Testimonies

The testimonies I will be sharing are some of my personal testimonies over the last 30 years. They are a testament to a loving, faithful, caring and dependable God that has provided my every need through different methods.
All the events that I share are 100% true, however some of the dates may be approximate dates.
At times I will share some dreams that I have recorded before certain events happened and as the Lord leads me I may share some that are still yet to take place. These testimonies will not be in chronological order, but will be dated with either exact dates or approximate times and seasons. 
My prayer is that the testimonies that I give will edify the reader and show beyond a shadow of a doubt that where God guides, God provides.
The Holy Spirit uses many methods of communicating with the body of Christ. Please do not put God in a religious box and miss the very thing He is trying to do for you. Be led by the peace of God in everything you do. God is not the author of confusion. If you don't have peace about something, Stop, and wait upon the Lord.

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint". Isaiah 40:31 

In September of 1995 I was standing in the master bedroom of my home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida  when I heard the voice of the Lord say, "Go to Israel right now"! I remember just standing there for about five minutes trying to digest the words that I heard. There was no one else present so no doubt He was speaking to me.
He knew that I could not afford to go to Israel. I had gone two times in 1994 and two times already in 1995, but surely the Lord was aware of those facts. I believe Rosh Hashanah was coming up and I was to find out as I went, that he wanted me in Jerusalem to intercede for three weeks.
I didn't know how this was all possible because I had no place to stay and I could not afford to stay at a hotel. Nevertheless, I called TWA after that five minute pause and made flight arrangements.
I took out a hard shell suitcase, packed it and had a friend take me to Miami where I boarded a jet that was going to JFK airport.
It was a 747 that was being returned to JFK and only had about 100 passengers. Passengers were assigned seats, but everyone sat wherever they wanted since there were so many empty seats.
I was assigned to a window seat and there was no one in the two seats next to me so I just stayed in the seat I was assigned to.
I remember I had a bit of a headache, probably because I felt a bit stressed out just thinking about how crazy the whole thing seemed to be, just leaving without any destination other than Israel.
Why was the Lord doing this to me? Was this some kind of a test? If it was a test I thought, surely the Lord doesn't want me to fail this test, but He didn't even give me time to prepare, He just said, "Go to Israel right now". Fortunately for me, if the Lord had given me enough time to think about what I was doing I probably could have talked myself right out of a tremendous blessing. Blessed be His name.
Well, as we were flying to New York I thought, at least let me get rid of this headache. As the stewardess walked down the isle I asked her if I could have a couple of aspirin, and she very politely said, No, I'm sorry we are not allowed to give out aspirin.
As the stewardess walked away, a lady sitting a couple of rows in front of me and in the center section motioned to me that she had some aspirin.
I moved over behind the lady and she gave me a couple of aspirin. She said where are you going? I said to Israel and she said so are we. There was no one anywhere near the lady, but she explained that she was one of six ladies that were going to Israel to pray and she was wondering where the seventh person was and then said you must be the seventh one. I said, well, I don't know about that. She then asked, where in Israel are you going? I said, I am going to Jerusalem. Of course her next question was where are you staying in Jerusalem? I said, I don't know yet, the Lord has not told me yet.
Some time during the flight I was introduced to the leader of the group, Myrna Middleton. Myrna was a seasoned Intercessor for Israel and founder of Fair Heavens Missions. She had been to Israel many times and had a very powerful testimony of how God had miraculously healed her.
We were now boarding the flight to Tel Aviv and the Lord had still not given me even a hint of where I was going to stay in Jerusalem.
As we were flying overseas I felt a calm assurance that the Lord would let me know where I was going to stay before we landed. Well, we were about an hour from landing and I still had nothing, but before I got off the plane Myrna told me that she had a two bedroom apartment in Jerusalem that was fully equipped and it was not being used and if I stopped by the hotel where the group was staying I could pick up the keys and use the apartment to meet my 3 week intercessory prayer mandate.
When I arrived into Jerusalem it was evening and I went right to the hotel and picked up the keys and went to the apartment. Certainly the Lord had stretched my faith and made me realize that where God guides, God provides. 
The next three weeks was a time of intense intercessory prayer and revelations. The intercessory prayer mandate was to intercede 7 hours a day for 21days for the peace of Jerusalem.
While in prayer I received a fax from a very close friend, sister Ruby Price, informing me that a very strong hurricane named Opel had come into the Gulf of Mexico and for a while the Hurricane Center did not know for sure which states would be the recipient of this hurricane that had reached 150 mph. Well, on October 4^th 1995 Opel came into the Florida Panhandle after weakening to 115 mph, however, still being very destructive.
Sister Price faxed me because she knew that the Lord had warned me about an event that would be taking place in the Florida Panhandle.
I had a dream in August of 1995 that I recorded and shared withthe church while preaching and then again the last time I preached in September I reminded the church once again about the dream. I told the church that there was going to be some type of emergency in the Florida Panhandle and its timing had something to do withthefall feast days of Israel. I recorded and told the church that it had something to do with Yom Kippur.
The 4thof October 1995 correlated with the day of Yom Kippur, which is also known as the day of Judgement.
The dream was very vivid. I was standing in the Florida Panhandle in a very large outdoor setting. It was night time and I could see hundreds and hundreds of red and blue lights flashing on the tops of what seemed to be an innumerable amount of emergency vehicles. The clouds above me were black billowing clouds and stretched as far as I could see. It was a very ominous sign. The swelling clouds had my attention more than the emergency lights as they seemed to be coming down lower and lower as I looked at them. It was while I was looking at this threatening sign that I heard a thunderous voice speak as if out of the clouds saying "WARNING, FLORIDA PANHANDLE, WARNING, FLORIDA PANHANDLE". As I heard the second warning I woke up.
While feeling a sense of affirmation about the dream the Lord had given me in August of 1995, I knew that the Lord was wanting me to be sensitive about future things that He would be showing me.
I continued on with the three week prayer mandate.
From the very beginning of the Lord's call to go to Israel I kept hearing a phrase that was sung by the Steve Miller Band, "I'm going to fly like an eagle to the sea". I couldn't seem to shake off the tune or the phrase. I was questioning the Lord about why I had this secular song going around and around in my head.
I would quote hundreds of scriptures while we were flying and couldn't shake it off. It's night time now and we are heading overseas. Lights are out and people are trying to sleep, but I still have this eagle thing going on in my head.
I quote the Sermon on the Mount without interruption, but when I am done here comes the eagle thing. I quoted Psalms 119 without interruption, but then here comes the eagle thing. I quoted certain books of the New Testament that I really enjoyed like the book of James, the book of II Peter and the book of I John, without interruption, but then there was the eagle thing going on.
After quoting almost the whole book of Proverbs I just gave up and said, okLord, I get it, you want me to know that I am going to fly like an eagle. However, when I said to the Lord, I get it, that didn't stop that tune, with that phrase, from going around and around in my brain. I just stopped letting it bother me.
From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem I was going to fly like an eagle. The whole time I was praying in the spirit, the eagle thing was going on in my head at different times, but I would keep praying.
After praying 140 hours in the first 20 days I was finally on my last day of prayer. Although it was 15 years ago I can remember it as if it were yesterday.
I remember I was just finishing the last minutes of the 7th hour. I was kneeling at the bedside and I went into an open vision. Completely conscious, with my eyes closed, instead of seeing darkness, now I was seeing a lady standing before me. We were in a big room. The lady didn't say anything or do anything. The vision seemed to be a couple of minutes long, but was probably only 10 or 15 seconds long.
When I came out of the vision I knew that I had seen this lady in Jerusalem on a previous occasion. The lady in the vision was a minister that held praise and worship services every afternoon in Jerusalem.
I made some phone calls to find out how to get the ministry phone number and finally reached her. I asked her what time do you start the service and how would I get there? She told me the service started at two o'clock and I could take a bus and she told me the number, but I can't remember the number of the bus. Now I am on the bus and have got the eagle thing going on in my head, I am going to fly like an eagle. Well, the truth of the matter was, I had no idea where I was, but she said at one point I would come to an intersection that had some kind of monument and it was close to the Red Cross Building.
To make a long story a little shorter, I got off the bus at this intersection, walked down one of the streets and there it was. I walked in at 2 p.m. and the service had just started. Everyone was standing except for the minister, she was playing the piano and singing. I just sort of mixed in with the worshipers and raised my hands to worship the Lord.
We went through several songs just singing and worshiping the Lord and right in the middle of the last song she just stopped playing the piano, got up from the piano, walked over to me, everyone is quite and wondering what the minister is going to do, she looks right in my face and says "I see eagles wings coming down on your back and she begins to give me a prophecy about things I would do and that God was going to visit me and minister to me and through me.
I was so taken back about the eagles feathers and what the Spirit of God had been telling me for the last three weeks that it was hard for me to focus on everything she was saying to me in the prophecy.
At the end of the service she was so taken by this vision she had about the eagles feathers, she pulled me aside and said, my brother has ministered in over 100 nations and he is in Bethlehem right now with a group of people. I want to take you to Bethlehem right now and I want my brother to anoint you and he will give you a word.
Everyone left the service and she drove me to Bethlehem. Now we are standing outside the Church of the Nativity. She asked me to wait while she went into the church to get her brother. A few minutes passed by and now there is group of people coming towards me being led by the minister and her brother. He walks right up to me, puts oil on his fingers, placed his hand on my forehead and begins to prophesy.
The prophecy lasted about ten minutes and was the most powerful prophecy I had ever heard anyone give. It was so long I couldn't retain any of it.
A crowd had gathered around to listen to this man prophesy. People were taking video of the event. I suppose it was good that I couldn't retain the prophecy, because it could have been something that would have caused me to think more highly of myself than I should have.
Actually, the whole experience was quite humbling. The eagle thing was now only a memory and part of a testimony. Nevertheless, the Lord does still use the eagle to confirm every trip I make to Jerusalem. Bless His wonderful name.

In early October of 2008 the Lord gave me two dreams back to back. In bothdreamsI was in Jerusalem and it was in the month of December.
In the first dream I was in the Old City of Jerusalem, but in the second dream I was on the Mount of Olives. After recording the two dreams, I knew in my spirit, that they were mandates that would not be fulfilled in the same year.
I focused on the first dream because it seemed to be the most ominous. He wanted me in Jerusalem in December, but He had not given me a specific date at the time of the dream other than it was in December. I shared the dream with my pastor, Daniel Sturgill.
Seven days after the dream the Lord spoke to me in a still small voice and said that I had to be in the Old City of Jerusalem on the 18th of December and that Israel was going to be attacked and it was going to happen while I was there.
In the first dream I was kneeling in the narrow roadway that goes from the Jaffa Gate past the Armenian Quarter and to the Jewish Quarter. It appeared that it was just the breaking of the morning and I was kneeling in the center of the road between Christ Church and the Tower of David.
There was a chain link fence that went from Christ Church to the Tower of David. Right where I was kneeling the chain link fence was ripped open as if something violently tore through the fence going in the direction of the  Jewish Quarter.
As I knelt before this big gap in the fence, the scripture came to me immediately that God looked for a man to make up the hedge and stand in the gap, and He found none.
I understood the significance while I was in the dream, but kept looking at the fence as if to assess the damage and figure out what it was going to take to repair this fence. As I was assessing the damage to this fence, which in real life does not even exist, I looked to my left and I saw a male figure on the other side of the fence standing by Christ Church. He wore a robe, but I could not distinguish his face, but I knew it was a man.
I said to the man, which I believe was Christ Himself (because the same man appeared in the second dream on the Mount of Olives), "This is going to take a professional", meaning to fix the breach in the fence, and he just looked at me and said, "Just Pray".
Then I went into the second dream on the Mount of Olives.
In the second dream I was at the Church of God on the Mount of Olives where I have stayed on a number of occasions to fulfill intercessory prayer mandates.
I was on the third floor where there are 3 rooms that the church uses for guests, students or visitor's. I was standing at the end of the hall and the same robed man that was in the first dream was standing at my right side.
There was a young lady standing before each of the three doors. The young lady in the middle could not open the door. I looked at my right hand and there was a special key in my hand. It was like a safe deposit key.
I walked over to the door, put the key in and opened the door to the amazement of the three young ladies and the dream ended.
I knew that the key that opened the door was prayer. I also knew that this second dream was for the following year in December.
Concerning the first dream I made preparations to leave for Jerusalem on the 17th of December. I flew to Atlanta and on to Tel Aviv arriving into Jerusalem on the 18th of December 2008 at approximately at 7:30 p.m. I had something to eat, did some praying and went to bed.
I woke up the next morning to the news that Israel had just been attacked and the Gaza war was on.
Now that this had come to pass as the Lord had shown me, I simply had to "Just Pray" as I was instructed to do. I was given a 10 day 70 hour prayer mandate to accomplish in the Old City of Jerusalem.
When I had finished the prayer mandate I still had two days before I was sheduled to leave for home. The rain had subsided and the day was warming up nicely.
A friend from church had given me a prayer request and asked if I could place it in the Western Wailing Wall. I thought I better do it while the weather was good or before I forgot to do it at all. I walked from the Jaffa Hostel where I was staying, to James street and then down through the Jewish Quarter's.
As I was walking by the Jewish shops an orthodox Jewish man stopped me and said, "Where are you from?" and I said, "From Palm Beach Gardens, Florida." Then I said, "well, actually I am was born in New York City, but I now live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida." He placed his left hand on top of my head,(I was wearing a ball cap) and said, "The Lord bless you and prosper you, your children and your grand children." I said to the man, "Thank you very much" and went on my way.
As I still had about a five minute walk before I actually got down to the Wall I was thinking, that's the first time since 1983 that an orthodox Jew has ever laid his hand upon my head and pronounced a blessing over me.
Now, I am going down the stairway, through security, and to the Wailing Wall. There are hundreds of people at the Wall and I press my way to the Wall and place the prayer request in a crack. I turn around to leave and here is another orthodox Jew right in my face saying,"Where are you from?" and I said, "From Palm Beach Gardens, Florida." "Then I said, well, actually I was born in New York City, but now I live in PalmBeach Gardens, Florida."He placed his left hand on top of my head and said, "The Lord bless you and prosper you, your children and your grandchildren." I said, "Thank you very much" and as I walked away the scripture came to me that God would establish every word by two or three witnesses. II Cor.13:1. I felt extremely blessed, not only for myself, but for my children and grandchildren.
I have been going to the Wailing Wall since 1983 and have never had an orthodox Jew lay his hand on my head and pronounce a blessing over me and now it happen twice within ten minutes by two men in different places in the Old City.
Tensions were still very high in the Old City because the Gaza war was still raging 65 miles south of Jerusalem. Many of the shop keepers had closed their shops in protest to the war and because there were so many innocent Arab women and children that had died.
From the time of the dream in October right up until I was flying back home, I often wondered why the Lord chose to use a chain link fence in the dream opposed to a wooden or stone fence. I had never really noticed chain link fence anywhere in Jerusalem or at least I could not remember ever seeing chain link fence in Jerusalem. 
As I was leaving the Jaffa Hostel and walking out past the lobby to go out to the waiting cab, I notice men were sitting and watching the t.v. coverage of the Gaza war. I saw the screen just in passing by, but I noticed a lot of chain link fence where they were fighting. As we drove to the airport I was thinking how strange that was that I saw some chain link fence just as I was leaving Israel, but I said nothing to the cab driver who I knew well. The Lord had someone else in mind to answer my question about the chain link fence. We arrived at the airport at 9:00 p.m. and began the long process of security.
The flight was a full flight as usual, but there was an empty seat between me and a middle aged Jewish man. We looked at each other and had the same thought, I hope no one takes this seat in the middle, but just before they shut the door a young Muslim man came down the isle and stopped at our row, looked up at the number and said, "I guess that's my seat". The Jewish man got out of his seat to let the young man in and he could hardly fit in the seat, not because he was fat, but because he was a very big man.
I struck up a conversation with him just moments after he sat down. He said he was visiting his grandmother who lived in Ramallah.
We had some small conversation to get aquinted because we were going to be sitting next to each other for the next 14 hours. At one point I thought, let me ask him if there is chain link fence around the Gaza strip because I saw it on the t.v. as I was leaving the Jaffa Hostel.
When I asked him the question, he paused like he was thinking about the question for a minute, and I said, "you do know what chain link fence is don't you?" He said, O yeah, I was just trying to think if there was any chain link fence in Gaza. He said, "The only place where there is chain link fence is around the Jewish settlements." That is where the attack on Israel took place. That's why the Lord showed me in a dream, a chain link fence that had been violently ripped through.
I soon dosed off for about 15 minutes and the Lord appeared to me in a dream and thanked me and I saw my reward.
I arrived home on January 3rd. 2009.

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