JESUS THE WAY

This is a statement regarding the major displays of God and His power that I have seen.  I wanted to declare how Great God is and to Declare His Mighty Works. 

Psalm 9:11
“Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion!  Declare His deeds among the people.”

Psalm 73:28  “But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, That I may declare all Your works.”

Psalm 96:3
“Declare His glory among the nations,His wonders among all peoples.”

I was praying for Jesus to make me a witness, and He started allowing me to experience some big miracles so I could have first hand stories to share with people.  I am thankful for that.  It is hard for people to argue against personal experiences when witnessing.  Plus, God allowed other people to witness the miracles that were done in Jesus’ Name.

A friend and I were out talking to people about Jesus on the streets of Marysville, Ca.  It was around the late 1980’s.   My friend Louie and myself were out on the street cruise in the city of Marysville.  There were people hanging out on the streets and cars cruising the main thorough fair.  We were walking down the sidewalk and a fellow was walking toward us.  I said to him something like “hey, have you heard John 3:16 from the Bible?  Have you heard the message of Jesus?”  The man said no.  So I asked if I could tell him about Jesus.  He said “Yes”.  So I proceeded to explain John 3:16 and the message of salvation through Jesus.   

While I was talking about Jesus, my attention was briefly drawn to about 3 or 4 guys sitting on or standing near their Harleys that about 15 feet away.  They were pretty big and rough looking guys.  There was this one guy who was pretty tall about 6’4”-6’6” with a black leather motor cycle jacket, flying some colors, kicking back on his motorcycle.  He said “get out here!”.  I heard him, but decided to ignore him.  He said it again.  I ignored him.  Then I heard one of them say something like, “when my friend is on coke, he likes to kill people.  You had better get out of here.”  So I yelled back over as said “I was talking about Jesus and I was standing on a public sidewalk and I was not leaving. 

So the big guy with dark hair that was telling me to leave, comes over and gets in my face and starts yelling at me to leave.  At this point he is screaming “Get out of here!”  When he stopped yelling he look at me very menacingly.  I saw his eyes turn black with hate.  He then started speaking in some kind of  weird language. 

I heard what I thought to be Jesus on the inside of me.  He told me the man was a devil worshipper or something like that.  He told me that the man was putting a curse upon me.  Jesus told me to tell satan to “SHUT UP” in His Name (Jesus’ name).  So I said “I command you satan in the Name of JESUS to be silent!”  Instantly, it was as if there were two giant hands on the man; one on his head and one hand under his chin.  His mouth was slammed shut with violent force that jolted the man.  Even his lips were sealed shut and the man stood there stunned and was trying to mumble words but his lips would not open, so he couldn’t speak!

I remember that Jesus said Luke 10:17  “The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” 18 And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. 19 “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. 20 “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in Heaven.”
21 At that very time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight. 22 “All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

Another miracle that I witnessed around the same time was one of the BEST experiences of my entire life!  It was most excellent.   My friend Jeff, Vince and my self, went to go talk to people about Jesus on the streets of Marysville near a bar called Rooney’s.  It was a back street kind of place.   There were a few drunken people lying around and few people hanging out talking outside.  We were passing out some Jesus tracts when lady came out of the bar door.  My friend Vince stopped her and started telling her about Jesus.  Jeff also joined in on the conversation.  I was standing about five feet away and was letting them do the talking.  She told of some of the troubles of her life.  I heard her telling about how she had been pregnant, but her boyfriend had beaten her so bad that that baby died in her womb.  I felt empathy for the woman.  I was kind of quietly praying the Jesus would help her.  She said that she had severe nervous problems because of the torment in her life.  She showed my friend how she was shaking in her hands because of her nerves.  My friends talked with her about Jesus some more and she said she wanted to receive Jesus and my friends prayed for her.

She told Jeff and Vince that she was just off work at the bar and she was on her way to buy some drugs.  She said she had changed her mind and wanted to go home.  So Jeff and Vince said they would walk with her home.  I wasn’t going to go, but then I decided to tag along. I was hanging about 10 feet behind them and I was praying kind of quietly for her.  As we walked just a little bit and I was praying, she turned around with a startled look in her eyes and she said “Don’t do that.”   I was praying in a Holy Spirit inspired prayer language for her very quietly (as it was for God only not people).  Again she turned around after a few paces and said “Don’t do that!”  My friend Vince and Jeff turned to look at me like I was doing something bad to the lady.  But I was out of arms reach from the lady; I was more than 8 feet away from them.  They didn’t hear me that I was praying for the lady.  I felt impressed by Jesus in my spirit that it was a demon that was afflicting the lady, and that demon was scared.   I just kept praying.

I started to feel a funny stirring feeling way down deep inside of me.  Then felt words from Jesus like coming from deep down inside.  It was kind of like internal swirling force…hard to explain.  Jesus’ words came to me and He said, “Tell her that I am here and I’m going to touch her and heal her.”  So I spoke the words out loud to the lady.   I said: “JESUS says that HE is here and He is going to touch you and heal you!”   

We all kind of came to a stop in the side walk.  We had not ventured for more than 50 feet from the bar at this point.  After I was obedient to Jesus and said His words just like He told me to say them, the Spirit of Jesus filled my body from deep within me.  He did not come from outside my body in.  He came from deep within the area where the Spirit is.  It was Jesus’ Fountain of Living Waters.  His presence so filled my body that it felt as if Jesus and I were one and It was Jesus walking in my body, but I was still there.  His Presence is beautiful for sure!  I felt His radiance in my body.  The lady stopped and looked into my eyes and said “I see lights coming out of your eyes!”  She immediately grabbed my upper arm and looked up to Heaven and cried out “JESUS HELP ME!”  

I felt the Presence of Jesus pass through me where she was grabbing my arm, and He went to her.    She started laughing and crying out thanks to God and Jesus for helping her.  She said declared “Jesus just healed me!”   She said look I’m not shaking anymore and I’m totally sober too!  Jesus definitely touched her. 

My friends were stunned because they had no idea really what was happening or what was going on.  It was all for the lady.  Jesus was definitely there at that moment.

I like to tell people about the time when I used Jesus’ name against a small tornado.   It happened around 2007 in the city of Marysville, CA.  Me and my two friends Billy and Sierra were hanging out one morning playing music and chatting, when a storm warning came on the TV.  It said possible tornado sited in our area.  So my friend Billy and I went out to look at the storm.  We could see the storm cell moving near the Sutter Buttes and it looked like a man-o-war Jelly fish in the sky.  It was big, blackish, and thick with long tentacles of rain hanging below it.  It looked like it was going to go to the north of the town, and I made the ‘mistake’ of saying something like “darn, I kind of wanted to see a tornado!”   Well, immediately, the whole mass changed directions and came right over my house.  The winds were blowing about 70-80 mph gusts.  The whole storm was swirling around and churning in the air right over my house and didn’t seem to be moving away one bit! 

My friend Sierra came out of the house and looked up at the storm.  After she saw that the thing was forming a cyclone like eye right over my house, she punched me REAL HARD right in the chest and said “Who did you piss off!!!”  I looked at the storm and said, “I might have made God made.  But I am trusting in Jesus!!!    Billy looked at the eye of the storm and said “That’s a tornado!  I seen those when I was working on the oil rigs in Texas.  Its getting ready to drop down on your house!”   That kind of scared me a little bit.  I felt and adrenaline rush.

I had just read Mathew chapter 8 the day before where Jesus spoke to the wind and waves and said “peace be still” and everything became calm.  At that moment of the storm, I had been given a gift of faith by the Spirit and I said in my heart I totally believe in Jesus and God.  I believe Jesus has the Power from God.  It was like the Lord was preparing me for this event days before this.  Looking back after, I could see I was being prepared.

So after Sierra punched me, I said to her and Billy “Watch this!”  So I raised my hand and pointed at the eye of the storm.  I yelled upwards and said “In the Name of JESUS CHRIST…GO AWAY!” 

Immediately I saw a real tight jet stream of air shoot out of a cloud bank off the the west of the eye of the storm, and hit the tornado formation.  It did not just blow it away instantly.  But it just kept pouring out of the cloud bank against the tornado eye.  It just kept building up pressure against the eye until there was a large volume of air mass smashed up against the tornado.  The air stream that shot out of the cloud was clearly formed in a distinct, tight stream.  It was also a different shade of color than the surrounding clouds and tornado formation that was beginning.   

After a large volume had backed up opposing the eye, the mass of jet stream air  split in two halves and grabbed the eye of the tornado like two giant hands.  Once it had clamped around the eye, the stream of air shut off.  The last of the stream of air came like a solid punch of a fist and blew the tornado and whole tornado cloud bank to little wispy puffs of clouds!   I like telling that story.  It gives me a good starting point for talking about God and Jesus the Christ.
 
Read Jeremiah 23 sometime.  The whole chapter is good, but pay attention to verse 23 & 24.

The one thing I like about Jeremiah 23 is verse 24 knowing that God’s Presence fills the whole earth and the heavens and that He is aware of everything.  That is very sobering and comforting. 

One day I was tripping on that verse.  I was up in Brownsville on my friends Mountain.  And I was thinking about how GREAT God is and that His presence is all around and He knows everything about all things.  I was thinking how God takes care of all the creatures, insects and everything and gives everything what it needs when it needs it.  I was experiencing the Joy of the Lord.  I started yelling out “Hallelu Yah! Glory to God.  Yahweh, great Jehovah (wondering at the time what is God’s name?) I love you God.   You are Great! You are Awesome!  Thank you Jesus – Yahushua – for making us children of God.” 

My attention was directed up to the North of the sky where I saw a  cloud coming in our direction.  It was a pretty thick cloud with white and shades of grey, heavy kind of cloud.  On the front of the cloud was a giant head of a man looking face.  It wasnt just a face.  It was a full head image, just as if a being stuck its head out of the cloud; but it was made out of the clouds.   I could see all the details on the face.  Every detail was crystal clear.  The hair was down about shoulder length and perfectly manicured; not a hair out of place.  The beard was about mid-torso length and perfectly manicured as well.  It was very amazing and I stood watching it for about 5 or 10 minutes as it gracefully floated towards my friends place.  The eyes where fixed on the same line as we were and if I was to have kept looking I could have looked it the eyes.  But as the cloud drifted almost overhead, I put my eyes down because I did not want to seem prideful to God.  Later though, I read Jesus’ words where He says to “Look Up our redemption draws near.”

Isaiah 26:3-4 “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.  Trust in the Lord forever, for in YAH, the Lord is everlasting strength.”

Psalms 68:4 “Sing to God! Sing praises to His name! Extol Him who rides on the clouds: to YAH, His name! Rejoice before him!”

Psalm 104   ¹ Bless the LORD, O my soul!    O LORD my God, You are very great:   You are clothed with honor and majesty,  ² Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,  Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.      ³ He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,  Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,  ⁴ Who makes His angels spirits,  His ministers a flame of fire.
Psalm 68:33
To Him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which were of old!Indeed, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice.

The first clear miracle to me that I saw was when I was about 5 or 7 years old.  I was in a field getting ready to make and fly a paper airplane.  It seemed that God was whispering to me.   He told me that He was going to fly my airplane for me!  So I proceeded to make my paper airplane.  God told me to make the folds and creases tight and straight so it would fly better.  After my paper airplane was made, God told me to get ready to through it and then wait for Him to tell me when to through it.  So I the paper airplane in my hand with my arm cocked back in the throwing position.  After just a short time, I felt a breeze start to kick up.    It was more like a gust of wind that came.  It was blowing pretty good and God told me to through it.  I kind of froze and did not through it.  Then He said again more force fully with urgency to throw now…quick!  So I threw it.   I watched as the paper airplane wobbled a bit in the wind.  Then it seemed to settle into the stream of air.  The plane started lifting up and up and up.  It continued on until it flew up and out of sight!  It was gone.

(More Stories to Follow!)

p.s.  Let me also state that I have had some monumental type failures.  I have missed so many opportunities to be a witness for Jesus.  A lady probably died because I was to afraid to go pray for her, even though I knew Jesus wanted me to pray for her.  I have no room for any boasting in myself.  I am only boasting in the Lord Jesus to the Glory of God.