Short Stories

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He Speaks

It's been six months since the day I was Saved. Through the grace of God my life has changed completely. I have been blessed with a great job and I have an apartment of my own. Tery my beloved brother in Christ and the local preacher of Trinity Church, has been there for me all the way and my Church has become my new family.

While in my lost day's of addiction and unmanageable life- the one thing I did manage to do was to burn down many many bridges. But and only by the grace of God the great I AM (God)has rebuilt all of them. Today my son is a big part of my life, my brothers can't get enough of me and my mother, well let's just say today she is my very best friend and she is so so proud of me.


Ever since I gave my life to Jesus I have been a responsible and law abiding citizen. But science I became Born Again,I have found it hard to abide by the Laws of God. I still have many character defects, like lusting over women, lying, smoking cigarettes and I tend to get angry at people when I don't get my way. And not being able to fully submit myself to the Lord has been causing me to feel like a loser and a failure.

Before I go to sleep every night I get on my knees and pray to God for some help for my delima. I pray for knowledge and wisdom to be the best Christian I can be. But the next day I find myself doing the same thing all over again.

One night, right after attending a evening service of Church, I asked Tery if he would give me a ride home to my apartment.

While on my way back, Tery noticed that I was not myself and that something was bothering me. I began spilling out my guts to him. I told him that I felt like a hypocrite and not worthy to be a child of God. Right there and then, Tery pulled the car over and began to pray for me. I can't remember exactly what he said in his prayer, but I remember him crying out to the Holy Spirit to lead and guide me through my Christian walk. And in my mind I was saying,

"yeh right, the Holy Spirit help me, yah ok".

But I got to admit, I did feel an ease and a sense of calm after he was done praying for me. See I am a firm believer in the power of prayer, because my family were praying for me when I was lost in my addiction to drugs, and look at what I have become today, I thought to myself.

Tery dropped me off at my apartment about 9:30 pm. I told Tery that I was very thankful for his prayer and proceeded to go inside. And like any other night, I jumped in the shower and got ready for bed.

Now I must say that the Lord has spoken to me many times in many different ways. At times through people, sometimes through daily occurrences, such as opened doors that none the less would never be opened to me if it wasn't for my Daddy. But most of the times in and through His Word,(the Bible). But never, have I ever,
heard Him speak to me the way He did this night.

Ever since I was saved, I always thought of the Holy Spirit as some type of holy spiritual feeling or some divine influence or power that we somehow get hold of and use at will. But that night the Triune God allowed one part of the God head to swoop down and reveal Himself to me to what He truly is. Not as some influence or feeling, but as a Divine Person of infinite majesty, glory, holiness, and power, who in marvelous con- descension has come into my heart to make His aboard there and take possession of my life. It was as if He was right next to me kneeling and praying.His voice was gentle and serine, yet loud and clear. A whisper in my ear as I've never heard before.

Now this night, like every other night, I got on my knees and prayed for one thing. And that is that the Lord bless me with knowledge and wisdom of whatever it is He wills and ask of me to do for Him who Saved me from the slavery of addiction. So right there and then He Speaks to me, the Holy Spirit in barks himself straight into my heart, soul and mind and softly says,

"Obey Me, Repent and Obey Me".

Quickly I open my eye's and begin to turn my head left and right wondering, "what the heck was that?" I got this chill on the back of my neck and just before I was gonna get up and make a run for it, He speaks and says,

"Peace be Still my child."

And at that very moment I had an apithany, an enlightenment to why King David meditated on the Word.

You see Iv come to love reading and studying the Bible. Lately I have been studying on the resurrection of Christ and what the reactions of the apostles were, after they had seen the resurrected Christ.

In John 20:19 the Apostles were frightened of the Jews finding them and out of nowere Jesus appeared to them. Can you imagine there reaction. Jesus went on to say "Peace be on to you" and again in verse 21 the Lord say "Peace to you".

And just like the apostles, I also was afraid. And at that moment just as the Lord had said on to them the Holy Spirit said on to me "Peace be on to me"

The Spirit went on speaking to my heart.

"Cleanse and flush out all your worldly desires if you love me. Deny, Deny the flesh if you love Me. Repent. Change and rid your heart and mind of all lust, greed, hate and envy. Focus my son. Become a water walker and come to me. Your focus should be on I who saved You, absolutely nothing more then Christ Jesus.

In the back of my mind I was thinking, Ok this is getting weird, how do I keep my focus on Jesus? And again He speaks,

"Read the Word, and obey the Word. He said gently.

And at that moment I finally realized that He was interpreting the Word. And that's when I had the courage to ask for some devine help. The Holy Spirit went on to say that He can only help me if I allow Him to. And I asked Him how? Loudly He say's

"Practice, practice and Discipline yourself.

"Practice and discipline myself to do what, I replied?

And He whispered, "Imitating all aspects of Christ. Walk like Him, talk like Him and act like Him. LOVE like HIM."

And I remember thinking, "how, how can I even attempt to be like Jesus?" I'm just a baby, a little baby in Christ.

"Yes Yes." He said with a clear and direct tone.

"You are a child, a child of my divine herd, a child of my love and a precious lamb of my pasture." He went on to say, "Don't you know how much power there is in the blood of Christ, the blood you have been washed with from the day you were Saved. The blood that's been shed for the sins of the world."

Ok, so at this point I'm afraid to even think because this guy's reading my mind and it's starting to freak me out. So then He whispers to me

"Conviction, Conviction."

As I begin to here the Holy Spirit continue to speak to me with such authority and assertion, I humble myself, I humble myself because I am certain at this point that I am truly in the presence of God, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I began to understand now what the Lord meant when He said that He will send forth a Comforter in His place, a Teacher, a Director and Leader so to speak.

So now I open up myself to the Spirit and humbly begin to ask Him some questions that I have been so wanting to ask God for a long time now. My first question was,

"how can I explain to those non-believers, those who don't believe in anything thay can't see or touch, that God really exist." And He Speaks to me once again and says to me,

"Beloved, that's so easy to do, LISTEN, JUST LISTEN, and I carefully answer, "what do you mean just listen?"

"Shush He says, Be still and quiet."

Ok so I got quiet and began to listen to anything out of the usual. It got so quiet that I could here a pin drop.

At this point I have my eyes tightly shut just waiting to here anything. It got so quiet I began to here my heart beating, not just beating but pounding as if my heart was ready to pound right out of my chest. I began thinking, "I don't here anything but the beating of my heart". And again He Speaks and says,

"BINGO" that's exactly what I wanted you to here beloved, you heart, your heart".

"But what do you mean my heart"? I asked with a lost look on my face. And with a sweet gentle voice He Speaks and says

"Beloved, you need to see with your spiritual eyesight, you have been living without your spiritual spectacles and or in the flesh for so long that you have taken for granted the many many miracles that's been laid upon you from the day you were born."

"But what's my heart got to do with any of this?" I asked

"Ok" the Holy Spirit said to me, imagine you had x-ray vision and you could see right threw every living person and every living thing on this earth. With your x-ray vision you would see true sustenance of all life. With your x-ray eyes you will see beatings of hearts, billions of hearts and life as it truly is. With your x-ray eyes you will see the constant flow of blood pumped through the vain's of every living thing sustained by the beatings of hearts."

And He went on to say, "Many of brilliant minds not born of water and spirit have come up with theory's of the source of energy that brings forth life in the hearts of men. But I the Spirit of truth can tell you that it is the love of God that gives you and all life the power to live. It's the breath of your loving Father that allows your blood to flow though your vain's and air through your lungs.

"Man has attempted to recreate the human heart with some success by the help of battrerys and electrics of such sources"."But I tell you the truth, I AM the Triune God, the Alfa and the Omega, the Creator of all things and the Life Support of all life
"With Me and through My Love for the world are you able to live".

"Wow, I have never seen things that way," I responded with a smile.

"Yes Yes. said the Spirit, your beginning to open up your spiritual eyes".

I have been praying now nearly forty minutes with the Spirit. My knees were shaking and I am beginning to sweat. I asked the Spirit,

"Lord what do I say to those who say seeing is believing, and believe in the evolution of man?" And again gently He Speaks and says,

"My child, I have much work to do in you. If they want to see Me tell them to open up there eyes."

"Their eyes, what do you mean open up their eyes?" I said. He Speaks and says,

"I have created man in My own Image. There is no, and has never been any other creature that I have created with the eyes of my beloved children. Think about it child, there has never been any other living thing that can see in full color the way you can. I love my children so much that I gave them eye-sight like no other. I created them with vision with COLOR and THINKING minds with FREE WILL so My children can annualize and enjoy all of my beautiful and colorful creations."

"My beloved child, to settle the evolutionary theory, think about it! As I said in my Word (the bible) I created many many other living creatures before I gave breath to man, (Gen.1:24) If man evolved from apes, then why, if I made many other creatures before man, why hasn't any one of them evolved there eyes and minds like My greatest creation man. And if they still can't grasp the fact of who I AM, then tell them the story of the atheist and the holy man.

I asked the Spirit if He would please tell me the story. And again "He Speaks" and begins to share His story.

"There once was a holy man who had a close friend who was
an atheist. And there came a time when the holy man was blessed
by the Lord with a brand new home."

"One day the holy man invited his friend over for some tea. And when he arrived the holy man began to take him (the atheist) on a tour of the house."

"While the holy man walked his friend though the house, his friend was amazed at all the beautiful furnishings and art the holy man was blessed to have and for some reason the atheist asked the holy man, do you still believe in God and all that religious stuff ? The holy man looked at his friend with a grin, and asked him if he wanted to see his favorite room of the house?"

"Sure why not! Said his friend.

"The holy man proceeded to take his friend to the largest room of the house. As they walked into the room the atheist noticed a large painting of a gorgeous garden by wonderful blue sky's and the shining sun. The holy man said, it was his favorite painting of the house. The atheist was amazed at the beauty and texture of the piece."

"What wonderful colors, he said, who painted this magnificent painting.

"Well I did, said the holy man.

"Wow" said the atheist, you have created a beautiful piece of art here!"

The holy man turned to his friend with a big smile on his face and told him that he did not paint the picture. He said he was just making a point.

"And what's that?" said the nonbelever.

"You easily believed that I painted this picture, yet you refuse to believe that God created the marvelous and awesome world you and I live in today."

"AMAZING! What a wonderful and amazing story that was" I said

"Thank You my Holy Companion, thank you Holy Ghost" And softly and tenderly He Speaks the words "Peace Be Still", and as the Spirit whispers the word's peace be still, I begin to feel this joy in my heart, a happiness as I never felt in my life. I begin to cry tears of releaf and tears of joy. I can't figure out why I'm crying and feeling this way and I don't really care. I just know that I feel a sense of tranquillity and ease, knowing that I truly have the Spirit of God at my side and at work in my heart as long as I let Him. AMEN!AMEN!

A true story of the first time I opend my heart to the Holy Spirit and realy started listening.

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