5. MIRACULOUS POWERS

     After my first 4 day trip to jail, my wife found proof in the form of some dated and time annotated writings of mine that I’d been at my house.  I was writing pages a day at this time either for a blog , personal correspondence or psychiatrist recommended journal and I would time and date writings.

   I timed them because I was trying to detail some spiritual experiences I was having and they were common for me for a time.

     For instance, “After sobbing and moaning for 5 minutes, I was able to get off the floor with this  feeling of great peace and was left with the knowledge of or instructions about something.”  God speaks to us any way he wants to, dreams, some hear His voice, perhaps coincidences in life, I've heard of a still, small voice but haven't experienced that yet.  God usually had to take away my motor control and drop me to the floor in a quaking, sobbing mess to communicate with me.  

     My wife sent a couple letters to the D.A. asking that charges be dropped.  I’d heard in jail that the lady deputy D.A. was tough on men.  I was puzzled when she wouldn’t drop the charges, if this went to court a lot of embarrassing facts were going to come out about a somewhat public figure, a gorgeous, glamorous high school department head.

     My attorney later explained that studies have shown that the majority of recantings by women victims of domestic violence are false.  Usually the incident had happened and the woman now wanted to reconcile and didn’t want her man getting in trouble. 

     Also, a series of phone messages or string of email that weren’t wanted, as people struggling with obsessive disorder are prone to make, could be considered harassment.  I did stop when she told me not to leave any more messages or she was going to the police.  Apparently she had her bad dream right after this and did call the police.

       A lady who became a mentor contacted me via craigslist and told me God had told her to tell me to get into a men’s group and go to The Healing House  in town for healing and a prophetic reading. 

     The Healing House, if you now google it, is headed by marijuana dispensaries, but it’s also a national organization with branches across the country, where people with spiritual gifts, especially healing and prophesy come together to help others. 
     My Lady Barnabas said she had been spiritually gifted since childhood and described for me the appearance of some of the demons she’d seen by what I later learned was the gift of discerning the spirits as described in 1 Cor:12. These descriptions were corroborated by other sources later on for me. 

     I was incredulous as she described a visit from satan himself who was trying to lure her away from God.  She said he appeared as a tall handsome man in a sharp business suit. 

     I doubted this but upon some subsequent experiences and the information that, just as we can have our own personal Jesus, we can have our own personal satan.

     The Bible suggests angels and demons move in the same unseen dimensions of our world.  As I previously wrote, look into Stephen Hawking’s string theory.  He may have found these dimensions.

         Miraculous physical and spiritual healings come of their work and comfort from prophetic readings.  I went for both casting out of demons and a prophetic reading.

     They rebuked and cast out many demons in Jesus’ name.  One guy was swatting them off my back like flies.

     The Bible tells us that the spirit doesn’t speak to us on His own, He only repeats what He is told. 

     Having worked extensively in electronics, I was once expert on a piece of equipment that had a master microprocessor that controlled a slave processor which was used for input / output. 

     Immediately after I’d written in my blog that I thought that was an analogous relationship to God and the Spirit, I read in my Bible, John 16: 13 -15,  …”He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears and he will tell you what is yet to come…”

     I believe the Holy Spirit is something of a conduit through which we speak to Jesus.

     The Healing House prophets don’t give specific advice as the forbidden clairvoyant might, but speak in generalities.  I described my experience in the blog I had at the time as The Grandma Prophet Council.  Knowing nothing about me or my circumstance, one woman could see me surrounded by flames.  I was on fire for Jesus and He appreciated my zeal. 

     This was a few months after my baptism of the spirit and I tried to bring up Jesus and God every chance I could, perhaps putting some people off.  She was right about my zeal.

     Another woman gave an accurate description of my beat up old briefcase and said I’d have everything in it I’d need for my trip.  I didn’t know I was going to take a trip. 

     I heard that I was to have an angelic visitation and experience transportation.  I don’t know about the visit, perhaps the man next to me on the plane home from my trip…but I haven’t experienced the transportation. 

     Isaiah 54: 17 was quoted to me, …”no weapon forged against you will prevail and you will refute the tongue that rises against you.”

     In my blog, I’d switched over from the happy little story of how science may be finding God and was anonymously detailing my experiences.  I think I took a wrong turn here, because I had fun with that last bit of prophesy.

     I wrote that there was only one tongue rising against me.  I didn’t set out to make this a self fulfilling prophesy but in hindsight did so. 

     After an 18 day stay in jail, which came after my second trip, described a few paragraphs down  triggered by sending an unallowed email while under restraining order, an attempt was made to institutionalize me. In jail I’d heard of an informant who’d been chained to a tree in a nearby state park and been found dead. It was claimed to have been done by corrupt cops. 

     This story may have been just a rumor, but I met a man in jail who’d been there for 4 years and he hadn’t committed the original offense either.  He’d had everything stolen by his former common law wife who’d forged titles, and a deed.  He showed me police reports and court documents proving violation of civil rights. 

     I was fearing they were going to do the same to me so as soon as I was released went public with a lot of embarrassing family information and details of what had happened to me.  I named names and told embarrassing stories of borderline sex addiction, pedophilia, multi generational lying, etc.  I'm sure God was not pleased with me but at the time I felt I had to do this for my own safety.  I certainly refuted the tongue that rose against me.

     Manifestations of my childhood trauma were obvious, sometimes reprehensible and certainly hard to live with.  I’d take a trivial issue that could have been easily nipped in the bud, blow it way out of proportion and make a huge deal out of it.  Uncontrolled behavior. 

          My blog had around 6,500 hits before it got deleted so I had condemned this woman.  I don’t think that’s what my earlier message from my mountain mentor, “Let the word do the work,” was about.

     I think I should have been praying instead of condemning, and perhaps accepting probation even though I felt it unjust, instead of trying to take down the local legal system.  More about that later.

     Chronologically in my bizarre experience, shortly after visiting the Healing House the first time, my builder brother offered me an incredible bargain on a property he’d built in the north GA mountains.  He’d gotten hurt in the downturn of 08 and sold me this cute little mountain home on a creek and a couple acres for well below cost.  Going to see this property was the trip the grandma prophets had seen.

     While in this rural mountain community, I was invited to attend some function being hosted by a friend of his who owned a meeting hall, formerly a boys home.  There I met an incredibly gifted woman of God named Dr. Bree Keyton.  Google her. 

     She’s on a mission to save the pygmies in the Congo.  By doing numerous miraculous healings, including raising 6 pygmies from the dead, she has brought tens of thousands of pygmies to Christ and her mission builds them villages, brings in provisions and tools, etc. 

     Raised from the dead? Really?  I found that hard to believe but Jesus tells us in John 14: 12 - 14, “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.  And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it.” 

     In 3 small groups of mountain people, I watched as God healed about 10 – 15% of us through this woman.  In one case, bones were heard creaking.  She lined us up and prayed for us individually sometimes blowing on us. 

     About 1/3 to 1/2  the women would pass out, slain in the spirit I believe is the correct phrase.  I was helping catch them.  We’d lay them down, then 5 or 10 minutes later they’d come to from their spiritual experience.  I was amazed and excited.  As previously mentioned, this rivaled t.v. fakery I’d seen but these were real people, not actors.  This was for real. 

     After witnessing God through this woman it was possible for me to believe raising dead pygmies.

     She’s written several college courses and books.  Her manual for Spiritual Warfare, Healing and Deliverance, entitled Stripes Nails Thorns and the Blood goes into detail the meaning and healing possible from each of the transgressions against Jesus.  She gives a description of various demons, how we let them in and how to get them out.  This might be unbelievable to most, but having seen this woman in action, I believe.

     On the way home on the plane, I sat next to a man who didn’t seem to doubt the story at all.  He questioned me if there’ve been any resurrections in western culture.  I told him I didn’t know.  He explained that our culture and beliefs tend to isolate us from much supernatural, both holy and demonic but said that the simpler belief systems in third world countries made both demonic possession and spiritual healing more visible in those cultures.

     Many in our culture who experience normal, fairly comfortable lives without major trauma or anguish may not witness any supernatural phenomena but I know it’s there, just beneath the surface.

     I believe demonic strongholds, frequently from childhood trauma or anguish may later manifest themselves as addictive behavior, uncontrollable behavior, compulsive disorders, etc.  I’ve experienced many.