My Recent Encounter

I recently finished reading a book that was recommended to me by an elderly woman who was standing behind me at a buffet line a few months ago. The book was “ Experiencing the Father’s Heart” by Jack Frost. She told me that this book had changed her life and that I HAD to read. She quoted it saying, “There’s nothing you can do to make God love you more, and there’s nothing you can do to make Him love you less.” That caught my attention so I went ahead and bought it on Amazon just before leaving America and started reading it after arriving in India. I now wish I had gotten her name and information so I can thank her for recommending it to me. Reading it has really opened by life and my spirit to just how much our Father God loves us, I mean He’s really really, head over heels, crazy in love with us!

I always knew that He loves us….From childhood I have sang it, throughout my teen years I had even had experiences where His love overtook me swept me away into His amazing presence for hours. But what I experienced the other night was unlike anything I had ever known. I don’t even know what to call it, a dream…a visitation….an encounter maybe, all I know is that in it His LOVE was so real and so tangible. I am going to try to explain it as best as I can in hopes that if you haven’t experienced his overwhelming love or you don’t fully understand how great that love is then I pray this will whet your appetite for a LOVE encounter.

In the early morning hours I begin having a dream where a missionary named Heidi Baker was praying over me. I don’t know her personally but have read a couple for her books and have attended a conference that she was ministering at in Dallas. She completely embodies Christ’s love to those around her. In my dream she was holding me close like a mother and whispering a message from God into my ear. She said, “The Father loves you soooo much, He created you as a vessel of His love, but for so long you have felt like you are not worthy. He loves you so much, that is why He brought such a loving husband into your life, to experience His love on a greater level, He loves you sooo much, so so much.” And as she just kept repeating that sentence to me I began to sob like a baby. She patted my back and calmed and hushed me just like you would a baby.” Then I looked up at her eyes and they had diamonds in them. They were beautiful and shining. As I looked at those dazzling diamond eyes I knew that she was a vessel, a jewel that was reflecting the Father love upon me.

She walked away and then I looked up and saw a blindingly bright golden light in the sky. My hands lifted up toward it in praise automatically like I couldn’t control them. At the bottom of the light I saw feet crossed and at the sides and I saw hands extended….it was Jesus. I couldn’t see His face because the light was too bright. I wanted so baldy to See. His. Face. As I kept staring up the light started to descend closer and closer to me. I couldn’t take it. I thought I would surely die if it came any closer. It was too much love! My entire body began to shake and felt so weak and powerless yet so full of Him.

Out of the center of the light came a huge dove. It was the Holy Spirit. It began to flap it’s wings so gracefully yet so powerfully. The dove and the light were one. It then flew down right into my body and I couldn’t keep myself up. It overpowered me and I fell trembling. Then I woke up.

When I woke up I felt cleansed, like you feel after having a good cry. I felt such love filling my room and a Holy presence over me. My physical body was trembling and my legs felt heavy. I laid there for another five minutes just waiting till I felt like I could lift my legs and get up. I had just had a love encounter with the God of the universe. It overwhelmed me in the most wonderful way and for days I literally couldn’t stop smiling. His love was so heavy, so thick, so full, so joyous,….it was everything.

I love…I love….I love His presence.