The other day I was up during the night and when this happens sometimes, I then read and study in the current workbook I am working through, "The Holy Spirit And His Gifts" by Kenneth E. Hagin. It is from his Faith Library Publications/Study Course Series. As I am working in chapter 8 entitled, "The Bible Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit" something stands out to me like a big ole neon sign so I am going to share it with you all today if I may.
Before I do, I was guided by Holy Spirit to pick up a few of my journals to seek which entry talks about the experiences of praying in tongues and visions I was receiving along with the interpretation way back in 1996. I then focused in on a few journal entries believe it or not on 1/14/1996 and it dawned on me today that 1/14/2023 was the day my mother left this earth and joined Jesus in heaven with her last breath here on earth and her new life for all eternity in heaven. Praise God for there are no coincidences that just happen in life. Did I ever even think back in 1996 that that very date would be the day future tense of my mother going to be with Jesus, never in a million years did I think that. God is faithful, loving, kind and he is also just. What are the odds of this happening today on 4/5/2024? I like to call them God divine destiny days. In the midst of going through 2 journals I had with me a 3rd journal in my hand. I said that whenever I would read this particular journal, I would pray for the names of those that placed their names & ages on the 1st page of that new journal of mine at the time I would pray for them. Without even opening up the journal to look through it I felt Holy Spirit wanting me to open and place my hands upon the page and pray for them today and I did. This was a special group of youth that I was asked to teach a session at their youth retreat, and I did for this journal started on 4/28/1996 when the group entered in their names and ages too. My daughter attended this retreat, and she was not even age wise a teenager at the time. Imagine that, I notated at the top "I keep this youth retreat list in my journal so I can pray for them. This was my 1st retreat with youth that I worked on." How many times do I tell you that God is faithful. Some of these back then kids are adults now and I even had the adults on that retreat place their names in the journal also. People, whenever I pick up and open up this particular journal, I pray for those listed on the 1st page. I have been doing this now for almost 28 years now. Only Holy Spirit knows the days for me to open up that particular journal and pray for them. Is not God faithful, how many times do I have to share about His faithfulness with you all. GOD IS FAITHFUL AMEN.
In the next few days, I am probably going to share a series of my journal entries from that time in my life. It takes too long to type them so I will probably just take pictures and share the actual pages from that journal. I hope you know how to read cursive because that is how I choose to do journal entries. Moreso then printing in my journals. See, they need to start teaching cursive back in school. How in the heck can children when they become adults sign their name if they were never taught to use cursive. Do they sign a legal document by placing an X by the signature line of a contract? Whomever came up with that ridiculous plan in the teaching of our children in school to dumb it down and only have them print really did not know what they were doing. Furthermore, why didn't parents stand up and say no we want our children to learn how to write and not just print everything. Maybe the parents could have been a little more vocal back then, those are just my thoughts I am not placing blame on anyone. See it from the eyes of one that had to have very neat, almost perfect penmanship while attending Catholic schools as a child. You better have made the handwritten letters on the lined paper to look like the teacher was teaching you the proper way to do it.
I was reading in the workbook about misconceptions about receiving the Holy Spirit and something jumped out at me while reading. I am going to take a picture of the 2 pages in the workbook and have you read it for yourself if that is okay. It talks about how too many people preach/teach their experience, but Paul told Timothy to "Preach the word."
So, please know my heart is for me to share things that actually happened or currently happen in my life with Holy Spirit, not to take precedent over the word of God. Please forgive me if I have misled you in any way of making experiences take precedent over the word of God. I have found out that throughout the years that my reading the bible has brought me closer to God and maybe that is the connector of me being prompted by Holy Spirit on the adventures we take together.
Just the other day I was reading in the bible about Ahab taking Naboth's vineyard in 1Kings 21 and then kept reading on to 2Kings all the way through of Elizah taken to heaven. Back in 2014 I notated reading this scripture on 4/1/2014. I must have been intrigued with reading that day because I read a couple of chapters all the way through 2Kings 8 that day. Then in the margin of my bible I notated on 10/20/2018 I underlined using a teal looking ink pen "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?" I must have been at The Dwelling Place Church in Huntsville, AL with James W. Goll preaching/teaching that day because I notated it in my bible margin by 2Kings 2: 14. I also notated a few other things in 2014 such as: 1Kings 21: 8-10, as deception is all around this. 1Kings 22 I notated not every self-proclaimed prophet is a prophet of the Lord. Use wisdom & discernment in this. That is just a small sampling of things I notate in the margins of my bible as I read the word of God. I do want to add another notation by 2Kings 2: 19-24 on 3/19/2005 I notated in the margin Blessings pronounced and then below that Curses pronounced.
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