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When I was in grade school, I can remember struggling with if there was, or wasn’t a God, a creator who was in charge of the universe and knew who we were.
In Psalm 14:1 says, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God…
It goes on to say that it is evil to contemplate such a thing in one’s heart, and you have corrupted yourself. That of course, is a paraphrase, a simplification of what the verse is describing.
If you wish for some harsher words, you want to look the verse up for yourself. ( I am not against copying and pasting Bible verses in their entirety), but I am more concerned about sharing my testimonial of how I came to understand my relationship with Christ.

The “wicked” within the school systems of America today, along with peer pressure are the issues I was dealing with, yet the Bible plainly tells us to seek, and we will find, and knock and it will be opened to us. That is no lie, and I believe the greatest disservice is to NOT share the ways of the Lord with a child!
People need the Lord, primarily because that’s how we were created to be before sin and separation from God occurred through the lies and trickery of the Devil! Our fallen natures (flesh) are at war against God, and it takes us to have the willingness to come to him as God will not violate our free will.

It is not my intent to scare people about the war we fight each day in our souls between “good and evil” or what used to be called right and wrong, but realize it or not, that is the constant struggle we will engage in till our dying day.
But the “good news is” that God sent his only son for us to have a way back to him, because of God’s great love for us in this fallen world! All we have to do is ask in faith for that renewal of spiritual life, by accepting Christ’s sacrifice for us on the cross! Yet the pride of life says we are good enough; but the truth is that nobody is good enough to please God, except for the atonement alone, which Jesus paid for us on our behalves, sometimes called redemption.

What is really quite tragic, is the fact the Bible foretells that most will reject their only chance for life ever-after, and will end up dwelling with Satan and his Angles in an eternity of torment and fire! Yet this is not God’s fault, it is rather our own for not accepting the free gift of salvation for a life of everlasting torment with the deceiver, Satan himself!

Okay, enough preaching, it’s time to tell you the wonder and the battles that I encountered after receiving Christ, and his Holy Spirit! This is a first-hand account of what I have learned, it is not tainted by systematic belief systems, and in fact, you might see me bash these false concepts from time to time.

When I was a teenager my mother had come to a saving faith in Christ, and after some struggle, I sought him for my Salvation and Sanctification… Yet it was not without a fight after the Lord entered into my heart.
Forgive me for saying this, but a lot of Charismatics don’t think you can be saved and have a fight with Satan afterward. But that would be like saying you have joined the Army – yet the enemy is no longer there! Nothing could be further from the truth, and yet people wonder why there is such confusion around brethren. I chalk it up to misunderstanding the scriptures and the spirit world. You will also forgive me for saying that most believers I have met in churches,(even older ones) have about as much spiritual maturity as a child or teenager. Why? Because they have learned to walk very little in the deeper spiritual truths of the heavenlies or the war that rages around them!
I was born with a very healthy amount of spiritual discernment, and a powerful soul in my makeup. Just like some people are born with an athletic ability or a powerful intellect, some small in stature, and some large. It is all about how the Lord created us to be – for His glory, and not our own.
I had a wonderful “honeymoon period” in meeting Jesus Christ and coming to know my Heavenly Father. But soon afterwards unfortunately I also started engaging with an enemy who hated me!

I am very grateful I had a mother and father who instructed me in the Bible, although it was during my time as a teenager that the toughest times started. I can remember going to bed and sensing the “Boogie Man” with me in my room at night. This was dismissed as an overactive imagination by my parents, but in actuality, it was much more than that!
I would often feel a poking from underneath my mattress, like a broom handle taking a jab at me from underneath the bed! Boy, I was relieved when I found our dog under my bed after mustering the courage to take a quick look.
Yet oftentimes there was no dog under my bed, and it filled my heart with terror! Additionally, our basement door would slam shut (across from my bedroom door) with a loud bang, (with no apparent wind) and we had very thick carpeting that the door dragged along to be able to shut. The worst time was when I was playing a game in my doorway with my friend.

Sometimes being a brave young man, I would go into the basement to investigate. At times things were quite normal, but then sometimes I can recall items crashing off the shelves and onto the floor as I passed by. The worst part is that I could rarely share it with others, specifically my parents! However, God did provide me with some comfort in speaking with another adult who called it poltergeist. I was relieved to know that I was not seen as some sort of mental defective by my friend’s mother! Another issue I encountered was an obsessive thought, which my younger brother apparently also suffered from. I won’t go into details, but for my torment, it was to open my wrists into the sink! The thought repulsed me, yet early in the morning, this thought tormented me for years! I learned much later that demonic attacks always start in our thought lives. The reason for this is that Satan knew I would be an effective minister for the Lord as I aged with insight into his discouraging and sometimes deadly tactics – should the Lord allow it.

One day (with my hyperactive mind) I decided to see if I could telepathically move an item in my room. I started with something big and light, as I sat on my bed I intently focused upon a “pool float” hanging in the corner of my room, a Welshes Jelly Jar. It sprang off the nail and onto the floor! To my horror, I knew that no one would believe me, so I called my younger brother and his friend to sit on the floor of my room as I tried it again. As they sat there watching I focused on it again, but this time it didn’t dismount, but it did move again! My brother’s immediate question was “Where’s the string”? But I answered him, “There is no string!” It would not be until decades later that he reminded me of that day! I’m glad I had a witness to that occurrence too!

I would be amiss if I didn’t share another story of the spirit world I learned of before graduating high school and going overseas with the Coast Guard. My friend up the street had muscular dystrophy, his mother was the one who described poltergeist to me. He had a cousin (a young boy) who had been in an automotive accident and was tormented by demons. His mother took the boy to a police chief in Baltimore City, who also did exorcisms, and the boy was delivered from those demons. I mention this because, after my time in the Coast Guard, I would do Bible studies with the only other exorcist known in Baltimore City, the brilliant man who taught me how to understand and walk in the Holy Spirit of God.

This Minister had a DD., ThD., and PhD in psychology in addition to doing deliverance, having the gift of healing, word of knowledge, and some other gifts of God that I have never seen in any other.
All of that will be in the next “Insight into knowing the Lord, part three.