In November of 2014, my family and I were living and ministering in Baltimore, Md.  I woke up in the presence of Jesus.  I wasn’t asleep or awake, but fully aware. That is the best way I can explain this experience. The closest explanation I have read from other sources is a “lucid dream,” so I will call it that.  When this began, I knew it was 1 o’clock am somehow.

I ususally explain this experience that “I woke-up and Jesus was in the room.  Not like a floating Buddha, but His Spirit was invisibly THERE.”  There are OT stories about men being totally awake in the presence of God or a holy angel.  Most of these characters immediately face-plant and prostrate on the ground.  I have also had this happen before when I was totally awake and I did face-plant; immediately, the room filled-up, eyes full of tears, having a “Here I am Lord” like moment.  But, as I explained, this was a lucid type dream experience, I was in a half-awake, half-asleep state and I didn’t move.  I was laying on my back and do not remember moving at all. 

Another odd thing about this visitation is how dialogue began.  Allow me to establish a premise at this point.  At this time in my ministry I spent two awesome years of ministry success, had been hearing from and led by the Holy Spirit, but several months before this visitation I hadn’t heard from Jesus, the ministry tanked, and I had to subsidize my income with my own savings.  My ministry was suffering, but mostly it was I who suffered the most.  I couldn’t save the ministry, the people didn’t want to be saved, and I felt as if I had disappointed Jesus.  So, during this visit, instead of a face-plant and a “Yes Lord” acknowledgement from me to Jesus, I “woke-up” and started complaining.  I was angry.  Now I look back and think it’s funny, that I was in the presence the Founder of the Church, the Son of God, my Boss and I was complaining.  As I look back in amazement, every point of argument I made He gently agreed with me.  I kept firing away my laments about the people He placed under my authority, the struggle I had endured, how the ministry wasn’t working, how He hadn’t responded to me in almost a year, etc.  An hour of complaining to the Creator of the Universe and He didn’t zap me or anything.  Lol! 

He gently allowed me to be spent with complaint and years later showed me that I was justified in my lament.  I had nothing else left to complain about and he said one thing to me.  This one thing was short and brief, but deep.  Like the deep end of a pool.  You can look into the pool, see the water and the bottom, but you couldn’t possibly know how deep it is without markings to indicate it.  What I heard was “It’s okay, I’ve got something for you” but it meant so much more.  I understood that this ministry was His, not mine.  My time at that church was over.  Something else was coming. I had made a way for the next ministry, and more, and more, and more. 

Immediately when He finished speaking to me it was as if I were “awake” again, but I never woke-up.  My wife rolled over and asked “Who are you talking to.”  It was at that moment I received confirmation of my visitation and I realized it was 2 am on the clock.  Jesus was with me for an hour. 

Over the next 4-6 months I received four more pieces of information relating to the original message He gave me in the middle of the night in November 2014.  It wasn’t until January 2017 that I was writing a sermon for a Church I was speaking at just north of Washington DC.  These messages came back to me as I was praying and preparing my sermon.  When I wrote the five messages in order, for the first time on the same piece of paper, Jesus told me they went together.  I was amazed.  Here are the messages in order of my receiving them.  (1)  “It’s okay.  I’ve got something for you.”  (2)  “Sit down.” meaning, stop looking for work.  (3)  “I don’t want you to work right now.” because I was still looking for work, we were totally broke, and I wasn’t being completely obedient yet.  (4) “I want you to see I can take care of you.” like Him saying, trust Me.  (5)  “Watch what I do, miracle.” 

Now, go back and read all those highlighted sentences together in a string without pausing.  It’s one message, given to me over a period of 4 – 6 months and directly relating to a future ministry – this ministry; The Truth Project.  That’s amazing, Amen?