Psalm 143:8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.🙏☦️🙏

This verse (John 5;24) is so important, if you are weighed down by your past, if you feel unworthy or undeserving this verse will set you free! Believe and sin no more…..☦️

John 5:24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

John 6: 31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Psalm 89-26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.’27 And I will appoint him to be my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth. 28 I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.

Romans 8:28 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.🙏✝

 

As we finished celebrating Pentecost a couple of weeks ago I think it is fitting to finally write about an event I experienced in 2014. I have been contemplating if I should share this but this past Lent season it somehow became clear to me that it is time. 

In May 2014 I was undergoing chemo treatments, my then amazing boss had hired a wonderful lady (Maria) to help me for a few hours a day with work and any support that I might have needed. We would sit in the family room in armchairs with those computer stands that you can slide under the chair and worked together. The t.v was always on in the background at a very low setting.

One such day as I was responding to an email from a friend/colleague and was writing to her about my testimony, I suddenly start smelling smoke,and felt heat  coming from my seat. I felt the smoke rising up and me inhaling it from my nose and mouth. Maria noticed that I was panicking as I felt more heat and definitely see and smell and tasted smoke.

 I got up from my chair looking around while telling Maria, but she did not smell or see anything except me panicking. All of a sudden the t.v. went black and silent which made Maria also wonder what was going on. 

As I took a couple of steps stunned I still tasted smoke, and then just as suddenly my oh my, the taste and smell in my mouth changed to a wonderful flowery taste and smell that was spreading all the way to the back of my ears and down my throat. The smell was that of what we use during the Greek orthodox Easter time  when we sprinkle the Epitaph during its possession on Good Friday. At that moment I knew this was a supernatural incident.

We sat back down on our armchairs and were silent, looking at each other every few seconds. I tried the t.v but I could not turn it off or on. I stared at the email I was writing and decided to tell my friend who is a faithful believer what just happened. Continued to try the t.v. to no avail.

The flowery taste and smell was still in my mouth. Maria finally spoke and said, "you know maybe you just received your healing". I was quick to respond " I don't think that was it, I received my healing and revelation back in November in the hospital, this feels like something else".

We continued trying to work in silence and very aware that the t.v. will not turn on. Maria said " when the t.v. comes back on maybe put in on TBN (christian channel) there might be a message for you".  At that moment I had a thought and said " maybe this was about pra.... (the t.v. turn on as I finished my sentence)....  yer." I changed the channel to TBN where Joyce Meyer was finishing her sentence "...today is international day of prayer" Glory to God! Praise the Lord!

Later on I realized and I now believe the fire/smoke was the Holy Spirit, as I feel his presence constantly in my life. One of many examples is something that amazes me every time. Every night I post a verse on Facebook, there have been multiple occasions when the next day's christian t.v. shows themes are about that verse or it would show up the next day in a book I am reading, or someone will mention it in conversation. While you could say its coincidental or the possible probability of that happening is common, I would tend to argue that there are thousands of verses and far too many times that this happens.

All believers have the Holy spirit living within them we just need to recognize when he is working in our lives guiding us every day. 

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Amen!

 

Another incredible divine moment today that I feel I must share.  As I am going through some medical challenges these past week, I, family and church family (Thank you St Mark!) and friends have been praying. During today's service at St. Mark Orthodox Greek Church in Boca Raton, FL, the church hosted guest speaker Mr. Dan Christopoulos from OCMC(Orthodox Christian Mission Center) as part of the beginning of our 40 days of Lent.While the speaker was explaining their mission he recited an incident he encountered while in Kenya, Africa. ((Forgive me as I  will give a short version of the story) " A man sick with cancer asked to be baptized". Mr. Christopoulos went to where the man was and asked him why he wanted to be baptized. The man said " I know I am old and dying, my wife is Orthodox and talks about Jesus. I want to meet Jesus when I die". Mr. Christopoulos  thought "that is a good enough reason for me" and proceeded with the baptism. When finished, and through translators he asked the newly baptized man how he felt.The man replied :I feel something very strange,  I know I am old but when you put the water on my and the oil on my head  I felt something in my heart, I feel like a baby being born again!I felt like  a new life".  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8CvSSFmQE (1:07)

My jaw dropped, I could not believe the words I just heard.  You see, back in February 2014, while I was waiting to start chemo (the first of many to come), during my morning prayers, as I was weeping, all of a sudden this overwhelming feeling came over me. With amazement I loudly exclaimed" Oh! God thank you, I feel like a baby, like a baby being born again! like a newborn baby!" To make that moment even more incredible was that it was my birthday that day. A fact that I didn't even connect to until someone mentioned it to me days later and of course that was another of God's timings since it was a moment that I needed to be reminded of it and connect to it. AMAZING GRACE!!!!!!!!!!AND SO FOR TODAY ...Thank you Lord for reminded me again who do I belong to, thank you for your perfect timing and your mercy I am once again incredibly grateful for all you do for us every moment of every day!GLORY TO FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT!

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.🙏☦️🙏

Isaiah 46:4

James 5:15

And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.🙏☦️🙏