ALMOST TOO MIRACULOUS TO BELIEVE
T. Wieland Allen
What a Brother we have in Jesus and what a Father we have in God. There is an old song that says, "What a friend we have in Jesus," but I have come to know Him as my Brother because we have the same Loving Father. It is by the revelation of the Holy Spirit that I have come to personally know both Jesus and God. The Holy Spirit is the spiritual umbilical cord through which revelations of spiritual truth, spiritual wisdom, spiritual knowledge and His love are fed into us so that we can intimately know God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
Early on in My adventure with God I had read that the apostle Paul wrote that his divine purpose was to become intimately acquainted with God until he knew the fullness of His divine power and His suffering for us. I determined at that moment that I would have that same purpose in my life, to become intimately acquainted with Our Heavenly Father. I spoke that phrase again and again while meditating, praying and reading scriptures. I remembered a song from my childhood that says, "Open my eyes that I may see visions of truth you have for me. Place in my hands that wonderful key that shall unlock and set me free. Silently Lord I wait for thee, ready My God thy will to see. Open my eyes, illumine Me, Spirit Divine." I would sing that song over and over again as an appeal to God to open my spiritual eyes so that I would know him intimately and recognize His works in my behalf.
I was committed to praying in the language of the Holy Spirit and meditating with my mind on My Heavenly Father until I finally knew Him one on one and face to face. It wasn't long until the Holy Spirit opened the scriptures for me. It was like a barrier had been taken off of my human mind and revelations began to pour into my understanding about the loving personality of God. It took a while for the old vision of a judgmental, vindictive God that I had been taught in childhood to be erased from My mind and a revelation of Him as being Unconditional Love flooded into my human mind by the tutoring of the Holy Spirit.
From that time forth in my life, I have led an exciting, fruitful, joyful and exhilarating life in the earth. Almost unbelievable miracles have increased daily and for me every day has been a marvelous journey in this earth.
The previous two miracles have been breathtaking for me and everyone with whom I have shared them. To prepare you for them let me tell you that my oldest son lives in the same town with me. That son is God's caretaker for me. He definitely is an extension of God's love in my life. He gives me great joy and peace as he and his family share their lives with me. He works for the regional VA office in our town and he works in the claims division of the VA office authorizing the giving of grants to veterans for educational purposes. I also have a son in San Diego, California and a daughter in San Francisco, California. That son has a degree in biomedical engineering and worked for years for the company that does most of the DNA testing for the US. My daughter works for a nonprofit organization which gives large sums of money for grants to help individuals and nonprofit groups to better the lives of people.
At the beginning of the pandemic of the Covid-19 virus, I had joined with some intercessory prayer partners in praying every day in the language of the Holy Spirit for Our Heavenly Father to reveal to scientists an effective treatment to cure the virus and a vaccine to prevent the spread of it. We were committed to praying every day for discoveries which will relieve the suffering of mankind all over the world, knowing that the will of Our Father is the healing of diseases and preventing diseases. We have prayed many hours every day for miraculous discoveries for five months.
My son in California who had previously worked in the medical field for 25 years was looking forward to retirement from his last job of doing general engineering for the past eight years and he was looking forward to retirement in two years. That engineering company had a cutback in management and he was left without a job, which was fine with him because of his anticipating retirement in a few years. He enjoyed semi-retirement by playing golf almost every day but he had begun to check an internet site for openings for engineers in case he decided to take a contract job just for a few years in case he got bored. A friend from his job in the medical field called him and asked him to go to work for him for a year. He was pleased. For a month I did not inquire about what he would be doing in the new job. One day while talking on the phone to him, I asked what he was doing in this company. He said that the company was going to do clinical testing for a vaccine for the Covid-19 virus and he was helping set up the lab plus eventually working in the lab in the clinical trials.
I almost dropped the telephone when he told me that news. My prayer partners and I had been praying for months for God to provide knowledge to scientists for a vaccine and an effective treatment for the virus and here my son was going to be participating in a clinical trial on one of the vaccine discoveries. That news put me into a state of complete awe of God, just like other miracles He had performed for my family.
In my job of working in the legal fiend for 60 years preparing court transcripts for federal and district court cases I had read about the inequality in the court systems of the USA for people of color, those being Native Indians, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. I had often cried while preparing court transcripts at the lack of justice and equality portrayed in policemen, district attorneys and often judges in courts where there is supposed to be justice for all people. Living in the South, a large part of the injustice was toward Black people.
When George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by a long time police officer and it was recorded and the video was played on medias many times a day, to the disgust of the American people, I was hoping that the stark display of one police officer murdering a Black man without any look of compassion on his face would start a new movement of justice for people of color. I had ordered a book on the Best Seller list a couple of months before the murder of Mr. Floyd and the book was called, America's Original Sin by Jim Wallis. The book is a look into extreme racism in America and it contains Mr. Wallis' suggestions on how to solve the problem, which is based on training police officers on the supreme value of every person and also changing the punitive methods that the police departments, courts and prisons have been operating under that has not worked for 200 years, so maybe the new effective way of reformation and rehabilitation of lawbreakers and also police officers needs to take place. The book excited Me, giving me hope about the legal system in America because the old ways have caused unjust killings, beatings and injuries instead of reformation and rehabilitation.
I was elated with the information in the book by Mr. Wallis about his suggestion of going into Black and White churches and working with the youth and young adults and training them on peaceful ways of instituting a revolution in the court systems that will result in changed lives of lawbreakers, police officers and entire police departments.
I was so excited about Mr. Wallis' ideas and I was wondering how to get his book into the hands of police departments and the Black population. Then Mr. Floyd's murder happened. In just a two days Black young people and White young people began to peacefully protest together in cities with the Black Lives Matter theme. I was impressed with the media interviews of the Black young people who seemed to be in charge of the peaceful protestors in the cities of New York City, San Francisco, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Minneapolis and other large cities in the USA but also some foreign countries. The leader/organizers were calm, orderly and peaceful, and when interviewed they all seemed to say the same thing, that there needs to be reformation and rehabilitation in police officers, police departments and in jails and prisons with prisoners. They all sounded like they had all read Mr. Jim Wallis' book about America's Original Sin.
I was amazed that they all had the same attitudes that I had read in the book. I was so astounded that I began to wonder if God had blown a trumpet and all of those wonderful, peaceful but determined young Black and White people had obeyed the call for JUSTICE and had begun a peaceful march at the same time with all of the leaders of the marches saying the same solutions that I had read in Mr. Wallis' book about America's Original Sin. I was perplexed, wondering how someone had made it possible for Mr. Wallis' Sojourner movement to begin and quickly become organized at the event of the murder of George Floyd. The peaceful marches were joined by millions of young people. I was elated with the peaceful protests but I was also perplexed that all of the leaders of the peaceful demonstrations were united in speaking the same rhetoric that was in Mr. Wallis' book about racism and his ideas for the cure. I wondered if someone had sent his book to people all over the world.
My own daughter, 14 year old granddaughter and son-in-law had joined a youth march in San Francisco and we talked later about their being so exhilarated about the peaceful march and the quality of the speakers at the event that they attended. I told my daughter that I wanted her to read the book that I had just finished about how to cure the inequalities in the legal system caused by racism in America. I mentioned the name of the book to her and the name of the author, Jim Wallis.
After a long pause my daughter asked if the Jim Wallis who is the author of the book is the same Jim Wallis who started the Sojourners movement?
I said, "Yes."
Again after a long pause My daughter remarked that Mr. Jim Wallis was one of her grantees and that she had given him a large grant to start the movement in Black and White churches to not only train the young people on how to have peaceful demonstrations for racial equality, how to reform the legal system that was unjust to minorities and also challenging them to encourage people to register to vote.
I almost dropped the phone again at the encouraging information, as amazed as I had been with my son when he said he was working in a company who was going to do clinical trials on the covid-19 virus, for which my intercessory prayer group and I had been praying. In this instance with my daughter I had been praying for years for another 1960 revolution against racism and for equality in the entire legal system, plus I had a month ago read a book outlining Jim Wallis' plan for what I had prayed for years. And to hear out of My own daughter's mouth that she had granted a large sum of money from her philanthropic nonprofit group for Jim Wallis to further his vision of a cure for racism was a miracle that led me to sit down and cry tears of joy at the thrilling information I had just received on the telephone.
I asked my daughter how she had convinced the Jewish family for which she worked to fund a Christian evangelistic movement on how to train future demonstrators in the peaceful way that Jesus Christ taught and how to train police departments on how to value the life of every person they arrest, treating them as children of God as taught by Jesus Christ. She told me that when Mr. Wallis' appeal letter landed on her desk she had researched the organization and Mr. Wallis to affirm the authenticity of the Sojurners and also the reputation of Mr. Wallis. After determining the efficacy of Mr. Wallis' organization and the need for the money, she had presented it to the Jewish family for whom she works which grants large sums of money for viable appeals. She had focused on the need to register voters, for which her boss was particularly interested. The funds the nonprofit granted to Mr. Wallis' vision for registering voters also benefited his vision for bringing justice to people of color and their cry for equality in treatment for all races in the police departments and the courts across the country. The miracle is that the information in the book relates to the teachings of Jesus Christ and His desire for justice for all oppressed people.
As the saying goes, the miracle "blew me away." However God did it in His miraculous way was so encouraging. That night when I was meditating on the possibility of the incident, I asked God how He was able to involve My own daughter who lives 1500 miles away from me in His answer to my prayers and His own desire for justice for all people. I wasn't naive enough to think that I was the only person praying for justice for all people, of course there are many, many more. But I was perplexed how God arranged it without my daughter knowing that I was praying for justice for people of all colors of skin, and without my own knowledge that she was presented with the opportunity to arrange a large sum of money to grant the money for a project seeking for equality in the legal system was puzzling to me. That is why I asked Him how he did the miracle. His answer to my question came into my mind immediately.
These words came to my mind, "I arranged all of it on one of those nights when you woke up from a deep sleep, couldn't go back to sleep, so you started praying in the language of the Holy Spirit and you prayed for hours in obedience to My commission for intercessory prayer warriors." He said, "It was one of those nights that you were wondering if your prayers in the Holy Spirit were doing any good. That's when I arranged all of it, through My words in your prayer language of the Holy Spirit."
Tears flooded from my eyes again in my feeling of being overwhelmed with awe of God. Many, many times when I pray in the Holy Spirit, doubt in my human mind tries to rob me of the joy of allowing the Holy Spirit to solve problems and find solutions to problems by the devil giving me doubt that it's not doing any good at all to pray, but I'm going to continue praying anyway. Praise God that I continued on with praying anyway that night, even with doubt in my human mind. God did a miracle through the Holy Spirit's words that He spoke through My mouth and He spoke through the mouths of others of God intercessors which now puts me in absolute awe of Our Heavenly Father all over again.
What an exciting life for a person to have when the person knows about the full gospel. I learned a valuable lesson, too, that no matter how much doubt is in my mind on whether I am allowing God to pray solutions to problems and answers to prayers into reality or not when I pray in the language of the Holy Spirit, I am going to continue to pray anyway. My Father told me how He does it and he said that I must persist even when doubt appears. I believe Him and I have experienced the wonderful results of it.
