There came a day when we had go down the line to see my folks. The car was broken down (yet again) and the truck wasn’t legal (No warrant of Fitness.) So we drove as far as we could go on the back roads, parked the truck and started to hitch hike. Our first ride took us only a short way, and we were dropped off at a bleak spot in the middle of nowhere. There was a big black squall coming. It was 3 oclock and we had been hoping to be in Auckland by 5 to catch the last ferry over to my folks on Waiheke Island. The situation was looking grim. Visions of being stuck in the rain in the middle of nowhere were looming. Then we remembered what we had been taught just a few days before about the prayer of agreement in Matthew 18:19: "If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven." So we got in agreement and asked the Father to get us to the ferry building before 5 o’clock. (Which by this stage was a pretty big ask.) I think it was the very next car that pulled up, and I will never, ever forget looking up at the clock on the ferry building as I got out of that car. It was five minutes to five! I remember thinking: "Glory to God, my life has changed forever! I’m going to break out of every circumstance that has hindered me. I’m out of here baby!"
Miraculous Protection.
I remember in those early days our daughter was about two years old. Somehow she had got her hands on a bottle of nit (headlice) shampoo, heavy duty poisonous stuff. She had got the top off and while I couldn’t tell if she’d swallowed any, she definitely had it around and in her mouth. We couldn’t see where she had spilled any, yet remembered there had been a good inch left in the bottle. The hospital was a 40 minute drive away. What were we to do? But only a few days before we had been taught Luke 10:19: "Behold I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." And when we heard this word, we took it. Glory to God, nothing shall by any means hurt us! We laid hands on her and claimed that scripture, and she suffered no harm! The psalmist David said: "I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil (Treasure.)" I know what he meant! This was the babe we had agonised over before when she was so young, and so sick. As far as I was concerned, that rat wasn’t going to touch my family ever again!
Remember I said I dumped those books. I got a list of about ten authors that I could trust, and started to feed on their books and tapes, and the word of God.
We purposed in our heart to go to Perth to Rhema Bible Training Centre. That was the nearest place where we knew we would be taught the truth of the word, and not a mixture of religious tradition.. Sadly, the more blessings and miracles we experienced in our life, the more offended other brothers and sisters in the Lord became. Thank God we were taught how to walk in the love of God. (Strife and resentment is an open door to the enemy and disqualifies us from the Promises of God.) I love those people, but I have a deep hatred for the ‘spirit of religion.’ As a bunch of hippies experiencing a hunger for God, we experienced it on all fronts. And older Christians who should have been leading the way into the promised land were trying to talk us out of the miracles we had already experienced. Too late mate! I’m already healed! (Some people’s doctrine is so flaky they believe that it’s God who gives the sickness, and that healing comes from the devil!)
