I am free. God has saved me.
He had me drive over a thousand miles to Jacksonville, Florida to attend a LastReformation Kickstart meeting where I had numerous demons driven from me and I spoke in tongues for the first time. I implore everyone to do this:
Repent, be immersed in water in the name of Jesus for remission of sins and then receive the Holy Spirit. This is the true Gospel, and what I have been preaching.
Even though I was pretty sure I had that full Gospel, I knew something was not right and things were not working as they should. It turns out I had a lot of baggage inside of me that was hindering my effectiveness. I needed deliverance, to be "set free."
Many people received the "full package," as I like to call it, at this event, and God has been moving in a mighty way as he uses His people through The Last Reformation. This is true revival. I had taken my mother and my wife with me, and we all got fully equipped to do the work God has called us to do. My mother and I were standing together on the beach watching the baptisms and demons were coming out of people everywhere.
The weather was unpleasant, but the warm waters of the Gulf Stream were enticing. The wind was blowing and the raindrops were stinging, and the desire was there to leave the beach. But I said a number of times, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," and we all stayed -- even my 85-year-old mother, who had been brought up in a mainline church all her life, was mesmerized.
The first girl to be baptized was wearing a dark, royal blue shirt, and she had been prancing around the beach beforehand writing "Jesus" in the sand with her feet. She was so eager. After she came out of the water she started screaming and thrashing around as the demonic spirits left her. Later, she was beaming ear-to-ear, free and still dripping wet.
We do not know what is in us. We think of "demon-possessed" people as being those who run around killing people and drooling, but that is not right. Satan doesn't need to waste his resources on the drunken bum, the convicted felon or the executive who doesn't need God. He spends them on those who can hurt him, who are in love with God and Jesus and who want to do His Will. Satan's strategies are to tie up, weaken, bog down and discourage the saints. He enters into relationships and pits loved ones against each other in order to break them up. Jesus told us He would bring division (Luke 12), not as a desired end result, but as part of the process of building His Kingdom. It is Satan who causes those divisions, so Jesus can heal them!
The first disciples did it right, and that method is recorded in the Book of Acts. They healed the sick to get people's attention by demonstrating God's Spirit and Power. Then they preached the Gospel, telling people how to be saved. They helped those who wanted that Gospel to receive it, and they allowed the Holy Spirit to work through them to set many people free from the infirmities and spiritual bondages that plagued them. Then they followed up with each and every one of those new disciples to teach them and equip them to make more disciples, by working with the Holy Spirit to renew their minds.
I am not going to remove any of my previous writings at this point because I believe God was working in my life to both teach me and use me as an example to others. I think there is a lot of truth in what I wrote, but I am also suspicious of what might be in there. I had "helpers," spies if you like, that participated in everything I did. I consider my previous works tainted and unreliable, so please be careful as you read them. Take this all in prayer to God the Father and ask Him in Jesus' Name to help you learn what He wants you to know.
I may continue writing in this blog at some point, but for now I am going to leave it sit for a while. I will attach disclaimers to each post, just in case people see them without encountering this explanation.
I pray God will bless you all and reveal to you what He wants you to do.
Thank you, Jesus, for giving me understanding! I pleaded for it, and You came through "big time!"
All glory to God!
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UPDATE, August 19, 2022...
I believe this photo was taken at Neptune Beach, Florida on June 18, 2016. The sky looks familiar.
The man on the right is who God used to baptize my mother in water and in Spirit, and who He used to set me free. He is a Facebook friend, and I believe the photo came from his profile.
The photo at the top of this post is from when we visited my brother in the Fort Myers area after we had been in Jacksonville. He and my mother are the ones walking on the beach. I am standing with my sister-in-law, and those are our shadows you can see. The white object the shadows appear to be pointing at is simply a sign on the beach. We had taken an early morning walk with them as they looked for sea turtle nests. I like the photo because it symbolizes my freedom.
UPDATE, September 4, 2022...
Don't believe me? Watch this video...
The demon in the woman spoke through her. Listen carefully.
This stuff is real. It is in the Bible, and we are called to do it today.