Is it a Hurricane or a Train?

He identified what words in the scripture were nouns and which ones were verbs and how they flowed together. He gave no interpretation or revelation of this scripture. In a few minutes, he was finished and asked the group of people if they had any questions. The room was quiet, no one spoke. I reasoned that if I did not speak up, it meant I agreed with what he just taught; which I did not. I knew the Holy Spirit was there and heard everything that was said. I knew my reply certainly would not be in agreement with what has been shared and perhaps not in agreement with any of the people there. I did my best to explain the Holy Spirit was a person, and we receive God’s power to be a witness for Him in our lives when we receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I didn't plan to give a defense for the Holy Spirit; I was just hoping to make some friends.

The silence broken when the leader said, “Well, let’s all have some lunch now!” I thanked the woman of the house who made lunch and slipped out the door. As I drove home, I talked to the Holy Spirit, as He sat next to me in my car. I felt gripped in my heart with sadness at the way they disrespectfully talked about God the Holy Spirit as if he was a simple English lesson with no meaning or purpose for us. I lived an isolated life, in a marriage where there was little love felt and the Holy Spirit gave me purpose and meaning to my life. He meant everything to me.

Driving home, the air was frozen in stillness, several feet of white snow covered the ground. The only lights were the ones that shone in front of my car. Our house was nestled alone on 80 acres of woods. My boots made a crisp sound as I walked across the frozen ground to the warm house. It was quiet inside, everyone in bed. Our two little boys, ages two and three, were asleep in the first bedroom down the hall to the left. On the opposite side, farther down the hall, our seven-year-old daughter was sleeping. At the end of the hall was our bedroom where my husband was asleep. I slipped into bed still with a heavy heart and fell sound asleep in the frozen stillness of the dark.

Suddenly, I was awoken abruptly from a sound sleep by a very loud, unfamiliar noise! I never heard this type of a sound before! I listened intently but could not identify the origin of it. It sounded like a train traveling full speed towards our house from the south end. But there was no train in our area. More unusual than that, I could tell the violent rushing sound movement was up in the sky and not on ground level. I could also tell it was getting closer to our home and would momentarily make contact with our house.

Living in the Midwest, I never heard the sound of a hurricane, but I reasoned this must be what a hurricane sounds like. Whatever it was, I had a knowing that it was coming straight for our house! I was a little frightened because the roaring noise was violent, rushing, loud and powerful. There was nowhere to escape, nor was there time. I knew without a doubt we would all be splattered into dust particles when this, whatever it was, reached us. I folded my right arm upwards as if I had locked my husband’s arm in mine. I thought to myself, wherever I was splattered to when this violent wind hit us, he would go with me. In a nano of a second, the violent wind hit our room and filled every bit of space with the brightest blinding light anyone could ever possibly imagine. My eyes were shut because the intensity of the light was too bright to look at and the violent wind hit with such a force that I couldn’t move any muscle in my body, including my eye lids. This centrifugal force of wind was so mighty that my head felt like it was being smashed deep into the mattress of our bed. This light was as bright as being in the center of a fire; even with my eyes closed, the brightness hurt my eyes. The mighty, violent wind possessed a centrifugal force that would lay everything in its way flat. If I were to guess, I would say the rushing violent wind and fiery bright light lasted thirty to sixty seconds and was gone as quickly as it appeared.

Complete stillness and darkness returned to our room. I slowly opened my eyes. My husband still lying quietly next to me. I couldn’t physically even turn my head to look his way, but I didn’t hear him make any noise. With my left hand, I managed to lay hold of my right arm in an attempt to ever so slowly bring it down to my side. Because it had been locked so tight in the upward position from the force of the wind, it felt painful to move. It seemed like my blood flow was cut off from my arm. The wind blew so violently strong that my body felt like it embedded into my bed, and it was difficult to move. I didn’t even entertain the consideration to get up to check on our children because I could barely move myself.

I slowly turned my head to the left to look at the clock on my dresser. It was 4:00 am, February 24, 1990. I laid there in wonder about what just happened and how I would explain this to anyone. However, I learned to find Scriptures in the Bible and ask God to help me understand the things I experienced. My husband left for work early in the morning without waking me. When our children woke up and came to the kitchen for breakfast, I asked if they heard or saw anything during the night. To this day, I am not sure what their reply was. I don’t think they knew how to describe what they heard or saw, even if they did experience it. If someone asked me what I heard or saw during the night, I would have also hesitated about how to answer.

I mentioned this experience to one of my close friends in our bible group but she stared at me with wide eyes not knowing how to respond. I didn’t go into any depth to explain more. Since I never drank alcohol, never smoked, never used any drugs, lived a pure lifestyle, was submitted to a good church, and paid my tithes, I felt that my experiences should have some validity. My husband didn’t want me to ever talk to him about God; I learned not to. I never shared this experience with him. He didn’t mention anything unusual about the night to me either. I did not know if he ever saw or heard anything. In fact, it would be another 22 years before I brought the experience up to him. I didn’t know what God’s purpose was for it anyway. I knew it occurred and I was at peace that God speaks and reveals Himself for a purpose. For the next week or so, I was in search of a Scripture that would explain this event. Shortly afterward, I heard Benny Hinn on a VHS tape teaching on Acts 2,

“Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting- ting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.” Acts 2:2-3. That is what happened that early morning! The evening before, people from the church gathered to discuss the Book of Acts, 1:8. It was disheartening the way they demeaned the validity of the Bible and did not acknowledge the reality of the Holy Spirit in any way. I defended the Holy Spirit at this home study, but I didn’t know why the Holy Spirit would visit our home in such a powerful manner like this.

Because of so many difficulties I went through after that visitation of the Holy Spirit, it wasn’t until a summer day in June of 2012 that I asked God what was the purpose of the Holy Spirit visiting our home in such a powerful way on February 24, 1990? I heard God answer, “THAT IS THIS.”

I understood Him to say “THAT,” referring to the wind and fire visitation that happened on February 24, 1990, is “THIS” which is coming. The wind, so strong that it can lay flat anything in its way, the noise of a freight train going full speed through our house, and a light so bright you could not look at it was the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit. That is what is coming. Man will have no control over this. I believe this unusual move of God is a baptism of fiery love and will cause people’s hearts to be changed with sincere repentance, deliverance, and healing occurring in many people’s lives. This is a fire that will consume everything that is chaff within us. Anything that is not of God will be consumed because God is a consuming fire. “For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:29.

In that same month of June 2012, I saw my ex-spouse and asked him if he remembered: “a particular night twenty-two years ago…” He immediately replied not letting me finish my sentence, “Yes! That was the brightest light I had ever seen!” He said he couldn’t look at it because it was so bright. He said that he thought about it the next morning and knew it was not a dream but instead really happened. Yet there was no explanation for it. I shared with him that I went to a Bible study the night before, where they talked about Acts 2 the day of Pentecost when 120 people gathered in the upper room, and a violent wind came in the place, and there were tongues of fire upon everyone there, and they all began to speak in tongues. I told him the people at this Bible study didn’t believe in the Holy Spirit. That was the night, a violent wind and fiery brightness came into our room, and is what he saw. We never talked about it until that day, 22 years later.

After talking with my ex-spouse, I was anxious to ask my daughter if she remembered experiencing anything from that night. My daughter was now 29 years old. One day in June of 2012, she came over to my house, and I asked if she remembered anything a long time ago on a February night when we lived in Fertile, Minnesota. She immediately said without letting me finish my sentence, “Yes! A loud noise woke me up during the night. I got out of bed to look down the hall, but by the time I got to my doorway to look into the hallway, the noise was gone.” She was seven years old at the time and remembered like it happened yesterday without having discussed it for 22 years. One saw the bright light, and one heard the roaring wind. I am thankful the Lord impressed upon me to talk to my ex-husband and daughter. They are witnesses to what we all experienced that early morning. Before God does anything in the earth, He reveals it to people. When God reveals things, it is not only through words but also through life experiences. “Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.” Amos 3:7.

I feel the Lord is encouraging us to keep moving with Him in great faith because we are entering into an era of God’s glory introduced by a baptism of fiery love. There is a baptism of fiery love that is coming carried by the wind of the Holy Spirit. This fiery love will heal whole households of emotional and mental wounds, causing restoration to family relationships. God will remove everything from us, not of Him. His purifying wind will blow, and His fiery love will burn everything remaining in us that is not of Him. This is a wind and fire of unimaginable love that heals and restores all the broken places of our lives. We will never be the same!

I believe there will be no warning as to when it comes. It will come suddenly. People will be awakened out of their sleep and will come out of their rooms to see what the noise is all about. When this fiery love of the Holy Spirit comes, it will cause tears and tears of great repentance. People will be struck with a fear and awe of God. They will want to know how to be saved. They will run to Jesus for salvation.

I believe psychiatric wards, hospitals, and nursing homes will become empty because people will be healed, made whole, and go home. Cancer facilities will empty because tumors will leave people’s bodies. The walls of Jericho, which represents abortion, will fall down. Abortion will become illegal, and Planned Parenthood will not exist. There will be a mass of women who will seek to be healed of deep emotional wounds because of the trauma of abortion. People will be speechless for days because of what they will witness through God’s fiery love.

We do not understand the kindness and goodness of God. We have no concept of what God’s love is. Our reasoning cannot handle His kind of love. Love allowed Jesus to die on a cross. Love paid the debt of our sin and sickness. Love resurrected the body of Jesus and promised to give us life. Love is a force. Love is a power. God is love. “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” 1 John 4:8.

When Jesus died for us, He carried upon Himself our sin and nailed it to the cross. It is through the one-time sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God, that we can receive forgiveness for our sins if we come to Him and receive Him. This took a great love for Jesus, who was fully man and fully God to die an innocent man’s death to pay for the penalty of our sin that we could be made free. We could now be released from every prison door and no longer held captive to sin and its effects. There is a fragrance that is released in this act of great love. It is an aroma of adoration—a sweet healing fragrance.

If you have never received Jesus Christ as your savior, I would like to pray with you. This is not a prayer to pray from your head but from your heart.

Father, I am not sure if Jesus Christ is my savior. I know that I am lost in this world without Him and I have heard that Jesus died for me and went to hell for me and rose again, but I have not known Him as my personal savior. Jesus would you come into my heart right now and wash away all of my sins and make me clean and as white as snow. I know that Your blood was the sacrifice for my sins so I receive what You did for me. I ask that You would come into my life and change my heart and make it brand new. Thank you for giving me eternal life! Thank you for washing away my sins and setting me in right standing with my heavenly Father God.

Now, I ask Jesus that you would baptize me with the Holy Spirit just like you said in Acts 1:8. That I would have this baptism with the evidence of speaking in a heavenly language that You understand. That I would be endued with a power from the Holy Spirit to be a witness of Your love.

Thank you, Jesus for saving me and thank you Holy Spirit for baptizing me with your power to be a witness of Your love in the earth. Thank you, Father, for changing my life today! Amen!

I declare that as you now read your bible it will come alive to you like it never has before.

I declare that you are hearing Father God’s voice clearly just as a sheep hears its Shepherd’s voice.

I speak over you healing to any part of your body that is not functioning properly and say “Be Healed and Made Whole.”

I declare that you and all of your household will be saved and come to know Jesus Christ as their savior.

I declare that your business is going to flourish like it never has before.

I declare that all your needs are going to be met from this day forward!

Hallelujah! Give God all the Glory for He is Lord and King over all the earth!