The Lord has impressed upon me that this post within this series of post on miracles should be the last one I share so that I can begin to witness of the truths within these experiences to help others in their journey with Christ and to help you recognize the Lords hand in your own life up to now, and in the future. I hope this blog will also maybe give you some answers to your own personal experiences that you have been waiting for. This event that I am about to share was the most important gift out of all my experiences, up to 3 years ago and has continued to teach me correct principles ever since it happened in the winter of 2001-2002.
By the fall of 2001, many tragedies had happened in our family unit here in Maryville. you see both of my brothers and sister all worked and lived here with there families at the time, and we had experienced two deaths , my mother who was only 52 passed in august, 2000 unexpectly and my brothers son who was only 1 year old had also died of a rare genetic disease several months before my mothers passing. During the summer of 2001 my niece the daughter of my brother that had lost his son was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer, she was only around 6 years old and the type of cancer she had was fatal in all cases with children that had been taken to children's mercy hospital for treatment , the hospital said she had a 10% chance of living with a bone marrow treatment. I geuss they said 10% to give us some hope even tho they at the hospital had experienced 100% death rate.
So the process began of finding a match and raising the funds to actually do the surgery, as a community I want to recognize there were many that helped in raising funds and many that gave generously and would like to thank all of those that helped.
In the meantime my niece could not go to school or be active doing anything because she could bleed to death at anytime, and so she sat around at home and had her blood drawn a couple of times a week to see if she was getting better or worse and she was getting worse. my brother and his wife were very distraught because they had just lost their son a little over a year earlier and now they were facing losing their only daughter, plus our mother had recently passed also.
At this time ,I was running the mobile pizza unit all over Missouri and was dealing with everyday business here in Maryville when a very strange thing began to happen. For example I would set my alarm to get up @ say 7:00am and after getting up and showering while I was putting on my cloths I noticed that the time hadn't changed!!! it was still 7am. This also happened in the mobile unit, I would look at the clock and it would say 3:00 and I would go about getting ready to open unit look at the clock and it would still show 3:00, at first I thought in each case that the clock was broke or the batteries were wore out , but in each case nothing ended up wrong!!!! I thought I was losing my mind and so I shared what was happening with Les my wife and she just shrugged and said sounds like one of your nutty things you experience at times. This went on for several weeks and then it took a different turn the Lord spoke to me in a dream.
I woke up one morning to the words Cherubim you will be!!! they were spoken loudly and with authority only the Lord has. All morning and into the afternoon the Spirit was bugging me that I had to find out what the message was, and what it meant. And so I thought about what my good friend in college said once that if you need a answer just open up the bible and the Spirit will show you and so I did . I randomly opened the bible and began reading the scriptures, Where I began reading was about David bringing the ark back into Israel and a Cherubim sat upon the ark and protected the word of GOD. So I thought to myself what is the message I am to learn? am i a protecter of the word of GOD? I still did not understand my role or of the significance of the words spoken, I knew that it was very important and so I continued my understanding and search for knowledge. my next step was to call Grandma and I asked her what she thought . Grandma thoughts were that it was some sort of angel that did the work of GOD spoken of in the bible, well that didn't help much so I finally decided to call the pastor at the First Christian Church here in town where we were going to church at the time, his name is Lee and he is a good man he no longer is here in Maryville, but was the pastor at the time and so we set a time to meet and discuss what was happening.
The next day I met with pastor Lee, and I shared with him what I was told and shared with him that the Spirit was telling me that this message was also meant for someone else too, and I was to find that person. Pastor Lee told me that in the scriptures there were several different angels and that they had different duties to perform within their title, we discussed these subjects for a short while and then I asked him if I could speak with the congregation this coming Sunday and share my experience and see if I could find the other person this was meant for, he laughed and said if I do that they would throw you out and fire me! As I began to leave I mentioned wouldn't be great if we could share once a month or so our testimony on profound happenings, and then I left.
I still did not have answers to what I experienced , and so when I got home I continued to study and read, then that evening I got a call from pastor Lee, Dave I just met a man that I think you should talk to ,he had something happen to him this last summer and is looking for understanding, would you like his number? Of course I said yes and I then gave Jay Forney a call, I had never met the man or knew who he was , but wanted to hear his story.
When Jay answered the phone and I introduced myself, I could tell he was excited ,but yet tired trying to find the understanding that he had been searching for many months. He began to tell his experience, here is what I remember from our discussion.
Jay told me that in his Christian life he felt it was important to pick up hitch-hikers when ever possible and help them out. He said he ran into one on interstate 29 and gave him a ride north to Rockport, MO. and that was as far as he could go, when they got out together to have some last words Jay said he asked this gentleman if there was anything else he could do for him and the man said no, but the stranger grabbed him by the wrist and said " I am going to give you a gift" At that moment a hot burning sensation went thruout his body and it caused him to be in a mild state of shock, as he entered his vehicle to leave he realized that something profound had just happened to him, so he quickly left his vehicle to ask this man who he was, to his surprise the man was gone disappeared within several minutes!!! So he left and had this burning within.
Jay shared that he began having many different things happen to him, the first was a soft womens voice would speak to him in his dreams and remind him that he had a gift to give and it was meant for a child and that he must find this child , this voice would bother him every night. He said the strange thing was there was a baby crying in the background!! I thought to myself he has no idea that my mother and my nephew had recently passed, was it possible Mom was visiting him? And then he shared the most amazing thing , he said time had been stopping, I was stunned, I asked him in what manner is time stopping. his story was exactly the same as mine!!!!! I told Jay that maybe this gift was meant for my niece since we did not know each other , but had been experiencing the same things. He continued to tell me that he was being told this gift was to be given by the laying on of hands, he asked me if I thought my brother would be willing to get together and see if he thought this gift was meant for his daughter. I said I would call him and see what he thought.
I called my brother Josh and of course he was willing to listen to any suggestion that might help his daughter and agreed to meet Jay and I , so we set a date and time.
The day arrived for us to meet we had set a time in the evening and so when we arrived Josh's wife Heather had started a dinner for us, when we entered the living room Heather introduced us to her pastor from the church she was attending, she had invited him to get his thoughts on Jay and I story.
Jay shared his encounter and some of what had happened to him and then I shared what had happened to me and gave witness that our shared experiences in time stopping was true. jay went on to say that he had been told that it was to be given by laying on of hands. Well my brother said he was not going to let anyone touch his daughter , my brother is very protective and that is a good thing. He invited us to stay tho and have dinner that Heather had made. I realized at that moment that part of my job was to make sure the work of the Lord got done!!! The table we were sitting at was oval shaped and so we were sitting in a circle, The Spirit came to my mind and said hold hands and offer a prayer for your nieces healing only, ask and include nothing else!!! The Spirit added" that will be good enough". My wife looked at me like I was nuts , because holding hands is so out of charachter
As we sat there I offered what I was told to and we held hands and I gave a prayer for her healing, we then ate our dinner and Jay and I departed.
I found out later that week that my niece with her weekly blood draw was beginning to heal her counts were jumping!!! My niece is 20 years old now and never had to have a bone marrow transplant or anything she is healed!! My post now in this blog will be about the things I discovered since and what the Lord has taught me since about this experience. The LORD is GREAT it is he who gave the power to heal , it is in and by him we are able to all things AMEN
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