"Holy Smoke, Batman!"

"Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke" (Psalm 144:5)

I may start writing more but there have been so many holy moments, God opening the heavens and coming down among his worshipping people that I am nothing to the glory of God that is being made present among those who seek after Him.

1.  I went on a business trip with my wife to St. Louis.  It was a wonderful time of relaxing and reading.  The Lord kept speaking to me about many things and I also had several phone calls from people I was able to minister to.  Everyone I prayed for from the person in the hospital to the woman who lost everything was turned around in a moment.  God is so AWESOME!  I suddenly realized a book that should not have been in my mail box because it was impossible for it to be delivered that fast was written by an author who has lived in St. Louis his whole life.  I sit back utterly amazed by all the things God is doing and say "Holy smoke, Batman!"

2.  I went to the jail this weekend to do baptisms at the jail.  We did ten baptisms earlier among the women and we had about a dozen men who were supposed to be baptized.  We found out there was a mix-up in the schedule and they asked us three men to come in and do services with the men and women.  After these three powerful services, we had ten more men who wanted to be baptized.  God is so GOOD!  One person under conviction wanted me to visit them at the jail turned out to be a grandson to one of the ladies in our church I had been praying for.  There was also a sister of a lady I know that was there and God was dealing with her too as I ministered to her and others.  One lady was delivered from years of pain and bitterness.  I walked out of the jail that day into a wonderous refreshing rain.  God spoke to me and gave me these words from Jermemiah 29:11-14, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  And you will seek me and find Me, when you search me for me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring YOU BACK FROM YOUR CAPTIVITY; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the the places where I have driven you, says the Lord."  Holy Smokes, Batman!

3.  God already showed me his powerful hand and divine patterns were in place for Sunday night.  I have been working with a man named Shane whose wife had left him and I also knew Shane needed to meet Jason, a man who not that long ago went though the exact same thing but now God has given him great peace and joy.  I knew the speaker and his wife had been under attack with many physical ailments and it was difficult for them to even be there.  I knew that God had been dealing with my Son and we had some special time together that week before this nightly service where God continues to bring in the poor, the forgotten, the rejected, the left out.  God moved powerfully again last night and I cried so much I had no tears left to cry.  People were turning their lives over to God.  There was Shane up front and guess who was right beside, him?  Jason, another divine set-up.  I prayed for my son as another father prayed for his daughter.  God in His love just blew us all away.  Holy Smoke, Batman.