I
was born to Swedish parents and raised in the Lutheran religion in
Pittsburgh, Penna. Later, at
the age of 14, our family moved to Hollywood, Florida where I finished
high school and at the age of 19, married.
I turned to Catholicism at that time because of my up-coming
marriage to a Catholic man. So
here I was with hardly any religious training of any sort. Around 1957, as
a young married woman with two small children, I was leading a somewhat
normal life and being a housewife and raising children.
VISIONS
OF THE CLOUD 1957
Totally
unexpected, this vision began one afternoon in my home in Hollywood, after
I surrendered my life to Jesus.
I stopped in front of the television and turned it on having never
heard anything that Billy Graham said previously.
He had delivered his message and was extending an altar call.
I saw the multitudes going down to give their lives to Jesus, and
so right there, with no one prompting me, I knelt down and gave my life to
Jesus. Now I know it was a work of the Holy Spirit.
It was only a short time later I went into the main part of
the house. My husband at that
time was sitting talking with some friends, and I went to join them. As I
sat down, this holy scenario began and I saw it descending from the
ceiling. Being totally engulfed in what God was doing, I no longer saw my
husband or friends. What appeared
was a large, pink cloud and it was descending all
around me. It was so thick
that everything else was no longer in sight. I could not see anything
except the pink cloud. The
cloud was intensely full of love, a love that I had never
experienced; a love in which sin could not exist or tolerated. Furthermore
it was a love where even the largest problem became small and disappeared.
I was transfixed in the midst of this awesome pink cloud.
Then another scene took place in the midst of the cloud.
In this vision I could see through my house and there was standing
a white-robed figure on the road that I knew was Jesus.
He was beckoning to me with his hand, calling me to come to Him.
And in this present hour, in my mind's eye I can still see Him.
Then the cloud slowly began to lift, and everything came back to
normal again. The sound of voices came back from the friends and husband;
they all came back into view. They
never saw the cloud nor knew that I had left their presence and was with
the Lord for that period of time.
This
first vision impacted me greatly, for the Lord knew that through the next
eighteen years of marriage, I would be living in a terrible situation.
Because of the cloud experience, I was able to go through many
trials and tribulations in that season of time.
One thing I knew for sure and that was that God was real and that
He loved me.
We
know that the Lord in previous days, even in ancient days has made His
presence known through the cloud. In fact the cloud has always been a
manifestation of His glory. We see this when Moses went up into the cloud
on the mountain. Ex. 24:15. The
cloud of His presence also appeared and filled the temple that Solomon was
dedicating. I Kings 8:10. Also Ex. 13:21; Ex. 19:16. "And the LORD
went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to led them the way; and
by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
" And there are more scriptures.
The
color pink is the color of life, warmth love and protection.
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
1973
After
this first vision sixteen years past by.
In this season of time I had not been seeking the Lord. I was still carnal in my experience. Through certain encounters with those who were baptized with
the Holy Spirit I began to search for a change in my life because of the
void in my marriage. My
children, now four of them, were in their teens. My marriage was a
disaster and would soon be over. This
man that I had married as a young woman later died of aids.
I
became interested in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal that had begun in
Hollywood, Florida. In
1973 through 1974 I started classes that were given at the Boys
Catholic School through a priest that worked there.
I was a very wounded woman, who was trying to keep her head above
the troubled waters that I was living in.
There began a stirring in my heart and I began to embrace the
teachings concerning the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
In one particular meeting I came to the decision to receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Some of the leaders then came and laid hands on me and began to
pray. One of the first things
I saw was a vision of my grandmother who died when I was 3 years old, whom
I loved. When she died,
I was too small to cry or understand. But during the vision, God began a
healing process inside of me. What
I felt was like it was raining inside of me.
Instead of tears on my face it was tears inside washing me, and I
knew that I was being healed of the hurt and trauma of my childhood.
As I walked outside of that chapel that night, after having
received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the whole world indeed looked
different. Everything had
changed. I knew I had changed
and was seeing the world through different eyes
That
night as I prayed, a wisp of smoke came out of the atmosphere and came
upon me, and I began to speak in tongues.
When I awoke that morning, I was still speaking in tongues. Even in
my sleep all that night I was still speaking in tongues. Because I did not
understand then, I went to the Lord and asked Him not to take it away and
to give me the interpretation of this heavenly language.
He answered back to me that the beginning of my tongues was saying
to Him “My Lord and my Master.”
Praise the Lord!
THE VISION OF THE CHANGING WORLD
Around
the year of 1976 the Lord took me to Homestead, Florida one night for a
gathering of some of the believers on a ranch.
When I went out to look up at the stars, another vision appeared in
front of me. It was a vision
of the “world” just like you would see it on a round globe on a stand.
The earth was the same colors you would see with the natural eyes -
blues for the oceans, greens for the lands and grays for the mountains.
Then the world began to slowly turn on its axis, and as it came
around it was bright gold. Everything
was a gold color - yes, the whole earth.
And immediately the scene switched, and I saw people coming out of
that, which appeared to look like caves.
They were coming out slowly, and I seemed to be among them.
We all looked around, because there was hardly any people left
anywhere. Where there had
been a thriving city of thousands, there was only in comparison perhaps
fifty left. And I asked the
question, in the vision, “Where
did all the people go?” No
Answer! Then everything was
gone.
The
Lord has led me to understand that there will come a time, when the earth
and heaven are brought forth in a new way, there will be hardly any people
left. When a third of the
earth is destroyed, and the sea etc. there will be only a small
population, as in the days of Noah, when only eight were left.
Matt. 24:37-39; Rev. 8 and Rev. 21.
THE VISION OF THE FIRE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
A
group of believers and I were praying and as our hands were joined all of
a sudden I saw a
figure with a fan, standing in front of me, fanning with the fan.
I saw flames of fire running down my left side and heard with my
ears the crackling of the flames. Then
it disappeared. As time past,
I came to the understanding that the Lord was the one winnowing with the
fan, on the left side of my person, which was the place of my heart. I
understood this was a purging of my inner being by the Lord.
Matt.
3:11-12, "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he
that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan
is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his
wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
fire."
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