Meeting the Holiness of God

My remarkable Spiritual awakening by the mercy and calling and wonderful working of God our Saviour Jesus Christ

I INVITE EACH reader to share with me the following story and description of how Jesus answered my prayer made earlier under an apple tree. He is able to reveal Himself to you in His own time and with your seeking heart. We just love you and want to share what has happened in our past years. Gloria had a similar experience as myself regarding the filling and renewal of herself with the powerful Holy Spirit of YHVH, six months before we were married, so God brought us together I believe. I will be happy to make an effort to relate my story as well as I can.

I remember from about the age of 17 I was an agnostic That looked on the bible as a history book and collection of various peoples ideas. I believed in the creator God but didn't know who exactly He was. I didn't believe that that mysterious God would torture people in Hell, but then I didn't understand anything about the Holiness of God and our responsibilities for our actions and that there is what they call karma in that we reap what we sow and in eternity it continues. What I know now is the utter unspeakableness of what Jesus Christ did for us in giving His Life's Blood to cover and blot out all those acts of ours that would amount to hell for us in eternity, without God's Unspeakable Gift of cleansing by the Blood of Christ so we could then be in His loving abode forever. Without possesing real faith in Christ's sacrifice and covering blood for us we would be reaping the results of our sinful natures seperated from God with the reaping of our own sin forever, hell indeed. At that time I did not know what the bible revealed, "that all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God" that I was included in that scripture. My faith then was limited to about the sum of my own intellect and my parents did not offer any teaching on the matter. I think A subconcious uneasyness in not knowing things for sure would later, I believe, prompt my prayer under the apple tree. I loved nature and the wilderness and that was heaven to me to be hiking up in the mountain gardens of God.

When I was 19 I entered the Uof W and stayed with my agnostic aunt school teacher at her nice home in the university district of Seattle. While at the university I think was my first signs in myself of moral awakening, as there were temptations presented there that I had not grown up with and I found something in myself that was revolted by the loose activities of city students.

At the UW I took english and german, geology, art, etc. as I remember, but after the first year my UW life was cut short by the need for my help at home on the farm because of my dad's failing health. That spring working among the apple trees, the spirit of the living God began ministering to me in earnest. I had a powerful experience of not sleeping all night but strangely moved and excited by the new life springing forth on the farm as I worked close to nature. At dawn with a beautiful song of a bird. I became definitely aware of my Heavenly Father overhead and manifesting his love and fatherhood to me, so I was no longer an agnostic, but I knew he was there, I felt I was a son of his like Jesus was. Not knowing much of the bible, the feeling of son ship and closeness of the Father to me was so strong thst I thought I was a reincarnation of the historic Jesus. And prophetic vision of knowing what was going to happen before it did reinforced such thoughts, which were because I did not know the bible but was being loved upon by the Father God. It was my problem , not his, that got sorted out later when I became more instructed and learned in the bible.

The provision of the Father to see that I got instructed in the bible was quite fascinating in the loving way God deals with us. I fell in love with the next door farm neighbor girl. She was a beautiful farm girl and we loved to be up in the mountains together in God's gardens. We were soon happily married and enjoying life on the farm making gardens around our cottage, I remember our tall sky blue delphinium and bright portulacca and sweet thompson seedless grapes I was proud of. We carried
a baby Grand fir tree in my backpack when coming home from a hike up the creek and planted it, it was about 10 inches high on the outer edge of our strawberry bed by the back door. ( it is now 85 feet high and 5 feet in diameter at the base ) It grew and my faith and knowledge grew as Father nurtured us. But the point I wanted to make about Father educating me was through my new family, because they were strong Bible Christians and of coarse I wanted to go along to the church meetings every sunday, where I started to get the education in the bible that that Father expected me to get.

Ten years later after being baptized in the lake and making confession of faith about Jesus as savior, I still was not understanding how that Jesus was the only door to God, because God had showed Himself to me as Heavenly Father before I was established in the doctrines of Christianity. So still seeking to know God better, I had a little new testament that I carried in the pocket of my coveralls as I worked in the orchard and I remember graphically taking breaks from work and reading along in the little testament and where it came to the part where Jesus said that whoever believed in him would not die, but had everlasting life.(John 5:24). I knew that I liked jesus very much, loved him like a brother, and Loved our Heavenly Fathe

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