I was born in a large Christian family. Ever since I know my father he has always been a Minister of the gospel. He is also the founder of a church in the community where we lived.
Being the youngest of twelve children, it was only natural that I attended church on a regular basis.
I accepted the Lord as my personal Saviour at an early age. Actually this was during my early years at High School.
At that time my only desire was to seek the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and to receive the gift of speaking in tongues. I tried tarrying for the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in prayer meetings, however, to my dismay, I would only be sanctified. That is, stuttering of tongue. The disappointment of not being made a part taker of the Holy Ghost somehow seems to weaken my strength in the Lord; thus allowing the Devil to find a way in – resulting in my turning back to sin.
After many years of not going to church and living in sin, I migrated to the United States in 1992, to Quincy, Mass., where I went to College. During this time, I did not attend church and had no desire to go. The main reason for this was that the idea of going to church for the fun of it has never appealed to me. My belief has always been to serve the Lord with all my heart, soul and body or forget it. I suppose Revelation 3:16 has always been embedded somewhere deep inside my subconscious mind: “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
I spent several years in Boston, then migrated to Canada to join my husband in 1998. After spending over two years in Canada the desire for going to church to even read the Bible was still not there.
My sisters and parents never gave up on me though, they kept praying and encouraged me constantly to return to the Lord. The more they encourage me though, I would respond and say; “yea, yea, I know” and that would be it.
Since the year 2000 came and went by, I began to have a burning desire to serve the Lord again. I said to my husband: “Byron – there ought to be something more in life than only getting up in the mornings going to work, and eating and sleeping.” “We need to worship a God, whomever we conceive our God to be – we need to worship him!” I knew however, that there is only one God, and that is the true and living God, the one that created the heavens and the earth. With my coming to the conclusion that there is a God that needs to be worshipped and I was not doing it left an empty feeling within my being.
On October 29th, 2000, my sister came from Connecticut to visit me and she brought along an evangelist by the name of D.C. Chambers. He came for a convention at a church in Toronto. That Sunday, I went to church with my sister and while Evangelist Chambers was preaching his sermon, he came down from the altar and laid his hands on my shoulder and started to pray. Shortly after, there was an altar call so I went up with a few others. What happened at the altar was most amazing – this changed my life forever!
This man began to prophesy about my life. He placed his hand upon my shoulder and began to prophesy. “These were his words: “The Lord says to tell you that he Love you… He Love you – He love you! He said that after today, you will never be the same again!” He continued with his prophesy telling me things about my childhood life that only my close relative knew. I thought that what he was saying is too good to be true, so I was not too keen on listening to the entire prophesy. There was a spirit within me that was saying maybe my sister told him a few things about me; so I was not too keen on listening to the entire prophesy.
He then caught my attention when he says: “The Lord says he wants to take you back to your school days – Primary school, High school, the type of person that you were….” wow! This caught my attention. (During my High school days, I used to pray and read the Bible a lot; none of my family members knew this; I was even baptized in those days). He went on prophesying: “He said remember promises that you have made; when you use to sit by her feet and make promises…” (Here he is referring to my Grandmother – I did promised her that I would be there when Jesus Christ comes for the rapture of the church. He c
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