I was reading a book on the Glory of God and got to a stopping place and went to sleep. I had just come through a 4 year assignment where my path crossed a coven of witches, a satanist, and a principality (yes, it has been bizarre 4 years). I started dreaming that I was in a Christian bookstore in Salem, Massachusetts. I recognized several Christians in the bookstore and was chatting with them. I sensed that in the battle I had been in with the spirit of witchcraft (which was overcome by praying and blessing those who were actively cursing me to destroy me), I had overcome this spirit within my own soul (being delivered from control and manipulation–which is nothing more than witchcraft).

As I walked outside I noticed a black-top road with bright yellow stripes going straight up into the air. Without even thinking about it, I walked over to the blacktop and begin going straight up toward heaven. At this point I was really getting caught up in the spirit. I kept saying, "I will never make it, I will never make it, I will never make it’, over and over again. I was thinking, why a blacktop Lord...Does this mean something bad? He answered me with a question, "How is a blacktop road made?’. I thought, ‘It is made by fire!" The first half of 2001 became the fiery white hot furnace of my life. There were things burned out of my life with the fire of His holiness. At times I literally thought I wasn’t going to make it. But the Refiner of Silver (Malachi 3) knows just how much fire the silver needs to purify it.

Suddenly, it was as if I had been put in a catapult and flung across the heavenlies toward heaven. I was screaming and waving my arms like you would if you were on a fast roller coaster–thrilling yet scary (good scary!).

After being brought back into the natural realm, I wrote this down in my journal and pondered it for a few days. I picked up the book I had been reading and opened the page where I had left off and the next chapter had a subtitle called "Catapulted by His Glory’! It was all about how staying in God’s Glory can do more for you in a few days or weeks, than huge amounts of time spent on fleshly motivated works!

Decide today, no more self promotion or needing man’s approval. Stay in the hidden place of His Glory and watch what He can do in you, and through you!