When I first began to walk with God, I never knew of anything that might be hidden from my spiritual understanding. I never even knew that anything could be hidden from my spiritual understanding. I never knew that I could become taught to hear spiritually, I also never knew that I could become taught, to be led by the Spirit of God. I never knew that Gods spiritual blessings of many were hidden from us as, a Christian. I never knew that these things had, to be revealed unto us by the Holy Spirit. I never knew that I could grow up spiritually. I never knew that I could be, entered into the works of the Holiest of All or that I could be baptized by fire or that I could be taught by the holy Spirit, to find the knowledge of God. I never knew that I could be given understanding, from being introduced unto the knowledge of God. I never knew that I could have more than one ministry calling, revealed and manifested unto me. I never knew that God would give me the ministry gift, of writing things for him or that I would become anointed, to write all of my ministry books, by the leadings of the Holy Ghost, my spiritual teacher. I never knew that I was going to learn everything from God by revelation and that man was not going to be my spiritual teacher. I never knew that I was going to be called to preach and to teach the word of God. I never knew that God was going to reveal and teach me to walk in the nine gifts of the Holy Ghost. I never knew that God was going to give me the gift of singing in the Spirit (TONGUES). I never knew that God was going to give me visitations of angels, not to mention the years of many spiritual dreams that I was going to have or that I was going to have visions, with my eyes wide open. I never knew that I was going to see things, in the spirit realm, with my eyes wide open. I never knew that God was going to use me in his spiritual gifts, in church services, in the anointing of them. I never knew that God could give me the leading of the Holy Ghost and this would give me the money to purchase five acres of land that God also was going to lead me to buy it and that he would speak to me and we would build our dream home upon it, I never knew any of these things, when I first gave my heart and life to Jesus, my Lord and savior. I never knew that I could have a fellowship with the living God that the bible teaches us about. For everything that I said I never knew, all of these things, I never even had a small clue that God Spirit could manifest all of these spiritual truths and spiritual secrets, unto me either. I never even knew that there were any goods to be delivered unto me. I also never knew that I was going to be loaded, like a loaded ship carrying a heavy and very important cargo, to be anointed to minister it unto the Church of Jesus Christ and unto the needy, of this world. I never knew that I had a destiny to arrive to or that I was ordained and predestined, to come unto the knowledge of everything that God just wrote, to you my dear reading friend, this being Gods way of revealing unto you another child of God the many things that are spiritually, hidden from all of us, because of being born in this flesh, with the mind, of this world, this being the very reason that all of these spiritual blessing of many are hidden from every child of God, until they are discerned or manifested, unto a seeker of the living God. These are many of the goods of the kingdom of heaven that Jesus called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods, as the Bible tells us in scriptures. Because of being born in the flesh, everything concerning Gods kingdom is totally hidden from our natural mans, thinking, neither can he know them unless the Holy Ghost is your spiritual teacher, to reveal and manifest the spiritual truths and secrets unto you, as a hearer of his Spirit. THE VILLAGE CARPENTER PUBLISHING HOUSE, PO Box 133, Lakeview, Ohio 43331 USA or see TheVillageCarpenter.info
About the Author: My name is Pastor Luke L. Chapman. I haven't always been a preacher, quite the contrary. When I was a young teenager everyone always said: "Boy what a good kid Luke is. He is a wonderful young man." Because of a stepfather that had no love for me, my clothes were packed for me and placed on the front porch on Christmas morning. Arrangements were already made for a near friend to pick me up to take me to my real dad's home. This became a cycle unto me. I learned soon to take flight in life, realizing I'm on my own. I was kicked out of school for truancy, failure to want to go to school and to learn. This started a foundation for my life, for my ongoing future. My new friends taught me how to smoke, drink, and cuss and to tell lies. I graduated to smoking weed and using cocaine. I never drank or used cocaine on a regular basis. I just started on weekends or invited parties. I got married and had a Child when I was 21 years old. But, with a lifestyle of drinking, spending money in bars and not on bills or in my home, I soon went through a divorce. Does this sound familiar, like today's youths? At this time, now I'm remarried my wife and I are both cocaine addicts. My wife smoked weed? I sold weed and cocaine to supply our habits. My wife left me one day. I was arrested the same day and put in jail. In jail, I bowed my knees on the floor in my cell. I was the only one there that day. I called upon Jesus and was saved and sent to North Central Correctional Institution. I never thought anyone cared. But I was so wrong. What was meant for evil for me, God changed for the good. Prison became My Bible College. Prison was where God counseled me about my morals. God taught me about being a good husband, a good father unto my Children and how a preacher must live and act. I served six and a half years in prison to learn not do use drugs, not to walk through life aimlessly. I learned my lesson. God raised me up to be a preacher in prison. Prison was my lifesaver. Wow, what a statement one might say! The reason prison was my lifeline was I could have graduated to the other side of life... Six Feet Down. I almost did! I had a heart attack, just before I was sent to prison, from smoking crack cocaine. I almost died. Your Friend... The Harley Davidson Preacher Man Luke L. Chapman Gods Vision... A Ministry of Fire