Month: January 2024

“The Ghost Of Alabama”

You know there have been many stories of ghost sightings. Everyone seems to know one. When we boys were teenagers, there was a place in north Mobile County known as Kalioka. That was one of the places people went to park and smooch. Some would see a light coming down through the woods towards them, excuse me, but it would scare the hell out of them. They would tear down trees and bushes, excuse me, getting the hell out of there. Some of us decided that we would go up there in the dark woods and see what was going on. Darn near wet my pants when I saw that light coming, a tree fell across the road, we tore down more bushes and trees leaving. We decided to go back up there in the day time and so to say, shed some light on the situation. We got there and started looking around, cautiously, if you know what I mean. You might know, we found a white sheet, cables, pulleys and spent camera flash bulbs. Yep, it was a hoax, meant to keep people off private property.

It seems like every old house has its’ Ghost story. It’s like we all want to believe in ghosts and see one. We want to see them do something, something to believe they are real. I guess the ghost hunters will keep on looking and making money on TV. shows that leave you hanging on until the next episode. The movie “Ghost-busters” is what some believe they are like. Really? Then there are the good ghosts. That is the counterfeit. The devil always wants us to believe that something is different than what it really is.

There are made up ghosts and there are the real ones. The real one’s are called demon spirits. They act completely different than “Ghost-busters”. It seems that when man makes up something in his own mind, that he thinks is, is usually not. It doesn’t look or act the way he thinks it should. That is a perfect example of the devil’s deception. Hide the real, so he won’t be recognized when he comes. I call this, distorting the image, or repainting the picture.

The earth is full of demon spirits that manipulate the mind of man. It won’t hurt you, if you do this. It’s not bad if you do that. It’s ok to hate this and love that. It’s OK, it’s OK. What we think in our minds can turn out to be our worst enemy. It can leave us sick, afflicted and crippled.

When I returned to Alabama a few years after being born again in east Virginia, I met some folks, some were sick and some had family members that were also. Some practiced witchcraft out of ignorance, just not knowing, but still, listening to those instructions we just talked about above. Take a lock of hair and nail it to a tree to heal a cut. Take a sick child to a woman known to heal by blowing into the child’s mouth. There were many more such things. I was told that if it worked, it had to be from God. When I saw these practices and the results of them, I knew that I had to deal with them. I was told by a woman that her baby was sick, and was getting worse and would I pray for it. When I saw the child it was screaming. I asked what had she done to help. I will tell this story in a allegory, but the facts are true .

The child was taken to a woman, we’ll call her name “witch”, by a woman named “ignorant” The child was getting weaker and close to death. My pastor and I laid our hands on the child we will call “Fortunate To Have Us”, and by the authority of the one we will call “The Ghost Of Alabama”, better known as “The Holy Ghost Of God”, we commanded the demon to come out of “Fortunate To Have Us, and she lived. Jesus came to undo the damage the devil has done to His people.

The Holy Ghost and I together, came to Alabama to undo the damage the dark lying spirits had done to His people. I heard a statement made by a minister many years ago. He used this term to the devil, “Step Aside”.

I went to visit a man in Bon Secour, Alabama once. He seemed to say all the right religious words, but was shallow in his way. While sitting at his picnic table in his front yard, I noticed his dog laying in the grass. He was not moving. I asked about the dog and he said he’s been laying there for three days. I asked him if he had prayed for him. He looked at me kind of funny and said no. Well, I said , do you mind if I do. He said he didn’t. I laid my hands on him and commanded the sickness to leave. To the owner’s surprise the dog jumped up and started running around the yard. The “Ghost of Alabama” was not surprised at all. I looked down at the grass where the dog had been lying and there was the perfect outline of the dog. All the grass was dead. The dog lived, the man was surprised, the Holy Ghost of Alabama was not.

We went a lot of places in Alabama, the Holy Ghost and me. There are many examples like these. A church body was built, the people got well, I was surprised, The “Holy Ghost of Alabama” was not.

PS: The Ghost of Alabama is the same, in Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and in every State in America and the world. He is The “Great Holy Ghost Of God”.

Amp: 1 John 3:8 says. “The reason the Son of Man was made manifest (visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen, and dissolve) the works the devil has done”.

“The UN-Seen”
Right Before Our Eyes

There are many things to see in our life on this earth and many reasons we don’t see them and there are consequences with both. There are bridges and there are pitfalls. One benefits us and one delays our arrival or we don’t get there at all. Some make life easier and some make it harder. Why do some people see them and some don’t? Well, when I was young there were was a phrase used at every railroad crossing that read, “Stop, Look And Listen. Now this sign, if read, just might save our life, or take it. My wonderful wife doesn’t miss much in in life because she is very observant and stops, looks and listens. Now this can be a benefit to me also, only, she knows a thing and I just know of it. She is wise in it and I just know of it. She knows how to do it and I have to ask her. Promptings are designed to cause us to “Stop, Look and Listen” so we personally know a thing.

“Happen, Delayed or Never”

We have a new Great Pyrenees puppy that’s 7 weeks old. I was watching as she went off the porch, up the hill to a fenced pen that connects to our fenced in house. She did her business and came back to the house. She had watched as I took her up there three times. She watched and did what I had shown her and has been doing it ever since. Now, we have another dog as well. She sat and watched, didn’t respond, and I have to open the gate and take her out at the most inopportune times. The 7 week old puppy can do something the 12 year, old dog can’t.
There are many, many wonderful things that benefit us in life. I have a wonderful neighbor that had an out house and no indoor plumbing, except spring water running, in the kitchen sink. I used to tell him all the time that the toilet was one of the greatest inventions ever made. He had to walk fifty yards when the urge hit him, hot weather, cold weather, snow, rain or flood and his wife had to do that too. Now, the day came that she broke her hip, and asked me if I would put a toilet in her house, because she couldn’t walk up there any more. They looked, listened, but delayed, and it could have been never. Delayed is better than never. Wonderful ideas are given to us if we what? Stop, Look and Listen. I’m more than glad that the man that invented the toilet Stopped, Looked, Listened and acted on his prompting, aren’t you?
There are many wonderful ideas and inspirations that God gives to men to help make life in a fallen world easier and better for us. There are many things right before our eyes and we fail to see them. Many inspirations are only given to one person in all the earth. If this person won’t stop long enough to look and listen to what is coming, God may continue to prompt him for a little while longer, or give it to someone else. He wouldn’t have prompted this one person if it were not important that His creation have it to use.

I played the banjo almost fifty-five years and was out of tune every time I put a capo on. At seventy six years old, God starting prompting me to fix this problem. Now no one on this earth has ever fixed this problem. At least I have never seen one or one has ever been patented. Well, one day, while sitting in my living room, I stopped what I was doing, looked, and listened, then asked God if this issue could be fixed. Would you show me if it can? Then I looked down the neck of my instrument and I saw it, the thing that was producing the problem. I was able to design a capo that fixed the problem and get it patented. A one of a kind prompt. I build capos for guitar and banjo till this very day.

There are many promptings that are much bigger and more important than mine and are right before our eyes. For instance, when Jesus, the very Son of God, our designer and creator, came to the earth, was killed, by the very people God had prompted for many years, by the scriptures and the prophets, that He was coming. They were so caught in their own traditions and ideas that they would not Stop, Look and Listen. There are many promptings today in the old Testament and the New, that He is coming back soon. We must Stop, Look and Listen to the promptings today in the little ones and the big ones.

God also prompts certain men to go before and prepare things, such as John the Baptist before Jesus. In our day today, He also prompts men to go before and do a very important task. In my latter years, I may not hear the smallest bird whistle, but it is not dependent on my ears to hear my Creator and Father sending promptings to me. In my living room one morning in the year 2016, while watching the national news, Donald Trump was being interviewed. I asked God, “who is this man” and this is His very words, “He Is My Man”. That prompt told me all I needed to know about Donald Trump. God never chooses someone to do something on the spur of the moment. He trains them from birth. Those of us who were chosen and trained heard a prompting later in life and responded. When prompted we stopped in our tracks, looked and listened and responded and that’s how we know. His promptings are not dependent on our ears. They are bigger than life. It goes through us like sonar in a submarine. You can’t tell where it came from, or where it’s going, but you certainly heard it, not in the ear but in your Knowing.(Spirit)

To sum it up, Promptings cause us to do great things, when acted on. So when a prompting deep inside us just won’t subside, Stop. Take a look at it and Listen, than act on it. It may not seem important or great to you but it is to God. They all are.

PS: Donald Trump has already done great things In America and the world and will do even greater things, because God has Prompted Him and is with him. You also will do great things when prompted.