Saturday night May 27, 1995 I woke up in the middle of the night because my neck was hurting. When I looked around the room for the clock, it was not there and nothing in the room seemed familiar. When I looked forward, I realized that my head was at the foot of the bed and my feet at the head of the bed. I have never had anything like this happen to me before or since. I asked the Lord what does this mean and immediately I went back to sleep. I heard the Lord say to me, “I am about to radically change the direction of your life. Set the trumpet to your mouth and do not fear or do not hold back, expand what you pray for I will give you whatever you believe and will consistently ask me for.” After he said this, I immediately woke up again. After this experience, I began to ask the Lord for direction on how to pray and I felt that the change was going to be uncomfortable but the Lord was going to give me grace and peace to go through it.

Since 1995, everything has changed in my life for the better:

1. I was working as a maintenance man in a factory just before the factory closed the Lord opened an opportunity to go to work as a computer technician. Now I am the system administrator for the city of Homewood.

2. My wife got breast cancer and we went through some tough years as she struggled with the effects of Chemo Therapy and stage four cancer. The Lord totally healed her and now she is cancer free after the doctors told her in 2004 that she would not live 3 months.

3. The Lord has brought me up personally where I am not even the same person as I was in 1995.

The Lord is worthy of all praise, honor and glory, the body of Christ is about to see some of the most exciting and glorious times. I sense from the Lord we are about to enter a time of gathering those that do not know the Lord. Ground the enemy has held for years will be conquered and taken back by the church of the Living God.