#THE REHAB...
"2009" was an incredibly challenging year for me, with the loss of my father and wife - two months apart!
Almost two years prior to their deaths, while interceding and worshipping, I had an "open vision" of both my father and wife passing; and I immediately went into travail...
For over two hours, a cry that surpassed the deepest groaning and most violent tears, poured out of me - like a floodgate!
At first, I thought God was "showing me" so that I could curb or change what was being revealed, by the Spirit; but instead, HE was preparing me for the forthcoming affliction and attack that were permitted against my father and my wife...
You may be asking, was this a result of "sin" or disobedience to God?
I do NOT believe that it was...Yet, it was a consequence of their personal decisions, our spiritual warfare, and a planned attack of Satan - that worked in a cooperative and destructive way against my beloved family!
While my wife was still living, during her last year of life - she lived in a Rehabilitation Center in Mid-City, Los Angeles. God "divinely orchestrated" and directed me to this facility, that would become the space where Mama would pass away - with dignity, honor and respect, from the precious staff that so faithfully served her each day.
I continued to work full-time at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, and spent on average - four to five hours after work, spoiling Mama, and taking care of her spiritual needs as The Lord directed me...
ONE SATURDAY - on a quiet, beautiful and "sunny day", I completed a list of tasks in ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of "My Boo", and the day ended-up climaxing with Mani's & Pedi's; which was somewhat difficult for Mama to do in getting around - due to an unexplainable stroke and her right-side weakness....
All of sudden - after running around most of the morning and early afternoon, I had to empty my bladder - and the restrooms for visiting family members were just down the hall a bit. As I entered the restroom, the presence of God enveloped me on all sides - like a flood of HIS love and goodness..
For five or so minutes, I worshipped and listened - and The Lord told me to walk around "the rehab", which was not uncharacteristic of me; since I would often be called to pray and visit with many of the residents - once being an ordained minister became well known...LOL!
I had some hilarious experiences in some of my past stop-a-long's, but "this time" - God had something else for me too see!
As I arrived at the first room, and then on to the five and sixth rooms, I described the experience like "looking into a matrix of time" for each and every resident...I could spiritually see aspects of their journey, their current diagnosis, and how they chose to live their lives!
Since that time, I've never had another experience like that, and I'm not sure I ever will again! It SHOOK ME, to be given such an intimate glimpse into "people's formation and future" - based upon what they chose to believe and to do; solely based upon their losses, their traumas, their prejudices, their fears, and their "thoughts and opinions" - about other people, and especially about GOD!
When I got around to the last room before reentering my wife's, I was stopped and ministered to by her next-door neighbor, there in the rehab. She encouraged me for being such a good husband, and told me that "God was watching my dedication and faithfulness in service to my wife"...
OF COURSE, I lost it - as tears flooded my soul and soaked my face, she then allowed me to pray for her..
BY THE TIME I got back with my wife, an hour or so had passed, and she wondered "what happened" to me - "Did I FALL IN the toilet?" LOL! She was so silly, but so sweet...Whew! Oh, I miss her...
Well, of course I proceeded to share with her and her roommate, what God showed me as I walked throughout the entire 93-bed facility...As I begin to share, the POWER OF GOD flooded that room, and everyone begin to weep and rejoice for the "goodness of God" - in the midst of the environment that MOST PEOPLE spend in depression and in despair; because their families have forgotten them, their no longer able to do what they use to do when they were young, God has FORGOTTEN about them, and/or they just feel worthless and unloved...
THAT EXPERIENCE changed "how I see" - Christ's Church and people in general, and also enabled me to get through the loss of nine family pillars and loved-ones, in about a ten-year stretch..
YES - "THE REHAB" is Christ's Church!
WE'RE ALL at some stage of the "death walk" in this life, but we DON'T have to live like victims of our present disabilities or handicaps, although many of those more severe diagnoses in the rehab existed because of the abuse, bad decisions or personal negligence that each person made, during the course of their entire lives..
I'M PRAYING right now, for everyone that God has given me - "direct or indirect", influence with! I believe a part of my grace, my responsibility, and my privilege, is to "go into the Secret Place, with The Father" - and INTERCEDE for you and our nation...
THE WAVE OF GLORY that I and many others are to ride in the coming days, is ALL ABOUT a disciplined prayer life - and a compassion and love for people, NO MATTER HOW THEY'VE LIVED!
RESTORATION is promised to everyone in God's Rehab (Christ's Church)!
Join YOUR FAITH with mine, and start "seeing" the people in your life - through this lens..
You'll become much more fervent in your prayers, AND - you'll begin to boldly intercede and intervene, when you can alter the potential of someone living in "the rehab" - bedridden, sickly or bound!
#PRAY-SAINTS!! WS-3
Walter L. Smith III (WS-3), Apostolic Founder/Lead Facilitator
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www.PIHIM.org
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