I was listening to worship music during a home "prayer alter" session; where I was actually in deep earnest prayer about finding God's plan for my life.  Later on, I felt weak and vulnerable as tears poured out of my eyes.  I noticed the presence of the Holy Spirit, as I felt someone was there on my right side.  As I was praying for myself, a thought entered my mind with such power that I thought I heard someone speaking to me.  The presence was so powerful that I turned to my right side and opened my eyes, expecting to see an angel or some bright light, but nothing was there.  It said "pray for this man!" I turned to my right and spoke out "what?"

After I looked around, I went back to praying for myself; and with my eyes closed, a picture of the man's face flashed against the dark background in my mind.  I heard the words again, saying "pray for this man!"  I thought to myself, "hey, I know this man, it's my friend from the school."  So, I started to pray for him but when I realized that I didn’t really know what was wrong, I said out loud "what do you want me to pray about?"....and immediately the answer was put into my mind with such power that I felt someone was talking to me again. 

I still felt the presence of the Holy Spirit and could feel the tears in my eyes.  It was communicated to me that this man "needs to forgive" he needs "to give this situation over to the Lord" and he needs "to trust in God."  So I started praying that this man would give his situation over to the Lord, that he would trust God to handle it and that he could forgive those co-workers that hurt him and did such unjust things to him.

Gradually as time went by, I noticed the presence of the Lord diminishing and I was left alone praying for myself again.  When the worship music had finished, I pondered about what had just happened there in my living room, and then I went to bed.  A couple of days later, I saw my friend walking across the parking lot and so I waived my hand for him to come over and talk to me. 

As he was approaching me, several thoughts entered my mind, saying “I wouldn’t tell him about this, he will laugh at you.”  I felt nervousness in my stomach and like cotton swabs in my throat when I tried to speak.  While this was going on, and he was just looking at me, I heard again, “Don’t tell him anything, or else he is going to ridicule you.”  I felt so uncomfortable, that I just turned my body away from him, with my side towards his face, and I silently cried out to the Lord, about what I should do. 

Then, I heard a voice speaking to me, it was loud and powerful saying, “Just tell him!”  I felt the nervousness in my stomach and whatever was obstructing my throat from speaking, to just disappear; it was like being washed away as I felt energized.  And I spoke out loud to my friend and told him, what the Lord had spoken to me a few days earlier in my living room.

I told him that he needed to forgive, and give his situation to the Lord, that he just needed to trust God.  When I was finished speaking, I looked out the corner of my eye to see what he would do.  He definitely was not laughing at me, so I turned my body around to face him and noticed that his mouth was wide open in shock, and after a moment he said “How did you know?”  I told him that the Lord had revealed these things to me during my prayer time.  He looked at me surprised that I somehow knew what was going on, being that we had never talked about this before.  Then he let out a “sigh” from his breath, and said “I can’t believe this.”

He then proceeded to tell me that he had been praying to the Lord for 3 days, about whether he should mail off this official letter of complaint to the district office, and about all of the unjust things that were being done to him at this school.  He thanked me for giving him a direct answer to prayer and that it was just in time.  He never mailed out the complaint letter and decided to forgive those people involved in his unjust treatment.

I remember when we had just covered lesson 3 in about 45 minutes and the woman's eyes just looked up at the ceiling, like someone who didn't really understand the lesson.  She said "let's go on to the next lesson."  I just knew that I was going to have to go over it again. 

So when I got home, I knelt down to pray with my eyes closed about how God could give me guidance on how to explain this lesson better.  I said Lord, please help me to understand this topic well enough to explain it.  Just then a picture of a drawing appeared in my "mind's eye" it was white colored print on top of the dark background; it was in two parts divided by a line. 

I opened my eyes to draw out what I saw; then I asked the Lord to help me find the bible verses to prove the drawing to others when we have bible study.  It took me about 6 days of intensive study to find the verses which I inserted within the color drawing when it was created with Microsoft Word document.

The Lord had showed me a new way to study this lesson; and instead of just rushing through it in one 45 minute session, it took us five 2 hour sessions in order to explain it in enough detail for that lady to say “hey, I understand it now!”  Yea, we used the drawings that I saw and it really helped to explain the whole concept much better.

I was in my living room, kneeling down praying about if I should throw away the bible study lessons.  You see just shortly before this event, I had gotten in an argument with Lily and the study abruptly ended.  It was the 3rd time in a year that something like this had happened and so I was constantly reminded about that quote in the bible which says "If God is behind it, no man can stop it" and my study sessions had all ended within 2 months after starting.  So clearly, my work was not of the Lord!!  So that is why I decided to pray about it one last time before giving up and searching for doing something else for the Lord.

During my prayer, I had my eyes closed and as I asked the Lord earnestly about what to do, a thought was entered into my mind, it was very powerful, like somebody was talking to me.  I actually turned to my right side and said out loud "what?"  And the prompting from the Lord was entered into my mind again.  It said "put them on the computer" and when I said "what?"  And looked around, there was nobody there.  So I went back to praying with my eyes closed and was told "put it on the internet" along with a picture flashing in my mind.  The picture was of a scene that I saw in the library, years ago.  I saw the woman from church and she was creating a website for witnessing purposes.

I understood these communications from the Lord to mean that, I was supposed to put the bible study lessons on a website, rather than to travel around and do bible studies in people's homes.  Well, I had to visit that women's church twice before I got to talk to her.  She mentioned that, her website was a free one, but she didn't maintain it anymore and it got shut off.  She told me to, just look it up on the internet myself.  So, I was kind of disappointed about this that I started complaining to some other church members at a revelation study on Saturday morning.

What was interesting about this situation, was that a person at the table actually had a business of maintaining webpages, and decided to help me to get started.  You know, you can tell when you're on the right path, because the devil is going to put up all kinds of road blocks and give you a hard time. 

First, he gave that woman a "non-concern attitude" when talking to me about having a website to witness for people that are lost.  Then the devil, conspired to stop this experienced web person from being interested in helping me anymore.  Somehow, his mother-in-law, who is on the prayer team, found out and kept telling me that he had other things to do, like painting his house and fixing his boat.  She questioned me "are you sure the Lord told you to do that?"  So, he stopped the email communications with me and decided to attend another class at church, so I lost contact with him.

I was really discouraged and questioned whether this was my calling until later on when I went to a prayer ministry and the youth pastor told me that he had a website through a company which made it easy for you to build the site yourself.  I applied to it and started to build the website myself without having to depend on anyone else.  Now I goto the library and continue to upload pictures add quotes from books that I have been reading.  I am currently spending $11.99 a month as I work on the site; and later on I am going to send out post cards, using "every door direct" while praying that people who are earnestly searching and praying for the truth, can find my website and become saved.

I was driving my Toyota to work one morning, and I was on I-4 real early in the morning, about 5am-5:30.  My car suddenly started to decrease in speed even though I was pressing harder on the gas pedal.

I remember being upset with the Lord as I pulled over to the median on the side of the road.  I was saying out loud "You don't care about me, Lord!", now I'm going to be late to work.  Just then I noticed another car broken down directly across from me on the opposite side of the road.  A thought occurred to me as I realized this could be a blessing in disguise. 

I saw that the man had radiator problems and I had 2 gallons of water in my back seat.  So I thought that if I could run over across the highway to help him, he would give me a ride to work.  I had to dodge by cars speeding at 70 or more mph as I crossed 6 lanes with a gallon of water in each hand. 

When I finally got over there, the man didn't seem to want any help; and when I mentioned that deal of "helping him first" and then he could help me get to work, he said "I can't I'm already late to my appointment" then he drove away.  I don't know what I was thinking, volunteering to help someone, but now I had to run back over both sides of the highway again.

I learned a lesson that morning, the Lord showed me that if you help somebody with a hidden agenda then the likelihood of receiving a blessing is very nil.  The Lord seems to bless only earnest desires to help people without trying to get something back from them.

When I got back to my car, I was sweating and even more upset with God.  It was pitch dark all around me and then I started to remind the Lord that this is proof that you don't really care about me.  Just then a thought entered my mind with such power it almost sounded verbally.  There was nobody there, but I was directed to look away from my car, the prompting said "look down the road towards the horizon." 

It was dark all 360º around me except for this faint light just at the horizon.  I locked up my car and grabbed my lunch box, hard hat, gloves, and started walking towards the light that I saw.  After about 2 miles, I arrived at a parking lot and I realized that this was a rest stop (which was latter demolished about a year after this incident).  As I looked around, I said "where do you want me to go, Lord?"  My eyes caught the sight of a Mears van, just sitting there.  I knocked on the passenger side door and the driver told me "he had received a dispatch to come over to the rest stop area," and there was nobody around to pick up.  He told me that he was going back to the Disney parking lot to wait for another customer. 

So, I told him that my car had just broken down and that if I could get a ride to his designated parking area, since it was on Disney property.  It turned out that his work area was the exact parking lot that I usually park at before going through the check-in station.  The taxi driver told me there was no charge, since he was already going back to that lot.  So I opened my wallet and all I saw was 2 dollars; I put that on his dashboard and got out of the van, I was too embarrassed to place it in his hand.

Well I showed the gate guard my ID pass and ran all the way to my assigned work building.  The foreman was putting his hands up and pointing to his watch, I thought for sure with all that had happened this morning I would have been about 2 hours late, since we are supposed to start at 6am; but no, when I looked at my watch, I couldn't believe it, I was only 5 minutes late.

My boss is usually very strict and quick to punish you for mistakes, and so I was surprised when he was co-operative with helping me.  I told him that my car had broken down on I-4 and that was the reason I was late.  He let me use the office phone to call a tow truck.  God had blessed me so much on that day through my trials, there was even a co-worker who knew somebody that drove a tow truck.  He only charged me $55 because of knowing his friend; and he said that normally it would of cost about $150 for that towing trip.

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