CHAPTER 35:

I had just left this Jewish woman’s high-rise penthouse on Turtle Creek in Uptown Dallas. I turned on the worship music like I normally play in the background, and I was in my van driving to my friend’s business in Duncanville. With no warning like He has always done in my various encounters with Him He just showed up unannounced. I was suddenly shaking and crying and the GLORY of God filled the van.

What happened next was really important because I have never had a visual encounter with God face to face, but this was different. A 3D face of Jesus appeared out over the hood of the van, and He was laughing with a deep belly laugh so that his head was tilted back like He was going to fall out of His chair. I never saw His eyes. Normally when I dream it's in color, but this vision of Him was black and white. Then he spoke to me and said, “I AM AN EXTRAVAGANT GIVER.” Then from the Old Testament to the new He started showing me instances of scripture where He was limitless in His giving. Limitless provision, limitless wealth, limitless protection, limitless healing, limitless love. The joy in Him was deeply felt. Then I could feel something grab my ribs, which is a spot where I am ticklish, and I burst out in laughter and could not stop even though I tried. I was laughing and crying at the same time. I don’t know how I was experiencing all of this while driving, but I remember pulling up to my friend Dean’s place of business and I looked at my face in the rear-view mirror and it was shining.

I have to say that I have felt the presence of God many times, but this time was different than all the others. I don’t believe it was His presence, it had to be His GLORY, because you can barely control yourself while you are in it. I hustled inside my friend’s place, turning my face away from his receptionist, who was on the phone and as I brisked past her to his office, I stuck my head into his office, without saying anything and I motioned for him to follow me. Then I quickly headed for the main door to go outside. I could hear his fast pace coming up behind me and then I heard him gasp and in a serious tone he said, “Why is the presence of God with you.” I reached for the door and turned around and said, “I don’t know.” This particular friend of mine is very sensitive to the Holy Spirit, so he went back inside to a couch by his office and laid down crying and speaking in tongues and said to his secretary, “shut it down for the day.”

After that time, I would put people in the van and turn the worship music on and the glory would fill the cabin of the van. Whatever that individual needed to happen would happen, like deliverance, healing and even salvation to an unbeliever. One guy stopped a divorce, which was about to happen a couple days later. One of my friends was on a jobsite and I rolled up to go do some work and as he walked up to the car, he felt God and I told him to jump in and God healed his back, so he took his back brace off. A friend of mine who drives a taxi brought an unsaved guy to me and I asked him if he wanted to meet God and he said yes so, I drove him down to the lake and turned the worship music on and the GLORY filled the cabin of the van. He started wailing and yelling out, “What do I do to be saved, what do I need to do to be saved?” To which I said, “You’re doing it now. You’re meeting Him. Ask Him into your heart and always return to this place of prayer and communion, and never stay away from it no matter what's happening in your life.” The way that man cried out also let me know it was not the presence of God, because I have seen many unbelievers over the years come into the presence in a service and they never reacted like this. Experiencing this was a far more intense feeling than the presence because there was a level of indescribable holiness in it.

It lasted 6 months and then it waned when I brought others to the van. I believe it was a foretaste of what is coming to the earth through individuals whose lives are positioned and being prepared to facilitate His GLORY.

There were some people that I brought into the van and the Spirit would lift and not manifest Himself. I was deeply concerned about it and wondered why He would hide from them. This is hard to describe how I knew, but I took note of it and stopped inviting certain types of folks that I sensed were not to experience it. It was like He would let me know, "Not that one." I think I understand it, based on the healing revivals, which I studied intensively through the "God's Generals" books by Robert's Lairdon. Folks who harbored great levels of religious pride and held unmoving levels of unforgiveness towards others were never able to be healed by the evangelists with powerful anointings.

He also wouldn’t manifest Himself with any of my immediate family members, and that was simply the same thing Jesus experienced, which is close familiarity. I have included testimony from several people who experienced it and their testimony is in the back of the book.

My prayer life has never been the same, because of His intense presence. At various times the encounters are almost to the same degree, but that 6 months was so exceptional. Recently I was having worship time in the car, and He came just as powerful as the main visitation I experienced. He started talking and telling me about how men search for His power, but it’s hidden to them. He said it will only be given to them with the right heart. The presence of the visitation was so strong I thought I was going to pass out, because I was driving at the time. He told me not to stop driving, and not to worry because He wouldn’t let me pass out, so I kept driving. When I got to the client’s place I tried to get out of the car and felt like I was going to float away so I grabbed the door. When I stabilized myself, I tried to walk, but I felt drunk. By the time I got to the door I was alright. It was an amazing experience.