealt with me concerning a subject that I did not care for.
Following my prayers, some thought and a little research, I found out that the Lord wanted me to realize that slugs are on the His clean-up crew. They eat the dead leaves, fungus and earth worms that litter grass and grounds in the fall, spring and early summer. They do in fact, really have a wonderful purpose. They are a seriously needed part of God's creation. I was shown all of this by the Lord through the nudging of His Holy Ghost, not to indiscriminately destroy His little creations, the slugs that help to clean up waste materials on the ground. Praise the Lord for all His marvelous creatures and His wonderful creation!

The Holy Spirit In Any Language

    

     In Spanish He is called, del Espíritu Santo. In French He is called du Saint-Esprit. While in Italian He is Spirito Santo, and in German He is referred to as des heiligen Geistes. In the Book of Acts in English, He is the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost. 

      In the book of Acts when Peter encountered a group of persons who were mocking those who had been filled with the Holy Ghost, he said: "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." —Acts 2:38b. His message was clear, and it was indeed for all men and women who desired salvation.

     In Ephesians 5:18-21, Paul continued the message of the way the Holy Spirit should impact a Christians live life when he spoke to a group of Spirit Filled Christians who did not know their own power. He told them: " ...be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" Ephesians 5:18-19.

     In German that Paul's message is read as : Und berauschet euch nicht mit Wein, was eine Liederlichkeit ist, sondern werdet voll Geistes, —und redet miteinander in Psalmen und Lobgesängen und geistlichen Liedern und singet und spielet dem Herrn in eurem Herzen und saget allezeit Gott, dem Vater, Dank für alles, in dem Namen unsres Herrn Jesus Christus, und seid dabei einander untertan in der Furcht Christi. —Epheser 5:18-21

     While in Spanish Paul's message is: "No os embriaguéis con vino, en lo cual hay disolución; antes bien sed llenos del Espíritu, hablando entre vosotros con salmos, con himnos y cánticos espirituales, cantando y alabando al Señor en vuestros corazones; dando siempre gracias por todo al Dios y Padre, en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo. Someteos unos a otros en el temor de Dios". —Efesios 5:18-21

     No matter what the language is, or who the people are, the message from above is clear, Christians must ,"BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD", or SEI VOM GEIST GOTTES ERFUELLT or SED LLENOS DEL ESPIRITU DE DIOS. And subsequently, "......after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me. —Acts 1:8a
     
May GOD richly bless you all and may you all remember to: :Praise the Lord always and be filled with His Spirit!!!　
　
　

That Burning Feeling Within

        In the song, “You Must Be Born Again,” the words speak about being empowered by the Holy Ghost when they say “you have that burning churning ”1^. Other persons baptized by the power of the Holy Ghost² have experienced sensations that they described differently.

       C.G. Bevington - who traveled the American Deep South during the 1920’s and 30’s, talked about praying for three hours under a tree until he “was lifted up onto a plane he had never visited before. He continued to express that experience by adding, “ I became very happy and rose from under that tree most wonderfully blessed. I believe I was regenerated then, but not yet knowing what regeneration was and being so young, Satan kept me from realizing that this was conversion,3” 

        Charles Finney described his experience differently. He says: 4     ‘…the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love; for I could not express it in any other way. It seemed like the very breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me, like immense wings.’
     ‘No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in heart. I wept aloud with joy and love; and I do not know but I should say, I literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of my heart.’

       Corrie Ten Boom relied heavily on the scriptures to talk about and to document her Holy Ghost experiences. First of all, she relied on Acts 1:8 where after his death and resurrection, Jesus told the disciples,” You will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” In her book, Corrie Ten Boom, Her Life, Her Faith, 5 the author goes on to add that, Corrie stated that she knew that she had received that same power. Corrie words were, “some people call it the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Others call it the second blessing, I don’t try to give it a name. It was a new the beginning of a new spiritual blessing that brought me into a deeper experience with the Lord and a greater sense of His abiding presence.”

        After I was first baptized in the Holy Ghost, a joyous abiding oneness with the Spirit of God is also what I felt. It was as though I suddenly came alive with the Holy Ghost presence and power from within my physical and spiritual being. The realization which hit me at that moment was awesome. This was many, many years ago, but I remember it as though it happened only yesterday. I felt the intimate presence of God’s power from within. It was a joyous, indescribably happy experience! God’s powerful Holy Ghost seemed to convey the thought that, “I am glad to abide with you”. Or even more poignantly He seemed to say “I’m happy to have you! “I am happy here with you!” I do not describe my Holy Ghost experience as a “burning churning within“. My experience was rather a wonderfully bubbly, exuberant presence from within. But it has all boiled down to what Corrie Ten Boom experienced as a wonderful “ spiritual blessing that has brought me into a deeper experience with the Lord, and a greater sense of His abiding presence“.7　
　
1. Gospel Song Lyrics; "You Must Be Born Again."
2. KJV Bible, Acts 1:8
3. P. 13, Remarkable Miracles I Have Seen. C.G. Bevington. Bridge Publishing, Inc. South Plainfield, NJ 07080, 1992.
4. P 55, “Charles Grandison Finney: The Powerful Life”, They Found The Secret, V. Raymond Edmond, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan, 49506, 1975.
5. Corrie Ten Boom, Her Life, Her Faith. Carole C. Carlson, Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1983.
6. Ibid p. 171.
7. Ibid p. 171.
　
　
　
　
　
　
　

　

The Coming Move Of Holy Ghost

Many prophetic pronouncements today speak of a coming move of the Holy Ghost. In a prophecy by
Douglas B. Clark, the speaker says, "God is raising up visionaries who see by the Spirit the potential for what He is about to do. These spiritual entrepreneurs will flow with the Spirit and hear the voice of God with great clarity. They will be sensitive to the needs of the people in a way like we have never seen before."

God's Precious Holy Spirit- the Holy Ghost is invisible to the natural man but when a man has discernment, he clearly sees the results of God's activity on the earth. In Romans 1:20 (KJV), the apostle Paul states: "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and godhead; so that they are without excuse."

The natural, man wants to give excuses. That man wants to continue in blindness following the dictates of man made science and vain philosophies.  The natural man also likes to discredit and to deny the things of God.  But the apostle Paul states that the things of God are clearly seen. Just as the man who sees a burnt building would say, "there was a fire in this place," so men and women who see an outpouring of the Holy Ghost shall surely be able to say, "there was a Holy Ghost fire in this place". The difference is that whereas the man made fire results in destruction and ruin, the fire that results from the move of the Holy Ghost leaves people changed.   Men, women and even little children are changed through repentance and salvation.  They are changed through healing miracles, and they are delivered from all manner of oppressing forces including depression, demon possession, penury as well as deliverance from a multitude of societal ills including, social diseases and social ostracism with the end result being their subsequent testimonies of  renewal and the awesome power of God!

Dumitru Duduman - A Holy Ghost Filled Prophet Of GOD

Born in Romania in 1932, Dumitru Duduman was brought up "..in a Christian home..""in the knowledge of God"1. After entering into his teenage years, however, Dumitru rejected God and signed up for Marine School to become a Marine Officer. Then, when he became an officer under a communist government, Duduman also became a persecutor of believers in Jesus Christ working zealously to confiscate Bibles on the Black Sea.
Duduman increased in rebelliousness and hostility towards the things of God seizing Bibles and arresting missionaries until one day he heard from heaven. God spoke to him in power, asking him not to destroy, but to help Christians unload the Bibles that they had brought to Constina, Romania. Subsequently, Dumitru obeyed the voice of God and helped believers who brought Bibles into Romania. But he did not fully come to the Lord until years later when he was touched by the ministry of the Holy Ghost through song and was then saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.2

As a new believer. Dumitru continued to grow in the power and the knowledge of the Almighty. Initially, being led through the Holy Spirit to preach, later on, he was led to smuggle Bibles into Russia. He grew Spiritually and in the power of the Almighty until God's Holy Spirit began to lead him into far-reaching tasks and difficult challenges. Finally in 1984, the Lord lead Dumitru to total dependence upon Him by asking him to take his entire family and to travel to an unknown lands.3

A highpoint of this time and of the Holy Spirit's leading in Dumitru’s life came when he was led to travel to the United States of America. In America, Dumitru had no personal contacts, no Christian or church contacts or friends, no money and no knowledge of the language. Dumitru was heartbroken and distraught.4 He had married and had a wife and children. He had obeyed the voice of God and he had been led by the Holy Ghost to smuggle Bibles and had suffered persecutions, tortures and severe beatings at the hand of his enemies. But, with great fear and trepidation he obeyed the leading of the Lord. He gathered up his meager possessions with his wife and his children and traveled thousands of miles to a land he did not know.

Shortly after arriving in the United States, Dumitru was destitute. On the evening of his greatest fear coupled with great feelings of subjection and abandonment, he sat homeless, penniless and alone and cried out to the Almighty asking, " Why did you bring me to this place to die, I could have died in Romania where my family has a home!"5

 The Almighty spoke to Duduman's through his tears, answering his questions and pointing out the reasons why he was sent to America, and the answers were not pretty. But God, in His love for all people assured Duduman that he had a word through him for America. God honored His words to Duduman and sent him across America, to prophesy. Duduman traveled across American as well as to other lands and even back to his homeland in Romania. He spent his last day on earth on May 5, 1997, but his prophetic warnings to America can be seen on various internet sites and are recorded in his book"6. Dumitru Duduman was saved, a Prophet of God, filled with the Holy Ghost and he was used by the Almighty to bring a powerful message to America.

1 Hand Of Help Ministries
2 Ibid.
3 Dumitru Duduman's comments, Prophecy Club Gathering, Portland, Oregon, 1996.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Dumitru Duduman. ThroughThe Fire Without Burning, A True Story Of A Pastor Facing Communist Persecution.     Hand Of Help Inc. 1992

Holy Ghost Traveller - Samuel Morris

Samuel Morris was born around 1873 on the continent of Africa near what is today the country of Liberia.1  He was from the Kru people and his original name wasn't Samuel, it was Kaboo. His father was the leader of his people and young Kaboo was a favored son and a prince.

Kaboo nearly lost his life when he was beaten by a drunken and murderous band from a rival village while his parents and the other villagers were killed.   He was then beaten, tortured  and left to die.   As he was only a boy at the time and there would have been no hope for him because his people's enemies had determined to end his life forever. 

God however was Kaboo/Samuel's  hope because God had another plan.  Even though Samuel Morris was not saved and had never even heard about the Lord Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, God knew the boy's heart and He intervened in his life.  The Lord acted upon His plan when He sent a blinding light to Kaboo's  murderous enemies and spoke saying,  "Rise up Kaboo! Rise up and run away!"2  The boy was astounded by the strange and unseen power interceding in his life, but he did not hesitate, as the ropes that bound him, "fell from his hands", and he fled through the forest and to eventual freedom.3  After a difficult trek to freedom, he eventually found his way to a farm run by missionaries.  On the farm the boy Kaboo began to heal as he was fed, housed employed and clothed and subsequently he recognized the power that had intervened in his life.   He later accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior and began his journey.

As a Christian, Kaboo developed a love and a hunger in his heart to know all that he could about the Almighty and His Son.  He also desired to find out all he could about  the Holy Ghost, but his teacher and mentor could not help.  As his desire to know more about the Holy Ghost deepened, Kaboo's struggles continued until he made up his mind to travel to America to seek someone who could teach him about the Holy Ghost.

Kaboo became a Holy Ghost traveller as his desire for the Holy Spirit caused him to embark upon a journey of thousands of miles to an unfamiliar land to seek that precious Spirit.  When he arrived in America, his name was changed Samuel Morris when he found what he was looking for.  And Samuel Morris remembered today not only for his remarkable journey but also for the spiritual impact that he made upon the lives of a multitude of people and for the evidence of the Holy Ghost in his life.4 

1 p19, W. Terry Morris, Samuel Morris, The Apostle Of Simple Faith. Barbour Publishing, Inc., Uhrichsville, Ohio, 1996. 
2 Ibid, pp 38 - 39 W. 
3 Ibid, p 43.
4 Ibid, p173.

The Holy Spirit Led The Revival At Azusa Street

When the Holy Spirit fell on the participants of the revival at Azusa Street, Los Angeles California it was referred to as a "glorious outporing of the Holy Spirit"1. All participants, women, men, young and old fell under the "power". of the Holy Ghost. They came "seeking God."2

The building wasn't anything to look at. It was old, needing multiple repairs and was referred to as "tumble down shack".3 The people were rich and poor, educated and illiterate and they were led by William J. Seymoure, a poor, humble Black Man,  but it was an interracial, Holy Spirit led, powerful group.4
To be sure there were some who came not to receive the Holy Ghost. They came instead to scoff and to discredit what was happening, but as one actual participant reported:
"Presumptuous men would sometimes come among us. Especially preachers who would try to spread themselves, in self-opinionating. But their effort was short lived. The breath would be taken from them. Their minds would wander, their brains reel. Things would turn black before their eyes. They could not go on."5

Another participant simply stated:
I wish I could describe what I saw. Prayer and worship were everywhere. The altar area was filled with seekers; some were kneeling; others were prone on the floor; some were speaking in tongues. Everyone was doing something; all seemingly lost in God. I simply stood and looked, for I had never seen anything like it. 6

It is most often said that the Azusa Street Revival started what is now the Pentecostal Church movement. Which seems to show that that the Holy Spirit movement led men and women to do that which God had intended. That is to say, God filled who sought Him in earnest all with His Holy Spirit- the Holy Ghost. People were filled with the Holy Ghost with speaking in tongues. Those who needed healings were healed and those who needed to be delivered from demons were delivered. Worship was the bottom line however, God was in that place and the people truly sought the Lord and they received His fullness as a result.

1 Services and Worship, Azusa Street Revival, Wikopedia.
2 Azusa Street Testimonies, River Of Revival Ministries, http://www.azusastreet.org/
3 Conditions, Azusa Street Revival, Wikopedia.
4 About AzusaRevivla Ministries, http://www.azusastreet.org/
5 Frank Bartleman, Azusa Street Testimonies, Ibid
6 Ernest S. Williams. Azusa Street Testimonies, Ibid

Smith Wigglesworth Was Filled With The Holy Ghost

Smith Wigglesworth was a powerful and anointed man of God.  After many trials and personal struggles, he was filled with the Holy Ghost and his life's work changed.  He became one of the most powerful, and Godly men of his time.  His comments about being filled with the Holy Ghost are as follows:
 　
The multitude chose out seven men to serve tables. They were doubtless faithful in their appointed tasks, but we see that God soon had a better choice for two of them. Philip was so full of the Holy Ghost that he could have a revival wherever God put him down. Man chose him to serve tables, but God chose him to win souls. O, if I could only stir you up to see that as you are faithful in performing the humblest office, God can fill you with His Spirit and make you a chosen vessel for Himself, and promote you to a place of mighty ministry in the salvation of souls and in the healing of the sick. There is nothing impossible to a man filled with the Holy Ghost. It is beyond all human comprehension. When you are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, God will wonderfully work wherever you go.


When you are filled with the Spirit you will know the voice of God. I want to give you one illustration of this. When I was going out to Australia recently, our boat stopped at Aden and at Bombay. In the first place the people came round the ship selling their wares, beautiful carpets and all sorts of oriental things. There was one man selling some ostrich feathers. As I was looking over the side of the ship watching the trading, a gentleman said to me, "Would you go shares with me in buying that bunch of feathers?" What did I want with feathers? I had no use for such things and no room for them either. But the gentleman put the question to me again, "Will you go shares with me in buying that bunch?" The Spirit of God said to me, "Do it."
    And that is just how Smith Wigglesworth was.  God spoke to him and he (Wigglesworth) just did it!  He succeeded in the prayer of faith resulting in thousands of persons being healed of all manner of diseases.  In fact, he prayed with his wife- who was filled with the Holy Ghost also- and God healed him of a long-standing physical ailment as well as healing him of stammering.  Smith Wigglesworth preached, prayed, led the lost to salvation and prayed for healings until in his later years, God just took him.  He was not even sick, he did not lay around on a bed of affliction, God just took him one day while he was standing and talking to another person.  God Abides!!

Smith Wigglesworth, "Ever Increasing Faith: Chapter 11": What It Means to Be Full of the Holy Ghost"

The Holy Spirit Gives The Truth About Things To Come

I am amazed at the way the Holy Ghost prepares me for things to come.  I am also very ashamed at how long it has taken me to learn that He is the Spirit of Truth  and take it to heart.

In His word, the Lord Jesus Christ said, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will shew you things to come, " -St. John 16:13, Old King James Bible.  That is the truth, and I had to learn the hard way to recognize and accept this.

A few years ago, when I was living in New York city, I needed to see a dentist.  Now I did not know New York, and I knew even less about the dentists there.  My spouse however,  knew of a coworker who had just had dental work done.  So I talked to the coworker, and from my human perspective, she had received very good treatment and fine dental work from an upscale dentist on Madison avenue. "What luck," I thought.   But when I prepared to go to that dentist, I got a gentle nudging from the Holy Ghost which said, "do not go".  It was not the audible voice of God which I do hear from time to time, but it was the unmistakable leading of the Holy Ghost.

My flesh told me that the Lord would not tell me not to go to the dentist.  After all, I thought, I have done my research, and all indications tell me that I now have the opportunity to have my aching tooth taken care of.   So I went.  I went directly to the dentist that was recommended by the person who had had very excellent dental work done there.

My aching tooth was patched up and at the suggestion of this New York dentist, and at his suggestion, I had my four back crowns re cemented.  All was well until I thought.   However,  two years later in a far away city and a distant state, I was at work when I bit into a snack and I felt something like a nail shoot through my head!  "Ouch", I yelled! My head was on fire!  I was in such pain that  I wept much of that day and the next until I got an emergency appointment at a trusted dental clinic. To my utter dismay however, I went to that clinic only to be told that I had been horribly deceived!

"Who did this work,"  exclaimed the dentist while examining my aching mouth!  She was horrified and disgusted all at the same time.  And as for me, I  looked  at her with a growing sense of powerlessness and shame! 

"The person who worked on your crowns", she said, " simply sawed the top off of them and cemented a substitute on top!"  The teeth underneath the fake crowns had deteriorated so much that they could not be repaired.  "I'm sorry", she said, "there is nothing that we can do except remove what is left of those teeth, we cannot fix them!" 

It is now many years later, I am missing four precious molars, and I am still smarting about the way I ignored the nudging from the Holy Spirit and followed my flesh ignoring the leading of the Holy Spirit of God!  I praise God, that I survived this painful lesson!  I praise the blessed name of Jesus, my savior, and I thank him for all he has done for me.  Praise God!  I now know and understand the importance of  attending and listening to the nudging from the Holy  Ghost!

God's Love So Real And So So Powerful!

I didn't understand just how powerful GOD'S love was until I recently had extreme difficulties.  I was feeling lonely, and sick and I was really down.  Truthfully, I had forgotten all about John 3:16- "For GOD so loved the world that HE gave...".  What more can I say. 

How could I forget the scripture that every child learns in Sunday School.  But I did forget!  I wasn't feeling well, and I found that I just could not eat!  Now how positively sick is that!  When you can't eat, you cannot go on.  You cant' work, you can't sleep, you can't do anything that is worth doing, and eventually of course you will die.

Nevertheless, a few days ago, I sat down at the dinner table with my meal. I looked at my food with disgust and thought," I'm just not going to be able to eat this".  Then my sister walked in the room.

My sister and I never eat together because our schedules are very different, so I usually eat alone.  She is Saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.  However, she is not overly demonstrative about her salvation. She just lives her salvation as best she knows how.  Mentally, I personally did not even think that her type of Salvation meant much.  But God Abides, and He knows her and the presence of His Holy Ghost in her life is more powerful than I even suspected.

When my my sister sat down, she said nothing about my predicament, I don't even think that she knew that I was having a problem.  Instead, she was genuinely focused on troubles at her work place.  As she sat across from me, however, I felt the Love of GOD and His power radiating from her presence!  My shoulders relaxed and I began to eat.  The food tasted great and I ate everything in front of me! I actually felt the Love of God radiating from the saved Holy Ghost filled woman across from me.  And the love from that radiating, Holy Ghost power stayed with me the rest of that night and is still with me even now. And my sister still doesn't know what the power of GOD in her brought me through!

Praise God For The Holy Ghost

Believers,


We are living in a time of challenges, deceptions and onslaughts to the Gospel of Jesus Christ!  We must all fight the fight of faith as never before!  Many of the old saints of God and powerful prayer warriors are moving on, and leaving the battle to us, and many of us are not ready to fight!


If you are saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, then your battle is raging and you are probably going through difficulties that you never imagined possible.!!  If you are saved and not filled with the Holy Ghost, then seek to be filled! 


I thank The Almighty that through His Holy Ghost, His Precious Holy Spirit, I am made ready to fight a battle that I often don't understand.  


When I first became Holy Spirit filled, I rejoiced in the ongoing presence of  God's Holy Spirit.  Later on, I realized how that the Holy Ghost was guiding me through storms and difficulties even before I knew they existed. 


On one occasion, while I was driving down the freeway and the Holy Spirit nudged and warned me that was not keeping to my lane of traffic.  I moved over just in time for a car to speed down the lane next to me! 


When I was jobless, I prayed to the Almighty and His precious Holy Spirit directed me to the perfect job for me. There was no unproductive searching, no false starts and the doors opened as I approached.  Then I walked right into that position and enjoyed great success! 


The Holy Ghost is always with me and I'm never alone!  Praise God for His Son Jesus and for the Comforter, His Holy Spirit!!