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I was born as the
noon whistles were blowing!
"At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me." Acts 26:13 
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When I was 11, the Lord urged me to stand up and give a
testimony at the Free Will Methodist Church in southeast Portland, Oregon.
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Several days later, the minister paid my family a call, telling my mother that the Lord had called me into the ministry. It took years, but the Lord fullfilled that call, and I became an ordained minister of the Lord Jesus Christ! | ||
After visiting my parents, in 1976, I was driving back to Yakima, Washington from Portland, Oregon; when I started thinking about what my grandmother had told me, about her visiting a Kathern Kuhlman meeting and speaking in tongues. Because I had come from a fundementalist background, I believed that these things were not for the believer today, however, I had recently made Jesus Lord in my life, and many powerful things had been happening since. So I decided that I would just pray about it as I was driving. All of a sudden something came over me, and I started speaking in a language that I had never spoken in, nor heard before!
I became very frightened and pulled off the road, thinking that I was losing my mind. As I was parked by the side of the road, I felt the peace of God still my heart, and His voice telling me that this was very right, that I was not losing my mind, but was really gaining it.
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7
After this, for several days I walked around in a cloud of complete joy!
Later in life after I had became "born-again", and ordained as a minister of the Gospel; the Holy Spirit revealed that I was to be re-baptize by the William Branham peope. So I asked the William Branham people to rebaptize me.
Shortly after this, I returned
to Portland, to visit relatives again. It was the
Christmas season. I was staying with a sister and one night after everyone, except a
brother, had gone shopping, that I happened to go into the kitchen. An angel appeared to
me there. He was standing about 1 to 1 1/2
feet off the ground, had a rolled up scroll under his
left arm, with a very wise looking
face. My brother did not see the angel,
however, he did sense that something supernatural was
taking place. The angel told me the Lord had sent him
to instruct me in wisdom.
Afterwards I noticed that I had insight, into
spiritual things. I also was able to see into the actions of others, and why they did what they did.
Even when reading the Bible: I began to understand what the scriptures were saying in the spirit. It was like a whole new world was before my eyes! That world was the Kingdom of God!
The second time that an angel came!
The second time an angel came to me, I was told that I was going to be made poor among the people, so that I could be made mighty in the kingdom of God.
Now this went against all the teachings that I had heard from many national preachers. They were all preaching a message of prosperity.
However, within just a few days after I heard that I was going to be made poor, I found myself living in a park and poorer than ever I thought I would ever be.
I went through the Christmas and New Year holidays, in that park. I prayed the night through, on New Year's Eve.
The next morning and angel told me to go to another city, 90 miles away and tell a certain real estate broker my story. I had no gas to get there, however, the Lord spoke to a woman in a town, 35 miles away, to drive and bring me gas money.
I went to the city, and told that real estate broker, my story. Upon telling him, he said that he was stongly impressed to give me one of his newly remodeled houses, to live in. I was not to pay him any rent, he said! Praise the Lord! From a park, to a house of my own in one day!
I stayed there for three years, until the Lord opened another doorway for me.
My life has never again to be what it was, when I was lost in sin. The old man died, and behold I am becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus! The trials are greater, now, but the inner peace and joy has far exceeded the trials. God is faithfull and Jesus truely saves!
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