Sweet Sounds From Heaven

I remember reading the Bible with these new eyes. I’d read until I could not contain another story. I held my Bible close to my chest and said, “Lord Jesus, does anything like that ever happen today?” and went to sleep.

It truly was like reading after superman. Feeding thousands with just five loaves and two fishes, turning water into wine, opening blind eyes, deaf ears, raising the dead, miraculous healings all the time, disappearing out of the middle of a crowd, walking through walls. and one of my favorites, putting an ear back in place after it had been cut off by His own disciple. Sweet and Gentle Jesus! Jesus always did the right thing even when the right thing was not being done to Him. He always pleased His Father.

I always marveled at the way Jesus would show up and walk along with common folks and they didn’t even know who He was until He had left. There was always a stirring in their hearts though. You know, He still shows up and walks along side common folks today.

I dreamed that a man came to Richard requesting that he cast out a devil. Richard said he would. There were only three other people present, my two neighbors and me. We gathered around this gentleman and Richard used his oil, touched the man’s forehead with his finger and commanded the devil to come out of the man in the Name of Jesus, and he did. We were all rejoicing that the man was free.

This thing came out of the man’s back; it looked like a snowflake. It was beautiful and just kind of floated through the air. No one else was paying any attention to it, they were all praising God for deliverance. I was engrossed in the snowflake.

The snowflake started methodically and effortlessly moving in my direction. Now, I like snowflakes, but this particular one was demonic, and I knew it. I did not want this snowflake to enter into me, I had my own issues. It moved slowly so I just hit it with my little blue Bible every time it got near me. Kind of like playing ping pong in slow motion.

My friends were paying me NO attention. It was like there was a glass between me and them. I’m thinking, where are my friends when I need them. I was definitely on my own. You know, I’m not real smart, but it dawned on me, this snowflake uses NO energy. Even though all I did was hit it with my Bible, sooner or later I would be too exhausted to continue to hit it and it would prevail over me. I would lose my game at ping pong. I was beginning to sweat. Actually, I was a little angry that my friends were out to lunch.

I hit that snowflake like I hated it and said, ” In the Name of Jesus!” That snowflake melted and fell to the ground. I could not believe my eyes. What a revelation. The name of Jesus. I immediately woke up.

The name of Jesus is more powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet. We don’t even have to find a telephone booth and change clothes. We just need a changed heart, and that’s His specialty. It’s HIS NAME, not ours, Hallelujah for that!!

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