I grew up in the Church of Christ. At the age of 8 I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I was then water baptized. I felt so clean when I came up out of the water. Even though, I just given my heart to the Lord, I was not a very strong Christian. I had a problem with lying. I believe in Jesus but did not really know Him.

At the age of 15 my grandma gave me a book called Angels on Assignment.   It was a story about a pastor having visitations from Angels. I thought that my grandma lost her mind to believe that angels would still visit someone in our time. My grandma prayed for me that I would have a deep hunger to read this book and to want to know Jesus more.http://www.angelsonassignment.org/index2.html

I did not know she was praying for me. I started thinking about this book. I began reading it. I realize that I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus and knew there had to be more to just being saved. In the summer time I went to stay with my grandma for a week. I told her that I read her book. She was so happy that I read her book.

We went to Church and at Sunday school they were talking about the unpardonable sin. I asked them what the unpardonable sin was. This person gave me wrong information. This person told me that if I ever made fun of someone speaking in tongues that I commented the unpardonable sin. Tongues are a gift from the Holy Spirit; it’s a Spiritual language from Heaven. I used to make fun of the people at my grandma’s church I thought they were crazy for speaking in tongues so I thought that I commented the unpardonable sin and thought that I could never be forgiven. The unpardonable sin is someone speaking against the Holy Spirit and meaning it from his or her heart. This person would have to been with God for a long time and walked very deeply with God and then decide to turn away from God never to serve Him again. I didn’t tell anyone that I thought I commented the unpardonable sin. I kept it to myself and begged and pleaded with God to forgive me.

My grandma took me to a prayer meeting. They were singing praise songs about Salvation and I felt unworthy to sing these songs. There was a picture on the wall of Jesus. Every time I looked at the picture of Jesus I felt so much love and peace. It was if the eyes would follow me in the room. When I looked away I felt unworthy and fill of sin. After the Bible study was over they were praying for people and laying hands on the sick. They would speak in tongues and Ruth would prophesy (give a message from God for the person). I said a prayer "Jesus if you still love me and forgive me please give Ruth a message that you still love me and forgive me?" I also thought to myself, "I wonder if God knows that I love Him even when I have doubts about Him?" I decided to go up for prayer. I really needed to know that what they were doing was of God. I knew if I told people, that I felt God hated me and that I commented the unpardonable sin they could make up a message that God loves me. I really needed to know God was speaking so I did not tell anyone that I thought that I commented the unpardonable sin. I went up for healing because I had a bad stomachache. They laid hands on me and begin to pray in tongues. I felt heat coming from their hands. This heat started to go though my head and though my body and when it got to my stomach the pain went away. Then Ruth told me, "Jesus has a message for you and this is what He is saying to you." "My little child, if you have sinned against Me I forgive you. I know that you love Me even though you have doubts about Me. I am not a mean God but a loving God and I do not punish people for their doubts." I felt a burden lift off my shoulders. Jesus also told me to love myself more and told me that because of me that many people would come to Him. My whole life changed. I could understand the Bible for the very first time. It was if the Words just jump off the pages at me. I would spend hours just reading the bible. Jesus was real to me. I could feel His love and sometimes feel His arms around me.

I went back to school that summer after the prayer meeting. I had boldness for Jesus. I told everyone what Jesus had done for me. I remember witnessing to a girl at school. I asked her at lunchtime if she ever give her heart to Jesus. She told me that someday at church she would. I told her that today was the day of Salvation. I lead her to pray with me to receive the Lord. This young girl had a smile on her face after the prayer. Her life was changed after that.

One day I met a teacher named Mr. Posey. I knew he was a Christian because I could feel the Lord’s presence when I was around him. I was late for English class because I was reading my bible in the library. Mr. Posey wanted to know why I was late. I said I was in the library reading. He asked me what I was reading. I said the bible. He said, "Tell the class what you read in the Bible." I said it was the story of Gideon. He told me to tell the class the story of Gideon. I was shy. So Mr. Posey told the class the story of Gideon. A year later Mr. Posey became a full time teacher at my high school. He would always read his bible and pray in the morning. Some kids join him in this prayer and bible reading and soon the group grew to lots of kids who would meet in the morning to pray and read the bible. I met a lot of other Christian teens at high school this way. The Holy Spirit really moved at my high school because Mr. Posey was obedient to the Lord to pray and read the bible in the mornings. The school principal thanked him and said," That the problem teens were not problem teens anymore." I just pray that prayer can once again be back in the public schools in America because it made a difference in my high school. It was against the law for public bible reading and prayer in our schools but Mr. Posey still did it. We have to stop being afraid for doing what is right and please God rather then man.

A year later from the Bible study, I asked Jesus for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is being filled with God’s Spirit and having Spiritual gifts. (Healing, prophesy, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, words of knowledge and wisdom, miracles) Not all Christians believe in these gifts. Some believe that they were only for Jesus and the disciples’ time. Other Christians believe they are for today. A month from the time I asked to be filled I was filled. I was working and my mother picked me up from work. There was a person selling pots and pans at my parent’s house. His name was Ed. He asked me if I knew why he was there. I saw a big suitcase and asked him "Are you spending a night? He said, "No my pots and pans are in there." I felt the Holy Spirit all over me. I began to cry. My dad asked me why I was crying. I said that I felt Jesus in the room. Ed said," Jesus is here and I am going to lay hands on you and you will be filled with the Holy Spirit." He told me that I would speak in a heavenly language. I said," How am I going to do this?" He told me that Jesus would speak though me. He laid hands on me and told me to speak. " I was going to say I don’t know what to say" instead I spoke in another language. I have been praying in my heavenly language ever since that day. There have been times when I found out that some of the words I spoke were words from another language. Like Kala means the sun. It’s Hawaiian. Oma means grandma in German.

I prayed that I could prophesy. (Give messages from the Lord) A year later I spent a night at a friend’s house and we were praying in tongues. My tongues turned to English. The Lord said though me. " I love you and I am here." I can’t remember everything that’s has been twenty years ago.

I went on to Cincinnati Bible School and while I was there I was lead to go to the Vineyard church. While I was there I fill in love and got married. After a few years after we were married we moved to Tulsa Oklahoma to go to Bible School.

We was camping and living in a tent and really living the Bible way with two babies. Everyday we would drive 2 hours to Broken Arrow Oklahoma to camp meeting. We would dress up and dress up our babies just to go to church 2 hours away everyday. My husband and I prayed that someone who lived in Tulsa or Broken Arrow would invite us to camp in his or her back yard so that we would not have to drive 2 hours everyday. This couple from Broken Arrow camp right behind our tent. They ended up inviting us to camp in their back yard. We never told them about our prayer. When we got to their house they decided to let us stay in their house with them. It was nice to be out of the heat. Oklahoma can get pretty hot in the summer 108 degrees. We ended up moving into an apartment with other Bible Students and the Lord lead my husband to go to Victory Bible Institute. A year later I went to Victory Bible Institute. My husband and I got involve in a food ministry and open our door to feed the poor Bible students and who ever else needed food. My two daughters went to Victory Christian School. We live there for nine years. It was really wonderful. My life is full of miracles but I have my trials. I won’t speak of my trials because I only want to give God glory for His miracles. I will say that God does help us though our trials. Everything that I have lost the Lord has given back to me. I believe that we can have a garden of Roses but Roses do have their thorns and sometimes they prick us. I believe God is a good God and He does not bring bad things on us to teach us. But we do live in an imperfect world where there is evil and because of that we have our trials. Even Jesus, the Son of God, had trials. I have grown though these trials. I don’t believe the trials came from God but I know that God helped me to grow in my faith though the trials. God is still a God of blessing in my life.

I would like to share a dream that the Lord had given me. When I was 17 years old I loved rock music. My grandma told me that the rock n roll beat would take me to hell. I told my grandma that it wasn’t the beat that makes music bad but the words. I prayed and asked the Lord to show me if it was the beat that was wrong. I had a dream that seem so real I was in a ballroom. I was dressed in a velvet royal blue prom dress. Now in real life my hair is thin and fine but in this dream my hair was thick and long. I had white roses in my hair. I was also tall. In real life I am short. I heard the most beautiful music that I never heard before. It had a nice beat to it but the melody was soft and sweet. Jesus appeared in the room. He had a purple robe on and a gold crown on His head with precious stones in the crown. Gold tussles were at the end of His robe. I went up to give Jesus a hug instead Jesus waltz with me. I never waltz in my life but it was if my feet just knew the right steps to take. I lay my head on Jesus’ shoulder and said," Jesus if this is just a dream I hope I never walk up." He laughed when I said that. I did walk up and I was not in bed when I woke up. I was dancing in my sleep. It has been twenty years since that dream and I would love to dream that dream again. A few years later, after the dream I was in the car with my in laws and we were driving though the city and I saw the blue dress that I had on in the dream in a shopping window. I still love Rock N Roll but now I listen to Christian Rock and I love the Vineyard style of worship. God is still blessing my life with miracles. I am not more special then anyone else because I had miracles in my life. Everyone is special in God’s eyes. God loves everyone and I feel God wants to give miracles to everyone who will believe Him for them. I will go for now. But I am sure that I will be adding more to this page as more miracles come into my life.