CHAPTER 3 - WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED?

Chapter 3   -   Year 1995  -  Phoenix - Luke AFB

   After attending this Assembly of God Church for about a month the Pastor while preaching said that God is saying "His people need to repent so they can be restored."  I was so relieved that someone else could hear God!  And then I thought, I better go repent.  I had already repented of everything I knew of but I knew for sure God was speaking.  So I went down to the altar and kneeled down and prayed a generic prayer of "God I'm sorry for putting my family before you, I'm sorry for putting my work before you, I'm sorry for putting my money before you"; and I fell over.  Past out, and when I came to; I was manifesting.  I could see what my body was doing, but I couldn't stop it.  I was laying there and breathing very heavy and loud and then abruptly sit up and gasp, as in a great fear.  This happened over and over.  The Pastor and his lay pastors were putting oil on my head and trying to cast out the devil.  I thought I was possessed too because I could see what was happening and couldn't stop it.  Until one woman heard from God and said "Laurie, what is God showing you?"  And I said "well the only thing I can think of is when my daughter was little, she peed the bed and I spanked her."  I guess I had guilt for that, but there it went!  That was just the beginning of the Holy Spirit bringing up one thing after the other of what I needed to repent of.  I would say something and the woman would say Lord forgive her for that.  They were things that happened even before I was saved, would have never thought they were an issue in my life.  One thing the Holy Spirit brought out was an ungodly thought that I had for maybe three seconds that was even before I was saved.  AND HE SHOWED ME A LITTLE GIRL IN A RED DRESS STANDING BY A DOOR THAT WAS ONLY OPEN A COUPLE INCHES.  These were all my deep dark secrets that I would not tell anyone!  And here I was on the floor, under the power of the Holy Spirit, couldn't get up if I wanted to, and I'm confessing them to these people I had just met. After confessing all these things, I got zapped with electricity.  Started in my feet and rolled up my whole body.  For weeks afterward, my arms and hands were tingling as if I had been shocked with electricity.   After 2 1/2 hours on the floor, 10:30 at night, the pastor says well I don't know what else to do for you, can you drive home?  And I said "I think so."  I didn't sleep well at all, I could still feel this power all over me.  The next morning, I get my uniform on to go to Luke AFB to work.  I took my daughter to her preschool at SKYWAY Christian School and dropped her off at her classroom, and then stepped into the office and started telling one of the ladies what had happened the night before at my church.  Every time I tried to tell her what happened, I couldn't speak, just travailing was coming out of my mouth!  So she went and told her pastor what was going on, he must have called the other pastor from my  church because he knew exactly what to ask me.
After taking me to their sanctuary, the pastor asks me "LAURIE, WHAT IS GOD SHOWING YOU?"  And sure enough, I wasn't finished.  There was a few more things God wanted to cleanse me of.  
   Wow, God is so awesome!  I thought I was already good, had quit everything I knew how to quit when He told me to repent.  He even wants to cleanse our conscience of the guilt and shame that came in from sinning.   He loves us so much.  He is calling us to repentance so we can be made whole!  He knows the very intentions of our heart. 
  Genesis 3 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.  And he said unto the woman, has God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?  2 And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3  but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the  garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.    
   In genesis 3 you can read how they both ate of the tree and then their eyes were opened and then they knew that they were naked.   They heard  the voice of God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God.  And God called Adam and said, "WHERE ARE YOU?"  And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE I WAS NAKED, AND I HID MYSELF.  And he said, WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED?  Have you eaten from the tree that I told you not to eat of?

  Still so much more to come.  Please follow along with me so we can experience God together!  He is doing wonders among His people.