Here is my story. Lets see if you see anything similar. I grew up in a christian home. When I was young my mother became very ill. I was to young to understand all the inns and out but she was bleeding to death.
My parents are born again spirit filled Christians who love Jesus radically and run their house according to Jesus.
They chose to believe God. Jesus graciously, supernaturally touched my mother and she was completely healed. Let me back up to before I was born. I'm the youngest of seven and the majority of us were born at home. My older sister, Anna, was born dead. My father hung on to Jesus and Jesus came through raising her to life. I grew up in an atmosphere of believing God.
I was saved very young and when i was around 9 I was baptized in the Holy Spirit well just sitting in a church service. I began speaking in tongues and the people around me starting rejoicing. Yes I believe the only initial evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues.
I had a very tormented child hood without really even knowing it, because God protected me. I often spent sleep screaming and being thrown out of my bed. I didn't understand the things I saw. They were demons. I often suffered with asthma as a child. It was not any fun. One day well playing out doors I had an attack. Asthma is a devil. I got upset and had had enough. I had heard and seen the power of God. I enjoyed listening to cassette tapes by a man by the name of David Hogan. That day I went into my room closed the door and put on a tape and started fighting the devil. I walked out healed and have been ever since. My life is marked with strange experiences of seeing into the Spiritual world. Little did I know what this world of demons was going bring. For the devil is like a lion seeking who he can kill. When I was thirteen I hit the rebellious stage. I got into a serious fight with my parents and ran away from home. Being young it didn't take long before I was hungry. I was on my way to a park to sleep that night when my oldest sister caught up to me. Her words brought me home. May the Lord show her kindness for her kindness. (she no longer attends our church and has since gone back on much of what she believed, God is good) Still in the age of thirteen i began doubting God was real. One night while laying in bed I told God with all honesty, if your real I will follow you. A short time later my parents took me to a church service to see a man by the name of Bobby Conner speak. That man used by God told what I had told God while laying on my bed and said "guess what He's real" That night I received a touch from God that changed my life forever. I was introduced to the presence of God in a new real awesome living way. God began to talk to me in the night season. The presence of God would come into my room and get all over me. He is wonderful! My life from there was marked with triumph and tragedy. Experiences that even now looking back is like " o yeah that happened".
The devil did his best to kill me and much of those years were spent in a war with the devil that raged and waned. Angels and demons...witches and warlocks(don't know how much you know about Spiritual warfare or if you bleieve in it) God was present through it all. I graduated k-12 and went into the work force and found that the devil even followed me their. But betterthen that the Holy Spirit moved and worked in awesome ways. (i hate working night shifts, things come out in people at night that are most amazing) I soon descoverd it was a good idea to go to colledge. That was one of the best decisions of my life. While attending colledge I got to preach the gospel with signs and wonders. Preaching is not without persacution. One day after being told off by an out right heathen I just sat down away from the groupe that I had been sharing with, a little upset. I looked up and a sign appeared in a computer screen sized cloud right in the room. It was an exclimation mark. God does have a sence of humor. One day after hearing complete sinners who hate Jesus tell of how well their grade point avrage was, I decided that I was going to have a chat with God. Hear I am a born again Spirit filled Christian who loves Jesus and my grades are not 4.0's! He took care of that for me! Did you know God can change grades? One day while in the parkinging lot God told me I was going to get another 4.0. I was up agaisnt the toughest classes of the year so I started doubting Him. Word to the wise. Never doubt God. Boy did He show me up! There were two classes that were going to be a problem in my mind. The one the teacher out right gave me an A. The second? My average was an 89..math....gerrrr one point short....but wait.....before I left the teacher stood up, shook my hand and said " I'll see what I can do to get ya one more point" bame.....God doesn't lie. Its fun to serve Jesus!
After graduation I started the biggest job of my life. I traveled around The united states making a lot of money and not really serving Jesus like I use to. I knew it to....I wasn't happy. So, God in His amazing love allowed something to happen to me. Not many know what. To this day I don't remeber all that happend. I can recall vividly the day....and the days after.... It was the devil. I became seriously ill. The illness became so extreme, at one point i was thought to be dead. I could not eat drink or sleep for about a week. That ='s dead. But God. I hung on to God and began a jurney of a liftime.
Now I had been seriously ill before in my life and God had always healed me. But this shook me to the core and everyone around me. I became a skeltion of a man, people who knew me didn't recgonize me even though they had been there all along. Fear began to take hold. I was tormented day and night. I lost a lot of my eye sight and partial hearing. That was hard. I lost my mind, do in part I beleive to sleep depravation.
I became the mentelly chalenged/tormented person that you don't see or hear about because they are locked away. At this point I thank God for my family who decided to hang on to Jesus instead of putting me in a special ward. And then? Jesus showed up! He healed me. Completely!
He is true to His word. He restored me fully! He gave me a new job with wonderful wisdom and understanding and favor so that those around me were highly impressed by (unknown to them) abilites given to me by God. What an awesome GOD! There is so much more to this story that God has written and He is not done yet! These signs shall follow those that believe! Thats me! thats me!!
My parents are born again spirit filled Christians who love Jesus radically and run their house according to Jesus.
They chose to believe God. Jesus graciously, supernaturally touched my mother and she was completely healed. Let me back up to before I was born. I'm the youngest of seven and the majority of us were born at home. My older sister, Anna, was born dead. My father hung on to Jesus and Jesus came through raising her to life. I grew up in an atmosphere of believing God.
I was saved very young and when i was around 9 I was baptized in the Holy Spirit well just sitting in a church service. I began speaking in tongues and the people around me starting rejoicing. Yes I believe the only initial evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues.
I had a very tormented child hood without really even knowing it, because God protected me. I often spent sleep screaming and being thrown out of my bed. I didn't understand the things I saw. They were demons. I often suffered with asthma as a child. It was not any fun. One day well playing out doors I had an attack. Asthma is a devil. I got upset and had had enough. I had heard and seen the power of God. I enjoyed listening to cassette tapes by a man by the name of David Hogan. That day I went into my room closed the door and put on a tape and started fighting the devil. I walked out healed and have been ever since. My life is marked with strange experiences of seeing into the Spiritual world. Little did I know what this world of demons was going bring. For the devil is like a lion seeking who he can kill. When I was thirteen I hit the rebellious stage. I got into a serious fight with my parents and ran away from home. Being young it didn't take long before I was hungry. I was on my way to a park to sleep that night when my oldest sister caught up to me. Her words brought me home. May the Lord show her kindness for her kindness. (she no longer attends our church and has since gone back on much of what she believed, God is good) Still in the age of thirteen i began doubting God was real. One night while laying in bed I told God with all honesty, if your real I will follow you. A short time later my parents took me to a church service to see a man by the name of Bobby Conner speak. That man used by God told what I had told God while laying on my bed and said "guess what He's real" That night I received a touch from God that changed my life forever. I was introduced to the presence of God in a new real awesome living way. God began to talk to me in the night season. The presence of God would come into my room and get all over me. He is wonderful! My life from there was marked with triumph and tragedy. Experiences that even now looking back is like " o yeah that happened".
The devil did his best to kill me and much of those years were spent in a war with the devil that raged and waned. Angels and demons...witches and warlocks(don't know how much you know about Spiritual warfare or if you bleieve in it) God was present through it all. I graduated k-12 and went into the work force and found that the devil even followed me their. But betterthen that the Holy Spirit moved and worked in awesome ways. (i hate working night shifts, things come out in people at night that are most amazing) I soon descoverd it was a good idea to go to colledge. That was one of the best decisions of my life. While attending colledge I got to preach the gospel with signs and wonders. Preaching is not without persacution. One day after being told off by an out right heathen I just sat down away from the groupe that I had been sharing with, a little upset. I looked up and a sign appeared in a computer screen sized cloud right in the room. It was an exclimation mark. God does have a sence of humor. One day after hearing complete sinners who hate Jesus tell of how well their grade point avrage was, I decided that I was going to have a chat with God. Hear I am a born again Spirit filled Christian who loves Jesus and my grades are not 4.0's! He took care of that for me! Did you know God can change grades? One day while in the parkinging lot God told me I was going to get another 4.0. I was up agaisnt the toughest classes of the year so I started doubting Him. Word to the wise. Never doubt God. Boy did He show me up! There were two classes that were going to be a problem in my mind. The one the teacher out right gave me an A. The second? My average was an 89..math....gerrrr one point short....but wait.....before I left the teacher stood up, shook my hand and said " I'll see what I can do to get ya one more point" bame.....God doesn't lie. Its fun to serve Jesus!
After graduation I started the biggest job of my life. I traveled around The united states making a lot of money and not really serving Jesus like I use to. I knew it to....I wasn't happy. So, God in His amazing love allowed something to happen to me. Not many know what. To this day I don't remeber all that happend. I can recall vividly the day....and the days after.... It was the devil. I became seriously ill. The illness became so extreme, at one point i was thought to be dead. I could not eat drink or sleep for about a week. That ='s dead. But God. I hung on to God and began a jurney of a liftime.
Now I had been seriously ill before in my life and God had always healed me. But this shook me to the core and everyone around me. I became a skeltion of a man, people who knew me didn't recgonize me even though they had been there all along. Fear began to take hold. I was tormented day and night. I lost a lot of my eye sight and partial hearing. That was hard. I lost my mind, do in part I beleive to sleep depravation.
I became the mentelly chalenged/tormented person that you don't see or hear about because they are locked away. At this point I thank God for my family who decided to hang on to Jesus instead of putting me in a special ward. And then? Jesus showed up! He healed me. Completely!
He is true to His word. He restored me fully! He gave me a new job with wonderful wisdom and understanding and favor so that those around me were highly impressed by (unknown to them) abilites given to me by God. What an awesome GOD! There is so much more to this story that God has written and He is not done yet! These signs shall follow those that believe! Thats me! thats me!!
