Sometimes we have to go back, and remember the past so that we can move on and believe God for bigger and better things in the future. Like when God delivered the Israelites out of the hand of the Egyptians and instituted the passover to remember it, or like Joshua and Moses when they won in battle, built an alter of rememberance to the Lord, so that their generation and the future generations would not forget the works of the Lord. This is a Chronicle of the works of God in my life as it has happened so far. This is not a fabrication, I am not making stuff up, there are witnesses and you can confirm them for yourself. God is real, and he does intervene in the lives of men and women, even today.
In March of 1995 when I was 15 my Grandpa Tiny was in the hospital with congestive heart failure, I was in the room at one point when his oxygen dropped real low and as a result the nurses came running in worried they might have to revive him. Well that night as I was lying in bed watching television, a Billy Graham crusade came on and I heard him preach the word of God with boldness, and he said that we were all sinners and that we must repent (turn away from our sin) and believe and trust in Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God. He also talked of the grace and mercy and healing power of God, and when he gave the alter call I knelt down beside my bed weeping and sobbing and gave my life to the Lord. I also asked God to heal my grandpa, and he did. The very next time I went to see him was at home and he was completely well. Also I came to find out that my Mom had got saved the very same night as me, only at a different time and she also had prayed for God to heal my grandpa. How awesome is that? Well it gets better. About a week later my Mom and I both got baptized on the same day and filled with the Holy Ghost. That is when I first spoke in tongues and learned that God had given me a prayer language of my very own and I have prayed in it just about eveyday since. God is so good.
One day the Church that I was Baptized in Morning Star Tabernacle Apostolic now Agape International Cathedral, had a prayer walk. We called it the Jericho Prayer Walk because we walked around the street of the church silently praying for revival 7 times and when we finished we all ran into the church and shouted as loud as we could praising and worshiping
God and believing that he would break the walls of the devil in Delaware. Well there are two things I want to tell you about this story, the first one is that it was supposed to rain all day long according to the weather forecast and when I left my house it was pouring the rain, it was cloudy and there was no end in sight. So I prayed the whole forty-five minute drive there that God would stop the rain as I am sure many others were also. I commanded the clouds to go away and that it would be sunny and clear for our prayer walk in the name of Jesus. Would you believe that the entire time, it was sunny and there was not one drop of rain! I am telling you the truth ask anyone who was there and after it was over it started raining again. The other thing that I wanted to share is that God did bring Revival. I remember God coming down in the services, and people getting saved, healed, delivered, and filled with the Holy Ghost. It was Awesome! That was one of the best times in my life and I learned about the real tangible, presence of the Lord and the power of prayer.
I remember too when my Aunt Nancy got diagnosed with cancer. The doctors had said that she only had like one year at the most, but we all prayed for her. We annointed her with oil and laid hands on her, and agreed in Faith believing that God would heal her and he did. Although the cancer later came back, she was at the time completely healed and lived like five more years after that. Thank you Jesus!
I think it was around 1998 or 1999, my Mom’s dog, a little toy fox terrier named Mickey got hit by a car. He had been completely ran over and had he not started yelping and screaming we would have probably never known it. As soon as we heard him we ran out to see what had happened. He could not move his hind legs at all, he was pulling himself around with his front legs and every time he would try to walk he would yelp and scream. He had blood coming out of his nose and ears, and we wrapped him in a towel and put him in my car. I thought we was going to have to take him to the vet and put him down. I was crying uncontrollably at the time, it was a surprise I could even drive but I laid my hand on him and started praying. Lord please heal Mickey, I pray in the name of Jesus, be made whole and he was. When I got to the vet he took an x-ray and did an inspection and said it looked like he might have a broken collar bone but that he should be fine. He said to leave him in a cage for a week or so until it healed, but when he got home he darted out of his cage and ran all the way around the house jumping on and off of the furniture and he has been fine every since. Hallelujah!
When I went to Hocking College in the fall of 1999 I fell away from God and went into a backslid state, and I believe that if I would have died in my sins I would have went to hell. One night I was out drinking and partying with friends, and it was real foggy that night and the roads were slick and my buddy Scott was driving, and his girlfriend Sarah was in the passengers seat, and my girlfriend at the time was in the back with me, we were riding down the road at like 70 or so and Scott must not have seen the stop sign in time because all I remember is the tires squeeling and us going up and over the guardrail. None of us had our seatbelts on and Sarah was pregnant at the time. We landed in a field about a 100 feet away but it was a miracle that we survived because there was a telephone pole on one side and an electrical transformer on the other side and we missed them both by inches. I had hit my head on the roof of the car, and we were all shook up but glad to be alive. I believe that was God’s devine hand of providence that kept me from dying that night. Not long after that I was going to class hung over and a Gideon was outside my dorm passing out Bibles. I had an extreme headache but when he handed me that Bible I felt the convicting power of the Holy Spirit so strong I began to break out in tears. I knew what I was doing was wrong. I then left college without graduating and came home where I began the process of turning my life around and finding the true meaning of real repentance. Praise the Lord!
After 9-11-01 I really started to get serious about God again, I started having Bible Study and prayer at Honda where I had been hired on full-time. After about a year of sitting by myself and praying everynight that God would bring Revival at Honda, people started coming. Every night after work on second shift we would have about a half an hour of Bible Study and prayer. God blessed it so much that at one point in time I think there were 12 or 13 people who came at one time. We all took up two whole tables in the lunchroom. I remember this one girl named Jennifer who came who told us that she had been bleeding in a feminine way and that it would not stop. That night we annointed her with oil and we all laid hands on her, I felt an electricity that night like I have never felt before or after go out of me. From that moment forward she was healed, she came back in and told us so the very next day and I invited her to visit my church. God did an awesome work that night, and I was just thankful that he allowed me and all of us who prayed that night to be his vessels.
Acts 16:31 says “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, and your house.” I claimed this scripture after I got saved in Faith over my whole family, and not just my immediate family but my whole family, blood relatives, adopted relatives, all of my family. I prayed for them everyday and I am thankful to say that all of my Grandparents that were not saved at the time did get saved before they died. My Grandpa Tiny, my Grandpa Gary, my Grandpa Roy, my Great Grandpa Bud all gave their lives to the Lord and I can rest assured that I will see them again when I make it to heaven. I am thankful to say that all of my siblings have been saved and baptized as well as both of my Dad’s. I cannot tell you enough how amazingly awesome God is! Now I just pray everyday that God would keep us all who are still alive and that we will all make it to that great reunion in the sky.
I am also thankful that God saw fit to give me a Godly wife. That too is in itself a miracle. I did not deserve a wife such as Chanda but I am so blessed and so thankful for a wife like her. She is my buttercup, and I love and cherish her. She has helped me in some of the hardest times of my life, and at times in my walk with God that I have felt myself slipping away from God she has helped to keep me in line. She has challenged me in my convictions, and helped me to overcome obstacles I probably could have never overcame on my own. God did not bring her to me until I gave up that worldly dating mess, and said “I don’t care if I never marry and am single for the rest of my life, if I don’t find the one that you created just for me.” I had said in my heart that I would be happy just being single and serving God with all of my heart. Then I met Chanda on my birthday I think in 2004, we did a six month courtship, she moved out here from Kansas and we got married on May 5th and the rest is history. Thank you Jesus!
When I got married I also was in debt, not major debt, but enough to be living paycheck to paycheck and not have any extra. I had a couple thousand dollars on Credit Cards and like $20,000 or so of vehicle debt. I read a booklet that my buddy Carl gave me by Creflo Dollar on How to get out of Debt God’s way. That is the best Godly advice I have ever read on finances ever. I realized that debt is sin, the borrower is the slave to the lender, and I began to make war on my debt. I already paid my tithes so the doors of blessing were already open. I began to speak to my situation, and believe God for my deliverance. Then I took small steps toward getting out. I paid off my highest interest credit cards first, then I closed them out, after the one was paid off I took the money I paid on that every month and put it on the next highest interest loan. Until today I am happy to say I am completely debt free! Our last car we bought we paid cash for, and the house we are buying is through land contract, no interest, no loan. Glory to God.
I have seen whole Stadiums packed out with people from all different walks of life, different kinds of denominations, cultures, and races coming together in unity and love praying 24/7 for revival and the presence of God coming down in the midst of them like at The Call in Detroit on 11-11-11.
I have seen people delivered from Lust, Drugs, Depression, Alchoholism, Cigarette addiction, and all kinds of stuff.
I have seen real devils cast out of people, people healed of all kinds of sicknesses and diseases, Miracles, and just about everything but the dead being raised back to life, and call me nuts but I believe that too is possible. Update: One day when I was volunteering at the Steam Threshers in Plain City at the tent we had set up for our Church, an old man sat down at a picnic table and just fell over on the ground. I don’t know if he had a heart attack or heat exhaustion or what but he looked like he had died right there in front of my eyes. I yelled at Pastor Mike, my Pastor at the time and he ran to get help, I think Brother Carl, Tim or someone called 9-1-1 and I started praying. After the abulance arrived they performed CPR on the man I think but whatever they did they were able to revive him. I believe that God answered my prayer that day and brought him back to life.
These are just a few of the works of God that I have experienced firsthand in my lifetime, but I am sure that there are many, many, more. God is real, he is not some fairy tale, fable, or bedtime story. He is good, all the time, in every way and he is always there just waiting for us to cry out to him and put him to the test, he is able to do above and beyond all we could ever think or ask. All things really are possible to those who will only believe. So why be clogged up, stopped up, stagnant, unhealthy, unholy, unprosperous, and not dare to believe God for the impossible? I have, I am, and I will continue to do so until the day I die. I dare you to do the same.
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