After the summer when Harley had prayed for me I went back to work teaching grade six. Teaching grade six was very difficult for me. I won't go into detail but for me it was like a disease, and I wanted healing. My prayer with Harley was like a prayer for healing.About two and a half months after praying with Harley, a prophet from South Africa named Mike Haswell came to our church. During the service he spoke directly to me. He began by saying to me,
"Something you need right now, right?
The victory of God.
God says, I'm going to begin a work on your behalf.
It's not time for you to look at this one,
and look at that one,
and say, why is that one blessed?
And why is that one blessed?
But I'm sitting in the same place?"
And those were exactly the questions that I had been asking God. I felt as though God were speaking directly to me through this prophet of God. The words the prophet spoke to me were very encouraging. "The Lord says . . . I'll show victory in this day." He spoke many other words and I was encouraged because God was speaking directly to me. This is exactly what the Bible says should happen in the church, in the Body of Christ--if you want to know the truth about anything, look to God's Word, the Bible. If it lines up with the Bible, it's true. That's why God gave us the Bible; it's our foundation to the tangible. 1 Corinthians 14:3-4 states, "everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement and comfort . . . he who prophesies edifies the church."
Mike Haswell spoke to me during the Sunday morning service and was going to speak again that evening. Just before the service one of the men who had working in the sound booth that morning came up to me and gave me a cassette recording of the morning service. He said he thought I might like to listen it.
So I began to listen to this recording in the car on the way to work each day. I had an hour and twenty minute drive to work each day so I had plenty of time to listen. God was speaking to me.
I finally decided to transcribe the prophecy which Mike Haswell had spoken to me, and I began to study it in detail. God had given these words to me through His prophet and I wanted understand and obey them. And that is what I have been doing.
This past Sunday our pastor told the congregation, "Those mighty miracles that you are praying for are closer than you think."
