The Time I Argued With The Holy Spirit and Lost

My Journey with God has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life.  The people who helped me along the way have helped me tune into know how to listen and to truly know my God.  It is how I know, that I know that I know that I know that he is real.  (excuse my Nicole C. Mullen reference but she is one of my favorites!).  Along the way, I stopped just talking and learned to listen and when I did, wow!!  It is why that I know until the the I die, I will forever live for Jesus Christ.  I will forever put him above all.  Because He is not a building on Sunday.  He is not Christmas.  He is not a book I pick up from time to time.  He is my King.  He is my living God.  He comes before anyone.  Above all.  Until the day I die.  I have that type of relationship with him.  No one can explain him away to me.  Because I have received the Holy Spirit and I have heard him.  I don't care who thinks I am crazy.  I have walked up to complete strangers because he told me to and had them fall into my arms crying asking me how did I know?  Because God told me.  Explain it away?  You can't.  It is my King.

Now on to the time I tried to argue with him.  I was with my family at a very packed theme park called Adventured land.  Shoulder to shoulder with people.  Slammed packed.  This past summer.  I was walking passed a very tall and somewhat scary tattooed man (I have tattoos, that was not what made him scary) his tattoo had a skeleton on his throat of a skull flipping to middle fingers off each side of his neck.  I thought quietly, Jesus, I bet he had a hard life.  Well, it was a conversation I wish I had not started with the word "Jesus".  Plain as if I was talking to you, Jesus answered, "Yes, he has.  I need you to give him a message."   I literally  turned back to the man who I swear looked 7 foot tall and said, "uh....you sure it's me...uh,   He doesn't look happy.  you sure you meant me????"  Plain as day,  he said, "You must tell him, Be delivered from your past and look ahead through Me and STOP RELIVING IT".   There was a sea of people and I kept walking my little cousin Jessica was with me, my kids, and my husband.   I looked at Jessica.  I had tears in my eyes cause I knew she wasn't going to understand.  I said Jessica,  "I know this is going to seem crazy but God just told me to give this man a message and I have to do it."  She lovingly looked at me and said ok.  Cj said, "she does this a lot."  They sat down on a bench to wait on me.  I turned to Bobby and I said, "look I know this sounds crazy but the Holy Spirit has given me a clear message to give to that big tattooed man and I have to do it."  He just looked at me and said, "well, you better do what the Holy Spirit says to do".

My stomach was in knots.  What if he was not a believer?  I turned around to the sea of people and he was gone!!  I began to cry.  Because once the Holy Spirit gives you an assignment and you don't follow through, it will pull at you and pull at you until it is done.  I stood at the bridge that came from the water park which is where we were come from.  I prayed God please let me find him.  I stood there crying like and idiot in front of strangers thinking I had lost a child.  I had!  God's child!  Please God lead him to me!   I turned around and there was the massive stranger!  I grabbed his arm and I said sir, may I please talk to you?  He said sure!  I said can we walk over here??

I said, "Sir, I may sound like a crazy lady to you but just hear me out ok?  When I was walking by you earlier God gave me a very clear and direct message just for you.  He said BE DELIVERED FROM YOUR PAST AND LOOK AHEAD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.  STOP RELIVING WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE RELIVING."

He said, "Ma'am  I was very violent."  I said, "But are you NOW?  TODAY IS WHO YOU ARE"  Tears began to fall from the giant of a mans eyes,  right there in Adventure Land. He thanked me several times.  He hugged me.  He said stuff like this never happens in the world today that we live in.  I told him it was not me, but our God.  We just have to listen.  I hugged him again.  He just finished serving 3 years in the same town I actually live in.  (we were in Des Moines when we met).

I said don't it feel so good that NONE of this matters??  All of it is wiped clean if you asked him to wipe it clean?  Your past is just that and leave it here.