Acts 29 Today

ACTS 29 TODAY

coming to the knowledge of the truth

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Well here I go again, yesterday I was finishing up this blog post and wa la everything disappeared, and I could not get it back, yes someone does not want this information getting out, and yes I need a new laptop.

So let me paint a picture of where I was at in my life in the early 90s, I had been a born again, Spirit filled, baptized in water Christian for 20 years.

January 1972

Was married with 3 children, and was a general contractor doing mostly remodeling construction. However at this time the interest rates were so high no one was getting loans for remodeling, so I found work driving semi trucks.

The marriage of about 17 years at that time was really on the rocks, and by 1992 we were separated and would be for a long time.

So my family life was a mess, my work life was a mess as I hated driving truck, it was long hours, lonely, and the stupid drivers made me crazy. Church life had become same ole same ole, very boring and dry and so I was deeply depressed, frustrated, and had no clue of what to do.

is it over yet

One thing that started some change was when I was at my parents house one afternoon (that’s where I was living while separated) they were watching Benny Hinn on TV. I had no idea of who he was and was about half asleep when he started talking about the HOLY SPIRIT, I sat up and begin to listen because I had never heard anyone talk about the HOLY SPIRIT THAT WAY EXCEPT KATHRYN KUHLMAN.

I had attended one of her miracle services in Portland Oregon in 1973, and it was the most amazing service I had ever seen. It lasted 5 hrs + and seemed like 30 minutes, the presence of GOD was so heavy you could not have left if you had wanted to.

She talked about the HOLY SPIRIT SO MUCH and now all these years later someone else is talking the same way, and long story short I came to know in a personal way the HOLY SPIRIT and something changed when that happened.

My 7 year older brother (there was just my brother and I in the family) and my best friend felt the same way about things in our life and so we decided we would just start seeking GOD and pray together and see if somehow we could get back on track.

Not long after that his wife of 26 years or so divorced him and he was very devastated, but we kept seeking the Lord together as we could.

There were a lot of things that were happening in this time that I cant go into all of them, but one other great frustration was I felt that I had a ministry call on my life, but nothing was happening that would make that come to pass, as I had gone to Mexico for 1 month in 1973 and India for 1 month in 1974.

Now I had prayed and begged GOD to change my life circumstances so many times I was even tired of hearing it.

So now its the December of 1992 and I am driving down the road in the truck listening to the radio and I hear the HOLY SPIRIT say to me from my spirit..…………………………………….

if you would listen to me as much as you listen to that radio…..I WOULD GET YOU OUT OF THIS TRUCK.

wait !! WHAT?

I ALMOST FAINTED (I never heard the HOLY SPIRIT much in those days) and thought, WOW you would get me out of this truck……………………………………………………………………..

I WAS ALL EARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the next few weeks the radio never was turned on, but I did not hear anything from the HOLY SPIRIT either, but I just continued to keep the radio off.

Then just before the end of the year a thought came into my mind that I had never ever had before (sometimes He speaks to us in our thoughts) a very different thought.

It was simply this…..I WONDER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF I ……………………………………..

until next time

ambassador / servant

Larry…….and remember WHEN WILL WE DO WHAT WE HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE, TO HAVE WHAT WE HAVE NEVER HAD BEFORE.