It was mid-afternoon that day, April 22, 1985.
I was sitting on the couch,... at home alone.
It was quiet in the house,... TV off,... no music playing,... just dead quiet.
I was contemplating some decisions and directions I was taking at that time in my life(not questioning the decisions,... just pondering where they would take me,... felt good about them).
From out of no where,... instant, and without warning,... a 'force' hit me hard and fast,(like being sucker-punched from behind).
Next thing I know I am on the floor, spread-eagle, in front of the couch. Things are coming out of me, while the most incredible 'presence' is filling me. And though I somehow knew it was God, I also knew that I hadn't asked for it, nor had I even necessarily 'consciously' wanted this thing that was happening to me,.... IT JUST HAPPENED,... uninvited, unstopable, and unending for what seemed like an eternity, as this holy and incredible 'presence', GOD, held me to the floor and pressed His Spirit into me,...(don't get me wrong,... I wouldn't have stopped it even if I could have,... the power of His love was completely overwhelming,... indescribable,... saturating me to the depths of my soul).
When I was finally let up off the floor, I was completely changed,.... I mean I felt COMPLETELY changed,... like new,... clean from the inside out.
Many 'things' had left me during that time on the floor while His Spirit pressed into me,(including those decisions and directions I had just been contemplating).
Some of the other things that left me, I knew what they were as they left,... as though their 'names' were being called out as they left me,... things that defile, (the very sins that unknowingly held me captive, were released,... 'washed away', if-you-will).
I walked to the window and looked out;..... the grass was literally greener than ever before,....the sky bluer than ever before(the clarity was incredible)... I had never felt so alive!
Well,... from that point on, my family was never the same,(to say the least).
As God's Word literally became ALIVE to me and I began sharing with anyone that would listen, old friends thought that I had lost my mind or something, and shyed away from me,... and new friends (ya,.... 'christians',... the 'church') just didn't come any easier, as my story and the passion that drives me seems to make it hard for many to relate and hang.
But so-be-it,.... for He has said that "the gate is narrow, and the path difficult".
He has also said, "Few find the path that leads to righteousness,... EVEN FEWER FOLLOW IT."
"Lines drawn,... Choices made"
I know Whom I have believed on, and Who it is that has called me to follow Him,...
Jesus,... Yeshua Mishiyach.
I was sitting on the couch,... at home alone.
It was quiet in the house,... TV off,... no music playing,... just dead quiet.
I was contemplating some decisions and directions I was taking at that time in my life(not questioning the decisions,... just pondering where they would take me,... felt good about them).
From out of no where,... instant, and without warning,... a 'force' hit me hard and fast,(like being sucker-punched from behind).
Next thing I know I am on the floor, spread-eagle, in front of the couch. Things are coming out of me, while the most incredible 'presence' is filling me. And though I somehow knew it was God, I also knew that I hadn't asked for it, nor had I even necessarily 'consciously' wanted this thing that was happening to me,.... IT JUST HAPPENED,... uninvited, unstopable, and unending for what seemed like an eternity, as this holy and incredible 'presence', GOD, held me to the floor and pressed His Spirit into me,...(don't get me wrong,... I wouldn't have stopped it even if I could have,... the power of His love was completely overwhelming,... indescribable,... saturating me to the depths of my soul).
When I was finally let up off the floor, I was completely changed,.... I mean I felt COMPLETELY changed,... like new,... clean from the inside out.
Many 'things' had left me during that time on the floor while His Spirit pressed into me,(including those decisions and directions I had just been contemplating).
Some of the other things that left me, I knew what they were as they left,... as though their 'names' were being called out as they left me,... things that defile, (the very sins that unknowingly held me captive, were released,... 'washed away', if-you-will).
I walked to the window and looked out;..... the grass was literally greener than ever before,....the sky bluer than ever before(the clarity was incredible)... I had never felt so alive!
Well,... from that point on, my family was never the same,(to say the least).
As God's Word literally became ALIVE to me and I began sharing with anyone that would listen, old friends thought that I had lost my mind or something, and shyed away from me,... and new friends (ya,.... 'christians',... the 'church') just didn't come any easier, as my story and the passion that drives me seems to make it hard for many to relate and hang.
But so-be-it,.... for He has said that "the gate is narrow, and the path difficult".
He has also said, "Few find the path that leads to righteousness,... EVEN FEWER FOLLOW IT."
"Lines drawn,... Choices made"
I know Whom I have believed on, and Who it is that has called me to follow Him,...
Jesus,... Yeshua Mishiyach.
