wvdeerhunter...can I just call you Deer? 
Praying for you hardcore! I've had a taste of Mormonism from my brother's ex-wife and it is unpleasant. Also, received a promise from God audibly that my husband would live his life by the Word of God....less than a year later, my husband accepted Christ.
The Lord found Abraham to be full of faith. He wants us to believe. And when you are given a promise like that....treat it as if it were already so.
Here is my testimony on Mike getting saved....it's long....
NOVEMBER 2006
I turned 33 on November 10th. On November 16th I went into our local Christian bookstore Abiding in the Vine and talked to them about their miracle of having an opportunity to move into what was almost a strip bar on main street. Short story: they are selling engraved paver bricks to line the side of the building. The strip bar was supposed to be open already, but through the grace of God this is now possible. They have until the 22nd to raise the needed funds.
With my dance teaching background I offer to put a benefit concert on for them as God had already sent me one this past summer to put on for my friend who got this rare form of brain tumor/cancer and had $$$$ in bills and was gonna die according to doc’s and then gets healed and then a majority of the bills gets cleared by God and then my life begins at the start of the Unequally Yoked Spouses Club here as you guys know it and the concert goes to the side. God says wait- and if you’d like that back story testimony I can email it to you also – totally cool!
Kate who is one of the owners of the bookstore thinks it is a great idea and I should pray about it and then meet her at the theatre on Friday the 17th at 10am. I go home, and Mike says – yeah right like you got time to put on a benefit concert before the end of this year. I say with God all things are possible, and he says humph.
Next morning meet Kate at the theatre. Now God has been giving me visions for the past three years and many signs that I’ve wondered if I was just building them up in my own head because of my prior life practicing magic and being in the occult lifestyle. So I was unsure if it was my flesh or if it was the Lord. Anyway, the place is exactly what God had been sending me and my mom and that’s a whole nother story but it was clear to me that I was in a place God had shown me in multiple visions. The whole place was renovated to the point of a sprinkler system and ready for the poles and cages for the girls when the owner ran out of $$ - in steps Abiding in the Vine ready to mortgage everything to move into this amazing community theatre on main street in our one stop light town!
So, I start crying and we decide to pray and Kate says something I can’t remember and I ask God to equip me, and before I can finish in walk Dick and Jan this sweet little elder couple who travel around in their RV for the Lord, apparently – cause I had never met them before. Dick proceeds to tell me he is a prophet of God. This is a first for me. But I’m going with it. Then he proceeds to look directly at me and begin repeating to me my visions, that what God had told me was so, etc. etc. Things that only my journal and the Lord have seen! Then he begins to tell me that he has had this word for me for 33 years, and he now figured out why God had placed them in my town for the last three months. That I was to do what I was being called to do, etc – they had no idea why I was there. Then they send Kate to the store to get 2 quarts of pure virgin olive oil, cause we are going to anoint the building.
She leaves and then they ask me if I am ready to know for sure that my visions are from the Lord and that my anointing that He revealed to me (they knew what it was – and NO ONE knew it) and I say yes so they ask if they can anoint me and I say yes and then Dick looks at me and says –
YOUR husband should be here and then he pauses and says that although we are UY he will be affected by this and that I shouldn’t worry. So his wife anoints my forehead and they start praying in tongues (again a FIRST for me) and they have me renounce all the demons in my life and spirits and evil forces…it was all rather ritualistic if I were to look in from the outside. I had to sit down.
A bit later in walks Kate and she has no idea what had just happened but she begins praying out loud in tongues (I didn’t know she did that – I had just really met her) and they all are and Dick asks me if I want the gift also and I say I want whatever God wants to give me – and so they anoint me again and this time I had to sit down immediately. Then Kate this little waif of a woman is standing over me – but the poorly lit theatre is being filled with what I know to be the light of God and Kate begins telling me something – and she is getting brighter and brighter and then out of the sky (this gets a bit hard to describe) a big pink and white cake comes out and it all Disney and sparkly and it has 33 candles on it and I hear the Lord say Happy Birthday daughter and then the cake explodes like a big fireworks display.
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME!! I KNEW that my vision was real and from the Lord and not some freaky acid flashback or from the enemy. So – it doesn’t end there – this is why it took so long for me to post this!
Then we proceed to anoint the building. And I am talking a truly step by step ritual that I found to be uncomfortable but at the same time totally biblical, scriptural and of the Lord. The anointing was not a simple splash of the oil. All of this happened beginning at 10:20 when the prophet walked in to 10:45 when I was first anointed to 11:00am when I received my second anointing of tongues (although that has not happened yet – update 1/18/07 still have not found myself speaking or praying in tongues – doesn’t mean I doubt – just that this may not be a gift for me)
Throughout this time Mike is working with two guys clearing our land for our new spec home. He bends over to pick up a piece of wood for the burn pile and out of the sky comes hurtling down this bird that crash lands right in front of my husbands outreached hand.
Now birds are a significant sign for me these last four years, my mom and her dad who was a preacher as well. Also for Mike, although he was not attributing these from the Lord. For instance just one of perhaps a dozen or so significant signs. Two years ago during a huge battle – my husband threatening to leave the Lord tells me to stay with him and says that Mike will be what I need him to be in the last days and then in walks me husband and is holding a live sparrow or robin – not sure which in his hand and says he just reached up to grab a branch and he caught the bird in his bare hand. Mr. Miyagi style. He was floored that day.
This was the same type of experience for him and he picked the bird up and say that it was dead and mangled and mutilated on the back of it’s head and it had been a dead a while. He calls the guys over and they search the sky for an eagle or something. Nothing to be seen. Mike sets the bird aside in a ravine ditch type place and then goes on about his day. I come home from the theatre two hours late and can’t tell Mike cause the boys are there. For the rest of the afternoon I am filled with an energy I can’t attribute to anything other than the Holy Spirit – I was talking a mile a minute and praising the Lord, and everywhere just spouting off about how Good God was. I freaked my kids out a bit I think – and Kierra my oldest thought I had been drinking the holiday wine. LOL!
So it is dinner time and the whole family is sitting down to a dinner – surreal for us during this phase of construction and I can’t contain and spew my story out.
Then, very timidly, Mike tells me his story. And then asks me what it meant. The dead bird and all – and he was totally concerned people. Inside I’m thinking – it’s means you gonna die - cause I got anointed today – and a dead bird can’t be a good thing. But I say out loud. Oh I don’t know I’m gonna have to pray on that one. LOL! He laughs and then gets TOTALLY BEHIND the benefit concert.
That evening was so amazingly peaceful in our home - so much so that the Girls asked me if everything was okay. I can’t describe it – but it was not how our home usually felt.
Midnight – been in bed a couple of hours dead asleep and God says wake up go to the couch – there’s a window there I can look out and see all the stars – anyway I out to the couch and I’m laying there and the dead bird comes to mind and I start praying and I’m looking out the window and it had been very overcast and cloudy and then I see the clouds part to this neat little circle where I can see the stars and I’m in awe of how bright they are and I see this formation of what to looks like an wheel with octopus legs and then I see a K and I’m thinking ah that’s cool and then I realize that God’s trying to show me something so I try to quiet my thoughts but can’t and then I know that the Lord is going to give me my answer when I wake up cause I’m way too in my own flesh type of feeling – still feeling very special over the anointing and knowing that something big was going to happen.
Wake up on couch next morning and I just know that the bird was my sin and the occult and Mike’s barriers to a relationship with Jesus and accepting him solely as his savior – and all those evil things – and that the dead bird was the only sign that would get Mike to accept everything I had to tell him about my anointing – things that I can’t even reveal here. But even then I decided that’s too much for Mike to take and thought I could never tell him all that and he would believe me - and then we are sitting down to breakfast and Mike brings it up again and says in front of the kids. So, did God tell you what the dead bird meant? He was very very concerned. So I told him. So we decide to go find the bird. Throw on our boots and robes and start the walk to the adjacent property.
We find the bird and sure enough it is exactly as horrible as he described and the Lord says, put it on the alter for me. And so I tell Mike and he says he agrees and so Mike builds back up one of our burn piles and we get a stump and we place the bird on there and then we watch it for an hour as it goes up.
I can’t explain it guys, it was then that I just knew Mike had made his peace with God and that he had finally accepted Jesus and just turned his life over. I start crying and he puts his arm around me and we start walking home up the path. Halfway up Mike begins praising God and saying that the property and the home we were building he was turning over to Jesus and that he was going to do whatever God wants us to do with the property and that only Christians would be building on it.
That night we played Monopoly as a family for the first time for four hours.
Mike’s anger is COMPLETELY GONE.
There is a peace in our home that cannot be explained away!
PRAISE THE LORD!!!
The last nine days have been surreal. We are being attacked in every way possible, and yet it is all okay. The mountaintop experience was truly a revival, and I am here to tell you that your spouses too will be saved. That you will be attacked through it – but that you have already won the battle – your fervent prayers your will to have your spouses saved. That’s God’s will too! It is His will that all come to him, and your prayers will make that a reality in the lives of your spouses.
I am here to proclaim to you that we are unequally yoked only for a season of refining – only for a season people!! Have faith that this period is only a season. They will be saved, they will come to Jesus. It will happen for you too!
I’m not leaving this club!
It was your prayers that opened a floodgate of blessing upon our lives. It was a catalyst for the epic battle that we just endured as a family. But, the kicker is God is on our side – there is nothing that is impossible for him! NOTHING!
Have faith. Use it abundantly and with everything. Fight the enemy with the Word of God and know that you will not leave this world unequally yoked. Know and have faith that your prayers are already answered. That it will be God’s appointed time, but it is a time He has already appointed for your spouses. The victory is already won.
****This was my testimony I posted on an internet forum I started for unequally yoked spouses**** Updated 1/18/07
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Mike's walk with the Lord has been tumultuous in that the enemy has been attacking intensely. However, I am holding onto the promises of my Almighty God!
over you guys today. How is everyone doing? Any praise reports? Any prayer requests?
That's great that she's being so much nicer, and contacting you so much! That is so encouraging to hear!
