Chapter 1 ~ Writing My Sister’s Walk with God

I embarked on the writing of my first book, My Sister’s Walk with God (The True Stories of a Prophetic Intercessor), in November 2017.  Requested by my little sister Wendy to record my unique walk with the Lord Jesus, I did as I was asked.  Writing my first book was also an arduous process.  To say that the book was born out of affliction and tears, is to say the least, it was truly a painful path. 

Though the first six chapters were less difficult to write, the last four were fraught with memories I would soon rather forget.  But God had another plan.  Those memories had been hidden in my journals and were going to remain there but the Lord called them forth in the form of a book.  As He said to me: “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.” (Matthew 10:27).

The first thing I received from the Lord was the book’s title.  There was no mistaking what He wanted it named, I tried various other names but He always brought me back to My Sister’s Walk with God as a play on words because my little sister had asked me to write the book.

The book is comprised of twenty plus years of God journals.  These writings contained my prayers, prophetic words from the Lord, the uncovering of my spiritual gifts, the ten-year prayer assignment, God dreams, and the promises of God for various things (especially my physical healing and the coming end-time revival).  It was a cleaning out of those remembrances and a purging of the old to make way for the new thing that the Lord is about to do.      

Within six months of writing the first few chapters, I had a dream about the book.  In the dream, I had a large suitcase in front of me.  It was open and inside was a large red hard cover book.  On top of the book was a picture of Jesus and the picture covered the book.   I held an enormous rectangular amethyst in my hand.  It was size of my hand.  Also, in the suitcase was a huge ruby, rectangular in shape and deep red in color.  They were special gems and I tucked them away in my case.  It was this dream that spurred a vision for the book’s cover. 

In Chapter Seven however, I bared my soul concerning my body and the signs that God has used through prophetic acts and intercession that were concerning to reveal in a public way.  Not so much because it was true but because my certainty (and perhaps I am wrong) that it would be too unbelievable for another person of faith to accept can happen today.  Needless to say, it is a factual account of what has happened to me and God wanted it documented for the world to know. 

The chapter titled Church Years was the most painful to recall and recount.  In order to write Chapter Nine, I had to relive the horrendous, yet thrilling ten-year prayer assignment at my church.  I recorded my prayers daily in my God journals during that time.  These documents also included dreams, conversations I had with others that were noteworthy to keep, prophetic words, and scripture addresses given by the Lord to guide me in intercession.  I went through every year and as I did, God would emphasis what He wanted me to chronicle in the book.  There were times when I had a vision of a page in my journal or a book in my library, but could not determine how I would find it.  The Lord would then direct me to a journal year or a page number in the book (I had seen in the vision) to find the information.  He was guiding the process.

By December 2018, I had My Sister’s Walk with God mostly finished.  I needed to read the book in its entirety and ask the Lord for any further stories or scriptures He wanted to add.  But then, I accidentally wrote over my book and its backup on a thumb drive!  Yes, I did that!  How or why, it escapes me to this day the folly that played out either by my own hand or the hand of you know who…the enemy, Satan or one of his minions.  To my absolute horror, the book was gone.  

I wailed in agony and hysteria.  My husband grabbed the computer and thumb drive intact.  He drove it to a well-known retail computer fixit store.  They reported back to us that the document (my book) on the computer was unrecoverable.  There was nothing more they could do.  I was beside myself similar to a breakdown!

Little sister Wendy showed up during the fiasco and calmly prayed for a resolution.  Once the computer was brought back to me, I right clicked on I don’t know what and a ‘previous version’ appeared of my book.  I had lost a couple of weeks of data but the remainder of the book was intact!  Now how could a novice like me retrieve the document but a ‘computer expert’ could not?  I chose to believe my book reappearing was God’s handiwork.

The conclusion of the book coincided with another wonder that God wanted included as the finale.  The Rainbow Closet story is told on pages 477-478 of the book.  It chronicles the rainbow signs that began to appear on my bedside rug, in the closet and on the walls of my bathroom as the book was being completed.  The book, however, does not document how the rainbows relate to the publishing of it.

In April 2019, I started praying fervently how to publish the book.  I felt I would have to self-publish as it would be too ‘out there’ for a publisher.  But one evening I saw an ad on television that I've never seen before or since.  It was for Covenant Books Inc. (a Christian publisher).  The commercial said "Do you have a story that God wants you to tell?"  I contacted them the next day via email for information.  They (Ashley) got back to me within a day while I was praying again for whom to use.  I heard the Lord’s voice: “And this will be a sign to you... that after the rain comes the rainbow."

To give more explanation to the rainbows appearing on the rug next to my bed, I discovered the source weeks later.  I have a plastic water pitcher on my nightstand.  The sunlight coming in through my bedroom window refracts off the pitcher to create the rainbows in the morning.  However, the rainbows only started appearing after the Lord told me that my closet looked like a rainbow (with the different colors displayed in different forms).  This happened a few days before I saw Covenant Book's ad on television.

I finally sent Covenant the manuscript in the beginning of July 2019 and the same day Ashley called me.  She had the book in for review.  That day I received a rainbow cross on my floor that actually changed colors before my eyes (it was this rainbow cross that I used for the book’s front and back covers).   

Ashley called and told me they wanted to publish my book.  In addition, as a sign that this was from the Lord, she sent me the contract on my birthday!  God's book was birthed and I was in shock.

After a day of prayer and reading over the contract, I signed it.  I sent the contract to Ashley via email.  The time recorded on the email was 10:10!  If you have read My Sister Walk with God, in Chapter Ten (pages 427-437) is a segment on the 10:10 phenomena that has continually followed me since 2007.  I was in awe that the contract was time stamped with that enigmatic time. 

As I prayed about what the Lord was going to do with the book I had written, a dream came back to me.  The dream was from 2016 and in the dream, I was shopping in a bookstore for a new God journal.  When I opened a beautiful blue journal, I was surprised to see all my journal entries in the supposedly empty journal.  A woman standing next to me smiled and indicated that she had already read the book!  Upon waking I heard the Holy Spirit say “Take your dreams off the shelf”.  I take this as a prophetic dream from three years earlier as a foretelling of the publication of this work.

After almost ten months, the book was released for publication in April 2020.  A few days after my first ten copies arrived, I dreamed.  I call the dream “Stabbing the Enemy”.

I was sitting in a chair when I noticed a dark evil figure to my left, standing.  It was hovering over my shoulder in a black robe with its head covered.  I was startled and began to pray in tongues.  The prayer then turned into the Lord’s prayer.  As I prayed, I found myself stabbing the ominous figure with a mechanical pencil.  I violently wounded it on its hands, arms and lastly, in its chest. I felt the pencil digging into the figure’s body and not into the air.  It was silent as I stabbed and then disappeared. 

The key to the dream was the mechanical pencil which is symbolic for writing as in writing of the book.  I never considered the spiritual implication of the book’s publication.  I sense the Lord was giving me insight into the enemy’s camp.  I have revealed the dark recesses of the enemy’s territory which the light of God has exposed in a very public way.  I have wounded the enemy through the book.  I have hindered the enemy’s work (hands and arms) and gave it a blow to the heart. 

“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”  (Revelation 12:11).

Through most of the book, I cried as I wrote.  I faced the reality that I may not see the promises of God come to pass in my lifetime.  I have a very hard time accepting this thought.  But perhaps the Lord has another plan; another way of showing me how He will fulfill His promises that I believe He has made to me.  If the publication of my first book is any indication of what the Lord has instore then I am beyond excited. 

God has turned my doubts into a beacon of hope shining through a very dark period of my life.  I believe the publication of my first book was a miracle.  I am now delighted to see where this will lead for all things are possible with God.  It is my passionate prayer that this sequel to my first book will be penned in joy and the fulfillment of promises I recorded in My Sister’s Walk with God.  In other words, from rain to rainbows is my expectation for this endeavor.  Just believe.