Defining Moments....

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whos isnt
birth
graduation
marriage
kids
Holy ghost?

besides those....

The night I had a conversation with the Lord and got the very clear word that there was no place for me in my home church. Almost killed me. but God is in control.

the day i spent in the floor of a back office room in a church in South America begging God to give me strengh to make it. I was a 23 year old kid in a country that was as unlike the USA as possible, with not a soul I knew, among a people whos culture was daylight and dark from my own, and facing 3 months of it....in the middle of a power struggle among the native pastors over control of the organization.

the night the Doctor told my wife and I that our son had a dangerous heart condition that uncontroled could kill him.

The day my father told me we had lost everything and were going to have to move 380 miles from home. i was 15.

The first time we were a hundred dollars short of making rent because we were too poor and a card came in the mail THAT DAY from one of my mom and dads aquaintences.... note, not close friend.... that said "Just thinking about you here is a hundred dollars.

and a second time

and a third time all in 6 months.

The first time I preached in that south American country and this lady recieved the Holy Ghost. I preached under a house that was on stilts, and we had no electricity.

that lady envited me and a fellow pastor to her house to bless it. When we got there, the inside was exactly 4 feet by 6 feet, it also had a covered part that was the same size, open on 3 sides where she cooked in a mud stove. she and her son lived there, and she was so THANKFUL. God had blessed her with a beautiful home and the Holy Ghost!


the day God laid it on my heart to pray for my parents to recieve a home. they were getting up in years and didnt own a home and would have no way to pay a mortgage after retirement.... and the day God answered that prayer. (I started praying in South America see above) God came thru in 3 years later.

The day I helped carry my mom into the church. She couldnt walk. her right leg was un-usable. 3 years before she had back surgery and the steele rod they put in her back was pulling away from the spine. Not only did she walk out of that church that night, but she walked out after she stopped running around the building. God healed her....even thou she was mad at God because instead of a great service, there was a missionary with a slide show... Brother Miller (Missionary to Great Britian) came by while she was fussing at God, laid a hand on her head, and all the sudden she didnt hurt anymore. (God doesnt do it your way by the way)

rambling.... But the siminal events in my life have been the ones that make me know who my God is.