God baptized me in His Holy Spirit and gave me the gift of speaking (praying) in tongues in the fall of 1977. I can give hundreds of benefits and testimonies but will account for just one. We'd been married for 14 years and God had closed my wife's womb. Doctors determined her body killed my seed on contact. There was no cure. He began to tell us that He was sending us a son because we believed Him. We went forward at our church and had the elders anoint and pray for us. After about two years during which a multitude of things happened including confirmation by a prophet.
I was home one day and praying in the spirit, tongues that is, as I did a Bible study. I realized He was giving me the interpretation so began to write. That was Tuesday, October 9th,1979. I wrote as He dictated ;
The Lord says this. I have done as I said I would and fulfilled my counsel. Now will my name be glorified in the thing of which I spoke. Now will ears tingle at the testimony of this work. You have waited but I have waited too. I heard you from the first time you ever cried out to me for a child. Because you looked to me and not to men I have done this. The mouth of the scoffers will be shut at the telling. Fear not. The word of the Lord is good news. We will rejoice together in this!
I have written this on a plaque that hangs in an honored place. A constant reminder of His miracle working power!
Isaiah 65:24 KJVS
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
There were plenty of scoffers during that time. They were sorry for us when we told them of our coming son. Think about that, how hard it was. What is your faith? Trust Him today.
We went to the lab that week and they said "it's a nice positive result". Never forget those words. My wife got a baby book and wrote our son's name in it. Nathan Matthew Jennings.
He was born Wednesday, June 25th, 1880.
We never had any tests for gender and as my wife was in the operating room for the Caesarian section the doctor said "so it's going to be a boy is it"? He was a non believer. Yes it is my wife told Him. That's what the Lord told us. He was a scoffer that became a witness.
Here is Nathan's picture with his sister.
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Deuteronomy 18:21-22 KJVS
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?
[22] When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord , if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
God spoke to us and it came to pass. ALL GLORY to Him. I am nothing. Our son is here tonight studying the scripture in the next room. He will soon be 38. Yes, being foretold he's had his share of battles and scoffers. It was WONDERFUL telling the scoffers the good news. It still is for that matter! Did we hear from God. Yes, the only life creator. Jesus Christ our Lord.
What is your need? Is there anything too hard for God? Let His praises abound. May those that have disabused the Scriptures repent and come before God, not their denomination, with an open heart to receive His eternal Holy Spirit and whatsoever gifts He brings. Amen
You must be justified by God. It is not important to be justified by tradition or a man made denomination.
And I think also that I have the spirit of the Lord.