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Below is a teaching from this awesome brother of mine.
Holy Spirit you are welcome in this place, thank you
for touching the hearts of all who read this with your spirit.

Acts 3:19

I was sitting in a Walmart handicapped parking space waiting on Wendy and the Wendy maker to return from shopping; as I waited I prayed. We were at the beginning of an arduous move to Guthrie, OK. It was a move that stretched and tested our faith in many different ways. We had just rented a house and when we went to the house the keys we had received did not fit the locks, we were supposed to pick up a rental truck that we couldn’t afford and was believing our church to help pay for, the labor we had counted on was not forthcoming and it was looking as if it would just be my disabled self, an elderly mother-in-law, and my wife to move everything; and adding to these mountainous concerns were the normal concerns of employment, housing, sustenance, etc. So you may see a portion of the urgency under which I was in prayer. The main focus of my prayer was personal. Due to the above and other factors I was in a place where I recognized the need to repent and seek God. I was desperately seeking forgiveness. I was crying out to my beloved Father to forgive me my sins either of commission or omission. I asked for the Blood of Jesus to cover me, engulf me with it’s cleansing flow. I confessed my sin to my Father, and claimed the Blood as well as the completed redemption of my Savior. I claimed my price being paid once and for all by Jesus on the cross. His sacrifice and pain freely given to buy my forgiveness past, present, and future. As I prayed I felt myself to be in the Throne room of my Father. I felt the witness of the Holy Spirit running up and down my spine like an electrical current, my flesh was covered with “Ghost” bumps, and I burst into thanksgiving! Praying for our move, needing help, asking for strength and favor, rolling the entire seemingly impossible task over onto our able and willing God. As I prayed a peacefulness came over me and I felt the voice of the Lord beckon me. A still, quiet voice urging me to pick up my Bible. The book fell open at Acts 3:19, “Repent therefore and be converted, so that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,” and I began to weep.