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This book starts out as an insecure boy searches for an experience with God. Join him in his journey into the supernatural, and eventually to find inspirational faith. His life starts with a dysfunctional family, in a church where he is unfulfilled. He tried to experience God but to no avail. So, he instead fills his life with crime, adventure and excitement of the wrong kind. Eventually, he has not just one experience with God, but many experiences with God, and many real adventures that often has his life at stake. Explore his adventures with him as he eventually finds an inspiring Christian life and new spiritual realities.Join him as he relives many of his adventures and miracles from God in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, South America and Africa. Share his Christian life experiences as he leaves the US with virtually no money, but only a word from God. Join him on his journey and quest for spiritual power as he gets tangled up in the "overthrow of a government". See how dreams help influence a government into uncovering coup plots. Read about the espionage or spy activity he stumbles into. This is simply the story of an average person who was a troubled teenager and was transformed by God, and eventually walks into the office of the President of a country saying, God sent me here.

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Publié par	Grace Covenant Publishing
Date de parution	30 mai 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781732090422
Langue	English

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KYLE LEATHERWOOD
ADVENTURES AND EXPERIENCES WITH GOD
Copyright © KYLE LEATHERWOOD, 2018
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Contents Dedication INTRODUCTION SEEKING GOD, BUT NO GOD EXPERIENCE KIDS GONE WILD OUT OF DARKNESS EXPERIENCES OF A NEW BELIEVER THE CALL FOR SERVICE THE 102-YEAR OLD LADY MIRACLES OF PROVISION THE FRENCH CONNECTION MY NAZARETH THE JAMAICA JOURNEYS FOCUS ON THE FAMILY THE MIRACLE OF MARRIAGE A SUPERNATURAL MINISTRY GO TO CHILE CULTURE SHOCK! AFRICA-PHASE I A CHALLENGE AND EXCITING CHALLENGE IN AFRICA, THE SECOND JOURNEY GOVERNMENT APPROVAL THE TIME TO BEGIN FM.93 IS ON THE AIR!! LOOKING FOR HELP GIVING BEYOND MY ABILITY! AFRICA BY WAY OF CHILE A LETTER FROM GOD RETURN TO THE US DAY SPRING WELLNESS CENTRE A VISITATION FROM GOD SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD TODAY I HAVE A DREAM
Dedication

I dedicate this book to all those who helped me start the first Christian radio station in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, and the radio station in South Texas.
It would have been impossible to accomplish some of these things if it had not been for the help of specific people in the U.S.A. and in Africa.
I especially want to thank Mrs. Angela Gooding, Ransford Wright, and Mrs. Hannah Dixon, because if it were not for these people, it is quite possible the radio station in Sierra Leone would have stopped operating. I also want to give a special thanks to Dr. Robert Kellum, who taught me a lot in a short period and made a great personal sacrifice for Christ’s sake and the gospel.
I want to thank Teddy Hunt, Bruce Tyler and Terry Elder, M. D., who supported the station and me spiritually, physically, and financially. I also thank my wife Veronica and Lee Killgore for their help and sacrifices. Without their help, this book and the radio stations probably would never have happened.
I also want to thank John Osteen, Father Dennis Bennett, Freida Lindsey, Bob Tilton, Lester Sumrall, Kenneth Hagen, Tom Leding, Kenneth Copeland, Rodney Howard Brown, Larry Lea, Joseph Prince and Pat Robertson for their ministerial influence in my life. You will have a part of the fruit through this ministry.
INTRODUCTION

I would like to include a whole lot of names in this book, but if I did, some people might get killed. The events you are about to read are real life stories and experiences. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty and the innocent. Some events may seem stranger than fiction, but all the stories have been lived by me. In the places where the names of the guilty or innocent could bring consequences such as jail, or possibly, death, the names have been changed. Some stories have been changed enough that I pray no one will receive reprisals from witchcraft societies, Islamic groups, or one of the governments that were in power. I want this book to be a blessing to all and a curse to none.
As you read this book, I hope you are encouraged to obey God, and to do the little things, as well as the big things. Some of the bigger miracles happened, I believe, because I was faithful to the little stuff.
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SEEKING GOD, BUT NO GOD EXPERIENCE

I was about nine years old lying down, about to go asleep, on the top bunk of the bunk bed that I shared with my older brother, Kirk. My mom came in to say, “Good night”. When she came in, out of the blue, Kirk asked my Mom, how do you receive the Lord and be born again. My Mom explained it to him.
I then joined in, not wanting to be left out of the conversation, and she then led us in a prayer to receive Christ. I felt nothing. I was fearful and too insecure, even with my mother, to say I felt nothing and that nothing happened. I should have spoken up but my fears stopped me.
Later, our Pastor, Brother Fineout taught me about receiving the Lord and being water baptized. I thought maybe if I am baptized in water then I will get to have that experience with God that I so much desired. Well, I was baptized and still felt nothing. I was told that I was to believe, even if I felt nothing. I did everything I was told to do, but an experience with God eluded me.
I never experienced anything supernatural or God. I was afraid to tell anyone, for I thought something must be wrong with me since I did not experience anything. I wanted an experience with God, but what I had was a mental acceptance of a spiritual truth. I wanted a real experience.
My best friend was the Pastor’s son named, Mark. Mark asked me how I felt after I had been baptized and I said it was great. I lied, I was afraid he would think something was wrong with me.
Honestly, I just felt wet, but it was cool being in the heated baptistery. It was like a big swimming pool. It was fun to play at the church.
I never told anyone I felt like a liar. I knew something must be wrong with me, because I did not really feel anything, or ever had an experience with God. I was told to just accept it by faith. Well, I accepted it by faith; I accepted I was now a Christian even though I never had an experience with God.
As the years passed by, I was at church every Service, Sunday morning, Sunday Night, Wednesday night, Vacation Bible School, and Royal Ambassadors. I even went on visitations sometimes on Tuesday nights to witness to other kids. I was a very good kid trying to please God in every way I knew. But even with all I was doing, there was still no experience with God.
At an assembly in my Elementary school, they had some convicts, dressed in orange prison coveralls, giving their testimonies of all the bad stuff they did, and how they turned to Christ. They shared the experiences they had with the Lord. I was jealous of them. I wanted to have an experience with God too. I had prayed the prayer they talked about, but nothing had ever happened.
A thought came to my mind. “If you want to have an experience with God, you must do some very bad stuff, get wild and then turn to God. If you do that you will have a real experience with God”. I knew I tried repeatedly to have an experience with God, but nothing supernatural or real, that I was aware of, ever happened to me.
So, my intellectual mind accepted the solution that came into my mind. I decided to become wild, do lots of bad stuff and then I would turn to the Lord and have a real experience with God.
I know this sounds very stupid to an adult, but to a 12-year-old it made sense. I was the most faithful 12-year-old you would find. I always was good, the teacher’s pet, read the Bible, went to church, prayed, but nothing supernatural ever happened. Even after years of doing these things, I never had an experience with God. I never felt the presence of God in any way. So, I decided to change all my friends, “Go wild”, and then I will come back to the Lord later and I will be able to have a real experience with God.
I was afraid to tell anyone what was going on inside of me. After all, this logic made perfect sense to me. I was a 12-year-old scholar, spelling champion and had read every biography and autobiography in the school library. I was smart and was usually the teachers favorite. Since I was so trustworthy, I would often have special privileges and special rewards. But what I wanted was an experience with God, where God was visibly working in my life.
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KIDS GONE WILD

I grew up in what I thought was a Christian home. My half-brother at 18 would fight, yell and be screaming at my mother. All this while my father sat back and did nothing. I remember one time my mother had a broomstick; she was hitting my brother with it. He disobeyed her, which resulted in a fight. Everyone went to church, except my Dad.
Not long after this, my half-brother was arrested for breaking and entering a liquor store. He had robbed a store that sold beer and wine, it was owned by a family friend. He did it so he and his friends could get drunk and have a big party out at the lake at a friend’s house.
About the same time, I was a spelling champion in the school and went to the regional spelling contest to represent my school. When I won, even kids at school and at church made fun of me. My parents did not bother with attending the contest to give me emotional support there. The principal of the school drove me there.
When I won the local spelling contest, my reward was KFC chicken, yet when my older brother played football, he got steak. I could easily see the bias for sports over intelligence or academics. I could see everyone thought my half-brother Keith was cool and I was an uncool nerd. This frustrated me. I saw no reward for being good or being smart.
Around this same time, a sexual assault happened to me. I will never forget where I was and how it started, but to tell where and how it started would cause two people’s identities to be revealed and possibly cause one to be known as a sexual criminal. I was about 12 years of age when it happened.
I will never forget the eyes of this person that became obsessed with having sex with me; it is as though the person was possessed when this sexual assault happened. The eyes were so intense and driven; they terrified me, even though I knew the person that did this. It was as if there was another person behind the eyes. The person that did this did not have the eyes of the person I knew. They changed right in front of my eyes, as they became entirely consumed with sexual desire. It was scary. Now I believe this was my first experience with someone that was demon possessed at the worst or consumed by hormones at the best. Either way, it was not good.
Years earlier, I had a similar experience with the same type of fear. A g