The following is an excerpt from the book Jim will be releasing soon. Details to follow on his twitter/FB pages.
(Excerpt from the manuscript)
VISION OF AN ANGEL
Until I talked to Mary, I wasn’t sure what to make of visions, signs and wonders but after my own recent spiritual experiences I was now sure that God could and would appear in a vision or to send His angels to do so. He can produce signs and wonders to wake people up and also make provision through miraculous means and more… much more.
This is her story.
Caroline and I hadn’t been attending our church in Hollywood very long, when a new couple about our age began attending too. Caroline and I extended a hand of friendship to the newcomers, and we invited them to a movie and coffee afterward that afternoon. By the time we got back to the church parking lot where they had parked their car it was about ten or eleven at night.
They were sitting in the back seat of our two door Mustang. Tom got out first and expected her to follow suit. Caroline held her seat forward but Mary just sat there undecidedly. Finally Tom said, “Mary, aren’t you going to get out!?”
Mary didn’t know how to answer and only squirmed as though bursting to say something. Caroline and I turned around to see what the matter was. Finally, she began to stammer. “Today as I was taking a nap and an angel appeared to me at the foot of the bed. He said that before the end of the day I would know how to be saved. I don’t know if I was dreaming or not but when I got up I couldn’t get the vision out of my mind and wondered what it meant.”
I was stunned, when I heard her say what she did, – but only for a moment.
She continued on by saying, “The day is almost over and I haven’t heard anything that the angel said would happen.”
Meanwhile, I began rummaging around in the glove box.
Tom was petrified as he continued to hold the car door open for her. But by now he had forgotten what he was doing and just stood there frozen on the spot. Such was the impact of what she was saying.
I found one of the little pocket bibles with the plan of salvation in it, knowing what I had to do.
I began reading the verses out of the book of Romans pertaining to salvation and after sharing the gospel with her I asked her if she would like to receive Christ to which she replied “yes!” I led her in a prayer. Afterward, Mary was relieved and after making more small talk of assurance we said our goodbyes.
As Mary exited the car Tom kept saying to me, “Man, you’re sanctified, you’re sanctified!” For me, it was just what anyone who claimed to know Christ would do. I didn’t know what he was talking about and didn’t know what the word sanctified meant.
Spiritual phenomenon began happening to me in earnest, after I had my encounters with Christ and God the Father….. I now began walking in another reality.
Now angels were becoming a reality too, just like it says in the Bible concerning Cornelius, “So Cornelius said, about four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, and said “Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms are remembered in the sight of God…”.Acts10:31.
Later, I had yet another encounter where an angel appeared to someone. Angels continue to appear to human beings to this very day.